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Look, I agree with everyone on this thread, but this is a ridiculous statement. McKinsey as a strategic and management consulting firm is amazingly effective and highly credible...which is part and parcel why they got in this immoral hot water as they made opiates explode and caused such irreparable harm. Because when you hire them they generally do a great job at whatever you are struggling to do (e.g. efficiencies, cost-takeout, GTM, growth, optimizing processes, etc.).

It's crazy. Just got back from skiing. Got in a massive wipeout and felt like I got hit by a bus by the time I got to the bottom of the mountain. I ain't no spring chicken, I thought I had broken all the bones. Go to the nearest ER which is a dumpy Colorado vet or miner hospital on the border of New Mexico and the doc there is awesome. Do a full trauma workup (as if I got in a car wreck) and full scan. Turns out I'm fine, just bruised and battered, but no tears, breaks, fractures, nothing. Just very sore. Nurse: "Mr. Vegas, we can't give you any norco or pain meds like that because you took some Advil (or Tylenol) a few hours ago before coming in, but we have a bunch of fetanayal we can push in your IV" Me: Um wut? You want to give me fet? Nurse: "The only thing we can give you, it's this or nothing. I've sent a muscle relaxer to the pharmacy, but if you want anything now it's this or nothing" Me: "I'm fine, thank you" I couldn't believe how easy they dispense with it and no wonder rural communities are lousy with it.

I read it as Caitlin Clark is being hated on by the worker bees of the league because she is white in a majority black league.

Reminds me of a stat I read about Elon Musk: “Federal Election Commission filings show that Musk spent $277 million to help Trump win reelection, which, given his net worth, is the equivalent of someone with a net worth of $100,000 donating $70.”

Where is the line drawn between "responsible and ceremonial head of evil that can be assassinated" and "just doing a job, man"? Board of Directors? CEO only? C-Suite? CEO & EVP, SVP, VPs? Director level? Manager level?

I think they are starting to get the message. Feels like the beginning of a Batman movie.

One of the things that I think few people talk about with changing the game here too is the impact of becoming and being a doctor. Correct me if I am wrong, but when you compress everything in a nationalized way, doctors in other countries are just run of the mill professionals. They aren't making the huge money that specialists over here are and they lack the prestige the "my son is a doctor" provides. When you go from making $1 million a year to $200k a year (especially considering the laborious and difficult route of becoming a doctor) you are going to get a lot less quality and cream of the crop is my estimation. We would need to really skinny down the whole process is my guess. Doesn't matter when you are talking about things that affect 90% of gen pop, but when talking about bleeding edge disease management and treatment and hyperspecifity in very important (cardiology, neurology, etc.) adn less important (say, dermatology or cosmetic plastic surgery), you may have few great options and a lot of options that look like what people fly to Turkey and Mexico for.

Preach, brother.

Definitely agree with you. This is why healthcare is such a quagmire. There is zero way to make everyone happy, all the time.

For sure. I'm just giving a personal anecdote because I felt it relevant. Especially in the face of other personal anecdotes that are romantcizing nationalized or socialized healthcare which, again, for basic and run of the mill things, is amazing. Basic care for broken bones and infections and even more basic chronic conditions for 300+ million people it's great. For the "rare" millions with rare or specialized disease and disorder, private healthcare from your employer is a huge privilege (and at the expense of the risk pool of all the normies). That's my only point.

Well done, thanks for sharing. I actually own the book (Liberation is a collection of short stories) and had read this and about halfway through remembered I had read this. That ever happen to you? Anyways, this is fantastic and my introduction to Saunders was similiairly in 2016 with Trump and his essay "Braindead Megaphone". If you haven't read that, you should. Lastly, an interesting note-- the titular story in this collection about the robot slave entertainers in the farmhouse is the best story in the set. You should read that.

You can't do that in Texas Dallas County which is weird because it's not legal like it is in Cali. https://reason.com/2024/11/08/dallas-voters-attack-an-all-purpose-excuse-for-police-harassment-i-smelled-marijuana/

I agree 95% with the sentiment on these 12 pages. However in the interest of fairness and since everyone else is giving anecdotal insights, I do want to give UHC props. I have a gentic disorder and I live in Texas. I have an aunt who has the the same one who lives in the London area. I've had Anthem, BCBSTX, Aetna and UHC. Getting coverage of a biologic that I need 3x a year has been infinitely easier with UHC. They approved it the first time without appeal or needing to harrass my specialists with interviews and gave me the name brand. The other insurers were horrible. Constant denials and appeals and then finally approving with a biologic similiar (generic I guess?) and on a more elongated schedule, 2x a year versus the 3, than requested by my docs. My aunt in London and dealing with the NHS? Horror stories. Very basic care and medicine (generic, low efficacy and therapeutic relief pills versus the very expensive infusion therapies) and the wait if you are ever approved is so bad. She had to go on their version of disability because she couldn't get access in a timely way to function at even a mid-level. She's doing fine now after having had to spend a few years at the front of this disease getting it into a remission state, but there was suffering and loss, etc. from not being able to flex. I should also add she's not wealthy and very middle class and working class. All that to say, NHS is amazing for the flu or covid or insulin. It's amazing for 90% of the healthcare population. But if you have a rare or aggressive and specialized disease and need specialists and expensive meds (the vast, vast minority) there is no better healthcare than in the U.S.

Have none of you done the fake call/pretending to talk on your cell phone routine when walking in sketch areas and/or trying to blend in and out? This, beat me to it.

It feels lazy. I’m not getting out of the proverbial bed on this for a measly $10k…and I ain’t a CEO of a massive company or anything.

What’s interesting from a societal standpoint is this guy and situation is more popular and has more viewing interest and intrigue than the bomb Joker 2. I guess we like our Arthur Blank crack-ups with less song and dance.

Speaking of intro, this is great:

What that company and those camera men did aged like warm milk. It's the seedy, soapy, who-gives-a-crap flavor of the aged old argument: do you hold people to the standards of their time or do you judge them objectively with what we know to be right and true now?

The Great Gatsby. Not sure how I never saw this as it came out during the time I was watching all the big commercial success movies (2010-2015), but caught it the other day. Interesting interpretation to modernize a 1920's staple. I hadn't read the book in over 30 years so honestly couldn't tell how faithful the adaption was plot-wise, but I remember not loving the book and thus, didn't love the movie. But it was good.

I think it's mostly just New Yorkers being New Yorkers. Life goes on.

Kinda spot on?

I had a single key that I put in my wallet and so you could see the key outline after a while. I was 10 when I started riding the bus home alone and staying home alone (basically when parents wanted to stop paying for after school care, both worked outside of the home) and I had to call to check in when I got home and I was supposed to stay in doors and not answer the phone until they got home. By 12 I was allowed to go out when home alone and generally ride my bike wherever i wanted, which was functionally around 2 miles because round trip 4 miles in the city fighting busy roads and crossing overpasses sucked. Then I got my bike stolen at a putt and place type arcade, so I hoofed it around then. At 12 we neighborhood kids started smoking Marlboro lights. So between rollerblading and camping out at the Diamond Shamrock looking for young adults who looked cool enough to buy us our $3.00 Marlboro lights in a box, we walked around so we could smoke cigs and then later pot. Then we got cars and fake IDs and getting drunk became our god. The life of a latchkey kid.

Rico and it isn't even close Chief is sneaky good.

Dude I was being obviously hyperbolic. The point was that his "overthrows" last year and if it was a bad pass to Worthy against Bama, then those are downright "dots" compared to his obvious poor accuracy and bad long balls this year.

Here is the thing. If Quinn's pass to Worthy against Bama last year sucked, I want that sucky Quinn back. Because his long balls against Arky were 7 yards overthrown and just plain horrible.