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I think that the collective media are now trying to play the One True Scotsman narrative. People still think that running the government like a business is still a valid idea despite the fact that every attempt thus far by the administration has been a colossal shitshow. But it's not the idea that was wrong, no no no, it was the execution of that idea. Shultz is what we really need, a true businessman!
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Feb 2, 2019 02:31
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tricare is humana with government imposed cost controls and standards managed by the defense health agency (formerly tricare management authority) no we can't have cost controls put into law for everyone else stop asking
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Feb 2, 2019 15:42
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I'm actually a big fan of privatizing the VA except it's not in a way that remotely resembles all the republican plans which are basically just barely concealed graft. Switch the vast majority of the VA's patient caseload over to this private, cost controlled healthcare system similar to Tricare. One of the major problems with the VA system is the caseload, but it's not a caseload of issues that are unique to the VA's core population. If my endocrine system is hosed up from toxic exposure related to burn pits, it shouldn't take me forever to see an endocrinologist because some Vietnam vets have da beetus. The core VA system should be reserved for individuals with exceptional cases directly related to military service, staffed by experts with experience handling those unique issues, and everything else should be shuffled off to the regular healthcare system for routine care. Believe it or not this is basically exactly what the DoD does with their various medical centers of excellence, intrepid spirit centers, etc. But it will never happen because there's virtually no money to be made with a private insurance company with (proper) government cost controls - Tricare turns juuuuuuuuuuuust enough profit by design that there's a continued private interest in continuing the service. If you apply that system to all healthcare well that's just not American gosh darnit.
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Feb 2, 2019 16:15
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I have very good insurance that I never use.
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Feb 2, 2019 16:51
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eagerly awaiting proof via facial recognition that the person in the blackface is actually a time traveler wanted for six armed robberies in 2004
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Feb 2, 2019 18:08
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Suicide isn't *really* an individual psychological issue, it's a societal-based phenomenon. But that requires that society accept the blame, and we can't have that. Modern suicide theory, aka Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, has three core tenants of what leads and individual to commit suicide: thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and acquired capability. The first two are entirely a societal issue. Belongingness is that psychosocial aspect that a lot of us miss about the military, and indeed being in the military often fills that need better than almost everything available. Sure, you could get that same feeling by having a good job, comfortable finances, a loving spouse, and meaningful purpose. How many of us have that in the outside world? Yeah, thought so. But the military checks off those boxes in our grey matter a lot easier. Burdensomness is a non-factor in the military. Everyone has a purpose, even if you're loving awful at your job you won't dip down into the level of burdensomness to consider suicide. If you're in a good environment, this won't factor into things. Acquired capability is the big one in the military. If you get desensitized enough then the threshold for the other two factors to become an issue gets lower. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about this one, and it's why the first two become more important. The SF community is exactly that, a community. It goes far beyond the regular military community in every aspect of their lives. So for a SF community member to kill themselves that means that either they're so desensitized that it doesn't matter, or something external to that community is damaging the sense of community/sense of self. tldr; according to modern suicide theory SF people should have drastically lower rates of suicide so this spike is a colossal red flag
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Feb 2, 2019 20:14
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this is such a low energy coup
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Feb 3, 2019 04:26
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It was mostly every career person at State/CIA/etc that was like 'uhh.....' but the political appointees were all aboard.
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Feb 3, 2019 15:51
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I watch the majority of gaming videos now off youtube in incognito because my recommendations take a turn for the reich pretty quickly, because Gamers are a social plague upon this world.
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Feb 3, 2019 18:11
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You can remove videos from your watch history and that will adjust the algorithm...somewhat. Amusingly I had to do that for an install video for my CPU heatsink because YouTube thought I had a massive nerd boner for computer hardware because I watched the video three times, so my recommendations were full of benchmarks and performance reviews and stuff for months afterwards.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:02
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Google is the world's largest advertising company that happens to make the most popular websites, most popular browser, and most commonly used phone operating system. So they can serve their primary purpose.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:23
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https://twitter.com/FreddieCampion/status/1092099774893850624
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Feb 4, 2019 04:38
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every person on my team at work is from new england two from mass, two from new hampshire, two from connecticut (including me), one from maine it's going to be awful tomorrow
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Feb 4, 2019 04:42
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Monday, December 28th temperature: 9 Monday, February 4th temperature: 60 drat Chinese!
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Feb 4, 2019 13:43
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the president is going to get his name blackballed like hitler 
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Feb 5, 2019 13:35
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I made ~20% more in 2018 than 2017 and I get back roughly a hundred bucks more than last year. I need to adjust my withholding more.
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Feb 5, 2019 22:08
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Mr. Nice! posted:What was your effective rate, though? That's what really matters. ~18.5%
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Feb 5, 2019 22:21
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Mr. Nice! posted:Is that higher or lower than last year for you? I’m just curious if your overall effective rate went up or down. Most people in your income area I know have seen a slight increase. Yeah it's a touch more, roughly a quarter of a percent. So my AGI goes up by ~22%, my effective rate goes up .25%. That's not good for anybody long term.
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Feb 5, 2019 23:17
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I don't even know what my balance is let alone what has changed. 6% of my pay goes there, 6% match. So I probably have like 50k by now. Doesn't really matter to me until I need to use it.
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Feb 6, 2019 01:17
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I've never listened to him, not really. I don't think I'm missing much.
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Feb 6, 2019 01:58
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Trump was able to tap into a primal rage that a sizable portion of the citizenry have (racism/sexism/*phobia) who are able to put past everything stupid that he said in support of that end goal. Schultz is going to find out that there's no magical vein of voter enthusiasm for him.
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Feb 6, 2019 20:53
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It still makes me laugh that Schultz is running on a platform of "please don't tax me" edit: I am fully aware that he's not actually running for president, he's running to shift the narrative back to the right
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Feb 6, 2019 20:58
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I'm still not entirely convinced I'm not a brain in a jar somewhere and my overseers are throwing increasingly convoluted scenarios at me to see when I finally question the nature of my reality.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:13
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Harris doesn't have major issues to the everyday voter. She has issues according to progressives, which while they are making up a larger and larger portion of the voting base and that's great, there's nothing stopping her right now. Warren continues with the greatest self-own in political history next to Dukakis and that goddamn tank photo.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:56
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Warren taking the test is mostly a matter of an establishment/decorum politician failing to realize that the game has changed. Very few dems have realized it.
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Feb 7, 2019 03:01
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Assuming my parents/grandparent's heritage doesn't have any unexpected results, and assuming that the limited pictures I have of my paternal great-grandfather are actually him, I should be 12.5% Cherokee. I've never bothered to take a DNA test, not that I really care about the results or would do anything with it other than know my *likely* ethnic background.
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Feb 7, 2019 03:55
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Yeah I don't know. Supposedly my paternal great grandfather was some random schmuck on the reservation in Oklahoma (unlike most people that claim their grandmothers were princesses or some poo poo, I know my heritage was just some randos) and then he hosed off to Chicago to work as a welder for skyscrapers. Or so the story goes, the gently caress if I know how accurate it is considering that the family tradition on my dad's side was to be a bunch of drunks that hate their fathers.
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Feb 7, 2019 04:05
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that looks like a legitimate need for AVLBs this is it, the one time in history those loving things are actually useful and we scrapped them a few years ago
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Feb 7, 2019 15:16
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I mean yeah, you could move those containers and probably start a war. Which brings me to the next question, where the gently caress are the guards on that bridge? Is that thing photoshopped?
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Feb 7, 2019 15:25
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i for one am glad that we aren't going to stick our dick into that hornets nest because a few dudes are mad we aren't going to hatefuck it so they want no part in it
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Feb 7, 2019 15:51
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There's also more people living outside Lebanon than in Lebanon, even if you count everyone living there as Lebanese, which the majority are not.
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Feb 7, 2019 17:10
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...do you not know of ublock
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Feb 7, 2019 23:17
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I don't really know what they thought would happen. You're going to try and extort one of the richest people on the planet for...what? Amazon isn't gonna drop in value over this. Bezos could die today and the stock price might temporarily dip 15%.
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Feb 8, 2019 00:40
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I think the only real relevance this has is on his divorce proceedings, allegedly. It's been awhile since that was discussed because my concept of linear time is breaking down due to unhealthy exposure to TRUMP.
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Feb 8, 2019 00:53
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No no, I mean the only relevance to Bezos. AMI would clearly benefit from the deal. Because Vasudus posted:I don't really know what they thought would happen. You're going to try and extort one of the richest people on the planet for...what? Amazon isn't gonna drop in value over this. Bezos could die today and the stock price might temporarily dip 15%. The dick pics themselves wouldn't do any damage and everyone would forget about it in under a week. Unless you're the richest man on the planet in a divorce proceeding without a prenup and this was used.
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Feb 8, 2019 01:02
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I sometimes feel like an alien visitor or a person released from prison sometimes when an advertisement somehow reaches me. Companies I've never heard of selling a product I don't need for a purpose I don't understand, often starring people I don't recognize.
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Feb 8, 2019 01:12
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I will never use the word apoplectic because it's a big word and my impostor syndrome doesn't allow me to use them and feel comfortable doing so. It's also a dumb word that makes you sound like you're trying to be a smartass unless you're a writer or something.
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Feb 8, 2019 02:37
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THIS time the plan to make a largely plastic, fully modular rifle will work. I swear.
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Fallom posted:Lol if you think “working” is anywhere near the top of the list of priorities for the guys coming up with a new contract handout it worked on the range ship it cost plus award
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