I do not understand these vids. I was watching woodworking and bad new house inspections shorts, as one does, and a bearded guy in an orange vest popped in. All this man did was make facial expressions at other vids of construction accidents made by other people. He superimposes himself on someone else’s video and makes faces. Tons of views. Including mine, looking at his page, trying to figure out why this is a thing. The algorithm then tried to feed me more. Had to “not interested” the front page for a couple reloads to scrub that crap.

What is wrong with people that this is what they seek? There’s no content in this content.

Maybe I’m just old.

Thus far, not a single bad headline on this guy.

You’re likely being hyperbolic but the new tax code proposal by Vought and Heritage is to that end. To financially incentivize marriage over single living especially in the presence of children. Leaving a bad marriage would be financially difficult at best.

Alternatively, actually tax the top 10% at the 37% tax rate for everything earned above $600k, and let the working class try to enjoy a little life, with healthcare coverage.

There is a Behind the Bastards on this very topic.

This is a good article, what I could read of it before it was cut off by a pay wall. It explains the breakdown in the healthcare system, at the emergency room, quite well. The failures of the healthcare system end up in the waiting room of ERs, across the nation, because EMTALA says it’s the one place no one can be turned away.

Hospital administration is 100% aware, but since the solutions involve more payroll expenses, they do nothing, while pocketing millions or even billions. Clinics are often owned by investment firms hence the abysmal profit centered rules thrust upon doctors a in that setting of late, to the detriment of patient care. End result, patients suffer and nurses get hurt.

There are hospitals in which the security staff wears Kevlar for a reason. Sometimes, family members are the worst offenders, hence the visitor restrictions often encountered across the nation.

State law is highly impactful, but not many states implement such guards due to the everpresent hospital lobby. The baseline is the hospital administration is always represented in the state legislature. You can help by writing to your state reps, which is the only lobby available to patient care. The federal side is useless, more so now, but the state reps are more accessible and can have more impact than you think, on both your patient care and everyone else’s. If you’d like to assist the effort of these nurses, writing your reps is what you can do. Unions help, but the true long term fix is going to be state legislation reining in hospital administration profit hunger.

16-17 patients at a time is absurd. There can be no safety for patient, nurse, or doctor in that system. States that have put safety checks on their hospitals limit those numbers to 1-5 patients per nurse, depending on acuity.

No wonder nurses are in the streets right now.

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We’ve all seen some of the cool elements on RedHat. I especially like the local farmer trucks rolling through towns with fresh veggies. And watching how much easier it is to grow tea there than in my backyard.

But let’s not play pretend.

I’m aware. I still think they’re the country most in need of labor unions.

I can’t touch cat videos any more. There’s no point if it’s not real and any effort to sort it out is work. Also, spite. I don’t want to feed the slop machine because then there will be more.

China needs unions.

At some point, we’re going to have so much crap in orbit, nothing else is going to be able to leave the planet.

Stop subscribing to openAI.

To be fair, there are a fair amount of Linux users on Lemmy.as for the millions who’ve never heard of Lemmy? I’m not confident they are not. Especially given the crap we have to clean out of my parent’s computer every couple months.

It’s the most ubiquitous chocolate we have in every store that isn’t Hersheys or Nestles trash. If you have a better suggestion that isn’t more pricy, then let us know.

I like the the dark chocolate in the blue wrapper. No bitter anftertaste and the cool truffle center is lovely. But hey, you have another suggestion on a cheap-ish chocolate that’s worth the calories, that is welcome.

I’ve never due to the price, good to know though.

Most of the American crap you listed only loosely qualifies as chocolate. I’m American and I don’t buy it.

Lindt is the good stuff. And the coconut version of the top middle item.

You may be joking, a little, but as people get more desperate they will go for whatever easy target they see. That is you, or grandma pushing those tasty groceries to her car, or the house back from the road in a town with no cop shop.

Just do everyone a favor and practice at a range, don’t simply leave it in a safe.

We were just discussing it last night. Neither my partner nor I even click on them any more because there’s no fun in a fake cat video.

I am curious to see if the general angst and anger level of everyone starts going up due to lack of cat video balm between terrible headlines and current events discussions.

Is AI interference in and destruction of cat videos the catalyst to revolution?