Why they’d think a man worth hundreds of billions of dollars could do any of these “giveaways” and not have national news report it (people still talk about Oprah “giving” away cars on her show, and that was nearly 20 years ago), but instead have these small, informal groups reach out to them personally is astounding.

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Exactly.

I tore my achilles a few years back, and the doctor offered a non-surgical option for treatment that would’ve had me in a moon boot for a few months. Having worn a moon boat for a prior injury (broken ankle when I played rugby back in the day), I was familiar with it. Using insurance, it would’ve cost nearly…

You can’t eat when you’re dead.

Further, considering she clearly had family members who are now saddled with a bill that won’t get paid (and I don’t blame them), you’re telling me that none of them could chip in $175/m for their ailing mother to get needed health insurance? If her income was that low, why did she not…

But this story exemplifies why foregoing insurance to save a buck rarely works out well, not that something doesn’t need to be done about our utterly bullshit healthcare payment system in the US. As I have said on here many times, I got my professional start at a health insurance company, and the entire industry is…

Why should insurance be billed usually 1/2 to 1/5 of the cost of the uninsured?

Then use what few synpases you obviously have an imagine a healthcare system, particularly one in the current USA, without health insurance.

Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

You do realize that CMS sets the standard for Medicare for ALL 50 States. It’s inane to think that Tennessee, as an individual state, would get some special dispensation when it comes to how Medicare, a federal program, is handled.

So, since you’ve apparently thought about this issue so much, please state how this…

Two things can be absolutely true:

1. She (and her family) were gouged.
2. Opting out of Part B without any other coverage is unbelievably silly.

I work in health insurance. The overwhelming majority of costs incurred by Medicare members are from benefits covered by Part B. Because of that, there has to be some sort of…

The issue is that Tennessee doesn’t decide this, it’s done by CMS, on the federal level. The Medicare Part B premiums don’t vary by state, so the state of Tennesssee has absolutely fuck-all to do with those premiums, and whether or not a person who is qualified for Medicare pays it. Considering that allowing for the…

Bingo. At the pace they’re going with all the extra material, how are they going to go from the Forgotten Capital to the end of the original in one game without making it either feel rushed or making that game 150 hours long?

I’ll bite.

Many of the side quests and things you could do in the original FF7 were things that, by and large, either didn’t make difference to either the narrative or characterization of the main cast of characters and their adversaries. This is made even more considerable when you consider that the OG Japanese…

The only true GTs on the road that can almost approach it, looks-wise, all cost nearly 3x as much brand new (The Ferrari Roma, the Continental GT, and the DB12), and aside from sheer “road-presence” (aka size), none of them look as beautiful from every angle as the LC.

Honestly, if the LFA had looked like this (and you…

To be fair, I have seen gate agent just glance at boarding passes (especially for delayed flights with a lot of passengers) instead of actually scanning them. Perhaps this person had a legit AA boarding pass from a prior flight, the agent merely glanced at it, and the dates and times were reasonably close, so they…

I can imagine someone using an old ticket for the same airline, having it rejected, but the gate agent doesn’t want to make a stink and assumes it’s a glitch in their system and lets the person on. It’s even more imaginable if the flight is already delayed and they’re hurrying people onto the plane.

That being said,…

See I very much believe we have fully hit the point of diminishing returns already. And frankly that’s fine. We are at a point where game install sizes have become MASSIVE, it’s to the point you can fit what 4 maybe 5 AAA games on the standard hard drive in either console. Is there room to go in graphics, sure, do we…

It’s believable, if you take a look at hardware we’ve seen some of the largest generation on generation jumps recently (significantly due to the application of AI to various parts of the R&D process),

Hopefully they both deliver. It would be nice to push a bit beyond the diminishing returns we’ve been seeing.

1984 was the first year of the 3.8 turbo V6. It had 200hp, which was bumped up to 235hp in 1986, and 245hp in 1987.

The GNX was underrated at 276hp, but likely had closer to 300-320hp. Killer Mike’s isn’t a GNX, and I’d doubt these guys would replace the GNX engine (which is legendary) with a rather easy-to-get LT4.

As someone who lives in Florida, if a cop is skittish over those minor noises to the point that he and his partner decide to mag dump into their own vehicle, with a person in custody sitting in it, they don’t need to be cops. End of fucking story.

The officer served (2) tours overseas. Seeing the lasting affects a tour in Afghanistan has had on a relative, I believe this officer has undiagnosed PTSD which impacted his reaction here.