it is said they’re one of those special kind of criminals, incorruptible, promising to work together in life and in death

ivermectin is approved for human use and does get prescribed for parasitic infections. ivermectin in a dish killed covid. it basically ended there, but there were multiple older common drugs that turned out to actually have a positive effect on covid recovery and prevention. at some point it wasn’t actually scientifically obvious whether ivermectin would have a positive effect, and we also need to take that into account. just snarking “these idiots are taking horse dewormer” doesn’t help anyone, especially not when it was an open question and there were personal anecdotes about recovery and a whole bunch of uncertainty and policy mismanagement. people were regularly confronted with death, and that requires a lot of empathy to think about.

what daft punk meant by “around the world” was actually the dental floss that’s slowly cutting through the equator until the world is split in two

he’s taking the civil war to the sheets

the kind of respect that the right demands is the respect of an authority and superior. the maximum respect that the right gives is the respect of a human. but if you’re in the out-group then more is demanded of you and less is given. it’s very contradictory but also self-consistent because they truly feel superior, and truly feel you are subhuman. you don’t need to bow down to subhuman logic if you are of the superior species.

don’t need much indoctrination if it’s not likely you’ll see your tenth birthday

gay as in uncool and disgusting (in the eyes of conservatives), not gay as in queer and brilliant

I’ve read the freedom road’s take on the tiananmen square incident and the tensions at the time, but why was it not a bad situation?

gee whiz! by jingo! jiminy cricket! crikey! blimey! goodness gracious!

it’s called a phone and it can tiktok speed up version family guy + subway surfer + minecraft parkour

national socialism, democratic people’s republic of korea…

but then how would you move money from down here to up there?

“So what’s this about your recent promotion at BlackRock again?”

to be fair it takes a real asshat to make an enemy out of a crow

+1 Hate for intellectual property law

the child reported that the emperor has no clothes

between villas, personal staff, vehicles, political donations, savings/investment programs that the bank or a personal finance guy might recommend you and of course random company stock you personally invest in there’s no upper limit to the amount of money you can spend. also CEO compensation is not just pure salary, it’s very diverse.

here’s the breakdown of unitedhealth’s CEO compensation, which can be found at https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=731766&owner=exclude under DEF 14A, specifically here https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=%2FArchives%2Fedgar%2Fdata%2F0000731766%2F000110465924050055%2Ftm2332959d4_def14a.htm from 2024-06-03.

As you can see an actual stable cash salary is just a very tiny part, and the rest are rewards as if they’re stringing along a horse with carrots. if the company loses value, so does the value of the CEO’s existing portfolio but also his yearly bonuses. It’s probably really stressful being used to a lavish life and having to keep up the performance of a whole messy and chaotic gigantic company (in a messy and chaotic economy that nobody can predict) to keep that standard. What with the boom and bust cycle probably every 8 to 12 years you’ll have to readjust your living standards, sell some houses or cars or yachts. That must really hurt /s. I think most people know how awful it can feel to lower your standard of living because of outside circumstances you can’t control. Of course despite doing the most damage anyone can do on the planet CEOs (and individual major shareholders) are still human. Institutional investors usually aren’t, but y’know everything is in the end made up of humans.

Everyone’s got some sort of problems, but the real enemy isn’t each individual CEO but rather a system that makes it so the ideal play as a medical insurance company is to do a controlled burn/murder of their own clients. There are perverse incentives at play, and I personally don’t judge a person too harshly for going with the flow, especially when their own standard of living depends on it. To be evil is to be human in some sense. And there are lots of layers and buffers between your decision as CEO and the misery of your clients. It’s difficult to have empathy when you’re so far removed and live in such different worlds. That’s of course also part of why it works. Things to think about I guess.

so do you have a concrete list of names? would be nice to know instead of just being vague all the time

edit: nevermind, i guess your point is just that the water is being muddied by evil democrats (i don’t understand one bit what you mean by that btw. matt gaetz is the one diddling kids. pointing that out isn’t done out of an irrational hatred for republicans, it’s because he’s genuinely a trash human being who has materially hurt people and gotten away with it despite public knowledge of his actions. the same applies to most other republican public figures. they’re not being demonized, they are demons.)