The hospital makes money on treatments, the health insurance makes money on avoiding treatments.

My (non-profit) statutory health insurance/Krankenkasse in Germany pays me to do yearly prophylactic checks every year for this reason.

Shouldn’t health insurance companies be up in arms over this? Vaccines are usually much cheaper than paying for treatment. Unless they are planning to say that lack of vaccination makes it the patient’s fault.

Or at least before he self appointed himself as President Musk.

Have you seen the kind of people these kinds of jobs attracts? We aren’t talking about Starbucks workers, we are mostly talking about people that get off on power trips.

You mean Musk’s and Bezos’ generation? I wouldn’t call what they are doing keeping the status quo. And just to be clear, I don’t mean this is a good way.

And nothing of that has anything to do with blocking the union’s website besides Google’s sheer incompetence.

It’s like all the media that think they are defending Brian Thompson by saying he was less horrible than the average healthcare CEO. Sometimes I wonder if they are making an argument for resurrecting the guillotine industry.

Usually yes, but that term could be confused with car-specific mechaphilia.

Are we talking about “Seinfeld”, the slightly overrated comedy TV series, or “Seinfeld”, the horrible human being?

You are looking at job applications from the wrong perspective. You are seeing the job description and seeing minimum requirements, when in 90% they are describing the ideal candidate that will probably never show up.

And I want to emphasise, you shouldn’t lie, you shouldn’t pad your résumé, but you should also not volunteer to testify against yourself.

I’m not telling you not tell the truth, I’m telling you to consider that list of skills on a job description is a wishlist and only answer what is asked in the interview.

I’ve interviewed more people than I can count, leading to more hirings than I can count, and I don’t remember any case where the candidate met all the checkboxes on the ideal skillset. Because what goes in the job description is the perfect candidate not the minimum.

You don’t lie, lying will get you into trouble. You just don’t mention it if they don’t ask. And if they don’t ask it’s probably not that important. Most job descriptions are like Christmas wishlists anyway, they will be happy if they get half of it.

HTS seem to be pragmatists and they need someone to sell them replacements for most of the equipment Israel is bombing. I think this is in the hands of the west to fuck up, but since Israel is involved, that’s almost a given.

By some reports they are still trying to negotiate with the HTS to keep their little port.

So the US has a slightly lighter propaganda ritual than an actual nationalistic dictatorship. Their religious nutjobs are also slightly less evil than the Taliban. What a country! /s

Elon Musk openly daydreams about being Ma Huateng. What does that tell you?

Except Xi Jinping is not oppressing owners of capital. China has lots of oligarchs that in some ways have a tighter grip on society than their western counterparts. He’s oppressing people that are “inconvenient” to him.

Hieroglyphs were relatively easy in comparison. They just needed enough translated material as a reference to be almost universally understood.

Memes are shifting on a year to year basis and are sensitive to news events. There are people that are going to spend their entire lives looking for a specific meme or event that will allow them to understand another meme. And with the occasional “vintage” meme references there’s even lots of opportunity for dramatic eureka moments when an expert on 2000s memes finally provides the missing clue for a 2030s meme.

Edit: and for their sake I hope someone is backing up the Urban Dictionary and Know Your Meme in several nuclear bunkers.

Finally an advantage to half of the congress being older than sliced bread. Hopefully enough of them remember on a personal level what polio does.

For work-life balance on the basis of the comic, by refusing to do any kind of overtime on a regular basis, and making sure any time it happens I’m compensated for it. I’m also fortunate enough to earn enough that I was able to reduce my working hours to have Fridays free. Having half of the year free gives me the opportunity to actually do some living.

Now for the more general question, I mostly try to not think about it, because it tends to throw me into a FOMO driven frenzy where I do things to cross them from a checklist and end up not really enjoying anything. For the most part, I found I’m much happier trying to live in the moment even if I’m not very good at it.