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“In school they used to call her console girl”
7·26 days agoUpstream it into the kernel. Open source usually revolves around everyone solving their own problems (being selfish according to GKH), but everyone else profiting from it as well.
I believe the main problem in the US is the focus on shareholder value. Some people invest into shares of healthcare companies to turn a profit. That is just insane. In Germany (which‘s healthcare system is not perfect) there are many private health insurance companies, but there are not allowed to make a profit (or pay out dividends to shareholders, because there aren‘t any). If there are profits they need to be reinvested into the system. It leads to much better outcomes in my opinion.
If we’re all going to be pooling money anyway it shouldn’t be filtered through a for-profit system first.
Not to sound like someone who wants a small government, but instead paying money to shareholders you can also pay tons and tons of government workers. In Germany when you work for the government you can‘t get fired which leads to a lot of overcapacity. In the tax department it is very often the case that there is only work for less than half a day. A friend of mine actually quit their (very safe) job there, because they couldn‘t stand being bored half a day and being mocked for working too fast.
Again I believe everything is better than the system in the US, but there is some nuance to the alternatives.
I‘ve heard that car insurance is too expensive in the US, but keep in mind that you are usually not insuring your own car, but everyone else‘s, so if you are causing an accidents the other party can buy a new car for example. An old car (due to the lack of safety systems) is often more likely to end up in car crash than a newer one. In Germany (where insurance prices are much saner) this applies as well. You either get an expensive car and pay less for insurance or an old one and pay more. Also in Germany fees are pooled by model, so if your car is used by a lot young people (who get into accidents more) you also pay more. The good thing is that you can inform yourself about it before you buy a car to factor it into a buying decision from the start.
It is not insulated, but can be used for hot drinks: https://shop.dopper.com/bottles/dopper-steel-800-ml
I own it and I am very happy with it.
Please don‘t extrapolate from the US healthcare system to insurances in general. Insurances collect money from many so in the case something happens to an individual that individual doesn‘t need take the full financial loss. This makes a lot of sense, because it would very inefficient if everyone would save money in order to pay for a potential cancer treatment. Cancer is rare, but in aggregate it is just small amount each month.
The job of the insurance is to define that monthly amount (which is not trivial to do), collect it, store it and eventually pay it out.
On another note, unless an insurance is mandatory you can usually opt to pay yourself.
France has such a law and I am in favor of it.
However that would probably not solve the problem at hand. Food production is a lengthy process (month to years) with high capacity utilization and once production has started it cannot be stopped. Therefore you cannot control for sudden fluctuation in supply and demand. The crop yield for potatoes this year was way better than expected leading to surplus in supply.
I am not aware of anyone starving in Germany and shipping those potatoes to countries where that happens would probably not feasible (in other words with the same money you could probably get better help elsewhere).
I think this is the right thing to do, but this will probably also lead to supermarkets needing to dispose some of their potatoes, because less people buy them and an above average of the free potatoes will probably go bad, because people will get more than they need. So I don‘t think every handed out free potato is a saved potato. Still it is the best option.
There is not a lot you can do if you too much of something at that scale which doesn‘t last. Especially food where the consumption is pretty stable.
To add on that: I am pretty certain (not 100% sure) that it is illegal in Germany to make a profit with the utilities bill. Though some landlords try tricks to do it anyway.
This is so wrong. I don‘t know where you live, but at least in Germany tap water is not free. Of course everyone drinks roughly the same amount of water, but most water is consumed in other ways where it totally matters to price it. For example taking a bath consumes much more water than showering. People have private pools where one fill-up can easily double the water consumption of a year.
The water pricing is actually progressive so the more you consume the more you have to pay per amount. This allows cheap prices for the average consumer and discourages to overconsume.
Water is precious and shouldn‘t be treated as an abundance.
2·2 months agoI did a distillery tour of Hercynian in Germany and the owner said that due to fire regulations they need to vent the barrel storage rooms to keep the alcohol concentration in the air below a threshold. This leads to more evaporation and a shorter aged whiskey tasting more like a longer aged whiskey. This regulation doesn‘t exist in Scotland or Ireland, where you can really taste the alcohol in the air. Anyway they will probably say that this venting would destroy the whiskey taste. I think Hercynian whiskey tastes exceptional.
These comments are the reason why I like Lemmy / the Fediverse so much. Thank you!
I got a “spare” bike from my parents after I got into a car crash with my old one and it is a Gazelle. I never heard about them before, but several persons have had a conversation with me about that bike. A lot of people think it is something very special, so I guess I would recommend getting one.
Install the PS2 games (or whatever was your first console) of your childhood and bring back old memories. For the PS2 I can especially recommend the OpenGOAL project which let‘s you play Jak & Daxter with modern resolutions. It is basically free if you (like me) still own the games anyway.
There is Tizz & Tonic where I (a cis male) bought a few boxers from which I really enjoy. Somehow there webshop is terrible, but this should be a good overview of what designs they currently offer: https://tizzandtonic.com/search?q=boxer&options[prefix]=last
Their design change regularly and be assured, when you take of your pants your boxers will get noticed and complimented :D
They are made in Portugal.
62·2 months agoNATO should make an official slogan of it and sell t-shirts
This is how every ramp-up in a market works. It is called hedging. The promised sales volume at that higher price then let companies invest in higher supply.
The problem here is that none of only four companies which manufacture RAM don‘t want to compete for this demand, but instead share the price increase among each either in profit margins. (This is of course, because they don‘t believe in the AI hype, but nonetheless RAM manufacturing is an oligopoly, which is a problem in of itself.)
I don‘t know if sarcasm or not, but since Waymo already demonstrated it is technically possible to drive without a safety driver in the car I think it is only a matter of time when Tesla (and others) follow suit.