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Alt text: Now she’s looking at me like this, like it’s my fault I lost it. I tore the whole bed apart. She caught it, and I have to sleep with it, but that’s my fault, obviously.

got them to resume treatment after they dicked around for a month and he refused to leave because he was going to die if he left.

I had to play this card once, too. I was in the cardiac unit for 28 days, and they were going to send me home because they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, and the insurance decided I wasn’t worth the expense anymore.

I refused to leave until they gave me a diagnosis, because i would have just died otherwise.

Pretty sure the healthcare system still wants that.

Also, it’s possible to be privileged and have your life wrecked by this system.

Just fucking imagine what it’s like to be underprivileged and never have a chance in the first place.

Not in science, you can’t. Only in the colloquial versions of those words.

Your highlights are my highlights as well, fwiw.

I liked the Buster Keaton stuff, too. They were at most 9 minutes long.

For me, it’s not that it’s fallen out of style. I truly don’t understand how adults can watch that genre. It was never meant to be funny – it was meant to appeal to the same thing in your brain that’s engaged by car crashes, but as a child. Back in the before-times, we also had engaging media, and things like Woody Woodpecker appealed to people in the same way TikTok shorts do today.

I liked it when I was the age it was aiming for, but it wasn’t ‘art’ by anyone’s stretch of the imagination. Neither was H R Puff n Stuff or Blues Clues. Maybe I’m just too old to appreciate it?

e: I appreciate most things, though, so I don’t think it’s that. Seeing all the 10/10 reviews, I feel like everyone is in on some joke.

Yep, saw that. I retracted my links. I am not afraid to say I’m wrong online. Thanks for the correction.

All social* systems are susceptible to bigotry, and fascistic capitalism most of all.

Labour isn’t perfect by any stretch, but pretending both sides have been equally to blame is just as unfortunate in the UK as it is in the US, Germany, Australia, and Canada. One side may be slow to put your needs to the fore, but make no mistake, the other wants you dead.

It’s been decades, but… you press the button, spin to the station, then release the button?

Am I remembering correctly or should I check into the home now?

Your cat appears to have melted, and your wall outlet has gone italic. You may want to turn down the heat.

While law enforcement does not believe Thompson’s killing is part of a trend targeting health executives

Well, not with that attitude.

The reasons for that, though, are largely because the NHS has been under attack by the right wing for more than a decade. It was a huge inflection point for Brexit, and there’s been a major effort to break it so they can point at how broken it is.

Don’t use the NHS issues to judge how such a system would or should work for trans care. It’s been actively sabotaged.

What? And give up all that power? What reason would he have to go on living if not to inflict misery on everyone else day after day?

There’s probably a paragraph in his will insisting his corpse is propped up on the senate floor until it liquifies, just to increase everyone’s suffering.

Ya don’t say.

You’re assuming trump intends to keep the USPS. He wants to destroy/privatise it. He said so all the way back in 2021, but at the time, didn’t have a mandate to actually accomplish it.

His cronies stand to make billions if the USPS is dismantled and all mail and shipping can go through their companies instead.

Here on Lemmy, and I’ve seen it posted elsewhere (BlueSky and in an article linked on Twitter).

I’ve deleted it since the source is too iffy.

That’s why I said ‘claimed to be’ and ‘not verified’.

The Lemming Plunge.

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