There are about 200-250 countries. I doubt most of us could name 1 fact about half of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

I’ve never heard of Manitoba flour.

Why is it good for pizza?

1. Quoting Theodore Roosevelt very funny in context
2. What big stick?

My username.

It is very typical to have layers of benefits where they are applied in a certain order. One is exhausted then the next one kicks in. Everything else works this way including other public benefits.

Do you see any indication that there is a planned fix for this? I do not. But please show me because if it was planned I would at least have hope.

And my idea of opting out (if that is even permitted by my employer’s plan) would not work because if it was available but you declined, you’re also not qualified. So my employer would have to stop dental benefits for everyone. Which would of course negatively impact the high-earners who don’t qualify. So it’ll never happen. The poorest people in my company will have to suffer.

Maybe I can get them to lay me off without pay for a month so I can get all my outstanding dental work done.

I can’t believe I am not covered for this because of the half assed benefits provided by my employer! There is no option to first use up the private benefits. Even if you have $500 annually with a 50% co pay and hardly anything covered, you can NOT access this. How is this not yet resolved??

I would be better off without benefits. I am going to ask my employer if they can modify their group coverage.

If tomorrow

tomorrow in 24 hours things won’t be perfect…

Meanwhile Israel exists since 1948 and still NO gay marriage NO secular marriage in fact

The truth is we don’t know what the nation of Palestine would do because it has been subject to genocide for decades. Everything that you say is puuuure conspiracism.

this too is mostly due to religious influences

wrongzo. Political

what Muslim country welcomes queer people with open arms?

what theocratic country welcomes queer people with open arms?

Israel, a theocratic country, certainly does fucking not.

Yup.

People’s phones being routine searches at the border for over a decade.

Just now the net is being cast wider.

say nothing

Victims of Communism memorial faces call to remove over 330 names linked to Nazis, fascists out of 550! MOST OF THEM.

This has been known for a long time. Back in 2021 Victims of communism memorial received donations honouring fascists, Nazi collaborators, according to website

Having pseudonymous identities is one of the reasons I prefer the reddit/threadiverse style of social media to Facebook/IG where alts are heavily discouraged.

I think a lot of people use alts. There are all kinds of scripts and tools and tutorials about how to manage them. If you dont see the need that’s fine for you.

probably the best thing I ever heard about this guy

so what’s wrong with floppy disks?

Here in Canada , fax is widely used in the medical field in the same way. One could not run a medical office or organization of any kind or size without a fax line. I have heard the legal sector is likewise reliant.

In a functional way I don’t know it’s wrong to say email is less secure. It’s not that they don’t want to buy computers. Everyone has freaking computers; gimme a break. Email (1980s tech) is almost as antiquated as fax machines (1970s) and has many vulnerabilities. There is no way in hell your dermatologist is getting to a PGP party anytime soon. They probably use the same password for every account and that password is probably their name or something and have been using the same one for 20 years. The password is known by perhaps dozens of current and former employees. The email is downloaded onto devices which may not use encryption for storage. They don’t install windows patches but they do install random shit from the internet. And so on. OTOH, who is hacking fax machines?

The solution isn’t to move to email, it’s to hop past email to use a natively encrypted technology with security enforced by a service provider. If the public funders would step up to support a Free Software solution this could have been done already. But instead they fund this and that proprietary system that doesn’t work out, then have to start from scratch in a few years. There hasn’t been incentive to create interoperability. Just a bunch of privately-held companies frothing at the mouth to make all the $$$ they see in the health care industries competing with each other.

BTW I have heard that fax machines are still in wide use in the US medical field also, but it depends what system you are in. E.g “kaiser” system has it’s own internal comms system they use and so on. But inter-system, fax will always be the lowest common denominator.