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[SallyM]

Follow up news

Like, oh, lifesaving therapy for their spouse or child, humane care for their parents, medication for their own mental health. We had Sentara buy one of our Medicaid providers and immediately change the whole formulary. Kids who had been stable on psych meds for years had go off on short notice and start over with a whole new set of “approved” drugs. No appeals, no provisions for more time. Do it now, or pay out of pocket. Now we are looking at tons of kids getting abruptly thrown off Medi…

[MerelyGifted]

Unicorn Chasers

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[hecep]

THANK YOU!

[MerelyGifted]

You’re more than welcome! It’s certainly a worthy image!

[FGD135]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

Random flotsam, but Googlay image search found it on artist EverettPatterson’s blog:

[SallyM]

See it, post it

So I was preparing this to reply: The neighbor on the other side often puts old food out on his lawn for the urban wildlife around here. (It’s actually illegal to do that here in the city. I think he’s been reprimanded for “ground feeding of animals”.) I’m not sure where the food comes from—possibly things from the food shelf that he doesn’t want or doesn’t know what to do with. A few months ago there were four full heads of cabbage—both green and red—sitting randomly on the ground in his b…

[MerelyGifted]

RIP. We'll miss you

I’ve never seen anyone else render James Baldwin dumbfounded.

[Millie_Fink]

Thread of assholes

Some of the things on the list can indeed be dangerous, like cocaine and heroin. But a lot of them are dangerous but used for genuine medical problems. Some combinations are also dangerous. But to put these on the same list as cocaine and heroin is ridiculous IMO. And are we sure the author picked the most dangerous ones? For example, I had to stop taking tylenol for an antibiotic I’m still on (for another 33 days). This combination can lead to serious liver damage. Alcohol is another problem b…

[SallyM]

Follow up news

What I find fascinating about the response to the healthcare CEO’s murder is that there’s substantial sympathy for the killer, across the political spectrum, which suggests that both left and right recognize that health insurance companies are immoral/evil/should-be-illegal, but there’s not equivalent support for the one actual solution to the problem, socialized medicine. Americans, especially conservatives, have been brainwashed so badly that even when they recognize a problem, they can’t rec…

[MerelyGifted]

Happy Birthday!

[SallyM]

Thanks

[mindysan33]

Yay! Happy birthday!!!

[Nightflyer]

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Thanks

[SallyM]

Happy Holidays!

I don’t mean to be a Grinch, however… to those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, would you please avoid anything that has Red or Blue flashing lights together!! Every time I come around the corner, I think it’s the police and I have a panic attack. I have to brake hard, toss my margarita out the window, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, and push the gun under the seat. All while trying to drive. It’s just too much drama, even …

[chgoliz]

The Trans Experience

Identification is like a quiet room for autists in a school. Whether it’s a safe place or a prison depends on which side of the door is the lock.

[SallyM]

Enshittification

I think we need to think about cars, too. To begin with, they offered some people new mobility options, but put other people in danger. As they became more common, the number of cars slows down both care and bus travel, and threatens bike and foot travel. As they became more common, buses and streetcars were shut down, so other mobility options are being destroyed. To try to reduce collisions, civilians are expected to cross at intersections, where cars would have to stop, but now they don’t…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

What? A bullet to the face? Are you fucking kidding me?!?! I’m well aware that MAGA has long ago agreed there are five lights (six, 17, none, whatever Trump wants), but have they really moved to the point where they think the rest of us are there too? Actually, no, I know it doesn’t matter. I heard an interesting discussion on a community radio station out of Texas, of all places, yesterday. They were comparing MAGA messaging to improv theater. So much of it is sheer absurdism that often uses …

[SallyM]

Um.... what.... aka, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read

Using laws to declare that laws don’t apply to you makes about as much sense as the rest of sovereign citizens’ beliefs (“sovereign citizen” itself being an oxymoronically moronic identity).

[SallyM]

Space Exploration

Honestly I don’t understand how he gets away with this. He’ll still say he is 10 years from a manned landing, and people will report it as if it has any chance of being true, instead of giving the obviously relevant context that he’s been saying it for more than a decade. Likewise self-driving or robots or anything he offers that isn’t the world’s worst mobile dumpster. It’s all just stenography as if he weren’t bullshit wrapped in vaguely human form, because he has money, because investors are…