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I really like the Weird Al song eBay because it’s one of those rare parody songs that’s weirdly and strangely continued to make sense for over 20 years. Given its subject matter and multiple dated pop culture references you’d expect it to lose relevance quickly but no given the commodification of nostalgia and rise of side hustles in recent years and the structure of eBay fundamentally not changing not only do I, a person who was five years old when that song was written in 2003, understand every reference in that song, it feels like it could’ve been written yesterday.

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Full names and details of every man who was convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot. The list includes 50 men who could be identified, besides Gisèle's husband, ranging in age from 27 to 74. Among them are a firefighter, a journalist, a nurse, a construction worker, and a prison guard. Most have families of their own, and only about half had previous convictions.

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at the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination trial, i want dozens of mail carriers to burst into the courtroom lugging huge sacks of letters, Miracle on 34th Street-style, but all the letters are UnitedHealthcare denying coverage to dying patients

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at the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination trial, i want dozens of mail carriers to burst into the courtroom lugging huge sacks of letters, Miracle on 34th Street-style, but all the letters are UnitedHealthcare denying coverage to dying patients

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medical progress: a sketch

today my dentist told me i desperately need a mouthguard, because my teeth are covered in, and here i quote, "cracks and potholes"

ever had a mouthguard made? they put some gummy stuff in your mouth, you bite down, and voila: the future mold

but today, i sat in a dentists chair for twenty minutes, while a technician rotated a dildo-sized camera nozzle in my mouth.

like a dildo, it was on a mission to see the backs of my molars

unlike a dildo, it had sharp angles.

after fifteen minutes of pinching back my cheeks and trying to shove it between my muscles and gum line, the tech made a small concession to macrophysics, wherein two objects cannot occupy the same space, and took off the camera's protective casing

the camera became smaller, but sharper

another five minutes of rough oral sodomy, and we had a 3D image of my teeth

"what happened to the soft material you bite down on?" i asked as i rinsed the blood out of my mouth

"oh, we don't do that anymore," said the tech. "some people react badly to having something in their mouths and gag."

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reading a book from 1962 proclaiming the tiny percentage of "true" homosexuals should be left alone as a disabled minority but that the real problem is the growing epidemic of socially contagion'ed young people who only feel gay because of societal stress, mental problems and the derogation of women and that homosexual extremists ought to accept the reasonable compromise of not being actively persecuted in exchange for the institution of a conversation therapy-first approach plus laws that protect vulnerable impressionable children from being infected by a trend that will lead to psychological and physical damage

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Patches of the Ukrainian brigades...

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"... bought... copper... from... this... shady fucker... bad quality... zero stars... "

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at the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination trial, i want dozens of mail carriers to burst into the courtroom lugging huge sacks of letters, Miracle on 34th Street-style, but all the letters are UnitedHealthcare denying coverage to dying patients

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Fuckin gottem boys

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“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.

Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.

Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.

The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.

… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.

The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.

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Hey by the way next time that some normal person is murdered and the cops "aren't able to find out who did it" remember that they've spent over a week and unfathomable resources relentlessly conducting a nation-wide search for someone who murdered a CEO, and it APPEARS that they've got him (IF it's even him) --- so next time they tell you that they Just Don't Know Who Killed That Civilian And They Can't Find Out, And Don't Have The Resources To Try Harder, know that it's total and absolute bullshit. It's just that a regular civilian is less important than a CEO. Finding the guy who murdered a vicious parasite is more important in maintaining the status quo than finding someone who murdered your loved one, or that person you know, or the guy who runs the corner store, or the stranger who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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btw while people continue to fight the system don't forget about Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), a charity that buys and forgives medical debt. on average a donation of $10 will forgive $1,000 of medical debt.