I have no goddamn clue, all the fucking time

he will come home !

Here he is all grown up!

His name is Maui and he still takes a pat like no phrawblem

But he’s still giving you the stink eye because he’s actually a New York bodega cat at Willy’s Deli in Brooklyn and you know how New Yorkers are about Bostonians

That’s a great cat right there

PLEASE sign, especially if you’re from one of the countries that has not reached it’s threshold. (France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria…basically every country except Italy and Belgium)

Minimum thresholds must be met in at least five more countries in addition to the 1,000,000 signatures requirement.

The countries closest to reaching their minimum threshold are Ireland(89% of required signatures), France(75%), The Netherlands (75%), Spain (69%), and Cyprus (46%). If you or anyone you know have citizenship in these countries, please sign it, encourage them to sign it, and pass it forward.

If the requirements are met, the European Commission will be forced to examine this and take legal action. Real change is a possibility if enough signatures are collected.

dude.

A tweet from Twitter user Darien (@/DareBear1226) that reads "This could literally save a life. Save a family. My god" with the following video attached.

A TikTok user in blue lighting: "What's a piece of information that you learned that feels illegal to know?"

(The on-screen captions say the same thing)

TikTok user @/dollarfor (speaking to the camera): "Most hospitals in America are non-profits which means they have to have financial assistance or charity care policies."

(On-Screen captions: "Most hospitals in America are non-profits. That means they must have a Charity Care Policy.")

dollarfor: "This is going to sound weird, but what that means is that if, uh, you make under a certain amount of money, the hospital legally has to forgive your medical bills. Let me show you how this works."

(On-Screen captions: "If you make under a certain amount of money the hospital will legally have to forgive your medical bills.")

dollarfor (while typing "legacy health financial assistance" into Google search and clicking the top result): "Type in the hospital name with 'financial assistance' after it. Should be the top link, let's check."

(On-Screen Captions: "Type in the hospital name + financial assistance.")

dollarfor (while scrolling down the Legacy Health Financial Assistance webpage and clicking on the Financial Assistance Policy link): "What you wanna do is look for financial assistance applications and policies, let's check the policy."

dollarfor (while scrolling down the policy document, then highlighting the sliding scale information): "From here what you're looking for is a sliding scale that- is right here. (quoting document) '0-300% of the federal poverty guidelines' (end quote), they will forgive 100% of your medical bills."

(On-Screen Captions: "Go to the site and look for their policy.")

dollarfor (while displaying a chart showing 2020 Federal Poverty Levels): "So you can see here that 300% of the federal poverty guidelines is 37,470 so if you make under that amount, uh, the hospital will legally forgive your medical bills, and if you're a larger household you can check it out from here."

(On-Screen Captions: "Gross Annual Income.")

dollarfor (speaking to the camera): "If you wanna test it out, I run a non-profit that does this so, uh, DM me and I will actually do it for you, to see if we can crush. those. medical bills."

(On-Screen Captions: "I crush hospital bills. TEST ME.")

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Added a description/transcript since I couldn't find one for this post! (Please let me know if there's any way this description could be improved, it's my first time writing one and I want any descriptions I write to be as accessible as possible!)

I also went and checked out the dollarfor TikTok account, and according to their latest video, the popularity of the video in this post means that they've now received way more claims than they currently have staff to handle. They are looking for more monthly donations so they can hire more staff to help manage all the claims.

Here is the link to the Dollar For Website if you would like to make a donation or submit a claim.

And here is the dollarfor TikTok account if you would like to learn more about what they do and what you can do to help.

For those wondering “why don’t you just read the ingredients”: Even if you trust the ingredient list, you don’t know which “natural flavors” were used, and you may not know where the various chemicals came from. And a lot of people have a hard time reading tiny print, and don’t want to stand in the aisle for five minutes trying to work their way through 95 words of 4-point type.

In college, I was in a Kosher-Halal dining co-op. We kept to the strictest possible kosher standards; the members who followed halal guidelines said that met all their requirements. Kosher is much more restrictive, most obviously because there’s no injunction against mixing meat and dairy in Islam. Also, a few animals considered halal are not kosher. Kosher isn’t always halal though: there’s sometimes an extra step in halal ritual slaughter – a prayer before *each animal* is killed, as opposed to before the slaughtering process; and there’s debate about whether foods cooked with alcohol – think vanilla extract – can be halal. (And of course there may be other things I haven’t heard about/encountered).

So, if you pick up something with a hechsher it is far more likely to be halal than something without, but it’s not a guarantee. Conversely, a cheeseburger could be halal, so it’s much less of a possibility for someone keeping kosher to rely on halal certification.

We’re people.