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dQw4w9WgXcQ, in If you could satisfy your daily nutrition and caloric needs with one food in particular, what food would you happily eat for the rest of your life?

Would probably go for something very practical. Water would be ideal, as I could get it pretty much anywhere for free. Or maybe I’d go for chicken pasta salad, just to have a meal that contains a decent amount of variation.

RIPSync, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

Wearing your seatbelt increases your chances of dying from cancer.

pizza_pineapple,

How?

CmdrShepard,

You’ll live longer.

GiantRobotTRex,

If you die from cancer you can’t die from a car wreck.

Kingofthezyx,

Other way around, for the purposes of this joke, but yes.

owenfromcanada,
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It increases your chance of drowning, but not for the reason people usually think.

Holli25,

This one is great! Made me think way too much

electronicoldman, in What other fediverse apps/services do you use?

I use Mastodon for microblogging, it pretty much replaced twitter for me.

Lubricate7931, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

human and chimp DNA is 98.8 percent the same

unknowing8343,

I don’t know the exact number, but, come on! Look at those guys! They are basically hairy humans with a slightly less complex system of communication.

Lubricate7931,

Yep but the point is the 1.2% represent millions of gene pairs and the ones we share are not always present or expressed in the same way. So just sharing genes doesn’t necessarily mean were the same or they do the same thing.

www.amnh.org/…/dna-comparing-humans-and-chimps

Yeah chimps are one of our very few (very very) distant cousins left. But i think they rip more faces off than us

news.com.au/…/1bf74adbd1cf2c9b072577a2abd80253

blakeashleyjr, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

You are much more likely to die in a hospital than anywhere else.

Gangreless,

I don’t think this one is true, unless you mean it a different way than I’m interpreting it.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc1911892#:~:tex…)%20to%20534%2C714%20(20.8%25).

(This is the US)

atheos,
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Wait until you hear the fatality rate for hospice residents

randomaccount43543, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

Centrifugal force does not exist

lotanis,

“A laughable claim, Mister Bond, perpetuated by overzealous teachers of science. Simply construct Newton’s laws into a rotating system and you will see a centrifugal force term appear as plain as day.” xkcd.com/123/

bobthened,

It does, it’s just called a different thing. Centripetal force is exactly the same thing as what most people assume centrifugal force means.

Cyna,

It doesn’t exist in an inertial frame of reference. In a non-inertial frame it’s a perfectly valid force

Saltarello, in Can someone still viewing Reddit explain how it is doing as of right now in terms of content quality and engagement?

I check in occasionally to see if my 3rd party app still works (strangely it does). Checked a few of the subs I use & some are still dark. A poster on Worldnews this morning was complaining about the lack of posts in the Ukraine thread, though sadly thats likely a combination of 4th July in the US plus the current Elon clownshow on Twitter rather than a result of the blackouts

very_well_lost, in What would an action figure of you look like?

Terrible.

rsn, in Insurance in US
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  1. Yes, however it’s usually a little more expensive to get the same coverage, as the employer pays a part of employee’s insurance costs.
  2. Forfeit? No, they’ll still need insurance (you get a fine if you’re without insurance for more than 3 out of 12 months (at least, I think that was the case)).
Jodilye,

This is the first time I’ve heard about being fined for not having insurance.

Tv etc has led me to believe if you don’t have insurance you just hope and pray you don’t need to go to a&e. What about homeless people, for example? Is there something in place that issues fines to all the people who don’t have insurance at all? I’m so confused.

KoboldCoterie,
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a little more expensive

This is a gross understatement. Companies usually pay 50% or more of the insurance their employees get.

sky,

My partner and I pay $200 for the ~$1800/mo healthcare plan through their employer. There was a fully-covered option but the deductibles are so low on this plan it’s incredible.

Simpsonator,

On point 2, the individual mandate was repealed in 2018. There’s no federal penalty for not having insurance.

rsn,
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Apparently it is still upheld at the state level in 5 states.

Nightmaru, in Insurance in US

There is a way, and it is required, but it is much more expensive; therefore people usually pay for the least amount of coverage.

If you fall under a certain income threshold you can get free healthcare through medicare/aid.

Nightmaru, in Insurance in US

There is a way, and it is required, but it is much more expensive; therefore people usually pay for the least amount of coverage.

If you fall under a certain income threshold you can get free healthcare through medicare/aid.

BeaPep,

Only some states offer free healthcare for people under certain income thresholds without other qualifications such as being disabled or pregnant. There has been progress with states finally accepting the Medicaid expansion, and there are often “low-income healthcare options” available, but A LOT of people are unfortunately still unable to get coverage because they’re too poor.

Telodzrum,

All states offer Medicaid below the income threshold. Those that have not accepted the expansion payments from the federal government have a much lower income cutoff than those that have accepted it.

Pechente, in What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy?

wefwef.app is amazing. PWA and hence cross-platform.

radix,
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Just installed it. It looks like Apple’s UI, which gives it a kind of uncanny valley on my Android phone. Will use alongside Liftoff until I like one better, thanks for mentioning it!

radix,
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Update: I won’t be staying on Wefwef because it keeps causing Firefox Nightly to crash and not saving my spot when I switch apps, and I’m not willing to get the Firefox stable release again because the way it reloads pages every time you switch apps drives me mad.

Also, it seems to cache images so that you can open them immediately upon tapping, rather than having to wait for the image to load after your explicit tap for it to do so. I really liked this at first, but it comes at the cost of taking around eight full seconds to load everything, as compared to one or two seconds with Liftoff and Connect.

I do wish Liftoff and Connect had the compact view with image/link previews that Jerboa and Wefwef have, though.

kairo79,
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I installed wefwef via chrome (wich i don’t use, but it’s preinstalled on my Phone) and this way it works fine, very fine.

radix,
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After listening to you, I now use wefwef (on Chrome) almost exclusively because of the compact home view. There are no issues with slow initial loading time or glitching out upon switching apps. Thanks!!

kairo79,
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I’m glad I could help you!

Amex,
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Where are you guys installing this from? Obtanium says it can’t find a suitable release. And it’s not on Play Store or F-Droid.

Pechente,

It’s a PWA. You can just install it with your browser.

Nightmaru, in Insurance in US

There is a way, and it is required, but it is much more expensive; therefore people usually pay for the least amount of coverage.

If you fall under a certain income threshold you can get free healthcare through medicare/aid.

rsn, in Insurance in US
@rsn@lemmy.ml avatar
  1. Yes, however it’s usually a little more expensive to get the same coverage, as the employer pays a part of employee’s insurance costs.
  2. Forfeit? No, they’ll still need insurance (you get a fine if you’re without insurance for more than 3 out of 12 months (at least, I think that was the case)).
volanar, in If you could satisfy your daily nutrition and caloric needs with one food in particular, what food would you happily eat for the rest of your life?
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