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The health insurance industry has a term for this sadistic practice. It's called "step therapy." If the choice is between a more expensive medication that works and a cheaper one that doesn't work as well and might have worse side effects, the insurance company requires that the cheaper drug be used first.
One benefit to the insurance company is that the patient on the cheaper drug might die before they get a chance to use the drug that works but is more expensive. That's money in the bank for the insurance company.
Or, the patient might be so worn down and harmed by the cheaper drug that they just give up the fight to get the drug that will help them. Again, that's bank for the insurance company.
Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.
They were us.
Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.
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Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not
A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it
This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.
As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.
There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.
Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.
We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.
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America be like "you cant have free healthcare or easy access to disability but you can have a gun"
no healing, no living, go KILL
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Dinovember day 18! Barred Eagle Owl! A modern day Bird! This bird makes its home in the islands of southern Asia in the Malay peninsula. Its a very opportunistic hunter seemingly hunting things at or above its own size and weight.
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another reminder to stop buying/watching/reading anything JK Rowling associated
get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"
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Everywhere Nigel goes, he finds Paleofolk instead of regular animals and invites them to live in a village together in the future
“Jaina stakes and Jaina wins, because Jaina can make an order stick. And peeple are alive because of it. You need the ones to think things out, but you also need the ones who’ll keep them alive to think it. There’s a mathematical uncanniness about her, and this serves her well to keep an almost-calm when pilots take the tumble around her. Remember in Destiny’s Way? Squadron of greens under her wing, Jaina takes and breaks them anew to become a fighting team. Not by being silly, and not by being sweet; that was sweat and blood and pain. She knows what she’s capable of and she does it. Somebody has to.”
Tweets like this sincerely embody the attitude that helped lead Trump back to the White House btw
Of course, there are legitimate criticisms of Uber and Lyft, but the above attitude very quickly devolves into, "In the past, it was so cheap to have servants show up via my cell phone to deliver a $2 cheezborger to my house or drive me places. The economy is in shambles because now these services cost more money and we must RETVRN to the glory days. My burrito taxi costs money under the current system, so an outsider like Trump will make it cheaper! He’s a businessman! I am very intelligent.”
Meanwhile, this is the actual state of the economy
People really don’t give a shit about information, just vibes
Re: gig economy apps in particular, the “no information, just vibes” perspective of voters also wildly fails to grasp the point that the original low prices of Uber/Lyft etc were deliberately artificial. A lot of these companies were set up expecting to operate at a loss for several years in order to drive out competitors (like regular taxi companies) with the intention to jack up prices down the line once they’d cornered enough of the market. Your burrito taxi doesn’t cost more because the economy is bad, it costs more because that was always going to happen under the business model of the companies arranging for the burrito taxi (who have vigorously opposed any government efforts to regulate them).
All that just to say…I really don’t know what we’re supposed to do with an electorate that has decided to live in a completely different reality, but feeling pretty bleak atm.
Thank you for the important addition!
And yeah…social media plays a big role in people being able to live in La La Land, and I don’t know what to do about it. They don’t believe real information about the economy because vibes and memes tell them otherwise. It just feels like it’s getting worse
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