My mother's life insurance policies, many of which she's had for decades, are actually bleeding her dry with premium increases. I'm hoping seeing an accountant can convince her to drop at least some of them. She's so obsessed with "leaving me something" when she dies that she's going into debt to pay for it...
Edit: Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking to get anything from her and I've told her so repeatedly.
Where do you think he got his billions?
He owned the IP. He ensured that he'd retain merchandise rights and sequel rights via his contract for the original Star Wars film. He made his billions off of that. Mostly merchandise. Then he sold his company LucasFilm (along with those rights) to Disney in 2012 for a few billion in cash and a few billion in Disney stock (making him one of the largest shareholders).
So yeah, he did own the franchise first.
So instead of more evenly distributing the profit from the franchise to everyone who contributed, he's going to hand the wealth to an already obscenely wealthy corporation so that he can have control over it again?
You know how in many industries there is a standard amount of time something takes and that determines the standard cost? Like it takes .5 work hours to change your oil so they charge .5 of labor + cost? Well, as I understand it, the plan was to limit the amount of anesthesia they'd cover based on the standard/expected time a medical procedure would take.
"In other words, if a procedure takes longer than expected, patients may wake up to an unexpected bill." https://www.prevention.com/health/a63104965/blue-cross-blue-shield-anthem-insurance-anesthesia-time-limit/
Aaaaah, so it's just post-purchase rationalisation.
Lol. Seriously. You absolutely are not worth the effort but just pretend I actually went through the trouble of making an El Risitas video with subtitles mocking that line of thinking and maybe you'll understand how utterly wrong you are and how desperate your attempt to frame my position is.
You're arguing with a bunch of fat, lazy, loser kids who couldn't get laid if their life depended on it.
Lol. What is this, fucking high school? Grow up. These are adult topics.
Seen people on here say they would rather die than life in a post-industrial landscape.
Holy fuck. What's at stake is far, far worse than whatever you think "post industrial" means. Supply chain issues that make the COVID inflation look appealing, mass migration causing absolute havoc as entire cities flee rising sea levels and entire countries lose the ability grow food. Literal food shortages and mass starvation. Wars over resources we take for granted like fresh water.
Personally, I'll be trying to struggle through it but I don't blame anyone for preferring to check out instead.
Pretty sure they would rather exist than not. Should I ask them?
Flawless logic. As someone else already stated, you should follow your logic to it's logical end. Nonstop baby making because each new life will, shocker, prefer not to die once it's been instantiated.
I guess I should ask my kids too? Oh, wait, I saw the writing on the wall years ago and got a vasectomy. No kids to ask because I didn't want to bring new life into this fucked up world.
The only time precedent ever matters to conservatives is if it works in their favor.
No, before anyone says it, it is not smart to stoop to their level
While it's a bit disappointing, I understand that one perspective is that it is a defensive move. I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that Trump is going to abuse his power and weaponize the Justice Dept to extract everything he can, politically, from the resulting show.
I don't know whether or not Biden would have done the exact same thing if it was a more reasonable Republican administration coming in. That would be far more telling. It might have been that Biden was making a show of it with the assumption that he'd be overseeing and influencing it all as president and if that weren't the case he'd be abusing his authority to spare his son.
Yes, it's frustrating because of the message it send but frankly, I don't think it'll cause much trouble. Everyone who'd see it as an admission of the guilt of the "Biden crime family" wasn't going to change their mind, even if Hunter was publicly drawn and quartered by the Biden administration. Those folks would immediately move the goal post - "Yeah, whatever, but what about..." or just insist Hunter's death was fake and it was all sham.
More importantly, look at what the other side was using that coverage to say and what the Dems were saying.
The trend is technically voting out the establishment - trying something new out of desperation. Unfortunately, the extreme right is more than willing to pretend that they have a solution. Usually, it's to blame the other and promise to get rid of the other. You know, Nazi shit.
Nah. The people did what they did, and it's up to them to suffer through the misery they inflicted on themselves.
Fuck off. 74+ million Americans did their duty and voted for not Trump. Many were out canvasing, many donated.
Those that didn't should have but chances are they are low information voters just angry at that status quo - a global trend right now.
Nah, like another commentor said they'll just get fired for not being profit-driven enough for their investors.
I don't mind that it'll likely cause their quality of life and general mental well-being to suffer, but we need to change the system as a whole.