That includes hospitals. Hospital corporations providing the least service for as much as they can get away with charging for it.

They didn't get genetic raw data of anyone beyond the 14K, they got family relationship information. Which is an option you can turn on or off, if you want. It's very clear that you're exposing yourself to other people if you choose to see who you're related to. It doesn't expose raw data and it doesn't instantly expose names, just how they're related to you. (And most of the "relations" are 3rd to 5th cousins, aka strangers.)

Hackers used the genetic ancestry data of the 14K hacked users and their "relatives" connections to deduce large families of Ashkenazi Jews.

Mixed use land developments increase property values. My neighbors believe urban myths and lies, so I'm not particularly inclined to be any more fair to them than I would be to someone who believes that vaccines cause autism.

https://masslandlords.net/gentle-density-increases-nearby-property-values-evidence-shows-contrary-to-popular-belief/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-02/does-affordable-housing-lower-property-values

I own a house here too, ya know. I don't share their misguided concerns. Yes there will be traffic. I believe we have reasonable options to mitigate that.

But it looks like the rich, old NIMBYs are going to win this fight, and keep people locked out as always.

Contagion (2011) remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, even now that I've lived it. Just imagining an encephalitic virus with a 20-30% mortality rate like the one depicted in the movie makes me nauseous. (Loosely based on real life Nipah virus.)

They decided they deserved to make up all the profit they lost during the pandemic, and they were legally able to increase our prices to do exactly that. It's as plain and simple as this.

Do you know a lot of girls with PCOS who are being bullied to the point of violence? Because that's exactly what happened to the trans girl I grew up with 30 years ago. Long before she ever said she was a girl or presented as a girl in public. When she just "looked like" an effeminate little boy, another child wrapped her scarf around her neck and around a piece of playground equipment and started pulling her off the ground by her throat.

You know why? Because she was wearing a glittery purple scarf. And you know what the school administration did about it? Not one fucking thing. Her mother and my mother had to go on a crusade to even get the incident acknowledged.

Yeah, I wonder why trans kids have such high suicide rates. It's not magic, you ignorant FART. You're part of the problem driving these kids to experience high suicide rates.

(Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobe, for anyone who isn't familiar with this much more appropriate acronym for a TERF.)

Singing lessons. I'm honestly not even kidding.

I'm an American who grew up in a part of the country called Appalachia. My native accent is often associated with being uneducated and stupid, so I learned how to change it when I was a young adult.

The thing that helped me most was voice lessons that taught me how to control the muscles in the nasopharynx, throat, tongue. The reason that's difficult is because you can't see the way those muscles move when someone else speaks or sings, so you can't just mimic what they're doing. It takes a little bit more effort to learn.

Learning how to sing classical western music (opera type stuff) allowed me to learn how to speak in that kind of just generic Midwestern American accent that has less negative social associations.

Now, that being said, I also have Indian friends who grew up in the United States who still speak with a similar Indian accent as their immigrant parents, and it's really no big deal. So you could just roll with your native accent.

(And also, I still code switch back into my native accent when I'm talking to my family or I visit my home region. Your native accent never goes away even when you learn a different way of speaking.)

The 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution affirms citizens' right not to talk to investigating authorities. It's what they're referring to when you see cops in movies tell people "you have the right to remain silent"

Oh. Are you not aware of the background of this whole thing? The company didn't fail after he left. The company was a scam right from the start and he was directly involved. He's just a grifter.

https://jacobin.com/2019/11/wework-adam-neumann-con-artist-grifter-entrepreneur

Deep history shows us that underground creatures are the ones who survive extinction events. Underground is the safest place to be in a catastrophe, apparently.

We need public hospitals.

We need public hospitals.

We need public hospitals again.

My hospital is not rural, but we are a small community, high-Medicaid population hospital. We've not been profitable 3 out of the past 5 years and the response from the (out-of-state) for-profit corporation has been to slash staff to such low levels that the nurses are finally unionizing.

We are a critical healthcare access point for our community. And that corporation has zero incentive to do what's right for my neighbors. Only the city, state, maybe federal governments have that incentive. We should be a government operation, not private. It's that simple.

Those comic book movies are keeping theaters open, so there are screens even in existence to show Scorsese movies. He ought to be grateful.