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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

We have had doctors and hospitals deny or refuse medical treatments because of insurance reimbursement. It does in fact happen. A lot more than people think. My guess is he felt the savings would be completely depleted because the cost would be more than they had and then his family would be left with nothing.

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    • Dave Chappelle Says ‘I Resent the Republican Party’ Because They ‘Weaponized’ Transgender Jokes: ‘That’s Not What I Was Doing’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
    Dave Chappelle Says ‘I Resent the Republican Party’ Because They ‘Weaponized’ Transgender Jokes: ‘That’s Not What I Was Doing’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
    [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    thats exactly what he was doing. Now that there is tangible real world legislative harm happening in his own state even some of his starry eyed supporters, ticket buyers, even family are turning on him. So he wants to pretend he was doing something else. Not to mention the things he said about people over reacting to Louie CK's harassment and gross behavior with other female comedians, and that fact he kept bringing CK to perform at his events.

    When you tell the world who you are, and in doing so you contribute to people getting hurt, everyone should believe you the first time, not the second where you try to back pedal. I hope that entire little town he's trying to turn into a playground for the rich spits him out, but they won't because people love being near celebrity.

    And the celebrities around him, they know he's shit. I'll bet Michelle Obama said something to him about his image and impact when he brought her around his mama, and now he's trying to pretend like he's not culpable for hurting so many trans people in his state alone (you should see the law it just passed).

    He's a dick and like JK Rowling no one should support him and no one should let him pretend he did anything but stab trans people and women in the face.

    Fuck that guy.

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    Upland Experiences? (lazysoci.al)
     

    I decided to try some different games since candy crush and minesweeper have been go to's for super long. I stumbled onto Atlas earth but it requires an ios and doesn't allow web play. Someone mentioned upland so I made an account yesterday and its so incredibly frustrating. It seems like most people are there to make money by selling plots at a marked up rate (which is essentially a ponzi scheme if you're not getting something out of it) I've read pages of tutorials but things aren't making sense. Plus, my daily bonus card has disappeared and the bonus it "gave me" when the clock switched over never uploaded.

    I feel like I'm doing something wrong and actual players could help orient me (their chat isn't useful)

    (Also, I'm not 100% sure I'm on the right server since I'm interpreting this as different city builder games rather than a game called city builders , so if I've posted in the wrong place I apologize and would love to be pointed in the right direction

    Edit: probably going to abandon upland. Its one of those games people will enjoy most if they're into finding cryptic pieces of game play off a 2001 interface and try to make money by being willing to lose money, in a psuedo game environment. Its not an investing or money making game like people will lead you to believe, and its not a fun game unless you're into learning nooks and crannies from a boring interface and interested in doing math from a boring interface (I'm not against math, it all just feels like drawing people in for get rich quick schemes to fleece people of their money, rather than providing entertaining game play.)

    My best advice is if you join treat it like a game and not a money making enterprise and watch out for game players who will fleece you to try to turn it into a money making enterprise.

    2026-03-20 Expected outage; 3 hours in c/meta@lazysoci.al
    [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I have no idea what any of this means but loved reading it; maybe I can learn a tidbit here or there. Also its interesting whenever I read a little bit how you use or set up or see the instance.

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