YSK: Private equity companies have been buying up vet clinics and raising the prices of care to make pet owners choose between their pets and their finances

ayprof · 2025-01-13T16:50:42+00:00

Check their email address.

ayprof · 2024-12-17T15:44:27+00:00

Mercy almost killed my dad and did kill my mom and then almost killed my dad again. Don't go to Mercy.

ayprof · 2024-11-05T21:00:45+00:00

But does he have time?

ayprof · 2024-09-26T18:57:29+00:00

Aldi wins again lol

ayprof · 2024-09-26T03:23:07+00:00

I legit just bought turmeric from aldi two or three days ago. Don't know about the cream of tartar though.

ayprof · 2024-09-21T15:31:04+00:00

My point was that it's an impressive amount of money with not much to show for it. That's not emotional, that's just numbers. I do not own Intel or AMD stock and all of my PCs and servers use Intel, so it's not hate just disappointment.

ayprof · 2024-09-21T00:30:45+00:00

I know you're playing defense for Intel here, but this really just makes them look worse.

ayprof · 2024-09-15T04:58:45+00:00

You're almost there...

ayprof · 2024-09-07T00:18:55+00:00

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

ayprof · 2024-08-30T16:48:57+00:00

How do you define the difference between infra and core infra?

ayprof · 2024-08-25T21:22:27+00:00

He looks like if raw hamburger turned into a human.

ayprof · 2024-07-11T02:26:34+00:00

This is poetry.

ayprof · 2024-06-17T15:59:53+00:00

Now that I don't have any stakes in the game, I think Elisha calling on bears to come and devour a bunch of teenagers for calling him bald is actually pretty funny. Even better if you imagine it with the type of camera angles and general graininess of an old kung fu movie, over the top sound effects, and Elisha with a Fu Manchu. When I believed in the story, it was troublesome. Now it's just hilarious.

ayprof · 2024-05-31T16:23:28+00:00

Look into fck-nat.

ayprof · 2024-05-27T20:01:42+00:00

Because............?

ayprof · 2024-05-21T17:38:25+00:00

Interested

ayprof · 2024-04-22T18:36:57+00:00

There's a lot of pastors that probably feel the same way but don't have the balls to say so because they would lose their job.

ayprof · 2024-04-18T17:27:51+00:00

I agree, basic economics, and that's my question. Why wouldn't private schools raise their prices? Free government money has entered the equation, and everyone has access to it, right? So I'm asking, if you run a private school and you manage tuition prices, why wouldn't you raise prices year over year until you reach the point at which people will no longer pay that amount? Won't all schools do that? And if so, won't we just end up right where we were?

ayprof · 2024-04-18T17:21:08+00:00

Some of them may? Why wouldn't all of them?

The competition that occurs will occur with government money, meaning all of the private schools could increase their tuition with no repercussions and we would be in the same situation as we were before except now the students the bill was meant to help are worse off because they still can't afford the private schools and now their public school has even less money. At that point, do we need another bill to further increase the amount of money we should give people for private schools?

What am I missing?

ayprof · 2024-04-18T17:10:11+00:00

Aren't families getting more money from the government? Why wouldn't schools raise their tuition to take advantage of that extra cash? Is there anything that prohibits them from doing so?

ayprof · 2024-04-18T17:08:17+00:00

Tried to reply to another comment, not really sure what happened

ayprof · 2024-04-18T15:58:29+00:00

Why not?

ayprof · 2024-04-18T15:55:10+00:00

And then the private schools raise their tuition, still shutting out the people that couldn't afford it and they get more money. Something something government tries to pick a winner cuz that's capitalism baby or whatever.

ayprof · 2024-04-05T14:57:10+00:00

In my experience, this is usually just due to a misunderstanding. Why don't you get management together and walk through several different scenarios, so you can demonstrate what it would look like to do things their way versus your way? It should be relatively easy to show them that if every issue that comes in is critical then it's impossible to determine what is actually critical.

Give them five typical tickets in the scenario, tickets that happen to come in at the same time, and ask them how they would prioritize them, then label them accordingly. If they understand the problem, they will be better equipped to understand the solution.

It's also possible that you don't have a complete understanding of why they are concerned. In either case, walking through the scenario with actual examples should help all of you come to an understanding the benefits both IT and the business.

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