TheAristocrat

joined 2 years ago
[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you are doing any international travel, leave your personal phone at home and bring a burner.

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not in the slightest. It only cuts it so you can increase your yield at the cost of needing to sell a fundamentally different product.

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That is pretty horrifying. I'm pretty confident these guys are legit though.

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

George Carlin did suggest that humanity's purpose on earth was to create plastic.

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

You can see when they banned porn on Tumblr.

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago (6 children)

My personal favorite insurance story comes from a neurologist I know. They were trying to get a prior authorization approved for a curative hemispherectomy. For those outside the medical field, that basically boils down to removing half of someone's brain to try to cure an uncontrollable seizure disorder. This is usually limited to patients under 4 years old to maximize motor and language development, but I digress. After much arguing with the insurance representative, it was approved on the grounds that the patient only gets one.

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

https://youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8

One of the finest music videos of all time, for those looking for the source.

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's disabled at hospitals by default to prevent exporting protected patient information. Right?

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The importance of proper punctuation rears its head.

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