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Today's phone call with Anthem went marginally better than yesterday's, in that I got to tell three people that their corporate actions were directly contributing to the lack of trust in the existing system and the growing belief in universal health care. I also got to cut off a medical professional three times with "you're not my wife's doctor, and I don't trust you."
I hope the Director of Behavioral Psych comes down with Herod's Evil.
@DialMforMara I can't talk about HP that way, but I know the MLP fandom has spawned the same general idea. There's a bunch of fanfics that I would advocate as being better explorations of theme than the original, many of which featured in budding parts of my spirituality for a while.
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Today, I told an insurance agent, "I want you to look your significant other in the eye when you get home and tell them that the company for which you work would deny medically necessary care for you for up to 45 days while they decide whether to listen to your doctor over our in-house review board."
Tomorrow, when she calls me back with their behavioral psych expert on the line, I'm going to ask her if she delivered the message like I asked. And then I'm going to tell the doc to do it.
@mawr "Ties of Blood, Ties of Iron" -- sequel to Bonds -- has been languishing while I get my head sorted out. "Familiar Flesh" is still out for publication, waiting on tenterhooks for news from @CircletPress. "Support" just got accepted to the inaugural issue of CLAW, so now I'm trying to decide if I should/can afford to fly to AC to be at the signing.
transhumanism, death
@Fuego Just make sure it has the DLC; I wanna cast Pursuers on him.
transhumanism, death
@Fuego More seriously, thus just looks like the front-end service to what Tadashiissei was doing in Beautiful World. When they can validate the Transform and Load steps, I'll be interested. Just solving Extract doesn't help us much yet.
transhumanism, death
@Fuego Nectome = Connectome - Con
Since the connectome is the graph of all neural connections in the brain, and a con is a heist or a fast one, "making a con out of a connectome" looks like a perfect name.
Schadenfreude Flip (alcohol)
@green Jägermeister, dark rum, and an egg-white, shaken until full-bodied.
@Fuego Whoopsie-doodle!
Shit what th' buni says
Keet, an wise one: "Can you imagine the universe in which what we're seeing in the TAS (tool-assisted speedrun) is what's actually happening in the game? What have people got to be thinking?"
Me, a buni: "Bowser's staring out the stained-glass window saying, 'Shit, he just twerked for three minutes and then disappeared backward through the door!'"
food, slow cooker/crock pot question
@green They're available at Safeway and most grocery stores. Check under food storage for "Slow Cooker bags" or "Oven Bags."
sleep deprivation, misgenderings (-)
@Soreth *offers pettin's*
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@drwho At the same time, there's a long history on the right of refusing to draw even the simplest correlation between any allegedly-neutral policy and its unintended or undesirable circumstances. This reinforces the sense that most conservatives' arguments are disingenuous and thus not worth deciphering. I'll fully grant most liberals don't dig into the right's arguments, but at the same time, is it surprising when most conservatives don't seem to grasp the consequences of their own views?
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