ikapoz @ ikapoz @sh.itjust.works

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Oh totally, and one player can readily dip in and dip out if you’ve got differing interest levels.

This is actually one case insurance companies would be ALL OVER a real fix. People with spinal injuries have tons of medical complications that cost throughout their entire life. An insurance company would definitely be interested in unloading persistent fiscal drains like that.

Don’t get me wrong, the medical insurance industry is a fucking terror, especially in the US with the degree of regulatory capture involved. In this one case though, a real cure would serve their interests at anything less than a massive cost on their part.

Not necessarily. He might just be greedy for a bigger job in Texas policy. If he can throw the brown shirts a little victory without it costing him reelection that could get him enough currency for them to want to support him for higher office.

Cynical exercise of power for personal gain is not illegal so far as I know.

As dumb as it is, it’s STILL the smartest thing I’ve ever heard him say.

Careful. While funny, you’re running dangerously close to being sucked in.

Not very. Negotiating and executing a deal of that size and complexity cross cutting major national, cultural, and business universes would be extremely difficult

Little practice and a decent hammer throw technique your average adult ought to be able to get higher than a six foot arc with 50lbs. Trick is to grab em by the ankles, looking them in the eye is incredibly distracting.

If an intern (or damn near any employee) can be in a position to single handedly take down that scale of system it’s not the intern that should be fired - it’s the architect that baked that kind of weakness in the first place.

I’ve tried this a few times and my fingers always get really Fucking confused after about four bits.

I have a four year old, and if the voice actors of Gabby’s Dollhouse were paid one cent per stream I would owe them about $100

Seems like the logical choice, his neck tie game is on point. I suppose a double Windsor is easier to tie with six appendages and compound eyes.

Maybe he should run for office? With a resume like that I bet he could at least score a seat in the house of representatives

He may not have used the term in the senate, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he committed the act.

Same. I’ll still search there for stuff like BIFL or sone of the niche hobby subs but I don’t just go to scroll at all anymore. I’m kind of glad I’m getting a more reasonable amount of content at one go on Lemmy - I read more, have better sleep habits.

Edit: I still miss you Apollo!

Better? Never. I will say it is the by far the best real multi player rpg I’ve played.

The only answer

“Do you know how I got these scars?”

I just realized who this picture reminds me of. It’s the old paint huffer guy meme - Patrick Tribbet.

Anyone else see the resemblance? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/paint-huffer-guy-patrick-tribett

Of course not, that isn’t what I mean. I’m taking about why media in general reports as “straight news” the inflammatory blathering of political figures. Whether you as the reader agree with it or not, these kind of statements in headlines get the publisher clicks.

Clicks == revenue for for the media site, so they are incentivized to provide more content like that. Politicians need exposure more than just about anything, so they tend more towards that kind of language in part to get greater exposure through those venues.

I don’t think people posting content like this to aggregators like lemmy are in that incentivizing loop directly, but users engaging with the content even if they hate does incentivize the behavior further(albeit in a very small, incremental way).

For one simple and depressing reason - people click on it. That’s the dopamine button for modern media outlets online; those clicks are the cash register ringing.

If you want to figure out a way to elevate the discourse you have to disrupt the payment model - at the end of the day people do what gets them paid. Doubly so when the harm it causes is anonymized by operating in corporate aggregates.