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You are so correct in your first statement yet imply something in your second I think is so incorrect in a wider context that it strikes me like whiplash.

Paying lip service but not addressing that friction was a significant part of what killed the Harris campaign, IMO.

Ah, good point on Severance; that is a proper example. That there is no unnecessary nudity probably helps the story. Old HBO would have had shower scenes and hook ups interspersed throughout. That might not have hurt, but I don't see the need for it in that show at all.

If you'll excuse my rant; certain tenors of violence and styles of humor are the trend I think that makes things childish. You see the one liners and plot points of marvel movies echoed in some of HBO's high profile shows now. Rebel Moon is, with your criticisms, the type of movie/show the other streaming services have been too eager to make imo. Adult in childish ways, and absent a seriousness in the way it expresses serious plot points.

Hope you're having a good one

There is no way hn servers aren't facing a permanent ddos from scripts reading every post, imo.

Just accidentally smashed some teammates with an eagle napalm instead of eagle smoke before I saw this.

Apple has a family friendly bent that HBO had been degraded by sadly. Disnified. Adult oriented HBO quality shows don't exist anymore do they?

Not who you were responding to:

It is misremembering to frame their actions as recommendations, when they took action themselves, acted first, and asked for permission later. There were infamous public displays of being given carte blanche on the spot after employees told them they didn't have just that. They put metaphorical "heads on pikes" so that they wouldn't have to face questions again outside of court.

Accessibility is a big issue. The accessibility some of the apps like banking provide are compelling. - not totally unlike the difference between stairs and a ramp.

I think one misstep from a business pov, was targeting the sports car market for their EV shift. I love EVs, and racing. EV racing is a different beast from what Porsche customers in particular expect. They will need a configuration as novel as the boxer engine.

> how can potential recipients of benefits even know how or why they were denied to bring such lawsuits in the first place? Especially if they are forced into arbitration?

You get a letter in the mail, with a review of the decision they made. There is a section where they have to explain why they denied you. It is a direct, "We don't think you meet this criteria" statement.

Awful letters, imo.

You have to apply for the social benefits here, like you would apply for a job. It is when the state government says no, you don't get to benefit from social welfare programs. In this case, TennCare, a health insurance system for the poor and disabled.

This government denies those applications at around a 50% rate, iirc. With that decision taking around 4 months to a year Then an appeal is launched, with that decision generally taking 2+ years. A judge rules on that appeal eventually.

A panel is convened with a couple of lawyers, the judge, a vocational expert (job fitness person), a health care professional, and yourself. Who you are and what you are capable of is summed up and deliberated upon. If you are deemed indigent, you are given an insurance policy with TennCare.

It took four years for me to be accepted into TennCare with one denial. That seems average, from what I can tell. This system definitely contributed to some suicides.

With many of those decisions as incorrect as they were, with people as poor as they are here... This is a tragedy that has had people hiding the cause of their suicides for an insurance payout to their families.

I am guessing that the healthcare costs for those denied are generally larger now than they would have been had they been accepted; that the hospital system is still paying the price tag, not the destitute. - A layered tragedy in that the finances are worse for everyone but Deloitte.

Regular ol' white market stores getting robbed is like any other smash and grab robbery, but you're not associating weed with violence rn any more than you are jewelry stores with violence.

> He thinks it's a false concept, because again most people risking jail time transporting 5lbs of weed also do other bad things

That isn't the case IME, most people in the black market dealing with weed are pretty non-violent up until you are talking millions of dollars, which 5lbs will never be. They tend to only deal in weed or weed derivatives at those levels as well. It just doesn't make economic sense to do otherwise. What little bloods and crips style stuff of favela fame is a lot less common now too from what I can tell.