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No, they make a profit if your premiums are more than your care+overhead. Preventative care is sometimes offered with no co-pay

presumably because you end up costing them less over the long haul if you keep up to date with your Dr. appointments.

It's not a great system; but it does work very well for some customers, and failing to recognize that tends to preclude having a productive discussion.

It's not all bad, though!

I ran Linux in 2004, and it was great, but it was such a "second-class citizen" desktop OS. The fact that Unreal Tournament and sequels actually worked on Linux felt amazing because it was such a break from the norm, whereas now gaming on Linux is actually a viable option.

Maybe you could flash the ROM on your phone in 2004, but afaik nowhere near the vibrant community you have now.

And self hosting then kinda meant, "I have an Apache server and IRC daemon listening" (the irony is that the self hosting community is so good now in part because of enshittification).

Programmable microcontrollers

with freely available, to ust IDE+libraries

are literally the price of a nice cup of coffee (3x ESP32 can be had for $14 on Amazon). How cool is that!?

I think there's a lot of shitty stuff out there, and the shitty stuff probably outnumbers the cool stuff

but there's world full of really, really cool stuff out there.

Right

plenty of fog, but not a lot of salty spray.

I'd love to see someone like this go on Fox live, with the understanding that would give Trump a reach around...and then eviscerate him on live TV.

A new good stroller is $600+.

That is less than a week of daycare in our area. Ignoring thinking about college, daycare is the only cost that matters in terms of our kid. Everything else is pocket change, comparatively speaking. And the $5k dependent FSA amount is a total joke.

My university was pretty zen about this

essentially, "don't use your own access point/router please. But if you do, please talk to your resident (University employed) student IT rep and they can probably help you set it up correctly."

DUHN DUHN

This joke is where the Led Zeppelin song name comes from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27yer_Mak%27er

While this uses potassium chloride to cut down on sodium, does a mix of sodium chloride and MSG have the same effect? MSG has sodium, but it looks like not much per unit weight.

Not at all the statement of a moron: in colloquial usage yeah, salt is sodium chloride, but in in a chemistry setting it is not just sodium chloride. In this case it probably has potassium chloride

a sodium-free salt.

It's easy to remember c and ℏ if they're both 1...

...but was it the "Windows Uninstall" button...or the "format /dev/sda1 as ext4" button?