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COASTER1921

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  • RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users

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  • Wechat will always be allowed overseas and is the main method of communication, but the account creation process is of course a little more detailed than simply signing up with a phone number.

  • Trump dramatically scales back inauguration plans as hotel occupancies stall: reports

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  • I wish they'd book Four Seasons Landscaping again. That was hilarious, a good indicator of the chaos and incompetence which followed.

  • Rednote right now

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  • This also is under the assumption you've met your deductable for the year already which for many HDHP can sometimes be hard.

  • Rednote right now

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  • Their access to news is controlled and for some topics all available news is what we'd call propaganda. Particularly anything about Japan or the Taiwan issue. Most people I know there realize this to an extent but without any other information do still believe the core idea even if skeptical of details.

    But at the same time I'd argue there's no such thing as a population that's not propagandized. In the US the big news corporations only will present views favorable to their profitability and continued growth. Sure they disagree with eachother, but it's still always a pro-business view. State news from Russia is (I'd argue rightly) not available on many US platforms to discourage it's influence for example.

  • Rednote right now

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  • As a portion of median income it's still far far better than the out of pocket costs in the US (just like pretty much every other country on earth)

  • Mike Pence defies Trump, comes out against RFK Jr. for health secretary

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  • Brain worms for everyone!

  • Hanging out at Starbucks will cost you as company reverses its open-door policy

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  • Starbucks coffee isn't even good anyway. But without more coworking spaces or some other alternative people like me will occasionally be forced to work from one for one reason or another. In the towns around military bases especially you frequently see spouses of those who work on base in Starbucks doing their remote work since it's the only possible place they can work from if they were staying in a hotel the night before.

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

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  • Any China market tablet can install douyin even without a SIM, most even come with it installed by default.

  • Anyway to erase the permanent marker so I can reuse this?

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  • This is an amazing idea I love it

  • Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance

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  • Absolutely this. I've never seen a CEO golden parachute anywhere near being under $2m before. To most large company CEOs $2m is pretty much nothing relative to their regular stock options.

  • I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost

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  • Generally it's not too hard to disable the smart TV part of it and just use HDMI for TVs running Android. But on Roku TVs for whatever reason you need to connect them to the internet and a Roku account at least once to unlock the picture settings. Hardware features of a TV like brightness adjustment have no business relying on some random server.

  • There is a fee to close my HSA account

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  • Exactly this, they're best used as a tax free investment account rather than anything health related. If you're on a plan with high enough a deductable to be eligible for an HSA and can afford it you should max out your HSA contributions before even a penny of unmatched 401k contributions. Personally I'd argue that you're better off maxing out the HSA and using post-tax money to pay medical expenses unless close to the end of your career. It's one of it not the single most easily taken advantage of ways to not pay tax at all on a long term investment.

    The system is indeed stupid but the least you can do is take advantage of it where possible and for the middle class the HSA is one of the best ways.

  • All passengers will be forced to use digital boarding passes by 2030, predicts airline chief

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  • In China the digital boarding pass QR code changes every 30 seconds preventing screenshots or photos of it from being used. But as they're currently implemented in the US it's no different than paper.

    The bigger issue is how bad airline apps handle anything even slightly out of the ordinary like itineraries including codeshare segments or just randomly have server problems. I fly 50+ times a year and am able to actually use the digital boarding pass only ~95% of the time.

  • Is getting a Pixel 8 worth it, now?

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  • The fingerprint sensor on the 8 series is really bad and battery quite mediocre. In my opinion pixels are rarely worth their asking prices relative to Samsung's offerings. I have had an 8, 8 pro, and now 9 Pro XL and the 9 series really feels significantly more complete than the others despite relatively small difference on paper.

    Relative to other Android phones the biggest difference with pixels is the lack of customization. The cameras are amazing but the rest of the experience feels pretty hampered in my opinion.

  • What advice have you heard or tried that was just flat-out wrong?

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  • A3 TDI? I have one of those and so many breakdowns in the first year. Luckily the warranty they were forced to add from having cheated on emissions covered all repairs. Haven't had any major issues for two years now on it thankfully, I'm not sure I'd recommend it generally but realistically with what you save on fuel cost the extra long term repair cost balances it out a bit.

  • What advertising slogan would you give for Linux?

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  • WSL is sufficient for many Windows users and developers without privacy concerns motivating them to switch to a full Linux distro.

  • London teen jailed for one year in Dubai after 'holiday romance' with 17-year-old girl

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  • If you check the article it says it's the 2nd case, the girl's parents notified the Dubai authorities

  • Florida lawmaker switches to Republican Party after winning election as a Democrat: ‘I’m tired of being the party of protesting’

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  • This is how Dallas got a Republican Mayor. They elected a Democrat but less than a month later he flipped, such clearly premeditated party changes should be illegal, it's not what the voters thought they were casting their ballots for.

  • Despite Trump Assurances on Sunday, DOGE Heads Musk and Ramaswamy Signal Social Security Cuts Are Coming

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  • The writing has been on the wall for a while now. All retirement planning I've done is based on the assumption that SSA won't be around by the time I retire. The fact that we can't even remove the taxable maximum to retain some degree of financial solvency is proof enough.

    I think the most likely course of action is that we will get some portion of our contributions back, but not the full amount. I just hope that they don't raise the retirement age so much to try to retain the illusion of being able to get a full payout. I'd rather get a fraction of my contributions back at 67 than need to risk living to a much older age but receiving full benefits.