I use the one that's built in to the Fastmail service. I have a custom domain just for aliases. The Fastmail alias-creation API is integrated with the Bitwarden app (which I use) so that makes creating new accounts (that use email addresses as usernames) on websites really easy. I also use Spamgourmet which is free, convenient, and has been around a very long time. No custom domains there, but they let you use a variety of their domains and they have some short ones which is nice, but I do find that they're blocked pretty often, mostly by major mailing list services.

My guess would be that the Idaho statesman web server doesn't like your IP address. Are you using a VPN or Tor? I can still access the article.

Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.

I agree that such arrests are just a fear-inducing (i.e. "state terror") tactic. It sounds like the final decision to pursue/not-pursue charges was up to a judge, at least in this case. It would be interesting to know if the cops knew or cared about what (and what quality) evidence they had or didn't have.

Police arrested 57 people for criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor akin to loitering. Travis County Attorney Delia Garza's office said Friday all those charges have been dismissed after a county judge found insufficient evidence to proceed.

Fucking neckbeard. Sounds like Traumatic Brain Injury for the poor girl, she could be affected (seizures &other neurological problems) for the rest of her life.

So, a solution of some kind you think?

Key phrase: "Boeing-made"

Insurance companies still do many versions of this with a byzantine coding system, complex “out of network” exclusions, etc. Anything to deny a claim.

Yep. My criminal insurance company (CIC) marketing docs trumpeted how my ER costs were "fully covered" (which they're required to be by law, I think). That's obviously bad for profits, so the solution? Well just interpret any ER line-item (pick some expensive ones) as non-ER, even when they pertain to an ER visit, then charge the whole slew of separate copays/deductibles that go with the new interpretation. Profit! The hospital, which has a contract with the insurer, will cooperate and code all these line-item services with ambiguous language and codes, making them ripe for the picking by the screw-you insurance dweebs.

Oh, I can appeal the insurance decisions? Great. Appeal #1 is decided by the insurance company itself! 100% internal. Appeal #2 is done by a third party company, selected by the insurance company and paid by the insurance company. Think your state insurance commissioner is going to step in when foul play occurs? Think again. If they pay attention to you at all, they'll claim to have no "authority" to make "medical decisions" about the abuse the insurance companies subject you to, and if they do anything at all, it might be to write a mildly-stern email to the insurance company reminding it of your complaint and their supposed obligations. That's it, the commissioner's office is not on "your side" and even if it were to some extent, they'll claim to be "too overloaded" to do anything, anything like actually regulate the insurance companies, on your behalf or on behalf of the other millions of insurance customers.

Archived version: https://archive.is/3QRjZ

Divine rage.

I worked a breakfast grill at a restaurant as a teen and got pretty good at it. I'll make that kid the most perfect breakfast omelette they've ever eaten. And I'll bring the ingredients if we're short.

Also worked @a food pantry not long ago, warehouse work mostly but I got to see some of the parents and kids who showed up, long lines out into the northern cold, every day we were open, just to get a day or two's worth of something to eat.

Anyone who would means-test a kid out of a free school meal, or deny them altogether, is some kind of sociopath monster.

Related: Trump’s ‘Lost Cause’ mythmaking.

Just learn to code

Those who can code, these days, are increasingly fearful about their own job prospects. Between large-scale layoffs at tech employers and the rapidly-increasing scope of tech work that "AI" can do (or at least assist with), coding, it's becoming clear, is just another type of labor that's about to be automated into a niche occupation. And tech companies are gleeful at the prospects ... got 1000 programmers paid $200K/yr+benefits? We can do something about that - just buy our Developer As A Service plan, with low, low usage-based pricing! You can cut headcount down to just 100 programmers, or only 50 on the DAAS Pro plan. Slash your labor costs, taxes, and compliance expenses; call today!

Software tech is just the first (white collar) sector to feel the pain of automation. It's already been commodified by "outsourcing" of work to low-cost countries, and automation, AI-based or otherwise, is just the next step to increasing shareholder profits and management bonuses. Ironically, it's developers themselves, so used to jumping on every latest hype-train, who are eagerly facilitating their own demise, trying to appease employers and appear more personally "productive" by integrating the latest "AI" this-or-that into their work. So many of these folks live in very high COL locations, like SF, Seattle, NY and Boston, have property in those areas, and have an identity to a great extent formed from the illusion of having "made it" in their land of tech giants. To go from being the envy of their peers and family, the "winner" with the million-dollar (or much more) house (and accompanying mortgage), private schools, and a garage full of the latest tech-on-wheels, to having no income, no other skills and experience, fading job prospects, little social support, and nowhere to go ... I think it's going to be ugly, for a class of people who aren't used to hardship and who've been sold the "upward mobility" bill-of-goods for many decades now. Suicide will be one way out of it all, likely an increasingly appealing way.

Nice to see the long-ish sentences (not nearly long enough by my standards, but this is MS), but how long do you think before they're all walking the streets again, out on parole, maybe even back drawing a salary at the department? TFA is worth the read.

The Black men were targeted after a neighbor complained about them staying in a white woman's home.

The white deputies beat, tortured, and sexually assaulted the men for hours. Elward shot Jenkins in the mouth when a mock execution went awry, and the officers also planted drugs and guns to try to coverup their actions with false charges. The white lawmen used stun guns and racial slurs, and told Jenkins and Parker to "go back to their side of the river," meaning the majority Black city of Jackson. Rankin County, to the east, is a largely white community.

More details emerged during Tuesday's sentencing hearing on how the "Goon Squad" operated. Prosecutors said it was Lt. Middleton who devised the plan to coverup the raid and the accidental shooting, and that he told his fellow officers if anyone told what really happened, he had no problem having them killed.

I don't see where you're getting that 85% number. Appendix III of the PDF has the data. The numbers don't look good to me (I don't know what would be considered a "normal" capability rate for military aircraft) but they're generally much higher than "15% capable", especially the newer subset of aircraft.

What's more disturbing to me from the PDF is "DOD plans to procure nearly 2,500 F-35s at an estimated life cycle cost of the program exceeding $1.7 trillion. Of this amount, $1.3 trillion are associated with operating and sustaining the aircraft." Those are our taxes (plus vast sums of supposedly "unsustainable" debt), being funneled into the pockets of the MIC and ultimately into the pockets of the wealthy elite, rather than being spent on critical domestic social needs (Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security for ex.) or just being left with the taxpayer.

Well, you know, they have some "very fine people" over there at HF, I've heard it said. Working on stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

From Wikipedia:

In 2005, Gerald R. Ford was estimated to cost at least $13 billion: $5 billion for research and development plus $8 billion to build. A 2009 report raised the estimate to $14 billion, including $9 billion for construction. In 2013, the life-cycle cost per operating day of a carrier strike group (including aircraft) was estimated at $6.5 million by the Center for New American Security.

That $14 billion 2009 dollars is $20.45 billion 2024 dollars, and that's not even counting any overruns. $6.5 million 2009 dollars/day to operate = $9.5 million 2024 dollars per day to operate. And that's just one ship.

Thanks to the MIC and its profiteers we can always afford any sum to "project power" (meaning: threaten other nations we don't like or want to manipulate) but can never, somehow, afford the costs of a basic civilized society here at home - things like Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security - nope too expensive, all must be cut, "unsustainable!"

Of course they are, all they need are more tax-breaks and gov't handouts! Here, there are private jets flying over, in, and out, all week long, hustling those JoB cREatOrS to and from their Elite Retreats where fellow JoB cREatIoN masterminds convene to plan how to share wealth and improve the lives of their fellow Americans. Corpo jets are expensive to buy/lease/operate, it's only fair that they be subsidized by the taxpayer, isn't it? And no, you're not getting a ride on one, looking like you do, not without a written reference from a billionaire anyway.

second-best time is now

Which is why big companies (incl. big tech) are going all-out to remove the practical ability, or even the legal ability, to do so. ex: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/10/starbucks-trader-joes-spacex-challenge-labor-board

Anecdote: I have been a software dev in networking/internet/web/databases &related since before there was an internet. I occasionally get recruiter spam still, and was shocked to see spams recently from contractor agencies in the Seattle area (meaning, the agency hires you W-2 and pays your salary but you labor at the company they place you at - they bill the client X$ and you get, maybe if you're lucky (X * 0.7)$), offering hourly rates that are less than I was getting (non-inflation-adjusted) as a W-2 contractor in the region back in the 90s. Not only that, but the work was on-site and required the software developer employee be "on call" for long periods. Really shitty-sounding work (client = a rather large, well-known, union-hostile retailer) at a really shitty rate in a super-expensive metro. Yeah, no.

Ugh, hadn't heard about that, need to read the Times more often. Thanks for the link.