Disinformation is a hell of a weapon, ain't it?
And so far, the only country I've seen take it seriously has been Finland.
Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?
(edition.cnn.com)
Were I a foreign actor looking to degrade the logistics infrastructure of a rival country,
starting a trend that would result in severe eye damage for pilots -
a skillset that's not easy to acquire and very expensive to train -
would be a very effective tactic.
.....cymtaceans?
@onepict @va2lam @hacks4pancakes @Lazarou
heh, for me, I just like being a cryptid - someone who shows up out of nowhere, helps out, and vanishes.
@onepict @va2lam @hacks4pancakes @Lazarou
Kind of off topic, but I've been coming around to the notion that luck is a skill, and one you can practice -
not so much that events will necessarily happen in your favor of themselves,
but that by cultivating opportunities for wins - like how you mention, structuring your life to enable certain kinds of work - then you'll be able to take advantage of events when they do show up.
It's entirely out of reach for a lot of us. I don't get to have the option.
My head is trying to compose a bad pun involving "Upton Funk" around a beef packing plant but I can't seem to meet that beat.
So, what, in the upcoming klept mess, the regulatory state will have to be reimplemented by means of a chmod 661?
This is so exasperatingly awful. None of this was ever necessary. They chose to insist on this as their mechanism to start doing anything at all to fix a situation they full well understood in detail.
Like, do they understand that they have now set terms?
This is how they have chosen to transact negotiations, huh.
And given the rapidity, they already knew what they would have to do.
They could have done this anytime in the last several years, but chose not to until this moment.
Looks like the action was effective in getting at least minimal attention brought by congress.
Cost a lot less than UHC's spent on lobbying them, too.
Congress members in both houses are pushing to break up the nation's biggest insurance monopolies after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder last week sparked widespread anger. As the New York Times reports, these bipartisan bills seek to force insurers and other healthcare companies to sell off their so-called "pharmacy benefit managers" or PBMs — which companies and government agencies use to manage their employees' prescription benefits — within the next three years. Though neither bi
Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)
You know, thinking about it, the only reason why drug companies can charge exorbitant amounts for cheaply-produced medications is with the connivance of insurers.
If everyone had to pay the retail price, many people wouldn't be able to pay for those drugs at all - so, by the "law of supply and demand" that people keep going on about, the pharmaceutical producer would have to lower those prices to be able to sell the drug.
But insurance companies negotiate "discounts" for their members, so the actual sales remain high - and almost nobody is paying the retail price.
This is pretty clear collusion to defraud the consumer, on the one hand, and also to create incentives for people to buy insurance - which is pretty coercive.
It also vastly distorts the profitability of the companies in question, which misleads investors - so kind of securities fraud, if you look at it in the right light.
Y'ever notice that FEMA says you ought to have backup medication supplies in case of a disaster,
but insurers will never pay for you to have and maintain such a supply because it's "excess",
and doctors insist that the desire to have continuity of medication is addictive, "drug-seeking behavior"?
"fi, why are you so immediately hostile to ai?"
This shit. I, and many other people, saw this shit coming, and I hate it because I am much more likely to be on the receiving end of some bullshit like this than ever see any benefits come my way from it.
One of the things I think may be happening is that everyone is realizing that it's not just them and their friends who've gotten screwed over.
It's everybody.
Literally everybody,
except
for the C-suite crowd.
A dog could figure out that equation.
An expression I read earlier today was "you bake the cake with the ingredients you brought" and I thought that was very evocative.
As someone who has a very real threat hanging over her head on a daily basis,
Zero sympathy.
Suck it up, assholes, you're -still- better off than I am.
Honestly? I have no problem with this.
Those people are murdering us all, slowly and legally.
Someone's had a logical idea.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wanted-posters-more-insurance-executives-191835675.html
