My apologies
I was in pretty much the same situation as @wolfpup (same insurer for 40+ years, though the parent company changed several times). Like @needscoffee I had the broker check every year or two, and they always came back with the same answer: no way they could find comparable coverage at anywhere near the premium. Until this year, when the insurer pulled out of the state. Best I could do was roughly the same coverage at not quite three times the premium, but that’s a helluva lot better than some of the quotes I was getting. Guess I was spoiled.
As for Mensa, there’s no way I would include it in a résumé: I’d rather succeed or fail on my own merits, not because I’m good at taking standardized tests. The only time I ever mentioned it was on an application that wanted to know about volunteer activities.
Yeah, O.K., it should have been “lived”.
Doing such a thing would absolutely, unquestionably reduce your chances of getting almost all jobs. It wouldn’t tell anyone the job seeker was smart, it would tell them the job seeker was an oblivious douchecanoe.
To drag this back to Scott Adams, well, he’d actually do something like that - and he would not only not understand why it didn’t get him jobs, he’d be unable to understand why. The thing about him is his towering narcissism. That can be an overused word but it’s very apt in his specific case, because he shows ALL the signs of extreme narcissism; dishonesty when telling stories about himself, a feeling of superiority, Dunning-Kruger syndrome, rage in response to criticism, etc.
I’m proud to report that he blocked me on Twitter when I proved he was a liar.
Yeah, that’s a thing going around the right-wing media bubble lately. I think Joe Rogan did a show on it or something.
Do you recall the details?
I sure do!
Adams announced on Twitter that he had frequently been the victim of racism, as he was a white man. One of his cited examples was the TV show Dilbert. He claimed he’d been fired for being white. Really. When pressed on this he explained that UPN had decided to stop making shows with white people concentrate on shows with Black casts, so that’s why he was fired for being white.
I was curious about this because it seemed unlikely, so I looked it up. In fact, the majority of shows UPN introduced in the seasons immediately following the cancellation of Dilbert had mostly white casts. UPN’s willingness to put on Black shows actually PRECEDED Dilbert. So I pointed that out.
He blocked me.
He blocked a white guy for pointing out that UPN wasn’t blocking white guys. He sounds like a pointy-haired boss.
Or Phil (who is revealed to be PHB’s brother).
I dare say, that fellow up ahead appears to be slowing too rapidly for a proper zipper lane merge, perhaps the “Yield” sign wasn’t placed at the minimum proximity to the lane border per D.O.T. stand—screech, crunch!!!
Maybe nobody want to hire people who are smarter than they are.
Trust me, that is not the issue.
If cancer is your own body getting all crazy, and Scott Adams was taking anti-parasitic meds to fight his own out-of-control body, how does that suggest he views himself?
Viewed very metaphorically, not scientifically, cancer is parasitic. It doesn’t answer to the needs and commands of the body, but it does consume the body’s resources for its own purposes.
So decent bet some “influencer” out there has been shilling that antiparasitic meds will kill off this “parasitic” cancer. The one that mainstream medicine totally does not want to cure so they can bleed their patients for lots of much more expensive, long term, and ultimately futile treatments.
The raw cynicism of so much of this kind of thinking is just painful.
I don’t know about that, but I’ve seen an ad that claimed that cancer is actually caused by parasites. One guess what they’ll try to sell you if you’re stupid enough to click.
To be fair, we’ve watched big business take monstrously greedy actions against the public in the name of profit all the time for decades.
Including the ones pushing ivermectin for cancer, of course.
I wonder who will inherit the Dilbert castle when he dies.
I heard that Joe Rogan has had some guests pushing that, from someone who is a Joe Rogan fan. I don’t know for sure because I have zero desire to listen to anything from Rogan, but it would explain the sudden increase of right-winger taking the wrong medications to treat aggressive cancer.
As long as it results in dead right wing fools I call that a gain for civilization.
Parenthetical comment, about a really good comic book series, which built on the fact that cancer is your own body, gone rogue; I put it in spoilers, as it is a sidetrack.
About ten years ago, in Marvel Comics’ Thor book, Thor (“Thor Odinson”) learned something which made him feel unworthy of being able to pick up and wield his hammer, Mjolnir. Shortly thereafter, a female Thor, wielding the hammer, showed up.
It was eventually revealed that “Lady Thor” was,Jane Foster, Thor Odinson’s onetime love interest. Jane was also in the midst of chemotherapy treatment for (IIRC) breast cancer.
Each time she used Mjolnir to transform from her petite, normal human form, to a tall, muscular Viking warrior woman, one of Mjolnir’s enchantments purged her body of any poisons or foreign contaminants: this had the effect of removing the chemotherapy drugs from her body each time she transformed. But, it did nothing to remove the cancer, since the hammer’s magic perceived her cancer cells to be “her.”