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Once again John Oliver proves that you can do anything with money and lawyers

Oliver then proceeded to detail how with $50 and knowledge of the law he was able to successfully apply online to create a debt buying company named “Central Asset Recovery Professionals,” or as Oliver put it, “CARP” named after “a bottom-feeding fish.”

After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.

Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.

Then, instead of chasing down the 9,000 debtors in the debt package as a normal collection agency would, Oliver decided to stage the largest one-time giveaway in television history and work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to forgive the $15 million with no consequences for the debtors.

helloquirks

Okay but now I know what I want to do of I get rich?

beabaseball

You dont have to be rich to do a bit of this actually

RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.

So a little ray of hope for someone out there today.

shayvaalski

Donating $10 buys $1,000 of medical debt. This is real, it works, and we’ve done it ourselves. You can too.

sugarhai

spider queen

tnerdbean

Rest in Power Dominique Fells.

Rest in Power Riah Milton.

Your lives mattered. 💜

sugarhai

free black lives matter printable, download here

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We all should be entitled to the right to live.

requinoesis

Anatomy of the majestic snout of the seas ~

justcatposts

Oh my god

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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-nurse-didnt-just-create-a-replacement-n95-mask-hers-filters-more/

Tommye Austin has created a new better mask!

A Texas "nurse scientist" created a better face mask, in case her nursing staff ever ran out—and Tommye Austin’s TM 2020 is a better one by

The name N95 comes from the fact the masks filter 95% of airborne particles, such as viruses. Lab results show Tommye’s masks block 96.5%.

N95s weren’t intended for all-day use, so they tend to carve painful, unsightly marks into noses, cheeks and chins. Hers don’t.

With nowhere for exhaled carbon dioxide to escape, N95 wearers sometimes suffer dizziness or headaches. Hers have an air pocket so the C02 floats more easily away