[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 92 points 6 months ago

This is actually quite eye opening to me, as someone who doesn't really ever have to look at ratings as a consumer and has always just taken them for granted. Now I'm keenly aware it's yet another example of runaway capitalism. Just never thought too hard about it.

PEGI's a cunt.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 96 points 8 months ago

Like a self-inflicted extinction event for the ingroup. A study in selective evolution.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 172 points 10 months ago

Bernie continues to espouse truth.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 78 points 11 months ago

Apple doesn't fall far.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 88 points 11 months ago

Or the crime

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 149 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Speaking for myself, my eyebrows are not raised. I remember reading that day that it was a shattered teleprompter or other shrapnel that nicked or sliced his ear, not that a bullet had passed through it. In any case, I personally don't quite understand the importance of the distinction. He was shot at either way, no? If it were a nick by glass I imagine it would've healed by now.

Edit: I forgot to mention... Fuck Trump and his ilk, they deserve being two-time losers come November.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 78 points 11 months ago

Fuck the IDF

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 124 points 1 year ago

Fuck this stupid world we've built.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

People working at Fox News are probably still taking/passing around Buzzfeed quizzes to find out which season they are

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago

[...] carrying out what is likely the highest number of protest-related arrests there since the Vietnam War.

That's pretty telling of the state of things.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

I feel like this is having a bit of a Streisand effect.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago

How timely! American here who just received a bill for scoping my sinuses by an ENT specialist: insurance covered $28 out of the $415 procedure. This is on top of the $70 copay I owe for the $195 office visit. So all accounting factored in, I owe $450 for what I thought was going to be $70.

Because it was billed through insurance, the provider's hands are tied in terms of further negotiation. I would bet if I had gone in as a cash patient, I'd be much better off.

The icing on the cake is that the scoping procedure was non-conclusive.

The US healthcare insurance system is the ultimate way to make money fast, for little effort. As long as you're on the right side of it, that is.

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