I use this mug for my daily coffee and we had a guy come out to run a new fiber line to our house and he spotted it on my desk and just lit up. He asked if I knew who the Russian was on that cup and I said, of course it's Lenin! He grinned from ear to ear and told my partner and I that he saw Lenin's Tomb when he was just 5 years old but remembers it like it was yesterday. And also that he was from Russia and has only been in the US for 2 years. He was super stoked that someone in the US likes Lenin too.
I'm sure there are far more people than anyone imagines because it's not a topic of conversation that comes up for sure.
i got laid off last month and immediately applied for unemployment. the amount of unemployment i receive does not even cover my half of the rent each month.
because I'm in California I'm also required to have health insurance or i will be fined on my taxes. i applied for the state insurance and listed that i have no job which should make the coverage free. all went well until a week after i got my insurance card when i got a letter saying my coverage had been cancelled for no stated reason.
i reached out to find out what happened and they said i never proved i was unemployed. i had actually sent them all the requested documentation and they just never bothered to check. they found it. but then the guy said it looks like I'm getting unemployment now. i am. that disqualifies me from getting this insurance and i need to start the process all over again.
i start the process over by calling back in and an older lady helps me redo the application after which it says I'm not eligible for any free or subsidized plans because I'm getting too much money from unemployment. so my only option is to pay $600 a month for a HMO plan that covers basically nothing.
$600 a month while unemployed and not even receiving enough unemployment to pay rent, much less any of my other bills. joke ass country and state.
apparently next year i will qualify for the free medical insurance because they're going to raise the poverty line to $1 above what unemployment pays.
I'm rather surprised how many folks here are optimistic about this, thinking Mamdani managed to schmooze Trump rather than Mamdani just walking back everything he campaigned on which seems far more plausible to me.
I've run Simplewall on windows for the past 5+ years at least. It lets you block any/all outbound connections and you can allow them on a case-by-case basis, temporarily or permanently. It can auto-block a lot of the telemetry crap but knowing microsoft i'm sure they can get around a lot of it if they want to. Lots of spying capabilities are in-built into the processor and motherboards these days too.
I use this mug for my daily coffee and we had a guy come out to run a new fiber line to our house and he spotted it on my desk and just lit up. He asked if I knew who the Russian was on that cup and I said, of course it's Lenin! He grinned from ear to ear and told my partner and I that he saw Lenin's Tomb when he was just 5 years old but remembers it like it was yesterday. And also that he was from Russia and has only been in the US for 2 years. He was super stoked that someone in the US likes Lenin too.
I'm sure there are far more people than anyone imagines because it's not a topic of conversation that comes up for sure.