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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The problem is that everything has become a national spectacle even city-level elections, because both parties are grasping to make absolutely ANYTHING a distraction while they fuck us over constantly.

    NYC things don’t affect ANYONE ELSE. Maybe the surrounding counties, but that’s it. Yet here we are with the President of the United States trying to steer the election in one city, and the nationwide media is gobbling it up like they haven’t had dinner in decades because they make money from the advertising, and angry comments it creates across social media every time they say anything.






  • Ironically that’s the opposite of what the healthcare industry wants. It costs a lot of money to die with health insurance. Lots for both you and the insurance company.

    They push preventative healthcare options all over the place and provide hundreds of dollars of incentives each year to people to do the bare minimum because it’s cheaper to prevent issues from the beginning than to treat big ones when it’s ignored.

    They want to pay as little as possible, but also get as much as possible out of individuals and company benefits, there’s a balance they have to maintain. Single payer would actually make them more money probably, if it weren’t subject to the same government spending cuts Republicans always want to do as well.

    Also, dead people often can’t pay their bills. The average estate often isn’t large enough for medical bills to recoup everything.

    The Republicans making these decisions however, aren’t just doing what the insurance companies want though, they’re grifting from everyone so it all results into a balanced evil end where no industry gets what they really want, but the consumer always gets fucked.






  • There’s a lot more than just recognizing known raw IP addresses used as endpoints.

    One method larger services with CDNs use effectively is to use DNS for blocking. When you try to access a site, your DNS request will resolve to a server close to you, with your location determining the domain resolving to a different IP. Then the platform just responds to those requests from outside their normal area with a consistent message. No need to know whether it’s actually a VPN or not, the traffic is acting like it is and doesn’t really have much of a reason to do that normally.