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RidgeRoad@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•UnitedHealth Group is imploding 🎉English272·2 months ago“The trouble at UnitedHealth comes almost exactly six months after the murder of Brian Thompson, one of its top executives.”
Curious that the article dilutes Thompson’s position to “one of its top executives” against terming him “Witty’s predecessor as CEO for over three and a half years.”
RidgeRoad@midwest.socialOPMto Right To Repair@midwest.social•Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair MovementEnglish10·11 months agoYeah, Entertainment Software Association representing all three.
RidgeRoad@midwest.socialOPMto Right To Repair@midwest.social•Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair MovementEnglish25·11 months agoI’m less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
Didn’t know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.
RidgeRoad@midwest.socialOPMto Right To Repair@midwest.social•California Passes Right-to-Repair Act Guaranteeing Seven Years of Parts for Your Phone.English5·2 years agoiFixit noted yesterday, “Though the bill is strong and should make repairs more available for everyone, it allows manufacturers to continue to engage in parts pairing, a practice by which they limit repairs with software blocks. They can also combine parts into expensive assemblies, which makes repairs more expensive.”
Similarly doubt there’s any way to legislate against the dismal engineering that tempts a failure avalanche like the Ford F150 taillight horrorshow I posted a few days ago.
RidgeRoad@midwest.socialto Chicago@midwest.social•Where in this city can I get a tuna salad sandwich?English31·2 years agoOdd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.
Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:
Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn’t work.Same again true of Peter Samson’s original 1959 and 1960 editions.
Appreciate the clarification.