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.
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.
it used to be pretty common for there to be cats on boats. they’d take care of any rodents who would chew on ropes or wires and spread diseases. sailors were also superstitious and believed that having a cat aboard would bring good luck! this belief passed on to their wives, who kept cats – especially black ones who were believed to be extra lucky – at home in order to keep their husbands safe when at sea.
another popular superstition? that if a cat came aboard it was a sign of luck, but if it only boarded halfway and then left, it was a sign of bad luck.
most ship’s cats are only found in modern times on private vessels, but they have roots going back to early history. one such example is the Vikings, who took cats with them on expeditions.
You wanna know why I love lichens? Why I really love lichens? It’s cause they’re weird. Absolute weirdos. Total freaks of nature. And I think, inside all of us, we also think we’re totally weird. And so we can relate to these little symbiotic mutants. When they’re like, “hey, I’m gonna look like a leaf, but I’m not a plant. And I’m not just a fungi. I am indescribably. Also I want to be gray. With red spots. And really wrinkly. Deal with.” Like, yes girl. You do you. #goals. And P. lurida was so obsessed with being unique and odd that it is actually divided into 3 subspecies: subsp. lurida, subsp. russellii, and subsp. quercicola. Which like, I feel so hard.Honestly the me I am in a big group vs the me I am around my conservative family vs the me I am at home with my cats might as well be three different subspecies, they are so different. Basically what I am trying to say is that I admire these little oddballs, these anomalies we get to share the planet with. And maybe it’s because *I* also feel totally unique and variable and different, and isn’t that the most common thing of all?
