Governor Josh Shapiro comments on the arrest of Luigi Mangione:
β Pop Base (@PopBase) December 10, 2024
βSome attention in this case, especially online, has been deeply disturbing as some have looked to celebrate instead of condemning this killer. [β¦] In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policyβ¦ pic.twitter.com/hlYpyL8vYL
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People empowered by the status quo are scared of the collapse of the status quo?!?! How completely unexpected!
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They arent scared of a murder. They're scared of a trend
!nonchuds
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Between WW1 and WW2, Japan had become known as a "government by assassination."
Several special interest societies had emerged, who killed people to remove them -- and their ideas -- from office.
The ultimate extension of this motif extended into the military (it probably caused the Manchurian Incident), yet it didn't work out so well in the end. !historychads
I'm glad a shitbag CEO is dead but also I don't accept this as how to do business. If you endorse random weirdos to use violence against corporations, then you are also accepting corporations to use violence against random weirdos.
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How was the CEO a shitbag?
(wingcucks are terrible at answering this
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The mean rejection rate of health insurance claims can be described as N.
As the CEO of a health insurance company, his company's rejection rate was 2N, the highest among all. This is strongly outside a random fluctuation: it appears deliberate and profit-driven.
One year in the 2020s, it was found that half his company's revenue came from $8.7B in Medicare fraud.
These are all probably linked to monetary crimes. His guilt was never evaluated in a legal court, and even if guilty none of these crimes carried a death penalty.
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Have you ever been involved in a high stakes civil case? It's a fricking joke. The state has it set up with the judges and all the lawyers who work together.
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It was 2 times higher according to what?
And that justifes killing their CEO, which all else equal, will require paying more the next CEO due to the higher risk? No, this is foolish.
What people don't understand about insurance is that you can't accept every claim; otherwise, you go bankrupt, and all of your members will be left with no insurance. The cash flow to their ongoing treatments will halt, and they'll have to find another insurer to pick up the bill. What a great idea!
People generally don't think about the long-term and the constraints faced by others (especially with companies), so they form all sorts of r-slurred and hypocritical ideas. Why not donate all your wealth to anyone who wants it?
They're facing slim profit margins, UHC with 6%, because (shocking!) it's a competitive market, so it's not like they can freely reject more and more claims to maximize profits. There's an incentive against having too high of a rejection rate.
And what's the ideal rejection rate? I don't know. You don't either. Is UHC's pool systemically different from other insurers'? Does it have more fats, r-slurs, cPTSD foids, and other hypochondriacs? I don't know, and you don't know either.
You're just another raving wingback flying off the hilt because someone murdered someone and some random facts were thrown in your face. You aren't thinking. You're being a wingcuck.
!commenters, another late night banger for the anti-insurance r-slurs.
(I will seriouspost at you, ACA, and you will like it.
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Idc about all ur words nerd, I just want people to cap establishment lizards on the street.
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Aren't all insurance companies in the Muttland engaged in scam where out of pocket price is artificially increased so that insurance can "negotiate" lower prices.
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Yes, it's a giant conspiracy among them where they share their prices with each other and can enforce their price agreements somehow magically, and it has nothing to do with hospitals billing you as much as they can until insurance steps in and smacks them down.
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That's the providers doing that lmao
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Sorry that's my fault for listening to you.
I mean I'm still pissed at insurance companies but I mean I'm not totally clueless to what is going on in this world.
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That degree finally paying off
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Yes it has.
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Its a competitive market where, they were the bottom. And Having had them in the past they were trash when they didnt reject your claim too. Straight up You had to max your out of pocket before they helped you with a penny.
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What's wrong with you people? Did you have the high deductible plan?
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That's because whoever purchased the plan wanted it that way. All the insurers will structure plans like this if you tell them to and none of them require the plans to be structured this way.
Like now you're just bitching about irrelevant shit bb
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But if it weren't for the government by assassination and the Pacific War, we wouldn't have !anime
!weebs Remember that Tojo died for this
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There just wasn't enough Uranium for three
!burgers
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I was just reading about this a couple weeks ago. I've already forgotten the details but there was I think 3 actually there at Tinian and maybe 2 more on their way? (Somebody else please correct me if you remember.) But nowhere near enough to actually win a war. (Keep in mind that these are primitive bombs that can't actually destroy a whole city.) So there was a lot of fear that the Japanese would call our bluff. Fortunately they tried to but when they got hit by the second one they assumed we must have a lot.
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I think that's right. They figured they could have 5 by October, 9 by the end of the year, counting Fat Man and Little Boy.
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Thx fam.
This is one of the great things about rDrama, you always got a wingman.
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I actually double checked, and it was essentially 3 per month. They figured they could get one more out in August, three each in September and October
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Yeah they hadn't even developed boosted fission by this point. They could have double the yield of the Fat Man (but not the Little Boy).
ENIAC was still running the numbers on a fusion bomb.
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You're trying to trick me here, trying to prove that I'm a fake. Well I'm not. I'm a real idiot savant.
ENIAC wasn't operating until after the war. The fusion bomb stuff, there might have been some theoretical work then, but nobody was really getting serious about it until several years later.
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Yeah, they used ENIAC to run calculations for fusion feasibility as well as targeting tables. They had to solve for the X-ray emissions from the primary fission to the secondary fusion to cause ignition through its tamper. I don't know how much of this they did by hand vs computer.
LLNL has a supercomputer (it was one of the top 3 of its day) and they use it for modeling some incredible nuclear scenarios.
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wasn't one of them a plutonium bomb? i thought they were fundamentally different designs bc we weren't entirely sure how they'd work in practice
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The Little Boy went first. It was so sure to work that they didn't even bother to test it.
build a hollow cylinder of uranium below critical mass
shoot a slug of uranium into the hollow part to complete the critical mass
The Fat Man was an implosion device, meaning that the bomb was a hollow sphere of plutonium that had to be compressed perfectly, and so all the detonators had to be precisely synched in order for it to work. Or at least maximize how well it worked.
build a hollow sphere of plutonium
don't die making it
assemble explosives and detonators around the sphere to make it squish
!ifrickinglovescience !physics !engineering
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Besides being two different kinds of bombs, they had two parallel projects to make the nuclear material. Enriching uranium at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and a reactor to make plutonium at Hanford, Washington. Which have both remained very important places to this day. Oak Ridge because they still have labs there and Hanford because an insane amount of money has gone into cleaning it up.
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Yep. ORNL does a lot especially at Y12. PNNL is essentially a Superfund slremediatin project.
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I'm sorry, I don't speak Reptilian.
My impression is this was basically a scam. After 80 fricking years there's still been less than zero education. The general public still think of radioactivity in Old Testament/Muslim religious terms, that it makes things unclean. Jesus Fricking Christ just put it in the river and let it drain into the ocean.
Have any of you dumbshits seen how big the Columbia River is? I'm not some Rand Paul type who wants to blow everything up, I care about the salmon and our treaty obligations to the Indians and everything, but we have had actual problems here with the frogs turning gay from pesticides decades ago. (Not even joking, they reported on this on NPR at least 20 years ago back when they did news. And they're not gay they just have their s*x organs fricked up. It's a serious issue.) Some trace amount of radioactive material leaking into the river is completely irrelevant compared to all the real water quality issues we deal with. Like cute twinks in cowboy hats having their cattle overgraze on our land.
But it does employ a lot of people with high salaries. And I really like Tri-Cities in the summer. Every other part of the country is sucking from the federal teat in some kind of corruption, why can't we?
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but... IM A RANDOM WERDO
!r-slurs
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You're not random to me β€οΈ
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why ? have you read the comments when the popos shoot a pibble?
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Yes. And based on those comments they should shoot more.
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not the point
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More of us then them
!commenters
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"if you kill your enemies, they win"
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It's bullshit. Assassination is cowardly. If you want a society based on honor, you can have a system in which somebody could challenge somebody to a fair duel.
Of course, that still poses problems because you can't just have people killing everybody that they don't like. So, how about you can challenge somebody to a duel, but if you kill them, you assume responsibility for their family and any of their obligations?
Maybe the CEO was bad, maybe he wasn't. Anyone who rises to a high level will soon discover that some small action taken can have an unintended adverse impact on many.
I mean, the medical system isn't just his fault. It's the fault of just about every player in the medical system, from the physicians, to the nurses, to the hospitals, to Medicare and Medicaid, to the entrenched interests trying to extract profit from a system and resisting any changes which would lead to them making less profit, i.e. cheap generics, i.e. medications or treatments in other countries.
You can't even have medical devices shipped from from another country. Say you want to get crutches from Canada or Mexico. No, you can't do that. Those are medical devices. What's special about a crutch? You can make one literally out of branches, but no, you cannot because it is a medical device and therefore you must buy our special $700 American crutches, not those inferior $20 Mexican ones. But really, is that why? Because of safety? No, it's because they want you to fricking pay more and buy their shitty product because this is also a "capitalist system" which relies strongly on blocking competition through regulations
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They're scared that their aura of invincibility is having holes poked in it.
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Jreg mentioned that its a relief. They only have to worry about it for 5 more years before transhumanism might pick up
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