• orcrist@lemm.ee
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      Rather than “admitting”, I would think that most of these people are proud of it. If the insurance companies can kill people in large numbers (and they do), and somehow that’s OK (which it shouldn’t be), then that’s the new standard (sadly), and that’s life (or death, as the case may be).

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      13 hours ago

      41% of people they asked! Who knows what criteria they used to get their sample set, so the number may even be higher.

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        10 hours ago

        Also, do we know the specific wording? The wording of the questions around it? Those can have a significant impact on the answers.

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          6 hours ago

          Yes. This was a study by Emerson college. The methodology is linked in the article.

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            Of course the old people who are “fuck you I got mine” say it’s completely unacceptable LMAO