United Healthcare CEO shot and killed

tarheelbillie said:
Now once AI is up and running nothing will be private and we'd best be careful of our jest.
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Our jests and more. I got a text from my step-daughter this morning that was a picture of a CD case with the sister of a B-list celebrity on the cover (this CD was released ~20 years ago), I replied "That looks kinda like Janet (sister of the step-daughter who sent the text and not her real name, although of course I used my other step-daughter's real name when I replied) when she was in high school," about 3 minutes later my step-daughter who sent the original text texted "Apple AI just said 'CD cover resembles Janet (but of course used her real name) in high school.'" I don't even know what that means, but it seems kinda... something. I guess it's not that big of a deal, anybody with a Facebook page or Instagram or any other social media has plastered pictures of themselves online for years, AI has plenty of opportunity to associate a face with a name, but I still thought it was creepy that it harvested this "info" from our texts...
 
I have some mental health disabilities in a couple family members and based on my limited research the late 20's is often when it becomes first noticeable. Is this an accurate info. This kid was in that age group.
 
I posted earlier on the thread, but there is a very loud anti-capitalism contingent on reddit and presumably other social media sites that have violent undertones. "eat the rich" and "bring out the guillotines" will often have hundreds of upvotes. I've always assumed a portion of the comments are Russian bots trying to propagate social unrest, but this seems to show there are real people out there with the belief system. I wouldn't be surprised if you see more violence aimed at the wealthy.
 
chrissteel said:
I have some mental health disabilities in a couple family members and based on my limited research the late 20's is often when it becomes first noticeable. Is this an accurate info. This kid was in that age group.
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This kid probably does not have any mental health issues. He might, but not everyone who kills out of ideology does. Che didn't, for instance.
 
Is it possible this guy and/or members of his family had United Health Care policies and were given the runaround and ultimately had their claims denied (unjustly ?)which led to financial ruin.

If so, then in the words of Chris Rock, I'm not saying he should have killed him...but I understand ;)
 
His Twitter is still up if anyone wants to scroll through it. Looks like a book smart young guy getting out of school into the real world and trying to figure it all out. Lots of posts on AI. A mention or two of Asperger's. I saw a post about psychedelics in there. There were a couple of posts about women and how they casually dismiss men.

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ETA: Annnnnd it's down. I feel like reading it before they nuked it is some kind of accomplishment but when I tried to determine what that accomplishment is, I realize it's not.
 
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superrific said:
I wasn't comparing the British and American attitudes. I was just commenting on the UK system. And that article suggests that I have exaggerated the British frustration with their health system. I don't follow it very closely and it's indeed possible I am conflating different things (e.g. frustration at striking nurses isn't quite the same as frustration with the system, although if the system makes it inevitable that the nurses will strike . . . ).

I think the larger point remains true, even if I chose a poor illustration: there are still policy questions to address within the category of "single payer health systems" and the way those policy questions are addressed have a big impact on the quality of the system and its citizens' perception of it.

I also suspect, though this is not terrible relevant, that Americans are just down about everything about America compared to other countries. Our president-elect rarely has anything good to say about the country, and shits on it with regularity. Trump shits on half of America with regularity; he tells invented stories of how bad it is; he calls America a Third World country or worse. So yeah, Americans are down on America. That's more or less unrelated to the point of your post.
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I've read or listened to several discussions regarding government healthcare and other uses of taxes in other countries. Most of the countries where the people feel they get value for their tax dollars they are happy. Many of those the people pay a higher rate of taxes, but they like the better healthcare, the better schools, the government enforced work rules, etc.

I have had 4 contractors work for me over the past few years from countries with socialized healthcare. I know it's a small sample, but they all loved their country's healthcare system.
 
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