Hadn’t considered that! Sad that that’s probably the most viable option if I needed to get it again.

I’ve got cluster headache. Only medication that had any noticeable effect was Prednisone. Not even that expensive of a drug, but more than I could afford out of pocket. Insurance wouldn’t cover it because they considered an oxygen mask to be a more appropriate treatment, even though I’d been using them for months with no improvement, and O2 only works for a small percent of people with cluster headache, anyway.

Couldn’t afford to get the meds. Not legally, at least. A coworker was taking Prednisone for a different condition, and managed to convince his doctor to double his dosage, and I paid him for the difference, until he stopped taking it altogether. Ended up having attacks again, and missed enough work because of them to get fired. Between the pain and losing my job, that was easily one of the lowest points in my life.

I wouldn’t wish our healthcare system on my worst enemies.

Weird seeing you again, and seeing you say this, after you quickly resorted to name-calling over a disagreement in another thread just 20 minutes ago. Do you really not think that you’re a member of the half you refer to? I’m not so sure you actually want “diversity of opinions” or “normal people” if that’s been your response so far.

Don’t make fun of him, it’s a family name.

Fuck the haters, pineapple pizza is delicious.

It looks interesting, though it does feel a little slimy just how obvious they were about making sure all the sponsor logos were visible on screen. Like, it gave me Wayne’s World flashbacks with how long they were holding on the logos, it almost felt like a parody.

I was actually really excited by the pre-rendered cut scene that wasn’t cel-shaded. I thought they were going to ditch the cartoony aesthetic and try moving the franchise in a different direction. But then it switched to in-game footage, and it looks indistinguishable from footage of any previous BL game. Something about the art direction just looks like it’s stuck in 2012, and not in a fun way.

@jerry@fedia.io This seems like a reasonable instance for Fedia to block.

Let them fight.

Yeah, these are wildly different situations, and trying to draw comparisons between the two is disingenuous, at best. I’m not happy with the Penny situation, either, and there is plenty to criticize about that case, but the similarities to Mangione’s case end at “one man killed another man in a public space”.

Lots of foods have misleading cultural backgrounds. Chicken tikka masala, for instance, was invented in Glasgow.

Nobody wants to be the first.

Uh, technically a nazi killed Hitler.

I’ve never seen this before and had to look this up. A fantastic little piece of history, excellently memeified.

It’s an American story, effecting 100’s of millions of Americans directly.

And it’s not an American server. So live with it. You’re not entitled to do whatever you want in whatever space you want just because you’re American and have feelings about something.

I haven’t seen a single comment actually advocating for violence

Probably because they’ve been removed by the mods.

I think you fail to understand that your audience is international.

I think you fail to understand that being international means that your American-centric views take a backseat for once in your life.

It’s Gore-Tex!

I don’t have an answer for this, but I love to imagine that these types of threads are posted by novelists trying to clear up any plot holes in their upcoming stories.

Finding obscure German trance music videos on SLSK in crispy 240p.