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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

To detain a suspect in the US they need reasonable, articulable suspicion of a crime that person has committed. Like it or not, a tip followed by items in his possession checks that box.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

The man was on a Greyhound bus traveling through Altoona on Monday morning, sources said, when he got off and walked into a McDonald's where a witness recognized him from the images of the suspect circulated by police.

The McDonald’s employee reported him, and "because of that, we believe we have a strong person of interest," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference Monday.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-latest-net-closing-suspect-new/story?id=116591169

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (2 children)

From his Wikipedia page, some selected excerpts:

Thompson joined UnitedHealth Group in 2004 and was named CEO of UnitedHealthcare government programs that included Medicare and retirement, and community and state divisions in 2021. Under his leadership profits at UHC went from $12 billion in 2021 to $16 billion in 2023.

The investigation revealed that in 2019, UHC's prior authorization denial rate was 8.7%. Thompson became CEO in 2021, and by 2022 the rate of denial had increased to 22.7%. For both Medicare and non-Medicare claims, UHC declines at a rate double the industry average.

A lawsuit was filed against Thompson, UnitedHealth chairman Stephen J. Hemsley and two other senior executives in May 2024 for alleged fraud and insider trading due to failing to disclose an antitrust investigation into the company by the United States Department of Justice and by selling stock options before the probe was made public.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Thompson_(businessman)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When they won’t get their dicks out of their hands in formation, it’s very distracting for others.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Very interesting. I wish the story told more.

South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser's request.

While neither company has been named, the two companies have been trading since 2017. In November 2018, the purchasing company made a special request to include DDoS functionality, with the South Korean manufacturer complying.

Allegedly, the functionality was needed to counter the attacks of a competing entity.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I like the trees in the background.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well insurance will only pay for it if it’s approved. I’ve had an issue where I hit my out of pocket max, so everything was free, but they denied my refill of zofran entirely. Could be something similar where they won’t pay for the treatment he wants to receive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kinda wild. I’ve used chatGPT a lot and never had it just flat out refuse. Even saying this persons names prevents it from responding.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Please sir, may I have some more pixels please?

 

I saw another 2000 song posted and the op wasn’t immediately killed. It’s a bop though.

 

Think of all the things you could put in those numerous tiny pockets.

 

They build a 25 meter tall tower out of wooden sticks over the course of four days and then make it all collapse. I thought it was pretty cool.

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