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- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 2 hours ago:
It’s like whoever is directing his actions just wants to twist the knife a bit. But there are so many evil fucks to choose from that it doesn’t really narrow it down. Could be a Putin “fuck the americans” thing, could be a Miller “fuck everybody” thing, who knows.
- Comment on Crying is a free action 3 days ago:
y = mx + b
It’s algebra. It’s linear. 😬
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 6 days ago:
Oh boy, I get to do more Freedumsplaining!
The luxury sport sedan price is the fake sticker price they bill up front.
The sensible commuter sedan price is the secret agreed-upon price that the insurance actually pays out to them.
The out of pocket costs are a completely separate number, where the individual is responsible for all the costs until they hit their deductible (and sometimes pay a percentage for a while until they hit a second complete out of pocket limit).
For some of us, however, there is a silver lining to this shitcloud. Obviously when a 2-hour stint in a chair gets paid out actually for real at tens of thousands of dollars, that money is not going to the wonderful nurses poking my arm and checking on me. Therefore, it is very much in the best interests of the pharmaceutical shareholders that I do not stop my treatment just because I can’t afford it. So these companies have copay assistance programs that will pay your out of pocket costs, with no income threshold.
So the reward that I get for having a health condition is… I effectively get decent healthcare coverage as an American. For 11 months of the year. If something bad happens in early january it can cost a few grand in the blink of an eye.
You can’t be on government insurance and use those programs though. But Medicaid on its own is great coverage.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 6 days ago:
I have a “fun” american anecdote for you then! The office that gave me crap for being late a while back is also coincidentally the expensive one.
I’m on a biologic medication that I get every month via IV. I get the infusions at a cancer treatment center at the local hospital. The chairs are comfy and the nurses are amazing. They will actually give me free snacks and drinks too. I am typically there for about two hours.
The amount they charge my insurance company? About a new BMW.
What my insurance company actually pays them? Surprisingly, about a new Honda!
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 6 days ago:
Is this an elaborate “yet you participate in society!” retort?
I am a regular consumer of our ridiculous inhuman healthcare system in the US. The people who are hands-on with patients are generally NOT the problem.
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 1 week ago:
I’m sure my anecdote applies to people from all three, and even to some of the boomers that didn’t ingest as much lead and have kept their head on straight.
When I mentioned The Oregon Trail generation though, that’s usually an Xennial label.
- Comment on Save me from going down a dark path 1 week ago:
I’m sober for Satan! How 'bout you?
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 1 week ago:
Living in the US as somebody who pays attention to the world and cares about people and stuff is absolutely surreal sometimes.
It’s especially so when you’re one of the last people to have had an analog childhood (The Oregon Trail generation represent) so all the adults you knew as a child grew up in the post-ww2 prosperity and genuinely believed all the American exceptionalism stuff.
The only thing it seems we are best at is striking the perfect evil balance where I can’t decide if it feels more Black Mirror or more Hunger Games.
- Comment on It hurts. 1 week ago:
Yes to all, especially the driver attention one.
I have two options when driving to work. One is shorter and takes straight level roads through the newest part of town.
The other way is slightly longer but it’s a twisty hilly road through the countryside.
I take the longer route every single day unless it is actively snowing or something. And now that hybrid WFH is a common thing, I don’t often drive in the snow.
- Comment on It hurts. 1 week ago:
Then there’s Pittsburgh. It’s like Boston but when you take a wrong turn you end up on the wrong side of a mighty river or two.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 1 week ago:
And what you describe is probably the best case scenario, that the well meaning artist misses it in a rush.
In the real world much of the time I bet the artist is well aware and frustrated because the game already shipped (with no input from them or their boss) to make it by the end of the quarter and now the press assets all have some bland slop BS front and center instead of the real version staring back from their own monitor.
- Comment on Looks like meat's back on the menu! 2 weeks ago:
My everclear story is short, sweet, and typical, lol.
Friends and I were out of town a few states away for a big concert with limited locations. We randomly hung out with the guys in the hotel room next door who were drinking Everclear, among other things.
One friend had a capful and reacted harshly. Then while the other friend had their capful, I went for the bottle itself to save some time. I also made a show of not taking a sip but tipping back the bottle and taking a big full gulp. I’d also like to point out that I’ve never been a drinker, so I have no built up tolerance for any part of the experience including the burn.
It was decades ago and I vividly remember the experience as “my lungs instantly boiled off all moisture and my insides rapidly shrunk into a desiccated strand of human jerky and then exploded like that nazi in The Last Crusade.”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If phase changes weren’t so badass we would be so fucked, lol.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Maybe today, Satan? 😏
- Comment on Don't be a coward 2 weeks ago:
That is true, but it doesn’t automatically mean that business = dishonest. I like to give human beings some benefit of the doubt in a way that abstract things like corporations do not get. They were born into the same superficial capitalist dystopia I was, and their job might simply mean being self-employed and dealing with the general public. As somebody with a desk/wfh job, that sounds sucky in a retail sort of way.
Don’t misunderstand me though – plenty of them are total shitbags. I need to find a new local mechanic and it sucks. I’m just saying check your assumptions.
- Comment on Thia better not awaken anything in me 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, this is my favorite kink. “OMG that hot person in a strange situation is still hot!”
The posing is not hurting either.
Though I do find myself being influenced in what I choose to make for lunch…
- Comment on is it really worth it 2 weeks ago:
Thought 1: This is the most Lemmy image I’ve seen all day.
Thought 2: I am unavoidably going to make a comment to my wife about grabbing her like a dual shock controller. Probably right as said grabbing occurs. And I probably won’t explain myself.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 weeks ago:
😅 Hey there fellow human Fediverse user!
✈️ Wanna get away from all the AI slop?
👍 Well you are in the right place.
😎 Lists are great, and bulleted lists are classy, but emoji-bullet lists are the coolest most human thing ever!
🧐 Using glue in place of pizza sauce actually binds the fat and makes it more healthy!
🫡 Do YOU have two 5090s on order like a good person?
- Comment on Gaysadilla 3 weeks ago:
The last time I was hanging out on Lemmy eating a fresh LGBTQ+ and had some of that white gooey Q running from the corner of my mouth into my beard, I had like 3 little sysadmins follow me home. Then my wife gets all weird and comes outside to shoo them away with a broom, yelling about how we already use Linux. And I’m like girl don’t be so hasty to run them off – see if you can borrow some of those thigh-high stockings first!
- Comment on Firearm Advice 4 weeks ago:
It’s so versatile too. I could see this hanging on the wall at work with “git push” or “./build.sh” under it and it would just make sense.
Probably wouldn’t pass the HR sniff test but you get the idea, lol.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 4 weeks ago:
This is a new image/meme for me and I like it. The hand gesture gives it a little bit of a “witches vs patriarchy” vibe too. I don’t know if that means more or less coming from a random old cishet dude, lol.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 4 weeks ago:
Dang, were they actually going into an artery there, or was it just a large opening or you were also on blood thinners or something?
I get an IV every month and they always use a vein, and any bleeding is just a tiny ooze. But I’m holed up for a matter of hours, not days+ as with a hospital stay.
- Comment on Fully Modded Skyrim VR in Samsung Galaxy XR is Something Else 5 weeks ago:
My main original Skyrim play through on desktop was 100 hours.
My Skyrim VR play through was 200 hours. I think in 2019. So fun.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 weeks ago:
Yeah now it’s “will it speedrun DOOM?”
- Comment on RIP Bozo 5 weeks ago:
Each one of those F-22s cost as much as a Level 1 trauma center hospital, and it’s specialty is filling up entire hospitals in the other side of the world!
- Comment on No u 🫵 5 weeks ago:
But, the Null Hypothesis generally IS that X does not exist until you receive evidence otherwise.
That’s pretty much how we all work, we just have very different sources and standards when it comes to which evidence is taken seriously.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 5 weeks ago:
Eww, friends I know it’s ok to say fuck on the internet, but some words are just yucky to read, you feel me?
lol
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 5 weeks ago:
I love how “I fucked your mom” is just too straight and real for Lemmy.
I might be an old straight guy, but I can appreciate keeping it fake & gay around here. 🫡
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 5 weeks ago:
Only poors can do terrorism, silly!
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 5 weeks ago:
While it may be true that capitalism messes with all of them to some extent, I think there’s still a pretty wide chasm between a Firefox fork like LibreWolf or WaterFox versus just using a default install of Chrome or Edge.