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Biden, famously surrounded by no one leveling with him as they removed him as a major party candidate from a presidential nomination he had already won? That Biden?
Put this under nature of the problem. From an axios piece by Jim Vendehei about the growing multiple risks of cascading crises. You’d say the same about Biden? Not politics? lol
Raymond, you do not want to establish a pay-as-you-go arrangement for government services or their private equivalent at 72 years of age doubly so if you're a fuckass dipshit.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
The only reason we come out ahead in every dispute with an insurance company is that my wife, in addition to being wise and kind, has worked for a long while as a medical coder and auditor on both sides and can fight line by line and procedure code by procedure code. It doesn't have to be like this.
I had two kids in the NICU which produced a $10k bill because two insurers both said "not me!" for 36 hours of it. I fixed it by applying the full scope of my skills as civil litigation attorney. It would've cost >$10k to hire me to do it; as a policy matter, I consider that wholly unacceptable.
I love dogs, and these look like great dogs, but it's just straight up backyard breeding and wishing to think this is bringing back a lost breed. Breeds are so mutable and temporary and individual dogs are all it's worth thinking about.
A Six Flags agent running a routine task unexpectedly interacted with customers in an unapproved fashion. Six Flags responded, in part, saying, "“Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal, we have now decided to expand our internal evaluations until we catch behaviors like these."
Six Flags temporarily closed nine roller coasters across six amusement parks on Monday after one person died and several others were injured in an incident involving a coaster in Georgia.
Not gonna lie this looks like something that would hang outside a "reclaimed barn" in yakisugi and austere brown pine tar up here in the Hudson valley. Owners have great eyeglasses and are both consultants. Flagpole would have some fanciful Americana on top. Optician's eyeball sign or a Texaco star.
Programmers and executives at Anthropic initiated a test of their software that resulted in the commission of crimes against the government ranging from forgery to filing false police reports. They were not asked to do so by the government or by any clients or potential customers.
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
Hilariously Liberty Mutual has made worse ads as they've spent more and put more effort into it. I freelanced at the agency studio that did the original standing by the harbor with the statue in the bg ads. Literally shot in a conference room with a greenscreen hung on a wall.
Liberty Biberty represents a truly fascinating escalation in the Insurance Wars, an outright descent into madness
Hilariously Liberty Mutual has made worse ads as they've spent more and put more effort into it. I freelanced at the agency studio that did the original standing by the harbor with the statue in the bg ads. Literally shot in a conference room with a greenscreen hung on a wall.
Liberty Biberty represents a truly fascinating escalation in the Insurance Wars, an outright descent into madness
You could also just go grocery shopping which, in my experience, has very good outcomes generally in the grocery-acquisition space. Thneed-ass software laid low by the back of an envelope and a goddamn pencil and asking errybody what they want.
In my experience LLMs are almost spooky good at understanding private dialects/baroque references/etc - you'd need to put them in some kind of "ask questions and learn" mode to start, but once they write a memory block or two about your ideal shopping outcomes, they'd be pretty good at this
I'm not saying the mystery of the tripartite god is an easy one to contemplate but at the very least it made me very aware of one thing. When they came for him and tortured him to death, despite being god, with powers, Christ didn't fight back. He is not a "muscular" Christ in any way.
“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.
Interview is a two way stream of information and I think I'd be happy to know if doing something I thought was normal and ok was going to raise eyebrows. I mean, I make sure to use the restroom, have a look at the kitchen and notice the windows. You better have cleaned, buddy. And I am judging.
I’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
To David's point; yesterday we had to put our sweet elderly mom dog down. It was absolutely the right thing to do but it was of course horrible and I cried. And then, as I told a work pal offering condolences...
I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.
I was at a party in a small town when I was in high school and it was the first time I ever saw people drinking like they were mad at themselves. A couple were sitting making out, tremendously drunk, at a table. The fella leaned, spewed and spit and went back in for more kissing and
imagine being a grown adult highly-paid professional, going to a party where you see an unaccompanied 13 year old in the midst of (presumably) various drug/alcohol/sexual activities, and NOT immediately 1. leaving so fast you leave a cloud of dust behind you and 2. notifying authorities.