John #4

it's badass?

The moment the Affordable Care Act was signed into law.
It is a dirty shame how Republicans have tried to get rid of it, with no replacement in sight. Ever! I will always be grateful for President Obama. He truly cared about America.

that cat is a legend in the anthro community btw

Changing the LED Module IMPORTANT: The lights in both the refrigerator and freezer compartments use LED technology that do not need to be replaced. If the lights do not illuminate when the door or drawer is opened, call for assistance or service. Refer to the Quick Start Guide for contact information. If an LED module(s) do not illuminate when the refrigerator and/or freezer door is opened, call for assistance or service.

The light in my 5-year-old refrigerator has started strobing. "No problem," I thought, "I'll replace the bulb."

Nope! Instead of a $3 bulb, Whirlpool wants me to pay hundreds of dollars for a repair visit. Non-replaceable LEDs are the worst. A proper country would have regulations about this.

I suspect that, unlike a US-bound healthcare provider, Amazon understands that's who they're up against and need to align their costs with.

well let me put it this way. Before I had insurance I just bought them on the darknet. I'd be buying them on the darknet still and can jump right back to that if Amazon gives me the finger. Prime shipping is outdoing some friendly guy in Laos in this particular case. Like netflix and pirate bay.

did that cost extra?

like, they didn't mention the word "Insurance" one time. It was a $25 Amazon prime button just like buying cat food.

Blue Cross Blue shield used to claim my epilepsy meds cost $600 a dose and they were giving me a "discount" when I only had to pay $250. Amazon did it all for me today for $25 via a text chat

I just straight up cancelled mine today. even Amazon telehealth is offering me better deals now

If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build

3D printing a new "return to sender" stamp for everything healthcare-related is, in fact, Peak Capitalism

Random page of the Voynich Manuscript. It depicts (what look like) Forbidden Onions

few, sure. But definitely not zero

In 2000 everyone wanted a head unit that could do everything... play MP3s off CD-R, remember that? Navigate folders and everything.

Now we want one with JUST a Bluetooth button and/or AUX jack, because we already carry an everything device around everywhere

rude

and makes it sound like a disease. Poor hopeless Unfortunates who would be "normal" and "healthy" like their landlords, were they not "infected" by heritage.

Hi Marc, sorry to drop in from nowhere. Your post showed up in my favorite "reverse engineering" feed.

I had this same issue with a tiny devboard recently! Was able to overcome it by replacing one side of the keypad matrix with fixed Vccs. Making it n (or m) ANALOG ins rather than n+m digital I/O;

uhh uhh no way that's so silly what kind of filthy person would order poop.

OOF 😭

Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"

Breaking news: scientists discovered that we’ve actually run out of numbers. “We’re fucked” said one mathematician

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america is an n-party country with a 1-party government.

Heterochromia iridum - Wikipedia

saw my opto today, showed her this. She ID'd "nonuniform" HC, a partial annulus or sector of the retina with a gradient. Yours is central/radial, I have the "sectoral." One eye about 30° of mom's green & the rest dad's brown. I can't take a good eye-selfie, sorry.

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Can we fucking please dismantle the patriarchy because I do not want to hear about techbro cum ever again

more like smol bean lineage

nonce cancelling headphones and you simply vanished

The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention

The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...