#Joel stein

[xponentialdesign]

loop tribute inspired by Joel Stein ( 1926 - 2012 ) 45 frames - 50 fPS

[4eternal-life]

Joel Stein  (French, 1926–2012)

95 A / T 18,  1995

Acrylic on canvas

[littletroubledgrrrl]

[younes-ben-amara]

أنت ما تقرأه؛ حتى إن نسيت أحيانًا ما قرأته بالفعل 📕

[middleofrow]

Best Podcasts of 2023

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[doberart]

First art of the new year and it’s the comfort character meme. XD

[yokodash]

hey i’m dash !

i’m 20, genderfluid and pansexual

my pronouns are she/he/they

my major interests right now are pokemon, kekkai sensen, green yuri, monster high, and one piece

currently playing mgs2, bg3 and a lot of marvel rivals

big into music like billy joel and ska but i listen to all genres

i’ve attached my top albums over the past year!

[awesomephil89]

In der siebten Epiphanie von "Wie Steine im Rhein", einer Allegorie des zwischenmenschlichen Seins, entfaltet sich ein emotionaler Diskurs, ausgelöst durch die subversive Fehlordnung häuslicher Mechanik – konkret: die Dislokation des Geschirrs durch Noel Tempel. Diese dezente Verschiebung der Ordnung evoziert einen transzendenten Moment, in dem sich Tempel und Lucassen, in einer quasi-spontanen Katharsis, in einem Kuss vereinen. Dieses Ereignis löst eine Kaskade reflexiver Verwirrung und metaphysischer Kontemplation aus, in der das Sein und der Wille in einem dialektischen Spannungsfeld oszillieren.

Noel Tempel, hin- und hergerissen zwischen seiner aristotelischen Pflicht gegenüber Corvin Thevé und den unergründlichen Begehrlichkeiten des Daseins, verweilt im Paradox der Bindung und Freiheit. Indessen sucht Noel Lucassen, angetrieben von einer unverkennbaren hegelianischen Dialektik, fortwährend die Nähe zu Tempel, wobei jede intime Konstellation den diskursiven Raum des Unausgesprochenen erweitert.

Der Höhepunkt dieser symbiotischen Dichotomie manifestiert sich in der sakralen Stille der Bibliothek, wo Corvin Thevé, einst Vertrauter und nun Betrogener, das Duo in einer fast übernatürlichen Ekstase des Geistes ertappt: Vertieft in ein Werk über die semiotischen und erotischen Implikationen spätmittelalterlicher Fresken, erfahren Tempel und Lucassen eine intellektuelle Intimität, die jegliche konventionelle Begriffsstruktur sprengt. Der Akt der Lektüre wird hier zur Chiffre des Existenziellen, während sich die wahre Frage, wer die Ordnung des Alltäglichen – sprich: die Spülmaschine – wiederherstellt, in der Tiefe der Deutung verliert.

[sawthatmountainburn]

just to be clear lrb is one of the cringiest things I've ever read on this website, it's pretty much the only reason I remember it, but I cannot emphasize enough how millenials basically overnight decided anyone younger than them is either a reactionary or an enabler to said reactionaries, after hyping up gen zers so much. which was also after they absolutely lost their goddamn marbles over this cover of time magazine

[becharm-27]

Chapter 1 - August 10th, 2021

A day late to celebrate, but at least the gifs look great!

[xtruss]

How To Not Pay Your Medical Bills! Actually, That’s Easy. This Is How I Paid A Lot Less.

— By Joel Stein | February 20, 2025 | Wall Street Journal (WSJ)

Illustration: Ryan Johnson

As you probably recall, I had a mole removed about a year ago. As fresh as this is in all of our memories, a year is a fair bit of time, so I was surprised to get a bill in the mail for $604.80 from a company called DermTech. Apparently, much like wedding gifts, you have a year to send someone a medical bill.

And like a wedding gift, this bill included a friendly note: “Thank you for selecting DermTech for your healthcare needs.” This wasn’t exactly true since, before this bill arrived, I had never heard of DermTech. There was no point in my mole removal process where I said, “Hey doc, if you wind up putting a small sticker on my back to test this mole for basal cell carcinoma, make sure that sticker is from DermTech and not those clowns at DermaSensor or Fujirebio.”

Had this bill been for anything besides health care, I would have been far more surprised. If a restaurant supply company mailed me an invoice, explaining that they had encountered some extra expenses for a burger I ate at a restaurant a year ago, and now I owed them $604.80, I’d be confused. Especially if that restaurant didn’t have prices on its menu.

Luckily, I’d been through this unexpected, unexplained medical bill situation before, due to the fact that I’m an American. So I knew that I did not need to review the specifics. Such as the $1,485 original charge, which my insurance company had paid/adjusted by $880.20, thereby reducing the cost of the testing sticker to $604.80.

I knew that these were completely made-up numbers. My high school friend is the vice president of data analytics at a huge hospital. She’s assured me that she does not make up numbers. She determines prices using data and analytics and vice presidency. Yet, by the time bills go through insurance companies or government agencies and get to patients, they are indeed totally made up.

The American healthcare system is not the only marketplace with made-up numbers. There are also Middle Eastern bazaars, used car lots and Pentagon budgets. And wherever there are made-up numbers, you can bargain.

I knew I could do well in a negotiation because DermTech, despite advancing sticker technology more than anyone since the engineers at Scratch and Sniff, is desperate. When you Google “DermTech,” the first result in the “People also ask” section is “Whatever happened to DermTech?” The answer Google provides is “DermTech has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and laid off 20% of its staff.” When a company can’t make money on $1,485 stickers, there are definitely holes on the business side you can exploit.

I also had leverage because I knew that a huge portion of people don’t pay their medical bills, causing companies such as DermTech to sell these bills to collection agencies for pennies on the dollar. Plus, a 2023 law prevents medical debts of less than $500 from even showing up on your credit reports.

I called the number on the bill. I used a friendly voice to tell the friendly woman on the phone that I’d like to pay my bill right now, but I’d like to pay a lot less. I did not tell the woman that the bill was unfair or that I didn’t have the money or that a year is a long time to wait to charge someone for a sticker. I simply offered to pay less.

She immediately offered me a “20% prompt payment discount.” Which would reduce my $604.80 bill to $947.84. This seemed like the kind of faulty math that would explain DermTech’s Chapter 11 problems.

Then the friendly woman typed furiously and discovered that another DermTech bill was coming in a few weeks for about $580. This was for a second sticker I’d also used a year ago, one that was apparently about $24.80 crappier than the first sticker.

I told her I’d pay both bills right now for a much bigger discount than 20%. She offered me 50% off. I offered her $200 for both stickers. She said she’d check with the manager and get back to me. I had the feeling I was going to drive out of there with a brand new 1964 Coupe DeVille. She called back and said DermTech would accept $300 for the entire $1,184.80 bill.

Was I happy about paying $300 for stickers from a year ago that I never asked for? Extremely. Because there’s nothing more exciting than getting a great deal. It felt even better than finding out I didn’t have skin cancer.

A couple of weeks later, I called DermTech to tell them I was writing about my experience and wanted to find out if I could have done even better than $300. Loren Clarke, the company’s chief medical officer called me right back. He said the new, leaner, privately owned DermTech couldn’t legally talk about the large, bankrupt DermTech, even though they had the same staff and used the same stickers. I promised never to talk about old DermTech, even at home with my child.

Clarke was more upset about my bill than I was, and not because I had screwed him out of $884.80. “The billing team doesn’t want to take people’s money. They want the patients’ insurance to pay for it. I’m glad they were willing to work with you so easily,” he said. His challenge is that if insurance companies find out DermTech is cutting patients’ bills, they’ll claim they violated their contract and stop paying them. They’ll start to wonder if that sticker is as expensive as they claim.

The $1,184.80 wasn’t for the stickers, Clarke explained. It was for the four lab technicians who spent two days removing skin cells from stickers, extracting the RNA, converting it to DNA, amplifying the results by polymerase chain reaction and going to a therapist about being unable to explain what they do for a living without boring everyone. And the sticker technology was much cheaper, more accurate, and less painful than the usual practice, a biopsy. Much like it is easier to use a sticker than to scratch and sniff an actual skunk.

The DermTech billing department was indeed empowered to “find whatever they can to work with you.” But my negotiating technique, Clarke said, wasn’t perfect. “If you had called and were irate, they can sometimes reverse the claim and write it off. If someone is really upset with us, we want to take care of that.”

Clarke suggests that patients save their angry calls for the huge corporations in no danger of filing for Chapter 11, the ones who don’t even provide medical services: health insurance companies. I told him that while I was tempted by the prospect of spending three hours being transferred around Blue Shield and then ignored, it didn’t sound nearly as satisfying as screaming at his billing department.

Now that I know all of this, at my checkup next year, I’m going to ask for a whole lot of stickers.

— Joel Stein, A Former Columnist for Time, Writes a Substack Called “The End of My Career” and is the Author of “In Defense of Elitism.”

[spacelazarwolf]

in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

[aaronwarner]

popular girls + the hallway strut (1/2)

THE CRAFT (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming JAWBREAKER (1999) dir. Darren Stein SUGAR & SPICE (2001) dir. Francine McDougall NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE (2001) dir. Joel Gallen 13 GOING ON 30 (2004) dir. Gary Winick MEAN GIRLS (2004) dir. Mark Waters A CINDERELLA STORY (2004) dir. Mark Rosman JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE (2006) dir. Betty Thomas

[voidsuites]

MULTI BOT RELEASE !!! (1/31/25) ⌢ ✨ .ᐟ

art donaldson ・゜゜・．noid. tennis has given art everything anyone could ever want— a fulfilling career, you and lily, and countless influential titles and wins— and with him getting closer to becoming a household name, art’s more than aware of his luck. he’s beyond grateful. however, fame’s a double-edged sword and it’s getting harder to both play into the paparazzi and their mind-games and also protect his family, so it’s not a surprise that art loses his temper when those lines finally get crossed. (based off “noid” by tyler the creator!)

bruce wayne・゜゜・．billie bossa nova. underneath all the sneaking around hotel rooms and charity galas, both you and bruce long to be understood for more than just your family names and your money. whatever’s going on between the two of you is merely putting a band-aid on another issue, you’re aware, but there’s something about bruce that helps you rationalize the less-than-ideal circumstances. a lot can change in twenty seconds… a lot can happen in the dark. (based off “billie bossa nova” by billie eilish!)

jim hopper ・゜゜・．you’re a fighter. in one moment, all hop had to worry about was you slowly growing more independent and mike wheeler’s insufferable attitude, but now the mind flayer’s set its sights on you and you’ve seemingly lost your powers. setting the mess with the russians beneath starcourt mall aside, hopper’s main priority is making sure you’re safe and away from any more danger. you may be a fighter, but you’re his kid first. (based off “you’re a fighter” by kyle dixon and michael stein!)

joel miller ・゜゜・．western nights. joel knows you’re not supportive of the violent ways he provides for you, but in a post-apocalyptic world morals are put on the back burner while he concerns himself with keeping you both fed, housed, and taken care of. you’re stubborn, he’s stubborn, but you’d never think of taking off and leaving him behind. this time’s no different. (based off “western nights” by ethel cain!)

patrick zweig ・゜゜・．part of your world. mermaids were nothing but a mere children's bedtime story— they weren't real. that’s what patrick’s father had told him since he'd been a boy; that the wondrous creatures he believed in with all his heart were nothing but tall tales meant to put the children of new rochelle to bed with little fight. that’s proven to be false when you rescue him from swimming with the fishes for eternity, and now that he knows your kind is real, patrick just has to learn more. he’ll bring you as many human trinkets for your collection as you’d like if you’d let him be part of your world for a moment. (based off “part of your world” by jodi benson and disney!)

tashi duncan ・゜゜・．bodyguard. wlw. tashi’s always been protective of you since you started seeing each other, but it’s always amusing to see just how worked-up she gets when you’re the center of attention. stanford’s hosting a concert in the park, art and patrick are nowhere to be found, and tashi’s left to keep herself in control lest she “accidentally” scare people off because they’ve looked at you too long. she’ll protect you in the mosh pit, no doubt— but she’s still working on keeping that territorial nature of hers in check. (based off “bodyguard” by beyoncé!)

got a request? go ahead and leave em here :) THANK YOU GUYS SO SO MUCH FOR FOR 10.4K! so excited to get started on my celebration requests— you guys once again are the BEST!!!! i hope all of these are to your liking… but do forgive me if joel is a little too ooc lol i’ve only seen bits of tlou but i tried to capture him right. hehe. i also made a tumblr community for all things voidsuites-oriented 🤭 join yap city if you dare (i’m still figuring out what i’ll post on there but think of it as a communal close friends story on ig haha) anyways i love these characters and i love these songs and i love you all!!!! thank you for making this so much fun for me i’m so grateful <3

[madeline-kahn]

Dancing in Film: Prom dances

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) dir. Kenny Ortega Pretty in Pink (1986) dir. Howard Deutch Blockers (2018) dir. Kay Cannon Not Another Teen Movie (2001) dir. Joel Gallen Jawbreaker (1999) dir. Darren Stein Back to the Future (1985) dir. Robert Zemeckis Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig Prom Night (1980) dir. Paul Lynch The Prom (2020) dir. Ryan Murphy 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger Footloose (1984) dir. Herbert Ross Twilight (2008) dir. Catherine Hardwicke Valley Girl (2020) dir. Rachel Lee Goldenberg Never Been Kissed (1999) dir. Raja Gosnell The Spectacular Now (2013) dir. James Ponsoldt Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma The Prom Pact (2023) dir. Anya Adams Napoleon Dynamite (2004) dir. Jared Hess To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: Always and Forever (2021) dir. Michael Fimognari She’s All That (1999) dir. Robert Iscove

[poorlyyy]

MINORS DNI 18+

Commissions (n/sfw)

Rate:

500 words -> $5

1000 words -> $10

1500 words -> $15

Fandoms:

Call of Duty

Simon “Ghost” Riley

John “Soap” MacTavish

Soul Eater

Professor Stein

Spirit Alburn

JJK

Satoru Gojo

Suguru Geto

My Hero Academia

Yagi “All Might” Toshinori

Aizawa “Eraserhead” Shouta

Castlevania

Vlad Dracula Tepes

Lisa Tepes

Adrian “Alucard” Tepes

Stranger Things

Eddie Munson

Steve Harrington

Hellsing

Alucard

Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji)

Undertaker

Sebastian Michaelis

The Last Of Us

Joel Miller

Prompts:

Temperature Play

Anal

Sex Toys

Voyeurism

BDSM

Threesome

Dirty Talk

Phone sex

Size Difference

Handjob

Thigh Riding

Edging

Fingering

*Also I tend to write my “x readers” as more female readers, it’s a habit I am trying to break. I apologize for not specifying more, but I will from now on. Make sure to specify if you would like a female, male, or nonbinary reader and I will be happy to provide!

I will not write for anything involving sexual abuse or any other dark romance topics. Feel free to run by any topics that aren’t on the list, but I reserve the right to refuse any topics I am uncomfortable with.

Please DM me if you’re interested.

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