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Well this is not a fun fact I was aware of.

I just sort of thought it was heavy enough that it pretty much didn't fail

Something with diphenhydramine or doxylamine? They aren't great to take for very long at all.

But if you notice a dependency, I don't recommend the RX sleep meds I've been on for so long. One was effective for a very long time (15 years? Lunesta I think) but has gotten weaker and weaker. I'm terrified of stopping it though, its a nonbenzodiazapine so it binds to the same stuff as benzos. Taking something so long like that is bound to cause problems when I stop.

I've heard therapy helps. But I'm not sure how. Hasn't done much for me.

Hmmm.

I got the magnesium supplement, but I didn't know about zinc oxide and I didn't know they were hard to absorb.

I better look up what foods those guys are in, make it a little snack before bed instead

Wait hold on

Aren't you basically just taking a shot then?

Crazy to think something so gruesome is pretty damn painless and quick.

Often they have quite a bit of experience in the military right?

I guess the modern day equivalent is a security camera the guy clearly was aware of and the internet.

I wrote a thing a while back on some thread about a movie plot called "The Adjuster" that was a mix of "John Wick", "The Accountant," and "Nobody."

But now I'm thinking of a brand new plot. Starring Timothee Chalamotee as "The Adjuster." In similar style to Tenet, he is never named in the movie other than by a comment on him making the adjustment.

In the plot, eeriely similar to another movie or two he was in, as a boy his family moves to Arizona after his father takes control of a family business. Wealthy themselves, our protagonist is educated and healthy, trained in self-defense, and secretly educated by his mother in espionage and control. COVID-19 hits. Many of the people he knows dies, because they ended up in a hospital that insurance refused to cover because a pandemic was considered beyond reasonable. Even with his families wealth, the treatment only saves a select few of his mentors. His mentors have to find other work. They're assets are drained.

Through a series of events, him and his mother use the skills she taught him to live among the people, learning the struggle of modern day Americans and their own experiences with the healthcare system. Through some crazy stuff they do he takes an incredible amount of drugs, left to die, but in his hallucinating state, he makes the connection of wealth, insurance, and healthcare, and how to start fixing the problem. He says a famous, but minor line: "Our enemies are above us, and in so many scenarios they prevail. But I do see a way, there is a narrow way through." Stuff happens. He assassinates the insurance CEO. The modern day Americans repeat the only words he never spoke: "Deny, Defend, Depose."

Eh, not my best.

Makes you wonder what the French Revolution would have been like with a 9mm.

Quicker? Or deadlier?

I added an edit to clarify my reflection.

It's one of the reasons I couldn't go into the defense industry. Not just working on weapons that are deadly to enemy combatants and innocents; but making profit off of doing so.

If there becomes a point in my career where it's clear that my work doesn't make things better, then I know I've made a mistake.

It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.

I'm glad someone said it because this thought popped in my head yesterday. Been thinking about the consequences of my system, and really if it brings benefit to the users, but also who it affects indirectly.

So far, I'm ok with it. There is part of it that adds some safety for the business, the users, and people affected indirectly. But it still has a profit motive and that's the uncomfortable part.

Edit: I should clarify that I'm talking about my software system. Not the healthcare system in the U.S. like the author is. It's nowhere near as lucrative as making money off of people literally suffering from life. But the author mentioned how the CEOs see numbers not people. If the numbers my system collects ends up hurting people, that's what I was reflecting on.

I'm pretty sure NBC, and ABC news, as well as several articles, have mentioned the similarity to the book title. Plus, deny, defend, depose has a VERY different statement.

"Deny claims, defend legally, remove from power." The insurance companies deny the claims, know they can avoid court because the insured can't possibly afford lawyers when they get buried under medical debt, and the last one has multiple purposes. Remove the power of medical professionals in their care expertise, remove the power of the patient's voice, and remove the insurance companies and executives from having this power.

However, I acknowledge that the media shills for the owner class, and I see where the suspicion that they would change the words to fit that agenda is very possible. Unfortunately, without seeing the bullets, we have no way to verify what the actual words are. The only way we get that is from NYPD's evidence storage which would need a criminal case.