NickC25

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by NickC25 2y ago
Correct - they aren't an insurance company, they are a racketeering organization committing fraud under the guise of being a "healthcare" company that is vertically integrated with every facet of the healthcare supply chain.
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by NickC25 2y ago
UHC double-dips because they own Optum even though Optum is "independent". It's fucking disgusting. How they were allowed to buy Optum and didn't have every regulator in the country on the case is beyond me. I $truggle
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by NickC25 2y ago
>"This needs to be made illegal or at the very least cost prohibitive." How? Any mechanism to make it illegal will be vigorously fought by the same forces who currently benefit from it. Those forces have unlimited funds to &qu
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by NickC25 2y ago
That's because despite the right wing propaganda that will tell you Obama is a staunch far-left communist, Barack Obama is a committed centrist, and a representative of the Corporate Party. He did nothing because he had no interest in
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by NickC25 2y ago
The only divide is pushed from the corporate media who desperately wants 1. this to be a left/right issue and 2. for everyone to stfu because United spends billions of dollars advertising on said media's platforms. Luigi's se
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by NickC25 2y ago
Seriously. The narrative that the banks had no incentive to be intelligent about who they lent money to is absolutely true because good credit bad credit no credit, the banks didn't care - the bank's money was backed by the Feds,
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by NickC25 2y ago
Yes, and they willingly served him all the ability to become an authoritarian and handed him power. Mark could EASILY turn around and say to Trump "you know what, motherfucker? I got you in power, I looked the other way in '16, i
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by NickC25 2y ago
>Trump will not finish the wall, because Republican farmers need their slave labor. True, which is why he built a few miles of the wall for like $20 billion (and destroyed some protected wildlife lands in the process) and claimed it was
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by NickC25 2y ago
and why shouldn't they be forced to censor? they are regarded by society as the arbiters of truth, regardless if they wish to be or not. not that i'm a fan of censorship, but if a foreign power's strategy is to sow mass disin
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by NickC25 2y ago
Which is sad. All these centibillionaires kissing the ring is just sad. They have the money, economic might, and social capital to not have to engage with Trump. Instead, they kiss his ass. Why?
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by NickC25 2y ago
Agree. Shame it made it into the Olympics over the likes of Squash or other sports that clearly have an international appeal and following.
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by NickC25 2y ago
>But on the other hand, if you were to go watch a launch from SpaceX, You will find that there's already a crowd being inspired, experiencing joy, and it absolutely brings people together. So why not work more on that and less on sp
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by NickC25 2y ago
Most likely never. She made too many enemies in both major parties - who only agree on one thing: corporations are king, and we must rubber-stamp all their desires, because after all, they've bought all the lawmakers. Both parties hat
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by NickC25 2y ago
Cost control? Think about an insurance company for a moment. They could pay their CEO less. They could not engage in needless advertising. They could refrain from paying dividends to shareholders. The list goes on...
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by NickC25 2y ago
Luigi went back to the drawing board, and seems to have found a way to get health "insurance" executives quite freaked out to the point where some of their proposed changes for 2025 were quietly walked back.
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by NickC25 2y ago
Reminds me of a joke i once heard: a regulator walks into an insurance corporate office and exclaims "wait a second, you're supposed to be running a racket! instead, you're committing fraud!" while in a parallel univers
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by NickC25 2y ago
More light needs to be brought to this, and serious action needs to be taken on behalf of insurance policy holders, NOT on the behalf of shareholders of "insurance" corporations. Well done, Propublica. Keep it coming!
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by NickC25 2y ago
>Where you get 10 from, I don't know 5 times, yes. 10 from is the fact that he held the title of "undisputed world champion" for a decade.
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by NickC25 2y ago
Magnus didn't show up because he more or less just doesn't give a shit anymore about classical chess. He got bored. Won the thing 10 years in a row and just didn't fancy it anymore. That's really it - he's so much
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by NickC25 2y ago
NYC is far better than Miami. Miami sucks because half the people on the roads here don't actually know how to drive. They are immigrants that come from countries whose roads are effectively lawless, or come from countries that have a
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by NickC25 2y ago
This right here. I currently live in Miami. I've lived all over the country. I'm from NYC burbs. I thought NYC drivers sucked before I moved here almost a decade ago. Miami's drivers are horrible , mostly because most of
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by NickC25 2y ago
That won't limit the chaos. FWIW I went to whole foods downtown today and nearly got hit twice. I live in Midtown, so it's quite literally a 27-block trip. Some of the worst driving (save for on 95) I've seen here has been
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by NickC25 2y ago
>Well that would cost Miami taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, and this costs Miami taxpayers nothing. It would also take decades. Ironically enough, the county approved and passed a tax back in 2000 to expand the MetroMover. No
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by NickC25 2y ago
I think you're right - some of the hardware the military buys from Boeing is because legally they can't buy from anyone else. IIRC they are forced to buy American made stuff on national security grounds. I don't have a probl
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by NickC25 2y ago
>He's the only artist I can think of to achieve that level of fame and success and not sell out. Gary Larson of The Far Side comes close but never touched the highs of Calvin and Hobbes
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by NickC25 2y ago
Can't it be both? The GOP won, but not by as much as Donald Trump claims they did. The opposition party, the Democrats, failed spectacularly. They have for my entire lifetime become the de-facto experts in snatching defeat from the
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by NickC25 2y ago
Bibi, upon being convicted for corruption, tried to reform the Israeli judiciary (which led to mass protests) to cement himself in power right before the attacks last year. Now Israelis kowtow to him and blindly follow his lead. How conve
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by NickC25 2y ago
If China so much as touches Taiwan, all the TSMC fabs will explode. They are all already rigged to do so. The Taiwanese will burn their island to the ground before they let the CCP get their hands on Taiwan.
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by NickC25 2y ago
Accepted? No idea. That said, China has stated that their long-term plan is to overtake our military, economic, and technological dominance. That's, at the very least, a clear signal that they want to beat us.
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by NickC25 2y ago
This was tough to read. I was never a coffee drinker at all until I spent a month in Kenya 6 years ago helping a startup get off the ground (ex CTO/CEO lived in Nairobi at the time). I tried the local coffee as was customary (when in

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