AnonymousActuary
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AnonymousActuary
1d ago
it's worth mentioning how much of the admin is just due to complying with the regulatory burden that comes from being in the health care industry. The typical way we try to control costs is by rolling out complex programs that require more detailed coding, data tracking, etc.
AnonymousActuary
1d ago
This is even better in the books. Denethor and Theoden each have their moments of great competence, countered by the Witch-King. Saruman is arguably incompetent, but still a fearsome adversary just due to numbers and the timing constraints the free peoples are operating under.
AnonymousActuary
1d ago
they actually did that in Rise of Skywalker, with Rey using force lightning semi-accidentally (to not-kill Chewbacca)
AnonymousActuary
2d ago
I was a more strident advocate for DST being dumb, but I now think it is more appropriate, as trying to get kids up in the morning when it is pitch black outside is pretty rough.
In a world where school started at a more reasonable hour you probably wouldn't need it, but then there's all the knock-on effects from school also functioning as daycare...
AnonymousActuary
6d ago
There's an article on why it happened and was good actually, that several thousand more Americans died.
AnonymousActuary
13d ago
Ha this reminded me of an old article I read about the anti-suffragettes, which I had bookmarked, and upon finding discovered it was written by Helen Andrews, who has been in the news recently, but whom I had not known of before (other than finding this blog post at some point).
AnonymousActuary
14d ago
Why did Youngkin not run again?
AnonymousActuary
14d ago
2021 was a very weird year that became a referendum on Democratic insanity around COVID and schools and sexual abuse therein
AnonymousActuary
20d ago
wasn't it an important point that the shooter had been yelling at the pushers GF over something minor? If you are going to shoot someone it better not be because of an escalated situation that you started.
AnonymousActuary
22d ago
The art definitely improves, but something goes down - perhaps the winsomeness? The first ones have a bit of melancholy to them, these are stories about a elderly man and his old cat, no wife or grandkids in the picture, and his friendship with his elderly neighbor and her dog. So there is some inherent melancholy to that which I think the early ones convey in the midst of these stories that have their funny and positive elements as well.
AnonymousActuary
23d ago
been reading the Mr. Putter and Tabby books at bedtime. Just a wonderful set of kids books. Interestingly enough the author published 25 of them from 1994-2016, but I would say the first 5 are a class above most of the rest, and none of the ones after 13 are really anything special. i'll happily reread those first 5 and even 6-13 a pretty decent amount, but 14-25 get old.
You wouldn't think the author of a short kids series could rest on their laurels but they seem to be doing so.
Maybe next week I'll create my full ranked list for all the other young dads out there haha.
AnonymousActuary
23d ago
is this really an escalation over like, DACA?
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
Are you under the impression that I disagree with John Brown's actions?
to be honest I was, though perhaps influenced by that substack article. I guess I see how you could read it as acceptable under the circumstances, and then we are just arguing about circumstances.
I have definitely gained some respect for eg the Shane Claiborne's of the world he maintain a strict non-violence standard and just subjecting everything to that.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
...are you on substack? I feel like a just read an article laying out this same point about John Brown.
One could point out that one way to avoid worries of a slave revolt would be to simply not build your economy on the backs of forced labor from an imported underclass that continues to grow...
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
See I think words of radiance might be my favorite but the end of way if kings is wonderful.
I do love the see with Adolin in the Sadeas camp... And Adolin in general. What a baller.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
the amount of people over the last 24 hours who had no idea this existed is...I mean it's not surprising at all but it has been amusing.
someone on the other site was like "When the government suggests to private industry to do something and then actors in private industry do it, that's government overreach and anti-free speech"
and I was like have I got a SCOTUS case for you!
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
you can't forget the "in the middle of a pandemic" part. For two months everyone had been told the most important thing to do was slow the spread of the virus. People sacrificed immensely in those two months to do so. And then, suddenly, no, the most important thing is for people to protest, and riot, and loot.
Fauci at least was consistent in saying they were a bad idea. I won't give him much, but I will give him that.
There's been a myth that there was not a rise in COVID afterwards that was pretty easily debunked by looking at city by city data - a lot of cities had spikes a few weeks after protests started. SpottedToad (may he RIP) had some great threads on it back in the day...
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
There also is just a difference between someone being randomly murdered (or dying of natural causes) and politically assassinated - people spitting on Rush Limbaugh's grave did not have the same connotations as people spitting on Kirk's do.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
related to this, can anyone actually find the whole MLK episode they did? I found an 8 minute preview beforehand, but nothing other than like a 1 paragraph excerpt
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Underrated little piece - both the Kirk killer, the Trump shooter, and the Ascension school shooter were/are all 22/23
Why does that matter? They would have all been finishing high school/starting college when COVID insanity was going on, ie at one of the most formative periods of their lives.
Is it any surprise they ended up radicalized online?
I don't think this will be the end of the COVID-impacted youth backlash
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
this always present a funny dichotomy to me, where the left focuses on Jan 6 when certifying an alternate slate of electors was much more concerning
And the right focused on weird conspiracies around voting machines instead of the actual confessed conspiracy to delay vaccine trial results to prevent Trump from winning, at the cost of a 9/11 or 3 of elderly Americans come the next COVID wave.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
there's an interesting parallel between the logic you are going with here (which I don't even disagree with) and the same arguments I see on gun control (ie extremely low percentage of guns ever used in crime)
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Some what shocked there has not been a top level post about the Annunciation School Shooting yet given the obvious culture war angles and parallels to the Covenant School shooting of a few years back (religious school, trans shooter - though FtM vs MtF).
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/annunciation-catholic-school-minneapolis-shooting-08-27-25
I had missed that the Covenant shooter was determined to have not acted out due to any real culture war stuff, but just due to your generic mass shooter mental illness + desire to be remembered cocktail.
I would guess that throwing in the Culture War angle makes it a lot more likely that the shooter's name and face get passed around, though in this case seems like he was just crazy more so than any particular niche of the political compass.
Presumably gun control will be in the news again a bit.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
wait, explain Shiloh Hendrix to me?
functionally speaking this is the current status quo - commercial prices are generally somewhere around 1.5-2.5 of the Medicare price for a given service.
The hospital transparency stuff is hidden behind massive massive JSON files and poor data quality. Numerous startups are working in the space to make it actually transparent - still a work in progress.
The insurers themselves are doing some of the work by using eg variable copays to drive utilization to cheaper contracted hospitals. Only works in urban cores though.
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