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MIDItheKID

@ MIDItheKID @lemmy.world

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  • Which healthcare would you choose?

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  • You might be mixing up urgent care with emergency care. Urgent care is a walk-in for sicknesses etc. If I tried to make an appointment with my primary physician, it's like 2 months out, minimum. Another awful part of our current system.

  • Which healthcare would you choose?

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  • I came down with flu symptoms this week and went to the local urgent care. Waited an hour to be seen, they did a rapid flu and covid swab and it came back negative. They told me that the flu strain going around right now doesn't test positive for a few days and that it's probably the flu given all of the symptoms. They told me that I am young and healthy enough so I should just take Tylenol and drink fluids and ride it out. All in all it took 2 hours and there was a $100 co-pay with my insurance that I pay out the ass for. No tamiflu script. This medical system is trash. Every time I get sick my wife urges me to go to urgent care and I'm like "no, they are completely unhelpful and it costs too much money"

    I would be much more willing to go if it didn't cost so much and take so long.

    One of these days something is actually going to be wrong, and my distrust for the medical system is going to land me in the hospital for something that was treatable.

  • Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city

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  • The ones that fantasize about killing did.

  • Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city

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  • Yeah, and why wasn't Miley Cyrus at the Hanna Montana concert?

  • State sanctioned murder in Minneapolis today- Abolish ICE.

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  • So what you're saying is that having these thugs run around in schools and streets abducting people and shooting civilians is innefective? I'm not sure you are making the point you think you are making.

  • Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent

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  • Yup, there it is. At first I was like "well it routes them to the sellers website, so that's good, right?"

    But I had to stop and think "No. That's not how Amazon operates. What's in it for them?"

    And it's this. This is 1000% the plan.

  • I can still smell them

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  • I think there was even one more evolution where the plastic caps came in a strip instead of a ring. The strip was put in a magazine that slid into the bottom of the pistol. Most of them just moved the strip up as they fired, but if I recall correctly there were even ones that cut each cap off individually after firing it and ejected it like an empty shell. Awful for litter, but pretty cool for cap gun technology. I am pretty sure all of this stuff has been banned where I live.

  • New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

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  • Yup. I learned cursive in the 2nd or 3rd grade. Probably the last time I used it as well. If I needed to write something in cursive, I would be pretty screwed. I remember some of the easier stuff, like the vowels. But if I needed to write a "q" or "k" I don't think I could remember it.

    With that said, learning how to read an analog clock is way easier. It's a formula/method, and the numbers are right there. It's not memorization. This should be something easy to teach.

    The problem is that analog clocks are not in the curriculum for middle school and high school. It's hard to find time to teach middle schoolers how to read clocks when you are struggling through "To Kill a Mockingbird" with a bunch of students on a 4th grade reading level.

    Teenagers in inner city schools not knowing how to read analog clocks is a much more complicated issue than it seems on the surface. The solution is not "well they should have just had the childhood that I had and it wouldn't be a problem"

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • I don't normally do the whole trolling thing, but I gotta say I was tempted to write "Windows" with no explanation just to see how poorly it would go.

  • Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare

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  • Is anybody else seeing Christopher Walken's face in the top left of this picture when you look at the bottom right of it? I think I need a nap.

  • Columnist likens billionaires to Jews persecuted by Nazis

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  • Round up the billionaires and put them in camps? Don't threaten me with a good time.

  • i cant wait to get a steam frame

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  • This was the type of information I was looking for, no need to apologize for being rambly. I'm going to look into these games and use them to weight my decision. Of course this all kind of hinges on the price of the frame. If the price point is right, it might be the platform that finally gets me to buy into VR, but I'm still very skeptical.

    Honestly, one of main motivators is throwing money at things that use Arm arch for gaming. It's clearly the future and Apple silicon has forced the hand of a lot of developers to make business apps for Arm. But the steam frame feels like the first thing to make gaming on Arm mainstream. Baby steps, right? If the frame drums up enough development for games running natively on Arm, then maybe the next steam deck will be arm, and it will be super fucking awesome. Valve has spoken about not wanting to make a Steamdeck 2 until there is a "generational" leap. Arm arch would do that. It just needs people to develop for it (without using amd64 emulation)

  • What's your kinda-unimpressive 'claim to fame'?

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  • I was in a ring pop commercial for about half a second, and it was just my silhouette.

    I also started a Smash Brothers tournament for Smash 4 that ended up in the national rankings at one point. I think our largest tournament had 80 people. We had some high ranking players like Jtails come, and even guest commentators like Max Ketchum. I was actually college room mates with one of PC Chris' close friends, and I had the pleasure of getting absolutely destroyed by Chris in Melee a few times in some basement hangouts. My college room mate actually made a brief appearance in the Smash Brothers documentary in the chapter about PC Chris.

  • i cant wait to get a steam frame

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  • Yeah but what are some good VR games? This is the part I am having a hard time justifying. I never hear about good VR games. Beatsaber? Super Hot? Like... I love the Steamdeck because there is a plethora of 10/10 indie games that run awesome on it. It feels to me like the VR game library is very lacking in that sense. Like are there "Must play - 10/10" games that are VR only? What is the "Hollow Knight" of VR?

  • Ukrainian drone strike knocks out power for 600,000 Russians in Moscow

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  • I wonder if their was also a sudden drop in pro-republican Twitter posts when the power went out.

  • i cant wait to get a steam frame

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  • I've never had a VR headset, and this is the first one I am considering as it feels like we are finally out of "First Gen" VR and we have moved into the product space of VR that is not clunky and burdonsome.

    With that said - convince me to get one.

    I have a killer PC for playing at my desk, and a Steamdeck for playing on my couch. What will I actually gain? I don't really have the space in my apartment for things that require moving around, and I don't really care for VRchat type social experiences. Is there anything about the platform that I will actually use, or will it become an expensive dust collector hanging on the side of my desk? I have a hard time coming up with something that will actually add value. The only thing I really want to play is Half Life Alyx because I love the series and it's the only thing I haven't played.

  • If you feel bad, eat a SHIT TON of fruits and veggies

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  • Pre-game or post-game baseballs?

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene says she was ‘naive’ for believing Trump is man of the people

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  • First rat off the ship

  • How many Musketeers?

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  • I was in the Supermarket a few weeks ago and "All for Love" by Bryan Adams came on and I was like "Is this the fucking song from The Three Musketeers movie that came out in the 90s?".

    Indeed it was. Not sure who is making the Shop rite playlist, but rock on dude or dudette.