I cut it down to just coffee and water. My phone keeps my brain “happy.”

Or a coalition of media companies maintaining a legal defense fund.

My understanding is that the Israeli economy relies very heavily on US support. If Netanyahu begins to turn away from the US, he’ll have to call on European nations for support, and at least in some places those populations are more aware of and disgusted by the behavior in Gaza. If Israel can’t get other foreign investment to continue propping up their economy, all those Israeli companies that have been attractive investments for the last 4-6 decades are going to tank hard. Along with trumps idiocy, an Israeli collapse could be a complete disaster for the industrialized world.

This is a point more people need to understand. One thing I would love to see more of is journalist-owned news outlets, ideally in a co-op model (so the writers can agree to bring on, say, editors and photographers as the income warrants it). This is the only way to guard against the wealthy just buying the press and thereby dictating the narrative.

I just read it as “guys who are douchebags often say hello in languages they don’t otherwise understand.”

I think it’s due to the Modi government’s naked Hindu nationalism.

One of the worst things we do as a culture is setting arbitrary milestones and then shaming ourselves or others for missing them.

Are you expecting to graduate? You’re better off than many who didn’t finish at all. You stumbled, you’re moving forward. You’re going to be fine.

Particularly considering Facebook (I will die before I call it meta) blocked major Islamic Indians on their platforms as well as the biggest Islamic news outlet in India. Standing up your own instance on mastodon/lemmy/friendica/Pixelfed is the best way to avoid getting shut down by billionaires who kowtow to fascists.

No, it’s one of the first Linux distributions

I think that’s actually a pretty common view, just not often loudly professed by people with power or platforms.

ITT: people who don’t understand that Medicaid is not Medicare, and that means-testing means a service isn’t “for all.”

Editing to add: Medicaid is funded mostly by the federal government, 69% vs 31% funding from the state. So even if it wasn’t means-tested (one has to have an income below a certain amount, or be disabled to a certain degree before qualifying) it would not meet OP’s definition, a single payer health insurance system funded by the state.

To answer OP’s question, a state funded single payer health insurance program would likely run afoul of the Commerce Clause of the constitution which states the federal government has jurisdiction over interstate commerce. UHC, Aetna, and other nation-wide insurance companies would absolutely sue over the state programs interfering with their right to conduct interstate commerce, and they would almost certainly win, even without a hard right SCOTUS like the current one.

Funny story, if it cuts off at a certain income level, it’s not for all.

I can’t imagine making a survivable go of it in New York for 28k/year.

Sounds like the beginning of the Cory Doctorow novella “Unauthorized Bread.” Cloud service goes down and the main character’s toaster won’t work without them.

Counterpoint: openAI loses money on every ChatGPT search so using them is actually damaging them.

Counterpoint 2: AI sucks and no one should use it.

Grow your own peppers and cook them in white vinegar and salt before pureeing them with a little xanthan gum (to prevent separation).

I’ll have to check out Swindled. +1 for 404 Media and Better Offline.

You can always listen to the weekly omnibus episode that only has ad breaks between each full segment. Or get good with your skip forward button.

Not just Evans, but Mia, Gar (sp?), James, and their other contributors.

Behind the Bastards

BtB’s counterpart, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

If Books Could Kill

You’re Wrong About

Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

The Dollop

Depresh Mod

The Daily Zeitgeist

They also put out Okemah Rising, another album of Woody Guthrie songs.