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141·4 days agoThe price of taco bell has very little to do with the cost of food.
I would still be very careful about when and where and how you say it. Quoting the state constitution at the right time should certainly give you more leeway than other states, but I wouldn’t risk saying it too early.
It’s best to just treat it as not allowed, at least until deliberation. Maybe even then.
You’ll need it if you’re planning to go to college or become a CEO.
Get on a jury, say exactly that, and see what happens.
212·6 days agoYou have to be very particular if you’re going to do that.
Jury nullification is not allowed. Voting not guilty because you have reasonable doubt is always allowed. You don’t have to explain why you have reasonable doubt.
The fact that those happen to be jury nullification is unfortunate for those who would like to disallow it.
If you say “nullification”, you can likely be removed from the jury. If you say you believe they did it, but you’re going to vote not guilty anyway, you might be removed. If you just insist you have reasonable doubt, and insist that decision is yours to make, you can’t be removed.
3·6 days agoThere’s no need to stick to the most popular software.
As long as they properly interact, sure. But critical mass is important, and I feel like Lemmy is just getting there.
Because besides monthly active users, LW has 4,600 subscribers where lemm.ee has 537. It’s not a clear cut case.
I’m also on BlueSky as well as Mastodon, because BlueSky has the momentum right now, and critical mass is important.
In that same vein, I wish you’d treat LW as you do any other instance. We’re not hostile to other instances, and I think there’s a healthy balance right now. It doesn’t hurt Lemmy to have a bigger, more mainstream instance. I think defederation solely for the sake of defederation does hurt Lemmy.
4·6 days agoLemmy came through (below). Things are getting better here. I feel like we’re reaching critical mass, if only we could stop the infighting.
Huh, I hadn’t thought of that as a Crying Indian.
The $1300-1800 numbers are the total. The employer pays most of that, and you’re left to pay something around $600.
That fully covers preventative care like regular checkups, standard vaccines, and regular screenings.
If you’re in your regular checkup and there’s an issue, it’s no longer free. Any actual issues usually require you to pay around 20% of the inflated cost. However, you get to use a special, untaxed account to pay it. So you end up paying roughly 15%, and the government chips in 5% (through not charging you income taxes on that portion.)
If you spend somewhere around $10k out of pocket (in addition to your $600/month fees, and your employer’s $900/month fees and the government’s ~$700/month they lose by not taxing any of this), THEN everything is free, as long as it’s approved.
So the real benefit of health insurance is that if you get cancer you only have to pay $~20k a year for as long as you keep your job. Try not to get fired for taking to much time for chemotherapy.
And after you go through all this, there are still complications such as which doctors and pharmacies you’re allowed to go to, but most importantly, the health insurance company has a large say in what medications you’re allowed to take.
If you don’t have health insurance and you get sick you probably just go bankrupt.
Netflix serves more.
Could just be that they’ve fixed their interface since then.
YouTube doesn’t even produce their own content. I’d rather get it somewhere else, if creators offer that option.
I’d pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.
In fact, a couple of my favorite YouTube creators are on nebula.tv and I pay them $30/year.
1·9 days agoWolfs, on the appropriate streaming service.
Also watched the Tom Hanks 2021 movie, Finch.
I think that was the plan. We were prepared for it. And then they just didn’t need it.