Natural Contrarian

Joined March 2009
Thaaat’s gonna leave a mark
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Quick update for this saga… Patient called back today with their newly-issued mail-order prescription in hand. The prescription in question wasn’t even written by their primary physician. It came from a prescriber they had never heard of/or seen. I researched the provider on my own, come to find out they have 2 practice addresses: 1 in Ohio and the other in Eagan, MN. PO BOX 211699 Guess who is located in Eagan, MN? Devoted Medical Group Professional Corporation and related Devoted Medical practices. So, @DevotedHealth utilized one of their very own physicians to issue a fraudulent prescription for a patient who they’ve never seen or even knew. Then shipped it off to the patient without their consent, thinking the patient wouldn’t question it? Wow.
This is not the exception. This is how they operate
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NHL Players are about to be so confused
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Replying to @nataliedavismd
The goal is to get rid of insurance companies. Your premiums are just prepayments on future care.
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SpaceX was valued at ~$3 trillion a month ago. Say you want a 10% ROI. A $3T investment must pay you $300B in perpetuity. If the biz makes $0 for next 5 years, it must pay you $483B in year 6 and every year after. SPCX did $19B of revenue in 2025. The stock is down 45%.
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Nobody ever saw it coming
The prosecuting attorney's office in Hamilton County, Indiana, says it is "disappointed" in Phish fans after "significant quantities" of suspected psilocybin mushrooms, methamphetamine, LSD, heroin, fentanyl, MDMA, marijuana, and nitrous oxide were seized during the band's shows at the Ruoff Music Center over the weekend. consequence.net/2026/07/phis…
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Connor’s knee was fine for all the tin foil hat crew
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Every time I watch Futbol, I’m reminded why I don’t watch Soccer
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That’s cat woman!
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If public companies knew to move away from the big HC conglomerates for their healthcare benefits, they could in aggregate save > 50b dollars. A year. Easily. That all goes to the bottom line. Give that a 20 multiple, and that's 1 trillion dollars more in value to the 150m people that own stocks.
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The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare
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Replying to @charliebilello
Same situation at most other IPO’s. The buyer has to have some reason to fund it. And the reality is no one is valuing this on future free cash flow; it’s all based on what they think the stock will do near term. So a big part of why companies can raise so much money at high valuations is the allure of a fast buck. Without this, these valuations wouldn’t be possible in the first place. However, most IPO’s actually are poor investments over the intermediate term (1-3 years) so while it might seem like money is being left on the table after an initial pop, it usually is the seller that is getting a better deal
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Who the hell are these people? It makes no sense
Pittsburgh broke the all-time round one attendance record with 320,000 fans tonight, topping the 275,000+ who attended in Detroit in 2024, per the NFL.
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Veteran buried his eldest and it’s not looking good for his two others. Posting for any connections, help that can be made while they fight for time.
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If you witnessed it, you know. If you haven't, now you do. John Daly changed the game in 1991 at Crooked Stick. #PGAChamp
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If I wanted to match the number of the rounds at Augusta that Rory got, I easily could have done that
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Rory is still a choke artist..he just gets lucky sometimes.
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Watching @TheMasters and seeing so few players long enough to go for 13 &15 now has taken away so much excitement and intrigue to the back nine. Another example of how longer isn’t always better.
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