Every company starts out privately owned. Being publically owned means you are legally required to put shareholders’ interests first and thus essentially be purely profit and growth driven, leanding to an unsustainable cycle of infinite growth which is a major cause of the enshitification of everything as we know it today.

Private companies can at least set their own goals and do things other than chase profit. Typically, that’s either “chase profit so the owners can cash out” or “focus on providing an actually good service/product so that profit/growth will follow”.

Private Equity is probably what you’re thinking about, where a PE firm purchases a company that’s either already private or they make it private again. There are many PE firms with many different management styles and goals, but the overwhelming majority have a goal of squeezing every last penny out of a company using any means necessary and fucking over the employees as much as possible before divesting it and moving to the next one.

Yes, the actual representative will never read this and as far as a response goes, you will get an insulting patronizing pre-written letter or just completely ignored. However, some intern or bot should categorize your letter and add it to a report shown to the representative.

By contacting your reps, at the very least, you can be sure that:

1. You are doing something and exercising one of the tools you’ve been given to fight this hellscape, which is more than 99%+ of people do.
2. Your rep will have to ignore even more signs about how much of a piece of shit they are.

I highly recommend contacting your reps as frequently as possible. Resistbot is a great tool that makes writing your reps as easy as sending a text message. There’s no need to spend a ton of time writing these letters, they’re being categorized, not read. So, you can literally write and send a letter to your reps in less than one minute. I think their Telegram bot costs them less than SMS, so I’d recommend using that.

That’s the beauty of it! The stupid overreaching big-government law says real doctors need to review appeals and review notes and consider circumstances. But that’s fuxkings stupud when a single line of code can deny claims and appeals at 1000x the speed and send EVEN MORE money to daddy’s dragon den which will then trickle down directly into MY POCKETS.

I took the liberty of writing my own hyper-advance AI to handle the task. It should only need 10 racks of GPUs to run.

public static void reviewClaim(Claim wasteOfMoney) {
  if (wasteOfMoney.isNotCovered()) {
    wasteOfMoney.deny();
  } else {
    wasteOfMoney.deny();
  }
}

Erhm, gubbermint unhealthcare has DEATH PANELS where they KILL YOU!!! I much prefer my profit-driven health utopia. It’s much more simpler, no panels required!

Fuck yes, bleed my dry insurance-senpai. Take my father’s heart and buy a chair for your 100th yacht. CEO shinigami-san I wuv you owo. 🤤

If you’re fine with self hosting, you can just self host it and backup your local drives to a remote location. That’s what I do.

For backup software, I use Duplicacy. But Veeam, Borg, etc… would work just fine. For images, since they’re just static files and you don’t really need a version history, you could get away with a scheduled rsync job. Though, technically that leaves you more at risk of ransomeware or something that overwrites your data.

For remote storage, I’d first consider a Hetzner storage box since they are flat-rate pricing and pretty dang cheap at $13/mo for 5TB. You might also consider StorJ, B2, S3, etc… I’d just stay away from any lesser known ultra-cheap storage providers.

And if they don’t comply? Is it possible for them to do anything other than shoot it down to physically enforce this?

Well they certainly don’t help

The first browser on this list is Brave lmao

And yet my $0 non-subscription remains the same price

For context, here’s an article about another pump.fun streamer: Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000. Regretably, I don’t have any articles on-hand about the tens of thousands of people that are losing money to this scam.

The article says he is a pump.fun streamer. That’s not even real crypto. It’s literally a pump and dump website where anyone can make a new fake token by giving it a name and a picture. Then the price is set algorithmically until it gets enough people buying it that it converts into a real token. There are no fundamentals or differentiating factors between the tokens. It’s all a scam built upon the greater fool theory. At least different crypto currencies have different attributes and reasons to use them over others.

You wouldn’t want cold storage of any tokens on that site since they’ll be worthless the next day.

But, tbf, I don’t know if it was pump.fun slop that was stolen or a real crypto currency.

There is malware that can infect you simply by opening an office document. One of the cooler security trainings I’ve been through was a recorded demo of it. Opened a doc on one computer, enabled editing, then another computer was able to extract credentials from ram or something.

I hate this move and love my sideloaded apps. However, there are plenty of self hosted apps on the play store. It’s just putting in a unique address at setup, not compiling a whole unique app for each server.

Yeah, but has she fixed her laugh though?

The consequences have been apparent for nearly a decade already. Arguably longer.

It’s not uncommon for police to murder someone / do something terrible, get fired, then immediately move to the next town over and get hired. This is nothing.

Wtf are you talking about? People buy Tylenol all the time.

Defederate from 1 user? 🤣

By “first-party” here, I mean sites that make the product they’re selling. Like I wouldn’t trust the reviews on Samsung’s website for a Samsung phone. Amazon is separate enough that the conflict of interest isn’t really there, but Amazon reviews are so targeted by illegitimate reviews that they’re not S-tier trustworthy.

The passenger is right.