Stay the F away from @watchcommnet ! Use starlink, aol, dialup, *anything* else! When I get ahold of customer support they are wonderful, but getting to is near impossible. 40 minute wait times. Hung up after holding for 1 hour 27 minutes. Get a voicemail, etc.. #hell

Talking to independent physicians, it's obvious that the big insurance carriers are doing to them, what their PBMs are doing to independent pharmacies. They deny, underpay, slow pay, clawback, and create administrative mazes, knowing their victims don't have the time or resources to fight. Why ? By putting financial pressures on physicians and pharmacies, it makes them more likely to sell their businesses to them , close their doors, or refer the business to their captive pharmacy or provider. All benefitting the biggest insurance companies We need to ditch the concept of "claims" and make every delivery of medications or care as a billable event that must, by law, be paid on a timely basis , with interest charges for any delays. If the physician or pharmacy doesn't deliver , the carrier has plenty of legal options already. As does the patient. This is not an efficient market. This is the big guy abusing the little guy. It needs to change to better the care we get in this country

Remember that time when Ohio State beat Michigan in Ann Arbor 27- 9 in a game in which UM didn't score a tuddy or a single point in the second half, one of the UM players head-butted a ref, Gus Johnson was sad when Davison Igbinosun intercepted Bryce Underwood to end the game, and then after their loss UM guarded the M logo from no one, and later UM's shaddy athletic director used an affair he already knew his coach was having with a subordinate as an excuse to fire him, and then that coach went nuts and invaded his mistress's home and threatened to kill her and himself? I remember.

In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another vessel carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to unload. This is not – and cannot be – legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the country’s ports and what cargo they are carrying. Russia is systematically seizing grain on temporarily occupied Ukrainian land and organizing its export through individuals linked to the occupiers. Such schemes violate the laws of the State of Israel itself. Ukraine has taken all necessary steps through diplomatic channels to prevent such incidents. However, we see that yet another such vessel has not been stopped. I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform all partners of our state about the situation. Based on information from our intelligence services, Ukraine is preparing a relevant sanctions package that will cover both those directly transporting this grain and the individuals and legal entities attempting to profit from this criminal scheme. We will also coordinate with European partners to ensure that the relevant individuals are included in European sanctions regimes. Ukraine counts on partnership and mutual respect with every state. We are genuinely working to enhance security, particularly in the Middle East region. We expect that the Israeli authorities will respect Ukraine and refrain from actions that undermine our bilateral relations.

Temple researchers ran a clean experiment on this in 2017. 38 mothers taught their 2-year-olds two made-up words, "blicking" and "frepping." Same mom, same child, same words, same number of repetitions. Only difference: one teaching session got interrupted by a phone call midway. The other didn't. The kids learned the uninterrupted word. They did not learn the interrupted one. Same exposure, same parent, zero learning. The interruption alone wiped it out. The mechanism underneath is called social contingency. Babies and toddlers learn language, emotional regulation, and attachment through a rapid back-and-forth loop. You look, the parent looks back. You point, the parent names it. The brain encodes meaning by detecting that match between your signal and their response, on a timescale of seconds. A phone in your hand competes for that exact response system. When a parent's gaze flicks down at a notification, the child registers a non-response in real time. Playground studies in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and the US all find the same pattern. Parents on phones are slower to respond, miss weaker child signals first, and when the kid escalates to get attention back, the parent is more likely to react with irritation. The kid learns two things at once. Their signals don't reliably get a response. And when they push, the response is negative. Meta-analyses link this pattern to lower attachment security, more behavioral problems, and weaker self-regulation in early childhood. Parental response timing is the variable that drives the harm. The kid's own screen time is a separate question. The "hang it up in one place" rule is doing one specific thing mechanically. It moves the phone outside the response window. The parent's reaction time to the kid resets to baseline. Distance from the device restores the timing. That's the part Cooper is right about and most people skip. The fix is mechanical. Willpower doesn't enter the equation.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba found TreVeyon Henderson as the confetti fell following the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl win ♥️

I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the diminished ambitions of a once grand paper. Anything that didn’t directly impact the Bethesda or Fairfax reader had already been cut. The newsroom had dwindled to 600 or 700 reporters after many buyouts. The Graham family strategy was to become a local paper, free from the cost of international bureaus and expensive teams. Marty Baron was brought on to execute this local strategy (we called it managed decline) before the surprise Bezos purchase changed everything. Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper, even the ones with no readers. He expanded international. He financed experiments in video and podcasting. He gave the newsroom a blank check for over a decade. Rather than pursuing a strategy based in reality, the Post newsroom became very accustomed to a billionaire patron giving them everything they wanted in perpetuity. In retrospect, this was a terrible business decision because it made the young reporters and editors delusional. The old ones who remembered the cuts and the pain of the business before Bezos— when they finally took the free coffee away—they had all been fired or left the industry. The “For and About Washington” strategy was also a loser, because it retained the most expensive parts of the newsroom while diminishing its reach. Sports is expensive. Metro news is expensive. And as pretty much every other local newspaper in the country has learned, the old local paper model is broken and has been since the internet arrived. The Post’s brand was and is Washington politics. It’s the seat of American power. It should be focused on covering politics from its premier perch in DC. It should have never been distracted by anything else— it only ever needed this product. It lost sports to the Athletic. It lost International to The Times. There’s no reason to compete on those products. The Post can still own politics, and every story, feature and reporter should be focused on covering it. But it needs to stop pretending that the world didn’t change 20 years ago and start listening to its readers again. There are solid media companies being built for the future and the Post can become one of them. But the old Post died many decades ago. Pretending Bezos killed it isn’t true.

You mean "*did* come, obviously"

Dan Osborn is right. By mothballing its giant meatpacking plant in Lexington, NE, instead of selling it to a competitor, Tyson is practically committing arson to manipulate the market into a place where cattle prices are low, beef prices are high, and the entrenched meatpackers in the middle — like Tyson — can make a killing by screwing both ranchers and consumers. If this kind of conduct doesn’t violate Section 202(e) of the Packers and Stockyards Act — which makes it illegal for any meatpacker to "engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices” — then nothing does. Secretary of Agriculture Rollins (@SecRollins) should immediately commence proceedings to enforce the law to the fullest extent — and seek to compel Tyson to either keep the plant open or sell the plant to an upstart rival who will introduce honest competition into this cartelized industry.

Hard concept for CFB fans: You don’t devalue the regular season by expanding the playoff. You devalue the regular season by automatically stuffing the playoff with your 6th best conference team rather than every single conference champion.

ESPN was most culturally relevant when men would wake up and go to bed watching SportsCenter to check scores and highlights. Now it’s just sports talk radio with gambling shows sprinkled in

“USC offense, because of its adaptability, is one of the hardest to stop.” @CoachUrbanMeyer breaks down @uscfb's switch to a double-option offense vs. Nebraska ⬇️

"This is a play that Ohio State will definitely see again." @1Tyvis breaks down film of Penn State's goal line touchdown against the best defense in the country.

Angelina Jolie went to a city 1 km from frontline, city where drone striking civilians became known as human safari, she didn’t inform government authorities, all to visit children, residents, doctors and volunteers. Bravest in Hollywood.

Pokrovsk Holds!

I'm a simple girl, all I want for Christmas is for russia to collapse.

Like the length of their games, NFL is more efficient than college football NFL playoffs: 13 games in 30 days College Football Playoff: 11 games in 32 days