My share was $6,500. Once I hit that, insurance covered 100%.

Annual out of pocket maximum.

This is why it pays to have even shitty insurance guys!

Me:

Emergency room co-pay: $150
8 days in the hospital + open heart surgery from the head of the department: $100
All the drugs and oxygen bottles I could carry: $100

4 weeks later, my company gets acquired, my insurance changes, I lose all my doctors, my hospital, and have to start over in a new medical system. I also developed complications.

7 days in the hospital getting fluid drained: $6,500.

That met my yearly out of pocket maximum and evaporated my signing bonus with the new company.

NY Post is not a reliable source. Feel free to re-post from an actual news site.

Ooh… that’s a FANTASTIC idea that Iowa and New Hampshire will never let happen. ;)

I think the trick is each state would need to run two primaries, but then some already do, and some run a caucus AND a primary.

The problem here would be burning through all the blue states and not getting enough delegates to become the nominee. Then you really WOULD have Red states picking the candidate.

Yeah, based on this delegate counter:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/delegate-count-by-state

By the time you burned through all the blue states, you’d have assigned 2,541 delegates with 1,976 needed to be the nominee. It’s possible that someone wouldn’t hit that number just based on the blue states.

Under this model, the Democratic Primary for 2028 would be this, then invert it for the Republican Primary.

District of Columbia - 90.3% - 39 delegates
Vermont - 63.2% - 33
Maryland - 62.6% - 134
Massachusetts - 61.2% - 132
Hawaii - 60.6% - 24
California - 58.5% - 587
Washington - 57.2% - 132
Delaware - 56.6% - 37
Connecticut - 56.4% - 88
New York - 55.9% - 274
Rhode Island - 55.5% - 45
Oregon - 55.3% - 89
Illinois - 54.4% - 222
Colorado - 54.2% - 104
Maine - 52.4% - 46
New Jersey - 52.0% - 175
New Mexico - 51.9% - 56
Virginia - 51.8% - 99
NE-2 - 51.3% - 65
Minnesota - 50.9% - 114
New Hampshire - 50.7% - 46

Pennsylvania - 48.7%
Wisconsin - 48.7%
Georgia - 48.5%
Michigan - 48.3%
North Carolina - 47.7%
Nevada - 47.5%
Arizona - 46.7%
ME-2 - 44.8%
Ohio - 43.9%
Florida - 43.0%
Iowa - 42.5%
Texas - 42.5%
Alaska - 41.4%
Kansas - 41.0%
South Carolina - 40.4%
Missouri - 40.1%
Indiana - 39.6%
Nebraska - 38.9%
Montana - 38.5%
Louisiana - 38.2%
Mississippi - 38.0%
Utah - 37.8%
Tennessee - 34.5%
South Dakota - 34.2%
Alabama - 34.1%
Kentucky - 33.9%
Arkansas - 33.6%
Oklahoma - 31.9%
North Dakota - 30.5%
Idaho - 30.4%
West Virginia - 28.1%
Wyoming - 25.8%

2020 was the worst, picking Biden after the 3rd primary, and that one being South Carolina…

Because we really want red states determining who the Democratic candidate is… 🙄

Men do it too, they also don’t get elected. See Bob Dole, or Mitt Romney.

People saying what they think they need to say to get elected will always lose to people who genuinely believe what they are saying, even if what they believe is batshit crazy.

Watch out for Task Scams:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2024/12/paying-get-paid-gamified-job-scams-drive-record-losses

Yes, that’s the trick. If you order in bulk, everyone doing the same bulk order should get the same pricing.

Where it starts to get tricky is how you calculate “bulk”.

Back when I worked a manufacturing gig, there were two types of bulk orders.

Lets say you wanted 5 million envelopes, you got a bulk price on that, and everyone buying 5 million got the same bulk price.

BUT -

Clients were ranked based on overall spend and got additional discounts.

So a client buying 5 million envelopes would get a better deal if they also bought 5 million custom forms vs. just the envelopes alone. Or if this was their 3rd order of 5 million vs. their first.

Applying this to liquor distribution, I could see it working the same way. A mom and pop store buying 50 bottles of Jack is going to pay the same per bottle as anyone else buying 50 bottles of Jack.

But a bigger retailer, buying 50 bottles of Jack + 50 bottles of Captain Morgan + 50 bottles of Maker’s Mark + 50 bottles of Crown Royal + 50 bottles of Grand Marnier + 50 bottles of Absolut is going to get a better per bottle deal than the mom and pop store. (I dunno, those are all the liquor brands I could come up with off the top of my head. :)

I said this in another thread - 1.7 billion in 107 days means spending $15,887,850 a day. Let’s be generous and assume a crazy 12 hour work day, 7 days a week.

That’s $1,323,987 an hour, every hour. 12 hours a day, for 107 days… with NOTHING to show for it.

They need a compare and contrast with 2016 as well…

2016 - Clinton failed to campaign in key states like Michigan and Wisconsin, said something idiotic about coal mining that couldn’t be walked back that tanked her in Pennsylvania. Lost the election 304 to 227.

2024 - Harris DID campaign in key states like Michigan and Wisconsin, attempted to back-track her previous statements on fracking but nobody in Pennsylvania believed her. Lost the election 312 to 226.

Trump actually gained +1 state in 2024 vs. 2016.

What do these two candidates have in common?

https://theconversation.com/why-do-so-many-believe-hillary-clinton-is-inauthentic-67302

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/7/3/harris-authenticity-problem/?ref=readtangle.com

Watching both women, I told my wife (a big Clinton and Harris supporter), that they both come across as plastic and fake. Their smiles don’t quite reach their eyes. They’re trying to ACT authentic, not genuinely BE authentic.

Clinton almost comes across as psychopathic in this regard and while Harris isn’t quite so bad, the reaction in her camp to her fakeness didn’t help, especially when it came to things like her fake laugh and the coconut tree comment.

https://youtube.com/shorts/br6EHiAWJ_M

I think, in the end, picking Tim Walz as VP highlighted this lack of authenticity because there could not have been a candidate more authentic than Walz and by comparison, Harris looked worse.

Your headline is incorrectly editorialized, please revert it to the original or we’ll have to remove it.

“‘A Gift to the Oligarchs’: Trump Pick to Replace Lina Khan Vowed to End ‘War on Mergers’”

https://www.law.gmu.edu/pubs/papers/05_26

"In the single product case, courts have consistently applied the ‘not easy to establish’ two part test for predatory pricing set out by the Supreme Court in its Brooke Group decision.  As a result, the courts have generally ruled that above-cost volume discounts, including those that use market share discounts and near exclusive thresholds, are lawful and do not violate the antitrust laws. "

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/509/209/

“Evidence of below-cost pricing is not alone sufficient to permit an inference of probable recoupment and injury to competition. The determination requires an estimate of the alleged predation’s cost and a close analysis of both the scheme alleged and the relevant market’s structure and conditions. Although not easy to establish, these prerequisites are essential components of real market injury.”

“Big chains buy at much lower prices, hurting smaller retailers”

Well no shit, it’s called a volume discount for a reason.

Buying 50 bottles of Jack is going to be more expensive per bottle than buying 500,000 bottles. Obviously. A mom and pop shop is not operating at the same level as a Costco.

Electing a convicted felon President of the United States.

Well, there’s a FLAVOR ranking and a HEALTH ranking. :)

Tops for both are avocado oil and extra virgin olive oil.

My general preference is Lucini Olive Oil, they have Italian and Argentinian variants depending on how much you want to spend, and it’s readily available pretty much everywhere.

https://www.delish.com/kitchen-tools/cookware-reviews/g46931475/best-olive-oil-brands-ranked/

If you weren’t their customer, how did you have an account to delete? 🤔

“I don’t know why there wasn’t one who was able to become a chairperson of a committee…”

Because if the Republicans have their way, womens roles will be “Tradwife” and nothing else.

Don’t they do that for each President?

LOL - Wiki has Trump already:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year

2024 - Trump
2020 - Biden/Harris
2016 - Trump
2012 - Obama
2008 - Obama
2004 - W. Bush
2000 - W. Bush
1996 - David Ho. Clinton/Ken Starr got it in 1998.
1992 - Clinton
1988 - The Endangered Earth, H.W. Bush got it in 1990.
1984 - Peter Uberoth, Reagan in 1983.
1980 - Reagan
1976 - Carter
1972 - Nixon/Kissinger, Nixon also 1971
1968 - Apollo 8 Astronauts
1964 - Johnson, Also 1967
1960 - U.S. Scientists, Kennedy 1961

Seems like each President gets 1 per term. Nixon is the only one pulling it back to back. '71/'72 after having been skipped in '68.

Johnson is the only 1 term president to get it twice because, obviously, he finished Kennedy’s term.

Yup, noted above!

Unacceptable safety risk in trans kids feeling comfortable with who they are as human beings.