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The founder of this company is an old buddy of mine from college. He was always a smart guy but I mean… damn, nuclear physics! Definitely one of those “small world” moments to find someone you know IRL mentioned in some article on Lemmy lol

Sony: but line go up

(line turns out to be steam deck sales numbers)

Sony: not like that

Portugal.

Health care is free in the public system. Prescriptions cost but they are token amounts, usually like 50 cents to 5 euros.

Emergency and urgent care is generally good.

Routine care, like family doctor / GP stuff, has some issues with wait times.

Private hospital systems exist as do private insurance plans, but these are pretty inexpensive. In general, they treat routine to minor problems. For major surgeries or serious stuff like cancer treatment, you’ll likely be handled in the public hospitals anyway.

Oh yeah. The principal and the other administrators floated suspension, among other things. My parents had to take off work to come in and fight them with me. The staff were all so hopelessly ignorant of all things IT that they were acting as if I’d been using some kind of malware. After they decided to kick me off, they emailed all my teachers telling them I’d been banned for “hacking” and “deploying computer viruses”. It was all quite surreal. This was in Virginia, USA.

Has something changed in your home country in the time since you left? I guess so if you want their passport?

I got banned from the school computers one year back in high school for the “crime” of using portable apps off a flash drive! This was back when IE6 was the standard and I wanted to use Firefox. Maybe 2006? Sounds funny now in retrospect but it was pretty annoying at the time.

This is where those predictions markets get actually dangerous, not just in terms of financial stuff, but incentivising the committing of crimes in order to win bets. How long will it be before someone commits a violent crime in order to win their polymarket wager?

“synergize”

What happens once everyone is forced into abject poverty?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

That’s the only way for comics or anything else because you can’t really expect users to research the whole ideological history of the author every time they see a funny picture and want to repost it.

I’m not sure I have a strong opinion either way on the censorship vs not supporting bigots debate, but, to the extent the community decides to ban any authors/artists, there needs to be a quick and concise list that posters can consult.

Not sure if this is apocryphal, but I recall hearing that he was questioned by the secret service over this skit.

Well have a nap

ZEN INSTALL ZE GENTOO!!

I mean duh. Obviously the guy who barks orders he has no comprehension of is worth millions of times what the people actually doing the work are. Isn’t it obvious? How would a bunch of engineers have a functioning product without a useless figurehead?

Hi from Budapest. I’m visiting right now and even saw the couch fucker’s motorcade go by today on Andrassy street. I dunno who he’s fooling with this but most of the Hungarians I talked to around town tonight had very little idea who JD Vance is. They were just aware that “some American official” was here. The people who did know who he was didn’t find him to be relevant in any way. I love the idea that he came all the way here to try to prop up Orbán but people either don’t know or don’t care who he is.

That’s call an invasion, and an illegal annexation.

Why is he being tried in federal and state court simultaneously over the same alleged crime? Isn’t that double jeopardy?

I’m sorry to hear about your mother, friend.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

Honest title: California presidential hopeful and guy channeling used car salesman energy, Gavin Newsom, regrets disqualifying himself from that sweet, sweet AIPAC funding.

Hitler says Sudetenland belongs to Germany. Wait, no, that’s not right. And yet it feels strangely relevant.