Cagi
@Cagi@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
Nice. We need something like this. Digital archiving is still best done on magnetic tape as disk and flash drives all fail after a few decades. But even for regular users, it’d be nice to keep a digital copy of family photos that lasts forever.
- Comment on Meta pulls plug on plans for high-end Vision Pro competitor 2 months ago:
Good. Every headset is a high end head set, the market is saturated. We need a new Rift, or just a quest with a display port. There is nothing in that range except leftover rifts. That would sell millions.
- Comment on Starship Simulator - Official Game Overview 7 months ago:
Looking at the roadmap on their discord, it doesn’t seem too far fetched at all of the Kickstarter keeps going as well as it is.
- Comment on Starship Simulator - Official Game Overview 7 months ago:
The lead from that game and the guy making Starship Simulator are one and the same! He also worket on Stage9, that Enterprise D fan model that CBS took down.
- Comment on Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models 8 months ago:
“Invention of the wheel could lead to faster than light travel.”
- Comment on Microsoft argues Supreme Court’s VCR ruling should doom NYT’s OpenAI lawsuit 8 months ago:
For profit company is using copyrighted material it doesn’t own to build a product. People at home recording TV shows for later viewing is not the same.
- Comment on Is it considered ableism to treat someone unfairly with regard to their health condition(s) even if they're not a recognised disability? 11 months ago:
If your medical situation impacts your life in any way, that’s a disability. Being short sighted is a disability, having chronic diarrhea is a disability. Having a disability and being disabled should be the same thing in common speech, but confusingly, it is not. You are disabled if you experience significant barriers to everyday life because of medical circumstances. If you believe that’s you, then you are free to identify as disabled.
Another confusing wrench is governmental disability designations. The definition changes from region to region based on politics, not medicine. This is only a metric of whether or not you require the services available to you in your region. It is not your identity and does not mean you are not disabled or don’t deal with disabilities, no matter how impactful.
So in short, you get to identify as disabled if you feel the label is helpful, it’s not something doctors use because any medical impediment is a disability. It’s more a societal term than a technical one.
- Comment on Is it considered ableism to treat someone unfairly with regard to their health condition(s) even if they're not a recognised disability? 11 months ago:
Any health issues that affect your ability to do “normal” things is a disability, no matter how severe, but using the term ablist at people is counter productive. It’s a great term for describing types of behaviors and attitudes, but it’s not productive in a real life ablist encounter. It just makes them defensive and deaf to reason. Work with them to create knowledge and understanding, don’t oppose them or accuse them, offer friendly insight into your life. If they accept it, great, if not, move on. You can’t control others, don’t stress about it.
That said, I’m not sure what you mean by “not recognized”. If it’s a medical issue of any variety, it’s recognized somewhere in the DSM. But it is very popular, especially among young people, to self diagnose and go on as of it’s a sure thing. There are crap doctors out there, so one should seek as many opinions as needed, but until a physician diagnoses it, it is ablist to coopt disabilities and misresent what being disabled actually is based on a hunch. The way to act in this situation is to say “I think I might have x, but I haven’t gotten a confirmation yet” or something. Totally fine. But saying “I have x” when no physician has told them so is lying to others and themselves for their own ego.
If someone were to make up diseases not recognized by the DSM and claiming it’s a disability, this is just as ablist.
I am on permanent disability, unable to work, with severe mental health shit. I live in Canada. If you want more info, feel free to dm me.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
That seems to line up with my reading of those heavily advertised, cheap policies. You pay for nothing then get left in the lurch, owing potentially millions. It should be illegal, it’s totally predatory.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Here in BC we have a minimum of $200,000 liability insurance. We don’t separate based on property or injury, 200k covers all. But only low income drivers stop at 200K, $3Million is the most common liability amount. If you end up accidentally crippling a kid, you will require every penny that 3million. We don’t advertise our insurance at all. Insurers must have a reserve on hand to cover every single policy plus 10 million, I’m not sure what those numbers are in the US, it wouldn’t surprise me if they were much more lax. The Insurance Act of BC is a beautiful piece of legislation with the insured’s best interest in mind, not the insurer’s shareholders.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Yeah, insurance is a fundamental, necessary piece of civilization and has existed since before Hammurabi. But it has also been abused by profiteers since then too, and it’s not always easy to tell the difference. In a cut-throat, free market, capitalist driven economy, the incentive is to cover nothing for high premiums. A scam, essentially. Add a law where corporations are people and unlimited political donations is free speech and you’ll have enourmous pressure put on politicians to keep the insurance industry unregulated (except making buying it mandatory). Thus Geiko is allowed to exist. Lower premiums, but you are essentially uninsured for anything more than a minor fender bender. Paying premiums for nothing. This is bad for everyone involved in an accident except the insurance companies.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
I live in Canada and used to work as an adjuster and dated an American broker. There are many insurers in the US, none of them advertise. Go to an honest broker and they’ll tell you abouttheboring good ones.
The differences in our systems were astonishing. Those advertised insurers let you go around with basically no coverage. I can’t believe your minimum third party liability amounts, especially considering the crazy medical costs in your country. It’s just over a tenth of the minimum we allow in my province, and we have socialized health care and more robust social safety nets. A serious accident will ruin you for life if you take that cockney lizard’s policy. He’s a scam artist from the mean streets of London.