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zorionek0 OP t1_jad53ca wrote

Reply to Three Pennsylvania amusement parks named among best in the U.S. (Kennywood, Knoebels, and Hersheypark) by zorionek0

Never been to Kennywood, but Knoebels and Hershey are both really nice. Hershey's getting a little too expensive, but Knoebels is nice because you only pay for the rides you go on.

And of course, every little firehall with their annual carnival featuring questionably safe amusement rides gives you that extra "thrill." A couple years ago, the Jefferson Fire Co.'s fair one of the rides got stuck - good thing they were already at the fire hall!

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IrrumaboMalum t1_jad43gz wrote

Reply to comment by artisanrox in Fetterman doing well, ‘on a path to recovery,’ aides say by ImperialIIClass

We're ahead of much of the world - the US leads the world in medical discoveries involving new test procedures, medications and test equipment.

https://sterlingmedicaldevices.com/thought-leadership/medical-device-design-industry-blog/what-country-leads-the-world-in-medical-innovation/#:~:text=The%20answer%20to%20the%20question,has%20ties%20to%20the%20U.S.

Now our delivery of that healthcare to the people of the US needs a lot of work, true. We lag behind the rest of the world in that aspect.

In that aspect, we need to do better. A lot better.

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Zenith2017 t1_jad3agv wrote

Reply to comment by No-Setting9690 in Lancaster County Bans TikTok Among Other Sites, Apps by jillianpikora

Your question is on point and well directed. The county should have more controls in place to begin with, 100%. But security always has an inherent trade off.

My only answer is that it takes a lot of man power, money, and red tape to effectively control devices like that. Remember, while Lancaster County IT and security folks are taking directives passed by CISA as well as the state, they're pretty much on their own for actually implementing and controlling stuff like that. It's not like they get some PA or fed sponsored software that does what they need; as I understand it's on the county to contract with vendors and implement their tech.

Yes, it's very simple and not too staggeringly expensive to lock down these devices with JAMF or whichever solution. But, that also comes with a ton of downside. You now have tickets and calls and ornery users and delays resulting from needing your help desk folks to go resolve app install requests. You're worried about where these packages are sourced from, so you're either maintaining your own repos which is a ton of work, or trusting the app store. You might be manually maintaining a whitelist of apps users can install without further authorization, and you still need to have a mechanism to actually stop them from breaking the rules.

Security comes from a simple idea, but the reality of making it happen is WAY more complex, especially in a government environment where change will take years or decades. I mean, look at the timing of this announcement, versus the exposés published ages ago showing how TikTok aggressively harvests metadata and could previously even see the contents of your clipboard. It took all that time for a decision to be made and a control to be implemented.

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ashleyorelse t1_jad1t1q wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Fetterman doing well, ‘on a path to recovery,’ aides say by ImperialIIClass

Any decent candidate would have beaten Oz as long as people came out to vote, and they would have won because Oz is a terrible con artist.

People like Oz only run and think they can win because the greatest con artist of all time found the needle in the electoral college haystack and barely won an election he had no business winning.

So then every TV con artist thinks they can do it too. Well, PA didn't have an electoral college, and the better candidate won.

TL;DR - If you're not in a ruby red district or state, there aren't enough people who will buy your snake oil for you to win.

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