Agreed. The best things you can do to protect yourself from COVID are getting vaccinated and staying up-to-date with any boosters and maintaing basic hygiene like washing your hands before sticking your fingers in your mouth, etc.

Masks are best at keeping your germs to yourself, so you don’t spread it to others.

Before the onset of this latest surge, if you weren’t sick, and did the above, there was no real reason to regularly wear a mask. No reason for regret.

We really just need a Reader replacement. I’m sure there is something out there I don’t know about.

If not, perhaps I’ll make one and become a billionaire on the RSS bandwagon!

I mean, I hate to go all Reddit on you, but read the article. It explains the whole thing.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/mental-health-substance-abuse-coverage/

Boom, look what government regulation of healthcare can do.

The mark of a great teacher.

Perhaps not great, but effective. This attitude is exactly how working in the corporate world works. Reality and being right are rarely, if ever, the important thing. Following the rules, doing what you’re told, and sitting the fuck down and shutting the fuck up? That’s what this teacher was teaching their students.

Well, that’s just lunacy. How would private schools embezzle federal funds?

I have absolutely no problem with tax dollars going to towards the Pell Grant. Giving money to kids for an education is awesome.

I have a big problem when that money is for an education at a private religious school that openly and actively discriminates against protected classes.

Realistically, geographical representation is important. The low population, rural areas of any state deserve to have a voice, too. Just, not an outsized, disproportionate one that a lot of these shitty maps give them.

https://bycommonconsent.com/2022/03/04/how-much-federal-money-do-the-byus-receive/

Private, less about $275,000,000 in federal funds, sure.

Both of them?

Devices that are no longer supported and kept up to date with security updates contain known, but unpatched, vulnerabilities. Some of them are software based, but some are a function of the hardware itself. Connect these to a network, manage to do something that gets them compromised, and you’ve given bad actors a foothold on your network.

Because most networks, especially home networks, tend to be configured in a way that trusts local network traffic more than external traffic, such a foothold can further compromise your systems. Very few people have the resources, or technical know-how to properly segregate potentially dangerous or vulnerable devices on a network.

That’s what.

I would note that, because it’s so old and out of support for everything, anything you got running on it would be full of security vulnerabilities.

Like, do not connect this to a network you care about kind of vulnerable.

I’d frankly just find a way to recycle it safely and learn to do that earlier with devices you’re not using, so others can use them instead of just sitting in a closet. (It’s not like I’m not guilty of the same thing.)

Nerds suddenly start to care about labor relations!

Any prosecutor worth their salt will see this move and immediately move to ammend their discovery motion for whatever the civil trial would’ve asked for, too, for the exact reason you listed.

We are rapidly approaching a point where the SCOTUS can rule and states, or even the federal government will simply… ignore it.

I’m not sure which party will cross that line, but we’re real close. And when it happens, we almost immediately devolve into an epic shitstorm.

Insurance is a complicated issue and it varies by state.

Generally, though, no, you won’t have to pay anything.

If you live with others who drive and do have insurance, they may need to add you as an excluded driver on their policy to avoid affecting their rates, but that, again, varies by state, and also, insurance carrier. I would just talk to an agent in your state.

If you just want an ID, most states offer essentially an ID card that’s exactly like a license, but just the ID part. Might want to look into that, too.

I disagree. He is an incredibly intelligent person. He just lacks any sort of shame or moral fortitude and believes that whatever it takes to enrich himself is justified.

While I agree wholeheartedly, this is an important step.

Politics like this are almost never won in one big move, but rather slow, small changes over time. Plenty of states have already made it essentially legal. The federal government is now, as often happens, following suit, slowly.

It’s not perfect, but it is a move forward.

Until about maybe six months ago, Edge was great (please ignore the massive amount of data it sends to MS) as a browser. The user experience was top notch.

Some product owner with shit for brains was hired and started cramming Bing and AI nonsense into every corner.

MS needs to ease up, fast.

Yeah. While I absolutely have a bias and want to see this fucker convicted, I feel like no matter what, it’s going to have at least one “Where were you when…” moment.

Almost every generation has a couple. Where were you when JFK was shot? When the Challenger exploded? During 9/11? When Columbia burned up?

I mean, obviously, reading the verdict is going to be there, but I feel like there’s going to be some real courtroom horseshit / ooohhhh shiiit moments too.