Sure I can, work in an apartment building and live on the top floor so your office is only 9.8m/s^(2) away. 12 seconds to freefall and 18 seconds at terminal velocity means you can live on the 400th floor and still beat 30 seconds.
Had a relative in a car accident. They climbed out the vehicle, walked to the ambulance, and took their suggestion to get looked over at the ED.
Nothing needed but an X-ray then a CT to make sure the spine was fine. Doc saw them for all of 10min. Most of the time was spent doing nothing, alone, waiting for a ride in a mostly empty rural ED.
Bill comes. $15k.
I did charges in the 2000s as part of my ED tech duties. Back then the stroke/heart attack go to ICU or get prepped for life flight charge, the most acute of 5 tiers of service was ~$2.5k. The lowest, say getting a ring cut off, was less than $200.
I know costs have risen in the last 20 yrs but how the fuck do you go from what is at a very generous at most a tier 3 for ~$1k to $15k. AND that CT scan, 90% of what happened there, was billed separate.
AFTER Medicare, the ED bill is $1.8k. Imaging is $800, and the ambulance ride, that didn’t even put in an IV, is $1.9k.
So an elderly person on a fixed social security income is getting billed almost $5k for a ride, a glorified wait for my ride room, and a CT.
One non displaced broken rib btw, that’s it.
$15k. Is ring removal in ED now $15k a pop? I just don’t know. Or is a remote, empty ED soaking anyone who goes because they don’t have lines out the door and around the block like city EDs do?
Either way, that’s several months of social security to pay for it while not buying groceries or driving.
AND many hospitals have lobbied local governments to make it illegal for Uber to take you to the hospital, ensuring their sweet, sweet ambulance profits.
I turn on read receipts as a strategy to help me track my texting. I don’t open it to read it fully until I’m ready to reply. If I’m not ready, it stays unread until I am.
Sure, God could just make more money appear but think of the effect on the economy. His son completely disrupted the loaves and fishes business that time and look what they did to him.
The Almighty, All-Powerful, All-Knowing needs MONEEH! To grease the palms of politicians! It’s the only way!
So remember, all you little old ladies out there, at least once a week to take out your pocketbook and make out that check to me, The Almighty Himself, through one of His authorized agents on the radio and the teevee.
And get this latest round pro-gun, pro-oil legislation to go through! Oh… anti-gay, anti-minority, anti-evolution, I meant to say. That’s what’s important, right? That’s what y’all want. It’s a common cause for extreme alarm that y’all share with me, The Almighty Himself, through my authorized regional executives, as seen on Faux News and iHeartMedia on your AM radio dial.
I (37M) recently caught myself getting frustrated when my wife offered solutions to my ranting. I just wanted to complain and not be told all the ways I could have avoided the problem in the first place. I finally understand.
There is, I think, a significant difference between giving suggestions on how to resolve an issue, and a person offering ways you could have prevented it. And I would hazard most people find the latter unhelpful and annoying.
Yes! It totally happens to everyone, once you notice it. Best self-awareness/relationship advice I’ve heard is say something like “Are you looking for advice, or someone to listen?”. Phrasing and tone to be adjusted by the individual user, obviously XD
I’ve had two trees in my whole life, both plastic, at this rate maybe I’ll have 3 in my total life. I still don’t get why people cut live ones, you hurt the tree, it probably will make a mess while drying, and you’ll end up trashing it at the end of the season.
Yes the smell must be nice but there are options now for that scent…
We used to get a live one with the root ball intact and then planted it in the yard after. So now my dad has a row of pine trees that represent the Christmases we had as kids.
Literally the same way with ham radio… We have three purposes, in order of importance: Emergency and disaster services, talking about our radio equipment, and talking about the weather (sometimes in great detail). See also: farmer Joe in Arkansas got his kidney removed, ed in Tennessee finally fixed his motorcycle, and the Smith Brothers went to Hawaii to make a Morse contact with Japan.
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