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paf0 ,

How long did it take for them to turn it off?

paf0 ,

Seems entirely reasonable to me, depending on the country it costs them extra to route your calls overseas to another network.

paf0 ,

Saw that too, it's annoying. In a weird way, spam kinda legitimizes this platform as a Reddit alternative.

[US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?

I have everything pretty much ready to launch full time. Time, skills, customers, support from family. But I'd leave my current job behind and with it my family's health insurance for the foreseeable future. I can't afford any of the options I've seen. It's the one thing holding me back. Any ideas for affordable health insurance...

paf0 , (edited )

in a political environment where health insurance has successfully executed regulatory capture of all relevant laws and agencies.

Well said. It blew my mind when Obamacare, and my Massachusetts Romneycare before it, turned "giving people healthcare" into "giving people health insurance".

People wanted health care, they pretended to give it to us, and they ensured it meant more profit for the industry.

paf0 ,

They do have versions of the Gemini models that are open sourced, called Gemma. So far they don't work quite as well as the Llama ones from Facebook but I'm sure that will change.

paf0 ,

To play devil's advocate for a moment, is it really a free market if we are incentivizing one technology over another?

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

paf0 ,

Interesting take. I definitely see it more with the MAGA crowd. Their idea of it is so absurd too. It's always some half-witted meme where they take a photo of the most frail person they can find and label them a vegan. It's silly, because there are plenty of jacked vegans out there, and there are also frail omnivores.

I understand people's perspectives when it comes to the "meat is murder" vegans but otherwise it's just a diet. I personally switched to eating meat just once a week late last year and I eat vegan most other days. I feel great, but I don't make it anyone else's problem.

paf0 ,

No, sorry, eating meat is not the same as murder, it's just nature.

I'm not a fan of factory farms either, but mostly for the antibiotics. The animals do suffer and people who can afford it should probably buy more certified "free range" options, but I'm not about to shame people for their dietary choices or incomes.

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