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Captainant

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  1. ABC news stream I'm watching says they cancelled the Tsunami warning
  2. It's amazing how you're completely ignoring the pretty solid critiques of your guy's position - thank you 956 for laying that out the "4Ds". Incredulity, what restructuring are you talking about about? You just keep framing this as "whatabout X? Whatabout Y?" I don't agree with Benz central thesis of critical rhetorical analysis being censorship
  3. The remaining 32.5%? Puuuuuuuure sweet shareholder GAINZ, baby!
  4. this belongs in the crypto markets thread
  5. Can you tell me what you mean by "the 4D's in the Rogan podcast"? Like, in your own words, synthesized with your own ideas? Because the NBC reporting is pretty goddamn factual, they even go to Benz and he confirms that he was the person posting a bunch of antisemetic and horribly racist shit under an "anonymous" handle.
  6. Yeah when I google "360/OS" I get mainframe operating systems. You're gonna need to give me a link to whatever grievance it is you're talking about
  7. I'm not gonna watch hours of joe rogan and a trump official/racist troll lol. From my source for the racism claims, which Benz admits to: If you'd care to summarize his points or argument I'll take a swing. Dude has a history of doing the exact thing that he claims to be against.
  8. It's more that I would love to not have to deal with a middleman entity at all. But insurance companies have ensured that I have no choice but to go through them to get healthcare for my family. I have no say in what hospitals and doctors charge - they use some arcane medical billing coding mechanism that's deisgned to be impenetrable, so that only they and the insurance companies know how much things actually cost. Hell, I had a 6mo checkup for my daughter that comprised: getting weighed, length measured with a measuring tape, physical inspection by her pediatrician, and second round of vaccines. Somehow that got coded into a $3,600 visit for "medical services" according to my EOB, insurance "covered" it all, but it all just seems like funny money designed to inflate the costs and keep anyone else but them from making decisions.
  9. Ah, the 2020 COVID response playbook. A classic.
  10. Denying more than one third of claims. Using known broken AI models to programmatically deny care, and then arguing that the sick patients should go through a years long appeals process. Administering one of the most restrictive Medicare Advantage programs in the nation. Fuck him and every other entity profiting off of systemic denial of care.
  11. His company is responsible for millions of such tragedies every. single. year. And they make a FAT fuckin margin every time they get away with it. Rest in piss
  12. Getting postponed for a couple months to see a specialist does not sound foreign to my American medical experience. After my wife's cancer doctor became arbitrarily "out of network", it took us nearly six extra months to get her next screening. My sister had to fight for nearly a year to see a thyroid cancer specialist after her insurance-approved doctor retired. Don't even try to argue that there's no months long waits for specialists in the US
  13. No, memecoins and alt coins generally exist to drive demand for BTC and give it some sort of utility.
  14. https://www.newsweek.com/brian-thompsons-killer-becomes-focus-deny-defend-depose-crypto-1995931 Anyone getting on this hot new store of value??
  15. Almost certainly the reference being made, the casings make me think of the book DELAY, DENY, DEFEND. I'd bet a dollar this was a response to their coverage denials
  16. The real scam is that it's systemically impossible to self-insure unless you're independently wealthy. Wage earners are bound to their employers, lest they fall ill and have zero options but wither away and die. And that may still happen, even if you have coverage thanks to the UHG's of America
  17. Dude you need to step back off the conspiracy Twitter lol. All that false victimization mindset is gonna burn you up The """sector""" is literally just financialized FOMO. The tokens serve no purpose but to be sold to someone later for a hopefully higher price. I'm happy that y'all have been able to build wealth by selling digital beanie babies to other collectors Edit: your leading source on all your conspiracy theories also believes that Ukraine is the aggressor against russia. Yeah I'd bet that guy wants fewer restrictions on laundering his money with crypto lol
  18. It's the height of irony that BTC needed the government to back it to break the barrier. I thought the whole idea was to get away from centralized powers and banking! It truly beggars belief how malleable the argument for bitcoin is, and how little the substance actually matters
  19. This is a really solid write up on where Intel is at, product wise. They've got abandoned products from 2017 that are still offers of magnitude better than the completion today, but lack the leadership and long term vision to do anything more than stock buybacks https://blog.ameri.coffee/intel-becoming-known-for-past-glories The news yesterday that Pat Gelsinger has been forced out of Intel can only mean one of two things: Intel's upcoming 18A node (which Intel promised would leapfrog TSMC) is having problems, is delayed, or is not meeting performance or yield expectations; or Intel's board has given in to pressure from short-term-focused investors and is going to stop investing in R&D and in cutting-edge nodes to meet short-term profitability goals. Neither of these is good.
  20. Texas Observer doing work with unmasking racist Twitter trolls https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
  21. This news broke just before Thanksgiving too, it's surprising that the FBI saying it got more people to pay attention https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/fbi-uncovers-china-hackers-spying-network-targetting-us-telecommunication/5982866/ Funny thing is, they're mainly just collecting metadata on the calls not the content itself. You know, that stuff that the Supreme Court said was honkey dorey until they didn't. Gotta love when those old backdoors turn out to be useful for more than just the """good guys""". They can snoop in on calls and texts, but they have to be in the right place and time to intercept and MiTM the message. The metadata is persistent though, and is super helpful for informing when they should listen in
  22. The irony of this thread title is that DM's are waaaaayyyyyyyy more secure than the SMS text messaging that has been penetrated using the same backdoors that exist for the NSA to spy on citizens
  23. It's almost like he's using it as a disinformation platform, or something
  24. Well the government doing it doesn't result in increased shareholder profits sooooooo
  25. I mean, making a can is insanely easy nowadays if you don't care about your dog getting shot. With 3D printing, or even just press forming sheet metal, you can make baffles with very very little effort. It's not like mufflers are classified technology
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