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luigi did nothing wrong
This but unironically. Luigi Magione wasn't the shooter.
No he was Oklahoma at the time. We were walking in the park talking about the latest video games at the time. I am willing to testify to that fact.
For real he isn't the shooter never was.
I am Luigi.
We are Luigi.
Every time, I think of The Incredibles. So depressingly real.
"Are you saying we shouldn't be helping our customers?
"The law requires that I answer 'no'."
Yeah that scene is what I remembered the most from watching it in 2004.
I always wondered what powers that dude had for surviving being thrown through the building and not ending up a fine pink mist on the wall...
It was very satisfying, though. Especially when he said that right after a man got mugged and he said 'I hope he doesn't make a claim!' Wow... what a fucking little dweeb of a goblin.
The ambulance ride is $2,500 USD. It's out of network, so you owe 100% on that, we don't pay for it. No, you don't get to choose which ambulance service comes to pick you up, you get what you get and you have to pay if it's not in network. Oh, great news! Your emergency room is fully covered! But you haven't met your maximum out of pocket, and you still have your co-insurance and deductible, so another $2,500 USD, please. So, uh, the doctor in the emergency room that you never even saw, he's also out of network, so that's an additional $900. And the ibuprofen they gave you, that's $45 because we only cover 90 day prescriptions and those have to be pre-authorized. On the bright side, your share of the imaging is only only $1,800 USD. Pinky swear, we actually paid out $7,200 USD on that one.
Meanwhile, in our third-world country, the doctor recently ordered my mother to redo all her previous medical exams from last year, including an MRI, a Holter monitor, blood work, urine, an EKG, and everything else for free. Even her heart medication is free. The quality of care is top-notch, and the doctor is very attentive. We only pay with our time spent waiting in line for the appointment that was booked months in advance, because some things are honestly a mess. It sure as hell beats whatever is going on over there.
This is not to shame nor brag, but to hopefully show that these things are possible, affordable by the government despite what Republicunts say, and are worth fighting for.
In a sane world we would have affordable Healthcare. But we have fox News here, so we don't. Literally fox News is responsible for 90% of our problems bcz some stupid high percentage of republicans only get their news from Fox, and they've demonized any kind of socialized medicine.
I was subjected to that shit today, and you know what they were 'losing their minds' (knowing it's all fake outrage) over? Joe biden getting "too much ice cream."
I fucking kid you not.
Fucking republicans not one redeeming quality from any of them.
Fox News are scumbags, no doubt, but most republicans are for med for all. Our scumbag politicians on both sides of the aisle are the ones who are fucking us over.
Fun fact, we still have to book months in advance in the US.
When I got in an accident and was on the ground with a broken bone, the EMT asked if I had a preference about which hospital to go to. Like I was going to check out reviews with one working arm, from the pavement.
The US is a dystopia
Some people will already have a preference and not need to look up anything. I would have if the accident happened near where I live. Imo it's not a bad question at all.
It shouldnt even be a question.. Healthcare should be free.
My closest regional hospital is a steaming pile of shit. I'd gladly go to the slightly further one that is not a steaming pile of shit if asked.
Here is the worst thing... That's if you even get into the hospital.
My wife needed to go to the ER last month. We show up, and wait a few hours. I get to talking to people, and multiple people have been in the ER waiting to be seen for 12+ hours...the hospital was so understaffed that they could not get to a person with a medical emergency in 12 hours...
This same hospital has been building shiny new, and mostly empty wings and additions for the last 10 years straight, but they can't afford to staff the medical facilities they already have? I call BS.
This is why I am a fan of the work of the Four Thieves Vinegar collective. they are making instructions on how to make at home versions of some of the most critical chemicals and medicines.
This is fantastic and I need to learn more. I would love to be a part of something like this. I always think about medicine, specifically to fight infection, in a world that you can't just go get it at a pharmacy.
Thanks for sharing this, I hadn't heard of it.
It's a mystery how the US belongs to a select group of contries with homongous GDP but lower life expectancy.
Inequality is like some of the worst developing world countries
Inequality is soaring, with the 1% scooping up ever-larger shares of global wealth. These days, the US has a Gini coefficient – the most common international measurement of inequality – on a par with slave-owning Ancient Rome. Maternal mortality rates for American millennials are three times higher than those of their parents’ generation
Why is the US dollar always worth less than the pound and the euro, if it's this great functioning economy? I've never been able to work that one out.
Because 1 apple isn't equal to 1 banana.
Because the actual amount of money is somewhat arbitrary.
Like how if it is 77°F in the US it is the same temperature as it being 25°C in France.
This is why I never understood the need for charities.
There is more then enough to feed and house and clothe everyone in the world, yet kids are starving while supermarkets dump good food to the garbage, every day, but not until after making sure it's destroyed. Wouldn't want a hungry child get some food without paying, now would we?
I am okay with limited capitalism, it can help generate growth for everyone like nothing else.
However, mind the word "limited". Laws MUST be in place to ensure no one can become extremely rich, let alone ultra rich. Net worth should, no, MUST be capped at 10 million dollars. Once you reach that, that's it, 100% tax on anything you earn until you dip below. Even those over 5 million networth should be taxed at 90% or something. Those with a net worth of less than 100K should have almost no taxes at all. Those that can't work pay no taxes at all or get government paid support.
Make it easy to escape poverty, make it hard to become rich
Of course these are somewhat random numbers pulled out of my behind, an exceptions apply for certain circumstances, but the idea stands.
Why do we even allow the ultra wealthy to exist in the first place? Take way their money, all of it until they have maybe a few millions left, and give it to the governments that can then use it for public projects, housing, healthcare, education, etc.
Prohibit private healthcare or private education. Everyone deserves the exact same level and quality of education or healthcare. Being rich, famous or "important" doesn't matter at all.
Fuck mega yachts, these should be prohibited world wide. Want a boat? Fine, get a boat. Want a mega yacht? Go sit in a cruise ship you dingus.
Fuck private planes with an umbrella. Immediately take away all private planes and use them only for flights like hospital transportation and the sorts. Nobody is important enough to need a private plane. President? Go get fucking zoom or better yet, an open platform.
It's not that hard to fix any of this, it's just that there is zero will to do this.
That's why I always roll my eyes when you have these wealthy retired philanthropists like the Gates going on podcasts preaching about how important xyz issue is, when they don't give a damn about tax reform that can actually create a better standard of living floor for society so that there's more opportunity for people to come up with a better solution to xyz.
But charities make idiots think these rich people care.
Can't wait to be corrected about how "they help humanity in the end" when they promise to "give away money to their own charity after death" when epstein files come out.
I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which "lured" the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it's on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.
And also the pill costs nothing to make
it's literally meth with speed and can be bought for $10 at any corner in the "bad part of town".
I'm reminded of the heinz dilemma (nothing to do with ketchup)
Post conventional anti theft view: he should steal the drug and publish its formula for the others who need it
If I had the money and the means I would probably smuggle insulin into the United States from countries where it's reasonably priced, mostly just for the entertainment value.
Luigi is a hero
There is nothing morally wrong with killing health insurance CEOs. In fact, it is a morally positive act.
I really wonder exactly how many office towers are there full of people whose sole job is to deny healthcare claims. Think about if we paid those people to do something actually productive instead. This is the waste of for profit healthcare.
At this point those departments are now a bunch of AI and algorithms. That way no pesky emotions or ethics get in the way.
TIHI.
I saw a map on here how healthcare industry is like the the biggest employer in like 40 of the 50 states or something insane like that.
Healthcare, but not health insurance.
Anyway, if I had my druthers, I'd get together with a cabal of like-minded doctors, vote ourselves onto the state board, and revoke the license of any doctor working for health insurers. If the courts/cops had any balls, they'd then say any person or persons (and if it's a computer, then the entire c-suite) rejecting claims are practicing medicine without a license and put them all in jail.
Please do not associate my beloved charcuterie with this behavior 😔🙏
I don't understand why eating cold cuts off a rock is fancy, but eating lunchmeat out of the package is trashy.
Presentation matters!
Now that's a rock fact from a Wood scientist
This has been a fun ride for us, husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer end of last year. Met the max oop for our plan very quickly and have everything on the minimum payment plan. Things reset in July and we returned from vacation (needed our son to have some normalcy) to a $1300 bill for his first chemo treatment in the new cycle. We asked if the oncology office will work with us so we'll see what comes of that. It's exhausting and I don't know how people without insurance survive (although the current system is an absolute joke).
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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