I was hoping for more than just an anecdote, but really that's on me for not saying that. Everything I've seen from UHC is doubling down the idea that they "only deny <X% of claims, yada yada"
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty defended the company's claim denial practices in an internal video which was leaked after the fatal shooting of Thompson. Recorded on December 5, the day after Thompson's death, Witty emphasized the company's role in ensuring "safe and appropriate" care and that the insurance giant will continue to prevent "unnecessary care”.[166] Two months after the shooting, UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to take action against social media posts critical of the company.
Witty did step down, and a bunch of executives hired body guards, but I don't see any lasting change from the whole thing. Even if they did allow claims they wouldn't have for a little while, if it's business as usual nothing has really changed (not to undersell how important that is for people who may have been affected).
I think people have generally (incorrectly) seen certain settlements and deals, like with Disney as "this is legal now" when really it hasn't been established yet. It's just gone away for some companies because money.
I wouldn't mind seeing a take on it, where the 100+ are at least arguably spared and the villain is actually killed at the end, completing the revenge. At least once.
I self hosted matrix for probably a year after me and some people started getting spam on telegram. It was the first thing I really self hosted beyond jellyfin (and plex before that) so I didn't really fully understand what was I doing and that could have affected things.
I had a few hurdles that made it not work out for me and my friends/family. First, the end to end encryption, one of the main "selling" points I feel, makes it complicated to sign in for people who don't care about any of that. You end up getting a code to save, I had to verify them at first, we'd have times where something still showed unverified, etc.
Just started hosting nextcloud recently and I'm also seeing the notification issue, but at least you just sign up and start using it.
I also noticed in matrix we never got notifications for emoji reactions (which we all use with each other). Other notifications were relatively solid though.
I never got webrtc and some stuff working and I sort of lost steam trying, so we could use element or fluffychat but not element X and we couldn't have big group calls or anything like that. That's probably on me though, but in fairness nextcloud aio just has a checkbox and all that stuff works.
Since I'm the only dork in my little group interested in this stuff I abandoned matrix when nobody used it.
I also got lucky with my direct coworkers, they're great. Some of the people from other teams.. eh.
I just need to get things squared away so that I can get a good year or two into an apprenticeship, assuming union, then I'd be doing fine financially and by the time I'd get to journeyman I'd be making a little more than currently.
But boy that's getting tougher to do every day. Rents up, utilities are up, groceries are up. I'm already self hosting several things that have cut out most of my subscriptions (just started hosting music, and it's actually pretty good, no "discovery" but I'm solving that with excessive numbers). It's a process, but I'm hopeful I'll get there in about a year. Also a bit worried I do all this and hate the new thing too lol.
I feel you. I'm thinking of getting out of my dead end office job (dead end unless I want to get into management, and I don't) and apprenticing as an electrician or something. Yeah it's physically harder but I'm just sick of what I'm doing.
Unless it's within the last day or two, hexbear hasn't gone anywhere. The instance I'm on hasn't defederated from them and I haven't blocked them and I see their stuff all the time.
I need similar work done, I keep forgetting this is an option. It'll cost me 15k to do here at a generic chain dentist. After insurance
Yeah but if you mentioned that, people would read it and agree. So of course they need to lie about it.
Cursive I guess.
I have that in both eyes and I still prefer dark mode.
I do miss cheat codes.
I was hoping for more than just an anecdote, but really that's on me for not saying that. Everything I've seen from UHC is doubling down the idea that they "only deny <X% of claims, yada yada"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson
Witty did step down, and a bunch of executives hired body guards, but I don't see any lasting change from the whole thing. Even if they did allow claims they wouldn't have for a little while, if it's business as usual nothing has really changed (not to undersell how important that is for people who may have been affected).
What's.. funny I guess, is that he doesn't even really talk like that anymore, because he barely makes it through a sentence now
Learn something new everyday
If you can point to one actual change directly from that CEOs death you would shock the hell out of me.
I think people have generally (incorrectly) seen certain settlements and deals, like with Disney as "this is legal now" when really it hasn't been established yet. It's just gone away for some companies because money.
I wouldn't mind seeing a take on it, where the 100+ are at least arguably spared and the villain is actually killed at the end, completing the revenge. At least once.
But the whole thing is that you're freeing them, is it not? That's what you'd be benefiting from.
It's a brand.
Surely he can't go on for that much longer. Listen to him speak.
I say, more to myself than anyone elseI self hosted matrix for probably a year after me and some people started getting spam on telegram. It was the first thing I really self hosted beyond jellyfin (and plex before that) so I didn't really fully understand what was I doing and that could have affected things.
I had a few hurdles that made it not work out for me and my friends/family. First, the end to end encryption, one of the main "selling" points I feel, makes it complicated to sign in for people who don't care about any of that. You end up getting a code to save, I had to verify them at first, we'd have times where something still showed unverified, etc.
Just started hosting nextcloud recently and I'm also seeing the notification issue, but at least you just sign up and start using it.
I also noticed in matrix we never got notifications for emoji reactions (which we all use with each other). Other notifications were relatively solid though.
I never got webrtc and some stuff working and I sort of lost steam trying, so we could use element or fluffychat but not element X and we couldn't have big group calls or anything like that. That's probably on me though, but in fairness nextcloud aio just has a checkbox and all that stuff works.
Since I'm the only dork in my little group interested in this stuff I abandoned matrix when nobody used it.
I also got lucky with my direct coworkers, they're great. Some of the people from other teams.. eh.
I just need to get things squared away so that I can get a good year or two into an apprenticeship, assuming union, then I'd be doing fine financially and by the time I'd get to journeyman I'd be making a little more than currently.
But boy that's getting tougher to do every day. Rents up, utilities are up, groceries are up. I'm already self hosting several things that have cut out most of my subscriptions (just started hosting music, and it's actually pretty good, no "discovery" but I'm solving that with excessive numbers). It's a process, but I'm hopeful I'll get there in about a year. Also a bit worried I do all this and hate the new thing too lol.
In any case good luck to you.
I feel you. I'm thinking of getting out of my dead end office job (dead end unless I want to get into management, and I don't) and apprenticing as an electrician or something. Yeah it's physically harder but I'm just sick of what I'm doing.
Can't take the paycut yet though.
Unless it's within the last day or two, hexbear hasn't gone anywhere. The instance I'm on hasn't defederated from them and I haven't blocked them and I see their stuff all the time.
You throw money at him on patreon nowadays and ask on there. Then they might put it on an episode.
30s male - Most days, sometimes multiple times. Lately it's been a lot. Not sure what that's about.