honestly it's kinda mindblowing hearing stories about japanese teenagers like, ages 12~14 just. quitting school, leaving home, and just traveling the country following their favourite bands, being supported by their online friends and other people in the community, and just spending their time faking their age hanging out at bars and adult clubs that they aren't supposed to be at. cause it's like. from an american perspective the immediate reaction is "holy shit how are these kids not in serious peril" but then it's like. "how are they so lucky and so safe that they get to just do this without their lives getting ended in some way. how are they so lucky that doing this has actually improved their physical and mental health cause they're no longer stuck at home or stuck at school, and can instead find the places where they belong at and just thrive in those spaces". like kids literally stop being suicidal because they get to live their lives the way they want to

it's just mindblowing cause this kinda shit would straight up never work in the usa. and like, japan is by no means a country where crimes against minors are uncommon, and yet that kind of lifestyle is still possible for them, and it's just like, man.

!meowr

Introducing a new ping group: !corporats

Do you work for a corporation? Do you hate HR jannies? Thinking about going postal every day? Now is the time to join the corporats!

Haha some days I'm kinda like

but other days I'm all like

heh, yeah...I need to get back to filling out some spreadsheets

Two months after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was killed, UnitedHealth Group has hired a defamation law firm to take on social media posts that it claims are untrue and reckless, according to Bloomberg Law.

The Virginia-based firm Clare Locke claims on its website to be "dedicated to litigating complex defamation matters and representing clients facing high-profile reputational attacks."

On Jan. 7, a plastic surgeon named Elisabeth Potter posted a video of herself on Instagram claiming that UnitedHealthcare called her mid-surgery and asked her to justify an in-patient stay for a woman who has breast cancer and needed a surgical procedure to treat it. Potter then claimed that the insurer denied the patient an overnight stay and threatened her with legal action for her posts.

She included what appeared to be screen grabs of the letter from Clare Locke, dated Jan. 13. "We are writing to demand you correct your knowingly false, misleading, and defamatory posts regarding UnitedHealthcare," it reads. The lawyers claim she made an error and that is why the insurer reached out, and that it would never have asked or expected her to step out mid-surgery. Clare Locke asked that she post a public apology and retract her accusations.

"I am a woman taking care of women affected by breast cancer," Potter wrote on X. "I do this work with all of my heart, and I will continue to speak up for my patients—because they deserve better."

"There are no insurance-related circumstances that would ever require a physician to step out of surgery, as doing so would create potential safety risks and we would never ask or expect a physician to interrupt patient care to return a call," a UnitedHealthcare spokesperson told Fortune. "These allegations by a plastic surgeon that UnitedHealthcare denied coverage for the care that a breast cancer patient received are false and UnitedHealthcare had previously approved coverage for the care, including an overnight stay."

Potter isn't the only one taking to social media to vent about United Healthcare. Since Thompson was murdered, people glorified his alleged killer and criticized the insurer online for denying claims.

Bloomberg recently reported UnitedHealth contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission about a since-deleted post by billionaire Bill Ackman. "I would not be surprised to find that the company's profitability is massively overstated due to its denial of medically necessary procedures and patient care," Ackman had claimed. UnitedHealth shares fell by 4.3% the next day.

Clare Locke was founded by Tom Clare and Libby Locke, who are husband and wife. It co-represented Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News. Dominion sued Fox for $1.6 billion, accusing the outlet of damaging its reputation after Fox wrongly blamed it for switching votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The case resulted in Fox paying Dominion a $787.5 million settlement.

Clare Locke did not immediately respond to Fortune's request for comment.

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Glorious cathay shall clear away the potato BIPOCs and make room for civilization.

Why can't Everyone Be Different?? Men Get Orgasms & WoMen are like "so do we"…FeMenism got half the population faking tickle attacks and forcing pee.

I love women, and women love me…it would be weird if Men were like "so do we"

Because obviously of Burat, I had some interest in that country so this month I decided to do some research. They have an interesting culture like they are Asian yet their women act like slav women. That would mean their men act like Slav men ? No they act like Caucasian (Chechens) mixed with Arabs. Their mannerism is Caucasian yet they are more tolerant than Caucasian. So it's understandable men want get rid of Russian language and want more Islam and be more like Turk (they don't understand Turks are also cucked, once I on tinder put my location to Istanbul and shit tons of foids had on their profile "white man take me away from this shit hole")

Kazakh women obviously don't want huge Islam influence. But since Kazakhstan is a democratic country (election) and country has more Waaaaaaman, so gov obviously won't do something to piss waman.

And the country has decent amount of white in the country so guess what. So despite Kazakh people making 72% of total population of Kazakh and white people 18%.

Almost every Kazakh woman has dated a mayo and got penetrated by them.

So despite being Muslim country Kazakh men are ok marrying non virgin because it only cost 100 buxx for foid to get her virginity back

So they can never be sure.

But problem is for Kazakh women, Kazakh men ain't good enough so they still dreaming to marry mayo and move to the west. Seen some post where Kazakh woman marries some burger and all Kazakh men were like this:

traitor

And Kazakh women

omg I want to be like you and frick Kazakh men for not being happy for you.

So if we look at Kazakh birth rate it's doing very well but that's mostly because they now having shit tons of refugees from Uzbekistan who are having like 9 kids and for married couples it's ok to have 6+ kids so if 25% Kazakh women marry and start having 6+ kids the population will still have a growth. So they have some growth while majority of women are single looking for chads.

When the old generation dies out they will have bad fertility rate because young Kazakh women want to be European or marry Saudi Dubai guy

Hwouse: Furry

Coping ^

dumbest day in the year, almost as bad as christmas. all it's for is to make gullible moids waste their money and dumb shit so they can feel superior to the guys without a gf. Conformists, all of them. I hope all their gfs break up with them for spending 10% too little on the gift

Back in the good old days in the 20th century, both corporations AND unions bought politicians to do their bidding. Also unions were based, corrupt, violent, and fought for their members.

Then the Feds only went after the politicians bought by unions, but not the politicians bought by corporations. So now, all the politicians are only bought by corporations, and all corporations are gay and lame without exception.

That's why we're now headed back to another Gilded Age where only corporate leaders and the rich have power and now everything is gay and lame and sucks on every end of the political spectrum.

True Radical Centrism requires corruption from based uneducated blue collar labor to counteract the gay and lame corporations.

kanye is off his rocker...but does he have an actual point...

!catholics !christians happy Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time!

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First Reading

Thus says the LORD:

        Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings,

                    who seeks his strength in flesh,

                    whose heart turns away from the LORD.

        He is like a barren bush in the desert

                    that enjoys no change of season,

        but stands in a lava waste,

                    a salt and empty earth.

        Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD,

                    whose hope is the LORD.

        He is like a tree planted beside the waters

                    that stretches out its roots to the stream:

        it fears not the heat when it comes;

                    its leaves stay green;

        in the year of drought it shows no distress,

                    but still bears fruit.

-Jeremiah 17:5-8

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Responsorial Psalm

R (40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed the man who follows not

        the counsel of the wicked,

nor walks in the way of sinners,

        nor sits in the company of the insolent,

but delights in the law of the LORD

        and meditates on his law day and night.

R Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

He is like a tree

        planted near running water,

that yields its fruit in due season,

        and whose leaves never fade.

Whatever he does, prospers.

R Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Not so the wicked, not so;

        they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

For the LORD watches over the way of the just,

        but the way of the wicked vanishes.

R Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.\

-Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4 & 6

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Second Reading

Brothers and sisters:

If Christ is preached as raised from the dead,

how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

If the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised,

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain;

you are still in your sins.

Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ,

we are the most pitiable people of all.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead,

the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

-1 @Nightcrawler s 15:12, 16-20

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Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Rejoice and be glad;

your reward will be great in heaven.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

-Luke 6:23

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Gospel

Jesus came down with the Twelve

and stood on a stretch of level ground

with a great crowd of his disciples

and a large number of the people

from all Judea and Jerusalem

and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.

And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said:

        "Blessed are you who are poor,

                    for the kingdom of God is yours.

        Blessed are you who are now hungry,

                    for you will be satisfied.

        Blessed are you who are now weeping,

                    for you will laugh.

        Blessed are you when people hate you,

                    and when they exclude and insult you,

                    and denounce your name as evil

                    on account of the Son of Man.

Rejoice and leap for joy on that day!

Behold, your reward will be great in heaven.

For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.

        But woe to you who are rich,

                    for you have received your consolation.

        Woe to you who are filled now,

                    for you will be hungry.

        Woe to you who laugh now,

                    for you will grieve and weep.

        Woe to you when all speak well of you,

                    for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way."

-Luke 6:17, 20-26

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I find it interesting how famous the Beatitudes are, while what I will now dub the "Reverse Beatitudes" are rarely spoken of. "Woe to you" is not a phrase most people associate with Jesus. "Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings." I think the point is that mortal success is no proof of divine favor or personal holiness, and thus to take pride in such things is foolish.