idiomaddict

@ idiomaddict @lemmy.world

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8m ago

Russian Troops Accused of Cannibalism Amid Front Line Winter Food Shortages
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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 8m ago
Do you know if it’s eradicated or if we just stopped eating brains?

7h ago

egg🏳️‍⚧️irl

Yeah, I’m trying to decide if being more authentically myself is worth losing the cis buff (or the “cis” buff, if you prefer), and so far it hasn’t seemed like it for me yet. It looks like it’s getting closer to the tipping point, but I don’t know if it’ll ever get there.

I wouldn’t be ashamed of being trans nor do I feel pride in being “cis,” but I’m not sure of my identity and there are a lot of negative externalities associated with being openly trans. I’m just cautious or cowardly, depending on your perspective.

7h ago

2meirl4irl

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 7h ago

I don’t deny cookies because I care about being tracked. I deny cookies out of spite.

7h ago

"Loomer's Gooners" declined comment

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 7h ago

I gotta think she’s getting the worse end of the deal here. I can’t imagine the dude who regularly shits himself has a great deal of personal hygiene.

8h ago

Wall Street Is Quietly Funding Itself in Renminbi — and Goldman Is Leading the Way

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 8h ago

Is that a big cultural touchstone? I haven’t even seen the first one and I have a shame crush on Mel Gibson (he’s a terrible person, I’m not endorsing him)

8h ago

Good question

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 8h ago

And yet, cameras everywhere

12h ago

All men are dangerous

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 12h ago

If it makes your life better to assume so, go ahead. Who could want to stop you?

22h ago

Ukraine busts ‘bot farm’ supplying thousands of fake Telegram accounts to Russian spies

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 22h ago

If convicted, the suspect faces up to six years in prison.

That’s a lot more lenient a maximum punishment than I’d expect for wartime treason.

1d ago

WOKE LIBERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON IS UNAMERICAN, PASS IT ON

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 1d ago

To be fair, Washington was a more than capable military commander. Hegseth is… not.

1d ago

Interest

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 1d ago

Employers like you to be desperate, so demonstrating that you can afford (whether through finances, friends, or foraging) to not work for a long stretch of time indicates that you won’t be negotiating with them from a position of dependency.

2d ago

Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 2d ago

I mean, it took me a few years, but the more I learned, the worse it got.

2d ago

Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yeah, I think their attribution is off. Hospitals and care homes make money off of medical care for elderly and chronically ill/disabled patients from Medicare/medicaid, so there can be a perverse incentive for care providers to perform more testing and treatment than is medically necessary or advisable. Like chemotherapy for people who don’t even have cancer. Additionally, medical technology or pharmaceutical companies sometimes pay doctors for prescriptions, so there can be an even stronger incentive to provide specific treatments, even if they’re inappropriate for the patient at hand.

Insurance companies are on the opposite side of the spectrum when it comes to perverse incentives- they benefit from as few and as inexpensive treatments as possible, regardless of the reason (partially, they also sometimes have contracts with medtech and pharmaceutical companies- second link below). Whether claims for treatment are denied and the insured forgoes care, then dies; claims bounce around in the denial and appeal process for long enough that the insured dies; or the insured can be fully treated quickly and cheaply, the insurance company benefits. When they approve and pay claims for longer term or more expensive care, they consider the company to be losing money, instead of simply allocating money that they had already earmarked for general claim payments to specific insureds/recipients.

I left a job in liability insurance, which is actually very different from health insurance, but they both operate on some similar principles (and under similar bounds) of contract law, risk assessment, etc., because I didn’t agree with the ethics of it and couldn’t rationalize it to myself anymore. Even internally, at every level of interaction, we always phrased our goal as paying exactly what we owed, not as little as possible though. The concept of a company officially and openly naming a role “denial nurse” is wild to me. It feels like something I’d see as the joke answer in an hr training video about legal compliance at my old company.

2d ago

Snek - cunning, crule, and bloodthirsty

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 2d ago

🎵 Just going about my day of being a vital pollinator and protecting my nest, I hope nobody gets really aggressive when they see me 🎵

2d ago

Anon is Arthur Schopenhauer

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 2d ago

I’m an immigrant in Germany and my boss (from here) recently asked me if it was a jerk move to do laundry on a Sunday if she checked with her neighbors first.

It made me realize I’ve been such an unintentional asshole. I’ve been avoiding things like carpentry and band practice, not laundry. There’s a guy on my street who mows the lawn before nine in the morning on Sundays though, so I’m not the worst in my neighborhood.

3d ago

Easily done

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 3d ago

Asshole behavior that one might use autism as an excuse for in this post: not knowing when to enter a conversation. What a jerk.

3d ago

The Caitlyn Jenner case

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idiomaddict @lemmy.world 3d ago

Not all people are logical. I had a coworker who honestly thought all women were better than all men and all dogs were better than all people, in every category, for both. She argued that endurance was a more important athletic skill than strength for humans but not for dogs and that speed was only important if it was significantly faster than humans can run. You could argue her into the tightest of corners and she’d walk through the walls because she didn’t have any internal logic.

She was really capable in an academic sense, but it was impossible for me to consider her smart. She was pretty fun though, and wasn’t shitty to the men in her life or anything, bizarrely. She did not make it known to them in any way and she behaved perfectly kindly towards them, she just didn’t respect them. She was like the inverse of the better husbands in mad men (minus the cheating and/or abuse- I only watched the first season, so I don’t know how bad it gets).

I wouldn’t really say we were friends, because it made it really hard to respect her, but we were friendly in the huge, hostile office with 95% of the staff at least twenty years our senior.