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Kinda looks like it once had a layer of sheet metal attached to it at one point.

The hilarious part is that the only adversary we have that would make Greenland relevant to national defense is Russia.

The way the news media broadcasts this shit is embarrassing. I wouldn't mind if they made it a headline, but it should be tempered with good journalism. Maybe ask why Greenland would be important to our defense? Or maybe who came up with the idea and how they are qualified to make such statements.

I for one will be sowing all my seed incredibly close together, the plants will grow stronger together. Also all birds are now counter revolutionary, get out your noisiest banging pans my dudes.

Also, how do I invest in pig iron futures?

Providers are going to look at this uncollected debt and see it as unrealized profit. In their minds, they "deserve" to make $X million in profits, and if those unpaid bills cut into that, they are just going to raise prices accordingly

Lol, my dude. Providers have nothing to do with how much you are charged. As a "provider" the only association I have with your insurance or payment is to make sure I input the correct icd-10 codes.

Medicare largely sets the basic price for healthcare in the US because it's the largest insurance pool. If you are charged more or less than the Medicare allowable it's because your insurance company and a hospital administrator have made a contract behind closed doors.

if those unpaid bills cut into that, they are just going to raise prices accordingly (along with a little extra) to make up for it. This means that insurance companies will be paying more, and those who can afford to pay in the first place will be charged more as well.

We are already doing that for people who lack insurance and are therefore reliant on emergency medicine for basic healthcare needs. Most of a hospitals funding brought in by specialty departments like orthopedics goes directly into funding their emergency medicine departments. Uncollected co-pays or deductibles are just a drop in the bucket that most practitioners would love to write off if allowed (insurance companies mandate that we collect these to dissuade people from utilizing their insurance).

customers are ultimately not going to be held accountable for the debt, we need to switch to a universal healthcare system, because the system as it is isn't sustainable.

The system isn't sustainable as it is......Hence the extreme rise in cost for healthcare. Private insurance can only remain in solvency by denying care to their neediest subscribers, or by offloading them onto socialized systems when they become chronically ill.

the government isn't going to pay, and the insurance companies aren't going to pay, and the customers either can't afford to pay or just don't bother to because they can't be held accountable, who's going to?

It's almost like for profit healthcare is a bad idea.........

Blast radius? My dude, they overturned roe v wade and nobody batted an eye.

I never said that they can't serve a function, just that corporations like openai have a vested interest inflating their potential impact on the job market.

When the AI bubble bursts, it isn't going away either. It replaces too much labor.

The claimed amount of labour it could potentially replace is in fact part of the bubble.

which are different skills than what is valued in people like biologists and biochemists who conduct lots of biomedical research.

Ehh..... I wouldn't say that your degree dictates your ability to think critically. I mean a lot of MD's have biology/chemistry degrees and work in biomedical research.

I think virology is such a specified field of study that it takes someone with practiced experience to really explain it well.

I mean, I have a medical degree, but practice in orthopedics and rehabilitation. I haven't seriously studied anything having to do with viruses in over a decade. Which places me in the same boat as the vast majority of physicians.

I wouldn't really take anyone's word on the matter unless they are actively working in the field at a reputable organization.

Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9. One officer uses a shoe to strike Brooks in the stomach, and another yanks him up by his neck and drops him back on the table.

I fucking hate when the media does everything possible to try and lessen the culpability of pigs abusing their power.

No he didn't "use a shoe to strike Brooks" the asshole kicked someone to death. When has anyone ever described a kick as a "shoe strike"?

No judge, I didn't curb stomp that guy to death! I simply struck the back of his head with my shoe! As a joke between friends of course.

Depends on how you measure productivity. The hope is that by the time long term care is required for things like diabetes or heart disease, the patient would be eligible for Medicare.

That or the sedimentary lifestyle will so negatively affect the more than likely diabetic patient, that they go into renal failure and qualify for disability through social security. Effectively removing their cost onto a socialized network.

Paying for a prosthetic is much cheaper in the long run, but not for private insurance. The vast majority of the cost of not providing a prosthetic will be absorbed by Medicare.

(Although I suppose they'd figure on denying claims for hospital treatment when his unhealthy heart caved in!)

The long term goal of this type of policy is to not only reduce immediate cost, but to offload the cost of long term care onto a socialized network like social security.

The majority of amputees are already diabetics, if you remove their ability to remain active and mobile, you substantially increase the chance of renal failure. Patients who require dialysis because of renal failure get enrolled for disability through social security.

Maybe not for heathens.

This is why I stick to TempleOS, the only biblically accurate OS. With the power of God and high octane schizophrenia, I'm completely safe.

Probably kill some Armenians about it. The dude is kinda a crazy dictator.

Man, this guy's wiki background ends on a banger.

" In mid-2013, his website announced: "God's temple is finished. Now, God kills CIA until it spreads [sic]."[6]

Davis died after being hit by a train on August 11, 2018.[7]"

Creating a false dichotomy does nothing but eliminate nuance. The simple fact is that there are more students applying to Harvard than Harvard can let in. Because not this, it means Harvard gets to choose from people they think will benefit the University, an "even playing field" has nothing to do with it.

The university doesn't benefit the most from getting the smartest or hardest working graduates, they benefit from students who will one day increase their endowment.

The idea of an even playing field is laughable, as we don't have an equal path to higher education. Someone getting 4.0 from a private highschool who has access to private tutors, isn't the same as someone getting a 4.0 from a public school and holding down a part time job.

So if the school doesn't have to acknowledge this, what do you think is going to happen? If the idea of merit is only tracked by how well you can beef up your student portfolio......who do you think is going to win out, the family that spent tens of thousands on private education, or the family who is struggling to pay rent?

They're just fighting over the bag, which happens within the GOP during the best of times. Just because they aren't uniform in certain policy doesn't mean they won't rally together to strip rights away from minorities, or enact more Christ based fascism.

Eh, I mean I generally think the whole old actor and young actress trope is creepy as well. I just never would have thought the guy playing Superman was in his thirties, he just looks babyfaced to me.

I also was under the impression that this was going to be more of an origins story, with Clark making his way to the big city kinda thing, but that may have been a misconception on my part.

It's amazing that a party who ran off free market economics for like 5 decades can all come down with sudden onset amnesia about the subject.

Idk about the casting in this..... Superman looks like he's in his early 20's and Louis looks like she's in her mid 30s. I don't mind either actors individually, but together it just seems like an odd pairing.

I feel like the reverse would be kinda creepy, like if Superman was in his mid 30's trying to pick up a Lois as a fresh out of school intern at the daily planet.