• 5 Posts
  • 2.23K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 15th, 2023

help-circle
  • they don’t seem to be concerned about the policies themselves, just that scrutiny means they can’t pursue those and because of that they can’t meet the forecasts.

    FTA:

    The investors described this as “materially false and misleading,” pointing to the immense public scrutiny the company and the broader health insurance industry experienced in the wake of Thompson’s killing.

    The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

    “As such, the Company was deliberately reckless in doubling down on its previously issued guidance,” the suit reads.

    The company eventually revised its 2025 outlook on April 17, citing a needed shift in corporate strategy — a move that caused its stock to drop more than 22% that day.

    “The company denies any allegations of wrongdoing and intends to defend the matter vigorously,” a UnitedHealthcare spokesperson said in a statement.

    Thompson’s fatal shooting on the streets of New York City in broad daylight sent shockwaves across the nation.

    Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old man accused of the killing, has pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges against him. The legal defense fund for Mangione surpassed the $1 million mark in donations on Tuesday.
















  • keep in mind, that Onan, levirate marriages weren’t about love or anything like that.

    Like most (all?) cultures at the time, women were property, and couldn’t own property.

    Technically, Er’s firstborn son would have inherited everything and then “taken care of” everyone else. Or rather, Tamar, would, on the son’s behalf. but Er got smote by god for being a particular kind of dick before he had a first born son.

    So in typical religious fruitcake fashion, instead of fixing the original problem- that Tamar had no way of inheriting anything or supporting her self- they decided the obvious solution was for the brother-in-law to get the widow pregnant.

    of course Tamar was the same age as the third brother; who needed to grow up a bit before she could marry him… (ew, right?) so instead she gets sent back to her own family and- eventually- becomes a camp follower of Judah’s… and, ah. yeah.