Oh I agree to that. My issues is that the senate itself is so arcane that there is a low chance that dems will hold it…:which means removing the filibuster benefits republicans more than democrats. WY gets the same two votes as CA despite huge population differences. I don’t know what the solution is but I have a fear of a republican senate majority that no longer has to worry about the filibuster.

I just can’t picture how to make the senate work when the numbers are so skewed. Don’t have a solution but it’s such a glaring issue.

The filibuster is the only thing that kept Republicans from doing even more crazy shit then they already did. The senate is undemocratic in that an outsized minority of voters have an outsized impact on the majority. Every state gets two senators despite WY having half a million people and CA having like 40 million. In the senate they are equal.

I triple checked the URL to make sure it really was a news source and not some new TheOnion link. I am surprised and I am shocked that this guy can still surprise me. Everytime this dipshit does something crazy I think, “it can’t really get worse than this” and yet, after all these years, he still manages to fuck things up in a way that no one else has ever thought of.

I only drink to celebrate or if I’m at a work event so we shall see if I’m drinking tonight (I don’t have a work event tonight so my only hope is a blue tsunami). Sure hope I get sloppy drunk.

It’s always the same thing on both sides. Republicans didn’t want to start a new party when the tea party people popped up as it would split the R vote. Democrats don’t want to create a new party as it will split the D vote. The only way to get an additional viable party would be for both D and R to split and add two new parties simultaneously. So, as someone who will never vote R, I sure hope all of those “sane republicans” I keep hearing about start their own new party.

LOL. I started typing psychopath and the ln changed my mind mid way…to sycophant and just didn’t want to hit backspace….autocorrect was lazy so just said fuck it and moved on. May turn that into a tshirt though.

Damn you beat me to it. It wasn’t the lying or being a complete psychophant that got her ousted in 0.5 muches…it was a poor performance of the lies.

I have a feeling Grok specifically is probably trained on folk like Andrew Tate.

You just gave a manosphere YouTuber an entire episode of an idea. I hope you’re happy with yourself.

This is America…it’s defamation if the person calling it defamation has more money. Otherwise it’s just sparkling parody.

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Dental is certainly a bit different but I’ve only worked in medical so don’t have a ton of experience in dental.

It’s more about who pays the malpractice suit. Doctors have their own malpractice insurance so those same people not incentivized to provide bad care are also financially on the hook if they provide bad care. Malpractice insurance is crazy expensive. If you see a hospital exec recommend a certain care strategy, that is cause for concern but medical staff have all the downside and no upside in giving bad care. That’s just hospitals though. Things change in private practice but there a malpractice suit could end their entire livelihood so the risk ain’t worth it. A hospital admin/investor would probably say the risk is worth it but the medical staff would absolutely know they would be taking the fall for it.

Because it takes medical staff to perform that action. If a hospital administration increases profits by 10-20%, the investors and execs get a bonus. The people providing the treatment are not financially incentivized to impact patient outcomes negatively. Pharma reps aren’t directly incentivized for that either but they pushed opioids for bonuses without issue…that’s a whole different conversation however. Anyways, the nurse administering an IV isn’t going to get a fat check for making you sick…they will however get in trouble for malpractice. Your hospital admin or exec ain’t getting their hands dirty by giving care either. So the only people providing care are those not incentivized to provide bad care and actively terrified of a malpractice suit in the event they provide less than standard care.

This is just a symptom of a failed healthcare system. The way things typically work is that you go into a hospital and receive care. The hospital has insurance and billing specialists which submit what they did to insurance to get money. The insurance pays the least amount they can and the patient gets the bill for the rest. Insurance companies know they should be covering more but patients don’t have the capacity and capability (in most cases) to dig deep into medical reimbursements to get what they are owed. Insurance companies like this as they keep that money. Now however, hospitals are using AI to get the full amount they are owed and thus having patients pay less and insurance pay more.

As the other person below me wrote, that’s the process in NJ and Oregon. So this person has something else in mind. Maybe drive through without stopping or something. Drive through with the door open? Just openly spray gasoline at a car like a squirt gun and have gutters send the fuel to the tank? I have so many questions!!!

That’s just one piece of this I am attempting to unpack. What does this persons gas station experience look like?

Legit LOLed.

I wonder how many of these wealthy vineyard owners voted for this scenario? Im guessing more than half voted in favor of Donnie and the shit storm he would kick off.