Yeah, ER is almost never the right place. But if you do go to an ER, make sure it's attached to a hospital. The free standing ones are notorious for predatory billing and will take your first born after saving them. And your insurance will fight to not cover it.
Urgent care and minute-clinic type things can be good. Primary care physicians are typically best, though they may be difficult to get an appointment for.
Urgent care facilities commonly double as ERs. In that case, I believe they're legally required to get you to sign a specific form before they can charge you for an ER visit. Speaking from experience, it'll just about 10-40x the rates and they'll still charge you for an urgent care visit on top. Also speaking from experience, check your insurance plan before doing this. My insurance card said $150 copay for ER visits, but the plan was actually $150 + 10% (still unbelievably good in freedomland), plus they refuse to cover any of it anyway and the appeals process literally takes the better part of a year.
That said, it can literally be the difference between life and death. Fighting insurance, while a huge PITA, is much better than a dead child. It's just the sad reality we live in, in order to have checks notes poor health outcomes and healthcare quality tied to whatever your job (if you have one) happens to offer. 🦅🇺🇸🎆
Literally the last paragraph of the article, lmao:
Salesforce follows buy-now-pay-later outfit Klarna in wanting to reduce headcount with AI agents. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski predicted he could cut 1,800 from the 3,800 people the company employs through AI investment. However, this spring, the company reportedly put more people back into customer service.
This definitely reads like you're saying teens are ignoring planetary extinction and just letting it happen, but I think you intended the opposite lmao
Abbott won against Beto 54.76% to 43.86%. With 4,437,099 votes for Abbott, that is about 19.6% of the voting-age population in 2022. Abbott is not wildly popular and a large portion of the state hates his guts. Texas is wildly disenfranchised.
The top thing I hate about it is that it releases toxic gas into the room, and I don't (like most people around here) have a vent hood that vents outside. You can clearly smell when the stove, or especially the oven, is running. Better setups probably have less of an issue with this, but even commercial stoves need to be properly vented, and proper residential ventilation is just a rarity in the US.
The next biggest thing is that it's just plain slower and less energy efficient than induction (or even electric). Energy efficiency isn't a huge problem, since gas is just waaayyy cheaper than electricity, but I love the fast heat up times of induction, which are partly due to the great energy efficiency.
Air quality is a huge factor, but I also just like cooking on induction better anyway so there aren't really any downsides for me besides maybe a minimally higher electric bill.
I bought a $50 nuwave induction cooktop 3+ years ago and have since used it as my main stove, and even taken it camping. It's still going strong and hasn't shown any signs of wear and tear, other than a sticker peeling off a little. One of the best purchases I've ever made, I hate my gas stove.
Lmao, yeah, batteries have improved quite substantially for all phones in the last 14 years. Unless you want removable batteries, then everything is worse now.
And that's really it. There are other ad-blocking dns providers out there, and they all use slightly different block lists. I like adguard because their blocklist is less aggressive than others I've tried, and I'd rather an ad or two get through than for something legitimate to stop working.
You can also set it up as your dns provider in your router to block ads on your entire network. People tend to like to self-host adguard or pihole for that, but as long as you don't care about a dashboard or manual dns entries, using a free dns is as easy as it gets and is very effective. I self-host as a hobby and I still just use adguard's public dns.
Arrest records are public. Even if you're innocent or the charges are dropped or whatever, they still smear your reputation by putting your mugshot up. It can be a good thing too, since it cuts down on the number of people arrested quietly with no disclosed reason.
Abolishing workers rights to keep your slaves working makes sense in a greedy fucked up way, but I've never understood the anti-vax stuff. Like, it costs the oligarchs virtually nothing and keeps their workers working and consumers consuming. How exactly does this flavor of vile evilness benefit anyone?
Yeah, ER is almost never the right place. But if you do go to an ER, make sure it's attached to a hospital. The free standing ones are notorious for predatory billing and will take your first born after saving them. And your insurance will fight to not cover it.
Urgent care and minute-clinic type things can be good. Primary care physicians are typically best, though they may be difficult to get an appointment for.
Urgent care facilities commonly double as ERs. In that case, I believe they're legally required to get you to sign a specific form before they can charge you for an ER visit. Speaking from experience, it'll just about 10-40x the rates and they'll still charge you for an urgent care visit on top. Also speaking from experience, check your insurance plan before doing this. My insurance card said $150 copay for ER visits, but the plan was actually $150 + 10% (still unbelievably good in freedomland), plus they refuse to cover any of it anyway and the appeals process literally takes the better part of a year.
That said, it can literally be the difference between life and death. Fighting insurance, while a huge PITA, is much better than a dead child. It's just the sad reality we live in, in order to have checks notes poor health outcomes and healthcare quality tied to whatever your job (if you have one) happens to offer. 🦅🇺🇸🎆