seanicus

Evergreen

Digression here but, man, Apple knows how to engineer a laptop that will keep on ticking. Every other laptop I've had is depricated in 2 years and virtually worthless by 5. My 2010 MBP isn't even remotely my daily driver but it is still kicking around. Only issue is a dead ram port (and there are some fixes for that I haven't attempted yet).

Wait are you telling me that Dana White was put on the board for Meta as a favor and not his incredible social media acumen?

Yeah, this has read to me as another double win for the Disaster Capitalist class. I'm sure we'll be seeing record profits for the s & p 500 by year's end no matter the outcome for the rest of us.

Love The Skull, I'll have to look up Queen in the Cave

Never heard of this.... incredible. Thanks to you and the brave makers of websites that just load.

Yup yup yup. I cracked my keyboard and got a paperwhite. I love the dark mode for late night reading but would probably go back to a refurbished keyboard in the face of any strife; just like the old form factor more.

If he was publishing as far back as the 50's I'm sure he was familiar with the beat writers and probably interacted with them, not to mention his style feels closer to a bridge between the beats and the hippies. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a great document of the transitory era between the two.

Don't threaten me with a good time

An insurance adjuster defending insurance companies. Sounds good to me!

Was it CHANGE? My kid has already had his data exposed by companies affiliated with UHC twice. He's not even in Kindergarten yet.

Lol lots of SV freaks in the comments here very close to having their "are we the baddies" moment

What's the most serious claim you've had to make with UHC?

I fell prey to their AI that (definitely unintentionally) denied 90% of claims. I required surgery for a repetitive stress injury. I fought it and got the surgery done, but it pushed the surgery into the new plan year which I suppose was the original intention.

If this was a family member with cancer being treated the same way I'd be significantly more sanguine.

Ehhh, this is the counter-argument from the employer. That $190K seems highly dubious. I, an at-will employee earn ~60% more via benefits... and let me tell you that's definitely not the same as cash.

And the pet bereavement et al sounds like bargaining chips (no better proof than them being dropped in the negotiation process.)

Ever read "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream?"

On the upside this error indicates that the writer just doesn't know Chicago, instead of the increasingly common issue of articles being written by (de)generative ai

I'm from Florida, the article is correct - it's an awful deal. The ecology of Florida is capital A Amazing, so it's a shame to see it get flattened for a private golf course. Unfortunately the heat causes a lot of the aged (voting) population of Florida to not engage or mostly be annoyed by the unique gift they've been given. Regardless politicians are financially incentivized for these giveaways and the hoi polloi isn't.

Well, to be pedantic (but maybe not) they did post an image with a bunch of highly offensive slurs in it

How about a nepo baby trying to achieve low orbit using wax wings?

The fun thing about being rich is that you can vote for/financially contribute to the narcissistic authoritarian who wants to schtup his daughter and would be happy to crash the economy, esp if the devastating effects aren't felt until he's out of office -doing all this because the taxes you barely pay are too high - AND ALSO you can be ready to evacuate when things go pear shaped! It's a sweet life but I hope judgment finds them precipitously and harshly.

And AB wasn't playing flag football in college/HS. Certainly not the first big hit he took, either. But I agree, this one seemed to really mess him up.

Fighting in the Age of Loneliness is insanely great. I don't think there's anything close to it as far as covering the breadth and width of the sport up through the pandemic. I've watched it twice and thinking about it today is making me want to watch it again.

If you like that, Napoleon Blownapart's videos are probably the next closest thing. A bit more of an obscure recommendation (but free on Youtube!) is The Smashing Machine, a doc about Mark Kerr's personal trials and tribulations during the Pride years.

Spencer Fisher's situation is incredibly heartbreaking. Great article (good MMA journalism is as rare as hen's teeth) here: https://www.mmafighting.com/2021/1/12/21554602/the-cost-of-b...

[laughs in regulatory capture]

If you're looking for investigative journalism The Intercept isn't a bad read

4:3 is the correct aspect ratio for IMAX but it sounds like everything else about the presentation at the theater was wrong so who knows if there were any other issues at your particular theater. The movie was released in a number of different formats so there's already a cropped version that will go onto the disc https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

Unfortunately they emptied out the proverbial bench to get enough staff worldwide to play Oppenheimer in film formats wherever possible and that led to some pretty spotty results.

Yeah, I have a combustion Camry and recently borrowed a friend's hybrid Lexus while mine was in the shop and the hyrbid's shortened lag from pedal press to actual acceleration was probably the most notable difference between hybrid & combustion.

It is an intentionally onerous process that is referred to internally as "The Iliad." Not even joking: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-sues-amazon-...

Enjoy your schadenfreude. I legitimately hope it doesn't happen to you!

A freebie for the dev: add "Sharks," to the beginning of every entry and it's 15% funnier