Pharmaceutical companies, like Pfizer, are often at odds with health insurance companies, like UHC. Like they really don’t like each other, because they’re both fighting for the same pie in a zero sum situation. Pharmaceutical companies want to charge more for medicine and insurance companies want to pay less. I’m not defending either company or industry, but I really don’t think this is as nefarious as Klippenstein is trying to make it out to be

It was recently in the news that the CEO of Pfizer was at Mar a Lago kissing Trump’s ass to try to get him to do away with pharmacy benefit managers, AKA prescription insurance, which really hit insurance stocks.

I can only hope this is a joke. This is Tim Heidecker, from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Does cast iron really take babying? I have a 12" cast iron skillet that’s pretty much the only pan I use, and I just scrub it with steel wool, get it hot again, then throw in some avocado oil. It takes like 60 seconds of work

You could leave it outside in the dirt for 5 years and still just give it a lye bath then reseason it to work like new

You really make it sound like you do

Not saying that at all, just saying the overwhelming majority of children are not having that reaction, and taking “I don’t like it” at face value every time is not going to be productive in developing healthy eating habits

This is arguable. Lots of kids will reflexively tell you they don’t like something they don’t want to try, and it often takes several tries for them to develop a taste for something and they suddenly love it. A better option is to ask them to eat one bite of something less favorable in order to access several bites of something more favorable. Whatever broccoli trauma you have is highly atypical, I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. I hide broccoli everywhere

Borax works too, and won’t kill every other insect like pyriproxyfen will. Put a Terro ant bait on a trail or a mound, they’ll come take it and the colony will be gone within a few days

Braindead take of the week right here

They were talking about before the Civil Rights movement, FDR’s New Deal and stronger unions from the 30s-50s brought economic inequality way down. It started to go up again after that, and the current out of control situation really began in the 80s with Reagan’s awful tax policies that we’re still facing the consequences of

Look dude, I’m not here to argue about the US’s absolutely fucked foreign policy, and in absolutely no fucking way am I saying any one conflict is not driven in whole or in part by capitalism.

But “Capitalism is the primary driver of wars” is a fundamentally false statement. Just because it’s a driver of some or even most modern conflicts does not make it “the primary driver of wars.” War is a well documented and studied social phenomenon that predates capitalism by thousands of years, maybe millions. Fucking chimpanzee tribes war with each other. There are thousands upon thousands of wars throughout human history that prove your statement wrong.

Yes, every non-capitalist country throughout history has been a beacon of peace lmao

Humans are human. Capitalism is absolutely a driver of some conflict, but conflict is driven not only by economic interests, but also political, ethnic, religious, and other interests.

Bennett was a badass bad guy. Commando is a badass movie.

“I’m not going to shoot you between the eyes. I’m going to shoot you between the balls.”

I think there were a number of power users for whom that was the case

It’s always en vogue to report on every batshit-crazy bill filed by Republicans in the Texas legislature, and while there’s genuinely some terrible legislation that gets passed, the Texas Legislature is where bills go to die, and this will definitely be one that dies. This bill will never get out of committee, and this headline is a lie.

Much better choice than Thin Mints. Thin Mints…blech

The ability and willingness to laugh at yourself is evidence of self-awareness and intelligence.

Completely missing the point, and thinking someone laughing at themselves is instead “complaining” or “whining,” is evidence of a lack of self-awareness and intelligence.

Bruh, I work in homeless services. Egad man, get a grip

I “cherry picked a plot of land 100 miles from a population center” because that’s where the vast majority of the federally-owned land is, out west in the middle of nowhere.

I said absolutely nothing about my opinions on what policies can be instituted to alleviate homelessness and associated issues, because my only point was that your idea is dumb. I work full time in homeless services and live and breathe bettering unhoused people’s lives. I have no idea why you’re directing anger at everyone here, at people who don’t disagree in any way with your actual criticism of the problem of homelessness in the US, but you should probably explore it with a therapist.

Well, there’s quite a bit more to it than that. An acre of land a hundred miles from a population center is essentially useless to someone without the money to build a dwelling with utilities or to obtain food