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@Molson_Hart It’s very true. Companies should prioritize hiring Gen X to help build and teach millennials skills to lead people. The millennials are failing at business and treat employees like children. We need to keep quality standards in business and not feelings.

The most disheartening thing about doing business in the US right now is how everything gets noticeably worse every 3-6 months. People answer fewer emails. Companies do a worse job on service. The government just stops doing functions that used to be essential. Some clown is going to vaguely accuse me of not being patriotic for writing this but, first, it's true. And second, until we acknowledge this, we cannot act on it. This said, I'm afraid, it must get much worse before it can get better. Sad, but some things in life are just like this.

@heavensbvnny Every day.

I want to talk about the women who are healing completely alone. No therapist. No support system that truly understands. No person in their physical life who has the capacity to hold the full weight of what they are carrying. Just them. Reading threads at midnight. Saving posts they will return to at 3AM. Building themselves back up using whatever they can find in the dark. If that is you I want you to know that what you are doing is one of the most extraordinary acts of self love I have

@ReleveRE You forgot about the gray line quartz countertops.

One day we will look back and wonder how they convinced people that stark white kitchens with grey painted walls and grey faux wood floors were desirable.

@CherokeeOwl There are no good people left in this world.

Caught on camera: A tourist in Key West reaches into a coffee shop’s tip jar and steals about $20 while paying for her order. When employees at The Funky Rooster Coffee House confronted her and called the police, officers quickly tracked her down on Duval Street. Bodycam footage shows the woman (a 63-year-old from New Jersey) denying it even after being shown the surveillance video — claiming she might have just “bumped” the jar. She was arrested for misdemeanor petty theft, released on a $1,000 bond, and later pleaded no contest. Her daughter was also present and got a lecture from officers about the situation. Stealing from hard-working baristas and service staff? Not a good look — especially on vacation. Tips are how these folks make ends meet. What kind of person does this?

@EarthToGazelle This is why I am unemployed. I was the Quality Director - no one cared about quality - they cared about slapping it together and talking in circles to people to make themselves seems smart. It’s very unfortunate.

The quality of customer service in the U.S. is plummeting so fast. Everyone is in survival mode and doesn’t give a flying fuck about their jobs at all lmao, they just need the money and fuck everything else.

@SenRickScott @RAlexAndradeFL It’s the talent pool here in FL. You have losers in high level management positions, managers who treat employees like children (colored emotion cards in Pinellas) - no leaders = good talent goes elsewhere.

A good-paying job is life-changing, which is why I’m concerned about this report. Florida shouldn’t be losing so many jobs, and we shouldn’t be surpassing the national unemployment average for the first time in years. Creating more jobs needs to be PRIORITY #1!

Former Pussycat Dolls member Jessica Sutta shares her story, why she was excluded from the band’s reunion, her inspiring advocacy, and a bunch more, including the definition of antivaxxer, whether Covid-19 vaccine is a vaccine, an incredible Kaiser doctor admission, and more. (0:00) Jessica Sutta Intro (1:56) The Pussycat Dolls Reunion and Exclusion (6:20) Empowering to Degrading (9:02) Hollywood Dynamics and Relationships (11:52) Health Crisis and Personal Transformation (23:52) Government Involvement in Marriage (30:34) One of My favorite Rage Baits of All Time (37:50) The Impact of the Covid-19 Rollout (44:55) Anti-vaxxer Definition (49:41) Are Covid-19 Vaccines Really Vaccines? (1:00:46) Vaccine Injury Story (1:04:13) Symptoms and Neurologist Diagnosis (1:18:39) Legal Challenges and Compensation for Vaccine Injuries (1:38:08) Support for Vaccine Injured

You're not going to believe this one....a discontinuation study is a psychiatric research method where you put patients on a medication, then abruptly remove it from half of them. The half you took off the medication feels terrible. Withdrawal symptoms, destabilization, etc. The half still on the medication feels comparatively fine. Researchers then use this contrast to argue the medication is effective. Do you see the problem? They aren't measuring the drug's effectiveness. They're measuring the withdrawal effects of removing it abruptly. And they use that distinction to push medications through FDA approval. This methodology was used with lithium. It has been used repeatedly across psychiatric medication trials. It is COMPLETE fraud, dressed in the language of science.

ATHENS, Ohio — A corruption scandal that has already toppled the head of Athens County’s Department of Job and Family Services has now reached the county’s highest elected body, as Commissioner Charlie Adkins faces a felony indictment accusing him of working to identify and silence the county employee who first raised the alarm about the alleged misuse of more than a million dollars in public money. Adkins, a Democrat serving his fourth term on the Athens County Board of Commissioners, was indicted on one count of felony intimidation in connection with the sprawling case surrounding Jean Demosky, the recently removed executive director of Athens County Job and Family Services. Demosky herself now faces eight felony counts, including theft in office.

I worked decades in Homeless nonprofits. We went from a cause to a multi-billion dollar industry. We used to empower but now enable to the point of dependency.

@kevinvdahlgren I did as well. I am so glad you are doing this. But I don’t see any changes… I’m on the East Coast. Thank you!

@washghost1 They did this at the County Govt - lunch and learns with Jennifer. I told my staff you absolutely do NOT have to participate. And soon the whole office wasn’t signing up and Jennifer went and cried to Karen. It’s like romper room anymore.

I’d walk right out of that job

No amount of government funding is ever going to turn psychiatry from a failure into a success. Despite a 241% increase in U.S. mental health spending and record numbers of Americans receiving treatment, outcomes like depression and suicide rates continue to worsen, according to findings highlighted at a recent Congressional roundtable. Spending rose from about $40.9 billion in 2000 to $139.6 billion in 2021, while the number of adults receiving treatment more than doubled—far outpacing population growth. The data highlights a troubling paradox: more services, more prescriptions, and more funding have not translated into better population-level mental health. Researchers and advocates say the trend raises questions about how resources are being used and whether current approaches are delivering measurable improvements in outcomes. Advocates are now calling for greater accountability, outcomes-based measurement, and reforms focused on effectiveness rather than volume of services, warning that without structural changes, rising spending may continue without meaningful improvements in Americans’ mental health. (Source: HNG News / Send2Press report on congressional mental-health roundtable)

@Shannonagain2 In the 10 years I spent in child welfare (as an administrator), I could found about 10 people that were actually true social workers - the rest were there for the power and greed. I was close to making sweeping changes and poof the politicians swooped in and out I went.

Florida CPS/family court/therapy shenanigans. B. Kerry Brown is still at it. linkedin.com/in/b-kerry-bro… bkerrybrown.com

@ConnollySean1 @hoopes_leah @billlawr @SearchWarrant1 @EagleEdMartin @FBI Wow. I see the patients are now the CEOs of MH treatment facilities in PA. I guess slim pickings - the industry should be shut down. NOW

Dr. Zacki is not listed on staff website. I did have the pleasure of meeting Ayana & Heather. CEO that parachuted in from Texas the medical fraud cover up squad! open.substack.com/pub/delcopatri…

COVID was a hoax. Everything about it. The classification, the case counting methodology, the mortality statistics, the modelling that justified every consequential policy decision, fraudulent. Constructed to produce fear at a scale sufficient to override reason, law, and the most basic instincts of human decency. The vaccine was not a vaccine. By every prior definition of the word, a preparation that stimulates immunity to a specific disease, it did not qualify. It was a genetic instruction platform that had never been approved for human use, deployed under emergency authorisation, with liability shields in place before the first trial data existed. It did not prevent infection. It did not prevent transmission. It did not prevent death. It injured and killed in numbers that are still being counted. Lockdowns are for criminals. The quarantining of healthy populations, the shuttering of churches, schools, and small businesses while supermarkets and pharmaceutical companies remained open, had no scientific precedent, no legal basis in a free society, and no measurable effect on viral transmission. What they did measurably affect was the mental health of children, the financial survival of working people, and the concentration of wealth among a small number of corporations positioned to benefit from the elimination of their competition. Masks did not work. The evidence was always there. Every serious pre-pandemic analysis of respiratory virus transmission and mask efficacy in community settings reached the same conclusion. The masks were not public health policy. They were a compliance ritual, visible, daily, public performance of submission to authority. The bioweapon was deployed. The data is unambiguous. Countries with the highest vaccination rates did not fare better. In many cases they fared worse. The correlation between rollout and excess mortality is documented across multiple independent datasets by multiple independent researchers whose work survives methodological scrutiny. Many people died, not from a pandemic but from a protocol. Remdesivir. Mechanical ventilation. The denial of early treatment. The financial incentivisation of COVID diagnoses and COVID deaths. The suppression of alternatives that were working in the hands of physicians willing to use them. The protocol killed people who the virus would not have. It was the greatest wealth transfer in recorded history and the biggest crime on human humanity. Trillions moved, from the working and middle class, from small businesses, from independent practitioners, from ordinary people locked in their homes, to the pharmaceutical industry, the technology sector, the global logistics infrastructure, and the investment vehicles of the people who designed the response. In twelve months. With the full legal backing of emergency powers that conveniently suspended every normal check on that kind of transfer. And not one person has been held accountable. Not one resignation in genuine shame. Not one prosecution. Not one moment of public reckoning proportionate to the scale of what was done. The architects are still in their positions. Still collecting. Still planning. And still counting on you forgetting. We are not forgetting. For what is to come.

@alex_prompter LBH… the reports done by the junior analysts weren’t any better. My direct experience with Deloitte and KPMG has been mediocre at best. They just take your work and wrap it up with some fancy clipart and page numbers and sell it back to you. Garbae then, garbage now.

🚨 Holy shit… Deloitte was charged $1.6 million for a healthcare report filled with AI-hallucinated citations. This is the second time in two months they’ve been caught. First an Australian government agency. Now a Canadian province’s Department of Health. And their response? They “stand by the conclusions.” Let me translate that for you: “The AI made up the sources, but trust us, the advice is still good.” That’s a $1.6 million report. For a healthcare system. With fake citations that nobody at Deloitte bothered to verify before submitting. Not an intern’s draft. The final deliverable. The Australian incident was supposed to be a wake-up call. Deloitte even partially refunded that government for the errors. You’d think after publicly embarrassing themselves once, someone would have implemented a basic fact-checking step before hitting send on the next million-dollar engagement. They didn’t. And here’s what makes this story bigger than Deloitte. Every major consulting firm is racing to integrate AI into their workflows. McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture. They’re all doing it. Because AI lets them produce reports faster with fewer junior analysts, which means higher margins on the same $500/hour billing rates. But the entire consulting business model is built on one thing: trust. You’re paying for credibility. You’re paying so that when you hand the report to your board or your minister, nobody questions the sources. The moment that trust breaks, the math changes completely. Why pay $1.6 million for AI-generated analysis with fake citations when you could run the same prompts yourself for $20/month and at least know to check the sources? That’s the real disruption nobody’s talking about. AI isn’t going to replace consulting firms by being smarter than them. It’s going to replace them by revealing that a huge percentage of consulting work was always just expensive research and formatting. And now the clients have access to the same tools. Deloitte’s problem isn’t that they used AI. It’s that they used AI the way most people use AI: paste in a request, take the output at face value, ship it. No verification layer. No human review of citations. No system. The firms that survive this era won’t be the ones who use AI the fastest. They’ll be the ones who build actual verification systems around AI output. The ones who treat AI as a first draft, not a final product. $1.6 million. Fake citations. Twice in two months. And they stand by the conclusions. The consulting industry’s biggest threat isn’t AI. It’s clients realizing they don’t need to pay someone else to hallucinate.

Press Release Psychiatrist Sentenced to Prison for Healthcare Fraud Scheme Thursday, January 16, 2020 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Beach doctor was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare, and other health care benefits programs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Additionally, Udaya K. Shetty, 64, agreed to pay over $1 million to settle related civil claims. According to court documents, was a licensed psychiatrist practicing medicine at his own practice, Behavioral & Neuropsychiatric Group. Beginning in 2013, Shetty created a scheme by which he could overbill healthcare benefit programs by seeing patients for only five to 10 minutes, but then billing for services that were on average 41 to 63 minutes long. Shetty instructed his staff to often double, triple, or even quadruple book appointment times. The fraud became apparent when investigators discovered that on dozens of instances Shetty would need more than 24 hours a day of working to perform the services for which he billed. In 2017, Shetty closed his own practice and joined another psychiatric practice, Quietly Radiant Psychiatric Services. While there Shetty, and one of his former employees, Mary Otto, engaged in a similar scheme. Although other Quietly Radiant staff members were responsible for billing, Shetty directed Otto to access the billing system and change all of his billing data to a higher billing rate. Otto complied and changed the data without the knowledge of Quietly Radiant’s staff. As a result of their actions, Shetty and Otto defrauded various healthcare benefit programs of more than $450,000. Otto pled guilty for her role in the scheme and was sentenced to 15 months in prison on January 10. In regards to the civil settlement, Shetty agreed to pay $1,078,000 to the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia to resolve his liability under the False Claims Act and the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act for submitting or causing the submission of false claims to the Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE programs. G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Martin Culbreth, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office; Robert E. Craig, Special Agent in Charge for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service’s (DCIS) Mid-Atlantic Field Office; Maureen R. Dixon, Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and Mark R. Herring, Attorney General of Virginia, made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph L. Kosky prosecuted the criminal case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Clare P. Wuerker handled the civil case. psychsearch.net/udaya-shetty-p…

@elonmusk There really are no outcomes per se. I have been screaming from the rooftop of the my public service roles for a decade. It’s all BULLSHIT. They don’t want to show outcomes or they would be out of business!

Incentives drive outcomes