No, go engineer yourself

I have been following the news about Brian Thompson’s assassination in New York, and I am astounded by the flood of sympathy the media has poured out for him. Why? This man spent his entire career working tirelessly to deny healthcare to millions of Americans, all in the name of lining his own pockets and enriching shareholders. Yet the media praises him for his “kindness” and “generosity.” Let me be clear: pushing your company’s claim denial rate to nearly double that of your most cold-hearted competitors, bankrupting families through deceptive fine print and delay tactics, is not kindness, and it is not generosity. No, setting up boiler-room style offices with denial scoreboards is one of the most inhuman things I can imagine.

I spent nearly a decade writing software to help hospital systems fight insurance claim denials, and I can tell you, these insurers are getting better at it every year. They deny even the most justified claims, banking on the fact that most people won’t have the energy, resources, or will to fight back. And for the majority, they’re right. We had a team of a dozen nurses and PAs working alongside twice as many analysts. These were people who knew the system inside and out. We knew the deadlines, the bureaucratic jargon, the documentation required, and we tracked every claim meticulously. But even armed with all that knowledge and experience, we couldn’t win them all. On a good month, we might win two-thirds of the denials. That was considered a success.

What’s even worse is that for every claim we fought, there were countless others that never even made it that far, we only got denials on services that actually happened. A patient’s doctor tells them they need surgery, but an insurer like UnitedHealth says no and that’s it. The patient gives up and it is difficult to imagine they get better.

If you’ve ever had a serious medical condition—and I pray you haven’t—you know how much it drains you, how it strips you of your will to do anything. When every moment is agony, you don’t have the strength to sit on hold for hours, fill out endless forms, or chase down a bureaucratic system designed to wear you down. All you want is to sleep, because that’s the only place that pain can’t find you. How many people have simply lacked the strength to fight back, and ultimately succumbed to their conditions? How many families have been driven into poverty, their lives torn apart by a single emergency, all because of these executives’ policies?

We all know someone who has been through a health insurance nightmare and we also know that while political changes could probably help this problem the reality now is that these people are making a choice to run their companies this way, knowing full well the impact of their greed and indifference.

Where are your tears, your headlines, for the thousands of people and families whose lives have been destroyed and whose loved ones have died because of these same executives?

Sympathy out of network

Yeah sorry, I thought that was clear. It’s how context is measured.

Claude is 200k

It’s a neat idea but it still requires hosting and for the vast unwashed masses who don’t want to buy a domain and setup hosting for this stuff at the end of the day I fear this would be Facebook with extra steps.

I did build it a little extra tall so stray rays are not at eye level. The direct beam is broken up a bit at the top but you wouldn’t want to point it directly at people. So far nobody has been blinded, only lightly dazzled.

The fumes are definitely toxic, get out of there.

Ditto can do all of this though preventing passwords and credit card info would be tricky, there’s room for scripting and regex in advanced options. https://github.com/sabrogden/Ditto

Where are you getting that?

CmC is the head nerfer over at Anet, Chris “My opinions only come from Snow Crows” Cohen

Wish they hadn’t kicked the nerf can 2 weeks. Was ready to tear off the bandaid

Thank you and thanks for the tip! That Nitecore E4K 4400 Lumen looks like a worthy v2 face melter :)

What seems to be the problem?

I’ve found my next project!

Thanks very much! I had that scene in Moria where the staff lights up the whole cave in mind, I wanted something dramatic like that but yes, in many ways it was overkill and could have been done with something less bright than the sun lol.

The relics still need a lot of work, even the best ones still feel like a downgrade from what we had. The whole thing feels half baked.

I get what you mean about it feeling like a mod, the reuse of Deimos and Sabatha’s flamethrower attack jumped out at me and the maps too. The Skyscale masteries too, it feels like it could have been a lot better.

The city reminds me of heaven in Diablo 3

Fuck you scab

I usually leave the combat noises on only and play my own music, sometimes consisting of GW soundtracks.