Chetzemoka @ Chetzemoka @lemmy.world

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MOV. Belpre/Pburg.

I grew up on the Ohio/WV border. This would have made my childhood significantly more interesting lol

Lie. Cheat. Steal. Kill. Win win. (Everybody doing it.)

This is the way. Downvotes are for pseudoscience and bigotry, not harmless differing opinions.

Sure thing, troll ✌️

Yeah object permanence is not strong with mine either. She'll go into another room, forget I exist, scream, I respond, she's like, "Oh hey, you're right where I left you!"

Tiny fuzzy airhead.

Not even that though. Like if my chronic medical condition is adequately treated, I'm able to work, be productive, pay taxes, contribute to the economy, hopefully contribute to my community.

But that would eat into an insurance company's profits, therefore they'd rather opt to let me die and replace me with a new unit that can pay premiums longer without needing any actual medical care.

The only entity that has a positive financial incentive to pay for the medical care that keeps me healthy is the government.

Medicare for All, now.

I'm not reading the manual of the Uber I'm about to climb into. A firefighter isn't going to read the manual of a car they're trying to pry me out of.

I DO read the manual on the Kia I actually drive. To read about the recommendations for the tires. To read about replacing fuses. To find the load hauling capacity. Not how to open the fucking door.

safety shouldn't influence artistic choice

Did you really just string those words together in all seriousness without a hint of irony? And that folks is exactly why we need the NHTSA.

A child isn't going to find that. A rescuer who isn't familiar with Teslas isn't going to be able to find that.

I couldn't even figure out how to open a fully functional door from outside the first time I got in a Tesla. I'm an adult who's been driving my entire life.

That's not innovation; it's a safety hazard for the sake of the aesthetics of a handle that doesn't stick out. I don't view that as a reasonable trade-off.

I can walk to CVS from my house. That's the main reason I stay at this pharmacy. The staff there know me and I like them. But fuck the corporation for real.

My CVS went through a period at one time where even in person prescription, they would ask me to come back later to pick it up. CVS treats its employees like trash, but apparently customers got mad enough that they finally hired some more people because that hasn't happened in a while.

I call in a refill on my prescription. It takes them 4 years to fill it. Then they text me every five seconds for the next three days until I pick it up, threatening to throw it into the fires of Mordor if I forget.

Multiples of 3. Multiples of 5 is too large a jump on most systems. Multiples of 3 gives satisfying sound and visuals.

And then they blame it on the Democratic president, so...yes.

Me being a nurse makes me glad I'm bad with regular smells lol

Hey fam, as a person with ME/CFS who works in healthcare, just wanted to say that I appreciate you.

I just wanna say that I appreciate the hell out of you.

Pharma companies are basing pricing for these one-time-in-a-life-dose drugs on supply and demand principles. There will never be high demand for these drugs because the conditions are so rare. And only needing to be dosed once for a complete lifetime cure means that there is no recurrent payment happening the way you would have with a drug that needed to be dosed repeatedly over a lifetime.

You'll hear all the usual excuses about "muh R&D costs 😭😭" but the truth is they're pricing it this way because they can. Because somewhere in the bible of capitalism, this is the way things work.

(R&D costs are just an excuse for greed: https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-fall-2018/pharma-lies-people-die-myth-busting-fact-sheet-on-medicine-development-and-pricing/)

I was gonna say, actually thinking about pocketing the excess next time I pull some from the Omnicell to see if this works lol

It's illegal to ask you not to discuss wages in the United States. Violation of federal labor law.