[-] droans@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

I knew Google started ignoring double quotes for required text years ago, but I found out yesterday that it doesn't even think "site:xyz.com" needs to be followed.

I was researching something and saw some Reddit posts. Clicked below it to view results from Reddit and a third of them were other websites.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

"Hardly anything is evil, but most things are hungry. Hunger looks very much like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery. Or do you think your bacon sandwich loves you back?"

[-] droans@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He had one target for one yard in the first half. Travis Kelce is the best TE currently in the NFL and considered to be the third best ever to play the game.

Since all the receivers for the Chiefs are mid at best this year, he's got some reason to be pissed. One of them, Kadarius Toney, was put on the gameday injury report for the AFCCG as being out for a leg injury and "personal reasons". He then went public saying his leg was perfectly fine and he had no personal reasons to skip the game... Basically clarifying that the actual reason he wasn't playing was because he's ass.

But Travis Kelce was also being guarded by Fred Warner during the first half who is one of the best linebackers in NFL history.

It could be a diva moment, sure. But it's the Super Bowl. Good teams know that you trust your studs. Romo would throw to Dez in double or triple team coverage, knowing he'd come down with it. Peyton Manning would chuck it at Marvin Harrison no matter who was on him. When someone is that good, all you've got to do is get the ball in their vicinity. Either they'll come down with it or they'll keep the defenders from getting it.

It's still stupid to yell at your coach like that and physically push him, but Andy Reid was making a lot of boneheaded decisions in the first. They went into halftime down 10-3. They did change things up during the second half, though. Kelce ended up with 9 receptions for 93 yards while the Chiefs won 25-22 in OT.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

https://www.genocidewatch.com/country-pages/china

Dude.

The Uyghur genocide is listed as an Emergency Stage 9: Extinction

[-] droans@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

Indiana SB52.

It's claimed to promote the local economy.

It actually just bans bus rapid transit in Indianapolis.

It's claimed to have the support of the businesses and the people living in the area.

It actually has no support outside of Andy Mohr Auto Group.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

You're right, we should judge Columbus based on the times he lived.

Bobadilla reported to Spain that Columbus once punished a man found guilty of stealing corn by having his ears and nose cut off and then selling him into slavery. He claimed that Columbus regularly used torture and mutilation to govern Hispaniola. Testimony recorded in the report stated that Columbus congratulated his brother Bartholomew on "defending the family" when the latter ordered a woman paraded naked through the streets and then had her tongue cut because she had "spoken ill of the admiral and his brothers". The document also describes how Columbus put down native unrest and revolt: he first ordered a brutal suppression of the uprising in which many natives were killed, and then paraded their dismembered bodies through the streets in an attempt to discourage further rebellion...

In early October 1500, Columbus and Diego presented themselves to Bobadilla, and were put in chains aboard La Gorda, the caravel on which Bobadilla had arrived at Santo Domingo. They were returned to Spain, and languished in jail for six weeks before King Ferdinand ordered their release.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

That's what SCOTUS seems to miss. Their entire power comes from the belief in their authority. If Congress or the Executive Branch chose to ignore their ruling, they can't do anything.

The danger with the Supreme Court was never that they would make awful rulings that we'd follow. It was that they would make rulings so awful that we'd have little choice but to reject their authority, creating a system without the checks of the court.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Not-so-fun fact - the FBI has a hard limit on how long an individual agent can spend on CSAM related work. Any agent that does so is mandated to go to therapy afterwards.

It's not an easy task at all and does emotionally destroy you. There's a reason why you can find dozens of different tools to automate the detection and reporting.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Does Burger King subsidize their commercials by running Samsung Ads within them?

Cross-Promotion definitely exists. In the US, a lot of iPhone ads are paid for by the carriers so they can put a blurb at the end.

Burger King is actually a weird example for you to use. They use cross-promotion more than almost any other company.

BK was also a leader in cross-promotion. In 1977, they ran commercials using Star Wars advertising while selling glasses with the characters from the film.

Movie studios have been using paid promotions for products since the 90s. Iirc the very first paid movie tie-in was in ET. The studio had planned on using M&Ms in the film but were rejected by Mars. Hershey's heard about this and paid them to instead use Reese's Pieces in the movie.

It's fair to hate it, I usually do, but it happens all the time. The only one I can think of that I liked was 30 Rock, especially with their Snapple product placement.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Delicious, savory inner beauty...

[-] droans@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

It can vary heavily like you're saying. By law, all hospitals must treat all patients who arrive at the ER.

Most hospitals have programs so they can provide care for those who can't afford it, though. Usually around 20-25% of their revenue is used to cover those patients.

If you qualify for Medicaid, they can backdate your enrollment so you'd be covered even before you arrived at the hospital. Coverage can vary, but this usually should cover all medical bills at no cost.

The big issue usually isn't people who have no insurance or are too poor. It's from hospitals treating you while your insurance refuses to pay. Normally this is because the bill was miscoded, but it can also be due to an uncovered treatment, high deductibles and OOP limits, or the insurance just being greedy.

Sometimes the hospital or doctors can work things out to minimize your bills, other times they can't.

A lot of the protections above came about because of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Before then, there were common horror stories of people who had hundreds of thousands in medical debt because they reached their lifetime maximum coverage - something that's illegal now. Insurance could (and often would) just tell people they're on their own from now on because it's too expensive to keep them alive. Your coverage could be changed whenever the insurance company felt like it. And up until last year, they could make you pay for treatment if an out-of-network doctor decided to pop on by while you're at an in-network facility.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Yeah but he called a free speech absolutist timeout.

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