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Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by mrguyorama »

nxm wrote: post #83
vkou wrote: post #77

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Whether or not non-productive individuals who don't do any work can own the means of production and reap the majority of the economic surplus from it is somewhat tangential to the question of who pays for whose healthcare. There are plenty of capitalist nations that provide public healthcare on a large spectrum of coverage and quality.

With 2 month long plus waits for basic scans in countries like Canada

If you think there aren't long waits for non-emergency treatment in the US, you are lucky or a moron.

I needed a sleep study. An inpatient sleep study is booked 3 years out here. Good insurance.

Seeing that sleep study doctor in the first place just to get sent a $150 gadget that listens to me sleep? I waited two months. The follow up appointment? 3 months.

Do you know why non-emergency care waits that long? Efficiency. Turns out, hospitals want to not spend extra money on doctors they don't need whether they get paid by the government or this weird industry called "insurance" we have developed.

Go head, tell me about how you can get any treatment or any scan in a week without fail in our wonderful overpriced system.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by dang »

ThrowMeAway1618 wrote: post #451
jack_tripper wrote: post #368

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Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by mrguyorama »

duskdozer wrote: post #192
sdoering wrote: post #124

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Thanks. I never understood why intelligent people, comparing for example the German to the US system can even blink and decide that the German system doesn’t work. Yes, there is quite a bit to improve in the German system. No doubt there. But if I compare it to the abysmal situation in the richest country on this planet, I am left standing awestruck asking myself why. I really, genuinely cannot wrap my head around.

It's largely not up to people. 59% of Americans support Medicare for All[1], including over 1 in 3 Republicans, but how many politicians even talk about it? [1] https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabRepor... via https://truthout.org/articles/6-in-10-americans-back-medicar...

If you vote republican, you do not "support medicare for all" no matter what you say to the poll.

Your vote has consequences, and republicans have been voting for people who objectively and loudly tell their voters that they have no intention of doing those things.

It's time for people who vote republican to own that they suck at picking who to vote for.

Tons of them also say they want recreational weed, but it's only republicans working to prevent that in most states, often literally ignoring citizen's initiatives and court cases to accomplish that.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by dang »

jack_tripper wrote: post #460
ThrowMeAway1618 wrote: post #451

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>In fact, we should all just come and rape your women Not sure keyboard warriors acting tough on the internet would last a day there, but go on over and try. >move somewhere I did, I moved to your rich country and am dating your mom. Want a bro?

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Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by mrguyorama »

jjcob wrote: post #57
throwaw12 wrote: post #34

I have reported these ads to YouTube multiple times, because I tracked down their scam websites, but YouTube didn't delete them anyway. Common pattern they had was: - similar or same domains - same messaging on their website YouTube could have taken action, but it choose not to

I'm still waiting for the tech world to wake up and realise that the online ad machinery and user tracking software that the brightest minds of our generation have been working on are just a way to efficiently connect scammers with their unsuspecting victims.

I'm waiting for the tech world to realize that "the brightest minds of our generation" don't actually work at google, because if you are that enormously bright you don't want to work for ads or in an opaque megacorp.

Why does anyone think a brilliant mind would enjoy that? So they could make a little bit more money?

Do you honestly think brilliant people, the smartest of our generation, care about money?

IME, Google software devs aren't even the brightest minds in the parking lot.

Completing large engineering projects says nothing about individual capability, and nothing about how Google deploys shitty AI moderation and about how Google employees insist it's great and perfect and never does anything wrong gives me any reason to believe they are even competent.

It's literally a meme that people started repeating in earnest without a second thought.

Don't you think a brilliant person would work somewhere, like, interesting?

In economies where you aren't rewarded for individual competency (because software management couldn't pick out individual competency if it screamed at them), highly competent people aren't going to play the game, they are just going to find something to pay the bills and work on hobbies.

The smart people are often where the money isn't, because they are rarely driven by monetary pursuits.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by mrguyorama »

trollbridge wrote: post #326
zwnow wrote: post #23

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Who am I to judge what they do with their money? I couldnt possibly know if they are allergic to something. Also not every homeless person is an addict. Even beggars can have agency over their resources. An addiction is not for me to solve, first things first should be to cover their basic needs, only then you can work on an addiction. Money is the easiest thing to give.

You should know that for an addict, the “next fix” is the first “need” that gets met. I am not convinced it is ethical to supply money to a pipeline to drug dealers.

Weed is legal where I live. They don't fund drug dealers. They fund local business.

Though that local business currently funds some sketchy Chinese crime ring so.....

I just don't care. I'm not trying to "save" them, I'm throwing a little expendable resources at a human being and hoping it somehow makes their miserable life a little less miserable and sometimes drugs and alcohol are exactly that.

I've had half a mind to just hand out joints before, but I actually think they DON'T want that.

When I want to help "rescue" homeless people like that, I give money and resources to local institutions that know how to do it.

I really don't think panhandling has ever really fixed a homeless situation. It's not exactly a job you can put on your rental application. What do I care whether the dude who spends every day on the same street corner at 0 degrees smokes some weed or not? Why should literally anyone care? I haven't seen him in a while, so he might just be dead now.

Meanwhile the people who are "temporarily homeless" rarely get to take the good panhandling spots.

I know all too well how close I have come to that exact life, and how much people like you would sneer "Oh he's just an addict, not worth compassion"

Addiction is rarely fixed by homelessness and suffering for starters.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by 0_gravitas »

zaphirplane wrote: post #60
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #47

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There was a period when I was constantly showered with these ads whenever I visited YouTube. It quickly became clear that it was some kind of scam, but YouTube didn't do anything about it for years.

Does clicking on the ad cost the spammer a lot of money

Depends on bot-detection and if its a CPC or CPA campaign

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Post by fahhem »

hearsathought wrote: post #428
juliusceasar wrote: post #394

He will soon move to Israel and escape his punishment.

Isn't that just for "jewish" pedos and rapists?

Everyone associated with this seems to be Jewish. Israel is a haven for criminals of all types, we just care extra about any haven for pedos and rapists, but white collar criminals are terrible, too
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