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Call me old fashioned but I miss the old days when shit like this would take decades to discover and even then it would be shrouded in doubt and mystery.

You are old fashioned, but also wrong. In the old days there were gaming guides sold alongside games that provided the same information that players can get on youtube. Only a few games have had secrets revealed years after they came out.

The youtube full of ads and sponsors is crappier though, if you don't just block them.

While that is a great approach when the words have no weight, ignoring systemic discrimination that perpetuates actual harm is counterproductive.

When a cop calls all black people thugs and criminals, it is something that shouldn't be ignored. When a football team is named the Washington [slurs] it perpetuates racism against native americans in a way that has actual impacts on people. When schools are named after traitors it shows society is fine with elevating their views and ideals.

The importance of words depends on context and blowing off systemic racism permanently installed in public view because they are 'just words' ignores the real harm that those words have. Street signs with derogatory slurs against native people who were the victims of genocide is the equivalent of having slurs used hy the nazis on street signs.

They tweeted something really racist again.

Just imagine if our national infrastructure was as neglected as the maintenance on these buildings. That sure would be expensive to sort out if we ever get around to it!

It is one of those so stupid it's funny memes.

Context and delivery is important though, because there is a difference between making fun of something and using humor to degrade others. For example, a generic shock humor joke about dead babies is different than a specific person's dead baby that died in a tragic accident.

That is a reasonable take, although Vampires is on my so bad it is good list.

Petroleum is also from plants/algea/bacteria/etc. All fossil fuels come non-animal living things things.

All - Hot mostly.

New when I have been on for a stretch long enough that it is mostly repeats.

You left out the absolutely massive amount of costs hidden by employer subsidies by focusing on the point of service costs.

Also, your username checks out.

I think you may have read that backwards. (didn't see edit till I finished posting so I'm keeping the rest)

If the plan is 'good', then the part the employee 'pays' each month is low and could be in the hundreds each year before paying for any care they actually receive. But the employer is shouldering the rest of the costs behind the scene as part of the cost to employ. That means whatever they spend on insurance is money not going to your income so it really doesn't matter if it is paid directly by the employer or employee, that is all smoke an mirrors.

As an example for state employee plans from 2020:

While health insurance premiums varied greatly across the states, the average per-employee per-month premium was $959; states paid an average of $805 (nearly 84 percent) toward premium contributions.

This means the insurance company is collecting $959 dollars per state employee per month just to have them on the plan ($11,508 /yr) -The state is paying $808 per month ($9,696 /yr) -The employee is paying $154 per month ($1848 /yr)

This is all before office copays, medicine, emergency room copays, hospital bills, care clinic visits, and any service where you pay something to access service. This is generally decent to good insurance in the US and we pay well over the cost per person in other countries just to be insured.

To drive home that this is not an outlier, this is the cost that each country spends on health care per person United States $12,555 Switzerland $8,049 Germany $8,011 Norway $7,898 Netherlands $7,358 Austria $7,275 Belgium $6,600 Australia $6,597 France $6,517 Sweden $6,438

Everyone in Sweden is covered for healthcare, they don't need to pay at the point of service, and they spend about half of what the US does on average including the uninsured.

Mmmmm, minty fresh users.

I don't know what the big deal is, the game has been out since 2016!

Shooters are my bag, any chance that you can pass along an invite?

Why though? They get free advertising and by banning him they showed everyone else that they will follow through on banning if they share information so it stays contained.

Show us you mean it by fleeing there now. Then stay there to really get the message across.

They don't need to prove their intelligence, but this entire line just throws off "but awkshully" vibes of someone who thinks too highly of themselves. Bolding mine.

Now I’m gonna say something that usually results in people telling me I’m arrogant and sincerely this isn’t arrogance it’s just fact: I’m extremely intelligent.

You know who brags about their intelligence enough to be told they are arrogant? Morons. Morons who think they are super smart do that.

If they left that one sentence out then the rest of their post as written would have made them look smart.

While yes, it does sound like that, if Carpenter and the movie producers are involved the odds of it being a decent game and not just a reskinned cash grab are higher.

Amazon: Now that homelessness is a crime, and we don't pay our employees enough to afford a home, we are allowed to have slaves under the 14th amendment.

Your problems with NHS wait times are entirely due to your conservatives trying to run it into the ground so they can have the US style predatory care.