The words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down, police sources told ABC News late Wednesday evening.
There was a book about insurers ripping people off titled “Delay, Deny, Defend”.
The plain interpretation is that the shooter was unhappy about insurance business practices. United Healthcare is notoriously bad about denying claims. I have a denial letter from them on my desk right now. That would narrow the suspect pool down to millions of people.
Just got word that Billy & Mandy will be leaving MAX at the end of the year. If anyone’s interested in grabbing some physical media, I’m putting up the last of my DVDs on eBay this week. Who knows what will happen in the future, but the series has never had a full DVD set made, so discs like these may soon be the only way to see the show.
I’m in “Holiday Blowout Mode”, so not only are there DVDs and original production art, but posters, crew gifts, and rare merch from shows like Chowder, KND, Samurai Jack, etc.
A lot of people have seemed sad for me that I’m selling off all of this old art. Honestly, most of it has sat in boxes for nearly 25 years. If I didn’t sell it, I’d probably pull it out once every couple of decades while looking for a tape measure. At least this way, ideally somebody who wants it ends up with it and can enjoy it more than I would. I’m super-thankful to everyone who’s bid so far!
Right now, I’m really just trying to buy myself time. Time for the animation industry to “bounce back”, if that is indeed its destiny. Or just time to figure out What’s Next.
I’m just saying, “We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don’t question because computers are logical and don’t make mistakes” literally sounds like a planet-of-the-week morality play on the original Star Trek.
sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you’re like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don’t know what though
much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today
this is on my blog at least 5 times already but i had to reblog it again, because i was catching up on local news from this morning (mostly following the hīkoi which i sadly couldn’t attend bc disability)
and maipi-clarke (the girl starting the haka) spoke briefly on this going viral
but instead they handed the bill to her. and this is speculation on my part, but given how our current right wing government has been pulling out a lot of dirty tricks lately to avoid māori protests, i wouldn’t be surprised if they gave it to the youngest member of parliament (she’s only 22), because they figured she would be the least likely to be brave and step up
so i just wanna congratulate her again for sticking to it, they tried to use her inexperience to shut her up and she just went okay, i’m leading this now, and good for her
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