hitting the “ask app not to track” button when an app asks permission to track me across the web knowing it isn’t going to listen & it is 100% an illusion of choice
Oliver then proceeded to detail how with $50 and knowledge of the law he was able to successfully apply online to create a debt buying company named “Central Asset Recovery Professionals,” or as Oliver put it, “CARP” named after “a bottom-feeding fish.”
After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.
Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.
Then, instead of chasing down the 9,000 debtors in the debt package as a normal collection agency would, Oliver decided to stage the largest one-time giveaway in television history and work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to forgive the $15 million with no consequences for the debtors.
Okay but now I know what I want to do of I get rich?
You dont have to be rich to do a bit of this actually
RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.
So a little ray of hope for someone out there today.
I’m definitely not rich and I donate to RIP Medical Debt usually several times a year.
My favorite thing about it is that they’re able to buy up this “bad debt” for “pennies on the dollar” and the website says that on average every $100 donated eradicates $10,000 of debt—so unless I’m fucking terrible at math, even donating $1 could get rid of $100 worth of debt for someone who’s struggling.
To date, RIP Medical Debt has bought and forgiven $4.5 BILLION worth of medical debt, which is both an unfathomably large number and not even close to wiping out all US medical debt.
Continue to yell at politicians until we have universal healthcare, yes, but in the meantime, you can help people who are struggling by donating immediately at ripmedicaldebt.org.
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it’s still going. i took this screenshot at the time of this reblog
That screenshot is from 10 hours ago, as of 8:50 pm (central time) on june 23rd 2021.
posting not only as a critique of the profit motive under capitalism but also because I fucking hate youtube premium
obsessed with this reddit post
The best part is that OP made a “today I fucked up” thread about it and…:
imagine if instead of kpop it was rpop and it's from russia and you had girls all over Twitter being like "stream Я какала в штаны" and posting pictures like this and being like "OMG Ivonovativich looks so CUTE"
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Every time i see a post or tweet about twilight being gay culture or hilarious I just think about how the Quileute tribe of Washington had to set up a website specifically to combat racist misinformation that was being spread about their history and customs by stephenie meyer. Like she really just took an existing group of people with millennia of actual history and an actual mythos and culture and then just made shit up to fit her sexy mormon abstinence only tract
Donate to help the Quileute Nation move their culture and community center to higher ground now that climate change is threatening their current infrastructure.
every day i think about florence welch saying “the song ‘big god’ is about obviously, an unfillable hole in the soul, but mainly about someone not replying to my text.”
I do regret opening Tumblr on this sad day. My dashboard is literally filled with so much hatred towards the British monarchy and a great man with a big heart and humour who loyally served his country for 7 decades... Friendly reminder that Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson are both supportive of said monarchy and the British royal family... If your hatred is based on lies and half-truths coming from the Sussex's - please show yourself out. You clearly haven't put the same effort into fact checking them and their claims than you did with Larry Stylinson...
when will harvard do a case study on the minds of larries
Niall would petrol bomb all of them