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@z649278 @AugustJPollak Being denied coverage is a form of rationing

@AugustJPollak It’s not an unambiguous yes, because most of those countries ration care so not everyone has access.

@asthanaprav @AugustJPollak In the past year we’ve been 1) denied an MRI ordered by a neurologist, 2) put on a 2 month waiting list to get physical therapy. It doesn’t matter if there is better care in the US if you can’t afford to pay the uninsured price out of pocket.

Free healthcare is great for simple medical issues but starts to fail as the issues become complex—a combination of waiting too long to see a specialist and often not getting care to the standard you can in USA. In many countries with free healthcare, people still end up buying private insurance to address above issues. If you have a tough medical issue, you can’t get better care than in an American hospital. It’s why so many foreigners come here for medical attention when they have cancer or need a complex surgery

@3ameam $1.5M in where, Arcata?

@Go_LaDolceVita @sklyarov @TylerMKing You’ll even note that the MacOS equivalent is “delete a file and run these four terminal commands”.

@Go_LaDolceVita @sklyarov @TylerMKing I use both MacOS and Windows and let me tell you, MacOS never requires me to do this bullshit: help.dropbox.com/installs/advan…

@ileru @sklyarov @TylerMKing Maybe it used to work this way, but MacOS is incredibly sandboxed now when it comes to installing apps outside of the app store. If all you did was drag the app to Applications then the app can’t put files anywhere outside of its container without you granting it permission.

@sklyarov @TylerMKing Actually you do need one, and even two - one that traces files around your mac at install, and another one that uses some smart filters to find other files that were generated during use, which are never deleted at uninstall. Mac simplicity is just a cover-up for laziness.

@aquariusacquah It was 72 degrees in my neighborhood today, it’s like that for 9 months out of the year, and it never snows.

all nyc/sf takes are downstream of this simple fact: people move to sf to get a particular job, while people get a particular job so they can move to nyc.

No seriously, I was promised a planet.

@matt1986wilson @focusfronting I dunno, it’s a test and there are correct and incorrect answers, right? An IQ test seems like a perfectly fine way to tell how well you will do on an IQ test.

@JordanGuatqui I was promised a planet

This happened.

@arturo182 We don’t use USB-C with hidden pins on our products specifically because the skill/time/care needed to rework them makes it unfeasable to fix them.

Hate these kinds of footprints 😫

@adafruit If you’re coiling something with copper inside of it, over under with a velcro tie is the only correct answer.

Easiest Way to Coil Ropes, Extension Cords, & Hoses blog.adafruit.com/2024/06/18/eas…

@3ameam Part of this confusion might be from all the javascript/elektron “applications” people use that are in reality just a browser serving webpages. The line has become blurred.

@MatthewZipkin @Vizique Oh look a Librem 5!

@ClickGate_ @nicodellafabs Freddy Mercury wasn’t white

@nicodellafabs I love their first album in particular- nobody did it like them

we don’t talk about chumbawamba enough anymore and I think that’s really wrong so here’s some great passages from their Wikipedia page

@GregDavill Why are you running separate traces for each of the D+ and D- pairs?

usb 💻

@Tyler_The_Wise @ChumJrr @adamtaggart He also said he would get Mexico to pay for a wall

Mortgage rates spiked from 3% to >7%. That should've sent home prices down, but it hasn't BUT then the cost of insurance, property taxes & maintenance surged, too. These should also reduce home prices What's the compelling argument that prices WON'T ultimately adjust downwards?

@waschatchsquach @Andercot @adamtaggart It only reduces the buying pressure for sellers who aren’t living in the home. Anyone who locked in a low rate and needs a new home is likely going to rent their existing property rather than sell it, and use that revenue to offset the increased cost of the new home.

@Andercot @adamtaggart Usually tripling the cost of something reduces the buying pressure significantly. Especially something that takes 20 to 30 years to pay off.

@CoachKaterina @StroteBook @AmandaMGoetz I’m currently fighting with american insurance company to get an MRI approved. Months for the MRI, years for the underlying undiagnosed condition. US healthcare absolutely makes you wait.

@StroteBook @AmandaMGoetz The population in Canada is way less than the states. This is a big part of it. But in Canada I know relatives who had to wait for treatment because of the approval process. I’d rather have catastrophic insurance, be on cash pay , negotiate my fees, and have lower taxes.

My partner had an ER trip earlier this year for 3 stitches. He’s on his employers insurance. He received 4 bills in the span of months so he called and asked for an itemized bill. I present to you all exhibit A: the itemized bill. The US Healthcare system is so broken. I’m going long on duct tape.

@mal_captain @StroteBook @AmandaMGoetz We are currently fighting with American insurance to get an MRI approved. Months for the MRI, years for the underlying undiagnosed condition. The US healthcare absolutely makes you wait.

@StroteBook @AmandaMGoetz What's your wait time for an MRI? Or for a hip or knee replacement?