Picking up printmaking was a fantastic decision. This is one of the best things I have ever made.
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betterhelp is a shit service and horribly capitalizes on peoples mental health, but it somehow makes me madder when people people make ad reads for them saying that therapy "makes you happier and helps you relax :)". bitch therapy isnt you gossiping with a dude its a healing tool that its sometimes uncomfortable and thats necessary for you to confront with some issues within yourself
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I'm no economist so take this with a grain of salt, but if we were really interested in making some kind of change for our communities: we could make a lot of progress by instituting a maximum wage and tying it to the minimum wage.
Like, truly extravagantly wealthy individuals (anyone who has more than say $20 million at any given time) are economic bottlenecks, and bottlenecks need to be removed to improve any system. So let's set a maximum wage where people can only earn lets say 15x that of the lowest paid worker in the same organization. Make it apply to private and public positions. A CEO can't make more than 15x what a temp makes, and a Senator or even the President of the United States can't make more than 15x a court clerk makes.
Let's drag everyone closer to an average wage where the lowest paid get to enjoy an actually humane life and the highest paid don't hoard more than they could ever possibly spend meaningfully.
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edges!! they are improving. (ignore my shitty utility room lol)
i’ve added a third grit and started sanding significantly longer. the right textblock hasn’t been sanded yet, and the left has been sanded by hand for about 30 minutes?? i’m keeping track by songs (3 songs per edge) so that’s mostly a guess. i ended up sanding the right textblock for 4 songs a side (doubling the roughest grit), about 40 mins, and it came out even better (that’s the one shown below). i’m extremely sweaty and the paper dust had me hacking up a lung by the end (next time i’ll wear a mask lmao) but overall they’re SOOO much smoother than the 20 minute single-grit sanding.
BUT!! the biggest change with this pair was the speckling!!!!
literally so stoked with how this came out. i changed my water/acrylic ratio to something closer to 50/50 and scrapped the paintbrush altogether. a medium-firm toothbrush is the way to go!!!! no more streaks and globs, no more sticky/ripped pages, and the weird roughness the paint had when it dried is completely gone. i did get a little bit of page bleed because of the higher water content, but overall it’s MUCH better and i think this is going to be my method from now on with only minor adjustments.
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It should be a criminal offense if an insurance company is responsible for a delay in a policyholder's necessary health care.
Withholding prescribed treatments, even for just a day, can be anywhere from inconvenient to catastrophic for the victim. Medical providers may not withhold necessary treatment from any patient on any grounds, as it is their duty to provide it-- it should be justly illegal for any "middle man" to interfere with a medical provider's legal and ethical obligation to treat a patient.
Severity of the charge and its legal consequences should depend upon the scope of the offense (length of delay) and its consequences to the victim (impact on the person).
The testimonies of the victim, the pharmacy, and the medical provider who prescribed the treatment should be key considerations for the determination. Additional important testimony should come from the victim's other medical providers, housemates, family, educators/mentors, colleagues/coworkers, or employers.
The charge should become criminal record for the company. The company (perhaps the agent's office) should be fined per day delayed.
Some taxation can be applied; just to pay off the folks who do the filing, advocacy, testimony, processing. A hefty majority of the fine should be compensation owed to the victim.
If delays became a criminal charge on companies' records, then companies would have a strong motive to terminate agents who aren't performing with punctuality. It would become their best financial interest to invest only in timely agents who would, in turn, gain a best interest to invest only in timely subordinates.
I posit that insurance delays would wane significantly, resulting in more timely delivery of treatments to policyholders, and many people's qualities of life would improve drastically for it.
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I had Elon Musk clocked for a scammer nearly a decade ago, back when SpaceX was new and his veneer was not yet chipped, but that Atlantic article about his texts confirming how stupid he is in private vindicated everything I knew to be true about him and billionares in general.
Like, we know how it is, but to have it in writing? I love it
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did florence welch knew in 2015 that years later she would be making me lie awake at night thinking about make up your mind and griddlehark?
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thinking about the "does a gay little run that pisses you off" meme but it's the scarlet pimpernel and citizen chauvelin.
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