[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I just realized what Trump means when he says “horrible people” — those are people who don’t protect him from himself.

Some of his “horrible people” will therefore be truly incompetent, and some will be people who are unwilling to put him above all else, or who were in the wrong place when he messed up so badly that it couldn’t be salvaged.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Even the pets and dolphins and sofas are saying it as they storm the southern border to escape!

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 115 points 1 week ago

Doctors go to school for seven years racking up debt, and then usually have to shoulder the burden of liability and operational costs. It’s expensive to become a medical doctor, and expensive to be a medical doctor.

These costs are part of what keeps both doctors and patients safe. Doctors end up with both the power and the risk.

Nurses by comparison have only basic training before on the job training kicks in; it’s relatively easy to become a nurse, and if you mess up, the worst that’s going to happen is that you get fired and have to go work somewhere else.

But even as a nurse, if you’re quick to pick things up, you can move up the ranks and find a specialty that has more power and pays better than a standard RN. Without the seven years of debt.

And life’s not just about pay; quality of life is generally more important, and that sucks for most doctors, who have relatively short life expectancies and limited time to spend their money.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 132 points 3 weeks ago

And he’s right.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 105 points 1 month ago

A privacy policy can be “we don’t collect your data.”

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 84 points 1 month ago

I’d more call him the shallow self-interested state.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 124 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The headline doesn’t take things far enough. The GOP isn’t looking to win in court — they’re looking to raise the spectre of a Democratic win being so illegitimate that the courts would consider hearing a case on it. Then, when the cases inevitably fail, but with some judges outspokenly objecting, that will be the signal for yet another insurrection attempt, but one that’s much better coordinated than last time.

Thing is, this will be the THIRD attempt using this strategy; the first was in play when Trump, much to his surprise, actually won in 2016. It took a while for them to spin down the machinery they’d put in place to call the election rigged and question the results. And of course, during that time a small amount of foul play WAS discovered, all of it belonging to the GOP.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 89 points 2 months ago

Why not display the original from the Torah? In the original Hebrew language?

Or at least display all three versions as written in the Protestant Bible.

Seems kind of silly though; it would make much more sense for Christians to display Deuteronomy 6:4-15, since that’s what Jesus stated was the greatest commandment.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 101 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Good: this splits the data requests so that Mozilla and Fastly each hold only a part of the requests, and yet still stand in the way of leaking fingerprinting data from browser users to target websites.

Bad: one more organization injected into the trust chain, one more point of both security and operational failure.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 112 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was not expecting it to be a positive story… but it really is. The team’s name was granted to them by the local chief, and the logo has now been updated in consultation with the same group. So instead of an act of cultural appropriation, we’ve got an act of recognition of a part of the local community.

Of course, they’ll have to explain this over and over again to the rest of the world, but that’s not a bad thing either.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 199 points 1 year ago

“Charity” should be a question answered by “do they have a registered charity number?”

What’s considered a charity will differ country by country.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 170 points 1 year ago

They don’t recommend them because of what the homeowners can do with them?

I’m much more worried about the fact that they’re a constant feed of activity accessible by anyone who can bypass or be let through Amazon’s access controls.

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