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Thread: Shit that annoys you
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06-06-2023, 10:32 AM #42776
Pretty much the whole US healthcare system is annoying (the structure, not the people). Every time I have to deal with it I yearn for what I had in Canada.
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06-06-2023, 11:16 AM #42777I drink it up
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06-06-2023, 11:19 AM #42778
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06-06-2023, 11:29 AM #42779
And then THIS just happened. FFS, America...
Court grants Sackler family immunity in exchange for $6 billion opioid settlement
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/busin...ity/index.html
An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/h...y-opioids.html
Now THIS is some serious bullcrap. Those assholes get immunity and still walk away filthy rich. This. THIS right here is a hudge part of the problem. Big pharma = modern drug lords with the full backing of the US govt.
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06-06-2023, 11:29 AM #42780Originally Posted by Mustonen
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06-06-2023, 11:36 AM #42781
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06-06-2023, 11:39 AM #42782
Lol. Not trying to make it PolyAss, just posted the same in the Opiod thread to better continue the conversation. As to your homey from VT, I'll give him one thing, he's one of the very few in our government who has been willing to call out Big Pharma on their bullshit. I particularly enjoyed his recent grilling of the Moderna CEO. Credit where credit's due!
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06-06-2023, 11:54 AM #42785I drink it up
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When I was in high school calling somebody a faggot was the go-to burn. Class was so fucking gay. That teacher is a retard.
None of that stuff is in my vocabulary anymore (admittedly, I still struggle with “retard” but my filter keeps me in line).
Also, today’s octogenarians were in their 40s in the 1980s. If they didn’t clean that shit out of their vocab in the entirety of the 70s and 80s they are bigoted assholes from way back, and not just doddering old fools.focus.
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06-06-2023, 11:56 AM #42786User
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I hope you're right, but it certainly seems like most people hit an age where they quit adapting/changing and lose self-awareness. Maybe that's early dementia?
And yeah, I'm so glad there weren't videos of every thing I said and every party I attended 30 years ago at age 18. I cringe at the videos teens put out now, that shit will haunt them forever.
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06-06-2023, 11:56 AM #42787
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06-06-2023, 11:57 AM #42788"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-06-2023, 12:04 PM #42789I drink it up
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I think maybe it’s because I don’t really know anybody, personally, who has downs or similar. Maybe an indicator for me being a different type of terrible.
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06-06-2023, 12:18 PM #42790
Agreed. I came from an ass-backwards, hillbilly part of Michigan. I said shit when I was a teen that is embarrassing in today's context. And I listened to patently racist and homophobic shit from my old man.
To do better over time really doesn't seem to be that hard.
I probably shouldn't be saying "hillbilly," should I?
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06-06-2023, 12:24 PM #42791"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-06-2023, 12:25 PM #42792
I should have said I expect that some stuff I’m saying now won’t be appropriate in the future. But I hope that future me will change with the times.
I’ll give some leeway for dementia as far as not keeping up with the changing norms, less so if it’s just letting your bigoted views slip out unfiltered.
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06-06-2023, 12:31 PM #42793
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06-06-2023, 12:47 PM #42794I drink it up
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I’ll accept somebody with dementia with the same compassion and empathy as I’ll accept somebody struggling with gender or labels or a history of oppression. Imperfectly, to be sure, but they aren’t really all that different, just different struggles.
The same way I’ll accept somebody who was raised on a steady diet of bigotry and small mindedness and Fox News. People is people and you can respect the person whether or not you appreciate or approve of all of their views and behavior.focus.
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06-06-2023, 01:00 PM #42795
Resisting any and all change is the hobgoblin of the weak mind.
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06-06-2023, 01:01 PM #42796
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06-06-2023, 01:15 PM #42797I drink it up
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Shunning is creating an out group, and (to me) denotes encouraging others to disassociate. I don’t know if that’s a particularly healthy response, but it’s something that’s on my mind frequently enough. You can accept and respect somebody without spending time or engaging with them or allowing them to make the world worse for others. They’re different things. I think most just want to be seen and heard.
That’s all something I poke at from time to time. My mind isn’t particularly settled on any of it. But to this very topic, I’ve been deeply wrong plenty of times about various things and I adjust and grow, and I do that best if the people in my life give me room and resources and tools to adjust and grow. If you take that away you just drive people into their weird corners and create divisions that will never be resolved.focus.
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06-06-2023, 01:17 PM #42798
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There’re a lot of idiots that aren’t self aware that aren’t old
Is okay to say that the timing on my truck is retarded? I need to advance it a few degrees
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