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M*A*S*H War is war, Hell is Hell
luxintenebriscalling on a stranger to stand up for children, invalids, and the elderly is uproarious.
it exists.
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka
Kids, cripples, old ladies….he calls them innocents!? Has he ever met any?
Show me an innocent child, and I’ll show you an adult with blinders on in the nearest mirror.
More on those pesky vaccine passports among other things
luxintenebrisidk '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.
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.
Lessons from 2,000+ Interviews with Broken People
luxintenebris“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.” - Franz Kafka
Doug Stanhope - Remember when I used to give a sh*t?
eoe says...It's been a while since I saw something so on the money. I literally clapped because I couldn't help it. And it's relieving since I don't have the cognitive dissonance people must feel when they watch it, unable to help but be and do exactly what he's talking about. I actually subscribe daily to everything he said.
Come on, guys! Come with me. I've been with my partner for 8 years without getting married (and we don't plan on it), we're definitely never having children, and I'm vegan!
It's the magical triad!
(I look forward to many people agreeing with the first 2. The 3rd... yeah, good luck.)
As Kafka said upon becoming vegetarian:
And before I get shouted out of the building for being a braggart, it's hard to not speak out when you feel exactly what he's describing. Hypocrisy runs rampant, not just in things that are out of our control, but even in things completely and utterly in our power (some might disagree with a spouse that demands a wedding).
I couldn't upvote this enough.
Jon Stewart's "Rosewater" Trailer
billpayerLove J.S. but I think a film about how Guantanamo has locked up and tortured 86 innocent people for 10 years might be more relevant for a U.S. audience. Yes, 86 prisoners cleared for release, still locked up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/25/kafka-at-gitmo-why-86-prisoners-are-cleared-for-release-but-might-never-get-it/
Instead we get a film about how evil Iran is, by an U.S. director
▶ Divorce Corp.
petpeeved says...Some of the more disturbing aspects to divorce court:
1)No right to trial by jury and no right to representation by a court appointed lawyer if you cannot afford a private attorney. Your fate is solely in the hands of one judge.
2)Lawyers are essentially completely immune from prosecution for fraud, libel, defamation, excessive litigation and more.
3)Family courts are not courts of law but rather courts of equity. This amplifies the risk and damage that a corrupt judge can do to you exponentially by giving that judge virtually unlimited power to interpret the law according to his or her opinion as to what is 'right' as opposed to what might be actually written in the law.
Kafka's The Trial pales in comparison to the reality of modern day family court.
Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?
SFOGuy*quality
Unbelievably, on some days and in some places, this is my very sad life.
And no, I'm not a lawyer.
I just have to live in a web of civil service nightmares sometimes.
Kafka knew what he was talking about.
ZappaDanMan
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mintbbbThanks for the quality!
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It's always a surprising experience when you realise "oh... so that's how you do it!” For decades I've been open doors with my mouth like Gregor Samsa in 'The Metamorphosis’ .... *cough* *cough*... Kafka joke anyone... No English majors online? Ahh forget it, you guys are no fun : BTW that’s one *quality moustache.
How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979
ZappaDanManIt's always a surprising experience when you realise "oh... so that's how you do it!” For decades I've been open doors with my mouth like Gregor Samsa in 'The Metamorphosis’ .... *cough* *cough*... Kafka joke anyone... No English majors online? Ahh forget it, you guys are no fun
BTW that’s one *quality moustache.
Bristol Palin gets in an Argument at a Bar
nockThis situation is more surreal than a Kafka story.
Meat-Eating Clocks
notarobotWhat would Kafka think of this?
Sasha Grey on Interracial Porn
GeeSussFreeKthe Kafka of cumming. The Sartre of sodomy. I like this game!<
em>>> ^quantumushroom:
PROFOUND. She's the Kierkegaard of c--cksuckers.
Webcam captures artist's 736+ hour performance piece
Mi1ler says...Reminds me of the short story "The Hunger Artist" by Kafka. Though I have no idea what exactly her motivations are in performing this peice, its just one person in one place as a peice of performance art, which is very superficially what the hunger artist is.
Unbelievable.....That Kids BACK ON THE ESCALATOR!!!!
dystopianfuturetodayLeopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry. This happens again and again, repeatedly. Finally it can be counted on beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony.
-Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes
MrFisk
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enochIn reply to this comment by MrFisk:
*quality
i just noticed.was away on a short vaca.
thanks my man =)