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the most tangible legal outcome in the US of the shooting of Brian Thompson so far, beyond the court case of Luigi Magione, really is merely a lawsuit from UnitedHealth shareholders, against the company they partly own, about UnitedHealth not telling the shareholders that UnitedHealth was going to increase the rate of insurance claim denials in the wake of the shooting, because executives anticipated people trying to drop their UnitedHealth plans over subsequent quarters, and wanted to get in a few quarters of higher returns as that happened.

To be clear, the lawsuit wasn't that UnitedHealth did that, it was over them violating their fiduciary duty to shareholders by UnitedHealth not telling the shareholders they were doing that.

It hasn't been any kind of policy reform. Certainly no form of government intervention into the ~healthcare marketplace~, or any actual lawmaking. Merely investors and their retained law firm, arguing before a judge, trying to make money in civil court by arguing they were defrauded by one of the world's 10 most valuable companies, because one of the world's 10 most valuable companies wasn't totally honest to its shareholders about how it was planning to be evil.

However, that's hardly to say the event hasn't been highly influential.

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Under no circumstances should a US American be elected pope, but it is very funny to imagine. American Pope should become shorthand in fiction for "this is not our timeline" the way that Female President is.

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Forgot to close a parenthesis and now spirits enter me like a waterslide

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 2

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Russian embroidery templates.  Russkii narodnyi ornament. Ornament national russe. 1872.

Internet Archive

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Kim Keever

“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.” 

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every software is like. your mission-critical app requires you to use the scrimble protocol to squeeb some snorble files for sprongle expressions. do you use:

libsnorble-2-dev, a C library that the author only distributes as source code and therefore must be compiled from source using CMake

Squeeb.js, which sort of has most of the features you want, but requires about a gigabyte of Node dependencies and has only been in development for eight months and has 4.7k open issues on Github

Squeeh.js, a typosquatting trojan that uses your GPU to mine crypto if you install it by mistake

Sprongloxide, a Rust crate beloved by its fanatical userbase, which has been in version 0.9.* for about four years, and is actually just a thin wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev

GNU Scrimble, a GPLv3-licensed command-line tool maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which has over a hundred different flags, and also comes with an integrated Lisp interpreter for scripting, and also a TUI-based Pong implementation as an "easter egg", and also supports CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, XLSX, and even HTML files, but does not actually come with support for squeebing snorble files for ideological reasons. it does have a boomeresque drawing of a grinning meerkat as its logo, though

Microsoft Scrimble Framework Core, a .NET library that has all the features you need and more, but costs $399 anually and comes with a proprietary licensing agreement that grants Microsoft the right to tattoo advertisements on the inside of your eyelids

snorblite, a full-featured Perl module which is entirely developed and maintained by a single guy who is completely insane and constantly makes blog posts about how much he hates the ATF and the "woke mind-virus", but everyone uses it because it has all the features you need and is distributed under the MIT license

Google Squeebular (deprecated since 2017)

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i just did the BOFA thing to my mum and she goes “that’s very rude” and I said “i’m sorry, i meant it as a parody” and she said “of what?” then i said “a parod-eez nuts” and i heard my dad laugh from the other room

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CIL IV 1904, trans. Kruschwitz // Women's bathroom, Doyle's Pub, Dublin

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i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

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having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed

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steps into a big pot of bubbling oil and sits there like its a hot tub and i snile at you so nicely that you step in after me and youre immediately boiled til theres nothing left

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What if you went grocery shopping and the produce section was just missing?

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felt inspired by this tweet so. here are some of my favorite line deliveries from this show

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It’s so unfair i don’t get to see where evolution will go in 50 million years

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all neighbors should be treated like the moon. or maybe the sun, if they're like that