I am live.
“welcome to McDonald’s, will you be using the app today?”
“No, lemme get a number 9 medium diet coke”
“Hey how you doing, what can I get you?”
“number 9 medium diet coke”
“Two hamburger meal, and what to drink?”
“Diet coke”
“What size?”
“Medium”
“Does everything look right on the screen?”
“Yes”
“Would you like to round up for the Ronald McDonald Foundation”
“No”
“Drive around to the second window”
Absolutely disgusting.
So I’m not sure what is happening in this post. The premise is ludacris and the top responses are nonsense.
A five mile ambulance ride to the hospital for non emergency services is like 5k alone.
A simple conversation and basic exam by a doctor is 300 bucks on the low side. That’s just the doctor with a stethoscope checking your heart and lungs.
If you have to go to the emergency room you’re done.
That’s why we have health insurance here. It’s basically a racket.
My inbox is flooded with doomsayers and fear mongering about how they’re going to kill Linux because of this and no matter how hard I tried to convince them that it would be physically impossible to enforce such a law/rule on open source software they just wouldn’t listen.
Looks like the blokes in calif had to eat a lot of truth to come to this decision.
O, before you comment I am fully expecting more doomsayers. So please enlighten me.
Granted you paid for that John Deere update.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
I already defined it in my first post.
But here it is again: an indie game is any game made by a none-major publisher.
Examples of major publishers: Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony.
Examples of non-major publishers: Larian Studios, Annapurna Interactive, Playstack.
An indie game has nothing to do with budget or how many people developed the game. It is exclusively referring to the publisher.
Well. Luckily there’s already an established definition of the word indie.
You know what’s funny? I actually think the situation is a lot better than you’re making it out to be.
You’re not entirely wrong. There absolutely are positions in hospitals where people do insane schedules like 24 or 48 hour shifts. But that’s mostly concentrated around emergency medicine, trauma, surgical residency, ICU coverage, and certain on-call specialties. There’s definitely a culture surrounding ER staff and surgeons where sleep deprivation almost gets treated like some badge of honor.
But the majority of the medical world in America does not operate like that.
Most hospitals primarily run on normal shift structures. Nurses on regular floors and patient wings are usually working standard 8 or 12 hour rotations with multiple shift changes throughout the day just like any other industry. And once you get into private practice, some doctors are only in office a few days a week seeing a relatively small number of patients across different locations.
People also forget hospitals are not run exclusively by doctors and nurses. They’re massive operations with huge amounts of support staff, technicians, imaging departments, transport, administration, custodial staff, billing, labs, and so on, most of whom work completely normal schedules.
So yes, what you’re describing does exist. But I don’t think it’s remotely as universal or apocalyptic as people make it sound. A lot of public perception comes from dramatized media where every hospital is portrayed like a nonstop trauma center operating at DEFCON 1 twenty-four hours a day.
It’s never been a major studio. They make a very specific kind of game they publish themselves or through a small publisher. So they’re by definition indie. In fact many people call larian AAA indie.
Indie games have publishers. Just like indie bands have labels.
Baldur’s gate 3.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
Just don’t play mixtape. It’s terrible.
If you don’t include Clint Eastwood: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Spirited Away, My Cousin Vinny.
If you include Clint Eastwood: The Good the bad the ugly, just a few more dollars, the man with no name and gran Torino.
TV shows: Star Trek: TNG, House MD (specifically season 4), Gilmore Girls.
I can’t stress enough how good season 4 of house is.
So there are two ways they can get this so called spyware on your phone. Zero click exploit in some app or through the os itself or the carrier uploads it through the network.
The latter is probably not going to happen… But the former… Is kinda illegal and would expose multiple corporations in malfeasance.
Seems like a puff piece. I call bullshit.
Perhaps. It was two years ago. I honestly don’t remember.
Yes. Correct. You just described the stock market. And all of those companies require a consumer to purchase good and/or services from the company that is being bought and sold.
Those companies that you are describing have to report earnings. They have to be profitable for investors to invest.
If a company doesn’t report earnings it doesn’t matter how much insider trading occurs.
There are also other markets. Like in China and the European Union.
In fact, the capital of finances is often times considered London of all places.
It’s just a complete lack of education in economics. It’s insane.
I just paid $80 for one year of proton. 2 years ago I paid $40 for 2 years.
Use information however you will.
So I’m having a really hard time communicating this to people and I don’t know if it’s because they are young and inexperienced in the way of the world or they simply lack a complete education of how economics function I don’t know.
Our entire economic system on this planet, every version of it from socialism to dictatorships to capitalism, and whatever it is they have in Denmark and Sweden, functions on one simple fundamental principle: consumption.
The companies being traded on the stock market exist because people buy the products and services those companies provide.
Adobe sells licenses that allow graphic designers to use its products. There is no physical product involved, only digital services, but those licenses are still what keep the business operating and allow it to be publicly traded on the stock market.
If AI replaces the people physically working at these companies, the people creating the software and products being sold by these publicly traded corporations, then eventually there will be no consumer income left to sustain those businesses. Without consumers spending money, companies will have nothing meaningful to report to shareholders and investors, which would ultimately destabilize the entire system.
People have to consume products and services for the economy to function. AI cannot fundamentally replace the entire workforce indefinitely because, if it does, there will eventually be nothing left to support the economic system, including the infrastructure required to sustain AI itself.
Yes, but historically companies that receive bailouts pay them back at a minimum in part. But very often they are completely repaid.
You ever watch Police academy? You remember Tackleberry? That’s basically the United States police.
Actually, the guy with the headset taking my order is fine. He’s usually just zoned in on the process and not really thinking about it, so I go along with it because that’s the fastest and most expedient way to get through the drive-thru.
What annoys me is the automatic “Are you using the app today?” followed by the donation pitch.
I will never, ever use the app. Ever. It’s fucking McDonald’s. I don’t need to hunt down the best deal they’ve got this week. They push that app constantly, and I’m not going to spend a second pre-ordering a damn Big Mac meal. Just take my order, take my money, and let me go.