It’s the same basic principle by which human health insurance companies operate. Make maximum profit by taking in premiums and denying as many claims as possible. Our whole system is fucked. In 2025 United Healthcare made $9.425 billion in profit. How many people had to die or live in abject misery to enable that?
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Vet prices are absolutely absurd these days. It’s fucking bullshit that they are exploiting people like this. If your response is, “just buy pet insurance”, you are part of the problem. Pet insurance should NEVER have become a thing.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.
0·3 months agoEvery game wasn’t a blatant cash grab. I’d gladly give up updates in exchange for games that are complete upon release and have no pay to win or fomo elements.
I wish caffeine had this kind of impact on me. I was recently trying to get back on my time zone after a trip. Middle of the afternoon, six shots of espresso, and I’m asleep less than an hour later.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.English
853·1 year agoExtremely misleading headline. He, “never returned”, because he tripped and fell in a parking lot. Unfortunately, he succumbed to the fall injuries days later. The headline makes it sounds like the AI killed him or created some plot to do so.

I hate the idea of Sam Altman and I’d like to RAM a data center up his ass