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I mean, that’s a pretty accurate one sentence summary. Only thing that’s missing is that a random bystander “recognized” him even though he was wearing a mask and all of the photos we had of the suspect up to that point were 90% eyebrow.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/us/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-arrest-explained/

You obviously think the post is shit lmao

Luigi was missing for a few days, after executing a masterful getaway in the middle of the day in the largest city in the country. Then just randomly shows up at a McDonalds with everything needed to convict him packaged together in a bag. Definitely not unusual at all. Nothing to see here folks! The system works and the police are master investigators. It’s impossible to get away with a crime like this!

Yeah, ER is almost never the right place. But if you do go to an ER, make sure it’s attached to a hospital. The free standing ones are notorious for predatory billing and will take your first born after saving them. And your insurance will fight to not cover it.

Urgent care and minute-clinic type things can be good. Primary care physicians are typically best, though they may be difficult to get an appointment for.

Urgent care facilities commonly double as ERs. In that case, I believe they’re legally required to get you to sign a specific form before they can charge you for an ER visit. Speaking from experience, it’ll just about 10-40x the rates and they’ll still charge you for an urgent care visit on top. Also speaking from experience, check your insurance plan before doing this. My insurance card said $150 copay for ER visits, but the plan was actually $150 + 10% (still unbelievably good in freedomland), plus they refuse to cover any of it anyway and the appeals process literally takes the better part of a year.

That said, it can literally be the difference between life and death. Fighting insurance, while a huge PITA, is much better than a dead child. It’s just the sad reality we live in, in order to have checks notes poor health outcomes and healthcare quality tied to whatever your job (if you have one) happens to offer. 🦅🇺🇸🎆

No, it’s not. Consoles (and technology in general) historically trend cheaper over time. Demand lowers, manufacturing cost lowers, newer tech releases, costs adjust to accommodate.

It’s very abnormal that the current gen of consoles has not only not gotten cheaper yet, but has actually raisen in price. Like, very very abnormal.

Shrinkflation is a real thing, but historically it has nothing to do with consoles.

Source: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/how-low-will-the-price-of-ps4-go.1520289/

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/are-the-ps4-and-xbox-one-really-that-expensive-historically/

This definitely reads like you’re saying teens are ignoring planetary extinction and just letting it happen, but I think you intended the opposite lmao

Cops don’t train like the military, they just dress like it.

And the apps that do have lifetime licenses went from $5 to like $80

Blocking basically all ads on your phone is trivially easy.

1. Find “Private DNS” (or something similar) in your settings
2. Set it to dns.adguard-dns.com

And that’s really it. There are other ad-blocking dns providers out there, and they all use slightly different block lists. I like adguard because their blocklist is less aggressive than others I’ve tried, and I’d rather an ad or two get through than for something legitimate to stop working.

You can also set it up as your dns provider in your router to block ads on your entire network. People tend to like to self-host adguard or pihole for that, but as long as you don’t care about a dashboard or manual dns entries, using a free dns is as easy as it gets and is very effective. I self-host as a hobby and I still just use adguard’s public dns.

Arrest records are public. Even if you’re innocent or the charges are dropped or whatever, they still smear your reputation by putting your mugshot up. It can be a good thing too, since it cuts down on the number of people arrested quietly with no disclosed reason.

You should be able to go into your router and block internet access for your tv, no additional hardware necessary. And it’s more reliable than pi-hole since it’ll block all internet access, even static ips, and no chance of a dns leak.

The issue isn’t that police exist. Like you said, police are necessary for government to function because agreed upon rules/laws must be enforced. Since we live in a physical world, the ultimate escalation of disagreements is physical force, i.e. violence, so in order to be the supreme enforcer of laws, the government must have a monopoly (or at least undisputed superiority) on violence. Police are the first-level enforcers and therefore exist as a group with the ability to use violence among a populace that is largely disallowed from the same. This is just an inherent fact of a governing body and I don’t think any ideology disagrees. Even anarchism is in agreement, since it’s lack of police also necessitates the lack of a government.

The issue arrises when those with a monopoly on violence abuse their powers to do whatever they want, or to enforce their selfish will on others. It’s very difficult to avoid that situation. Lots of oversight and repercussions are required, but that is basically never implemented. This is probably the main issue with police today. Near total immunity to do anything, including murder.

Police also inherently enforce the status quo and protect the elite. They enforce the current laws/state of things, as is their job, so they are always there to fight against change and progress (and regression). The elites typically define those laws and control the paychecks/priorities of the police, so the police fight for the elites. That is generally not good. An ideal society can mitigate this by reducing the powers of the police. Things like empowering social workers to respond to mental health crises or check-ups. Or limiting the polices’ capabilities for violence (guns, military vehicles, etc…) and delegating that to specialized task forces that only respond when the circumstances call for it. Adjust the violence level of the response to the situation at hand and come with a goal of de-escalation.

So generally, people aren’t calling for no police, they are calling for less militarized, less violent, and less immune police. Also, better trained police. A 6 week training course full of highschool dropouts should not be the pipeline for the police force. Bonus points of the police are actually active members of their communities.

Lastly, if police are just there to look busy and get paid, they tend to go after easy low-hanging fruit that doesn’t benefit society. Filling jails with weed smokers while refusing to purse any crimes that require a modicum of investigation helps no one.

ACAB is very accurate because the job description of today’s police is to be evil. However, that doesn’t need to be the case.

Well, maybe not properly

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