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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • I might have missed it but I don’t see anywhere that talks about health insurance and medical companies that sell medical consumables/equipment.

    It’s so hard to know insurance coverage. Call your insurance company and ask how much you have to pay out of pocket for a procedure. They could give you a quote but also say don’t quote them because they don’t know. Healthcare facilities have a hard time figuring out which insurance companies are in network and which procedures are covered.

    Companies selling medical consumables increase their prices about 10% EVERY YEAR. Now add annual Medicare reimbursement cuts to that. Medicare is already the golden standard. If Medicare cuts their reimbursement on something, it’s likely insurance companies will as well. We aren’t in a system with some doctor price gouging because they want to get rich. Most likely they have a hard time staying afloat and competing with the healthcare corporations.

    You have conglomerates like CVS who own health care clinics, pharmacies, deep investments in pharmaceutical companies and own Aetna health insurance. Full circle healthcare. Do they pass all these savings down to their patients? Idk but I’m guessing the money they are saving is massive compared to the price reduction. The bigger the company the lower prices they pay because they have better contract negotiating power.

    Anyway, it’s just another Friday. Same sh@% new day.






  • Article is paywalled but here is my take going off only the title of the article.

    China wants to gather all the information they can so they are prepared for war against the United States.

    The United States will continue to drain its resources into the war in Iran. The same way Russia has done this with Ukraine.

    The USA will keep pissing off it’s allies and the rest of the world.

    When China feels confident they can beat the USA in a war, they will take back Taiwan.

    The USA can’t fight 2 expensive wars simultaneously but they have no choice and need help quickly.

    Large scale draft happens in USA and they still lose everything.






  • You’re welcome. I don’t know why people just downvote you. Maybe bots have entered the chat. Maybe you’re getting tracked through your voice.

    I was talking about McDonald’s the other day and saying how I used to buy their regular hamburgers for $1 each and now they are like $3. I wanted to know exactly how much they cost now so I opened the McDonald’s app and a promo popped up for “buy 1 hamburger get 1 free”. It was the first thing that popped up on the screen. Was it a weird coincidence or audio data collection?





  • Trained AI can be pretty useful at writing. People just need to actually read and edit it.

    I made a website about a sport I knew nothing about. I was using AI to write the articles. I would cross reference the information against other websites on that sport and edit my AI article to make it more natural. The end goal was affiliated marketing but I lost interest after a while. Anytime you see an article like “the 10 best…” “the best hacks for…” etc, the author most likely made the article like I was doing.

    Fortunately Google has shot themselves in the foot because nobody can find anything of value with their search engine anymore. Googles AI has significantly decreased traffic to all websites as well.