Komodo Rodeo

No, the Shift key has uses other than for standard alphabet keys.

That’s cheap AF compared to what I’ve been hearing so far. All day long, Union strong.

Sure, if I’m inputting data with the Numpad.

Now that’s funny.

That’s not bad, I guess, but probably more than anyone would want to pay if they were out of work.

That’s insane, I can’t even begin to estimate the markup on those tests.

That tracks with a lot of what I’m hearing. Risking adverse outcomes by waiting until a condition becomes life threatening is a bit like playing Russian roulette, and with acute conditions it’s even worse. It’s maybe a bad analogy, but dentistry comes to mind - waiting until a cavity or tooth infection becomes severe can kill, even if it’s solved with surgery. It’s serious as serious can be, as much as people can’t afford the treatment, they can’t afford to walk a tightrope line where falling kills them.

Christ, not a good state of affairs. I’d say that the U.S. healthcare system should have been overhauled decades ago, but the resistance to improving it seems almost insurmountable when the way that money affects the setup is taken into account. It might not change for the better for a long time yet.

Huh, I never knew that. I suppose that someone who could operate on themselves with an assistant holding a mirror definitely qualifies as superhuman, but the propaganda is news to me.

Now that’s something altogether different. I’ve heard it said before, but haven’t seen any really detailed report about it. If true, I want to know more, is there any source to the allegations? It’s plausible, absolutely, and if true would lend credence to accusations of Russian interference in the U.S. elections using Trump as an asset.

Well, that’s something at least. How much does a “Cadillac” health plan’s coverage cost you though?

Trump might be a gigantic piece of shit, but this just looks like a Cordon Bleu presentation - 1/3 the food of a standard restaurant serving at 3x or more the price & with a purposefully pretentious layout. The sorts of meals that would make someone aping at high station say something like that it was “an exquisite opera for the palate” while pinching their thumb & index finger together, and tilting their head back. I don’t know enough about the Trumps to call them nouveau riche, but he’s got all the class of a tuxedo stolen from a corpse by grave robbers, so this setup at his golf course’s restaurant tracks perfectly IMO.

The only good example from a movie/show that I can think of is the cooking scenes from Hannibal: https://youtu.be/YbLPiaVxKWA

Agreed, the man bankrupted a casino. How do you bankrupt a fucking casino?!

I’d argue that a cretin is the best type of fascist to have as an opponent. Nobody really wants to square off against some Machiavellian genius if at all possible, right?

That repulsive orange dolt is so inept that I keep expecting to hear that he slipped and broke his skull on one of those golden toilets of his. Even his own allies don’t really like him, this situation is like some kind of delirious stage farce with an antagonist who has no redeeming qualities. If shit hits the fan, he’ll have already insulted or impugned every single person to whom he might have called on for aid, and they’ll all want to out-maneuver him instead for all of the indignities and insults he’s doled out.

I’ve been hearing that for a while (and it was said for a long time before my time), but they’re still keeping afloat somehow, despite several generations of getting railed by the conservative politicians, lawmakers & industry that they love. The math just doesn’t check out, how long can people hang onto a ledge by their fingertips while cheering for someone who spits in their face?

I’ll be damned, it was almost addressed by legislation in a similar way as car insurance then, if I’m understanding the broad strokes (penalty for non possession)? That being the case, was the penalty via taxes not routed in much the same way as simply paying taxes overall, except only as a means to cover some of the cost for those least able to afford it?

People are generally pissed about paying sales taxes which achieve much the same outcome minus the carrot-stick approach and penalties, how much more or less pissed were Americans about getting ‘nudged’ in the right direction with income tax penalties by comparison?

It’s still counter-intuitive to me, the thought that any country/state would try to save money by rolling back coverage for immunizations. The total loss to GDP from chronic and acute health problems is nothing to shake a stick at, denying coverage for immunization is like a country shooting itself in the foot (assuming that they can cover the cost to begin with).

Just brutal, I can’t imagine losing my job and home because I got sick. It’s been the case for many thousands of years typically, but it just seems so arbitrarily cruel to know that there’s a better system that’s been adapted (matter of opinion, I know), but strike it from consideration altogether because of the business model surrounding American healthcare. Paying higher taxes kind of sucks, but at least I’ve never had to remortgage for serious injuries.

Holy shit, yeah, that’s not good. With so many just barely squeaking by month to month, even that could be ruinous…

Damn, good to know that the bit about pre-existing conditions hasn’t been struck down yet. I had to look up YMMV :(