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@punishedindeed It's not a free market when insurers pre-agree on price fixing with providers.
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heartwarming: proponent of the free market gets exactly what they asked for ❤️❤️❤️
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Last week I randomly got a $9,000 bill for a hospital visit from last year. I called them up and they said my insurance decided not to cover it. Why? Because. .@Aetna can just decide they’re not interested in covering something and then you’re left with an inflated bill to pay out of pocket after the fact. This is in addition to a $2,000 bill that I already paid. They just don’t want to cover it despite me paying a monthly premium. Meanwhile illegals get free healthcare. Honestly fuck you @Aetna. I’m gonna do everything I can to destroy you.
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I hope Tucker Carlson runs
Its would be a massive benefit to the US of he ran as an independent or as a Democrat
Splitting the US and icing out Democrat Boonies
Tucker vs Vance 2028
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson hits all-time high in the 2028 Presidential Election odds, as he teases a potential run. 7% chance.
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I just paid $3500 to have a $500 blower motor installed, which took 90 minutes. That's $2000 per hour labor.
just matt@questionableway
what i learned about hvac repair after dealing with 4 companies across 5 weeks and thousands of dollars is that they are all perpetrating fraud all the time and there’s no way to avoid it
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Texas hill county is becoming a lot like Nicole Kidman. Natural talent. Gorgeous. She’s getting a bit too much work done these days but still would.
Houston Chronicle@HoustonChron
Construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2028. bit.ly/4w7PrOM
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@JosiahHawthorne @MateyYanakiev Numerator: number of babies
Denominator: the population
Proportion is a synonym for rate. Both numbers should be growing to maintain the rate.
Or we're all just seeing what we want to see in the text.
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3,606,400 babies were born in the US in 2025.
3,900,089 babies were born in the US in 1995.
3,760,561 babies were born in the US in 1985.
3,144,198 babies were born in the US in 1975.
3,760,358 babies were born in the US in 1965.
Who stopped making babies?
60 Minutes@60Minutes
“We've stopped making babies. We've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time. Not if you're a full human," former Sen. Ben Sasse says in an extended interview. cbsn.ws/4cA1Jrp
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@Henryla123 @evan7257 Yeah by their wealth, race is not a factor. Same with nearby areas, all kinds of people from all over.
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All of these things are alive and well in West U
Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall
I'm watching the film “Sandlot” with our kids and just realized that the film’s version of America with baseball, public pools, county fair, block parties, etc is almost extinct.
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@JosiahHawthorne @MateyYanakiev that's how you determine a change in the rate
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@CameronCorduroy People who demand 2 Senators for DC are supposed to be AP Gov pros?
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POV: you make everyone pass an AP Gov test before they can vote
James 𝕏ond@james_xond
Unpopular opinion but the right to vote shouldn’t be automatic. It should require passing a basic test on economics, finance, history, and how laws and public policy actually work… Pass it, you vote. Fail it, you don’t.
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@realnikohouse Those are crony capitalists.
A real solution would be a tarrif that would account for wage and environmental disparities.
The government puts a lot of mandated on American companies for such things, and should place an equivalent tarrif to account for the burdens they add.
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Capitalists hate competition, no matter how much they try and convince you otherwise.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Senators introduce bipartisan bill banning Chinese vehicles and auto parts — NBC
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@GrailArchive Newer MBs definitely use more rivets than nuts and bolts.
That gets annoying.
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@GrailArchive Long-time W211 owner, did some repairs on W212s.
Tough to say, wish I had more experience with the older models.
But I will say that DAS/Xentry -based diagnostics in W211 and newer make life a lot easier.
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Mercedes built the E-Class for 70+ years. At what generation did they either perfect it or lose the plot?
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@tiberiusfiles Isn't a significant chunk of their RE purely for investment?
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“Oh no, Chinese people can afford to buy homes”
US propaganda is so dumb. The Chinese economy is designed to serve its citizens. The US economy is designed to serve the rich. This is why China is winning and will win.
Hedgeye@Hedgeye
🚨 China's Real Estate Market has erased all gains from the last 20 years
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@HumanistReport Your unawareness is masquerading as experience, and it doesn't look good.
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Conservatives truly have zero policy solutions to any of our fucking problems lol.
Even your dumbass deserves to have more than just “price transparency.” You should have healthcare that’s free at the point of service like people in other countries.
Riley Gaines@Riley_Gaines_
It's been 7 months since we had our baby and we're still receiving unexplained hospital bills in the mail. Hardly ever an adequate description of services. Just a QR code to pay online. It feels intentionally confusing and difficult to get answers. We want price transparency.
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a man fighting against a ONE TIME 5% TAX on billionaires so that the poorest among us can have healthcare is not someone who should be president btw
Pop Base@PopBase
A petition for the California billionaire tax, which would implement a one-time 5% tax on the state's 200 billionaires to fund healthcare programs, has received 1.5 million signatures — which could help it qualify for the November ballot. Gavin Newsom shared that he was fighting against this amendment in a previous interview with The New York Times.
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@BernieSanders 5th amendment: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Published by Congress, you "work" there: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/a…
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Congratulations to the California unions who have gotten over 1.5 million people to sign a petition to put a Billionaire Wealth Tax on the ballot.
At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the richest people in our country must start paying their fair share of taxes.
WSJ Politics@WSJPolitics
California’s billionaire tax has the signatures to make the ballot, backers Say on.wsj.com/4vSXyOU
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@kantortech @Rothmus They assessed my land WAY THE HELL higher than the market was.... I would not call that fair. I had to argue and submit over a dozen documents over a 90+ day time just to get them down to anything close to market value. I had to go thru way the hell to much trouble.
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This is the federal income tax play all over again.
It started in 1913 as a “class tax” on the rich, hitting less than 1% of the population with a 1% rate above $3,000.
It expanded during WWII into a mass tax on most workers through withholding, skyrocketing rates, base broadening, and bracket creep to fund wars and spending.
The wealth tax will follow the same trajectory.
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval. They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval. Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?
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@PerkovichSK @Rothmus You can argue about land value when its taken for a highway
But if they assess taxable net worth in dollars, and demand a payment in dollars, it seems pretty straightforward.
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My dad called me today
“Hey, i’m struggling to pay my property tax for this year. It went up almost $1500 to $8188 for the year versus $6600 for last year. I’m confused, i thought taxes were not to increase for two years. Did yours go up as well? This really sucks! They are trying to drive us out of the state.”
My dad is 76 and lives on social security. He’s lived in the same house since 1993. It’s been paid off for two decades.
Yet he owes $8k in property taxes, or the state of Texas will take his home.
This is criminal
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@Kasparov63 Tovarish, that entire presidency was two overturned elections.
The first was the unverifiable mail-in voting, and the second was government by cabinet and autopen as Biden made occasional appearances from a fake white house set.
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This is as good a distillation of one of the principal fascist rationales for total power as you could imagine. "They"? Who, the Democrats? I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden was president, and I don't recall his masked security forces or attempts to overturn elections.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
If they’re willing to die to assassinate, imagine what they will do if they gain political power
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