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More on those pesky vaccine passports among other things

luxintenebris jokingly says...

idk 'bout all that. *

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2136864,00.html

especially yattering about exercise in an over-worked, underpaid, non-union, low benefits strata 'essential' working-class society. hell. give 'em a sensible 40hr work week w/fair compensation, twice-yearly dr. check-ups, and 3 weeks vacation - then you could piously grouse about how they ignore being too tired to walk around the block. { f.m. } besides, who points out when that should be YOUR last piña colada for the evening?

yeah, folks should take care, but the bloated calling the bloated is disingenuous. when they operate at 10% - then pull out the soapbox.

paradoxically, why do we need doctors at all when insurance companies know what drugs or procedures anyone should require? have faced that phalanx before. 'y' is cheaper than 'x', for them, but 'x' was their w.m.d. only six months prior. only to find concerns that 'x' and 'y' might have different risks, the pharmacist said, "they are almost identical." silly me. why worry?

it's a highly mucked system. for an average citizen, an illness could affect their entire being. and their loved ones. a bankruptcy hurts far more than the debtor. it's sickening to think that our system inflicts so much pain and alters so much more lives. it is immoral.

just too odd that cavemen felt more of an obligation to provide healthcare than the present system to their members. just being out one hunter (bob's bum toe) they saw the immediate effect on their own personal well-being. they might actually like bob too. wished him better, and for his family too. happy to fund his wellness plan. get him back up, and running to pay off that moss and lizard bacon foot wrap. all of that w/o having to nail a hippy to wood to realize there is a better way.

one would think, the US has the ability to put a 'copter on mars, program it to fly itself, and have it beam back the wright moment of achievement but figuring out how to get bob's toe healthy, w/o it costing him an arm, is too complex.** it's like really bad kafka.

perhaps the odd savior: the more the right disses socialism the better it appears. if the 'traffic cone of treason' loving hockey pucks continue, maybe the best hope of getting a healthier healthcare system (in the way nazis made the world a better place) saner people might use these bad brains' bad example to right the system by going left (the costanza principle: if everything they say is wrong then not following their advice has to be right).

end of rant ( 'thou feel better getting that elephant off my chest...for a bit).

oh! they should get the vaccine(s). after all, how appreciative is it when Hair Furor is the only reason we have it at all? /s

* btw: insurance is happy w/pharmaceutials? kick-backs?
** 'tho bob's toe would feel better if he'd just stop putting his foot in his mouth.

StukaFox said:

You don't want a vaccine? Lovely. We will be canceling your health insurance. Since you've chosen to be a complete cunt, we've chosen not to pay for your utter cuntiness.

I work in health insurance. The three biggest contributors to the price of insurance are:
1: fraud (doctors are notorious for this)
2: general waste (upbilling; unnecessary tests that are only performed to keep the fucking ambulance-chasing lawyers from filing malpractice suits because someone got the shits from an antibiotic)
3: PREVENTABLE HEALTH ISSUES. This includes obesity, smoking, not exercising, not getting annual checkups and atrocious dietary habits as first-order issues. If not corrected, these lead to more expensive and longer term second-order issues: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, vascular disease. These issues start a feedback loop with the second-order effects cause immobility which contributes to increasing first-order effects which amplifies second-order effects -- lather, rinse, repeat.

Now add a good case of Covid to that mix. If you end up on a ventilator for two week, there's a mil-plus in hospital bills: someone has to either pay that (welcome higher insurance rates!) or the hospital has to eat it (welcome even HIGHER insurance rates!) You can bitch all you want about the cost of healthcare in America, but you're paying for every dumb, entitled asshole who spouts shit like MUH FREEDUMS!! when asked to do basic things to protect themselves and others.

tl;dr: your idiot views of what the actual fuck "freedom" is ends at my wallet. Fuck you and get your goddamn vaccine. And put down the Cheetos while you're at it.

Trump Won't Win

MilkmanDan says...

I'm with you on almost all of this.

However, I *still* wouldn't vote for Hillary if it was a Trump / Hillary rematch in 2020 (I voted for Stein, would happily have voted for her or Johnson).

I see the current Trump presidency as a "teaching moment". It teaches a lot of things to people that need to learn them: The electoral college is bullshit. Be careful who you vote for. Don't trust the promises of *any* goddamn politician, ever. If the opponent party is running somebody with a lot of negative baggage, maybe try a milquetoast "bland but acceptable" candidate instead of going full tilt with your own baggage-laden candidate. And on and on.

If 2020 turns out to be Trump vs Clinton again, then clearly those lessons haven't sunk in yet. So, as George Costanza once said: "Wanna get nuts? LETS GET NUTS!"

Mordhaus said:

It was clear he was going to win once the democrat mafia forced Hillary down our throats again. There were a metric fuckton of people who were forced to either sit out the election or sadly vote for the worst possible person just because the dems wouldn't fairly let a candidate be selected.

I DID NOT want Trump to be President. At the same time, I COULD NOT vote for Hillary Clinton. Had Bernie ran, I would have jumped ship and voted for him like I did for Obama. I am willing to bet there were a lot like me. The sad thing is, as much as I dislike Hillary, if she is forced on us again I will have to vote for her. I don't want to, but at that point it will be the lesser of two evils again.

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Seinfeld - George's Answering Machine

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Seinfeld - George's Answering Machine

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Stephen Fry on American vs British Humor

Sotto_Voce says...

I don't know about this... Think about the best American comic right now, Louis CK. His on-stage (and on-screen) persona almost exactly fits what Fry describes as the British archetype. And he's not alone: think about Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, George Costanza in Seinfeld, Homer Simpson, even Lucille Ball.

On the flip side, British comedians like Russell Brand, Jimmy Carr and Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder (except for the first season) are more like Fry's description of American comedy. It seems to me that what Fry has done here is come up with a nice neat story about differing national character based on broad stereotypes rather than acute observation, turned that into a theory of comedy, and then cherry-picked examples that fit his theory without mentioning exceptions. It all sounds very impressive given his amazing facility with language and rhetoric, but it's not very good analysis.

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Russians wont shake Obamas hand

Kofi says...

He's not getting snubbed.

Watch the last two interactions. He isnt even close enough to shake hands. The first one, when they enter the room, is definitely a handshake. You can see Medvedev gesture (the same way Obama does later) towards those he wishes to introduce. It is then edited to a later stage where it appears Obama is the one doing the introducing.

If you look at the room they are all on one side so both the Russian and American delegation would be there. I would say that it was the Russians being introduced first and then vice-versa. Why would Medvedev be shaking hands and saying "hello" in a way that you do when you are first being introduced to multiple people to members of his own staff? Obama seems to extend his arm forward when ignored but he also steps back a little. I think this is just making up for a delay in Medvedevs shaking on the previous shake.

Either he was being snubbed and then converted it to a gesturing towards people he is introducing (a George Costanza type move) or he was gesturing from the edit onwards.

Scumbag Bison

sepatown says...

Bison Costanza: "I was trying to lead the way. We needed a leader! Someone to lead the way to safety!"

Bison #2: "But you yelled 'GET OUT OF MY WAY'!"

Bison Costanza: "Because! Because, as the leader...if I die...then all hope is lost! Who would lead? Instead of castigating me, you should all be thanking me. What kind of a topsy-turvy world do we live in, where heroes are cast as villains? Brave bison as cowards?"

Bison #2: "But I saw you push the women and children out of the way in a mad panic! I saw you knock them down! And when you ran, you left everyone behind!"

Bison Costanza: "Seemingly. Seemingly, to the untrained eye, I can fully understand how you got that impression. What looked like pushing...what looked like knocking down...was a safety precaution! In a wolf attack, you play dead, am I right? And when I ran, I was not leaving anyone behind! Oh, quite the contrary! I risked my life making sure that the path was clear. Any other questions?"

Bison #3: "How do you live with yourself?"

Bison Costanza: "Its not easy."

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budzos says...

Meh. She ugly.

>> ^bareboards2:

Not misogynistic -- just reflective of our culture that demands women look a certain way.
That woman isn't ugly. She just isn't. She's in the normal range of humanity, and she is making faces. Faces that you label as "ugly." But she isn't a barbie doll, controlling her face to meet cultural expectations. Like Japanese women, who cover their mouths when they laugh.
I don't really want to get into a big kerfuffle here. I have learned in my tenure here on the Sift that the vast majority of men on the Sift are not attuned to the cultural environment they live in, how women's images are controlled to meet certain expectations.
I mean honestly -- think about all the David Spades and Kevin Jameses and even George Costanzas there are out there in the media -- just normal guys, looking normal. The ranks are legion. Now name for me women who match their general attractiveness.
I mean, really. Next time you watch any movie or TV show. Pay attention to the relative diversity allowed in shapes and sizes for the men, and how limited the palette is of women.
Exhibit #1. http://videosift.com/video/He-Said-She-Said-un-romantic-comedy
Neither of those guys are particularly attractive, and certainly the heavy set guy is even less so, on any objective scale. The women? Much much much better looking than the men. This happens all the time, everywhere in the media.
I love the way that woman looks in this vid. She is lively, alive, with a point of view that has nothing to do with "looking good" for male consumption.
Anyway. Blah blah. Sorry to go on.
We'll have to agree to disagree, I suspect.

>> ^budzos:
I hope you're not trying to say my comment was misogynistic. I'm talking about the one woman... she is ugly and makes it worse with her faces. The other women look fine. The woman is particularly ugly. The men, not so.
The whole video is about daggering in cartoon world so I guess that's why every single movement is sexual.
Here's the other Major Lazer video from the same director, where he makes explicit his fetish for really ugly women:




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