IIRC, someone did the math on something like a major surgery… in the US, if you have really good insurance, and don’t run into those nasty surprises like some out-of-network doctor poking his head into your operation and asking if the main doc needs his ass scratched (which appears as roughly $13,000.00 on your bill); but if everything goes without a hitch…

…it’d still be like a quarter of the cost to just fly to Europe, have the operation done there, hang out there for two weeks in a hotel while you recover, food, gas, etc, and then fly back to the US.

🎶 and the laaaaaaand of theee feeeeeeeeeeeeee 🎶

…no, that wasn’t a typo.

I seriously doubt it was broken if you thought it was “fine”.

Not common, but that can definitely happen, especially if it’s only a partial fracture. I’ve had a few broken bones myself, and I’m with you: completely debilitating pain, zero ability to do things like hold weight.

I worked with a nurse that got fer foot rolled over by a patient gurney near the end of her shift. A few f-bombs later, and she limped her way to the locker room, changed, and went home, saying she’d surely be fine after some ibuprofen and sleep.

Next day she limped her way through an entire shift.

Then another entire shift. All the while we were joking at her about like breaking her spine then continuing to carry the groceries inside, shit like that.

…day three she shows up on one of those kneeling-scooter-things and a bulky splint on her foot/lower leg. Looks down all sheepishly “It was still hurting, so I went to urgent care. They x-rayed it… y’all were right: it’s fucking broken!” …fucker worked two shifts with a spiral fracture on her 5th metatarsal. She said it just felt sore.

Either she’s a badass or I’m a little bitch (bit of both maybe), cuz I’d have rode an office chair or something all the way to the ER immediately after that first incident if that was me.

Beaker. Pure chaos. 10/10

So this vid is regarding bacteria, not viruses like measles, but it’s an insanely good illustration of just how quickly evolution happens on a microscopic scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8

This is why finishing your entire antibiotic prescription is so important even if you feel better after it’s half way done: if there are a few remaining cells that are less susceptible to the drug, you want to really overwhelm them so they’re fully dead. Allow them to recover and multiply, and you just bred up a new strain of superbug. We don’t give them a bridge of progressively higher doses for them to adapt to, we go straight to dropping nukes.

So back to viruses. These antivax dipshits are basically offering themselves and their children up as petri dishes for the virus to not just thrive in, but to mutate in. If a single one of those microscopic fuckers mutates in a way that bypasses your immune defenses granted by a vaccine, then we’re literally one sneeze away from being back to square one with no measles vaccine, cuz the one we have just become obsolete. Fast forward a few months worth of spreading from host to host in a world full of international travel, and boom, there’s our next global pandemic.

The decision to vaccinate or not is NOT a personal choice: it’s a communal one. Even ignoring the outliers like immunocompromised people who rely on herd immunity, choosing not to vaccinate is rolling the dice for the fates of literally everyone. No needle is that scary - just fucking do it.

This antivax shit is some of the most maliciously selfish nonsense that humans are capable of.

As a 'murican, I think it’s high time we did something to fix this.

votes in a few more Nazis

Huh… well that didn’t work. Maybe if we try… this!

even more Nazis

🤷‍♀️ Well we tried everything.

What a slap in the face to those who actually earned that level of recognition.

US be like…

That accounts for a good chunk of the blocks as well.

This is one of those one-bite-at-a-time projects - just hit a few on each visit, it adds up.

I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I’ve blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I’m just not interested in.

I’ve finally got All where it’s pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.

Can’t be that bad, can it? I mean, pasta + cheesy cream sauce is a pretty tried and true combo.

Points for experimenting at least.

I’d try it.

Deleted my reddit account a couple days after discovering Lemmy. I’ve been to their website a couple times since because it often appears in search results and if I don’t see a less shit option I’ll dig through the comments of whatever post my search pulled up, but that’s the extent of my activity there.

I will never make another reddit account. Fuck spez.

I wish I were even half. She is an absolute badass, and frankly puts most of us to shame.

This world would be pretty amazing if the average Joe thought and acted the way she does.

Given Isreal’s track record lately, I’m kinda amazed they didn’t kill her.

Dang, I guess selling shit that you can get for half the price across the street just isn’t a good business model. No one could have seen that coming!

There’s always vigilante justice.

To recover the gold, we must slay the dragon.

I’m personally a symphonic metal guy - Blind Guardian, Nightwish, etc. We’re a pretty large class though, so I’ll take suggestions from any genre - it’s bound to be someone’s cup of tea.

…the past couple (or like… 7) decades must have been absolutely maddening.

Rest well ma’am.