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Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love themEnglish2·8 months agoActually, I didn’t know. Never heard it used in an offensive context before today. But I’ll edit my comment just the same.
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love themEnglish91·8 months agoAirbags, Anti lock Brakes, and hopefully leg room are probably bonuses too.
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated MedicineEnglish8·8 months agoEeh.
While I agree with the sentiment, I think we’re in this situation because of the current medical climate.
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You call an ambulance? You get charged an arm and a leg.
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You take yourself to the hospital, you get charged an arm and a leg.
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You get medical insurance, and you’re somehow even further behind because it’s their priority to find reasons to deny having to give you money back,
The current system does not work. As a consequence, people are attempting, however incompetently, to take their care into their own hands.
Fix why folks are resorting to this, and this should stop being an issue, or at least stop gaining traction.
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Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Why California Is Considering Banning Food Dyes in SchoolsEnglish12·8 months agoButter used to be dyed yellow. Now no one bats an eye that it’s off white.
It takes time, but new normals take over.
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Judge holds Trump in contempt for violating gag order in hush money trialEnglish61·1 year agoSo $9K?
For the layman, that’s a lot, but for Trump?
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millionsEnglish38·1 year agoThis reads like a damage control spin.
We’re losing, but actually winning!
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump's $175m bond rejection raises questionsEnglish36·1 year agoTBH, I would be surprised if Jones has those answers. Trump is SUPPOSED to be keeping Jones appraised of such happenings, but since when has he cared for protocol, and when has he ever been held accountable?
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinatedEnglish3·1 year agoYou’re not wrong, but I honestly wonder what the baseline of that would be if America didn’t have this issue, and how much worse it is now because of us.
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinatedEnglish202·1 year agoThe way it was explained to me, or at least the way that made me really comprehend the underlying why… is that this is a direct and foreseeable consequence of our for-profit medical system and the systemic abuse of trust it’s bloomed.
Say, for instance, you suddenly feel ill.
You have to avoid calling an ambulance because the ride alone with bankrupt you.
So you learn to mistrust emergency responders.
You se the doctor and learn your ailment is uncovered.
So you learn to mistrust medical insurance.
You go to the pharmacy and your medication costs almost as much as your beaten down used car. And to boot, it’s full of ingredients you can’t even spell. Who knows what it does?
So you mistrust medicine.
But hey, there’s this Organic all natural snake oil, it’s only $10. You take this placebo, and hey (by complete coincidence) You feel better, and more importantly, you’re not bankrupt!
So the masses have been taught, at every stage of medical care, that ‘the system’ causes more harm than good. So now you’re subconsciously looking for any reason to reject it.
Enter Trump and the Pandemic.
The man didn’t just light the oil spill that was the American distrust of the medical system, he took an industrial flamethrower to it.
It’s easy, and even justified, to blame Trump for the embarrassing and deadly rejection of modern medicine we’re afflicted with, but it wouldn’t have gained traction in the first place if capitalism hadn’t gotten so beyond out of control.
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds - ReutersEnglish13·1 year agoThe very last thing you need is for Trump to become a martyr.
Wooster@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Why Americans are going hungry despite a strong economyEnglish541·1 year agoUtilities have also been on the rise, and this year Ortigoza isn’t planning on turning on the home’s heater, even with temperatures dipping into the 30s at night. Instead, she plans to wear extra clothes around the house and bundle her daughter in blankets.
I just want to say… Don’t do that.
If you want burst water pipes, then that is how you do it.
Instead, let your house drop to uncomfortably cold temperatures, but with still a buffer above freezing. The thermostat is only accurate for wherever it’s placed in the house. It’s not able to tell you what temperature your pipes are at the distant ends of the house.
If you’re going to turn the heat off at below freezing, then you need to empty your pipes first, and no one is going to do that.
But yeah… I felt I needed to get that out of the way first.
Anyway, wages and unemployment are getting ‘better’, but that means very little if it’s still not a living wage.
No. They’re aiming for that regardless.