<p>You know what? </p><p>I do not buy &quot;do not speak ill of the dead&quot;. </p><p>Who gives a fuck. They&#39;re dead. If anyone can be judged on their life&#39;s accomplishments, it&#39;s those whose lives are done and there&#39;s no chance for them to change as a person. </p><p>And if their friends and family are upset about how absolutely nobody else has the least bit of sympathy for them, then they too ought to examine their lives to figure out why they were able to care for someone who caused monstrous pain and suffering for enough people that his death has become a national fucking party.</p><p>Brian Thompson&#39;s decisions, in his role as UHC CEO, caused lasting harm to millions of people.</p><p>Including me.</p><p>His legacy is one of pain and suffering that he chose to inflict, so that he himself could prosper. </p><p>I am pleased that he is no longer in a position to cause harm to people I care about. </p><p>I would also be pleased if other healthcare CEOs would understand this news to be indicative of the way their choices have been evaluated, and re-evaluate whether or not their legacies are going to be regarded in the same way. </p><p>Brian Thompson was a human, and as such he had agency over his choices; I am absolutely judging the choices he made as being unjust, unfair, and harmful. </p><p>If the dead don&#39;t want to be spoken ill of, then they should have treated others with fairness and respect in life. </p><p>Good riddance.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mwk" class="u-url mention">@<span>mwk</span></a></span> this needs an additional CW</p>

<p>What I&#39;m listening to today: &quot;Alkebulan&quot;, Ras_G &amp; The Afrikan Space Program</p><p>Messy jazz soup set to afropunk video samples. Drums like a bag of empty cans hanging off a back porch. Blown in the wind, falling to the ground. There is a vision of something here, something forbidden to me, Sun Ra, &quot;the 1980s&quot;. The last UFO off this planet may or may not have already left and I don&#39;t know if this is a vision of the future or the past. Good kick drum sounds tho</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5B_E2_6pdw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=t5B_E2_6pdw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mwk" class="u-url mention">@<span>mwk</span></a></span> (stage whisper) i think she likes efinix</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mwk" class="u-url mention">@<span>mwk</span></a></span> so you like both xilinx and altera?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> It&#39;s a wee annoying that I had to manually enable this on other search engines that it says that it supports, but it works once I did that.</p><p>No more spam-filled wiki links in my searches. No more useless lodestone item links. :moogle_cheer:</p><p>This is pretty snazzy.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I must own this. Later, I’ll find a use for it.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floofy.tech/@qualia" class="u-url mention">@<span>qualia</span></a></span> yeah &quot;hard drugs&quot; is nonsense</p><p>the #1 risk of ketamine is going swimming and dying. the #2 seems to be fucking up your bladder. incomparable</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/" class="u-url mention">@<span>mosseri</span></a></span> just announced that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Threads</span></a> users can finally follow fediverse accounts. Which means you can now reach 200M people from your Mastodon account without ever using Threads yourself. True decentralization happens on the fediverse!</p>