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- Comment on How do you say motorcycle 13 hours ago:
I like to throw the glottus in there whenever possible. Nice glottal stop right between the mo-tow and the sickle.
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 13 hours ago:
To preface this comment, I’m very, very tired, and I am providing no sources for this as I am very, very tired and just don’t want to go digging.
I remember reading a study or 3 in 2015/16 when Bernie first ran and talked about Medicare for all. The consensus from them seemed to be that a single payer system that was free at the point of use would drastically increase the number of people going to the doctor, for about 5 years. Basically, the idea was that the US system incentivizes us to wait to see a doctor until things get Real Bad, Man™, and if we switched it would take about 5 years per group/stage (Bernie’s plan was to lower the age of Medicare enrollment in stages) before things normalized. People would be jumping on the opportunity to get seen for things that they never would have considered before, and would be basically using the hell out of the new system, and each time the age was lowered it would take about 5 years for that group of people to get through that initial stage of doctor-seeing. But once that was done and things normalized, the stark increase in preventative care would grossly overshadow our current system of basically only treating trauma and chronic conditions. The strain on the medical field as a whole would be significantly lessened over time, because preventative care is often easier and cheaper.
So, again, no studies linked here, but iirc, the consensus was that there would be more people going to the doctor and being seen, especially in the first several years of the new system, but that medical professionals themselves would have less strain (and, my assumption here, less strain means probably less staff needed). I imagine it would change the staffing dynamics, too. We would need more primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, RNs willing/desiring to work in those offices, and probably less need for chronic pain clinics and specialized care units, potentially even things like cancer units and such. If people are seeing their doctors regularly, getting healthier, and generally being less sick, then the need for staffing in situations for people who have allowed things to get Real Bad, Man™ is lessened, and the need for staffing in preventive care is hightened.
Also, just as an aside, I remember watching this french television show once, dubbed, and there being a thing about a stop smoking campaign, with a tax incentive if you quit. Blew my fucking mind back then, but it makes sense. If the government is backing your healthcare, they want you to less costly to that system, and can offer incentives in other systems they also control. Think about it, “join a gym and get a tax credit for half the cost!” Or “lose 30 pounds this year and get an extra 200 back on your income taxes!” I have no idea if that french cigarette thing actually exists in real life, but the idea of it has always stuck with me.
- Comment on So You Think You Can Hack It? The Cold, Hard Fucking Truth About Alaska 14 hours ago:
Yeah, my mom showed me that one years ago. So incredibly sad. Like, one mistake and it completely changes your life, your entire family’s life
- Comment on So You Think You Can Hack It? The Cold, Hard Fucking Truth About Alaska 1 day ago:
Don’t have time to read the article now. Is that the one where the mom had to breastfeed her preteen kids to keep them from dying, and the dad went walking for survival and died while the rest of the family got rescued?
- Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen 1 day ago:
That’s fair. Lol.
- Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen 1 day ago:
Yeah, it’s always weird when a particular hobby or industry uses a common term in an unique or uncommon way.
- Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen 1 day ago:
I love woodworking, and many years ago when I first trying to get some tools together, with very, very little money to my name, a friend of a friend gifted me a bunch of stuff, but it was all metric. My speed square was the only non metric tool I had (I’m in the States). Took me forever to find a metric speed square I could afford. Lol. It suuuuuucked doing the conversion for everything. Lol
- Comment on soda 2 days ago:
I lived right outside of Knoxville for 15 years. There visiting right now. I have this shirt. I have seen children wearing this shirt. It’s a real shirt. Lol
- Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen 2 days ago:
Square in carpentry is used a little differently. It includes rectangles, and is more about the corners being 90 degree right angles. In fact, a carpenters square is a tool that is triangle shaped!
- Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen 2 days ago:
Screened in my brother’s porch a few years ago. Had to basically make 5 of these. In theory, they were all gonna be squares. One giant one that’s like 12x7 feet, a smaller one that’s 12x4, a tall one 2x7, et cetera. Not a single one was actually square. It took us days.
I fully support this addition to the novel prize categories
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 6 days ago:
So you’re going to let those infinite people on top stay tied to the track and starve to death slowly‽
- Comment on Got my pumpkin today. All ready for Halloween 1 week ago:
Gonna get you some pumpkussy, I see
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
Without having read it myself, perhaps they mean 5% of total usage. So the gas generation is built to be able to handle 2/3rds of the power demand, in case of outage as a backup, but in normal operation will only contribute 5% of the energy demand. That way, in the event of a failure of the renewable energy source for whatever reason, or a failure in the batteries, the gas can kick in and keep the servers online while cutting disposal operations that represent 1/3 of the total.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 week ago:
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 2 weeks ago:
A double beta decay restaurant is just filled with aging bottom-bottom couples looking for a third
- Comment on Consequences 2 weeks ago:
The original cowboy
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 5 weeks ago:
I showed it to my brother who’s flavored straight vanilla and he didn’t get it, either. I’m glad to know we’re not alone. Lol.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, same. I chalked it up to the homosexuality, but I’m not sure after reading some of the comments.
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 5 weeks ago:
The taste is generally okayish, it’s the texture that gets me. It’s always so granular and just… Eugh. The impossible burger, to be clear, is amazing in both taste and texture.
Now, to be completely fair now that I’m really thinking of it, most of the meat replacements I’ve had were cooked by my brother’s ex fiance, who also ruined tofu for me for years. And my vegan buddy is the one that made me try tofu again and I loved it, and the impossible burger…
You know what. In retracting my comment. It’s absolutely possible that I just didn’t like it because she was an awful cook. I will go about trying them all again
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 weeks ago:
That’s a real shame about the web boards. I miss real forums :(
- Comment on It's still a crust, mom 5 weeks ago:
My mom told us that “taste buds change every 7 years” but that each individual tastebud was on its own 7 year cycle, so one could change at any time. Try it today, you may hate it. Try it tomorrow, you may love it.
Made us very adventurous eaters as kids, and if we didn’t like something she never forced us to eat it. But we were always willing to try it again later on.
Except for raw oysters. That’s a texture thing. Shudder
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 weeks ago:
Former smoker, current vaper. I know inhaling anything other than clean air isn’t good for me, and I know nicotine addiction isn’t good. I plan on quitting, and I’m making decent progress to that point.
But it bugs the shit out of me when people try to act like it’s worse than cigarettes. It’s not. Shitty Chinese vapes marketed to kids that we don’t know the ingredients of? Sure, ban em. Black market vapes made in some dudes garage with oil? Absolutely track em down and end that man’s whole career.
But properly made, regulated vape juice in a rebuildable tank? Leave me the fuck alone. Please. Please do not take the thing that has helped millions of people quit smoking!
Can you link me any decent articles to help the next time someone says some dumb reactionary shit?
- Comment on Call 1-888-GOT-GUNK NOW! 1 month ago:
My poor little boy gets his eye gookies cleaned daily, but I would never wipe them back on him! That’s just cruel
- Comment on human geography 1 month ago:
We had “the devil is beating his wife behind the kitchen door with a frying pan” and sometimes really old people would finish it with “on Sunday”
I seriously have no idea where the fuck this comes from, and it’s so weird and I love it
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 1 month ago:
As a lifelong meat eater, anytime I’ve been in a situation where I abstain from meat for whatever reason, I avoid meat substitutes. They’re just not good. Black bean burger? Fantastic. Beyond burger? Satan’s taint. Stir fried veggies with fried tofu? Delicious. Qorn chicken stir fry? Beelzebub’s unwashed ass.
It’s so much better just to stop trying to imitate meat, and just focus on how frickin delicious veggies and stuff can be. They’re very good, all on their own!
The exception for me is the impossible burger. I legitimately like it better than a regular burger. It’s like if meat could be sourdough. I love it so much. But it truly is an exception.
- Comment on Which way? 1 month ago:
Huh! TIL. I had that for years and years on both feet, then one day it snagged on a pair of jeans as I was putting them on and the one on my right foot got ripped out. Hurt like crazy and bled like you wouldn’t believe. Still have the left one, but the right never grew back. Always wondered why, and I guess the answer is it had its own nail bed and I ripped that out
- Comment on Eugene 1 month ago:
Exactly what I thought!
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
Oh, I forgot the largest and most widespread: NASCAR racists!
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
As a lifelong southerner, I can attest to a veritable cornucopia of racists. There are:
Swamp racists, marsh racists, bayou racists (all are different), mountain racists, valley racists, low country racists, beach racists, ocean racists (totally different species, unrelated, with overlapping territory), woods racists, forest racists, and countless other unknown and tiny micro communities of different racists.
- Comment on Stripes! 🐅 1 month ago:
If you could figure out what your pattern was, and were the total body tattoo type, it would be cool as fuck to get a full body tattoo of your individual invisible (now visible, I guess) uniquely you skin pattern!