#the power of money is real

[youjustgotlawyered]

When people ask me about my former supervisor who’s now opposing & makes $, but’s evil:

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

(source, 11/30/22)

KING

[reality-detective]

SCOOP: Chuck Schumer was just on the Senate floor bragging to other members about Speaker Johnson giving Democrats everything they wanted in the Ukraine and foreign aid packages, per senior Republican official 🤔

[werewolf-transgenderism]

the LOTR movies are just genuinely so fucking good. type of movie that we probably will never see get made again because sooooo much of it is just extremely detailed and intricate practical effects and real costuming like the armor!!! the sfx makeup!! the sheer number of people and horses!! and also it is focused on just doing a good job of adapting the source material rather than milking a franchise forever and ever which of it were made today would simply not be the case. movies of all time

[yardsards]

people love an "i'll take care of you" "it's rotten work" "not to me, not if it's you" character dynamic until the character who needs to be taken care of is disabled. then it's supposedly fucked up and toxic for a person to have to take care of someone else.

[guiltyidealist]

It should be a criminal offense if an insurance company is responsible for a delay in a policyholder's necessary health care.

Withholding prescribed treatments, even for just a day, can be anywhere from inconvenient to catastrophic for the victim. Medical providers may not withhold necessary treatment from any patient on any grounds, as it is their duty to provide it-- it should be justly illegal for any "middle man" to interfere with a medical provider's legal and ethical obligation to treat a patient.

Severity of the charge and its legal consequences should depend upon the scope of the offense (length of delay) and its consequences to the victim (impact on the person).

The testimonies of the victim, the pharmacy, and the medical provider who prescribed the treatment should be key considerations for the determination. Additional important testimony should come from the victim's other medical providers, housemates, family, educators/mentors, colleagues/coworkers, or employers.

The charge should become criminal record for the company. The company (perhaps the agent's office) should be fined per day delayed.

Some taxation can be applied; just to pay off the folks who do the filing, advocacy, testimony, processing. A hefty majority of the fine should be compensation owed to the victim.

If delays became a criminal charge on companies' records, then companies would have a strong motive to terminate agents who aren't performing with punctuality. It would become their best financial interest to invest only in timely agents who would, in turn, gain a best interest to invest only in timely subordinates.

I posit that insurance delays would wane significantly, resulting in more timely delivery of treatments to policyholders, and many people's qualities of life would improve drastically for it.

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

[rhapsoddity]

I know you said Spectrum is Emmet’s favorite for the gossip, but I feel like xer also a bit tired of just making ponchos for him

You'd be surprised how many ponchos Spectrum's llamas get through, Emmett's fabric provider finds it funny how much he's constantly buying

tbh but also Spectrum pays the best cus he's absolutely loaded

[definegirlfriends]

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[carf-writes]

I have mixed feelings about the Titans show. Overall, I think it is kind of bad and the color grading is very ugly but it has good stuff particularly about Dick. It's pretty much the Dick Grayson show and a good chunk of the first half of the first season is dedicated to learning his backstory which literally has nothing to do with the overarching plot.

But I'm still losing my mind over the fact that Rachel googles his name and instantly pulls up a video of his parents' deaths which zooms in on his horrified little face. In the canon of this show, this happened in 2002. Youtube was created in 2005. So somebody recorded this on their camcorder (not that crazy to do at the circus), made sure to keep recording when tragedy struck to film a suddenly orphaned child and then made sure to upload to the internet. And then somebody made sure to keep porting that video over to new video sharing websites so that it would never be lost to time.

They never want to lose this horrible morbid video that definitely violates some youtube guideline. That's messed up.

[manousyren]

Aaaah absolutely loved this episode. I only started watching this last week but I'm already enslaved and reading the Light Novels, and I just gotta say they (Jinshi and Maomao) are so unhinged every epilogue. I don't want to spoil it but I love it so much.

If you like the anime please give the manga or light novels a try we need more people in this fandom lol

[starrysupercell]

Not Supercell making the Bros completely inept to make it seem like Maisie's cool 😭😭

Don't fall into those types of tropes, you're better than this!!

Let Fang be badass and rush into things, let Buster be kind and protective of others, let Maisie be badass AND protective.

It undermines Fang-

-Buster-

-and Maisie!

Let her shine on her own!

[queerstudiesnatural]

i think my brain should be studied i'm being fr

[mothwingwritings]

My partner told me before I left for the con that no one would know who I was on the day I cosplayed Ren Hana.

Flash forward to the moment when a car full of people were flagging me down screaming "REN!!!" and when I turned to them and waved the car erupted into a cacophony of squeals. (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)♡

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

"I hate stories unkilling characters and have been firm on never doing it in my own sci fi series" do you mean that you're writing a sci-fi series other than your fic? If so, I'd love to know more about it! You're an incredible writer.

Yes and no and yes and no. I have two major projects I've taken as far as multiple drafts of novels. But whether either one counts as sci fi... Hm.

Project 1 is probably more fantasy — I always describe it as Chronicles of Narnia by way of Stephen King's It. It definitely has sci fi elements in that it's more interested in commenting on the contemporary U.S. than on the fantasy world — one character flees the U.S. for OtherWorld, one character flees OtherWorld for the U.S., one character only goes to OtherWorld so he can earn a place in U.S. society, and one character only leaves the U.S. so she can earn a place in OtherWorld. It also has that sci fi sensibility of wanting to know how things work, why different societies are different for good and bad reasons. That said, it's also a portal fantasy about characters using magic to travel between universes, so... marginal.

Project 2 is more like X-Men, in that it's more concerned with how teenagers would (mis)use the ability to shoot lasers than how the lasers work. It's largely about forming an identity and fighting real estate developers on behalf of one's family co-op, so urban fantasy if it's fantasy or low sci fi if it's sci fi. The relative sci-fi-ness of the universe is literally a minor point of contention between two characters (one's a science tutor who believes in experimenting with the chaos energy to understand it better; one's a devout believer who has Seen Some Shit and knows better than to futz around with these things) and I deliberately never resolve it. The superpower stuff is important and fun and influences the characters a lot, but unlike X-Men it's not a magic-school story and doesn't want to be.

Sorry that's kind of a non-answer. But I think stressing too hard over how a book will be marketed while you're still drafting it is like buying wallpaper for a house you haven't built, and that genres are just made-up marketing categories anyway.

[dennisboobs]

god hole is a fundamental dennis scene but not because of the way everyone else uses it