Here's a link to the original song. The part the meme comes from starts around 0:45. It was a hit in 2004.

Yeah. Business Insider had a good long read on that. I think it was posted before, but it's worth reading.

In addition to their financial struggles, all of the hospitals shared three things in common. They all served low-income communities that suffered from a lack of access to healthcare. They were all owned at various points by for-profit investors, including leading private-equity firms like Cerberus, Leonard Green, and Apollo. And in a move that stripped the hospitals of one of their prime assets, the owners had sold the land beneath the facilities to a little-known real-estate investor called Medical Properties Trust. MPT, which has purchased some $16 billion of hospital real estate over the past two decades, now bills itself as one of the world's largest owners of hospital beds.

For many of the hospitals, the deals proved disastrous. Once their real estate was sold to MPT, they were forced to pay rent on what had always been their own property. That added to the massive debt burdens already placed on the hospitals by their for-profit owners, deepening their financial woes. It also deprived Americans of desperately needed healthcare and put lives at risk — all while enriching some of the world's wealthiest investors.

All your basic staples: salt, flour, oil, sugar, pasta, pasta, milk, eggs

It depends. Cheap salt is just fine. And flour, unless you're into baking. But some things can make a difference and you don't necessarily have to pay a lot more for it.

Pasta, for example. Bronze cut pasta absorbs sauce a lot better than "normal" pasta. It looks dull, rough, and pale as opposed to shiny and smooth. It usually only costs a buck or two more. I find it's a big step up taste and texture-wise.

Or butter. The ones without natural flavor taste better. Sometimes it's the store brand that doesn't have added flavor.

And eggs. Orange yolks are way better than the pale yellow ones. But those you do have to shell out for.

It's colloquial and you'll hear it when people talk about making food. Like if you're making a sandwich. You put mayo on the bread, then you put the cheese, then you add meat and lettuce or whatever.

It's kind of like "on" is implied and you don't bother to say it. I just mentioned it, so I don't need to say it again. That's how it feels to me anyway.

I could see myself saying "First you put mayo, then you put cheese." That would be like if someone was standing next to me, watching me make the sandwich. They can see exactly where I'm putting things. But normally you do want to specify where you're putting something.

It's actually kind of complicated. I did some digging and it looks like the problem is that he wanted a new judge in his case challenging the election results in Georgia. But he made a legal move that prevented that from happening.

This is the case he's talking about (warning: legal language). Trump originally asked for emergency relief, which means the case could be decided in days or weeks instead of months or years. Then he withdrew that request for some reason. So the original judge said no emergency relief for you. You don't get it unless you ask for it and the judge decides it's appropriate.

Well, Trump didn't like that, so he did two things. He filed an appeal (of an order that you're not allowed to appeal). That basically puts a stop to your case until the appeal is over. That's just how it works and even brand new lawyers know this.

At the same time, he asked for his case to be assigned to a new judge. The court couldn't say yes or no to that request because of the appeal. Thus the complaint that they wouldn't assign a judge.

He dismissed the appeal a few weeks later and got a new judge.

She threw their homework and other things in the trash. Said they had until the end of the day to pay cash or do chores to get it back so they could learn the real value of their things.

She took her son's bed away for seven months, apparently because he played a prank on his brother.

Oh, and the kids had to make their own school lunch in the morning. The school calls one day because her 6 year old daughter didn't have any food. She let the girl go hungry. Quote:

My hope is that she’ll be hungry and come home and go, ‘oh man, that was really painful, being hungry all day. I will make sure to always have lunch with me.

Browsing Lemmy and kbin. There's lots of interesting stuff when you sort by new. Today's unexpected find was banjo music with duck sounds.

Once in a while, I try my hand at translating.

Scooter is adorable. I hope he got whatever he wanted.

Now, more than a decade after Sylvia’s death, their efforts have landed the Wildensteins before France’s highest court. The evidence she and Dumont Beghi brought forth has persuaded prosecutors that the Wildensteins are a criminal enterprise, responsible for operating, as a prosecutor for the state once put it, “the longest and the most sophisticated tax fraud” in modern French history.

A trial this September will determine if the family and their associates owe a gargantuan tax bill. The last time prosecutors went after the Wildensteins, several years ago, they sought €866 million — €616 million in back taxes and a €250 million fine, as well as jail time for Guy. The consequences could do more than topple the family’s art empire. The case has provided an unusual view of how the ultrawealthy use the art market to evade taxes, and sometimes worse. Agents raiding Wildenstein vaults have turned up artworks long reported as missing, which fueled speculation that the family may have owned Nazi-looted or otherwise stolen art, and spurred a number of other lawsuits against the family in recent years. Financial distortions have saved the family hundreds of millions of dollars, prosecutors allege, but their treatment of Sylvia could cost them far more — and perhaps lead to the unraveling of their dynasty.

What a story. It's a long read, but fascinating.

I think part of it is because of pricing software like RealPage.

On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants.

“Never before have we seen these numbers,” said Jay Parsons, a vice president of RealPage, as conventiongoers wandered by. Apartment rents had recently shot up by as much as 14.5%, he said in a video touting the company’s services. Turning to his colleague, Parsons asked: What role had the software played?

“I think it’s driving it, quite honestly,” answered Andrew Bowen, another RealPage executive. “As a property manager, very few of us would be willing to actually raise rents double digits within a single month by doing it manually.”

I lived in a building that used this software. In 6-7 years, rent went from around $1200 to about $2,000. More and more apartments stayed empty. They kept raising prices during the pandemic. Surprise surprise, a tent city popped up down the street. A couple people died there.

Are they soft? Do they make cute noises? Would love to pet one if I could. Looks like this guy really liked the attention.

Yeah, it's Canadian. If you go to the homepage and click on the sidebar, you can see the description of the instance and the country where it's hosted. That works for any instance, I think.