jarfil

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[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

2010 was already tainted by the iPhone walled garden.

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

Windows users call that "installing"... ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When was that?

The official F-Droid app had an issue with not deleting downloads on systems that didn't run it correctly in the background. That has been fixed some months ago.

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

Wait, what's that with "oriental" and "Asian"?

There is an "Oriental market" shop where I live, close to the "Asian shop" and the "Chinese restaurant" in front of the other one with actually Chinese dishes (with a Sichuan native cook).

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

$2000/year per person, would be $167/year per person. It's not $0, but sounds like a reasonable amount for anyone except the most marginalized groups

Medical procedures are indeed a problem, but my understanding is their price is artificially inflated due to intermediaries, so taking a harder approach to that, would partially solve the issue, and pave the way for further regulation.

M4A should be the goal, something most 1st World countries have already, but I also understand it would mean upending a lot of industries and their interrelationship in the US, so a step-by-step approach seems like a wise one.

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I get that, I'm just trying to understand the difference between /them and /it in that example. I feel like "them" is more generic than "it", so I feel like "them" would be a better fit in a space where it's nobody's business, the same as in a professional setting.

Am I mistaken or missing something?

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago

+1 to that comment format.

It works not just for fascists, but also for flerfers, religious zealots, and in general anyone not willing to engage in a rational discussion.

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 6 days ago

Moral of the story:

  1. Don't travel to Russia
  2. If you have to travel to the US, Russia, China, or any of a number of other countries that will happily invade your privacy at the border, leave your phone behind and carry a burner phone
[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It sounds to me like limiting spending, and reigning in those predatory intermediaries, would reduce that medical debt in the first place. Or am I missing something?

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Question: I tend to use they/them both when I'm unsure of someone's gender or pronouns, and when gender is irrelevant to a given conversation. Does that also feel like a misgender?

(Disclaimer: I might be biased, because I feel more like agender, which means I'm more comfortable not referencing gender at all)

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why "they/it" instead of also "they/them"?

I was under the impression that "they/them" were the already established pronouns when gender is irrelevant.

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

"All these birds have to go" โ€” Musk, shortly after the sink stunt

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