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Ooh I forgot to mention brewing method yes.:-)

I typically go for French Vanilla creamer but hazelnut is good:-).

The last time I needed care I went to an "urgent care" facility (for anyone outside of the USA who doesn't know: we have a whole range from "clinics" e.g. a headcold that needs antibiotics to "urgent care" for some routine items to "emergency room" that has everything), they sent me to the ER where I had to wait for 6 hours and ended up with a $1k bill even after insurance.

Sadly, many people lack insurance entirely or it's not reliable so what it seems that many people do lately is wait and wait, doing nothing, then also end up in the ER. We are all connected: what affects others will affect us too - I wish people would remember that more readily, whenever they go to the polls.:-(

All they'll do is make sure to make even more profits to cover the cost of a bodyguard next time.

Even if you were right though and it did work, will someone simply move on to the next target? and the next? and the next? Negotiations with such "terrorist" activities (literally: with the design to inspire fear in the minds of the recipient) usually never ends well... b/c even if you mean well, the next person seeing that and following along does not. i.e. where does it end?

It opens the floodgates to a breakdown of law & order in society. And for the sake of argument let's say that's a good thing: what then? Who is prepared to build back up a new & better one - especially against the onslaught of literal kids making ghost guns and having learned that Might Makes Right, goes around vigilante-justice killing anyone who offended them, e.g. the person who most recently dumped them? (how dare they, don't they know that i'M sUcH a NiCe GuY!?)

It's short-term thinking at best. Also: I don't see how "healthcare" would result from any of this?

But you are right: we aren't allowed to say much here, on Discuss.Online. The acronym agencies are watching us right now, and moreover that's just not what this instance is all about - there too, if someone wants to build something "better", like a community where deeper discussions could be had, then someone needs to step up and actually do it. I'd add a link to it in the sidebar fwiw.

B/c the goal of any hospital should not be to provide care and rather to make money.

- capitalism

Or a 70s band.

I too identify myself as some kind of demon :-P

Yesterday I even took a break from social media altogether (except logging in to check for mod reports) - it was harder to do that than I expected...

Social media is an infinite book + conversation in one. :-)

VERY true, sadly. However, I would consider China as one of the exceptions to that... mainly bc it sounded like that's what John Oliver was telling me to do:-P

That makes sense, if regional kinda works for your scenario. It wouldn't really for mine, so I feel the need to go straight to "American", but your description helps me see how that wouldn't work as well, as in like not be as suitable, for someone else. Thanks for sharing your story:-).

Cool! Although if it's able to detect that you enjoy "lgbt and neurodivergent people", then it sounds like the tracking isn't being blocked. On the other hand, it's kinda working for you and that's mainly what matters:-).

Fuck, yeah!

Wait... no.

"Yeah, fuck!"? 🥰