partial_accumen

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[–] partial_accumen 3 points 9 hours ago
[–] partial_accumen 9 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

I'm OoTL. Doesn't Paramount+ have the TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and all the movies?

[–] partial_accumen 9 points 1 day ago

What is this timeline where I’m rooting for Steve Bannon?

Bannon just has his own brand of hate. We do not with with either a President Musk or Bannon victory. We, Americans, lose with either controlling vice president trump's strings.

[–] partial_accumen 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Oh, so he likes to lie about himself? There is CLEARLY one tattoo missing that has consumed a significant amount of his life.

[–] partial_accumen 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'm not sure I agree with that. I thought Dunning-Kruger requires the person to NOT know they are in over their head or misunderstanding their level of knowledge. "Fake it 'til you make it" is acknowledgement and awareness by the person they are not knowledgeable/competent, but will pretend they are until they acquire the knowledge they lack. The big difference is the awareness.

Dunning-Kruger = not having the awareness

"Fake it 'til you make it" = being very the aware, but choosing to go forward anyway

[–] partial_accumen 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How can they ignore the travel binder! SovCit should absolutely sue the entire state for a bajillion ~~dollars.~~ troy ounces of silver.

FTFY /s

[–] partial_accumen 41 points 1 day ago (9 children)

This one may even be worse than normal. That fake sovcit plate says "US DOT" and has the Federal Department of Transportation logo on their fake plate.

Could this sovcit be charged with impersonating a federal official?

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"The impersonation must be of a federal officer (see Massengale v. United States, 240 F.2d 781, 782 (6th Cir. 1957)), and may be affected by verbal declarations as well as by the exhibition of a counterfeited badge or a false certificate of authority."

[–] partial_accumen 43 points 1 day ago

The insurance companies had an obligation to maximize shareholder value. That is the sole purpose of insurance companies.

Look, I get that this is an easy go-to answer for many things, but please add this to expand your understanding a bit more so you have a more complete picture.

Not all insurance companies are public companies with shareholders to satisfy. Mutual Insurance companies are owned by their policy holders. Specifically with California, both State Farm and Liberty Mutual have both exited too. These are both large insurance companies that are NOT driven by "shareholder value". Profits these companies make are issues as dividends to the policy holders, not shareholders.

So the issue of insuring property in California is more than just the standard "greedy shareholders" argument.

[–] partial_accumen 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you're buying now, make sure to get UL 217 8th edition standard in whatever brand you get.

Not only are they much less likely to give false alarms, they are better at alarming earlier at detection of real fires. source

Warning for the USA: while the new UL 217 8th edition standard are on sale, the law allows retailers to sell through their stock of the old ones. You'll still get a working smoke detector, but you'll be missing out on this new better technology/standard.

[–] partial_accumen 1 points 2 days ago

This excellent use of sanctions and its having the intended effect. I'm happy for Serbia to be able to gain control of their petroleum industry again.

[–] partial_accumen 6 points 2 days ago

I want to point out this doesn't happen often. In my experience its rare.

[–] partial_accumen 134 points 2 days ago (9 children)

UnitedHealthcare suggested in a comment to Newsweek that it did not call Potter during surgery, saying, "There are no insurance related circumstances that would require a physician to step out of surgery and it would create potential safety risks if they were to do so. We did not ask nor would ever expect a physician to interrupt patient care to answer a call and we will be following up with the provider and hospital to understand why these unorthodox actions were taken."

Maybe UHC just needs to read the article they are quoted in to get the answer:

In a follow-up video, Potter said on Wednesday that insurance companies have created "a fear-based system where, if an insurance company calls me and says I've got to call them right back, I'm afraid they're not going to pay for my patient's surgery, that patient is going to get stuck with a bill."

So the answer is: Doctors and patients are so afraid of doing anything that might be an excuse to let UHC deny covering the healthcare procedures. This fear isn't manufactured by doctors or patients. Its a direct result of UHCs prior actions.

 

This was in the 1980s video rental store inside the theme park. It was a great nostalgic recreation of a time gone by, and Commodore 64 is rightfully represented!

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by partial_accumen to c/tenforward
 

So wholesome!

 

Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.

The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

“I’m just devastated,” his brother and the duo’s other half, Dick Smothers, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “Every breath I’ve taken, my brother’s been around.”

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