Thebeardedsinglemalt
@Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
- Comment on Where did I go wrong? 7 hours ago:
Why are there sea monsters on your fish?
- Comment on Where did I go wrong? 7 hours ago:
Id definitely take sea monsters on maps so long as opposed to hearing how much they hate their ex
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 7 hours ago:
They don’t give a shit how long you wait here, just that having to wait there is why we shouldn’t do it
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 8 hours ago:
I moved to a new state 2 years ago and after about a year of finding a new house, having work done and finally being able to move in…in the process borked my right knee moving stuff. Wanted to make an appt with an ortho doc.
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Needed to find a new PCP, because they had to write the referral.
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There was only 1 place I could find in network who was accepting new patients and didn’t have a 6-month wait.
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Went there, got the referral
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Went to the Ortho, ordered an X-ray
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Got the X-ray, showed no damage but I still couldn’t walk upstairs without favoring it. And I’m doing so, it damaged the left knee.
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They ordered rehab for the right knee only. It had to be in-network for insurance to cover any of it, which turned out my copay was still more expensive than paying out of pocket at regional PT location.
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After half a dozen visits the PTs still couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my knee. Ortho orders an MRI.
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MRI shows everything is intact, it must have been a bad sprain /stress.
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Only now did the PCP get to the point to be able to offer steroid shot. There would need to be additional hoops to jump through before insurance even considers approving/paying for surgery
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End up getting a shot in the left knee after another X-RAY but they still don’t know what the issue is with either of them.
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This ended up completely wiping out 2 years worth of FSA, and the only way I DIDN’T pay out of pocket was because I still had a couple grand on the HSA from my previous job.
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My knee can still go out from time to time but it’s still a tad better.
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- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 9 hours ago:
You have to wait 7 months to see a doctor vs You skip going to the doctor because you simply can’t afford it
- Comment on Don't 1 day ago:
If the burger flipper makes $15 an hour then the price of a #10 value meal will go up to $14!!!
Well, they didn’t get a raise and the price of a #10 is just about $14 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Don't 1 day ago:
I think a lot of us further on the left forget that the concept of equal rights is fairly new to our species
With the fucked up part being large sections of the right believe that if someone else starts getting more rights (that they themselves already have) it means they now have fewer rights because they’re being taken away.
When in fact, they still have more rights than the other group, they just don’t have as many more as they used to
- Comment on Don't 1 day ago:
The freedoms they don’t want treaded on: being an unrepentant racist homophobic asshole.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 3 days ago:
The same reason they never mentioned where they dumped hitlers corpse?
That should help put things into perspective
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 3 days ago:
How much higher could those clown pants pants get
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 3 days ago:
Are you insinuating we shouldn’t be at least mildly celebrating?
Like when Graham died?
Like when that ice agent unalived himself after getting fired?
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 5 days ago:
And instead of promising a functional dirty bomb and it’s irrefutable evidence of 2020 election tampering 😂🤣😂
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 5 days ago:
Today, the Internet is something which just exists and is deeply (forcefully) entrenched in our everyday lives. A teenager from today would have their mind blown that in 1995 you had to hook your computer up to the phone jack to access the Internet and it’d be difficult to do much without Google as the default search.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 5 days ago:
He could say he tried it with 3
android butt plugscybertrucks before he realized the exploding car/firetreads weren’t the vehicle traveling through time, it was just that piece of shit vehicle exploding - Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 5 days ago:
“The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”
Yeah no wouldn’t work with an Aztek
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 5 days ago:
Make it be Jan6ers
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 5 days ago:
Did that include a Live Action remake?
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
The news will most certainly ignore it
- Comment on splat 1 week ago:
I used to prefer that stuff but I have kinda colon/stomach thing where the oil shoots straight through me and I shit it all out in like 30 minutes
- Comment on Every. Time. 1 week ago:
If it’s any of the Karens I know they would go off on you if it was a bag from a discount store like Aldi, Walmart, TJ Maxx, etc and only expect something like whole foods
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
AND adding pre-wash detergent (such as some extra powder right in the door, outside of the main closable detergent compartment) helps a ton with this initial 10ish minute cycle.
Yup, and that’s why some dishwashers include PreWash text somewhere on the side of the door. Sometimes it’s even on that little flap where you put the pod
- Comment on I remember 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s almost someone thinking that making a shrinkflation lost in 2026 is some kind of groundbreaking news
- Comment on I remember 2 weeks ago:
Look at my horse, my horse is amazing!
- Comment on ‘The most anti-union president’: how Trump turned his back on US workers 2 weeks ago:
Yup. My cousin inms IBEW, and in 2024 they straight up told all of them that if the the orange pedo wins they may not exist in 2028
And I a coworker used to work for a solar manufacturing company. They outright said if he gets back in, “we’re fucked”.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Oh people will get money. It’s just that the ones who will get aren’t the ones who need it
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 2 weeks ago:
The fucking ego of that guy
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 2 weeks ago:
Health care should be one of the top 3 places to test. But having worked in healthcare for 20+ years a doctor could come in for the drug test, do a rail in front of the tester, make the hold the cup while they piss all over the place and walk out smiling, and admin would think nothing less of it
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget Healthcare and insurance. I only know insurance because I have an uncle that has said he’d start micro dosing just to help him sleep but that could result in loss of his license
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 2 weeks ago:
Construction and health care. All required prescreening drug tests, and all my jobs in healthcare had us subject to randoms.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 2 weeks ago:
They still do it in healthcare. I can’t imagine the absolute fiasco that would happen if a doc does a knee replacement on the left knee when they were supposed to do it on the right and turns out he pops positive.
I also worked in construction for a short time and had a machine operator damage an existing building. He went straight to be tested and I don’t even remember if I saw him onsite again