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submitted 3 months ago by pbjamm@beehaw.org to c/canada@lemmy.ca

My family and I moved from the US to Canada in the summer of 2023 and last week was the first time I had to make use my Services Card. I went to the ER in excruciating pain, had blood and urine labs done, a shot of pain killers then waited around (a long time) for a CT scan. The doctor said it might be a new record, but I had been bumped a few times by suspected stroke patients that came in, so totally understandable. Several hours later with a prescription slip in hand I exited the hospital. Easy as pie.

For anyone who has never had the displeasure of experiencing an American hospital you can not understand how much simpler and less stressful and cheap the Canadian system is. I dont know what it would have cost me in the USA, probably whatever my insurance deductible was, but it certainly was not $0. That state of not knowing what all this is going to cost you, and how you will afford it, makes an already awful experience even worse. Not being harassed for money on the way out, never once discussing the cost of something with the DR was truly eye opening.

TL:DR Thanks BC Health. You are not perfect but you are amazing. Anyone promoting American style health care here in Canada has either never experienced that gong show or is independently wealthy enough not to have to think about the costs.

(kidney stone for anyone who is curious. it was horrible)

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 29 points 5 months ago

Most likely answer is that Republicans will completely ignore that inconvenient information and if it is ever brought up to them directly label the shooter a RINO and dismiss it.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 40 points 6 months ago

I think more likely answer is that most businesses are cheap and a mediocre image generated by AI is good enough vs paying a human to make a really good one.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 27 points 6 months ago

Indeed. Retraining and the extra time using a new tool is a short term loss for what should be a long term gain. The transition will always suck.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 23 points 7 months ago

Would you like to do this vitally important job that requires travel, training, hard labour, living rough, and includes heightened risk of serious injury all for minimum wage?

Seems the answer is obvious.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 27 points 7 months ago

Winamp still whips the Llamas ass.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 21 points 10 months ago

I am sure their math will be just as poor for this as it was for the Pension Plan

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

Because it makes their job easier and there are no consequences for getting caught. It will continue until this changes.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

To paraphrase a wise counter-protester in my town a couple of weeks ago :

"No one is trying to turn your kids gay or trans, we just want your gay and trans kids to feel safe and comfortable being who they are."

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

make it illegal to transport anyone to get an abortion on roads within the city or county limits

Solution : Drive on the sidewalks

(these religious zealots are nuts)

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 28 points 2 years ago

learned the hard way

He learned nothing, he is dead. Hopefully others will learn from that.

"Safety regulations are written in blood"

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago

From NBC News interview :

“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said. “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

Eat sand /u/spez.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 45 points 2 years ago

This was a predicted outcome, at least for the larger subreddits. Expect to hear much more of this in the coming couple of days.

Gods of the Internet, with this offering I ask you to summon Cerf, Torvalds, and Stallman so that they may witness this curse. By the spirits of my ancestors I curse Reddit. Let its profits wither. Let its networks crack. Let it see its legions of users disperse. Gods of the Inferno, I offer to you its networks, its mouthpiece, its servers, its "free" speech, its hands, its liver, its black heart, its stomach. Gods of the Inferno, let me see Reddit suffer deeply, and I will rejoice and sacrifice to you.

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