johncutting

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 1 points 3 minutes ago

My rep was a no-vote which feels even more cowardly. Time to make some angry phone calls

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago

My rep was a no-vote which feels even more cowardly. Time to make some angry phone calls

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

My rep was a no-vote which feels even more cowardly. Time to make some angry phone calls

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

This, but for basically every for-profit insurer for the past five years. Anyone with insufficient reserves now should be nationalized because clearly their for-profit model is useless.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/zurich-insurance-announces-125-bln-buyback-after-record-profit-2024-02-22/

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"Resources." They didn't want to pay to do the work so that citizens will bear 100% of the risks and costs even though they already paid for it. We'll also have to pay to bail out the insurance companies that I guarantee will cry that they don't have large enough reserves despite historic stock buybacks and dividends in the industry.

A failure on so many levels.

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't think it's intentional. It's challenging to try to take a better picture of a bag of shit

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"You can commit crimes and be rewarded with huge political and financial windfalls by actively encouraging disinformation that literally kills the people whose survivors will immediately turn around and vote for you to pick their pockets again" seems to be the lesson learned.

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (9 children)

America's first recorded covid death was in Feb 2020. The trajectory of this looming new pandemic threat doesn't feel great.

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Seconded for manjaro. It's the only distro I tried recently (fedora, endeavor, Ubuntu, opensuse) that got the Nvidia drivers correct right away without any trouble. Solid distro

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

All those "red lines" turned out to be an amateurish sales tactic. Disgraceful and unforgivable actions from beginning to end. Trump will be a horror, but Biden deserves a place in the hall of Presidential Monsters somewhere next to Jackson.

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

America's Gini Index is worse than what France's was before the Revolution*.

*Economic Historians will argue because we don't have the best data then compared with what we have today.

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

A few years ago, I devoured the Ascendant series by K Arsenault Rivera. Basically a soft magic universe based on Mongolian and Chinese mysticism set in a different world, but the parallels are pretty obvious. The main focus is the sapphic romance between the two leads, but It does a good job of mixing world building, epic battles and military maneuvers, demons and magic, and relationships. I highly recommend it.

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