spriteblood

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[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US government were also months late to handling COVID, and the conservative leadership in power was actively demonizing safety protocols such as masks, vaccines, social distancing, etc not to mention their own Center for Disease Control, to the point that a fair percentage of the population is distrustful of medical science and unwilling to consider those safety protocols.

A lot of the news media (left and right) focused on things like getting people back to work in spite of the ongoing pandemic so it really forced the narrative away from collective safety and survival into economic prioritization and the illusion of normalcy.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Their pic of somebody using it for graphic design is something I hadn't even considered. I've seen other artists use JoyCons but these would connect to PC a lot more seamlessly.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anything but affordable housing! Not in my backyard.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would love something the size of the RG405M but ever so slightly more powerful so that it can play Gamecube without issue. And maybe plastic instead of metal so it's a bit lighter; I have a metal Anbernic device and it's a beefy boi.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have there been any gameplay details? I'm not intimately familiar with TMNT lore so I don't really know what to expect with this

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

A bit misleading, though I get your point. 2/3 of people who file for bankruptcy have medical debt, not that the medical debt was the cause of the bankruptcy.

Your assessment of this is incorrect.

The study I was referencing reports on people who specify that medical-related financial stress contributed directly to their bankruptcy. This was broken down by medical expenses and medical issues leading to loss of income - with medical expenses being the higher percentage at ~60%, and the combined percentage sitting between 65-70% (with overlap in responses).

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

But that costs money.

It's worth noting that a lot of solutions actually save money.

For example, universal healthcare is a big issue in the US. Around 2/3 of all bankruptcies are from medical debt. People ration lifesaving medication like insulin because of how prohibitively expensive it is. GoFundMe is of the largest healthcare providers in the country, and over 1/3 of all campaigns are for medical expenses.

They've created a system where it's prohibitively expensive to seek necessary medical care, and is built on the foundational acceptance that people need to die and suffer for it to function as intended.

Yet a universal healthcare system is projected to cost the US an estimated ~13% less than they are paying.

Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion as well as savings that would be achieved through the MAA, we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see it as a clever way to circumvent the dumb bureaucracy BS that might otherwise inhibit their ability to protect them.

They could try to rework the system in place, and spend however many months or years working through that process, or they could slap some duct tape on there in the meantime AND look to rework the system.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I just got the 360 version on Xbox Series for like $10

Seemed like a pretty good deal

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm shocked to see price ranking so low on their poll. I'm rocking a $200 phone and there's nothing that I need to do but can't. The form factor is nice but it's not an extra $800+ nice.

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also a shockingly high failure rate for modes of state execution, and a lot of gross details surrounding it as a method of punishment. Jacob Geller did a great and disturbing video about it:

https://youtu.be/eirR4FHY2YY

[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Education is the act of imparting knowledge, usually with the goal of improving general understanding and critical thinking skills, while indoctrination carries inherent connotations of partisanship - usually about believing a specific doctrine or ideology, even if facts or evidence suggests it to be untrue.

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