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"In addition to cutting off therapy, [insurers] are pressuring providers to cap the length of their sessions... Therapists told us that they have seen their patients sink deeper into depression, suffer worsening panic attacks and wind up in emergency rooms after insurers refused to cover treatment."
They used to only give Td too! I didn't start getting TDaPs again until like 10-15 years ago.
Oop.
Also, they mess up the mix, it's hard to hear them if you want exactly what they're saying, which I do. That also might be the lack of focus from the ADHD too, but the mix makes it worse.
In a similar vein, by the same guy, Wonderfalls.
Indeed, that is the problem we are having. A million is probably a low number, I don't want to think about what the real number is, honestly.
Oh I missed that you said.
Don't forget Guiteau that was a failed lawyer that thought he was owed a consul job.
Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪
fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.
It was an all-out call for war against "them" when the right didn't know who "they" were, but now that it's clear that Kirk's assassin came from their world they've shifted back to meaningless "thoughts and prayers."
Some of this stuff is just good practice in general. Being on data broker lists is annoying.
Oh no, feel better, that is no fun at all.
My wife and I have been getting treatment for various things for 20 something years and I was initially shocked at how much trial and error there is. How many people are "Disorder Something: NOS"
Little timeline cleanse for everyone.
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.
We just got a glimpse of how Black towns, businesses, churches, schools, homes, and Black bodies were destroyed and killed In white Utah at a white college at a white rally a white man killed by another white man resulted in anger at… Black people & institutions.. just like in the past.
I blame kids today not seeing the Big Lebowski to teach them the dangers of nihilism.
He's republican enough. He'd have fit in at a MAGA rally for sure.
This is @duancientaliens.bsky.social if anyone else is looking. He's got a youtube channel, if like me, you're too old for TikTok. I tried to sign up but my phone just shocked me!
In honor of Kash Patel’s bizarre claim to Nordic heaven, I present this delightful Viking archaeologist explaining why your Viking cosplay is deeply embarrassing!
I blame the toxic online communities around gaming too. I've been playing games since '86 or so, but it's been hell finding an online community that isn't super toxic. Thankfully, they're tucked away here and there. But, I also had a hybrid childhood, too much time outside, and too much time inside.
Sorry, sorry, Commonwealth of VA. I've been here more than a decade since I left New York, I should know by now.
100%, he's doing it because the TN governor is behind him on it. It's showing weakness for sure.
Probably barely does already. I mean, even when his brain "worked", but more and it seems the lights are on but no one is home.
Haha ohhh wow
God, November, and then January, cannot come quickly enough for the state of VA
Now, I just need the Federal Bureau of Control to tell me where Bright Falls, WA is, and I'm set.
I think what we're gonna see based on the disapproval is a lot of primary challenges.
Yes. If someone called me, I'd say I disapprove of the democrats. How do I disapprove? Of them not knocking heads with republicans. I've voted for a republican maybe once 20 years ago, at the local level to clear some rot, and then went right back the next election.
Odd to realize that if the shooting had been less discriminant, if he had sprayed bullets over that crowd, our society would already mostly be over this shooting.
As long as he keeps the fruit bowl with the golden apples filled, I could maybe manage. But I do take your point.
You could just be pals with Odin too. But I'd like to say as a person who's grandfather was off the boat from Sweden, I resent these Nazi jerks stealing our cool shit for hate.
Yeah, exactly - just need some P-N junctions, a clear day, and we're set. Fossils fuels are really adding extra steps to solar. Plants collect energy, die, millions of years later become carbonized, and then we burn it. Seems better to just go direct to the source.
It’s awesome right? People are apparently like this all the time.
I mean, that's just fusion with extra steps. 😀
Yeah, prednisone is awesome, but that sounds less awesome.
There is an HIV vaccine that’s coming out soon! Never thought I’d see the day.
Although I just thought my sunroof had been busted by a vandal, it was actually a bullet! Some idiot Yosemite Sam-ing it up and it came down and hit my car.
Yeah. Having had my house robbed while I was there about 15+ years ago (got a blackberry and iPod nano, so that should give you the era) and a broken window on a car I will testify to that.
I’ve been eyeing a Boox since with it I could read kindle with the android app or Bookshop (my choice of late). You like it?
I’d bet you’re right. Real money is in airbags and catalytic converters but those require planning.
I read the image first and this quote was literally the first thing that popped into my head. I had forgotten the first bit.
Yeah “dance like no one is watching, email like it will be read aloud at a deposition” is what I got. I like yours better.
Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in jail. Can you imagine if the Roberts Court wasn't the judicial arm of MAGA. Fucking hell.
Got my hair done. My hairdresser had no fucking clue who charlie kirk is. Legacy media is trying to make people who have no idea who he was think he was a reasonable man rather than reporting what he said about everyone who wasn't a white cishet man. Report what he said, you cowards.
My money is on cold but I’d love to be wrong.
From far right to super far right.
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
Therapists In Utah Try To Help Traumatized Charlie Kirk Followers Understand Concept Of Empathy
A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
Just reminding everyone that we still don't know who killed Kirk or why so can we all stop talking about how his murder is an assault on democracy or whatever. We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb
He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
in case you think we are exaggerating, behold The Sentence
Just saying the quiet part loud, eh?
Apparently they filmed it in 2020 but then sat on it for 5 years for some reason?
Those references were so good. “Thrilling stuff” as he said.
these two leading a manhunt for an assassin is the plot of a basic cable buddy cop movie on like, the Faith & Family channel
Yeah. No notes. “Charlie 4chan” is already a pretty inspired nickname.
AOC: Whether it is a member of congress, whether it is the President to assume and assert and cast blame when the FBI has failed to even apprehend the assailant, is absolutely an irresponsible action.
I wonder if all these threats to African American institutions are linked to the flood of Fox News personalities screaming “we need to fight back”? Eh, probably just a series of incredible coincidences
It's worked wonders for me. Have you tried Expedition 33? It's awesome.
Biden slowed down in a way appropriate for an 80+ year old, but this 79 year old is just fine. I mean look at him. Fully half his face works.
Turns out damaging blood vessels is not good™
"Carson Daly in way over his head" made my friends and I laugh for weeks after.
I think we just need to add Probability and Statistics as part of a greater Media and Scientific literacy push.
I've got two Masters but they were supposed to be PhDs. Which still counts, but still stings a bit.
I hate that he had to do this, but it was smart of him to do this. And Bad Bunny is American, he's not some foreign artist scared to come here. He like lives in LA.
I mean "US health insurance is a scourge" is an evergreen statement. But yeah, prior auth is one of the worst, and the ability to approve and then decide they didn't is up there too.
Listen, everyone, suppress your true crime instinct. We may never know what happened, partly because the aftermath was badly bungled. But don't become QAnon.
Weirdly finds out the historical truth most people don't know and thinks it's awesome instead of shameful. Just wild white supremacy stuff there.
Like I'm not gonna pretend to be remotely sad, but yeah its a symptom of a wider problem that's getting worse.
It's been doing that on that side for a while, but this is significantly worse. I hate that we have an apparatus that just straight up lies to us about the health of these people.
It's so pathetic. Like have a little dignity for gods sake.
It's someone on "your side" a lot of the time. Look at President Garfield.
It could be anyone with any weird reason. People do this shit for weird illogical reasons. Hinkley wanted to impress Jodi Foster. Sirhan Sirhan wanted to, I dunno exactly.
And I hate it! I've been calling for sensible gun control for 30+ years! And I got to escape High School the year before columbine, so I'm not even the gen that had to work about this.
Exactly. I also didn't like that he didn't interrogate for a moment how you wind up there.
That's what I'm seeing too. Similar to the CEO freakout with Luigi. People who churned these waters realize they can't control them, and the public doesn't care. That same day, there was a school shooting for gods sake. I care more about those kids. But we've had to live in this place for a while.
The pundit freak out is the suddenly feel like they’re targets now, they see the public is gonna just shrug at it, and they’re confronted with the monster they made. I don’t like it but welcome to abjection guys come on in the waters warm.
Also the denial of a mass trauma event. Memory holing that shit is not healthy.
Technically, Taxpayers I think. But it's the same.
a short piece that hits hard
Wikipedia out there doing a better job than some newspapers.
"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
They commit violence because the green M&M isn’t sexy anymore!
so the second guy the cops fingered for the Kirk shooting was a debate bro and a fan of TPUSA. wonder why they grabbed him.
Awesome!
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
It's important to remember that Trump has used more than just rhetoric to foment political violence. His entire 2nd term has been a theater of cruelty in which violence is portrayed and practiced as the ultimate measure of political seriousness and resolve.
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy
Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.” They bend the knee without even being asked.
nice of the NYT to remind us how sympathetic Trump is to political violence
Donald Trump does not care about political violence; he cares about political violence against Republicans and his allies — as he himself made clear through who he listed in his speech. Donald Trump will not work to end political violence, either. He, instead, is already working to exploit it.
idk man if I had just lost my kid to a school shooting and the news cycle was dominated by people loudly mourning the loss of a guy whose life’s work was radicalizing people, largely children, into thinking that’s a cool and normal thing to do while contributing nothing else, I’d probably go insane
Republicans have no agency in any story, ever. It drives me up a wall.