Brodysseus

I decided to career change and get a bachelor's in CS in my mid thirties.. finishing in may. Unsure if I'll even get the privelege of a target

In the sense that insurance companies often do anything they can to weasel out of a payment, I agree with you completely.

Many have provisions for that cause of death not qualifying that expire after two years, and sometimes they have a provision to pay a reduced amount or a clause where if you change the policy the two years resets.

I have a sibling that works in a relevant area of law to this, so I haven't researched it extensively I just take them at their word because they have worked on cases where this is relevant (people who are terminal ending their own lives medically).

There's usually a clause for that kind of death and it only doesn't pay out for like 2 years usually. I'd get a lawyer to look to be sure

Last year I set out with the vague goal to improve my relationship to food and honestly had a lot of success.

This year I'm choosing another vague goal which is to improve my relationship with leisure time / entertainment. Hoping to take on reading more, vegging less, and trying to do more artistic endeavors etc. basically trying to move towards digital minimalism.

Getting of reddit about 2 months ago was tough but now I don't miss it much at all and I get on Lemmy for maybe .5 hours a day. I switched to graphene and my Google stuff is in another user profile so no more mobile email checking. I'm shooting for more of that this year.

Fourth most visited site in the world.. he wants to install ads on it and own it.

I have a weird optimism that grassroots tech might make a comeback after everything enshitifies. I got on here 6 months ago and it was so refreshing.

I really wish we had politicians with integrity. I think I could grab a random person off the street and have better odds of them being a good person.

Would love to get out of the US with my partner but unfortunately as Americans nobody wants us

I'm not sure that vaping inside is better than smoking outside. You're right about it being more pleasant and likely right about it being healthier, do you know of any research comparing second hand smoke on clothes to second hand vape (comparing smoking outside to vaping inside)

I did, not sure it made it easier though. It took away two negatives for smoking for me, it didn't smell bad to others and I could smoke inside.

If anything it made it harder to quit, but they're supposedly much better for you

What do you think would help overcome that obstacle to unionization?

On a bright note I'm optimistic that ai bloated garbage and advertising will eventually push a critical mass of people to using decentralized and open source tools, or possibly that non-profits and co-ops will start to spring up to manage more ethical services that could potentially replace the mainstream ones.

When you're not trying to make some dude disgustingly richer, you don't need a ton of advertising (imo).

I also think tech workers should unionize. On a darker note, I think outsourcing/offshoring post-covid is going to kill any unions viability. You need bargaining power (withhold your labor) and I'm not sure that will exist for this trade because of how easy it will be to find workers.