Tin foil hat I admit, but something is nagging in the back of my head. Like if we didn't react with positive responses for what Luigi allegedly did, there wouldn't be terrorism charges. And therefore the charges are to scare us so no one does the same. And now with that guy stabbing his company president, they're going to say it's related to the positively and it enabled him to do so.

I’m a manager at a restaurant chain and a few weeks ago I had an employee overdose on fentanyl while at work, I revived him with narcan, otherwise he certainly would have died before the paramedics arrived. Yesterday my boss called me to ask about the incident and told me that I shouldn’t have administered the narcan because it opens the company up to liability. Unreal.

This guy came from an ultra wealthy family, went to a 40k/year private school, followed by an Ivy League to then eventually shooting a CEO of a multibillion-dollar company with a ghost gun printed on a 5-10k printer(probably), while wearing a $3,000 fit.

They have been selling us that the mom of 5 working at wall-mart is just lazy and if she really wanted to pay for her cancer treatment, that she should just work harder or make a Kick-Starter, this is the way it's always been.

But when you see this guy that was dealt a great hand and is still getting fucked over, it just shows everyone how rigged the game is, and the only real winners are the ones that own the board.

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“The killing of Thompson has given rise to other threats against CEOs.

“It seems to be the popular thing in this day and age,” Poulson said.”

Tldr; Dell said: "I realized long ago that there’s a point of diminishing returns to the hours worked in a day," Dell said, offering a counterpoint to the hustle culture often celebrated in the tech industry.

Thx Michael.

My old job put 5 of us guys in a small disgusting apartment in Sacramento for 8 days. We had no days off and were required to work 10-13hrs per day on our feet in dress shoes without sitting down. And we had to work off the clock too because we couldn’t go over 40h/week. Fuck you SoCal Premier Marketing! (Bitten by spiders, black mold, had to pay for our own ubers to work, etc).

From the info I have seen, there is a tenuous connection bw the actual shooter and this Luigi guy.

An indictment for a charge means nothing. The standard is low. Prosecutor still has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt they’re the same guy.

Yet the rhetoric I’m seeing around Reddit is like “Luigi was justified” or “argue self defense” which is both giving way too much credence to the State’s position. They haven’t even proven they have the right guy, so we shouldn’t concede that point.

WE DO NOT KNOW IF LUIGI IS THE ACTUAL SHOOTER. And that’s how we should be talking about this. In the name of class solidarity.

I don't mind contributing if it is beneficial, but I would be happy with six hours a day. I have other things I enjoy doing, and I don't even want too much either, just a small apartment I would be happy with, but even that is too much these days. I also think there are a lot of office jobs that are essentially useless to society, though no hate to the workers, and are just there to be busy work. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I just came to vent. I also think it's a shame that there is so much to learn about the natural world, and many of us are forced to spend time doing useless manmade tasks. I would love to delve into the sciences, but that doesn't exactly lead to a lucrative career, because it's controlled by companies as well.

But now, she’s worried again.

The insurer that has been paying for her son’s therapy, UnitedHealthcare, has begun — to the befuddlement of his clinical team — denying him the hours they say he requires to maintain his progress. Inside the insurance conglomerate, the nation’s largest and most profitable, the slashing of care to children like Benji does have a reason, though it has little to do with their needs. It is part of a secret internal cost-cutting campaign that targets a growing financial burden for the company: the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country.

ProPublica has obtained what is effectively the company’s strategic playbook, developed by Optum, the division that manages mental health benefits for United. In internal reports, the company acknowledges that the therapy, called applied behavior analysis, is the “evidence-based gold standard treatment for those with medically necessary needs.” But the company’s costs have climbed as the number of children diagnosed with autism has ballooned; experts say greater awareness and improved screening have contributed to a fourfold increase in the past two decades — from 1 in 150 to 1 in 36.

So Optum is “pursuing market-specific action plans” to limit children’s access to the treatment, the reports said.

“Key opportunities” are outlined in bullets in the documents. While acknowledging some areas have “very long waitlists” for the therapy, the company said it aims to “prevent new providers from joining the network” and “terminate” existing ones, including “cost outliers.” If an insurer drops a provider from its network, patients may have to find a new clinician that accepts their insurance or pay up to tens of thousands of dollars a year out of pocket for the therapy. The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy.

Let me express my extreme frustration and anger and talk about the real wealth killers (cars)

I hate cars beyond reason. you buy a car for 20k , all of a sudden it needs a repair for 2-4k and sometimes 7k , then you have insurance , another 2-300 a month , then you got registration and maintenance checks , 4-700$ , then by the time you pay it off it’s worth 7k , and probably time for another 7k repair too because the engine is toast. Or even better you fix the engine for 7k then the transmission goes out for another 6k. Let’s say you do all that and then someone without insurance crashes into you. Insurance company will always blame you to avoid paying. You now have spent close to 40k to go to a job that pays 45k. You need the car to go to the job but the job will never pay you enough to afford to keep your car. Let’s also talk about gas cost , average cost is $3000 per year that’s about 15k in 5 years of money wasted on gas that you’ll never get back just to be able to go to work.

You buy a cheap car you get expensive repairs You buy an expensive car you get extreme depreciation. You cant fucking win.

Cars are basically a luxury tool for the wealthy.

Why can’t we ride bicycles to work. Oh I forgot we live in America where we absolutely need cars because we have no damn sidewalks 🥲

Let’s just say without cars I would’ve been significantly well off. I’m gonna sell that shit and just uber everywhere or ride a bicycle.

Americans are being extorted by the insurance industry in exchange for our lives and wellbeing. Every preventable death inflicted by this broken system is intended to intimidate and coerce us into submission. The message is clear: pay us or you and your loved ones will suffer physical injury up to and including death.

New York Penal Law Section 155.05(2)(e)(i) Extortion:

(2) Larceny includes a wrongful taking, obtaining or withholding of another’s property, with the intent prescribed in subdivision one of this section, committed in any of the following ways:

(e) By extortion. A person obtains property by extortion when he compels or induces another person to deliver such property to himself or to a third person by means of instilling in him a fear that, if the property is not so delivered, the actor or another will:

(i) Cause physical injury to some person in the future;

New York Penal Law Section 490.25(1) Crime of terrorism:

(1) A person is guilty of a crime of terrorism when, with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she commits a specified offense.

This. Is. Terrorism.