There’s a parallel here with that saying about how unions are the alternative to the workers burning down the factory owner’s house. And that’s before we get into the non-financial evils you mentioned.

I’m genuinely glad to hear you say that.

My country may well have more men who agree it’s touching, since this place is huge, but I’m sure the percentage of men who agree is far lower.

You may have heard we have some slight imperfections in our culture over here. ;)

Most people reading your comment, sure.

Most people in my general area, in the US, in a red district inside a swing state? Ehhh I hope they are much more emotionally mature in private than in public. Unfortunately in many cases though, that is where the even worse stuff comes out.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The point of the meme got pushed out of my brain by the questions about why they took it so far that the modern goober gets a full-on big tiddy goth girl for his baby mama.

Yeah I bet there is absolutely DNS in space, but that didn’t fit the joke, lol.

There I go getting the Narrator: It was treatment!

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.

You would have to do the transfer several years beforehand anyway, iirc. There’s a 5-year lookback on medicaid anyway.

I have been existing in a superposition of both of these states for a few years and really like it.

During the day I’m a senior engineer on embedded c/c++ stuff. During free time at home I dig in the dirt and build shit and do my “farm chores” like tending to my koi pond. Feels good man.

I think most people would agree that fresh air, exercise, hobbies, and personal goals are good for your body and mind. It’s still wild when I notice it actually working.

Haha yeah, I use outlook at work as a webpage in LibreWolf in Linux, so even with open stuff on my local hardware I can definitely still have outlook issues.

That’s impossible. They don’t even have that in space.

I’m not sure what your use cases and performance requirements are, but Windows works great in a VM.

I rarely use it, but I happened to fire it up today and after updating it I got a full screen ad to start backing up my computer to their shit.

Whoa whoa, has “eat the rich” been one of those situations where the hyphen/comma is in the wrong place?

It’s really “Eat, the rich!”

I’m sober for Satan! How 'bout you?

Things are always calm and normal in the US while we’re at war with another country.

I think that’s why we’re always at war, and why the effects on oil prices get all the attention. That’s the biggest conceivable effect of the war on most americans in their minds.

It’s like Europe is the city where all the people have to live with one another, and the US is the mansion out in the boonies with almost no neighbors, and the inhabitants are dicks to the few neighbors they do have.

needs more jpeg though