i_stole_ur_taco @ i_stole_ur_taco @lemmy.ca

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Why walk across town when you can dance?

Every type of mushroom is edible at least once.

It could be reduced to Riker only asking "Why?" in the top right frame. Still a great meme submission and I love it.

Yeah, did you? I'm weirdly invested in this now.

They also have an infant mortality rate of 17 per 1000 vs 2.5 per 1000 in South Korea. I don't think counting births is super useful here.

I'm still trying to work it into a Liberace pun...

As luck would have it, I was travelling in Las Vegas last year when I had sudden abdominal pain. Fortunately, I have travel health insurance from my work, so I went to the hospital. At that time I'd been inundated by how fucking AMAZING American healthcare is over anywhere else in the world.

I was admitted from the ER, spent a night in an overflow bed waiting for OR time, and had my operation and was discharged the following day. Just for fun, I also learned I had COVID during the intake process.

Comparing it to my experience with Canada's healthcare system, the only difference was I had to wait before being treated for a woman with a giant cart with a computer and papers and other shit to screen for my insurance to be sure I was eligible to receive care. They didn't want to treat me because my travel insurance was through another network, but they would treat me because this was deemed an emergency surgery.

Apart from that, it was essentially what I see in Canada:

• nursing staffing shortfalls
• poor communication inside the hospital (post-op team hadn't even been told I had COVID)
• "long" but acceptable wait for an emergency surgery
• standard diagnostics took a couple hours (bloodwork, CT, etc)

Some things were better:

• good parking at the hospital
• building and facilities were clean and seemed new

Some things were poorer:

• I was discharged with a prescription and told to stop at a pharmacy on the way home for painkillers. In Canada they would hand me a bag with the meds already dispensed.
• got a call from collections (in Switzerland?!) six months later asking why I hadn't paid my bill. It took far too much time to get them to understand they never gave me a bill nor access to one, and just claiming a bunch of $9999.99 expenses against my health insurance (which declined them due to lack of information) was insufficient

The whole experience left me really soured on American healthcare. It was "fine". I felt like it was free tier healthcare that nobody should be paying out of pocket for. The extra hoops and whistles SOLELY BECAUSE OF MONEY was depressing and awful.

My comparison, we just had a baby (back in Canada). I'm apparently going to have to pay a bill of a couple hundred bucks because we opted for a private room for postpartum care, but I didn't sign anything and haven't heard anything yet. I also had to pay for parking for several days, so add another maybe 50 bucks for all that. The only thing I can really complain about is how beat up the furniture in the hospital was, and how old the artwork on the wall was. Oh, and the family room that had 2 VCRs, no tapes, and a stack of DVDs (and no DVD player). Kind of petty stuff.

Tl;dr: they're the same in my eyes, except one cost $70,000 for 18 hours and the other cost me $500 for 3 days.

I've started opening up cheap electronic/electrical devices I buy and just snip one of the leads on the pointless status LEDs they have all over the place.

The Shittier 4chan™️

Well, it's taken over 30 years to develop so that claim tracks.

If they do nothing for another 50 years I wonder if it will still take years to fix.

Sort of like Warhammer 40K, or perhaps Weekend At Bernie’s.

I fucking love that this sentence now exists.

You're picking a weird hill.

I will never forget the hatchet speech, or the unbreakable China plates.

Still here. Getting ready to maybe create a post or two.

First I need to spend weeks upvoting shitposts, however.

Ugh, they'll probably call it Malcomer in the Middler and it'll be the three brothers as adults living together with their annoying kids.

Best piece of advice I ever got for losing weight was "make friends with hunger".

It's fine as long as you have the high ground.

All 3 of mine have taken a credit card without batting an eye.

I find it hard to believe anyone at a proper studio is going to balk at taking card payment. They're a business.

Cash only tattoo is a giant red flag you're dealing with a fly-by-night scratcher. Run.

Ahh, mlemology!

My friend has a webcam set up in his apartment. It covers the front door and the kitchen.

I thought he used it for security but he says he just used it to check the stove and oven are off whenever he's out and gets anxious that they might be on.