Well… The fact that I’m not a US citizen is a massive hurdle, for starters.

I suppose it’s the fault of the constituents for continuing to vote the same person in over and over again. Or is it that you don’t have any other choices?

How TF do you have a 29 year incumbent??

I’m on Lemmy because I’m anti capitalist and generally support progressive policies such as circular economic practices and sustainability. I’m against AI because it goes against everything I mentioned. The gains aren’t worth the cost.

Honestly… This is where leaders should be elected or fired by the workers themselves.

Maybe Ten Bells

Solo dev who was pretty sad that it had slow traction on release because he put so much work into the game. I can see it now has over 500 reviews, so perhaps he got the reaction he wanted!

“Cruzzant” out in regional Australia

Yes. Websites were dead easy to make. I could fit all my music onto one floppy disk because I saved them as midis. There were no standards for sound or graphics cards so everything played different on different computers. You could access information without needing to sign up because emails were just emerging. You could get an email address with a name you wanted. Adobe hadn’t bought Macromedia yet. Autodesk hadn’t bought 3ds max yet. Animated gifs. Flying toaster screensavers. In fact, the screensavers had sound! Would give you a great attack if you left your speakers on.

I visited the US 3 years ago and tipping was a bloody pain in the bum. It added probably 20min to our meal as the waiters took a while to get change. Further, asking every 15 minutes how our meal was going was quite exhausting; mainly because we knew it was performative for more tips. We tipped 20% each time but it’s really, really frustrating not knowing the price up front.

Back home, I’m used to paying up front and then leaving as soon as we’re done. Waiters leave you alone, unless you’re a regular, and ask you how the meal was at the till if you pay after.

I hate gift cards but work gives them out for our birthdays each year. I always request games related gift cards. To hear that Steam are no longer selling them is disappointing considering that it’s my main gaming platform.

Thanks for that. Definitely sounds like a bs experiment.

So creeps like Zuck can upload their LLM conscience into my brain? No thank you.

… Actually, that would make a great horror movie.

I think it’s good for pattern matching. However, I think LLMs are mostly useless because it lacks human context. It’s a chat bot at best.

So, I did a quick search on where AI has caused a fire because I genuinely want to know what kind of idiot would put an AIAgent in charge of that but couldn’t find anything other than authorities really, really wanting it in charge of predicting fires.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what incident the comic is referring to?

Whoah, whoah, whoah. That movie is a masterpiece. I say leave it alone and make another eldritch space horror.

Very interesting question! I looked up what NSW has and they don’t have anything like that. I also looked deeper into the ambulance Victoria requirements.

So, if your primary place of residence is not in Victoria, you can’t be a member and have to foot the entire bill unless your private health insurance covers it.

If you’re a Victorian with a membership, if you get hurt anywhere in the country, you’re covered.

You can just say capitalism, calling it anything else only serves to mislead people about natural evolution of capitalism.

I think there’s a little misunderstanding there (not US-crony-capitalism) but I’m happy to just call it capitalism.

So what if you’re outside that company’s coverage area?

It’s not a company though. The ambulance is state run, so to be ‘outside’ the service area is to be in another state, where they’d have their own state run ambulance service.

The membership covers costs for everyone within the state regardless of how remote you are.

Hmmmm. Our ambulance membership costs go directly to the ambulance services though, not through an insurance company. The ‘fee’ without the membership is basically a penalty fee to encourage everyone to be a member so the ambulance is constantly funded.

It really should be done as part of our tax system, but we tend to follow US crony capitalism.

Edit: I’m half wrong. The money doesn’t go to insurance companies but it’s a state thing that sort of goes direct to the ambulance service.

Nope but our system is much more universal than America’s.

My husband was extremely drunk and cycling home at 3am. Fell off his bike, smacked his face on the road and fell unconscious. Was picked up by an ambulance called by a good Samaritan who found him.

They put him on a drip, ran an MRI scan, found a fracture on his eye socket, told him he had a concussion, found some fibroids in his lungs (unrelated to the accident) etc. Was in the emergency ward for probably 12 hours until he was able to be discharged.

Got follow up scans and appointments looking at the lung, eye and concussion issue over two years until they gave him the all clear.

We paid not a cent for the whole thing. He did get a verbal lashing from me though.

On the flip side, I had to have elective surgery to remove a 17cm cyst because it was really, really uncomfortable. Because it’s elective, it’s not covered by Medicare. The quote from the hospital came to $22K and we had to pull it out of the home loan.

Location: Australia

Forgot to say that we both have ambulance membership which costs us $70/year. Without it, the ambulance cost would’ve been around $3.5K.