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Cake day: October 24th, 2023
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetopolitics @lemmy.world•Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess | Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.English
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    1 day ago

    I mean, sure. But corporate democrats have been fighting for what amounts to a band-aid on a system that is bleeding out and needs 50 stitches and hospitalization while the conservatives are basically fighting for shooting the patient in the head to end their misery.

    Sure, they’ve been fighting for better than the Republicans have, but… that’s not a whole lot better. Medical costs have been one of the top reasons for bankruptcy for literally decades now. Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” came out in 2007, (when it had been a problem fr a long time already) almost 20 years ago, and the ACA has barely moved the needle on medical bankruptcies. I’m not saying the ACA is bad, I’m saying it’s never been close to enough, and we need to stop patting democrats on the back for sucking up to the corporate stooges that fund them to give us half-ass solutions.

    Once again, sure, it’s better than the bullet in the brain that the Republicans want to give people like myself, whose medical costs without insurance are over $18k a month. But other countries literally don’t let the pharmaceutical companies gouge their citizens like this to begin with, nor do they allow medical insurance companies to make profit from denying care. Those are purely American issues, and ones that the democrats consistently bend over for corporate interests to leave on the table instead of going as far as they can to make sure people like me aren’t stuck in financial limbo because of a disease I didn’t ask for and certainly didn’t do anything to get, just that random ass cancer in my forties that was unpreventable.

    I’m glad for not having a bullet in my brain, but let’s not pretend we can’t ask for better than what the democrats offer.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Lightweight and flexible: Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available | BitwardenEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I mean, fair take, but sometimes more thoughtful and forward-looking companies aren’t looking for fast return on investment.

    It could be argued similarly for Valve that all their investment in Linux ecosystems and open source in general when Linux desktops account for just over 3% of all desktop installations while Windows sits comfortably at 70% of the desktop market, just isn’t a lucrative investment.

    While in the long-term it frees Valve from the restrictions of the Microsoft environment and from the risk that Microsoft would make it more and more difficult for Steam to integrate as they try to make their own game store and Game Pass the premiere gaming experience on Windows, those are future risks that are speculation, even though they are rational speculation.

    Investing so deeply in open source isn’t a lucrative thing for Valve to be doing, but they’re looking at long-term goals.

    In other words, I could see the goal here being something like protecting the Bitwarden brand and making sure more people are using their official client than unofficial with the goal of making it easy to use and enticing people into the general Bitwarden ecosystem long-term. Ten years from now, people who have been running Bitwarden Lite might have a lot more options for integration and paid services than people simply using Vaultwarden.

    Is that lucrative? No, but it’s still pursuing brand-name dominance and keeping people officially within their ecosystem as a way to grow userbase and give users more features (including paid ones) that may not be immediately available or easily integrated with Vaultwarden.