Life is a Team Sport

One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. "We'd have times when you'd deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out," said the former executive. Another industry executive said: "What's most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity."

i am supremely biased sorry plants </3

also including my comparison because im very happy with my increased invert proportion

this is where you get unbelievably stupid crap like the "half earth" project that proposes "protecting" half of Earth's land mass as nature preserves, never mind how we choose what half or what happens to the other half.

this type of environmentalism literally encourages people to think of their own presence as excluding or cancelling out "Nature."

And so people think of their lawns as Not Ecosystems, as Not Nature, so they cannot think "How do i live in right relationship with my ecosystem, as its caretaker?" This is death to ecological thinking.

The lawn was consciously created by intention and design, with heavy machinery that was manufactured, sold, and operated, it is not spontaneously created by fumes that the human body gives off.

Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 1 of ? - next set

-are a social species (like a lot of fish), and that the jet spitting is actually a learned behavior rather than one they just do instinctually. They have to watch older members of their social groups do it a bunch of times (like up to thousands) before they're able to successfully do it themselves. If you take a young one and isolate it from its species, they just never get good at it (they also catch prey like "normal" fish tho, so an archerfish that can't archer won't starve just bc of that)