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Like many things capitalism deals with, it was a loophole meant to shield insular communities (in this case the Amish) exploited to take money.
A procrastination in of itself
Yeah, this sounds like it was designed to basically allow healthcare communes, but it’s resulted in a bunch of for-profit companies masquerading as an alternative to insurance.
I think it’s meant to be a more formalised version of everyone in the village stuffing $50 into a box in the village hall every week, then taking money out of the box when someone gets sick.
Hey now, under some (possibly heretical) takes on Christian theology it’s the Satanists (the nice ones) who will go to heaven rather than the people behind this shit.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
Still on break until the 25th barring an awesome octopus-based death so here's a bit on octopuses. The most underrated animal on the internet. And many a Japanese censor evasion.
Also the bit about their intelligence on using coconut shells is pretty neat.
Edited by terumokou on Jul 11th 2021 at 11:18:48 AM
Burning love!
Oh, bother.
Octopi are pretty awesome. Too bad about their short lifespans.
Disgusted, but not surprised
I can't watch the video (I never can), but did he do the bit about the octopus that memorized the aquarium guard schedule and snuck out of its tank to eat fish?
Also, octopi are violently opposed to cooperating with each other under any circumstances. I read one mostly-serious essay about why it's the only reason they don't have civilization.
Redmess
No, he didn't mention that.
Optimism is a duty.
Disasturbator
> Also, octopi are violently opposed to cooperating with each other under any circumstances. I read one mostly-serious essay about why it's the only reason they don't have civilization.
so what your saying is that they need to be modified so to make them more social..interesting
New theme music also a box
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
Still one more week until he's back on so here's a bit on John Dillermand, a Danish kids show about a man who solves problems with a ridonkulously long penis.
Oh a wholly different but same tangent, I really need to watch some Danish television because John Dillermand sounds freaking hilarious.
Edited by terumokou on Jul 18th 2021 at 9:28:18 AM
Burning love!
Oh, bother.
And somehow make them live longer than a few months or years.
Redmess
This reminds me of that episode in Babylon 5 where Londo cheats at cards using one of his tentacles, which later turns out to be his prehensile penis. One of four. Which grow out of his armpits.
Optimism is a duty.
Disasturbator
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
It reminds me of a bit in Dragon Ball Super where Goku goes to shake hands with the King of The Cosmos, who looks a bit like an octopus, and when he grabs one random tentacle the King sheepishly informs Goku that that's his penis. This gag happens like three times, to the point that I suspect the King of The Cosmos is doing it deliberately to hit on Goku.
Redmess
Well, at least the tentacles didn't look like penises. They looked more like actual octopus tentacles.
Optimism is a duty.
Disasturbator
jesus christ STOP
New theme music also a box
We actually had a thread
about John Dillermand back when the show's existence was still the talk of the week.
The show was airing on public broadcasting channel aimed at educating youths (think PBS Kids), which made a more modern fairy tale approach to teaching sex education (the non-intercourse kind) to kids.
Redmess
Oh my god, I just realizes what this show is.
It's a ripoff of Marsupilami, just with a human with the tail in front.
Edited by Redmess on Jul 19th 2021 at 8:27:08 PM
Optimism is a duty.
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
Housing discrimination against African-Americans and the racially disproportionate ways to prevent home/land ownership simply because you're black.
Burning love!
On one hand, I'm not surprised white people today don't know much about it (or, didn't know that much a couple of years ago) since it wasn't taught in schools so history was just 'Civil Rights happened! No we're not explaining why the rich town with the good school is mostly white and the poor town with high crime a few miles away is mostly not, figure it out yourself'.
On the other hand, a historian not knowing the history of the town? I might be able to buy a homeowner not looking at the original deed to see the racial covenants, or a newer house not having one, but a local historian somehow missing that when researching?
Lost in Space
It's easy not to see something when your pride depends on not seeing it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Essentially this. Pride creates blind spots.
That guy wasn't a professional or anything. He was just a hobbyist. He can probably tell you exactly what civil war battles were fought on the hill a bit further or what famous person almost choked on a chicken bone fifty years ago.
This is not the kind of thing you'd read in the library under "fun facts about your neighbourhoods".
Edited by Kayeka on Jul 27th 2021 at 6:07:02 AM
Makes sense, just curious because my stepdad is a hobbyist local historian as well and he pointed out racial convents in deeds to me when I was a kid.
Well, the guy in the interview was also the kind of person whose first thought upon learning this was "Oh god, this is making us look racist!"
We can assume that systematic racism is not pat of this man's daily concerns.
