finaljedi

This week has made me really appreciate not having to commute into Cincinnati anymore. the dead body along the highway earlier this week and now the nut with the gun fucking with traffic too.

I like it when they're front and center with it. I've seen a lot of "not vaccinated and not planning on it, apparently this matters now". I'm just like yes, thank you, swiping left.

I guess we can look forward to some badass being frog marched to a courthouse practically crying.

Very legal and very cool

I'm just not sure about the no shoes part of his little avante garde performance. Maybe he did an interpretive dance closing that no one caught on camera, Ben Shapiro could have showed up and played violin accompaniment.

Did they take their shoes away in jail?

Counterpoint: Journey

There are some people on the Steam GTA forums who appear to be thoroughly triggered by this news.

I'll have you know we are known for our rock hard in your face discourse

It will probably be harder to piss on it if it's on one of his properties.

He's had a lot of foot in mouth stuff in this campaign. He got some press recently for implying that abusive couples should stick together because single parents are worse for kids than ones where one parent is abusing the other. But still, he's a Republican, this is a red state, he's more likely to win than not.

I think there are a lot of people out there convinced that they were able to work a better deal for their car than anyone else thanks to their superior negotiation skills with car salesmen.

Maybe I'm optimistic but I feel like there's a small chance Tim Ryan could squeak by. Vance's support is only because of the (R) behind his name, Tim Ryan has more money and has been staying out there aiming right down the middle while Vance's stuff has been culture war schlock or weird shit about porn and people without kids. The Vance thing is weird, like his book stuff, coming from Middletown, he could have ran a blue collar oriented campaign and strolled into the Senate without breaking a sweat. Instead he's fucking around and Ryan was able to close the gap in a way that should have been impossible. I assume at some point GOP PAC money will flow into Ohio to try and keep Portman's seat red.

None of the third parties do. The Green and Libertarian parties have been around for decades and they've barely made a ripple in statehouses. The Libertarians do a little better because Republicans sometimes switch over after being elected.

It's not even two partyish, it's just straight two party. To be President you need 270 electoral votes. A third party has a 0% chance of getting 270 electoral votes so voting for a third party candidate for President is identical to not casting a vote for President in the impact your vote has. I will say it sucks that my last relationship ended before I wanted it to, but the one thing I do not miss was her full throated support for Andrew Yang, with the hat, the coffee cup, and bumper sticker.

So he invented BOINC or Folding@Home but added in crypto shit?

So how does that work? I mean the pressure of the leak does what? They're Supreme Court Justices, it's the last job they're going to have, they aren't angling for a patronage landing job at the Federalist Society or Heritage Foundation.

Medical policy on what's covered for what vs what's not is incredibly specific. My last job there was claims inquiries, an inquiry would come in from a provider sent trough the host BCBS plan and I would have to research what it bumped into on medical benefits or plan exclusions and send back a detailed response. Got a lot of ones for end stage renal disease because at a certain time from the start of dialysis Medicare takes over as prime and private insurance shifts to secondary, I think it was 18 months. One day I overrode a bunch of ESRD denials and paid them because their private insurance was still primary and shelled out about $70,000 in claims payments in one afternoon, I got "randomly" selected for a full quality audit of my work the next week. The treatments for stuff like varicose veins got weirdly specific and a lot of stuff that was tried wasn't covered, inpatient mental health services were only covered if you were practically about to eat the end of a shotgun. I remember working appeals and single guys would call the appeals voicemail to initiate an appeal because medical guidelines said home recovery from a lot of surgery can be handled by a family member and that a visiting nurse to change dressings or whatever is not medically necessary. It can get really silly here when it comes to covered vs not covered, especially if you have to go to a hospital. You can go to a hospital that is in your plan's provider network but the actual clinicians who tend to you there are out of network which can kick off a flurry of denials and appeals. Some of the services provided will get denied because they weren't preauthorized or medical policy says that procedure isn't cleared for that diagnosis code or some lab work wasn't medically necessary. Sometimes it's about cost savings, sometimes it feels pretty arbitrary. I had a zirconia crown installed 2 years ago and the dentist was telling me some dental plans will only cover the metal based hybrid crowns or whatever even though those are starting to be more expensive, but that they have to do that or charge the patient full price since some dental plans won't cover it. Fuck am I glad Anthem canned my ass in 2015.

Working for health insurance for years really makes you see the positives of a single payer system. I remember when Republicans would talk about government death panel boogeymen and it's like... stuff like that exists, except it's a panel of people in a corporate conference room in Indianapolis or a web meeting determining medical policy once a quarter and second level appeals were panel appeals where most of the denial's were upheld. I refuse to believe the government would handle healthcare less efficiently than Anthem did when I was there.

Shit, talk about a movie I haven't thought about in decades...

CareSource is a shit company. The only place I've interviewed at where they "forgot" about my interview and left me sitting in the lobby with the person who was supposed to be interviewing me not even showing up for work that day. Also the job was "grievances and appeals analyst" which means one thing at Anthem and UHC and apparently at CareSource meant "incoming call center". They apologized and set me up with an interview the next week, they sent a random employee down to do the interview, not a manager, not even a team lead, just some lady who worked on the team. Since my resume has gotten a lot better and my skillset has broadened I occasionally get emails from third party companies for like 3 months contracts there, no... I don't know who's at fault with this story but I'm going to jump to a conclusion and just say fuck CareSource.

Why would an author or the publisher reduce their share of sales? Are there groups of the most cloistered web3 evangelists ever on Discord coming up with braindead ways to reinvent things that were worked out decades or centuries ago? Reminds me of shit like this that people were seriously pushing regarding gaming: Really... Are they a bunch of NEETs just cooking up ideas? I've seen everything from putting medical records and fucking real estate titles on the blockchain to all of the weird ways they try to make gaming "better". Every single time it smacks of a child-like understanding of the thing they're trying to shove web3 into, then they get angry when everyone calls them idiots and retreat back to their subreddits and discord channels.

He's at least had his hairline tweaked

Cool, no need to debate it or spend time on it then, slide it on the docket for a vote, get it enough "Yea" votes and carry on focusing on what the Senate does best: Innovation.