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absurd conservative health care mandates »
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
This health care stuff is great. I’m not all into it or anything, but it’s sort of great to watch this nonsense go down, right?
If you have a job—kudos, by the way, isn’t unemployment still like 64.32%*—why would you care? You’re set (well, maybe). And, though an expansion of Medicare could have made a difference, there’s very little change in this new set of meh.
Why all the fuss?
Employed people with plans are already under a mandate. A twenty-six-year-old out of college gets the same plans and cost breakdowns as his fifty-eight-year-old coworker. If he or she opts out—because the benefits are not one-to-one with salary—the company loses hundreds in tax credits.
when not to infographic »
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
First, let me start with a small lie and tell you with the utmost facetious honesty, I’m not an infographic snob. Sure, I can generally throw a Gestalt together; that’s irrelevant.
Have a look at this graphic and, within a few seconds, think of what it’s trying to tell you. Have a pretty good idea? Now on to it. (more…)
one million strong for Facebook sucking! »
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Three times already, I’ve been encouraged to enable the new “Timeline” feature on Facebook. I won’t, but I know enough about it that I’m sure it’ll totally set some people off.
With each redesign (can we call them that?) of Facebook, there’s outrage, but why? We use their product, it’s not our Facebook. It’s our speck of collected statuses in a vast, vast, vast wasteland of other collected statuses.
We’ve changed the definition of “ownership” in the digital space, haven’t we? We use Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr to share our thoughts, sure, but then those thoughts aren’t really ours anymore, right? (more…)
why Qwikster may change my mind »
Monday, September 19th, 2011
Long ago, in the age of walking into a building in search of Digital Versatile Discs for use in proprietary media readers, I was a member of Blockbuster. I like movies; Blockbuster had them so I liked that awhile.
Then their online service started, and I’m incredibly lazy so I liked that awhile. Then Netflix, a competing company with far better branding, got streaming. I’m very impatient, so I liked that awhile.
Fast forward an epoch or two, and you have the present day and the Netflix price increase. (more…)
did you hear there was a quake? »
Friday, August 26th, 2011
I heard it first from a close friend (and friend of Chasm) out in DC that there was an earthquake. This isn’t common, so that was noteworthy. (Most of our conversation is fantastic, but not necessarily noteworthy.)
Then Lovely Wife sent a message that a friend of hers (ours, really) in town felt it.
I assume it was all over the news. I know that New York stole it. I know this happened. This literally happened. That’s enough for me. I’m as excited about The End Times as anyone, but does shifting of the Earth’s plates in rapid fashion really need this much coverage? (more…)