Whoa.
Florida insurance premiums have now SOARED 206% since DeSantis became governor.
On average, Florida homeowners pay over $4,200/year for home insurance, TRIPLE the national average of $1,700.
Some insurers are now leaving the state entirely.
The DeSantis administration's response so far has been to call the insurance companies 'woke.'
In the French context Macron is maybe centre-right - though he did come out of the Socialist Party (he was a minister in Hollande's government), and his explicit position is 'neither left nor right'.
But in the anglosphere he would be regarded very much as in the centre - maybe even slightly centre-left - indeed he reminds a great deal of Tony Blair.
An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.
They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?
What a cruel world.
Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡
Residuals are a rather fantastical compensation mechanism when compared with other industries. Imagine if software developers kept receiving a paycheck as long as the company was still making money from your software.
Marc Andreesen would still be getting residuals from Firefox for code still around from the Netscape Navigator days. Similar for Windows 95 code in modern Windows. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14229/is-there-any-code-in-firefox-as-of-2020-that-comes-from-netscape-navigator
Inspired by comments on the previous question Is it true that Netscape Navigator eventually became Mozilla Firefox? (Answer: Yes). In 1998, Netscape released a large amount of their existing sourc...
Holy sh*t!
A 24-year-old died laying cable in the Texas heat. His mom is suing. - The Washington Post https://apple.news/AvMXEaL3QTKO7Xhke9Je9wQ
Exclusive: Steven Crowder Sent Photos of His Genitals and Exchanged Drugs in ‘Super Creepy’ Workplace, Ex-Staffers Say
one day there will be a republican accusation that is not a confession
https://www.mediaite.com/media/exclusive-steven-crowder-sent-photos-of-his-genitals-and-exchanged-drugs-in-super-creepy-workplace-ex-staffers-say/
huh wikipedia's down with 503
https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ shows "user-reported connectivity errors" spiking
successful edits headed to 0
i expect someone's on the case going "wtf now"
The anti-Barbie backlash is even bigger and dumber than I expected
MeidasTouch 
GeofCox
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Dare Obasanjo
Agora
David Gerard
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we hunted the mastodon