hobbicus

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[–] hobbicus 22 points 1 year ago

too busy manning the microwave

[–] hobbicus 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit is clearly trying to make its mobile site as user-unfriendly and goddamn terrible as possible to direct people to use the official app instead. There’s no other explanation for a top 10 in the world site

Actually, looking at the rest of the top 10 sites, the only two with good mobile interfaces are the ones without apps: Google and pornhub lol

[–] hobbicus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not always, and not that I disagree with your point either. The US healthcare system is so over bloated with administration that it’s likely experiencing diseconomies of scale instead

[–] hobbicus 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is bigoted propaganda against bonelessness

[–] hobbicus 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hot take: what Alex would do to earn more money to pay the families will cause more damage to the world than paying them nothing and forcibly sewing the gay frog’s mouth shut as payment

[–] hobbicus 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For profit isn’t inherently a bad thing, but the more essential the service should warrant more and more regulations on safety security and pricing. They should not be given unlimited control over these.

Government agencies are more than capable of providing equally shitty service even without a profit motive, see: DMV. Any monopoly is. This is partially why regarding universal healthcare most people aren’t advocating for government owned healthcare facilities, but the government being the single payer to privately run facilities to control prices.

[–] hobbicus 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then once you strike oil find out you never owned the mineral rights to begin with ¯\(ツ)

[–] hobbicus 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMO it should be less about compelling them during an emergency as ensuring adequate disaster preparation and grid stability well before an emergency. Not much to do once the damage is already done other than figure out how to ensure it won’t happen again.

Friendly reminder about the event in question: the temperature wasn’t even THAT cold (minimum 0F IIRC). Much of the world deals with ice storms and freezing temperatures without the entire grid failing. I understand a state that deals with heat more than cold being less prepared for ice, but the lesson should need to be learned only once.

[–] hobbicus 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I highly recommend the Firefox extension “I still don’t care about cookies” as a great successor to the original

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/

[–] hobbicus 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

These are always so weird to me. I grew up in the rural south, and I’ve never once heard Coke used to describe soft drinks generically. In my experience when someone asks for a “coke” they specifically mean Coca Cola and would be pissed if they got something else.

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