There is no need to be disingenuous to be right. You can dispute any charge for services non-rendered in the US, for anything you pay for.
Provided it is a charge, that is to say, paid with Visa/MC’s or your bank’s money, and transacted over the CC issuer’s payment network.
Quite simple a process and at that point, you have hella bigger guys with interest (not in your money but on the interchange fees riding in that funds transfer. They will get theirs back, and so do you get yours.
There are far more people than you seem to realize that simply do not have access to such credit opportunities.
Even a cash payer for healthcare services would have a headache with our legal system should they need to sue for breach of contract.
That one also sucks, in case it wasn’t clear. And again, is the avenue of a privileged subset.
For the majority of Americans, it’s insurance paying. So that means an insurance appeal.
And well… that’s a system in the sense a shifting labyrinth is a system. But don’t take it from me:
In my (only partially humorous) opinion: French snobbiness is displayed the most strongest upon the French language.
It is the least mutually intelligible of the mainstream Romance languages with any of the others. By design.
The notions of purity and ripping off Latin- words, expressions, and structures in the 17th century that lead to the Académie Française formalized things. But France’s geography and history also pushed the language into it’s own harder than the others.
The causes you mentioned, all have had scandals regarding apropriation or spending of funds.
The tasks you proclaim so clear and simple a path? Disingenuous to the point of being farcical, and if you can put that sentence together, you sure as fuck have the neuronal density to sit there and counter your own examples if you feel like sitting there and playing with yourself.
Instead however, don’t stroke your ego. Actually read and take notice of how all of you in this chain are being choked by the same chain.
My tone in return is good ol’ human hypocrisy, or as you might phrase it, an instinct. But it serves a purpose and I willingly allow it to run it’s course.
Shame however, that you’re so hopped on righteous fury you’re lashing out at your own allies.
All throughout this chain, there’s an abstraction layer above the Capitalist system of governance making it possible. Same layer that runs above every other shit we attempt. We’re made to belong. The community’s acceptance is vital to any change.
That’s how the diseased hoarders ever got to where they are; constant and ever more insidious tools to separate us, to ever splinter the community umbrella.
That’s what our instincts are built to thrive under; community. The instinct to eat can be suborned into an eating disorder by negative epigenetics meeting genetic predisposition.
You could break someone into disregulated eating given the right tools. What makes you think we’re not constantly being pressed to avoid unity?
Our power comes when we try to understand each other. We can’t all do the things that need to be done, we can’t even begin to argue honestly for what must me done whilst punching down and around.
The sources of the disease sit a bit higher on their made up ladder than that.
Not OCD, but ADHD. Otherwise same attitude towards rx drugs, especially since my parents opted against them when first recommended as a child.
In my lucky case, it took 2 hours after taking the stimulant medicine my brain was lacking to maintain a coherence state (aka a flow state), for me to feel like the world’s greatest fool for having waited until I was in my 30s.
The day is literally seared in my memory levels of life changing.
Highly encourage you to discuss with your healthcare/psychiatry provider and strongly consider trying them. The side effects are often charted and entirely avoidable in many cases. The most important thing is a dialogue with a professional.
Yes, I wish you the best of luck in finding a GP that will listen finely to your subjective experience.
That is absolutely key, and often the most difficult part—especially for anyone with any degree of neurodivergence—to the point I almost gave up trying to advocate for myself.
Even with my (reportedly? I don’t know how these things are measured to be honest) lesser degree of neurodivergence many meds side effects affect me differently.
If you can find a provider that already has experience diagnosing autism in adults, they might be the kind of provider whose opinion on the specifics of the side effects you might want to seek.
I wish you the best of luck in your journey towards ease of being, fellow person.
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A recent incident at Adena Health System has intensified scrutiny of its cardiology department. A 65-year-old woman died during what should have been a routine heart catheterization, leading to pressing questions about the practices and credentials of the physicians involved. What happened after her time of...
What do you mean? It’s perhaps the most apt analogy I can think of. In the strictest literal sense, physiological care is a flesh mechanic servicing your flesh parts. The main difference here is a matter of scope, but that is the point of analogies; to reframe a thought in a smaller and comprehensible way.
Only way we could stay 1:1 is if the discussion is solely populated with qualified medical professionals and not a mix of differently educated laypeople.
Nah, that’s definitely the rule. The playbook is as old as communal living.
Lacking a feeling of belonging is the single most exploitable flaw we have. From scammers after your money to wannabe dictators; they all rely on a missing foundation of support around the individuals they seek to radicalize/exploit.
This is why it’s so important to keep an eye out for those kind of people and just talk to them and include them. “Brainwashing” is not an instant—or permanent, but if it’s gelled in it’s hard to advocate for trying to talk there—process.
While the marginalized are fed lies and hate with extreme precision nowadays, there’s always gonna be a window between first exposure and lockstep indoctrination.
That’s why it’s so important to reach out if you know anyone on the margins like that, you might be the only thing stopping that process in time before they’re part of any number of “too far and not them at all” groups of which the fasch and alt-right are currently the biggest but not only examples.
Yeah, it’s not strictly anyone’s responsibility in this world we live in, but I sure think it should be a normal part of being in a community in the world we ought to be fighting for.
Keep being you. Fight that feeling one person at a time, we should all follow that example.
You’re not imagining things, the world is not just “getting weird” but division is sown our way from a multitude of places for their own profits and agendas.
Yet, we must be silenced. The people can not be allowed to speak. Even as dystopia gives the diseased members of the species ever more powerful and abstract tools to divide us, they still fear us talking.
That’s because what you’re doing is literally all it takes to begin eroding the artificial pen walls. We’re made to communicate and tell each other stories, that’s deeply ingrained.
What we’re losing slowly and globally is our sense of cohesion. Neighbor to neighborhood, resident to city, citizen to country, human to human.
All of our innate mental structures that trend towards “making it all work, no matter who is helped because it helps me too” are constantly being twisted and attacked. But we are what we are, so keep fighting the good fight.
In any of the systems we’ve tried since the species got agrarian—especially Capitalism whenever it’s Fascism Hammer Time—not the average person that’s for a certainty.
They’re too busy surviving.
In a proper society where we (the collective We, but really ~2k dragons) used the same tools we used to separate us to instead expand the sense of the tribal umbrella so that the species innate selfish altruism could shine?
A whole lot more folks whose part would be exactly like in the fabric of society, comfortable and without a thought of want for they know We got their backs too.
As a decent writer with ADHD who is constantly receiving unbelievable smoke up my ass from my readers; It’s not very Cash Money of you to judge what you’re perhaps not understanding or worse, not considering.
Random titling of That which We Believe To Be Of Import, is—however triggering unto itself—just another of the ways we’re out here coping with the “Mind Bees”.
Consider the community you’re in. Isn’t it enough to be misunderstood and prejudged by those whose minds aren’t divergent to the same degree?
Previously formed neural pathways, epigenetics, nascent research into gut microbiota and cognition. It’s even more abstract and amazing than just software.
Erase the neuronic pattern and the frame work that led to a big part of what that person was still remains.
You lose memory, but there’s a very real argument to be made that we’re a trickier stack of firmware, software, and hardware acceleration to keep your analogy.
The newly minted infant homunculi in this hypothetical total loss of the “pattern” would (given their environment supports enough resources) find themselves becoming something significantly alike what was there before.
It happens all the time with smaller and not as thorough distractions to that pattern after all.
Both the defense and the prosecutor can select witnesses to call. Why would the prosecution (The State) not want to call the flipper?
“A Trump Pac paid-for lawyer told me to lie or I wouldn’t get free legal counsel” is exactly the dream answer the prosecution would like.
Of course they’re gonna want to ask it if they thought the answer was 99% that.
Unless the lawyer [or the article] is saying the State is the one afraid because the State is the one that told him to lie for a public defender and the State wouldn’t want the defense to ask something that would bring that up during cross examination?
Which would make no sense and is not how public defenders work but isn’t surprising to be coming from the caliber of lawyer still willing to represent the defense here.
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