While law enforcement does not believe Thompson’s killing is part of a trend targeting health executives, the attack underscores the vulnerability of these high-profile executives.

As a trans person in the US this sentence makes me want to scream. Can’t imagine what it must be like to be vulnerable to being murdered 🙄

Doesn’t that imply it was the public that needed to be appeased? lol

Dress decently and bring a book or some other way to entertain yourself, you should mostly expect being bored. Most cases plea out so they wind up not needing most people they call in, so you might not even make it to the selection process.

And the people that run those companies, should they kill people depending on their company for healthcare if it makes them money?

Oh hey, this was your same response to LGBT people being worried about Trump taking office. Meanwhile the Project 2025 crowd is champing at the bit to ban medical transition for adults.

You going to eat crow, or just be glad when it happens?

Where do you think they got the $10 million/year to pay this man? Who do you think instituted a policy to use AI for approvals/denials, which resulted in a 90% false rejection rate? What’s crazy is acting like the murder of thousands of people through denial of medical care for money, if done from a sufficient distance, is somehow less abhorrent than doing it up close and with a gun.

Expecting people who have either been directly impacted or had family medical care impacted by the policies of this man to show sympathy for him isn’t just unrealistic, it’s deranged. Considering United is one of the largest insurance companies in the US, that’s a lot of fucking people who are at best apathetic about the whole situation.

Obligatory ‘I suspect some people who can’t read might reply to this’ disclaimer: obviously you shouldn’t murder people. Including if you’re a healthcare CEO and it’s done by setting policies to squeeze the maximum profit out of people before they die.

If he had killed him it wouldn’t have been a children’s movie, lol

I’m a soap-taster, unfortunately, but it smells really good to me! I just wish it tasted like it smelled

I’ve never noticed an ant smell, if I had to guess I’d assume it’s some different chemical I’m picking up on from the pill bugs.

This is a weird question but everyone else could smell these, right? Like a weird bitter, musty smell. That post about people smelling ants a while back made me wonder what other bugs not all people smell.

The children of today have no idea what it was like to go into a McDonald’s and see used ashtrays on the tables. And good for them. But holy shit, how did anyone ever have an appetite?

Yeah, if I lived off blood money in a country with insanely high gun ownership, I would also start acting like it.

This is why Melon and the AI chud brigade are so obsessed with having a chatbot (sorry, “AI”) that always agrees with them: a stupid number of people think LLMs are search engines, or worse, search engines but better, some diviner of truth.

I’ve read that smell fatigue is part of the reason for that, although I’m sure associating it with work doesn’t help! When I find food unappetizing after cooking it I try to step outside for around 5 minutes just to reset my nose. Not long enough for it to get cold. When I go back in it usually is much more appetizing.

Reminder that in some states it is a crime to do this with testosterone, and anything you write anywhere online (but especially the fediverse) should be considered permanent.

Also reminder that the “SINGLE USE ONLY” label on injectable HRT can be ignored*, and used to not even be on there Back In The Day. Just look for crud floating around, warm the bottle in your hands to make sure it’s not just crystallized, and toss it if it doesn’t go away. Don’t mistake bubbles for crud if you shake it.

* You can check to make sure it has preservative ingredients if you’re super worried about it

A large portion of my TL on Bluesky is people fundraising for specific Palestinian families. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You see what you follow

Sadly it seems like the philosophy PhDs getting the real cash from YouTube are the ones that peddle extreme misogyny and other various bigotries, eg lobster man.

Edit: wait, mixing up my Ps there, he’s a psych phd and not philosophy

Possibly having my ID documents reverted to the wrong gender at the federal level, losing access to HRT, my marriage being dissolved by the federal government, being excluded from public life… Just normal trans stuff 😔👍

The ultimate townies, on a universal scale.

Pleased to introduce you to this new concept today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole