You’re really on a roll with all of this pedanting.

A Pyrrhic victory is still a victory.

counts useless numbers in a spreadsheet representing useless pieces of paper as society collapses around them

“Regulator angers capital for doing their job” is one of my favorite headlines.

“Today’s findings show that the Lexington Police Department abandoned continued its sacred position of mistrust in the community by routinely violating the constitutional rights of those it was sworn to must bind but not protect,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

“FTFY” doesn’t apply here. It’s still fucked, but it’s more accurate.

“Fun” fact: Bain Capital killed both TRU and KayBee Toys.

Please don’t, we have enough. No need to excavate more.

As she mentions in this video this is her third presidential election. She has never voted in an election where Donald Trump wasn’t the Republican nominee.

Think about that for a minute. Seriously. Imagine only viewing Republicans as the party of Trump. How fucked up is that? Hillary v Trump. Biden v Trump. Harris v Trump.

The first seven presidential elections of my lifetime included either a Bush or a Clinton on the ticket. Then the eighth had a Clinton very involved in the primary. The ninth had neither. And then the 10th had a Clinton on the ticket again. 10, 11, 12 - Trump. 8, 9, 11 - Biden.

I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t just a Trump thing. It’s getting old.

https://youtu.be/9zyFVyKb_VY

I’m gonna get diabetes from all this wholesomeness.

It’s two fold.

One is quality of care. I was in a program that technically offered DBT. In a month’s worth of daily sessions (25 hours a week), we got two worksheets that introduced a couple of DBT concepts. Each was discussed for 50 minutes and then never spoken of again. I can count on one finger the number of therapists I’ve had that did active CBT work. And I hadn’t even heard of ACT until recently - one of the group facilitators in the program I’m attending brought it in as a passion project. The information is good but he’s struggling with the group dynamic.

The other is, it’s not that insurance doesn’t cover the techniques, it’s that providers may or may not work with the insurance your employer chose. At my last job, 75% of the in-network list in like a 25 mile radius comprised of one organization that was basically a pill mill with a raft of overwhelmed social workers. It was maddening. And the only options were pay out the ass for out of network, or get a new job and hope it wasn’t more of the same.

The US “health” “care” system no longer exists. Nobody in the pyramid cares about your health except for maybe your doctor. And there’s only so much they can do. It’s purely a “medical services industry,” whose sole purpose extracting profits from misery.

Hail corporate. 🫥

I think the joke was that in the US, it’s rare.

I’ll pass, thanks. 💀

TIL it has its own wiki page.

The derogatory nickname I came up with for this latest techbro circle jerk. Probably not entirely accurate but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe we should start giving guns to roofers.

They can shoot at the ground and slow their descent.

if we could give them the medication they need, they won’t end up in hospitals/ICUs/long term care facilities/etc.

How are we supposed to extract what’s left of their value unless they’re in said facilities?

Typing that out made me throw up in my mouth a bit.

infantilizing everyone they disagree with

I love the smell of projection in the morning.