If it is because you’ve never asked: not at all.

If he actively refuses to talk about it: at least a bit weird.

Not sure about the US but where I live, all medical records need to be stored for thirty years, mostly so you have legal protection in case complications arise.

Imagine that a woman has an abortion, then years later she is pregnant again, this time with a child she wants to keep. She has a miscarriage and tries to sue the abortion clinic because she thinks they permanently damaged something during the abortion.

Also in case someone claims that a medical procedure was performed against their will or they were not informed about the risks.

And this works both ways. Because the clinics (and also all other medical professionals like midwives) must keep those records, the patients can demand them to be used as evidence to back up their claim.

The major problems for me are small accessories for electronics like SD cards, cables and so on. I could go to Müller or MediaMarkt but especially for those smaller items, they often only have stuff from HAMA which is insultingly expensive for the quality they offer. Specialized online stores like Reichelt may have a cheaper option but when my 5€ cable comes with 6€ of shipping costs on top, I’m back to square one. The optimal solution would be to wait until there are multiple things that I need to spread the shipping costs over multiple products but when something breaks and I need a replacement, that’s often not an option.

Another point are niche ingredients for international cooking that I can’t get at any of the local Asian or Middle-Eastern supermarkets.

So yeah, ebay, probably…

Honest question: what do you use instead? I’ve been trying to reduce my reliance on Amazon but often find that other stores are either a lot more expensive or so shady that I wouldn’t trust them to actually send what I ordered.

Fortunately I’ve found some good stores for board games and home electronics / gaming / multimedia but often, when I just need some random thing like replacement pads for my headphones, it’s hard to find a good source that isn’t either Amazon or Ali Express.

Oh yeah, the guy who fights for fair wages, universal basic income, free healthcare and equal rights for everyone criticizes that your favorite „non-profit“ organization looks more and more like a for-profit corporation every year and comes begging while wearing a gold watch. He must be a fascist.

My argument is that nobody needs 500k to do their job right and there is no justification for paying a manager five to ten times as much as an engineer, especially not on donation money.

I‘d rather give to a smaller project where the money actually ends up with the people who do most of the work.

Then pay the people who actually keep the website running. I bet they don’t earn half a million per year.

And pretty high compared to what most donors have.

Next time you think about donating to a foundation, look at their CEO‘s salary, then think again.

He was pretty much spot on, they came close once in August and then crossed over in October:

Interesting that Twitter isn’t on that chart even though it had been a thing for about six years at that point and had already eclipsed everything on Randall’s list in 2010

Well, of course. They never objected to Taiwan’s existence, just to the fact that it doesn’t belong to them. Slightly different situation than all that Gulf of America nonsense.

It may still be missing stuff from before the first person from your home instance joined the community which can make younger communities feel empty.

Will they start firing back at 5:45am?

HEMA, though I haven’t found much time to practice lately so it’s becoming more of a sword collecting hobby.

You just want to make sure the meal you get from me via the other thread includes bacon, don’t you?

With a bit of luck I can reach one of my swords. If not, bash in the first one’s head with a skateboard or stab them with a pocket knife, then move a step and grab a sword. Maybe some armor if I can manage to get to the other room.

Edit: I tried it and could indeed reach a viking sword from where I’m sitting.

Granted. For the rest of your life, every well or similar water source will have its water turned into feces as soon as you come within 100m of it.

How did you figure out this was on the list?

Granted. Your selection has now been reduced to a list of a thousand very specific wishes. Any wish not on the list will be deducted from your remaining wishes without further effect.

I can offer a selection of board games and music of assorted genres on vinyl. If you’re lucky, I can conjure some food.

Looks interesting but having to use it from their website feels… not great. I’d rather have something that I can still use on a train or when my router dies. Or when they decide to shut it down.

They claim that everything runs locally and doesn’t phone home. Then why do they charge 500 to 2000 bucks per month for a version that you can host on your own machine?

There seems to be an unofficial offline version but that hasn’t been maintained for years.