Considering insurance, and medical facilities negotiate to set their costs every year, I don’t trust that their profit is so low.

I don’t disagree with you. We can’t simply replace insurance companies with a public version and expect everything to be okay. But Medicare and Medicaid seem to work really well for a lot of people. They can simply expand it, and then private insurance can still exist as a supplement if someone wants.

But what we really need is more regulation, everywhere, on almost all industries.

Gotta kill citizens United, and make superpacs illegal. When money gets out of politics, is when we’ll finally see some change.

It’s self fulfilling though. Doctors offices are at the whims of their agreements with the insurance companies to stay afloat. They pad the bill (charging maximum for everything) because the insurance company will only pay percentages on most procedures. Then they usually write off the rest (or close to it). Doctors are incentivized to prescribe certain drugs over others, and other such meddling.

Healthcare costs are as high as they are specifically because of private insurance. The evidence is in every single other developed country that has state-provided healthcare. It’s overall cheaper, and often better.

Insurance companies default to denying claims because they know, if the barrier is high enough (denial after denial), people will simply stop asking for the procedure (or whatever), so they don’t have to pay anything. Then their earnings go up, and they pad their pockets.

Side note, I believe the mythbusters did double dipping, and as I recall, it’s really not a problem unless you stir or leave the chip in the dip/salsa for an extended period.

I like a big salsa to chip ratio, so I break the chip into smaller pieces (usually 2) and dip/scoop each one. No double dip, good salsa to chip ratio.

Perhaps, wishful thinking I know… But perhaps, this will give the next CEO some slight pause when considering screwing over millions of people for the financial gain of already rich people. PERHAPS, now that there’s a tangible consequence for being a greedy murderous asshat, they’ll think twice… Probably not, but I can hope.

They’re probably studying it to figure out how to more successfully lock their hardware down as the only things capable of playing new games.

While yes, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to enjoy cute fat baby tiger pics if OP didn’t share the task

Can’t believe what we do to those poor perfect beings.

I don’t think they’re angry at you. I imagine they couldn’t care less if they tried, but I’m sure they’re confused how you seem to think that the target of an infatuation is somehow responsible for the actions of the infatuated person. This strikes me as a very small step away from “It’s her fault she got r***ed, look how she’s dressed”.

Sorry about that dude! This doesn’t help with the pain right now, but they’ve just started human trials on a new therapy that re-enables your tooth buds, allowing you to grow a new set of adult teeth. Maybe it’ll be available soonish 🤞

https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/tooth-regrow-drug-dental-health/

It’s in the proton pass app. You only get so many in the free tier, but I did the premium, so it’s unlimited.

Edit spelling

I have a brother in Oregon, they auto register there.

*Warning: you will get texted so use your disposable number

When I filled it out, email was required, phone was not.

Also, I use proton.me, and they have a really nice email masker, so you can generate throwaway email addresses, which is nice!

Playing the original (GameCube) is also fun. For me neither control structure is the end all be all, I just preferred the Wii version.

The remake was visually good for the most part, but I think the original looks better overall.

I hope they release all 3 of the original primes with the remaster before 4 comes out, but I’ll still be playing my Wii prime trilogy 🤣

Can’t argue there!

Yeah definitely have to turn up the sensitivity. The default level has you turning suuuuper slow.

Prime VR would be my JAM!

FINALLY!

Just wish we could use Wii controls. That was the best way to play prime. The switch remaster was okay, but not as good.