nolefan33

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[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

My government teacher in high school took our class to a Herman Cain rally. It was... interesting. Towards the end of his campaign, so it was in a BBQ restaurant that had a stage for bands and maybe 50 people were there total. I don't remember much about it, other than it was hard to hear because we were in a restaurant that was still playing music in the other room. I believe you'll have a very different experience tonight lol

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hot temperatures are bad, humidity is bad, but it turns out hot temperatures at lower humidity is seemingly even worse. And we're all fucked because climate change models show us likely hitting the temps this guy was exposed to if we don't fix some shit fast.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It's probably guns. That guy who shot all those people at the music festival in Vegas snuck a small arsenal into his room and they didn't notice until the shooting.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have clear memories of the pastor at my parents' church talking about how the gay agenda's next steps were legalizing bestiality and pedophilia. Probably would've been somewhere around 2014-2015. Looking back, it was absolutely the beginning of the end of me having anything to do with religion, so maybe it's actually the best sermon I ever sat through.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

But you don't carry the sign with you. It stays at the shelf. Sure, they could build a system that tracks you everywhere in the store and marks what price they showed you and tells the register what price to display when you check out. They'll try all that, but this won't do it yet.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm not actually that worried. I've seen these in use at hardware stores for quite a while now. It's just useful to assume that Walmart is planning to fuck you over. That's a good point with BT though, many of the kind of microcontrollers that would be used for this sort of thing offer BT connectivity as well.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As long as you have a free market and not a coordinated one it will work out great for you guys too

Ah, so we're fucked

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's not really a way to do that with this technology. These are just price tags on the shelf, so if they changed the price it would change it for everyone in the store.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 months ago

The article goes into this in great depth on both sides of the issue, but this is probably the most direct answer.

The drinks, dispensed by nurses as a form of medication, are meant to prevent the clients from becoming overly intoxicated while avoiding the worst effects of withdrawal, which may lead to seizures and can be fatal for those physically dependent on alcohol.

To address the "taxpayers expense" part, it's way more expensive to provide major health care than small amounts of vodka.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The deductible is an amount that you pay out of pocket before insurance starts covering anything. So if insurance doesn't get billed, the money doesn't count towards the deductible. This may make it difficult to lower the bill at all, it really depends on how much the entire bill is compared to your deductible. If you can't pay it though, they'll have to give you an affordable payment plan. Definitely negotiate and don't take a loan out from some other source to cover.

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well that's the strongest argument for making a Bluesky account that I've heard

[–] nolefan33@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Seems to be this veto of Palestine being admitted to the UN as a full member.

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