abrake
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- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
The survey that the article is based on seems pretty fishy to me. It’s conducted by some financial services company that is mostly involved in selling products, not doing research. The methodology section is pretty threadbare and they don’t provide the survey data itself.
The figures are also way out of line with more reputable research organizations like the KFF which estimates that 17% of Americans delay or avoid healthcare due cost.
Is 17% still really high and an unethical travesty in the wealthiest country on earth? Yeah. But there’s no way that 92% of people are skipping the doctor due to cost. Just as an example, the top quintile of earners in the US make more than 300k per year. I doubt that anyone in that group in delaying or avoiding healthcare due to costs and yet the survey would mean that a good chunk of them are.
- Comment on Different strokes 2 weeks ago:
I worked at a gas station about 20 years ago. Even then it would be impossible for someone to give away gas in this way.
Before the pump turns on, either the customer would have to authorize the transaction with a credit card, or an employee would have to manually authorize the transaction if they were paying with inside the store. If the gas wasn’t paid for, it would be immediately obvious by the end of the day that the till (or books or whatever) was short. To clear out the transaction without paying, we’d have to push some buttons on the register to declare that the customer drove off, and essentially accuse them of stealing, get the manager to check the security cams for the license plates, etc. No one could use that pump until the previous transaction was cleared out.
Maybe some gas stations worked differently, but I doubt any big chain ones had less security than that.
- Comment on Growth 2 months ago:
Stupid sexy panorama
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Plato, Republic, Book I, Cadmus’ speech:
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles—are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master. His words have often occurred to my mind since, and they seem as good to me now as at the time when he uttered them. For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many.
- Comment on Someone should really do something 6 months ago:
I hope they change Say’s Phoebe just because
it’s annoying to say,no one understands when you say it’s name, it’s name easily leads to confusion. - Comment on MDs please verify. 8 months ago:
This is only scratching the surface of the weirdness of semen retention advocates. Throwback to the Canadian political candidate who advocated for this a few years ago:
“Every time you’re tempted to ejaculate, every time you’re tempted to go watch porn… You are essentially in the fight for your life. You’re fighting for your very lifeforce. Nature’s forgiving, and because of nature’s merciful nature, we’ve taken advantage of that nature and now we’re depleting,” argues Nakula. “Right now the world needs men. Men with full balls,” said the PPC candidate in a YouTube video.
Source: thepostmillennial.com/ppc-candidate-calls-himself…
“Breathe deeply into your balls," he wrote on Instagram. “Imagine your testicles expanding like lungs. When you exhale, imagine your testicles deflating like your lungs would”. “Most men never breathe into their balls consciously,” he added.
- Comment on MAGA 9 months ago:
He endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020 and I don’t think he’s changed his politics since then.
- Comment on Covers the bases 10 months ago:
I don’t think that Jeremy Allen White can be argued either way. He’s definitely a muscle hunk.
- Comment on Baseball, huh? 1 year ago:
I used to know a guy who would regularly say “si” instead of “yes” in English conversations. He also wasn’t Spanish/Hispanic. It was super confusing because I thought he was interjecting to see “See…” instead of just responding affirmatively.
