Many have riffed on the military’s tradition of using playing cards to help troops learn about the enemy. You can currently find “Gaza’s Most Wanted” playing cards on Instagram, purportedly depicting “leaders and commanders of various groups such as the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and numerous leaders within Iran-backed militias.” A Shopify store selling “Covid’s Most Wanted” playing cards, displaying figures like Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, and including QR codes linking to a website “where all the crimes and evidence are listed,” is available as of this writing. Hero Decks, which sells novelty playing cards generally showing sports figures, even produced a deck of “Wall Street Most Wanted” cards in 2003 (popular enough to have a second edition).

I thought you were serious at first, please mind my blood pressure

Yeah one guy could easily take out two people, I recommend every CEO and CFO surround themselves with 6 minimum wage workers with guns.

There’s value in forcing entities like the NYT to show their bias like this, even if it’s expected behavior for them. A critical mass of incidents like this destroys their legitimacy over time which decreases their ability to dictate public opinion.

Just a reminder Fluorine =/= Fluoride, Fluoride is the protective to teeth one (and is often found naturally in groundwater), Fluorine is a so called forever chemical. This website could still be a bad actor and I didn’t read their take but the study they’re citing comes from a reputable journal.

Also here’s a write up on the distinction which is more scientifically correct than mine

The hippocratic oath is WAY older and therefore takes precedence (me as a lawyer)

It’s interesting how inconsistent the far right conspiracies are. It’s like a movement of individual conspiracy theorists, each with their own conspiracy universe, agreed to rally under a non-specific but pro-conspiracy flag.

yep in the SF bay area it’s super common for the tech industry to

1. word job adverts so no americans will qualify or be interested
2. bring in someone on a visa by sponsoring them
3. Now they won’t do anything the company doesn’t like (join union efforts, push back against an immoral project, etc) because if they lose their job they also lose their visa

Wiki is one of my favorite examples of an effective (largely) horizontally organized mass project

It sounds like the doctors working for the insurers are somewhat untouchable in terms of medical malpractice— reviewing claims isn’t considered medical practice so the culpability (if any is found) always falls on the actual company in court leaving corrupt reviewers free to deny more things on unfounded evidence

Seize the commons back!

Government debt is a lot more like business debt than personal debt though. Japan is in like 200% debt and they’re still chugging along

Last time I changed jobs I had two insurance options so I called them both to see if a specific medication would be covered. Both companies said in order to see if I was covered I would need to sign up for the plan, file some paperwork explain why other medications wouldn’t suffice, and then wait for a decision.

Perfectly fine for a boardroom to approve sending a low quality version of their baby formula to countries with low regulations and better quality to countries with more regulations. If the babies want the higher quality kind they should move to a better country!

Indeed, this post was inspired by a friend who spends an inordinate amount of time off the clock trying to get charts into just so shape so that claims go through. The exact way they want you to phrase stuff and what tests they need to see in the chart before approval changes regularly so practices basically have to hire a dedicated staff to keep up and let the doctors know about changes. Also results in small practices being driven out of business.

I just finished digging into this so you don’t have to— his actual research article is the former (out of a cohort of 1200 people some scored higher on a test and after studying their brainMRIs there are some consistent differences).

The title and the stats about how much reading has declined in the UK from the conversation article seem to be just fluff for interest. The amount people read wasn’t a subject of the research (and wasn’t mentioned). I think the author was just trying to make his work more relatable but framing the article this way was a bad call imo.

Agreed, OP’s post is what they WANT you to say— don’t help them out guys

Super interesting read! New frontiers for sure.

I just saw someone that looked very similar hiking off trail near Sonora Pass in the sierra nevadas

Good guy assassin didn’t use a silencer to avoid detection, just didn’t want to disturb the peace