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Cognac McCarthy posted:I went out for Christmas eve drinks at a pub with the workers of the hostel in Stirling, Scotland I was staying at a few years ago, because my travel buddy and I were the only ones staying there. Apparently some Americans had come through a few years earlier and expressed surprise that there was broadband internet and electricity 24 hours a day in Scotland. why would you come to stirling, its a shithole
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site posted:Well he's right, men usually aren't born with boobs and a vagina. Women aren't usually born with dicks.  Checkmate, CPAC.
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FilthyImp posted:We're biologically female until the testosterone bath mutates our clitori and labia into male genitalia. Is this why men have nipples?
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God gave men nipples as a mocking gesture to feminists. See, we have them and we don't even need to use them.
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So we can add "gender" and "equality" to the (long) list of things Crowder doesn't understand. Equality isn't artificially making everyone equal. It's removing artificial bullshit that treats people as less than they are.
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Guilty Spork posted:So we can add "gender" and "equality" to the (long) list of things Crowder doesn't understand. Racism doesn't exist because we don't have literal slavery.
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SnakePlissken posted:So his real claim to fame is he was Brain on "Pinky and the Brain"? That was Maurice Lamarche, aka "the guy you call when you need Orson Welles' voice in something, now that Orson Welles is dead." They even had him dub Vincent D'onofrio for his appearance as a young Welles in Ed Wood. Also Morbo, and Jay Sherman's belch.
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Satan gave humans tailbones to throw us off the truth of God's creation. I read this in someone's bible fanfic so it has to be true.
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beatlegs posted:That makes me feel like poo poo because I've been broke for the last year, doing odd jobs to get by. I got onto Medicaid. I see a doctor a few times a month, have had to go to the ER three times over the last year, had to have tests done for my heart, am on 3 medications, etc and I haven't paid a cent of my own money. It really pays to be poor when it comes to health care. beatlegs posted:Yes, but only because Medicaid was expanded under Obamacare a year ago. Otherwise I'd be completely hosed. I think you might be me. I'm going to guess... Metoprolol, Amlodipine, and... Lisinopril? No, wait...maybe one of the hydros. I found out my application for Medicaid had been accepted when I was being processed into the emergency room, and the intake lady says, "Did you know you had Medicaid?" I did not, but I know, now. My life has been a whirlwind of doctors, needles, and treadmills ever since. After nearly a year of the poor doctor who's been treating me saying, "Well, we really need to do X, but we can't because of your financial situation," I can finally do X. I also was completely hosed until my state expanded Medicaid coverage as part of the ACA. Thanks, Obama! I can honestly say that I was just as pro-universal health care a year ago, when I was making great money and was not aware that I had any health problems, as I am now. If I survive and get back on my feet, I will be glad to have an extra eight bucks per week or whatever come out of my paycheck if means other people don't have to sit around waiting to die because they can't get access to basic medical care. I don't care how good you think your reasons are. If you oppose something as basic and human as making sure your neighbors aren't living (and dying) in medical limbo, you can go ahead and rot in hell for ever and ever amen cross my heart hope to die gently caress you.
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site posted:Racism doesn't exist because we don't have literal slavery. You joke but this is literally an argument I had to publicly deride when someone commented on an article I linked to fb the other day.
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Mar 2, 2015 01:47
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Did Crowder have some kind of regular wingnut welfare gig on Fox News channel for a while before getting relegated to Twitter attention whore hell? Like on Red Eye or The Five or some poo poo like that? If so, what happened? Did they decide he was a little too much for them after goading that union guy into punching him?
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Zwabu posted:Did Crowder have some kind of regular wingnut welfare gig on Fox News channel for a while before getting relegated to Twitter attention whore hell? Like on Red Eye or The Five or some poo poo like that? He picked a fight with Hannity, from what I recall, and then he got shitcanned.
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Mar 2, 2015 01:53
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SnakePlissken posted:So his real claim to fame is he was Brain on "Pinky and the Brain"? Why is he not running for president on the R- ticket then? I don't think he's 35 yet.
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He played Brain on Arthur
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Centripetal Horse posted:I think you might be me. I'm going to guess... Metoprolol, Amlodipine, and... Lisinopril? No, wait...maybe one of the hydros. Arrythmia and high blood pressure, with a little arthritic knees thrown in. Fortunately my issues can be managed with medication. If I had something serious like heart failure or cancer I don't know what I'd do. That's why I'm being extra careful w/ diet, don't smoke, drink moderately etc. For your health.
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Zwabu posted:Did Crowder have some kind of regular wingnut welfare gig on Fox News channel for a while before getting relegated to Twitter attention whore hell? Like on Red Eye or The Five or some poo poo like that? His short time in the spotlight started with a stand up bit at cpac 2011 when some right wing commentators took notice and then he became a thing for a little while when he picked a fight with some Union guy on camera. He was unable to leverage that notability beyond being a story of the week and since then has become increasingly more desperate for someone, anyone, to give a poo poo that he exists.
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Thump! posted:I don't think he's 35 yet. Christ, he's 27. I thought he was in his late 30s. Poor guy.
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Because we derive most of our sustenance from the prey that we hunt, it is most efficient to send those among us in peak physical condition on hunting parties while the rest remain to fulfill other vital, yet less physically demanding tasks, such as rearing children and tanning the hides of our kills. Women have smaller frames and less muscle mass, on average, than men, so in aggregate it is optimal to exclude them from our hunting parties. It's too bad society works like that these days, but genders were never created equally. Deal with it.
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SnakePlissken posted:So his real claim to fame is he was Brain on "Pinky and the Brain"? Why is he not running for president on the R- ticket then? Taeke posted:To me (as a European) it was always incomprehensible that parents in US tv shows/movies would freak the absolute gently caress out if their kid did something mildly risky. "DON'T CLIMB THAT TREE, KEVIN!!!! YOU MIGHT FALL AND BREAK YOUR ARM!!!!" 
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This is one of the reasons I tell foreigners to watch Breaking Bad. The only developed country where the premise of the show even makes sense is the US.
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VideoTapir posted:This is one of the reasons I tell foreigners to watch Breaking Bad. The only developed country where the premise of the show even makes sense is the US. A whole bunch of former Soviet countries have had "universal health care" that's degenerated to the point where you actually need to supply huge bribes to get normal treatment.
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Hazo posted:I remember Brain actively makes fun of Rush Limbaugh on at least one occasion. This may not be canon, but according to an episode of Freakazoid!, if the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had been prevented, Brain would be President of the United States in 1995, and Rush Limbaugh would be a "bleeding-heart liberal."
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Soviet Commubot posted:For a lot of them it's the idea that the free market is inherently more efficient than the government. Therefore the US system is inherently more efficient than these terrible socialized systems and anyone who says otherwise is either stupid or pushing an agenda, why would they lie like that otherwise? This idea is the basis of a lot of their economic beliefs and if they allowed that it wasn't a fundamental rule of economics then the whole thing falls apart. I spent a month in the hospital here in France a couple of years ago because of severe burns and one guy I know has steadfastly refused to believe my stories about my experiences. He's a poster boy for the influence right wing media, he makes very good money for the rural part of Michigan he lives in, probably $60k or so and still lives with his even more well off parents so has almost no bills. His parents listen to talk radio all day and he gets the daily summary from them at dinner. I visited Michigan few weeks ago and his family has three large safes full of guns now, including a half dozen AR-15 variants, a sweet Tavor and at least 20 pistols and a handful of bolt and lever action rifles, as well as at least 10k rounds of various calibers. Because of what Rush et al tell him through his parents he's convinced that Obama is going to take all his guns away and/or society is going to collapse any day now due to an excess of socialism. It also seems to have affected his perception of reality because after looking at this photo of my hospital room he has mentioned to me on numerous occasions about how tiny it was and it's terrible condition, once even mentioning the flaking paint on the walls, despite that being nothing like reality. To this day he thinks I was joking when I told him they had wifi there and that's why I had my iPad because in socialist Europe the Internet is not only scarce but closely controlled by the government. That sums up most of my old childhood friends in Florida who've never left the town they were born in. I've gone on to live in various countries in Western Europe and East Asia and have spent a good deal of time in Canada, and said friends refuse to believe these other countries aren't just slightly less severe and Stalinist than North Korea.
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Hazo posted:I remember Brain actively makes fun of Rush Limbaugh on at least one occasion. It's a lot like watching Seinfeld and realizing about 1/3 of the plots could've been solved by them having cell phones.
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Mr. Belpit posted:That sums up most of my old childhood friends in Florida who've never left the town they were born in. I've gone on to live in various countries in Western Europe and East Asia and have spent a good deal of time in Canada, and said friends refuse to believe these other countries aren't just slightly less severe and Stalinist than North Korea. I was on the phone with my dad the other day and mused that I'd consider teaching English somewhere in Asia for a year or two if I can't get into grad school when I finish my undergrad. He told me not to go to South Korea because it's near a warzone. Like, I realize that and know that if North Korea just completely snapped and shelled the hell out of Seoul or wherever it could, it would be pretty disastrous, but he like many people that watch cable news think North Korea is going to start dropping nukes on someone any day now.
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You people telling healthcare horror stories who can't understand why conservatives are against UHC: it's because conservatives tell the same stories but say it's because of Obamacare and if the government would just step back then doctors wouldn't have to overcharge and also there would be more doctors because many doctors are quitting because of Obamacare. No, it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't have to
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And before the ACA, it was all stuff that doesn't happen in America, only in death-panel land. edit: Another reminder: http://www.pluralofanecdote.com/ Post your horror stories or non-American health care stories here
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"After a decade of higher education and rigorous certification, I'm quitting and/or refusing to treat patients because their insurance premiums are being paid by a different source." - a doctor Forward this to your friends so we can fight the tyranny in Washington!
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Tender Bender posted:You people telling healthcare horror stories who can't understand why conservatives are against UHC: it's because conservatives tell the same stories but say it's because of Obamacare and if the government would just step back then doctors wouldn't have to overcharge and also there would be more doctors because many doctors are quitting because of Obamacare. I once had a conversation with a far right coworker where I got him to acknowledge that a UHC system would be cheaper for everyone and we could still have privatized care for people who had the money and wanted to pay for it. He eventually said he didn't want that because he didn't like the idea of the government using his money to help people (with the implication that it would help people he didn't like, like lazy minorities). He was also an extremely devout Mormon. Compassion! My favorite thing to do is ask conservatives if they are comfortable with people dying in the streets in America from starvation or treatable illnesses, because that's the end result if they were to have absolute control over government policy.
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Apparently doctors are struggling from new documentation requirements that the ACA implemented causing doctors in private practices to move to hospitals. My girlfriend just started working at something like a doctor's co-opt that creates a centralized record system for local doctors.
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Miltank posted:Apparently doctors are struggling from new documentation requirements that the ACA implemented causing doctors in private practices to move to hospitals. My girlfriend just started working at something like a doctor's co-opt that creates a centralized record system for local doctors. Often it seems ACA gets conflated with Meaningful Use requirements set by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) in order to receive incentive payments or to avoid penalties if you see Medicare or Medicaid patients. This precedes ACA/Obama. I wonder if that's what is happening here? If these private practices were still using paper charts I could see how ACA might effect them and how a co-opt would work for them. edit: there are all sorts of factors that can make a private practice move towards joining up with other practices or a hospital.
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Glad the man who derides other people's degenerative lifestyles looks 10 years old than he should. Guess all that no sex and no fun before marriage really kept him youthful looking.
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Team equality doesn't exist but we still have salary caps and whatnot in pro sports. Boxing equality doesn't exist but we still have weight classes so there isn't just 5 people doing it professionally. The pencil necked pedantic republican professional crybaby racket isn't equal but we still let Stephen Crowder use twitter anyway.
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Often it seems ACA gets conflated with Meaningful Use requirements set by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) in order to receive incentive payments or to avoid penalties if you see Medicare or Medicaid patients. This precedes ACA/Obama. I wonder if that's what is happening here? CMS created MU requirements because of HITECH which was part of ARRA, so while it precedes ACA it does not precede Obama being in office. Of course at this point the eventual requirement to submit to CMS rules or face penalties has been known for six years so if doctors are struggling it's because they and their office staff haven't paid enough attention to what's coming down the line. Or maybe they made a bad decision on what EHR software to use because some of it is really terrible, and it's also ridiculously expensive so switching is a huge burden.
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quote:SNL parodied the Islamic State terror group's recruiting of westerners, Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed his disappointment Sunday on "Fox & Friends" that the show didn't go far enough in its comedy. Here comes the laughs quote:“I’m kind of for comedy that goes as far as it can,” Carlson told his co-hosts. “But I always feel like with shows like 'SNL' and comedy in general, it does stop short of the sacred cows on the left.”
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Often it seems ACA gets conflated with Meaningful Use requirements set by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) in order to receive incentive payments or to avoid penalties if you see Medicare or Medicaid patients. This precedes ACA/Obama. I wonder if that's what is happening here? It's not just that, certain provisions in Obamacare are incentivizing doctors to associate with hospitals because of changes in billing. It's actually a good thing that fixes a lot of redundancies but doctors will bitch about it. A lot of it are other problems that have been going on in medicine for a while. Because of how medicine works in the US (and much of the rest of the world, this isn't actually a US-only problem) doctors have transitioned from a respected authority figure to basically a service provider. Doctors want respect as opposed to being a cog in the machine but the transition to "cog in the machine" is pretty unstoppable because that method pays a lot better. Doctors traded respect for fat stacks of cash and now want it both ways, all the respect and all the money. It's a problem.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Here comes the laughs Sneering at the powerless; the foundation of good comedy.
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bpower posted:Sneering at the powerless; the foundation of good comedy. Unironically what conservatives believe. Also Carlson has obviously never heard of Portlandia.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Unironically what conservatives believe. Jesus wept.
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parasyte posted:CMS created MU requirements because of HITECH which was part of ARRA, so while it precedes ACA it does not precede Obama being in office. Thanks for the correction. Here's a time line for this type of thing if anyone is interested: http://www.hitechanswers.net/ehr-adoption-2/history-of-ehr-adoption/ I was confusing the setup the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology with the HITECH Act.
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