Every time I see a story about Dropbox I’m reminded I have a Box account with something like a 50gb of storage, free for life, because I registered an HP Touchpad I bought for new like $50 in 2011.

C’mon Man, this is Gizmodo, not the BBC. 

At the same time it’s a kick in the nuts to those who were told they could buy a Series S and not miss out on gameplay features that would be available on Series X.

And then there’s this:

You know perfectly well what they mean, and it’s absolutely an appropriate use of that word.

One fifth of this country has government-run (health) insurance. California has the 5th largest economy in the world, bigger than the UK. I feel like there’s a strategy out there worth thinking about.

“There was a dip in driving during the pandemic.” I don’t know if I miss it, per se, but for those few of us who WERE driving in the early days, the interstates started looking a lot like the autobahn. Everyone was cruising at 100, and my theory was “No cop wants to risk their life by having me breathe on him over a…

Most un-American suggestion ever, because socialism! The only things that are allowed to be socialized are roads and corporate losses. That being said, four provinces in Canada have mandatory public auto insurance. Saskatchewan has had it since 1945.

That would require admitting that not all problems can be solved by capitalism. There’s very few people in office today that would dare float that idea. I suspect half of that issue is trying to explain the difference between elastic and inelastic goods and services as well as risk pools to their constituents. While…

The government has a legal mandatory requirement to citizens to purchase a for-profit product but corporations don’t have a legal requirement to provide it.

In addition to that, if a non-insured driver hits an insured driver, the insured driver’s no-fault may cover the accident. But that likely means that the insurance premiums will go much, much higher than they already are because the insurance company would have no means to recover the damage from non-insured driver…

Remember insurance coverage is not a silo. The company also covers a multitude of other scenario. Like, disasters. From fires. Earthquakes. Hurricane. Flooding. Fraud. Theft. etc.

It’s not dissimilar to the conundrum that we face with health insurance. With health insurance, insurance companies only make profit from healthier people. Which is why they don’t want to insure people with pre-existing conditions. One solution is to have government funded health insurance (single-payer/public option).…

People who are the victims of those without insurance will also be quickly bankrupt.

This just confirms the leak at the beginning of this that their plan was to negotiate in bad faith until regular people started losing their homes.

I live for the day when everyone finally wakes up to the fact that all our lives are made worse because of the unrestrained greed of a tiny group of people whose…

In case it wasn’t already obvious which side was the assholes, only one side of this debate DEMANDED a media blackout to keep things “in good faith” and then IMMEDIATELY leaked their proposal to the industry trades that THEIR OWN MEMBER LITERALLY OWNS.

Is this post a joke? Do you honestly think there isn’t money in media? There is a tonne of money in media, the problem is that a bunch of the big players spent the money that they made chasing Netflix and buying up eachother and now they need to squeeze someone for that money and they settled on the Writers and the…

Of course the parents know about the internet, that’s where they get their science, political and medical expertise.

“protect kids from books”