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@eldianangel "Oh we don't do that procedure here."
"Why not? It's less invasive"
"We don't have the machine"
"It's right behind you"
"We don't have anybody trained on it."
"Why not?"
Ended up operating on myself because they literally didn't want to do the less invasive procedure.
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one time i went to the ER for an ovarian cyst that ruptured and the doctor wouldn’t give me an ultrasound bc he said “it’s too much radiation for your young uterus” and i said “ultrasounds don’t use radiation” he just.. walked away and didn’t come back until i called my mom
Jonathan@jabberwock951
I'm not gonna lie, it is frustrating when you ask a patient what's wrong and they just give you a diagnosis. Like "I have a chest infection". OK, you're probably right but I need to know your symptoms to see if I agree with that diagnosis. I can't just take your word for it.
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My PC kept randomly crashing, so I called Lenovo support, and somehow ended up with a privacy violation instead.
The guy remote-accessed my computer, added himself on Steam, tried to add me on Discord (so I closed it), then pulled my number from their company data to call/text me from his personal phone. He also has my home address, and even messaged that he could come over and fix it.
I didn’t ask for this. And I’m really tired of men getting my number without me ever giving it to them.
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@elnakon @HanayagiKaoruk0 @Arin_Yumi You're talking about an economy you have no understanding of. You can't "pay natives more" to get them to do these jobs. The average Japanese person is fucking 50 years old
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@HanayagiKaoruk0 @Arin_Yumi I'm not gonna humour the argument.
You know why those wages don't go up? Because they are being filled by foreigners willing to do it for less.
Pay natives more.
Kick immigrants out.
Hike the fee another 1000%
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The Immigration Services Agency has revealed the proposed price changes for residency procedures for foreigners under revisions to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act.
Change of status / Extension of stay:
Three months : ¥6,000 → ~¥10,000 (+67%)
Five years: ¥6,000 → ~¥70,000 (+1,067%)
Permanent residency:
¥10,000 → ~¥200,000 (+1,900%)
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@TheFreelyAshley Exactly the type of middle school reaction I'm talking about. Nobody wants to hear about it
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@andwhat009 Listen...I could've gone harder since I'm an orphan three times over.
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Once at my old job a coworker pointed out a rather gross old man and joked "that must be your dad!" Without missing a beat I said, "damn, he must have hopped right outta his grave!" Coworkers face fell at once. I started laughing. He started laughing and said, "you're just kidding then, right? Your dad isn't dead?"
"Oh no, he's very much dead."
His face was a mixture of horror and regret that I still find rather comical.
Hazel Appleyard@HazelAppleyard
Oh wow that is brutal lol
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🚨🇬🇧 SUMMARY: Britain is hosting a meeting with the following countries to discuss the Strait of Hormuz
🇦🇱 Albania
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇭 Bahrain
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇱 Chile
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇨🇿 Czechia
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇯🇵 Japan
🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
🇲🇩 Moldova
🇲🇪 Montenegro
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇦 Panama
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇰🇷 Republic of Korea
🇷🇴 Romania
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇳🇱 The Netherlands
🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
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@brawndothebrave @colinwalker79 ideologically captured loool, thick cunt
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@colinwalker79 Short answer - yes.
Obviously.
Only someone with a malformed brain could say that more of something is not actually more of something. Its like claiming black is white with a straight face.
And quoting an ideologically captured university as though QED is ridiculous.
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Short answer - no
To quote the University of Oxford: “the idea that draining the North Sea would make the UK more energy secure or significantly save on household bills is sheer fantasy”
Thomas Skinner ⚒@iamtomskinner
I’d like to know all your opinions in the comments? I’ve just paid £1.70 a litre for diesel. Why are we not opening up our gas and oil field in the North Sea? Surely by opening these and sourcing from our own reserves, we will bring our prices of fuel down, energy costs down, create jobs, bring revenue and tax into the UK economy that can be spent on the roads, the NHS, UK services and schools. We continue to source our fuel from abroad and it makes no sense to me! We should be backing our UK manufacturing and not let it go abroad! We live in very uncertain times especially what’s going on in the Middle East. Love to hear your opinion, let’s back Britain 🇬🇧 - Bosh ❤️
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@ThePopcornRider @Steve_in_Indy @FlowersOrNothin Can you tie your shoes without getting out of breath fatty?
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@andwhat009 @Steve_in_Indy @FlowersOrNothin Yes making a swypo is equivalent to you not being able to read without the guidance of an adult lmao. Can you even tie your shoes on your own?
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are americans pretending to not like sausage and mashed potato now lmao
Cock Pornis@CockPornis
British people be like You’ve barely touched your Boners and Ass
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@alieninsect Hiropon = “Heroin”
Meth in Japan is usually called シャブ (shabu) or 覚醒剤 (kakuseizai).
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Japanese high school students playing mahjong and injecting methamphetamine (Hiropon, ヒロポン) (ca. 1950)
Musashino-shi, Tokyo 🇯🇵 日本語
@ThePopcornRider @Steve_in_Indy @FlowersOrNothin "to stupid" brainless American spotted. Get off the twitter, they're going to draft you soon
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@andwhat009 @Steve_in_Indy @FlowersOrNothin The words "in America" were heavily implied, but you're to stupid to interpret things that aren't clearly spelled out and explained to you.
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@Steve_in_Indy @FlowersOrNothin "something that actually happens" god americans are stupid
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@FlowersOrNothin Never in my life have I even seen that, and I'm old. Now, replace the potatoes with sauerkraut, and you have something that actually happens.
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@MasterKnightDH @KyleMastery if you think this it's for the best you don't try
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@KyleMastery Me: Hello th-
Girl: JAIL THIS CREEP!
(I get jailed for life on trumped up accusations.)
This is what is likely to happen. California already prove to have its head up its ass after all.
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It's because you're NOT FLIRTING OR SEXUALIZING IN AN ATTRACTIVE WAY
This is one of the biggest if not THE most common problem among men in dating
They are terrified to rock the boat because they have no other women they're meeting
So they play it uber safe
And get punished for it over and over again
How do I know this?
Because I was the KING of receiving "i didnt feel the chemistry" texts
So I made it my life's mission to solve it
1) Make sure your pipeline is full so you're not terrified to make moves
2) Confidently flirt, tease, and make moves on the girl
In fact
This is what I tell my coaching clients who struggle with this
"Try your hardest to flirt as much as you can to the point of where she says enough is enough"
And guess what
For the guys that struggle...
Even with that instruction
They never reach the point of having the girl boundary them on that
It's because its so hard for them to do that even if they go all out on unleashing the flirting side in their mind
They still will reach just the right amount
So if you constantly get girls telling you they don't feel it
You MUST flirt and bring in a sensual component to your interactions
Or you will be doomed to the friend zone or "i didnt feel the chemistry" zone
Worst place to be
“Bad” Billy Pratt@KILLTOPARTY
Why can’t he get a second date?
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@UnseenJapanSite nobody goes because it sucks, I was down there for an exhibit and checked it out, there is zero substance to it
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Go to any “tourist-y” location in Tokyo these days and, depending on the day and time, you’re bound to find yourself stuck in pedestrian traffic jams and long cafe lines. That’s not true, however, of one intriguing tourist trap located near the Toyosu fish market (more below).
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@andwhat009 @ibejiggly @cedes0512 @CafeLearner I passed with 60/60 vocab+grammar this year with not much preparation lol
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If foreigner wants to work as a full-time employee in Japan, most companies expect you to have at least JLPT N2.
Not N3, not “conversational Japanese” — N2 minimum. That’s reading business emails, understanding meetings, handling keigo (polite language), the whole thing.
Some places are flexible if you’re in tech or English-teaching, but for regular corporate jobs? N2 is basically the gatekeeping standard. They need to know you can actually function in a Japanese workplace, not just survive daily life.
It’s a high bar but makes sense when you think about how much of Japanese work culture relies on nuanced communication and unspoken context.
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@cedes0512 @CafeLearner This is the grading system for fluency in japanese
N5 is beginner more or less
N1 is pretty much fluent.
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@TheMichaelPower @dostoevesque huge confusing mess for people who read YA maybe. It is large, but the books themselves are satisfying individually
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@dostoevesque Haven’t read Malazan but isn’t it a huge confusing mess? I heard you won’t even understand what’s going on in book 1 until you finish the series and go back to it. Not “you’ll pick up on foreshadowing,” literal incomprehension.
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No disrespect to George RR Martin, but if we're talking about the greatest fantasy authors right now, it has to be Steven Erikson and Robin Hobb. Not only are both exceptionally talented writers, but they also had the vision to plan their epic sagas and the discipline to see them through to completion. One crafted a history, magic system, and pantheon of gods with incredible depth, while the other built her legacy on an intense focus on a single, deeply flawed, and achingly real character. Malazan and Realm of the Elderlings are two epic series one can confidently invest their time in because they have a conclusion.
Syd Steyerhart@SydSteyerhart
GRRM is the greatest fantasy author alive today. His worlds are so complex that loreheads have been going for 20 years and the subject is still not exhausted. You only have to read any Sanderson slop to recognize how good GRRM really is. That's why it hurts that he isn't writing.
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@Coppertouret @planefag I read YA when I was a child, you know, like the intended audience of the books. Being told to grow up by someone who reads books with training wheels well into adulthood is wild.
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@andwhat009 @planefag Seems like you can't do much without the condescension, further illustrating my point. I'm just going off your words. You said you didn't read any other YA to compare it to. It's either the only YA you ever read, or you're full of shit and googled your response. Again: grow up.
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This isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel this is digging into the earth beneath it holy shit
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
The ‘ERAGON’ series is moving forward at Disney+ Todd Harthan (‘High Potential’) and Todd Helbing (‘Superman & Lois’) will serve as showrunners
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@Coppertouret @planefag Guess what, I read the books, when I was a YOUNG ADULT. Don't worry they will put out more baby boy books for you soon buddy, you might even get to watch a TV series about it too.
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@andwhat009 @planefag Yeah, you're not a serious person, but good job reinforcing that elitist mentality I originally commented on. You didn't read the books, but find some validation in shitting on something you're not even going to be the target audience for. Grow up, fella.
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@Coppertouret @planefag killing the bad guy by making him feel sad is trash. It is not a good book, but I also don't read YA, so maybe it is good in comparison to other YA slop
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@andwhat009 @planefag Glazing? Don't be dramatic. I'll admit it's been 15 years since I read it, but the main plot ends, there's like 70 pages of wrapping everything up. So, what exactly did you not like?
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@Coppertouret @planefag The glazing is crazy, the ending of that series suuuuuucks, I thought it was dumb even when I was like 12 years old
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@planefag What's with all the elitism in fiction? It's fucking make-believe. It's entertainment. It's not mean to to change your life. The Eragon series is fine, especially in YA. It has probably one of the most concise and rewarding conclusions in modern fantasy. People need to calm down.
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