I’m sorry, I’ve failed you; I couldn’t possibly make this dumber than the original context.

Also because our health is already predisposed to being garbage compared to other countries thanks to our obesity crisis. Of course while that should be treated at the source like the UK is doing by e.g. not allowing junk food companies to advertize directly to kids, the healthcare system has a huge role to play in that too.

Need physical therapy? Get fucked. Can’t exercise because of a chronic, unhealed injury? Fucked. Mental health disorder keeping you from being active and eating well? Mega fucked. Eating disorder? Fucked. Quality of life destroyed by treatable obesity complications? Fucked. Can’t afford a variety of healthy foods because you’re trapped in medical debt? Fucked. Need medical intervention for weight loss? Fucked. Have a GI disorder and need to see a dietitian to plan a diet? Fucked.

Treating it at the source is absolutely crucial, but for people already caught in the whirlpool of obesity, privatized healthcare is categorically failing them.

This isn’t a damn movie where everyone claps because the bad guy is dead.

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.

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.

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).

I read this for a second as “neurotypical cockroaches”. Like “are there neurodivergent ones??”

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

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.

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.

Not supporting ISIS

Ah yes, I forgot that Syria outside of the SDF’s control is just Assad and ISIS and nobody else. Totally slipped my mind that it’s not pockets of ISIS control in the southeast opening up in the power vacuum created by Assad tripping over his own dick to rush troops back to Damascus; it’s that actually, all the miscellaneous rebel groups that are routing the wildly incompetent SAA are just ISIS acting as American proxies. That sure clears things up. Damn, I understand why tankies are coping so hard now; too bad Mr. Sarin Gas himself is going to be executed or (unlikely best case for him) in exile within a couple weeks then. :(

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002).