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Residency Evil posted:Lyft/Uber are also routinely used as “official” transportation for non-emergent medical transportation. We get give patients vouchers to use all the time. Can't wait till a self driving car shows up to the ER with a dead body inside.
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Scratch Monkey posted:The future is a nightmare It's pretty logical homie. No reason to go overkill for no reason.
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Pham Nuwen posted:What do you do when it's inevitably stolen? Or do you live in some weird utopia where a bicycle can leave your line of sight for more than 2 minutes and still be there when you get back? 
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Heffer posted:Can't wait till a self driving car shows up to the ER with a dead body inside. Not the ER, send it to Coyote Cojo so Mama Welles can arrange an ofrenda.
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Oct 6, 2023 01:33
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Heffer posted:Can't wait till a self driving car shows up to the ER with a dead body inside. All accounts must include next of kin information so they have somewhere to send the cleaning bill.
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Oct 6, 2023 01:40
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Pham Nuwen posted:What do you do when it's inevitably stolen? Or do you live in some weird utopia where a bicycle can leave your line of sight for more than 2 minutes and still be there when you get back? It occasionally makes me sad to remember that Amsterdam once tried to leave generic bikes freely available around the city and most of them just ended up in the canals.
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Boca Raton Man Sued By Amex, Owes $936,000 On Centurion Cardquote:BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2023 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Boca Raton Ophthalmologist allegedly owes American Express nearly $1M. Amex is now suing the man in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Probably don’t want to go to Dr. Debt for an eye surgery
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Baddog posted:Hah, what's the markup on those vouchers for insurance billing? Cacafuego posted:We use a vendor that provides patients Uber/Lyft transport to/from research sites Heffer posted:Can't wait till a self driving car shows up to the ER with a dead body inside. Scratch Monkey posted:The future is a nightmare No idea what the vouchers are "worth." FWIW, it's for non-emergent thing like transportations to scheduled appointments, chemotherapy/radiation treatments, etc. It's for things were it might be totally appropriate to take an Uber, but the patient may not have the money to pay for it. Gaius Marius posted:It's pretty logical homie. No reason to go overkill for no reason. Yeah it's this.
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Residency Evil posted:No idea what the vouchers are "worth." FWIW, it's for non-emergent thing like transportations to scheduled appointments, chemotherapy/radiation treatments, etc. It's for things were it might be totally appropriate to take an Uber, but the patient may not have the money to pay for it. It's an extension of reimbursement for paying for a taxi, except that taxi companies have largely been run into the dirt. Cacafuego posted:
I do, in fact, have to hand it to him for the chutzpah on that one.
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Cacafuego posted:Boca Raton Man Sued By Amex, Owes $936,000 On Centurion Card Honestly I hope they lose on the grounds of "why did you let this happen you absolute idiots".
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Cacafuego posted:Boca Raton Man Sued By Amex, Owes $936,000 On Centurion Card Is it normal for this sort of thing to be a law suit instead of like... debt collection activity?
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Fil5000 posted:Is it normal for this sort of thing to be a law suit instead of like... debt collection activity? For Amex on the highest end cards and this much money, yes. It's because they actually want their money. For everyone else they sell it to debt collectors for pennies on the dollar who then harass the debtor and their families to cough up any money they can. The debt collectors rarely sue people except in hopes of a default judgement, because suing tens of thousands of people for $800 or whatever is way more time and money than the debt it worth, even if you have all your legal records squared away, which debt collectors do not. Every now and then some Amex customer with a no limit card will do something very stupid and Amex will sue them. Sometimes there's a news article about it because of public court records and the situation is funny to gawk at. Years ago there was a black card guy who somehow charged like $200,000 at a strip club in a single night and then wouldn't pay. Amex brought in strippers to testify and security camera footage to show yes it was actually him.
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Boudoir Women's Mistrial: if he saw no tit, you must acquit!
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Busty Women, Magistrate: Can you point out the man who gave you the tip?
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Pham Nuwen posted:What do you do when it's inevitably stolen? Or do you live in some weird utopia where a bicycle can leave your line of sight for more than 2 minutes and still be there when you get back? As someone who lives in a bike thief hotspot, I have one nice bike that's never locked up outside and an old 90s Diamondback covered in stickers for 'going out'. 15 years and nobody has ever bothered it.
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I started doing like the dutch and making my bike look ugly (obvious but shallow scratches on frame, bad spraypaint job, etc ) after having a couple bikes stolen in college.
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This article starts off with a BWM classic, and then descends into the classic plutocrat BWM move (trying to cut out a trophy wife and becoming the target of her vengeance)...New York Times posted:The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty They should have just let her have her horses...
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It occasionally makes me sad to remember that Amsterdam once tried to leave generic bikes freely available around the city and most of them just ended up in the canals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHQ9EbWh0K0&t=701s
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LanceHunter posted:This article starts off with a BWM classic, and then descends into the classic plutocrat BWM move (trying to cut out a trophy wife and becoming the target of her vengeance)... I'm always conflicted with these stories. On the one hand, these people are so rich they will never see true justice. On the other, it's always rich to me how much additional suffering they bring upon themselves because they're unwilling to part with the pittance that a close friend/family member is entitled to. The ex-wives and widows were already robbed of their due, but they couldn't even pay out the barest sum they offered them while they were robbing them. A sum that would not have affected their lifestyle in the least. I just don't get that mindset. If I had uncounted billions I'd be living on my private Hawaiian island flying in my favorite musicians for private concerts/coke snorting sessions. These people are so fundamentally broken that they spend their every waking moment fighting amonst themselves to cheat loved ones out of every penny they can.
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thats just how divorce is for nutjobs and assholes. its just that other stuff if you're a plute rear end in a top hat doesnt scale to your wealth
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Being able to be sated and being a plutocrat are mutually incompatible. They're like how retrievers have that genetic issue where they're never not hungry and can potentially eat themselves to death; they have to get every little last thing for themselves, they constitutionally cannot allow something to escape their grasp if they can possess it
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DarkHorse posted:Being able to be sated and being a plutocrat are mutually incompatible. They're like how retrievers have that genetic issue where they're never not hungry and can potentially eat themselves to death; they have to get every little last thing for themselves, they constitutionally cannot allow something to escape their grasp if they can possess it An architect I worked for liked to tell the story about the local land baron who was his client on countless commercial projects (the dude owns a huge chunk of the commercial property in town). After years of helping this guy make money hand over fist, one of his underlings convinced him to have a little thank you party for all the people that had helped him over the years. He grudgingly agreed...then served hot dogs and water. That people like that can not only survive, but thrive in our society is a testament to our fuckedness. In a just world the whole party would have stomped his rear end.
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I know we love to see the rich as somehow inhuman, but I'd say the desire to cut out a second wife (particularly a second wife of the trophy variety) is an impulse that is far more common than people outside that situation may realize. A friend of mine met her (wealthy, but not nearly plute-level) husband when she was working as an exotic dancer. His kids from his first marriage deeply hate her, despite all attempts she has made over many years to be kind to them. He has had to work on specific financial situations to make sure that when he eventually dies, his kids won't be able to find a way to steal all the inheritance and leave her destitute. I think it's a common situation due to a combination of the kids often living with/having a closer connection to their mother (who is probably insulted by any implication that the husband may have "traded up"), feeling like the new wife is only in it for the money, and the general cultural weirdness drilled into kids about "wicked step-mothers". The fact that these kids happened to ride the hatred of their step-mother into the unravelling of one of the world's biggest tax-cheating empires is hilarious, though.
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DarkHorse posted:Being able to be sated and being a plutocrat are mutually incompatible. They're like how retrievers have that genetic issue where they're never not hungry and can potentially eat themselves to death; they have to get every little last thing for themselves, they constitutionally cannot allow something to escape their grasp if they can possess it Let's not kid ourselves about the "heroine" of this story, either. She spent a couple of decades hunting down assets to gently caress over her stepchildren because they tried (and failed) to take away her horses. As much as the story tries to paint her as some kind of moral paragon, she sure as poo poo didn't start giving a flying gently caress about all the tax fraud going on until she was no longer the beneficiary of it.
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also one of her step-children (in law) is cat woman Jocelyn Wildenstein
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LanceHunter posted:I think it's a common situation due to a combination of the kids often living with/having a closer connection to their mother (who is probably insulted by any implication that the husband may have "traded up"), feeling like the new wife is only in it for the money, and the general cultural weirdness drilled into kids about "wicked step-mothers". Note that the woman in this story met her future husband while he was “languishing in a marriage of convenience”, which is to say that she had an affair with a married man (with kids!) and played an active role in breaking up his marriage. Maybe the marriage was doomed anyway — and we definitely shouldn’t put more blame on this woman than we do the husband — but I can understand the kids not liking the future wife. (Hopefully the story with your friend is different.) Now you’d think that maybe they’d come to terms with it over time, at least enough not to try to cheat an old woman out of her inheritance who apparently made their father happy for most of his life, but a lot of people turn into petty little shits the second they feel like they’re justified in disliking someone.
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And ten times more so when money is on the line.
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DarkHorse posted:Being able to be sated and being a plutocrat are mutually incompatible. They're like how retrievers have that genetic issue where they're never not hungry and can potentially eat themselves to death; they have to get every little last thing for themselves, they constitutionally cannot allow something to escape their grasp if they can possess it You do not become or remain an insanely rich person without being fundamentally an insanely greedy rear end in a top hat.
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PurpleXVI posted:You do not become or remain an insanely rich person without being fundamentally an insanely greedy rear end in a top hat. Not true, you could also divorce Jeff Bezos
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Cerekk posted:Not true, you could also divorce Jeff Bezos That's where the "remain" comes into play Though given the nature of billions of dollars it still takes a long time to spend that down. One of my favorite exercises working with unit conversions to give my students is to work out how long it takes to spend one billion dollars when you're buying a $300,000 Lamborghini, driving it for a week, and pushing it off a cliff when you buy a new one the next. Ignoring interest and such, of course. If you start when you're 16 you run out of money in your 80's Edit: MacKenzie Scott is apparently worth $34 billion. Bezos $150 billion DarkHorse fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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DarkHorse posted:That's where the "remain" comes into play I bet if you include interest you never run out.
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evilweasel posted:I bet if you include interest you never run out. If you assume your billion dollars of capital is drawing 4% annual interest, you can push two Lamborghinis off a cliff per week and your capital would still be growing. Put another way, you could give 6 different people $100,000 each every week, with $150,000 per week left over for your own expenses, and still be growing your capital. The interest is pulling in $769K per week.
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evilweasel posted:I bet if you include interest you never run out. I bet so too but you've got to account for inflation too and I could never been arsed enough to bother Eric the Mauve posted:If you assume your billion dollars of capital is drawing 4% annual interest, you can push two Lamborghinis off a cliff per week and your capital would still be growing.
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If I'm a billionaire and my guys are getting me 1% real a year I'm having them fed to sharks For real though I think "married to a billionaire" might be the one form of labor that actually deserves 10 figures
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:If I'm a billionaire and my guys are getting me 1% real a year I'm having them fed to sharks yup, it's another sneaky source of wealth inequality  
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DarkHorse posted:I bet so too but you've got to account for inflation too and I could never been arsed enough to bother You should definitely have the follow-up question "if you figure 3% real return (over inflation) how many lambos a week could you push off a cliff, without ever cutting into your principal?" Or maybe just "if you're a billionaire, how much do you have to earn over inflation to be able to push a lambo off a cliff every single day of the year in perpetuity" Baddog fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Baddog posted:You should definitely have the follow-up question "if you figure 3% real return (over inflation) how many lambos a week could you push off a cliff" Say a direct copy of the lambo nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of lambos and takes the place of the first lambo.
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Spokes posted:Say a direct copy of the lambo nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of lambos and takes the place of the first lambo. Macroeconomics works the same way.
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