Researcher/practitioner/teacher of medieval Italian martial arts (yes, that’s my actual job). Big fan of WNBA. Staunch opponent of fascism. Don’t give up on kindness and decency.
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied.
If the purpose of a customer service department is to tell people to go fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of delivering the service.
They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.
Looks like the neck bolt came out when they juiced him up this morning- sometimes they stick to the jumper cables. Pretty easy fix; they’ll only need him in the shop for a day or so.
The video shows the window being broken from the inside by an ICE thug. I downloaded and went through frame-by-frame at full size on my computer. An ICE thug by the big potted fern hits the window and glass flies OUTWARD. It's unmistakable.
My thoughts about Sydney Sweeney: Trump is a repeat child rapist, sexual predator, and human trafficker, and is engaged in the most horrific coverup of the last two centuries. Maybe longer.
He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.
I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness. While I have thought about quitting Facebook, I find great value in the connections and friends I have here, and it doesn't seem fair that I should lose that 1/4
Is there some strategic reason they they are willing to accept what they know will happen? What possible gain do they get from everyone being fully engaged with being poor, sick, and dying, without energy or hope for anything, too physically, financially, and emotionally exhausted to protest?
This is some insane shit: despite mountains of excellent research, despite the empirical evidence that this works, the Christian Nationalist/MAGARepublicans at the policy-making level want to make people suffer and die.