Donebrach
@Donebrach@lemmy.world
Here from Reddit–might stay a while.
- Comment on He remains at large 3 days ago:
Is this another edition of The Simpsons did it first?
- Comment on Shower thoughts are just thoughts but in a shower 5 days ago:
Who can tell?
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- Comment on Wouldn't it be funny if there ended up being a plastic-based life form and they wondered how they came to be... 1 week ago:
Thank you for not just trying to redefine basic words as a post.
- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 1 month ago:
No.
- Comment on Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’ 1 month ago:
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Hospital charges $30,039.38 for therapeutic foot brace
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insurance has only agreed to accept $4,382.40 as a charge for therapeutic foot brace
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hospital graciously charges only $7,930.38 for Ergonomic Footrapche (miscoded), but will cut a deal and only charge $1,293.39 for Foot Brace, non-therapeutic.
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Doctor prescribes Froobthrag Ultramnuntixx
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Patient doesn’t know what’s happening; is told to make their own decision.
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Patient receives a foot wrap
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Patient receives a bill for $17,383.29 for Threnmgrotminexx and a $30 copay for seeing a preferred provider.
Thank you!
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- Comment on Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’ 1 month ago:
All of the money is going to the CEOs and Investors. Every single time. Every single Industry. Stagnant wages is what everyone else experiences because every year the ruling class gets a billion (+) dollar bonus.
- Comment on Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago 1 month ago:
The two countries: US and Russia.
- Comment on Hey Evolution! You know that flinch I do when I think of embarrassing things in my past, sometimes accompanied by a groan? 1 month ago:
I am a human and I don’t do that. That is entirely a learned behavior.
- Comment on 9 years later, I finally played fallout 4 1 month ago:
I’ve been replaying and somewhat enjoying Fallout 4 recently too and all I can say is Bethesda made a very good (and janky) video game back in 2003 and managed to reskin it into 5 different games over the past 20 years fairly well—only blatantly showed its age with Starfield because they removed all the (now out of date) modernizations introduced in Fallout 4. I will not buy The Elder Scrolls VI if that ever comes to market.
Just throwing it out there if you haven’t played it, The Outer Worlds hits all the fallout notes in a tighter package (also obsidian who made New Vegas)
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
“We’re cancelling the woke Dagobah agenda!”
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
Because conservatism is fundamentally based on fear.
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 1 month ago:
As I child, I always cheated and crossed my eyes to make these work, and saw them as a child—concave and unintelligible. Now that I am a man I finally learned to discard childish ways and trigger these properly by staring off into the far distance and tuning out all the stress of the modern world.
Related, and in full reference to Dinosaur Comics for no reason whatsoever:
Take boat
- Comment on If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself. 1 month ago:
And hospitals. No one ever takes into account the fact that hospitals charge outrageous and arbitrary fees for services.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 1 month ago:
Been using voyager on iOS since nearly day 1. Seems fine. Might be better ones out there.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 month ago:
As more of conceptual response of why this is generally practiced and legal under our system of governance: an individual’s freedom of speech is not the express demand that everyone else must or need listen to said speech.
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 1 month ago:
I am curious, does this monthly fee simply enable access to doctors that you then have to give additional money to? If so what is the out of pocket cost? Does it cover hospital stays? Does it cover medication? Or is all of that extra and out of pocket?
I’m only asking because I have insurance. And it is significantly more per month. And it basically covers nothing other than the invented prices of medical care hospitals charge.
A usual statement of benefits I get from my insurance is:
Hospital billed $20,303 for service but we (insurance) only accept a bill of $3798 for this service so we paid them $1000 for the service and you, (our beloved customer) ~only~ pay the difference so please pay the hospital $2798 for the blood test they mistakenly coded.
Does that happen with Amazon? Or are y’all paying $8/ month and 1) getting charged full cost at hospitals / clinics Or 2) just paying $8/month?
(In case it wasn’t obvious I’m in the US and no, I am not exaggeration on my example or being sarcastic, I am genuinely curious)
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 1 month ago:
You clearly have never been to a hospital
- Comment on 40-year-old delivers for DoorDash to help pay down her $100,000 student loan debt—on top of her full-time job 1 month ago:
Most Federal loans in the US are the same (at least they were when I took them out nearly 20 years ago, problem is you are only in school for 4 years.
Then you get a shit paying job for at least 5 or 10 years after that—maybe you’re motivated enough to seek a masters or PHD after that but most aren’t (for the implied benefit of higher earnings, nothing else). Coupled with the fact that the cost to attend any higher ed in the US is outrageously overpriced to begin with, wages are stagnant, cost of living is beyond unaffordable pretty much everywhere in the states…
It’s just another facet of the capitalist hell system we’ve saddled ourselves with and continue to just shrug off as if there’s no other way to do things.
- Comment on The Game is Afoot 2 months ago:
I hope it’s a recording of a certain widely shared YouTube video of a well known 80s pop song.
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 2 months ago:
I think you’ve supped far too much on street quesadilla.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No current software would run on whatever it has
- Comment on If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain? 2 months ago:
It is explained why the volcano
- Comment on If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain? 2 months ago:
It’s not? It allows hotter at the top of mountain. That is why volcanos are.
- Comment on 400,000 species 2 months ago:
Could’ve taken five seconds to alter the image so that it actually said “beetle” instead of responding to every comment trying to explain your joke.
Truly a failure of a shitpost.
- Comment on Even the $44 billion didn't help. 3 months ago:
You clearly didn’t read the entire comment.
- Comment on The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds. 3 months ago:
oh man its a snaaaaaaaaaa
- Comment on The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds. 3 months ago:
could just rename some animals. Honey badgers could be a good candidate for Wraths.
- Comment on Is there a word for the phenomena where everyone benefits from design decisions made to help vulnerable populations? 3 months ago:
Socialism
- Comment on What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order? 3 months ago:
pretty sure the world ends.