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Dr. Mario had at many times expressed to his brother his discontent for the insurance system for screwing over his patients.
Luigi listened.
42·2 days ago“Get judged by more advanced Linux users until you get good enough to do the judging”
That should only shred the top level files in the root directory though. Since shred doesn’t do it recursively and doesn’t know what to do with subdirectories.
Do any distros store system critical files at the root directory? It’s all subdirectories on mine. I guess if you were storing important data files in the root directory they would get shredded but that’s really bad practice anyway and I doubt it’s super common.
Yeah everyone knows the real way to hack Linux is to do
tree /Lots of weird looking text output means lots of hacking
Pfff imagine just giving out healthcare to anyone who needs it. What are you, a commie?
Viewsonic monitor tho. Nostalgic AF
Oh won’t somebody think of the hyper rich oligarchs exploiting sick and dying people for profit?!?!?!
Buddy, bootlicking the billionaires won’t make them reconsider denying your insurance claim.
The man he killed was a thousand times more criminal than the shooter.
The shooter may be a criminal, but he significantly reduced the total criminality of this world.
121·3 days ago
the glorification of this person is not acceptable for me
Why did you click on this post then?
but I can’t grasp the collective hate the last days
How many people died early because their insurance claims were denied and they could not access life saving medical care?
How many people lost relatives who were screwed by this evil company?
How many people were forced to live with debilitating conditions because insurance decided not to cover a procedure that would significantly improve their lives?
How many people were bankrupted after getting emergency care only to find out the claim was denied and they’re on the hook for the ridiculously inflated cost that the hospital charged them? (If you don’t know: Hospitals in the US charge orders of magnitudes more for medical treatment than the treatment actually cost, because insurance companies will only pay a fraction of what they’re quoted, but if you don’t have insurance and/or you’re denied coverage, you’re actually on the hook for the entire amount because you alone have no negotiating power.)
How many were exploited for that CEO’s profit? How many more have to be?
He caused real, material harm to millions of people. His victims shed no tears for him and understandably feel vindicated.
Imagine you give your hard earned money to an insurance company every month of your life, and they promise to have your back should you need medical care, but the one time you need them to do the one thing you’ve been paying them for and they’ve been promising you, they decide to just not do that and tell you to go fuck yourself, you’ll probably harbour some hatred toward their leadership.
A medical insurance company behaving like this is on a whole other level of scummy than most types of corporate price gouging out there. This isn’t just charging too much money for a subpar product, it left millions of people with worse than nothing in times where they were the most vulrnable. If they had no insurance plan and just put the monthly payments in a box as an emergency fund, they would at least have had that money to pay for the medical procedures they needed. Instead this company took that money and gave them a middle finger when they desperately needed it back. Its sole function for millions of people was to be a parasite that stole their savings with the empty promise of helping them should they fall ill. This backstabing vile scum preyed on the human desire for a safety net and refused to give them that safety net when the time came. Then it proceeded to gaslight them, telling them that they didn’t need what they were begging for. It sent sick and dying people on a wild goose chase of appeals to ultimately deny them all the same.
That’s the reason for the collective hate.
I’m not Christian. But I do feel the need to point out the notion that Jesus never mentioned hell is in no way supported by the Bible, he absolutely did.
Not “hell” verbatim but “lake of fire” is mentioned a couple times and according to Revelations that’s where people who don’t go to heaven go.
People did at one point. Didn’t Jesus flat out say that rich people are going to hell? One of those conveniently forgotten lines in the Bible.
Also you ever notice that the most common crime that superheroes fight is robbing of banks, jewellery stores, etc? And they cause TONS of collateral damage to the surrounding city while doing so?
Oh you’re a struggling worker living in a run down studio apartment next to the bank? Fuck you, a plasma bolt through your window incinerating everything you own is absolutely worth the banker oligarch losing the tiniest amount of capital in the eyes of this city’s supposed saviour!
Oh you’re riding the train on your way to your dead end wage slave job? Hope you don’t mind the fighter for all things good using that train as a projectile to launch at the villain! Just pull your broken legs up by their bootstraps and crawl out of the wreckage of your train to work, peasant.
Oh you’re the bank teller working minimum wage? You wouldn’t mind if we turned this already dangerous holdup you’re caught in into a literal fucking warzone with lasers and missiles right? After all, it doesn’t matter if you die horrifically as long as the money is safe!
All popular depictions of super"heroes" were always in the best interests of the bourgeoisie, not the citizens. They’re even depicted to have largely replaced the police in their cities. They’re not superheroes, they’re just supercops.
Plasma.
As a Linux convert from Windows, IMO it’s really close in look and feel to Windows 7 or 10 but with none of the bullshit. You barely have to change your workflow if you’re already used to Windows.
He doesn’t need martial law, the SCOTUS already essentially declared the president a dictator.
Depending on the workplace and the labour laws in effect, they could well prefer you to work 39.7 hours a week so you’re not considered full time which would cost more for the company.
A lot of grocery stores around where I live schedule you just under the 40hr full time threshold so you get no benefits.
They’re heroes until they ask for help on their medical bills. After that they’re just freeloading degenerates.
Tangential rant: It’s disgusting how pet supply/vet/insurance companies exploit your love for your pet to gouge you for as much money as possible. Pet food costs more than human food a lot of the time where I live while being made of the cheapest factory floor scraps that they were otherwise going to throw in a dumpster, while they opine about how wholesome their ingredients are and how even you could eat it if you wanted to (which should be the fucking norm for food, humans are also animals and if it’s not safe for us to eat it’s not safe to eat period). Vets have been shown by investigative journalists to routinely order completely unnecessary expensive procedures (that are also extremely stressful for your pet so you’re not doing them any favours) and all but accuse for not loving your pet enough you when you can’t afford it. Pet insurance has insane deductibles/copays and all but the very most expensive tiers do not cover preventative care, checkups, or even vaccines so they’re basically useless for 90% of the vet visits you’ll actually go to and are really only for emergencies/freak accidents (and even then they’ll probably try to deny you coverage like human insurance does). Don’t even get me fucking started on small pets/fish and how inhumane pet stores that sell them are, but just know that they grossly under-report the needs of those pets because they don’t want you to have all the knowledge/resources you need to care for them and would prefer they died in a week so you’d come back and buy another one, you’ll spend less money if the pet is healthy and long lived.