No, but you see, because Mangione wasn’t employed by the US military (who started a baseless, illegal war in Iraq that led to literal hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and massive regional instability), he’s on the hook for this one. Sorry, them’s the breaks. There’s no moral authority quite like the US military, I tell ya what.
prevent the imminent death of another
Honestly most likely at least some due to the mass outrage sparked by the killing, yes. It is at least likely that some in the health insurance industry are reconsidering the level of shit they can get away with. For example, immediately after the killing:
If nothing else, though, it seems like people might actually be posting OC now. When I first got there, it was like a single account blatantly reposting from TikTok, Instagram, etc. Like the 9gag of short-video content. Seems potentially better going back into it now.
Unreal how these mediocre mugs took off due to an online trend (that, let’s be real here, probably started its life as guerilla marketing). TikTok is such a shithole. Sort of like using a bidet which costs more upfront to to cut down on toilet paper and have a better experience, it’s fantastic to use reusable mugs which cost more upfront to cut down on water bottles and have a better experience.
If this hype had been around water bottles in general, that would’ve been fantastic; adequate hydration and microplastics are two critical public health issues. But Stanleys are mid as fuck, and the fact people were buying them en masse as a Beanie Baby-tier fashion accessory likely made them more difficult to obtain for the people who actually wanted to use them. And for all the hype, you’re getting something that’s generally shittier than an equivalently priced HydroFlask or Yeti.
Technically red meat is Class 2A, meaning it’s “probably carcinogenic” to humans. Thus, you can’t quite yet (especially with animal agriculture being such a powerful lobby) place a label saying it definitely is. However, basically all the evidence at this point shows that eating red meat and especially processed red meat increases your risk of e.g. colorectal cancer.
However, processed meat is a Class 1 carcinogen and thus definitely should have a label, but good fucking luck getting any group of politicians to sign off on that in the face of – again – the animal ag lobby. Unlike big oil, even the most tepid stances against animal ag often aren’t broadly publicly accepted.
That’s not a “corpo tactic”; the “plant-based” label is there for vegetarians and vegans who want to eat something that wasn’t tortured and killed even if it’s unhealthy. While there is some emerging evidence that while still not good for you, they’re mildly better than eating red meat burgers, it’s obviously still not good for you, and plant-based for your health should be legumes, seeds, nuts, veggies, fruits, whole grains, cereals, plant milk, etc. Plenty of plant-based stuff is bad for you; a diet consisting solely of french fries, Oreos, and soda would be plant-based.
Eh, can’t have been too good at his job if he couldn’t even make it to a meeting on time.
What kind of money?!
(Also, yes, about $27.9k daily, meaning it would take him about one and a quarter days to make the annual salary of a “Customer Service Advocate” in San Antonio. (How the fuck do they come up with these nauseatingly sanitized names?))
I show them; I record everything.
Posted the same day as ‘Day 13’ since I’ve been a bit under the weather and missed it yesterday.
Hey, sorry for missing yesterday; I’ve been a bit under the weather. Going to post two today to make up for it. (Also, it’s $10.2 million annually).
Notably, two (often overlapping) ways to lower the risk of colorectal cancer are to get adequate fiber intake and to incorporate more plant-based foods into one’s diet. For those with cancer or having survived cancer, evidence suggests plant-based foods can also improve prognosis.
Yeah, if chemicalwonka thinks OP needs psychiatric help, god help them if they have UHC.
Yeah, that Reddit watermark is revolting. Absolutely nothing else wrong with this image, though.
cranking my hogg
I’m banning myself from life.
That’s a rumor that’s going around. The flight path makes no sense for a VIP (for example, flying over the city center of occupied Homs), and while it was pretty clearly a crash of a military plane, that doesn’t at all imply it was al-Assad’s. We don’t know the destination, just that he boarded a plane, but I’m guessing we’ll see him turn up soon enough.
There’s no evidence this was Assad (and the flight path directly over Homs instead of e.g. into Iraq makes it implausible), but it seems like it was almost definitely a plane crash.
Not sure if I would have preferred al-Assad having to live out the rest of his life in exile and constantly look over his own shoulder… Or seeing him imprisoned in Syria and/or publicly hanged for his crimes against humanity. But I guess with him having fled via plane, we’ll all have to accept the former.
Alright, I’ll get back to you and be sure to apologize when this alleged Act II starts and shit goes south. For now, I’m going to be enjoying the part where everyone claps because the bad guy is dead.