The cocktail starfish

You can smell them feet away if it’s a pile of dead ones

Neither was that YouTube video 🤷🏻‍♂️

I just figured that it’s based off perspective. If you look at a spinning ball horizontally vs vertically.

Either that or is just spinning both ways at once, kinda like Earth and it’s atmosphere can go two different directions despite being the same planet.

Also responding to unrelated topics will make some think you’re a bot. The conversation should happen organically. It’ll get you clicks but not positive interaction.

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That just results in an image of JSON Bourne.

I prefer C4. Gives some really explosive energy.

Funnily enough with this explanation I finally get what Pocket is, because I thought modern Pocket was something different and not the same thing from back then.

I’m not trying to get sympathy 🙂 I’m calling out your obvious bullshit with actual examples that shows you’re full of shit.

You’re so full of shit you can’t even argue against the example given, such as how the “quality healthcare” doesn’t even offer diafiltration. Hell y’all still do the step ladder sticking technique and use fax machines.

For the average person, healthcare there is partying like it’s 1998. I guess though if you’re a near millionaire it’s pretty good though.

But I guess I can’t fault you much for being so full of shit - I know it’s hard to schedule and get a basic colonoscopy there too.

I will say though, I hope you get kidney failure. It’d be for the greater good - not because of your suffering, but it’s clear you’re one of those that will only ever understand once they suffer, and only then would you actually try to help those less fortunate and make the world a better place.

Less sick than if I had been in the USA 🙃

Less dead, too.

Hopefully you don’t end up in my situation. Or maybe it’s better you do 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi there. Had kidney failure for about 8 years.

There was this one medication I badly needed to control secondary hyperparathyroidism. Literally used all avenues, and couldn’t get it approved or covered, other than by paying around 800$ for a single dose. I even had private insurance still at the time btw. The alternative was a surgery to remove a parathyroid gland which would then lead me to having other severe health complications if I got a kidney transplant. You know, due to now missing an organ.

Second treatment in Finland when I was just VISITING, not even a resident yet - "oh, you’re PTH levels are extremely high. We’re going to give you “medicine I’ve been trying to get for months”.

Just like that. No struggle even. Cost? 25$, and that includes the superior diafiltration treatment (USA only has dialysis, despite it giving poorer quality of life and lowering life expectancy, thanks to lobbying from DaVita.

Anyway, fuck you 🙂

Honestly, not that hard.

Easier than building a new modern airplane, as Boing Boing has shown.

Edit: I’m keeping that typo lol

Not the just important invention, but definitely the best invention: plumbing.

Y’all try going a week without running water and wiping with leaves or newspaper and you’ll quickly see that while other things are definitely important, plumbing is the best to have

It just sounds like an old school operating system, like OS/2.

I’m not saying everyone needs an iOS circa 2015 interface.

But I am saying something like KISS would never work, because the general public will just outright reject it.

What needs to exist is something in between: something simple and easy to use at stock, but with high customization ability that ranges from novice to advanced users.

Unfortunately, it seems most of the GUI experts work in the private industry and rarely do FOSS.

There’s a quote that goes something like this: “imagine the average dumb person, and then realize half the population is dumber than that”.

Having worked tech support, Arch is basically alien tech wizardry, a terminal is “hackerman” leet thing, and using Google to figure out an error code is “being tech savvy”.

Granted, it’s nowhere near as bad in Finland as it was in the USA, or Central America, but what you and I think is “super easy custom set up” is “⬧︎◆︎◻︎♏︎❒︎ ♏︎♋︎⬧︎⍓︎ ♍︎◆︎⬧︎⧫︎□︎❍︎ ⬧︎♏︎⧫︎◆︎◻︎” for a very significant portion of the population.

It’s easy to forget how hard something is when you’re used to it. Sure I might know what idiopathic glomerulonephritis is without looking it up but that doesn’t mean you might know what glomeruli are.

Likewise I might know what an EGR valve is but it doesn’t mean I know how to fix a Tesla.

You must come from a tech literate family.

If it was the default Android launcher, Android would die.

“Sorry, I’m not the brain. I don’t do the thinking”

Which is a bit ironic for people that make UX/UI software