Landlord, it honestly changed my life and gave my financial independence for the first time. I use a management company so I do no work, I just get a check for $1500 a month (rent is $1750). I’m now dropping being a SWE the second I buy my second unit, because it’s basically free money and more I have no boss.
I am interested in this sort of thing, but we seem to have a rash of bad tenants in the news who have stopped paying rent for a myriad of reasons, strapping the owner for tens of thousands of dollars. Needless to say our landlord/tenant folks operate much too slowly to make ownership of rentals a viable option unless you are ready and prepared in case you get stiffed for years.
It really should be nearly risk free. But not where I live unfortunately.
I think Microsoft software teams are already working behind their legal teams. Their business model is more about licensing than making products. Likely they’ll force some kind of regulatory situation that’s advantage to them. For example no AI capable OSs for government work, or something like that.
In this case, a customer named Paul Casey filed a
lawsuit against Citibank claiming that the bank owed
him the money for the bailout it received during the
financial crisis. Casey argued that because he was
a taxpayer, he was entitled to a share of the funds
Citibank received from the government. The court
dismissed the case, stating that taxpayers do not
have a direct claim to bailout funds allocated to
private companies.
* Bernstein v. JPMorgan Chase (2012):
Richard Bernstein filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan
Chase, alleging that the bank had "caused" the stock
market crash of 2008 and subsequently the loss of
his investments. He claimed that JPMorgan's actions
led to a decrease in the value of his retirement
accounts. The court dismissed the case, ruling that
Bernstein's claims were speculative and lacked
concrete evidence of causation and direct harm.
* Liversidge v. Goldman Sachs (2013):
Alan Liversidge sued Goldman Sachs for what he called
"psychological damages" stemming from the bank's
involvement in the financial crisis. Liversidge
claimed that the bank's actions had caused him
emotional distress and anxiety, leading to various
health problems. The court found the claims to be
without merit, as there was no legal basis for
recovering damages for generalized emotional distress
caused by market fluctuations.
The first one is large public pension funds and the case is still in discovery, although it seems the big players got better at covering their tracks in the wake of the LIBOR fixing scandal.
Yes I can. I completed MDMA Assisted Therapy last year and this year I'm having the best summer of my life. I'm 39 years old. I was abused as a child by my father and subsequently struggled my entire life with drug addiction, depression, suicide attempts, and bad relationships. I'm lucky to be alive. I've been in therapy for YEARS without ever talking about what my Dad did to me. Therapy was always about putting out the fires in my life. It was too difficult to talk about what happened in my home. I was diagnosed with PTSD. Literally 3 MDMA Assisted Therapy Sessions and a few regular talk sessions in between was all it took for me to heal. MDMA turns off your amygdala so you're no longer afraid to talk about the traumatic experiences. Being able to finally process my trauma in those three 7 hour sessions was what I needed to get my life back on track. Of course I had to do the therapy underground because the shit drug war took this treatment away from the therapists who knew that it worked.
The FDA panel's decision really bummed me out today. I want this treatment to be available to people who need it because it really works!
It actually just cost me an average hourly rate for therapy! It feels expensive considering that I had to pay for 7 hours at a time but it really just cost a regular hourly wage. Oh I'm so thankful to my therapists. Oh did I not mention? I had TWO therapists with me the whole time so in a sense I only paid for half of what I received. Amazing. And yes, that's standard practice per the MAPS guidelines for the therapy. We need to get this legalized now.
Treatment for PTSD can sometimes involve years of therapy, conservatively assuming monthly sessions (it’s not unusual for them to be every two weeks for serious cases) that’s well going to quickly rival the cost of any private/underground services…
The biggest problem here is that the treatment will remain fringe for longer, get less research money, and people suffering with PTSD will continue to suffer…
Well man, mine too. My mother already had a poor health and even before covid I was aware that any respiratory infection like the one she had two years before covid could be fatal.
But at least in 2018 she was promptly treated, with medicines to avoid the progression of secondary infection and fluid accumulation and despite the scare, was given oxygen, and she was saved.
In 2021, despite her old age, doctors were prohibited in her city to pro-actively avoid secondary infection and in the end when they finally decided to treat her, she was put in a ventilator and had complications commonly associated with the use of ventilators. You can call me anything you want, but I will never stop believing that despite her death certificate says she died of Covid, she was an iatrogenic death.
Well really think about the mindset of someone who collectively hates “the state” do you think that person is going to be honest about their actions? Of course not everything is about yourself over everyone else. This is free speech and not a personal attack.
