for some reason

Classism

I thought they weren’t making political endorsements anymore…

No worries, lol. I originally wrote both lines out then decided it was too long and edited the wrong part out

Despite the existence of video footage of the attack, none of Murrell’s assailants have been charged with a criminal offense, although, officer Mark Marron, a spokesperson for the Boston Police, said Monday that there is “still an active and open investigation” into the altercation.

Some of those who burn crosses is an understatement when it comes to Boston

Then maybe she was trolling back?

I think either way, you dodged a bullet. You don’t have food poisoning or a girlfriend who lies to you, lol.

Pro tip: you’re better off not dating someone who gets rid of their fridge every winter unless you live at mcmurdo. I could see very thoroughly cleaning and unplugging a freezer if you have a lot of space outside (protected from any wildlife) and can rely on it being well under freezing for months, but it’s probably either too cold to work as a fridge or temps will spike to dangerously warm during the day.

I don’t disagree with any of that, except that it’s way easier to break a hip (especially if you’re a woman who’s given birth in the previous few years) than most people realize. We’re generally really good at walking when we’re younger, so it’s not as common to fall (especially not without catching yourself and minimizing the damage), but a fall onto ice or stone at the wrong angle could damage a lot of 30 and 40 year olds’ pelvises.

I was very stupid and playing Pokémon go while drunk on a wet, mossy cobblestone road at 29, and I fell and broke my arm and eye socket. I lift weights and am generally strong and healthy, but it was just a bad angle. It took drunkenness, distraction, and a slippery and uneven surface to get me to fall without catching myself, but once I did, it’s not hard to do damage.

Edit: I will grant you: drunk Pokémon players do not show the level of judgment that I want from elected officials, but walking to work on an icy sidewalk if it’s your only transportation option is not an error of judgment and it’s more dangerous than people realize.

I was thinking physical evidence, like accelerants, etc. If they did it in view of cameras, that’s obviously much easier to catch, lol.

That’s honestly really impressive. The majority of the evidence has been incinerated by thousand-degree fires and covered in sea water and firefighting foam by the time investigators get to it.

This is journalistic misconduct (on the part of the Washington post), imo.

Given UHG’s size and broad reach – “more than 5 percent of U.S. gross domestic product flows through the company’s systems every day”

That’s impossible. It would only be possible if there were only 20 business days a year and UHG was the only company. This article sources it (thankfully) to the Washington post, who source it from here, where it’s much more reasonable:

It is this analyst’s opinion that the concentration of ownership of health care payment infrastructure in the hands of a single company poses a significant threat to the financial viability of the US health care system and requires a policy response. It does not make national security sense for more than 5 percent of US GDP to flow through a single company’s pipes. No provider of administrative services to health plans or care systems should be permitted to control a third of total US health care payments. Assuring the stability and safety of this payment infrastructure is a legitimate and substantial policy challenge.

UGH is a $1,5T company and the US GDP is around $30T. 5% is reasonable to say, but saying 5% every day is wrong.

Yeah, it’s still impactful, I just also got curious about the number of doctors in the US and figured it was silly to look it up and not share.

Yeah, there’s about a million, so this is ~1.5%

I’ve never realized how smarmy Cindy (? I had no idea i knew more names than just Jan) looks in this. It’s honestly pretty accurate for siblings, but damn does it raise my younger sister ire.

Even the ones that handled it well, like nz

I don’t think I’m moving the goalposts, but I was being facetious. Ford was an incredible engineer and musk is probably a pretty good engineer. It looks to me like BYD is the market leader.

If everyone around you seems to be really stubborn, maybe it’s time to check your shoes.

Obviously ford was antisemitic, but he’s not the same as musk for several reasons:

He was actually way more racist

He was a competent engineer

He controlled a much larger share of the auto market

I know that’s how this started. I don’t think it makes a difference. It would be wild to say “car manufacturers like ford and Tesla make a lot of cars,” because that’s misleading. What everyone else is doing is saying “[for a global auto manufacturer,] Tesla doesn’t sell a lot of cars,” and you’re not adding the bracketed portion.

You don’t have to, but it’s implied by the framing and everyone else isn’t wrong because they’re inferring the correct context that you’re unable or unwilling to infer.

It’s a lot of cars like 23 is a lot of shrimp. It is, but not compared to the size of an adult (or other auto makers, even younger ones than Tesla!)

Don’t take anything in this as true, it’s Menlo Park, ca

Edit: actually that’s meta, I’m not clear whether fb has a separate hq