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- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
These article you linked mentions a litany of active lawsuits against UHC, many of which were already initiated prior to the murder of Brian Thompson. UHC was already on the legal chopping block prior to Luigi’s actions; in fact it seems fairly obvious that the preexisting lawsuits and bad publicity were the reason he chose to target Thompson specifically.
Let’s dig a bit deeper into the article. Right off the bat, I’d like to point out this tidbit, which perfectly supports the argument I was already making in this thread, namely that nothing has been changed by the murder.
Still, Potter warned that UnitedHealth Group’s own claims about reforms to its denials process should be treated with skepticism. “In my view, I think this is mostly for show,” he said. “It’s mostly for PR.”
As for the lawsuit in question, it was filed by some random shareholder from NY, who has no more access to the hard data than we do. He was concerned that
the company’s new projections for 2025, released in April, forecasted a significant cut in earnings.
And in an attempt to explain said concern, this talking head speculated
Wilkes, in an April media appearance, attributed the stock value drop to “probably United, and maybe the industry, pulling back on prior authorizations” — i.e., denying care to patients less often.
That’s not any kind of proof or data, it’s just speculation. Furthermore,
Shortly after the new investor case was filed, attorneys for CalPERS intervened in the new investor lawsuit, and last week, the plaintiff agreed to drop the suit and consolidate it with the larger case.
The lawsuit in question was promptly rolled into the comprehensive legal action which had already been initiated prior to the murder. And in case you didn’t read the whole article, they also mention that
On Monday, shareholders greenlit a $60 million pay package for the company’s CEO and shot down a proposal that would have increased investor scrutiny of executive payouts.
Bottom line is, your characterization of the legal action as “UHC investors suing to increase the denial rate” is reductive and inaccurate, although to be fair to you, it simply mimics the editorialized perspective of the journalist who wrote the article. The parts of the article which emphasize that interpretation of the lawsuit are basically just the journalist pandering to the lowest common denominator which comprises the majority of their audience. In other words, the writer of the article intentionally sensationalized the nature of the lawsuit, which is really quite a boring legal footnote that doesn’t make any of the claims implied by the article. I.e., it’s clickbait, and it’s obviously working.
I do appreciate you providing a relevant link that at least attempts to answer my request for evidence of the previous commenters’ claim, but unfortunately it’s not a very strong piece of evidence.
Lastly, I’d just like to point out that even if UHC does end up changing its practices and extending more coverage, all that ultimately means is that rival health insurance companies under less legal scrutiny will expand their market share proportionally and it’ll simply be a situation of new boss, same as the old boss.
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
Damn, you’re a real tough customer, I should have known I couldn’t get one over on you 😂
Where do you stand on bin Laden, pray tell? Terrorist or freedom fighter?
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
Oh, the world is a better place now? I must have missed that
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
Keep telling yourself that, it’s a nice story to fantasize about
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
The deification of Luigi really pisses me off because he didn’t do shit to help anyone. Robin Hood wasn’t a deranged murderer, he stole from the rich to help the poor. What the fuck did Luigi actually accomplish with his idiotic “plan”? It just shows how dire the current situation is that people are desperately latching onto that clown as some kind of revolutionary, when in reality he is nothing of the sort.
- Comment on Can someone with a lemm.ee account please help me move away cosmichorror@lemm.ee ??? - PLEASE HELP 10 months ago:
Looks like you accidentally reposted this FYI
- Comment on Vote manipulation bots using sh.itjust.works? 10 months ago:
Yes that does look like vote manipulation. Thank you for notifying us. Those accounts will be banned.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Do you ever let the kids play games with butt scooters like these? If not I would highly recommend adding them to your curriculum. Those things were the bomb
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 11 months ago:
People tend to generalize and assume a lot without actually taking the time to verify their assumptions. It’s very frustrating when people demonize admins due to the bad behavior of a handful of users. Trying to win the approval of random goons is a waste of time anyway.
From my perspective you seem like a normal and good person and I think people will eventually come to see that as Lemmy grows up.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 11 months ago:
Dessalines and Nutomic are criminally underpaid. Lemmy development still has a long way to go and we could get there much faster if people donated more. But in typical Lemmy fashion, people would rather sit on their high horses and throw stones from their glass houses.
I started donating to the developers 2 days after I joined Lemmy and have given over $1k since then. I find the developers to be competent, mature, and reasonable. Similarly to many other contentious topics on this platform, the conversation regarding their perceived or imagined political beliefs is completely lacking in objectivity, logic, and nuance. Y’all actually be gossiping like teenage girls about these developers even while taking advantage of the fruits of their unpaid labor. I’ve seen all the evidence of their extremism and it’s quite underwhelming when you lay it all out.
And even if I did have major qualms about the devs, I would still argue that it’s much harder to justify using any products or services from large corporations like Amazon or Reddit than it is to monetarily support a FOSS project such as Lemmy. Out of everything I’ve spent money on in my lifetime, Lemmy is easily among the most morally justifiable expenses.
I eventually had to reduce my monthly contribution once sh.itjust.works started accepting donations, because I also feel strongly about supporting my own instance. It’s unfortunate that so many lemmings seemingly understand the fact that reddit has become an evil cancer and an alternative is sorely needed, but don’t seem to understand that creating such an alternative is a project that requires a massive amount of time and effort. Donating to your instance is great, but without continued development of the underlying software, it’s a futile effort. Even if you want to die on the hill of not donating to the big bad Lemmy devs, at least donate to PieFed or something! 2 patrons?!? As an early adopter userbase, we can and should be doing a lot more to support the fediverse monetarily, imo.
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 11 months ago:
You have my blessing, go forth and drain the machine. Godspeed
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 11 months ago:
Trying to outlast a machine in a battle of stamina? You’re gonna have a rough time with that
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 year ago:
Name checks out
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 year ago:
A good URL is extremely important for growth. But I wouldn’t say unfortunately, as I don’t think sh.itjust.works users have any desire to become a very large server. We seem to thrive as a smaller, more tight-knit community.
That’s the beauty of the fediverse, whether you’re on the largest or the smallest server, you are basically accessing the same content. The rapid growth of lemm.ee benefits all of us.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 year ago:
Remarkable growth in the past week, and indeed past 3 months. Thank you for providing the stats.
Lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works had been similar in size for most of 2024 (2500-3500 MAUs), but you’re now nearly twice our size.
It’s really nice to see this kind of growth because it’s steadily decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.
Lemm.ee has always been a well-run server with great performance and an excellent admin and it’s great to see that new users are choosing the option that will give them the best possible version of what Lemmy can offer.
- Comment on Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives 1 year ago:
My feathers are totally unruffled. I just meant to give you advice to solve that problem. I’m sorry if my tone came off differently, but I was just trying to make a suggestion in case you didn’t know about Dark Reader
- Comment on Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives 1 year ago:
I’m using dark reader for Firefox so it wasn’t an issue
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 year ago:
I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it’s understandable that he didn’t. Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.
But beggars can’t be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.
- Comment on The best instance to host a big community in Finnish? 1 year ago:
Surely has to be sopuli.xyz
Hosted by a Finn, although the servers are technically in Germany
- Comment on Fediverse House at SXSW (March 9-10) 1 year ago:
All centralized services. The fediverse is theoretically resistant to that kind of process.
Also you forgot Limewire, the GOAT
- Comment on FediDB.org has resumed crawling with robots.txt support 1 year ago:
Finally, I have been waiting for this.
Lemm.ee over 4,000 MAUs. Lemmy.ca and lemmy.dbzer0.com up to 1.5k after hovering around 1k for most of 2024. All of the major servers seeing solid growth. Good work lemmings, keep it up
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Snowrunner is dope
Also welcome to Lemmy if you’re new! Or even if you’re not, thank you for your contribution 🫡
- Comment on Wheel of Time - for both the book and show fans 1 year ago:
It’s not better than Middle Earth. But it is very cool. I need to reread, I’ve only read it once and that was over a decade ago.
The Amazon show was so disappointing but kinda inspired me to read the books again. It’s just such a daunting task to get started 😅
- Comment on Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback! 1 year ago:
Wow this guide is really good and easy to read, amazing work!
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 1 year ago:
Once you’ve read the Silmarillion, there’s also The Children of Húrin. If you start from the Hobbit > LOTR > Silmarillion > CoH, it’s basically a steady progression of increasing epicness and tragedy.
I suppose the Silmarillion is the most epic, but Children of Húrin is the most intensely tragic.
- Comment on What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms? 1 year ago:
Yes this is good to know, I wasn’t aware of the background with some of the fediverse projects.
- Comment on What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms? 1 year ago:
I don’t understand the question. Pretty much all fediverse software was built with federation in mind from the start. They all started from scratch afaik, nothing was built on top of a centralized design.
They also happen to perform similar functions as earlier centralized websites, but that’s simply because those are the ways that people commonly prefer to use the internet. People use it to share photos, stream videos, connect with friends, microblog, blog, or browse content aggregators.
There could definitely be new paradigms of internet usage waiting to be discovered, but if the fediverse can’t even replace the existing functionality of the web first, it’d be very ambitious to start building brand new types of sites already.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 1 year ago:
That’s true, originally only users that posted or commented were counted as active. Then they changed it to count users who had voted as active, even if they didn’t post or comment.
But I believe that change occured almost one year ago, in March 2024. You can see a big spike of active users at that time. Starting this January we’ve seen some really nice organic growth, although it’s not nearly to the level of the API exodus. We still need more users, but it’s really encouraging to see some solid growth after over a year of stagnation/slow decline.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 1 year ago:
Wow. Absolute legend
- Comment on A resource to help introduce people to the Fediverse 1 year ago:
I think you did a really good job with this video. I kinda agree that it might be too long to hook complete newcomers. But it seems like a very useful resource for people who are just starting off on the fediverse or have heard about it a few times and want to understand more about how it actually works before really getting into it.
I think there will be a good number of people who bounce off the fediverse a few times before starting to actively use it, because it is relatively complex compared to mainstream social media. But then they will keep getting annoyed at corporate social media sucking and will eventually fully commit to the fediverse. This video could definitely help people take that step, and it really captures a lot of what makes the fediverse so great. Nicely done!
