Yup. They ARE the bots. And the only scalpers anymore. All others have been frozen out of the market.

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

Companies were perfectly OK with stupidly large numbers of employees during the era of infinite growth. When interest rates were zero, and future growth prospects appeared infinite, there was no such thing as overhiring.

But now its the total opposite. Growth mode is over. Innovation mode is over. Now its all about enshittification. Raise prices while cutting quality, and not caring if customers leave. Especially in captured industries where customers have nowhere else to go.

Now companies can't cut workers fast enough. They know they overhired, but they don't know exactly who needs to go. So the answer is to fire 80% of the company and then figure out the rest later.

You don't need the best and the brightest to enshittify products. So the reason why companies seem to no longer care if they're chasing off the good employees along with the bad is because they in fact don't care. In fact they'd kind of rather keep the mediocre employees, since those will just be grateful to have a job and won't complain or point out problems like the top talent would. Plus there's no need to give raises or bonuses to the mediocre.

RTO is a useful way to get rid of people. It drives off the ones inclined to complain, while keeping an army of proles around to make the big boss feel better about himself. It's easier to bully people in-office. Cost of real estate is not something companies care about since it's not an operating expense like salaries are.

Nobody's ever been targeted for abuse as a result of saying that a man in a dress isn't a woman, yes?

Who is JK Rowling?

They're the majority of the ones you see on the streets, you dingleberry. People who are just down on their luck are probably sleeping on a friend's couch, weekly motel, parent's house, etc. The ones shitting on the streets are drug addict bums.

Translation: substack allows freedom of speech. Which is bad, because its somehow anti-fascist to censor viewpoints that differ from the left-wing media-established Narrative.

Net Zero was always a joke. It's all about allowing companies to turn carbon into a tradable financial product so they can profit off of it.

When you hear an airline CEO talking about his airline becoming "carbon neutral" despite no new fuel source, the entire thing can be safely disregarded as the joke it actually is.

This does not apply to the street shitters. They are all drug addicts, and got there by being shitty people and alienating everyone in their life.

When people lose jobs or become ill, they have friends and family to fall back on. Street homeless have used and abused all the people in their life, so the street is all they have left.

No serious company uses Google's app shit. There have been too many cases of Google deleting entire enterprise accounts with zero explanation. No company would trust all of their data to a provider that could just wipe it all away overnight.

Google is more powerful than any court, or any government.

Seattle has a pattern of attracting very weak people for some reason. Lots of massive wimps live there, so they think their weather is extreme, because it is to them.

Did anyone actually believe that?

We already know you're a Communist. You tell us every day.

Greenies only care about forcing changes that reduce the standard of living for the average person. Things like this don't get their attention.

All he eats is soy