lennybird @ lennybird @lemmy.world

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I understand it's easier said than done but I hope many noble bureaucrats hang onto their positions for as long as possible and do whatever they can to maliciously resist. Anyone who leaves will be replaced with someone far worse, sadly.

lol bullshit.

That's not even what I asked.

Even if he donated to other charities, it still wouldn't be taxed, because the incentive is indeed to donate to charities in the first place. If I was him, I'd do the same because at least I could better track how the money got spent.

Can you show me a dime of that $100 billion already allocated that went to things like improving health systems in Africa, and fighting things like Malaria, AIDS, and Tuberculosis that instead went back to himself or his kids?

Worth noting that in the case of Gates at least, he has already given away $100 billion and I think committed another $200 over the next 20 years. There is some sound reasoning too that he shouldn't just dump it all at once, as it's harder to track corruption.

Well said. I'll take this or Gates or Buffett over the Murdochs, Musks, Kochs, Thiels of the world.

We need all the powerful allies we can get.

Same thing happened when they were finally sent to defend the Capitol on Jan 6th.

Also remember when Trump called them up and pulled them away from their families for Thanksgiving so he could fearmonger that migrant caravan full of women and children?

It's nice of them to appraise the value of their haul for them!

This. They'll hook you up immediately to an ECG to see the state of your heart in the moment and draw blood for labs to check for signs of a recent heart attack or clot issue (trops, d-dimer, etc.). If ischemic heart attack, you'll be rushed to cath lab. Urgent Care doesn't have the resources to do this and will likely re-route to a hospital anyway, charging you separately in addition.

Hope you're doing better now. As someone who works in the medical field, it can be a real bitch to navigate everything.

For the future: Nobody here knows your baseline. If you tell any clinical medical worker you have had chest pain followed by difficulty breathing and vomiting they're very likely to tell you to go to the ED/ER (Emergency Department / Room). Speaking for myself only, that would depend how stable I feel following the vomiting incident and if the chest pain persisted, and baseline conditions and history (e.g., do you have a history of hypertension, high cholesterol, overweight, etc.? When was your last physical exam?).

We also don't know the full context on what you mean by couldn't breathe and feeling like you could die. For example, did you have a major GERD / Acid-Reflux incident (could explain mild chest pain)? Did you eat something and have an allergic anaphylactic reaction followed by a surge of adrenaline from your fear of death and a panic attack followed by vomiting? Have you had sinus congestion say from a cold and a glob of postnasal drip obstructing your airways? Do you take drugs? And yes, it's possible you also had a heart attack.

Worth noting: Urgent Care has limited resources beyond an X-ray machine, usually. The moment you mention chest pain, they'll hook you up to an ECG to take a reading. If your vital signs are okay (blood pressure, SPO2, heart-rate, temperature) and your ECG reads no active heart attack, then they might just refer you to a cardiologist follow-up. If on the other hand there are signals of a recent or active heart attack, they will pretty much demand you get loaded up into an ambulance and send you to the nearest hospital with a cath lab (due to liability on themselves). You'll thus be triple-dipping costs from urgent care, ambulance, and hospital when you might've been better off going straight to the ER.

ER will be a higher co-pay with insurance and absurdly costly without (but there are options, some ethical some not surrounding this). The good news is unlike Urgent Care, they cannot refuse treatment based on lack of insurance, if that's your predicament. Urgent Care will.

Also when you call 911 for a medical emergency, police aren't going to be involved. ACAB rhetoric aside, DO NOT REFUSE TO CALL 911 BECAUSE OF THIS. The moment the dispatcher sees this is a medical emergency, nearby fire departments or ambulances will be notified.

This is awesome. Will hopefully wedge drive the Right with the biggest spoiler of all time making Jill Stein, Jojo, or Nader look like slivers by comparison.

It may be the safest bet at dismantling this constant threat for good. Oftentimes the only way the bully learns is when they're pushed back twice as hard.

Wouldn't it be funny if all these various nations just did a reverse uno and like 20 different nations started invading Russia and slicing it up for territorial gain?

Russia is so weak right now.

I love a lot of different instruments, but I fell in love with the Erhu after ATLA. Second to that, the orchestral strings like the violin, viola, cello, etc. Scores from Halo and Elder Scrolls franchises.

Finally, the collective vocal cords of choirs.

I appreciate your honesty as a 5'7" dude.

Luckily I'm happily married while my wife is 5'6".

Lots of perks to my short dudes out there. Faster metabolism/more energy, longer life expectancy, better power-to-weight ratio, etc. I won't beat em in a sprint necessarily, but always have the advantage in the long-run.

Square-cubed law can be a bitch!

Ah yes, because in a binary choice outcome, you decide to take the greater poison not only in terms of genocide (which yes, a genocide can always get worse), but also worsening a genocide by Russia in Ukraine, women's bodily autonomy, climate change, Healthcare, and LGBTQ+ rights.

That sure makes sense... I think they call that throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

Honestly, is there any election you can think of where there was an alternative on the ballot who was better than the blue though? I genuinely can't think of a time.

To be honest I'm not even sure DNC has authority over Biden. If Biden says, '"fuck you I'm staying" the DNC has no authority to say otherwise. Within the context of Biden who if one knows his history of politics, being shunned again might force him to double-down more.

I despise the DNC ever since Hillary but I'm fairly sure many of them knew Biden would fuck us but had no power to say otherwise. Maybe I'm wrong?

Couch sitters, too. If you're so apathetic or ignorant you think not voting because you erroneously believed the BoTH sIDeS bullshit or voting Trump was better, that is the problem.

But then you must trace the root of why people are ignorant and apathetic to the right-wing propaganda machine both foreign and domestic.

I blame it mostly on Biden refusing to drop out, but yes political consultant bullshitters and billionaires are a huge problem. AIPAC especially.

Shitty policy and behavior gets a proportional response, is all.

Another fucking Sinema.