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And they're addictive with all that sugar and caffeine so an ad can trigger a compulsion.

I'd argue no product needs ads, just unbiased reviews. Ads just add bias to whatever company has the better marketing team, not necessarily the best product.

I don't doubt they do for Healthcare but for the billing system I dont think they are. They aren't going to your employer and saying Steve is fat so we're charging an extra $200 for him, but you can pass that on to him so the rest of your employees don't have to pay. In the end when they go to charge you and your employer they'll just give you the total rate to cover x people and then split it up by person.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the administrative overhead and health privacy implications would be too much to assess individual health cost liability.

Yeah they're going to keep track of every visit and procedure to make sure you aren't "overusing" your coverage and deny you if you do, but passing that un aggregated data over to the actuarys seems infeasible.

This argument is so dumb. It's quite often paired with " I don't want to pay for fat people's and smokers poor life choices", like do you think united Healthcare doesn't cover the third of the population that's obese, or is even making them pay more? Unless you're one of the few people getting Healthcare from the marketplace your insurance provider doesn't have enough info to assess health risk and adjust prices, you're employer buys a bulk plan and you become a line in a database with maybe your age on it but not much else. You and your employer are paying the same amount whether your a marathon runner or a chain smoking alcoholic.

And trumps not going to finish it, it was a play on words for brevity, see the edit. Both of the actions were/will be done by Israel with the support and weapons of the u.s.

No one seems to be calling out the trump line as hyperbolic partisan cheerleading. Or any of the other comments on here saying trump is committing genocide.

Biden could've vetoed the multiple aid bills that passed his desk with arms shipments to israel after oct 7th and after it became clear Israel was using this as an excuse to obliterate gaza.

He could've also enforced the leahy laws which prohibit arms shipments to countries that are suspected of using them for human rights abuses.

He didn't do either because he is a zionist who is fine with the genocide of Palestinians.

Russian propaganda, wtf. Newsflash Russia has good relations with Israel, not as subservient as the u.s., but they aren't really complaining about the genocide. I guess you just think that anything that's against the democrats is Russian propaganda, in which case I'd say your a good tool for democrat propaganda.

Made an edit since you people can't seem to take a short reply but I'll copy it here:

I try show some brevity once instead of writing paragraphs and get told I don't know my history, so here's some paragraphs.

Yes Israel has been carrying out a process of slow ethnic cleansing for decades. Biden while in congress along with all the other dems repeatedly backed arms sales to this apartheid state knowing it was going to kill Palestinians. The violence ramped up in 2023 as Israeli settlers committed pogroms against Palestinians, which is part of the reason hamas did oct 7th. During this time Biden did nothing to reign in the Israelis, and instead tried to throw it under the rug to get a deal with the Saudis to normalize relations. Then Oct 7th happened and Israel went on a full onslaught against Gaza, and to a lesser extent the west bank and Lebanon. Biden again did nothing to stop this and continued to give military aid and diplomatic support to Israel. By the end of his administration Gaza was uninhabitable. Now trump seems primed to allow Israel to finish what it started and complete the ethnic cleansing.

Ffs "this phase of the genocide" happy, point still stands, Biden enabled Israel to bomb Gaza into obliteration and trumps finishing the job and all Liberals have to say is "i told you so"

I know Israel has been carrying out a slow genocide for the past couple decades but they haven't ramped up to this level since the Nakba. If you think this is the same as anything pre October 7th, post 73 you need to look at the pictures coming out of gaza.

*Biden enables genocide

Progressives: that's fucked up, we should stop supporting Israel

Liberals: ackchually its not a genocide because they only killed a quarter of the population, and you should stay quiet about this because it'll just help trump win

*Trump enables genocide

Progressives: that's fucked up, we should stop supporting Israel

Liberals: I told you so, I told you so, I told you so....

Still here, Joe Biden started the genocide, trump looks like he's going to finish it.

Not sure if the liberals are much louder in condemning this, judging by the comments here they seem to just want to say "I told you so"

EDIT: I try show some brevity once instead of writing paragraphs and get told I don't know my history, so here's some paragraphs.

Yes Israel has been carrying out a process of slow ethnic cleansing for decades. Biden while in congress along with all the other dems repeatedly backed arms sales to this apartheid state knowing it was going to kill Palestinians. The violence ramped up in 2023 as Israeli settlers committed pogroms against Palestinians, which is part of the reason hamas did oct 7th. During this time Biden did nothing to reign in the Israelis, and instead tried to throw it under the rug to get a deal with the Saudis to normalize relations. Then Oct 7th happened and Israel went on a full onslaught against Gaza, and to a lesser extent the west bank and Lebanon. Biden again did nothing to stop this and continued to give military aid and diplomatic support to Israel. By the end of his administration Gaza was uninhabitable. Now trump seems primed to allow Israel to finish what it started and complete the ethnic cleansing.

Eh, not really, ags sue companies all the time for not acting in there shareholders interests. It's usually more along the lines of the CEO giving a contract to his buddy that costs the company more, but any time a public for profit company pursues some interest other than maximizing shareholder value they open themselves up for a lawsuit. It could be a purely nepotistic or self dealing interest, or it could be your interest in justice, if it's not about making money and you didn't disclose to the shareholders that your decision is not about making money you have defrauded them who are invested solely to make money.

It's a reading of the fiduciary duty of loyalty that most companies and courts have come to accept, if you knowingly do something to decrease shareholder value for some personal interest than you can be sued for it. This is the reason public benefit companies exist, so you can pursue noble causes like dei or fighting climate change that may reduce profits, without risking a lawsuit.

This can be used for good such as in the case of the 2021 McDonald's shareholder lawsuit that alleged it's failure to address rampant sexual harassment caused a loss of reputation and shareholder value. Ironically as a result it implemented a DEI program to address the problems...

The problem with the lawsuit is that they have to prove the dei stuff was about some ideology of the board and not about making money. Which will be hard to prove because at the time forecasts probably would've showed that embracing dei would increase profits. Even today they probably made more money off the rainbow merch then they lost.

This isn't even the craziest story from florida this week, did you miss the story of the Floridian terrorist who shot an Israeli tourist thinking they were Palestinian earlier this week?

I guess DeSantis has been quiet aver since he was destroyed by trump but the people of Florida have been maintaining there reputation.