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@saraislet Then can we skip the greedy meat sacks and just have Agentic Management? It'd probably not do all that much worse, and cost 100,000,000x less

@saraislet on top of vibe coding, we've got vibe management

Healthcare In America:

Doctor - I see that your gscsttigom isn't working as well as I'd like. I'd like to start you on pjehhdntpf instead.

Patient - Okay, do you know how much that's going to cost?

Doctor - Sorry I've got no idea.

Patient - What do you mean? Like give me a ballpark. Is this a $20/month? $100/month? $500/month? Refinance my house for a month's supply?

Doctor - Well, it's probably not "refinance your house" level.

Patient - Umm ... Okay ... That leaves a lot of room in there still.

Doctor - You'll just have to talk to your insurance.

Patient - ... Okay

Later

Patient - Hey insurance, my doc wants me to start taking pjehhdntpf, can you tell me how much it is going to cost?

Insurance - Sorry, I have no idea.

Patient - What do you mean no idea?

Insurance - well, we won't pay anything until your doctor gets a pre-authorization. And then how much we cover is based on the diagnosis codes, your deductible, the specifics of your plan, whether you get it from an in-network pharmacy or not ...

Patient - fine, so give me a best case

Insurance - free if it's approved and in network and you've hit your out of pocket maximum of $100,000

Patient - ... Really not helping here. So assume it gets approved and I've hit my deductable

Insurance - which pharmacy?

Patient - idk ... Umm the CVS down the street

Insurance - Okay that's going to be $5000/month

Patient - ... Wait, WHAT?

Insurance - turns out it's on our exclusions list so we don't cover it unless you get it waved onto the formulary upon appeal

Patient - but.... I have insurance. Why aren't you helping me pay for my medicine?

Insurance - we don't allow that medicine on your employers' plan. You should use gscsttigom instead.

Patient - I'm on that one right now. It doesn't work.

Insurance - well you'll have to appeal it, but you can't do that until after you get a formal denial.

Patient - and how long does that take?

Insurance - well, if your doctor does the preauth paperwork, they'll make a decision about it within 14 business days, unless they need to come back to your doctor for more information. Then they'll mail you the decision within another 7 business days from (insert the location farthest possible away from you in the continental US). Depending on the decision you can appeal the decision, which the appeals process can take a maximum of 180 days, after which you can appeal it again which takes a maximum of 365 days.

Patient - and if I need to start taking the medicine now?

Insurance - well you're free to do that out of pocket and file for reimbursement later.

Patient - at $5000/month?

Insurance - no it'd have to be at the out of pocket price. For that CVS, it looks like it'd be $15000/month

Patient furiously googling "how to move to a civilized country"

Googles "pjehhdntpf price in Mexico" - $12.50 for a 90 day supply.

An economy simply can't sustain a permanent boom cycle like this driven by hype with little underlying utility or value. And the longer you delay the recession, the worse the crash. We're building up the mother of all gilded age right now.

@jenniferplusplus

We have 10 years or less until the revolution.

I had to explain to yet another liberal the concept of Nazi dog whistles last week... It wasn't until I showed them things like https://hatepedia.ca/guide/explicit/hh and https://hatepedia.ca/guide/contextual/1488 that they understood the White House specifically bragging about installing 88 foot tall flag poles wasn't just a random number to pick the flag pole size out from the catalog.

@CordiallyChloe You'll have to let us know how it goes 😁

Respond to every TERF dog whistle gotcha with "What are you, a cop?"

"What is a woman?"
"What are you, a cop?"

"Should men be allowed in women's bathrooms?"
"What are you, a cop?"

"Do you have a penis or a vagina?"
"What are you, a cop?"

And if they say "Yes, I'm a cop."
Then the clear response is "🖕 Fuck the police." And walk out.

@mayintoronto

Okay, I'll say it as "If these billionaires died, I would have no shortage of dry tissues in my house."

Okay but can he literally go Red Wedding with the entire OpenAI board of directors?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/george-rr-martin-openai-court-legal-1236413461/

You weren't "unemployed" for that large gap in your resumé. You started a small consulting company.

What if we're actually just stomachs who evolved everything else in order to fill it with food?

Spicy take:

Normal people shouldn't self host.

From an energy use perspective, the users per watt are WAY higher in a data center.

People are already awful at running patches and doing security updates.

OMG are people awful at doing backups.

From an ewaste POV, consumer electronics just don't have a very long lifespan, fail more frequently, are rarely upgradable, and easily broken. Enterprise grade servers in a data center are better.

Hosted services actually have a SOC to monitor what the fuck is going on and investigate unusual things. An individual normal user would never notice their self hosted server being popped for forever, and we already have far too many zombies.

Sure, megacorps aren't trustworthy stewards of key internet services like email either. But telling everyone they need yet another home appliance, but one you're going to have to fuck with several hours per month to keep running.

Dynamic DNS suck balls, IPv4 is running out, hosting shit being a NAT and reverse proxies and shch is its own thing, and lots and lots of people don't have very good home internet links.

Up front cost - yes, I know people "pay" for their social media and email with their privacy and advertising. But that means that saying they need to spend several hundred on a whole new computer and find a place to put it or rent a VPS or ...

Fact of the matter is, some sort of SaaS setup for web services IS the right solution for 97% of users. Scolding people for being abused by unregulated tech companies isn't solving anything. The right solution is to make people become more aware of the intentional and malicious enshittified bullshit techbros are cramming down their throat, and lobby the government to strengthen regulations.

I'm once again begging people to stop blaming the victims of shitty techbro nonsense. Switching cost is never zero.

My list of people who should be banned from speaking in polite society grows by the day. Not banned from speaking anywhere. Even despite everything I respect 1st amendment, but the idea that they get a global platform is bullshit. They should be forced back to Stormfront and KiwiFarms if they want to spew bile.

Refusing to pay taxes is an act of rebellion, so not something to do unless you have enough other people with enough power to actually make it an effective rebellion.
@evan @mpjgregoire

Depends somewhere on how you're defining the social contract.

At its most base form, a government is just paying protection money to a mafia. You pay them because they keep other mafias from fucking with you too much, and at least some amount a vested interest in not fucking their people up TOO much since they're the ones who make the money that they get to take as protection money.

So basically, until and unless you have another wannabe government group ready and able to step up and say they'll fight to be your government and work to protect you instead of the current one, you pay the government you got because they have force of violence to compel it from you.

@evan @mpjgregoire

A ray of hope for trans rights.

There are more trans people, including trans kids existing loudly and proudly out of the closet then there have been any time in human history.

There are openly trans teachers and lawyers and engineers and scientists and politicians and diplomats actors, directors, musicians, and gag billionaires.

Within just the last 25 years, trans people have gone from only existing as a joke or sex workers or by hiding themselves in stealth to having multiple states and countries who have literally encoded trans rights into law.

Sure, states didn't have bathroom bans. But they didn't need it. It was just common knowledge that if you got caught in the wrong bathroom as anyone who wasn't cis ...

Informed consent was an impossible pipe dream. There were only maybe a few handful of clinics in the whole world who would dream of helping trans kids with any sort of puberty blockers or HRT, and even then, almost entirely off the books and under the table.

But we're here. We're loud. We're growing. We're only losing ground that was never really ours. It was only ours if we played the cis game of being the proper sort of super binary trans, and putting ourselves in serious danger to do even that.

How far will the reactionaries go? Who the hell knows. But there's more trans allies than ever. Hell, there's major politicians in many many countries all over the world fighting for our rights. That ain't nothin. In the long enough run, we're going to win. Will it be my generation? Zoomers? Gen Alpha? Idk. But we'll win.

A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:

It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.

Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.