[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

So am I supposed to buy crypto then? Trumpcoins? ElonNickels?

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

There is money in that banana stand for certain.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Realistically? Probably influenza or a pox after vaccines are outlawed or priced out of reach for enough of the species.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

I would encourage you to learn more before sharing; there may be treatment options, you might have a cancer that is very treatable, unknown or untreatable. Likelihoods and timelines are the most important thing that your family will want to know; sharing "stage 2 cancer type x and this is a general treatment plan and timeline" is a very different conversation from "I have cancer, don't know what type, the timeline or likelihoods of outcomes".

It may be different for you and your family but that can really help your family receive, process the news and support you how you need.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or not registered with any party and are little "I" independent. Some states have Independent candidates or parties. I wrote a "ySK" about it early this year around primary time and was accused of misinformation by people who don't understand different states have different party registrations and laws. I wrote the post as someone smart I knew thought they had to register as an Independent party voter to "not be a Republican or Democrat".

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Magas will eat a lot of good people first, unfortunately. And the show will be extended over many years. Another enemy or bad group will always be found.

The "and then they came for" moment won't hit critical mass for aomg time if ever. It's terrifying to think how long an authoritarian group could maintain power with the technology and military power available today.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Corporate media will be ever more obsequious to get access. Military presence for "safety" in certain cities labeled "dangerous" which all happen to be progressive. Then the self-censorship starts. Then people stop being able speak freely, let alone thinking a rule of law exists. Then it's "underground" to have an honest conversation about politics. We'll be in Putin's Russia level of legal system and political speech within a few years.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

about to destroy the lives of Americans for narcisstic greed and irrational hatred

I wouldn't say that's true. He's going to start with that and cement in and spread this globally because of how economically and militarily influential the US is. He will align with crooks, profiteers, and other madmen and grifters, and others aspiring to power will seek to emulate the path. He will guarantee the climate change is not only ignored but buried while it's effects and consequences exponentially increase in quantity, severity and irreversibility.

Honestly, this will be the reference point for a century or much more of worsening QOL for those who live in democratic republics. Empires of US influence are large ships to turn either way, and Trump's recoronation shows the rot was deep and permanent. In historic scale US democracy was unprecedented though still short.

Hats off to those in other nations, hope someone can pick up the torch the statue of Liberty dropped.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Canadian telecoms are very expensive and there is even less choice than in the US. The fact they're expanding here does not bode well, they would only do it if they thought it a juicy opportunity to increase profits...at your expense of course. Yesterday's elections means the FTC will be reappointed with an anti-ney neutrality, anti-regulation chief.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Making friends mostly ~~at work~~ anywhere causes issues of selection bias, but it doesn't matter if it's work, school, church, your local pub, whatever. Balance in most things, as usual.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

The 🧅 will be the torch of liberty and sanity in the dark days ahead, even more than it already has been.

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submitted 3 days ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/oregon@lemmy.world

Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.

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Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.

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submitted 3 days ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/pnw@lemmy.world

Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.

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Played out Monster Mayhem card game within a month or so. Bought Castle Panic and was a great fantasy intro board game, simple to learn with just enough strategy to keep it interesting for older folks but it's about run its course.

Looking for suggestions 2-3 can play together mix of youth and adults, ideally collaboratively. Basic-level RPG or strategy fantasy/mystery/adventure, small group of 3 max so not really a "DM" situation type game, all would be players.

TIA

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/workreform@lemmy.world

Screw your workers for 30+ years, move your production, make them embarrassed with your company name by eliminating engineering excellence and outsourcing quality to lowest bidder, withhold raises for a decade, remove a real retirement plan and see what happens.

Good for them.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

I received several texts today on my personal phone number addressed to a minor child in my household for whom I provide health insurance from Kaiser.

  1. I opted out of Kaiser text message communications. They don't respect it because Marketing?
  2. The messages are addressing a minor child, yet sent to me, the adult. Kaiser would know their age. If they're young, directly texting them is a violation of parental consent. If they're a dependent there could be all kinds of privacy concerns for say a teen who maybe doesn't want their parents to be involved in such conversations.
  3. I went to Kaiser's website to make a complaint. They don't provide an e-mail contact so you have to use a web submission form. Attachments (e.g. screenshots) aren't allowed. I copied in the text of the text messages after noting my concerns above and tried to submit. The web form said "unsupported characters", which I then spent 30 minutes trying to guess which of the characters from the texts they sent me might be unsupported by their website.
  4. I decided to call their web support to find out which characters were unsupported, I'm sure I wasn't the first person to have the issue. They asked for personal identifying information that isn't necessary to provide website support, spent 5 minutes locating my account, and then told me they'd have to transfer me to a different region as they don't support my region.
  5. They transferred me and I received an audio notice that the region was experiencing technical difficulties and the call disconnected.
  6. I went back to the web form to open a complaint about their web form and submitted it suggesting they identify which characters are not permitted. The form also is about 3 lines of text high but accepts 1,000 characters which makes it very difficult to read as the web user (I'm sure a dark pattern to reduce form submission)
  7. I called support again to try to reengage them to find out if they could identify the characters so I could submit the ticket myself. I got a different agent and had to tell them my original complaint and then what had just happened. They said they didn't know which characters were permissible, that my regions support shouldn't be down as they had no alerts, and wouldn't be able to find out which characters the form could use, despite being web support. They said they could take my complaint over the phone.
  8. I asked what else they needed to make the complaint. The woman said just a minute and pulled up a form after talking to a colleague and asked me to start from the beginning to make my compliant. I hung up.
  9. I went back on the website, typed out the entirety of the text messages I had received, my concern and the form allowed me to submit. The text messages must have had a hidden character or space that wasn't visible to me when copying/pasting.

Now I wait to hear back on my two complaints. All so that, after furiously and competently struggling against the machine, I get back to a place where maybe if I'm lucky they will respect my communication preferences, not contact my child without my permission, potentially fix their shit website, which would leave me maybe about as good off as I was before I was aware of these issues.

I feel like Calvin at the bottom of the big snowball hill he and Hobbes used, only in the modern US it's a shit snowball and it's full of companies who are technologically incompetent and aren't incentivized to follow even the laws they likely helped shaped through lobbying. The above issue is hardly even bad compared to other situations I or others have been through, it's the routiniety of it that is so dystopian.


Edit: 10. IT support responded to my ticket tonight. They didn't read the complaint and provided boilerplate AI template responses on how to submit a ticket when logged in as a customer.They also provided instructions on how to take a screenshot and asked me to respond to their e-mail and attach it so they could review. I responded telling them I didn't need instructions on how to take a screenshot or how to submit a message, that was included in my ticket which they didn't read--I needed a functional communication system, and reviewing the above points and then attached screenshots. I received an automated response almost instantly from their system that I had responded to a ticket that had already been closed and that Kaiser hoped they had resolved the issue to my satisfaction. No ability to re-open the ticket, no contact e-mail or phone number to continue to try to resolve the issue.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/andfinally@feddit.uk

...and it contained a meth/fent dealer starter kit; cash, gun, drugs and scales.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

If anyone else uses this emulator and (unfortunately) Windows, are you seeing turbo run throughs when loading ROMS? This updates were installed yesterday and they're the only thing I can think of unless the rom speed can be controlled elsewhere in the system I'm not seeing:

2024-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5044285)

2024-10 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 23H2 for x64 (KB5044033)

Cheers.

edit - fixed with tip below (- key slows down emulation)

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submitted 1 month ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/oregon@lemmy.world

I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.

Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.

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submitted 1 month ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/pnw@lemmy.world

I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.

Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.

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submitted 1 month ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/portland@lemmy.ml

I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.

Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.

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I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.

Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.

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