Twitter is FALLING APART

[@rickbhattacharya2334]

See children this is what happens when you don't buy the LTT screwdriver, Linus turns you into a cardboard cutout with your image.

[@doom2469]

Don’t mind being turned into a cardboard cutout

[@RaymenNumerals]

@@doom2469 yeah especially if the cut out is infront of the man himself

[@Kieran28]

Count on it for a good time

[@vizdrom]

@@doom2469 "2d >> 3d" MFS be like:

[@rufatkupa4848]

Vouch🤝

[@raymondtrabulsy7294]

I am American, and our Healthcare system constantly pisses me off.

[@fubbernuckin]

Wanna be more pissed off? I sure do. Americans pay more in TAXES for their healthcare system than they would if they had universal healthcare. This is BEFORE insurance and bills.

[@p0xus]

"Now is not the time to fight for Medicare for All." -Bernie Sanders, March 2020 I mean, its only the start of a pandemic, why would you want healthcare?

[@Killswitch1411]

@@fubbernuckin imgaine how much we would have to pay for a Universal health care.. Think taxes are bad now.

[@Rix317]

It's healthcare Mafia. Doctors can choose to run smaller hospitals and take pay cut but they don't. They work for big hospitals with large insurance contract for the big bucks and then go to the homeless shelter for the feel good. Majority of people gets the middle finger

[@cooch5096]

It's better than waiting on a waitlist for months for basic care

[@Matoro2002]

I do think it's a little funny that a conversation about twitter's verification problems turned into Linus bashing the american pharmaceutical system

[@gr3123]

He’s got ADHD I’m sure.

[@NatoBoram]

As it is tradition for Canadians

[@derbrocker1447]

@@gr3123 as someone with ADHD I feel that hard. Talking about a topic, then out of nowhere talking about something completely different and then returning or forgetting the main talking point

[@cheeber7546]

I mean he is not wrong... our insurance and healthcare system doesn't work... Its basically extortion.

[@rewardilicious]

@@cheeber7546 no one is extorting you into overeating and getting diabetes in this case (95% of cases.)

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Luke really hit the gyms, loving that bod. Disappointed in Linus though, went from paper thin to man thin in just a few weeks. Must've really loaded up on the KFC.

[@Ryan_DeWitt]

I think your idea of "really hitting the gym" is different. Looks like an average person.

[@trajectoryunown]

Boy's lookin' _lean!_

[@Motoko5000]

omg am laughing so hard

[@michaelarnold4866]

Linus, You assume the average American voter understands insurance. As an American, we do not.

[@bobhanson1037]

Many of us are afraid of any changes no matter how much better it could be than the hot shit it is now.

[@chadnoneo9769]

Most of us understand it, the problem is too many people got burned on a republican plan masquerading as something good(Most of ACA) others think their care will end up worse, and the rest know it's a scam but are stuck using it..

[@davidreynolds731]

@@chadnoneo9769 well Obama care was a raging success

[@asmosisyup2557]

To be fair, American insurance is convoluted, predatory and designed to be difficult to understand.

[@24680kong]

It's not because Americans are dumb or anything. The government and medical system make it intentionally more complicated to stop people from trying to do anything themselves. As someone who recently had to buy insurance for the first time, it was so full of senseless jargon and useless definitions that I gave up. It's a huge corrupt, predatory, incestual cespit. Both political parties are openly in on it (it isn't any less convoluted in blue states then red states). As we all saw from the 2016 elections, political parties won't allow anyone useful to be on the ballot to begin with.

[@ggwp638BC]

It's amazing how close this whole thing was to being an amazing idea for Twitter. If they added rules for verification, say a number of followers and media presence + actual verification, and then CHARGED people for the verification service, they would have a pretty decent platform. Big companies, youtubers, anyone who needs an online media presence will be paying for that. That way they could charge more and actually target people who has an interest on keeping their brand verified, while also avoiding this issue. I really don't understand HOW ON EARTH they thought it was a good idea to turn their verification into a commodity and then releasing ANOTHER verification system.

[@punko9031]

This is actually a really good idea! They should hire you :)

[@BrendanP]

You should be new Twitter boss

[@harrisonclark3799]

don't say "they" this was one guy

[@bobhanson1037]

See this idea sounds decent but doesn't solve their problem. They need more money since Elon scared advertisers away. This isn't their problem. Twitter gives no reason to pay to use it.

[@Mediocritical]

Because Elon Musk is literally a bad idea generator

[@AsbestosMuffins]

you're never going to convince people in the US that universal healthcare is a good idea when our schools have to run funding campaigns on the slogan "Its not a tax increase!" also our schools have to go begging for funding through the ballot

[@C0mmanderX]

universal healthcare works. its just your healthcare system cant be so corrupt and over inflated that it cant be afforded. you can go to any other civilized 1st world country and the same surgeries there are fractions of the cost here. and you can fly to asian countries, get a hotel for 3 months. get a hip surgery there and come back and save money. it is not a it cant be done problem. its a big pharma gouging people problem. always has been

[@fort809]

No matter how beneficial a piece of legislation would be in America, people will still vehemently oppose it because the talking head on their TV screen said it was communism

[@Cyromantik]

Not to mention people who are hospitalized and dying from COVID who still refuse to believe the pandemic is real.

[@Killswitch1411]

Public Schools misuse funds not no other. Universal health care would cost everyone.. I'm not about working my ass off to pay for people who are lazy as ass.

[@Rix317]

Dude I pay my doctor under the table, if you don't know a doctor or have one in your family you need to get on that. Also a dentist and lawyer friend, just keep giving great gifts for Christmas and you'll keep getting invited back. Would help if you have a special skill, cool hobby or something to barter because they probably already don't want money. We really don't need more taxes just smarter people

[@bloodbond3]

My favorite moment was when Doja Cat tagged Elon to say she didn't want to be named "christmas" anymore, so he unlocked the ability for her to change her name. She then tweeted back "thanks" with her name set to *Elon Musk* and the profile pic set to that old photo of Elon balding. Legend.

[@devFedake]

Except she didn't do it, it was a fake, she changed her name to fart

[@Blarnix]

The best part is that Eli Lilly & Co pulled their ads from Twitter in a temper tantrum instead of actually doing the right thing. Corporations are the most predictable things on this planet.

[@bobhanson1037]

I wouldn't say that's a temper tantrum. They had good reason to pull it since it's literally elons fault they lost money and got bad PR (well his fault this came up).That said they're greedy assholes who no one would miss if they passed.

[@nawsih848]

L for corporate

[@georger5558]

The price drop isn't true tho which is a shame.

[@primotechsupportstories]

Eli Lilly: we are sorry you thought we had a soul

[@aTron0018]

Bernie Sanders made universal health care a big part of his platform among many other things and he became hugely popular for it. Unsurprisingly, health insurance companies heavily funded his opponents during the primaries. Man I wish we could have had the chance to have someone like him as president.

[@fort809]

yeah, Linus seems to forgot that the American political system is DEEPLY corrupt. Large corporations can basically bribe a candidate into office, that’s why politicians never have real platforms past being “hard on crime” or “supporting businesses”. Fixing the worst issues in the country would mean corporations would lose the money they made from creating the issues in the first place, and they’ll never allow that

[@Freak80MC]

"Buu how would you pay for all that!" - says the people in the country who funds their military way more than most other countries combined

[@NatoBoram]

@@Freak80MC "But how would you pay for that?" as they are already paying for a more expensive, worse system

[@djbloo8996]

@@Freak80MC we sent 50 billion to ukraine for wepons but cant fix the water systems that have poison in them

[@ghosthunter0950]

@@djbloo8996 They didn't send it for free dumbass. you also chose the one decent cause to complain about.

[@GameCyborgCh]

best thing about the "official" checkmark is, it doesn't show up in a tweet. It only shows when you go on the profile of that account, so this won't really slow down the impersonations

[@Syntax.error.]

Twitter has not been this fun since the early days. I love it.

[@MichaelsWilhelm]

100% agree. Twitter is way better since Elon took over

[@Swarm509]

For the regular viewer/user (who lets be fair, nobody sees what they post) things are just fine and no different from before and probably more entertaining as well. The 1% top twitter users may be feeling this but I honestly don't care, least important thing in my mind.

[@VaultLink]

Oh, the Tumblr checkmarks don't stop at 24 it seems functional endless. They just assumed it stopped at 24 because it didn't seem to change after that. If you actually change the formating of the page with some plug-in like xkit it'll wrap around absolute destroying the formatting of everything which we on Tumblr find absolutely hilarious

[@CharlesAnjos]

i love how emon lusk is taking matters into his own hands to prove everyone how stupid he is

[@ZeykronZ]

2:54 I have been trying to explain this to my middle American friends for as long as I've known them. It is absolutely untrue to them that insurance is LITERALLY paying for somebody's medical bill

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

The pro-corpo brainwashing creates obedient, unquestioning drones from the early age. It amuses me how murica *still* functions like that to this day. Luckily - the internet is making change happen a bit faster, now that muricans can see us laughing directly at them.

[@rustymundorf4672]

And on top of it paying for somebody else's medical bill (to be clear, I have zero issue with this, nobody should go bankrupt as a result of health issues, nor should they have to worry about how they're going to get healthcare for their ails, no matter how minor), it's also paying for a handful of schmucks in the middle to get obscenely wealthy.

[@rewardilicious]

I'm still having no luck explaining to my friends that with government healthcare, the government is literally paying for somebody's medical bill and has to collect taxes for it.

[@ClundXIII]

About insurance: In Germany (and I suspect most of Europe) they do have deals with the producers of medicine. And if one of them raises the costs too much, they switch to an alternative. This is why sometime when buying the prescribed medicine the pharmacy has in stock, they have to order from another supplier and it might take a day. So essentially EU insurances are big lobbying groups that lobby for their members to keep the prices down.

[@ebolachanislove6072]

people here have this weird idea that insurance is a side benefit instead of part of their compensation.

[@crimsonemperor2219]

If Twatter fails: It's a win If Musk fails: It's a win "Journalist" panicking: It's a win Politicians world wide panicking: It's a win I see nothing but wins here, just sit back and watch em all burn

[@ethanmenzel]

So the pre Elon blue verification, which is now called legacy verification, is moving to the black and white check mark, and everyone else who has a blue check mark paid for twitter blue? Is that right? I’m a bit confused about the two checkmarks

[@Bezray]

Yes. Honestly, Musk should just make Twitter Blue a star next to the profile to show they paid money, and keep the original checkmark.

[@ethanmenzel]

@@Bezray Elon should do what Instagram did with company accounts. Food and retail, marketing agency, etc.

[@fort809]

@@Bezray it’s hard to design a new symbol when you fire half the company’s employees

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

Yep. Twatter bloo was never about utility of ANY kind - it's 100% pointless. The *real* verification is that grey "official" bit.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

there's engineers saying a lot of the features Elon is currently and going to take credit for were already in the works and were just held up because of the buyout shit

[@asmosisyup2557]

Well he owns the company, so those ideas are now his property.

[@aricrudd6579]

@@asmosisyup2557 Doesn’t change the fact that he contributed nothing.

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

@@cat-le1hf Yep... Imagine the shock on a fanboys face when you tell them "Tesla is not elon's idea and he had to sue the founders to get the "co-founder" label" 🤣

[@ebolachanislove6072]

legacy blue marks being corrupted is a reference to the fact that after the official process for getting an original blue check was done away with, there was a considerable amount of time where you could bribe certain twitter staff to obtain a blue check, with an average number floating somewhere around $15,000 as the price. after reading that $8/mo seems like a fire sale doesn't it?

[@NyxHunter]

I mean if Elon felt that it was such a big problem having "corrupt" blue marks then force an Audit if them all where all blue check mark owners have to submit a reason as to why they still deserve the mark. But that would require him to not just fire everyone and actually have people around to do useful work

[@jamesphillips2285]

Wasn't the source of that some rando on twitter?

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

What kind of a conspiracy site did you read this on? 🤣 What the edgeboi elon meant was that he did not agree with certain people/figures having the checkmark simply based on his own political/business views, rather than any actual corruption. He's a child throwing his toys out the pram. He walked into the stupid headquarters with a freakin' sink, for crying out loud, to be filmed how "cool" the "let that sink in" joke is... All of it is both hilarious and pathetic at the same time, though I'm loving the fact that he's basically set his $44B on fire 👍

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

​@@NyxHunter elon: "Twitter will become a bank" (as ridiculous as that sounds, because it does and is) also elon: *fires cybersecurity/authentication/verification staff* #genius #something #todamoon #moonbroswin #whatever #hashtag

[@anachronismic]

One of those times where Elon does in fact recognize one of the problems that exists, but then goes with whatever he thought of first and his ego can't take the actual product dev timeline to work it into an actually good idea.

[@drestnar]

watching my grandmother get hit for heart meds at 92 was gut wrenching. 400 - 600 a month for these pills while they are 100 in canada. Gross price gouging

[@rewardilicious]

Sad to hear your grandma's life was worth less than $400 a month to you.

[@helenwhs]

@@rewardiliciousYeah! How about he just STOP being poor?!😂

[@DredlyLB]

The insurance companies own the pharmacies now...

[@aeonremnant]

People may be divided on Twitter for some reason, but bashing the US medical system is something EVERYONE can get behind. :D

[@MrGhostTheBigRoast]

lol you'd be surprised

[@ToshiroHitsugaya328]

The only issue with the U.S medical system is allowing insurance companies to inflate their rates to such a ridiculous degree. You can't argue the quality.

[@aeonremnant]

@@ToshiroHitsugaya328 I can and will argue the quality. Many, many countries not only have higher quality medical care, but have cheaper care to boot. The US is known for medical worker burnout and abrasive attitude from massive overwork. Compare that with Denmark or something and it’s not even a contest, the US is practically third world by comparison.

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

@@ToshiroHitsugaya328 What quality? Consistently the US is ranked as paying the MOST for healthcare in the developed world while receiving the WORST healthcare on that same list. I don't think you realize just how badly you're being screwed, naive murican :D Speaking of which... if you lot receive the worst healthcare out of the developed world - we might actually need to start reconsidering whether the states even qualify for being considered a part of the developed world anymore 🤣

[@andrewdriver3318]

@@aeonremnant That is not true. Nobody I know that works in the medical field is 'burnt out', they get more vacations and better pay than anyone. Where are you getting this from, not everyone in the medical field works in the ER at an inner city hospital. You are watching too many movies.

[@Ticklestein]

Lol. I had one of the first Twitter accounts of my country. 2008-ish. The last 5 years, Twitter has already been in a state that it couldn’t get worse anyway. It’s not falling apart. It fell apart years ago.

[@insanittiez4860]

The problem is that a lot of the old people here in the US still have that mentality of America number 1 in "insert system here". I legit tried explaining this to my boss and he truly believed that America has the best healthcare system in the world. He hasn't gone anywhere else or tried anything else. It's sad how Corporations have basically brainwashed anyone from boomer upwards I to thinking that the current system is the best for them.

[@austinblackburn8095]

We have the best pharmaceutical industry in the world. So upsetting we as Americans have to subsidize wealthy European nations healthcare by taking it in the ass by big pharma.

[@insanittiez4860]

@@austinblackburn8095 yeah. The only silver lining I can see is that these issues seem to be coming up more and more. Dems have actually held committees on it and with the high voting rate in gen z, I can at least be sure that something will be done at some point in the later future. May not be soon but when millennials and gen z become majority of government, pharma is definitely gonna bleed

[@austinblackburn8095]

@@insanittiez4860 I don't want them to bleed pharmaceutical companies despite how greedy they are do provide an important need to society it's important we find a middle ground or we will all be screwed.

[@insanittiez4860]

@@austinblackburn8095 sadly, the world isn't like that. When the pendulum swings, it tends to go hard in one direction or the other. So odds are, pharma is gonna take a huge hit. Hospitals will probably be next because paying the equivalent of a Harvard semester just for staying on a hospital bed for 5 days seems unreasonable. And that's before they slap on the treatment costs. It's not like it's a luxury hotel.

[@ToshiroHitsugaya328]

@@austinblackburn8095 Want affordability? Move to Canada. Want Quality? Move to America.

[@KeithBoehler]

Universal Healthcare is also good for 'smaller' businesses since their hiring pool is not limited by those who are (or their dependents) are in the best of health.

[@rewardilicious]

That's not good for them at all. Sure, it's not bad. They can just dip into the pool of people capable of doing the job.

[@unclebobthe1]

If this how Luke is joining the stream, they should do random zooms in on linus and change out the head shot of Luke each time. The whole point is to be emotionally interactive. Play with the limitations. "We need to be entertained" And then if it takes hold Luke could just phone it in from then on. Or Luke could do the switches himself. Play with it, enjoy it, embrace it.

[@DraakjeYoblama]

They could even have some pre made pictures with different emotions that someone could swap between with a stream deck.

[@ayyLumao]

Health insurance is such a weird concept coming from the UK, where the NHS just says "yeah whatever you get free medical care"

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

It's not free, you pay national insurance based on your earnings. Though obviously the rates are not even remotely close to what muricans have to pay.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

You have no idea how medical insurance works in the states - which is fine, you live in a different country and work in a different industry. But please don't pretend you do. I'm also not defending the system we have down here - it's all kinds of stupid. But it doesn't work as described. In particular, insurance often only pays a small percentage of the retail price for service, and the pharmacy or doctor is required to accept that reduced payment and only charge the customer their co-pay. If they refuse, the insurance company will stop working with that doctor or pharmacy. This is where rebates from the drug company come in. The system is stupid, but it's all monopoly money and nobody's actually paying the highly inflated prices. Also, there are different types of insulin. Certain types of long-acting insulin are very expensive, even with insurance. These give you more freedom in dosing, and what you can eat. Older types of insulin are short-acting, and must be administered multiple times per day, in precise amounts based upon your current blood sugar and what you've eaten. This is not very hard, but can be messed up by children and elderly and similar. Anyway, a month supply of short-acting insulin is $30 in the USA WITHOUT insurance. I have no idea how insulin is prescribed under Canada's health care system, but I would be very curious to see what percentage of patients are prescribed the cheaper short-acting insulin versus the more expensive long-acting insulin.

[@pking6021]

Oh I believe his user stats have gone up. Everyone is tuning in to watch this fire burn.

[@GhettoForLyfe]

Probably up for now, but in a month or two im sure it will be lower than it was when he took over.

[@pking6021]

@@GhettoForLyfe No doubt.

[@bobhanson1037]

It's funny people say numbers are up so it's fixed. Uh no numbers are up but advertisers are leaving.

[@twraia]

1:20 the fact that he couldn't see this coming from $44 billion dollars away

[@cooperreynolds5041]

Luke: Why can you buy 24 of them? Tumblr: *More organs means more human*

[@creepycassette]

People still use timblr for anything but pron? CAUSE I SURE DONT

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

@@creepycassette Lol, it's kind of a neat place. It's as if time was stuck back when the internet was less corporate and a bit more fun and fair.

[@TexRobNC]

I'm not a petty person, but this has been a real week of Schadenfreude

[@matthewthomas690]

Elon Musk is the world's richest man, he's had success after success. Linus took two years to deliver a screwdriver.

[@grangesaves33]

i really appreciate the "Luke" cardboard cutout

[@Tekkerue]

The problem is that even when candidates put things like healthcare, stepping on big pharma, etc. into their platform they always end up doing nothing after they get elected. The insurance companies and big pharma have bought out both political parties, so they win either way and we lose. Unfortunately, not nearly enough Americans are pissed off about this. 😩

[@AndrejPekar]

You're wrong. Insurance companies want discounts from pharmaceutical companies. Therefore, pharmaceutical companies inflate prices. For example. Insurance company: How much does this insulin cost? Pharmaceutical company: This insulin costs $1000 Insurance company: We want a discount. Pharmaceutical company: OK, new price $100 But of course the real price is $10.

[@Hovzlozki]

I literally don’t know why they just didn’t keep the old verification system except just charged those verified people $8 to display the check mark. And if they don’t pay then they don’t have the check mark. It was literally a foolproof idea and they effed it up in the most spectacular way lmao

[@jameswatson4429]

I'm in the UK and epileptic which I take meds for. I got a medical exemption from paying for medication at ALL pharmacies for not just my medication but anything else prescribed in future.

[@AlexSchendel]

I'm looking forward to seeing the Internet Historian video on this in 3 years haha

[@Sunnywastakentoo]

American healthcare can be dogshit, but it's miles ahead in some cases. For instance, if I was in literally any European country I'd still be waiting a year for HRT. In most states you can find an informed consent clinic which will literally give you a prescription the day of the appointment. It cost me less than $100 for the visit and drugs and took an hour of my time. Philosophy Tube just made a video about the NHS in England and it's problems with trans healthcare. I'm not saying socialized healthcare necessarily concludes that people like us will get screwed, but as it stands the American system does allow for some fields to provide tons better care.

[@Respectable_Username]

As a dev at a big tech company (you most likely use at least one of our services), oh my the absolute shitshow that people have been revealing from the inside. Turning off a bunch of microservices because they're "wasting money" and so take 2FA offline? Like I get cost cutting is important, but my gosh Elon this is _not_ how to do it! I know a lot of people have been saying that Elon's problem is that he's running a social media company with no social skills, but I think the bigger problem is that he's running a software engineering company with no software engineering skills!

[@DraakjeYoblama]

To me that's what's become most apparent. Some people think Elon Musk is an engineer. He is the opposite of an engineer. He just makes things unnecessarily complicated and expensive and makes the actual engineers fix it.

[@captianmorgan7627]

If that relatively small dip was all they incurred for 'making insulin free' I don't know why they don't just do that.

[@QurttoRco]

Linus check how much big pharma spends on lobbying. Suddenly it all makes sense

[@davidreynolds731]

Says he’d be mad as an American subsidizing the cost for other countries, meanwhile trump was trying to tell everyone this. We send BILLIONS upon BILLIONS to other countries every single year and see nothing in return. Every American could have free health care with the amount of “foreign aid” we send out.

[@dfec1391]

After working in the insurance industry as an IT professional, I am now convinced insurance in the US is a massive scam. The business model in my opinion is to take money promising to do one thing and then hire enough lawyer that the company does not have to make good on their commitments.

[@kazzTrismus]

thats all insurance everywhere

[@rewardilicious]

Yep that's why you should use cash doctors and if you're actually poor most if not all drug companies also provide discounts/financial assistance if you have no insurance.

[@dsjkfjs]

Two things, that's not even a little bit how insurance works. If I had home insurance for 6 months that I put a few hundred dollars into and then my house is destroyed, it would pay out far far more than I put in (therefore saving tons of money). The same is true for medical insurance. It's certainly not a pass through. Insurance in general just depends on the fact that the vast majority of its customers aren't making use of it, or solvency rapidly becomes an issue. Second, at least part of the reason for some medications being so expensive in the US is precisely BECAUSE they are forced/negotiated by governments to be cheap elsewhere. This isn't always the case, and price gauging is a problem, but if a company is losing tens or hundreds of dollars on a dose in Canada or the UK they have to make up the difference somwhere.

[@SILVERF0X13]

You guys are also making the huge assumption that insurance ACTUALLY covers everything which it does not. Deductables are a thing and until you meet your deductable per year in a large number of plans, you pay out of pocket.

[@JeanSamyr]

Well at least here we can have insulin for free or at very cheap prices. If we have to buy we pay about 10USD, on the US is about 300USD. That's insane.

[@austinblackburn8095]

Why do you think you're able to buy it for 10usd the money has to come from somewhere. Bulk purchasing isn't getting you that type of discount unless they are making the money up somewhere else.

[@jst_TV]

@@austinblackburn8095 you’re right, the difference is made up by gouging americans

[@JeanSamyr]

@@austinblackburn8095 here in Brazil we can buy insulin for about 50BRL (Around 10USD). But we can go to the healthcare clinic and have for free.

[@Cyromantik]

My father's cancer treatment pills are $1,000 USD per monthly perscription. Pharma absolutely loves gouging people who have no alternative.

[@wades623]

It's $1800 US a month for me

[@catgirl1337]

With insurance, I'm basically prepaying for medicines, and I don't have to pay later when requesting my RXes. You could argue it raises the cost of medicines, but it also keeps pricing predictable.

[@WolvericCatkin]

Yeah, there's absolutely _zero_ reason insulin should be anything other than dirt-cheap... the Head Twit is absolutely wrong on that front, that the development in modern insulin, isn't chiefly about being nebulously, _""less invasive""_ , it's about having generally modified bacteria produce it, _in vast quantities, in massive vats,_ resulting in making the process exceedingly cheap... there's absolutely no reason for the pricing to be hiked to that degree, other than gouging money from people who have no say in their dependency on the product they provide...

[@lwwells]

Eli Lilly had a dip because they lost a big lawsuit over Novo Nordisk patent infringement that day.

[@awesomeness55]

The worst thing about the American healthcare system is that, somehow, amazingly, dental work is considered "cosmetic." So yeah, the memes are true; teeth are apparently luxury, rich people bones.

[@jody.lumbantoruan]

07:15 Skip the insulin discussion

[@ppmguire]

There is a 0% chance money spent on premiums would go to worker salaries. When Obama set his plan in motion employers were dropping full time workers to avoid providing insurance that was mandated. If the system switched tomorrow I would not automatically start making an extra 10k+ lol. They would absorb that as profit and I consider myself working for a decent company. This is American capitalism we're talking about so let's be realistic. Nobody would see that money.

[@jdg7327]

More like burning away the chaff from the wheat. Too much of Twitter is filled with non-sense garbage and needs to be gone. Thing to note of is how much is chaff and how much is actually wheat. If its all chaff, that's huge money down the drain.

[@chuchof3tt669]

insurance = shared loss ... you're paying for it .. just not directly, if it continues to go up, your premiums will still go up... if your employer is paying you're not getting paid as much... it's simple.. at my old job I used to say on the cafeteria that the company pays for the money ... the cashiers always got kind of scared and I rectified .. I get paid by the company and I'm paying you... who's paying in the end? ... it's a similar scenario lol

[@SquirtlePlays]

We had a governor whose platform was not taking away guns from school shooters. The big pharma thing is something we'd be happy to see in ANY candidate.

[@TjPhysicist]

this whole thing has been hilarious to watch...until i saw that a classmate of mine from school who i'd connected with on linkedin worked for twitter and she posted a thing referring to all of this, the firings etc. It's easy to ignore that behind all of this nonsense is REAL lives being affected, regualr folks who worked for years, even senior manager level ppl who are not gonna come out of this doing good.

[@asmosisyup2557]

Yeah it's regular people who get burned by this, it's slightly more than pocket change for Elon but not that much.

[@ToshiroHitsugaya328]

Yes, people losing their livelihood is awful. The firings weren't done just because Elon thought "Eh, fuck em." The saying "It's just business." rings even more now. I'd hate it if my boss fired me, doesn't mean it's unjustified.

[@pixelsupreme6824]

Ah yes, their stock tanked only due to a tweet. Not that they lost a pretty spicy patent lawsuit at the same time. You guys give twitter way too much importance.

[@danw7864]

“Twitter is falling apart” GOOD

[@FLG_NEO_]

I feel like people should smuggle insulin from other countries into the US. In South Africa you can get 5 insulin pens for like $20

[@davidgoodnow269]

Lots of people mail-order from Canada or Mexico. Both are about 20% of U.S. price, made at the same factories.

[@FLG_NEO_]

@@davidgoodnow269 that's honestly better than buying in the US. When we where on holiday there we got shocked by the price of insulin that we needed for my grandmother. The price of 1 insulin pen in the US could buy 3 months worth of insulin here

[@BarginsGalore]

Getting Canadian and Mexican healthcare to Americans is a huge industry. On the road from San Diego to Tijuana there’s billboards for all kinds of surgeries and prescription drugs and in the month after Texas outlawed abortion the amount of clinics in Juarez tripled.

[@balesjo]

I'd been trying to decide whether to stay with Twitter or leave. But yesterday's news of Musk having his lackeys comb their internal web for employees that questioned Musk or disagreed with him and had them fired (plus the chance that Trump would be back on Twitter after announcing his run for president), I pulled the plug.

[@cameronlane1281]

For the pharmaceutical industry, the company I work for is based in the US, but has final production as well as general offices up in Edmonton

[@AsbestosMuffins]

google really missed the mark by not selling gold stars AND checkmarks on whatever their platform is

[@BruceRichwineJr]

Luke gets it. The US is subsidizing healthcare for other countries that have universal basic healthcare. But the trade off is the military and economic might that has brought with it. If other countries had to spend at the rate in their military the US does the whole healthcare systems around the world would be a lot different.

[@cameronhall5729]

And here's a kicker... Insulin is usually the CHEAPEST supply for type 1 diabetics. Look at how much insulin pumps and/or CGMs cost. It makes insulin look cheap. Now I know insulin is absolutely essential for us and pumps aren't entirely necessary, but for many t1ds it's a huge difference in quality of life and long term health.

[@gblargg]

And insurance is for *unexpected* things. Insulin isn't something unexpected. When you need it, you need it on a regular basis.

[@TJ-vh2ps]

Price of *LIFE SAVING* insulin in the US: Insane $$$ * Price of insulin in Canada: 12% of US price Cost to make insulin : 2% of US price Linus Canadian-splaining health insurance to us 'muricans: Priceless. * I wanted to include exact prices, but the cost per person and per product varies so much that whatever numbers I used would be "wrong" for some people. I've already sunk an hour into researching this for what is essentially a punch-line. 😅 A very rough estimate of Insane $$$ in 2022 = $300/month average, but up to $900/month for some formulations.

[@rewardilicious]

Wait so in Canada they 6x the cost from what it costs to make? Sounds like Canada's got a problem too.

[@ethanmenzel]

Is Elon another Donald trump in getting things done

[@dinonuggies2276]

Nah, from what i understand elon wanted to PREVENT mexicans(or any other culture that hasnt gone woke) from being banned on twitter

[@marufbepary100]

The only reason car insurance exists is because they know that your not likely to crash.

[@Tra-vis]

I kept instinctually looking over at Luke to see his reaction and seeing that lifeless body.

[@lordludicrous3781]

Opened the floodgates to hell, smart move.

[@William-Morey-Baker]

GOOD. i hope Elon loses all the money he spent on it...

[@timmy7201]

Management interfering with technical stuff, is in my experience the worst and least efficient thing that could every happen...

[@kirkhaskell9179]

Health care has been the number 2 issue for voters for like 15 years now. We are dealing with a-lot of stuff okay.

[@wades623]

I kind of wish worse things happened to Eli Lilly. That trash gets $1800 a month from me

[@phynx2006]

Wow still can't believe people still use Twitter, mind blown 😱

[@Tesserakt8]

So i may get some hate/envy but i work at a company that pays for 100% of medical, dental, and vision. Super fortunate because that was a bigger increase in pay than the salary increase i got from switching jobs 3 months ago.

[@Alexzw92]

No it isn’t

[@8randomprettysecret8]

Twitter is getting run into the ground 🤦‍♀️

[@addohm]

Change always brings chaos because people are inherently resistant to it.

[@ssj3gohan456]

Context for insulin: $7 in the Netherlands for 300IU (3ml, 100IU/mL), $70 at the very cheapest in the USA. Literally 10:1

There was this ex-valve employee (don't recall his name, talked a lot about texture compression) who used to go on and on about how awful working at valve (it probably was)... Yet somehow working at SpaceX was like a dream for him. It eventually got tiring so I stop following him. Wonder what he thinks about this whole twitter thing, specially with all that crunch and employee antagonization thing Musk has started trying out for fun

[@Studio23Media]

I thought Linus would be smart enough to figure out that the stock had nothing to do with a fake tweet. People buying Eli Lilly and Lockheed Martin stock are not concerned about a moderately-viral tweet. It was just a market correction, felt by tons of companies without fake tweets.

[@Nick-Lab]

The corrupt check marks refers to rogue employees that we selling check marks for 10s of thousands of dollars. Black market verification lol

[@crystalsoulslayer]

It's even worse than you think, my Canadian friends! Insurance companies do _not_ pay the list price of drugs or other treatments. And yes, insurance/pharma/healthcare _absolutely do_ collude to drive up prices, because they have every reason to do that. The whole thing is a bit complicated for a YT comment and utterly awful. Try Adam Ruins Everything's video about the Chargemaster for a little introduction. John Oliver has some good videos about Murican healthcare and/or the lack thereof, too.

[@tanosantos1993]

The thing is though they're never going to step on the toes of pharmaceutical companies because they are bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical companies

[@momobobo5430]

Who

[@barryhoggle2354]

Twitter is not falling apart LOL literally almost nothing has changed it's the same fucking Twitter

[@momobobo5430]

More than half of your workforce leaving is a sign of things falling apart.

[@barryhoggle2354]

@@momobobo5430 you spelled FIRED wrong

[@momobobo5430]

@@barryhoggle2354 No, he said work hours would ramp dramatically and said they could quit with severance or stay and most of them left.

[@barryhoggle2354]

@@momobobo5430 FIRED

[@momobobo5430]

@@barryhoggle2354 quitting is not the same as firing. Don't know where you learned the English language but I would get my money back.

[@AnonVoids]

I think his main mistake was to advertise a Premium Badge as a Verified. People where still looking at users' badges trying to find "validation" in tweets based on that, when in reality it isn't anything of the sorts anymore, it's just a kind of "premium user" badge that anyone can have. I kinda of like the concept of making everyone supposedly legit, hence no one is, which forces people to not automatically jump the shark and believe/support anything they see from verified accounts without thinking or doing further research. Also Musk is well known to troll the fuck out of his own projects/products for the free marketing(which seems to be working), obviously Twitter might just go bankrupt but I honestly doubt it.

[@kingko6512]

Twitter is more alive than ever

[@CalgarGTX]

Implying it wasn't already a dupster fire from the get go.

[@MaverickBlue42]

Honestly, I'm hoping he buys Facebook next.....

[@tom.oconnell]

Not defending the US healthcare situation, but insurance companies can also negotiate on prices, whereas individuals effectively cannot. The prices won't end up the same.

[@Cal94]

...but governments can do the same, and with much greater bargaining power, if a country has universal healthcare. and governments can do other consumer-friendly things regarding drug pricing and availability, through legislation, that private insurance companies can't. well i suppose insurance companies can do that kinda shit in the states, but they'd be spending customers' insurance dollars, greasing palms, to change laws. with universal health care, big pharma be the ones spending americans' $$$, trying to get the US government to bully other countries into taking it easy on big pharma. either way, americans lose lol

[@Fonic_Artes]

You and/or your employer pays your insurance and the insurance then says you don't need this medicine/medical need.

[@rhodiumthunderbird]

I could be wrong, but didn't Elon, in attempt to 'cut down on bloat slowing twitter from loading' turn off the microservice that enabled 2FA texts? That might be just something people made up to meme on him, but it sounds about on par for how he has been running it.

[@kazzTrismus]

2fa is a scam for data harvesting

[@MrLittleW]

Insurance is socialism, by form. But, the differentiating factor between that and government socialism is that it is *bought into* and thus can be switched. In theory, this is good, because the consumer (me) can choose the company, what coverage I want, and the lower price. Businesses do this all the time when buying insurance. That is not to be confused and lumped in to the out-of-control healthcare industry that is causing the problem by jacking the prices of medications up. Blame the cause, not the effect.

[@jasoncarto]

Let it all burn.