If your business model requires you to pay your workers less than a livable wage, you do not have a viable business model.
Restaurants are getting killed by greedflation not higher wages. When everything is expensive people start cutting back on discretionary expenses like eating out.
Unions nearly always vote to authorize during contract negotiations, to do otherwise removes all their bargaining power.
I think covid has peaked and Flu-A is declining but Flu-B is about to come up. Pretty typical winter wave for ILI’s.
And to do that they are going to increase premiums and double your max out of pocket limit every year. Perfect!
Edit: ok having read the article it looks like he is going to push for regulating pharmaceutical companies while simultaneously pushing for states with stricter insurance regulations to be forced (via federal courts or legislation) to lower their standards.
Yes, “streaming fatigue” is the problem. It’s not that services are charging more for worse content. The enshittification isn’t the issue people are just randomly tired of streaming for unexplainable reasons. Very insightful.
He is already talking about it. He is threatening to imprison her for “false accusations”.
It’s the magistrate judge doing the pretrial hearings, not the trial judge. Not great, but not quite as outrageous.
Yes, they want to roll back the entire New Deal and have corporate serfdom again. They have been saying it for years and now they have their chance.
AT&T hasn’t updated toll free routing control in almost 11 years. Their bvoip portal is similarly antiquated. What good stuff have they been developing?
The public reaction is what scares them. They are entirely disconnected from the consequences their actions impose on the public and can’t imagine why their “customers” would be cheering the death of their peer. They don’t think Brian Thompson did anything wrong, maximizing shareholder value is a noble goal after all, so from their perspective the public just seems bloodthirsty.
You don’t even need to ditch the whole gun, just the barrel. People are looking for a gun but might overlook the one component ballistics needs to link the weapon to the shooter.
Just to be clear. Vice President is a title one step above Associate. There are tens of thousands of vice presidents there and at most other banks. It doesn’t mean he has any authority in the company.
This play is so obvious. The judge wants to be sued or reprimanded or removed to get the matter to the SCOTUS just so they can rule that gay people can’t get married if any official involved in the process objects on religious grounds.
Trump seems to lack object permanence because he thinks if you don’t measure something, it isn’t happening.
They will never connect their misfortune with their own actions. Evey problem is the fault of democrats, the woke mob or immigrants. Prices high? Thanks Biden. Lost my Social Security? Trump wouldn’t have killed it if it weren’t for all those immigrants defrauding the system. And so on. They will suffer and use their suffering to justify hurting marginalized groups.
My dad’s conservative friends still insist (as of today) that Project 2025 is just liberal propaganda and it doesn’t really exist. These people are immune to reality.
Any “pro-life” fuckheads want to speak up here? This is the inevitable result of laws criminalizing healthcare. The doctors could not act without risking criminal prosecution in Texas and this young woman died. Or maybe killing women was the goal all along? Solving Texas’ teen pregnancy problem one dead teen at a time.
She was an icon from my childhood, an amazing actress.
These motherfuckers have denied me a CT scan twice in the last month. First after saying they needed additional diagnostics before the scan and then saying it just wasn’t needed after my doctor did the additional (useless) tests that they asked for the first time.
Everyone who works at this corporate travesty should feel deeply ashamed for denying care for millions of people who need it.
He also ended a very effective needle exchange program.