Thriller -Michael Jackson.

Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon know how to do the Thriller dance.

it’s a green onion, with flow.

How would this even work? Recruit on the suicide prevention line? How would you train suicidal people? Just give them the rundown on the way to the earthquake or mine disaster? Do we think suicidal people are organized, motivated, fit, and competent?

Trump aside, this is good. Healthcare prices are intentionally obscure and inaccurate in the US.

For any given procedure or equipment, the manufacturer/provider will have a price called the “billed amount”. This is a fictional number that serves as a negotiating position. The insurance company has an “allowable” which is what they’ve negotiated with providers to actually pay. Every year the insurance companies and medical providers negotiate on the actual price. So providers are incentivized to inflate their costs in hopes of getting a better deal.

Usually, the difference between the billed and the allowable vanishes. But the patient may be on the hook, depending on circumstances. I know people with decades of experience in the industry who still get confused and struggle dealing with insurers.

The moral of the story is that if you ever have to pay medical costs out of pocket, the first thing you should do is ask to reduce the prices from the fictional and inflated “billable” down to an “allowable” amount, usually using Medicare’s allowable as a standard.

LOL, you silly. Vegans would have to live in TSMC clean-rooms their entire lives to avoid consuming yeast, and it probably wouldn’t work.

I learned today that transplanted hearts will grow biologically younger or older to match the new body.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751836v1

It’s NY law. Some States require that in cases of rape through intoxication, the intoxication must also be involuntary.

You know how if you go to a party and there is an open box of pizza on the counter? You’d just assume it was for sharing, right? Help yourself. Well, in NY and several other states, when a girl gets too intoxicated, her body becomes like an open box of pizza.

Don’t worry, by then humanity will be earning it’s oxygen on the Doge moon of Elon4.

It’s not OK to treat immigrants this way either. Drawing the distinction exposes the racism of the whole endeavor of boarder control; that Americans are just better people.

These tactics were developed to deal with drug cartels and gangs, not cleaning ladies and cashiers. (The tactics don’t work on cartels or gangs either)

Ever had a gun pointed at you? Were you cool with it, or did you experience fake outrage? Why don’t you sit on the concrete in chains for a couple hours and think it over?

Wet food: cleaned between each feeding. Water bowl: rinsed daily, washed weekly or more often as necessary. Dry food bowl: run through the dishwasher once a week if I remember.

Acknowledging that IBM is still around undermines your point about “competition”. The whole point of end-game capitalism is to escape competition, not overcome it.

Remember that time Amelia Bedelia…

When I was younger, I was pretty into drugs. It would be hard to exaggerate how much fun I had. I don’t regret much of it, me and the people I cared for never got hurt, sick, or in trouble. But we were definitely exposed to those dangers. And I don’t think my lucky experience is a good example.

The worst part of drugs was that you ended up being “friends” with people you despise, mistrust, and are occasionally afraid of.

This mentality makes sense in 1952, but with benefit of hindsight and all the consequences, is pretty obtuse to say today.

I’m not going to apologize for American imperialism, but will point out that its benevolent compared to Japanese empire.

In Korea, the Japanese imposed a factory-farm system for rape. Unit 731 did things in China that would make an IDF officer puke in his boots.

I’m sorry for whatever your English teacher did to you, but don’t make it my problem. You have to understand that well-adjusted adults don’t tremble in fear before the mighty red pen. English is a dirty slut and I can use her however I want, and there is nothing you can do about it you can’t do nothing about it.

fuck you

I’m a Luddite. 99% of my phone usage is listening to music or podcasts. I love the Signal app because I can type text messages on my desktop and not mess with that asshole keyboard and it’s tyrannical auto correct.