Lots. Wait times are high, getting a family doctor is a Herculean task, getting refered to a specialist is a gauntlet of tasks with months/years wait.

Don’t get me wrong, if you have an emergency, you’ll be seen quickly and cared for by professionals. Cancer treatments, life threatening stuff, amazing care.

But trying to be proactive or deal with long standing but “minor” issues is… Well, very very difficult. And it’s costly, because every appointment is a missed day/half day of work and gas/travel to said specialists, and you rarely get to choose when they happen.

So people who can afford it obviously want to skip the line. So politicians make excuses for why a private system actually helps the public one. You know, by stealing the talent away from the public system, reducing volume and therefore advocacy for the public system and many other problems.

That and US Pharma/private healthcare corporations would LOVE to be able to set up shop up here and suck us dry like they do their own.

I’ve been tempted on occasion to try and seek paid care for chronic quality of life issues that my doctor just doesn’t have the time for. It took 6 years and 8 visits with 3-4 months between to try some over the counter crap the I had tried on my own but didn’t work, but she wouldn’t send the reference because "the specialist will just make you do this first, so at the very least when you get to them you can “skip” this… Except I had to do it and wait without seeing someone who knew anything…

It’s stuff I can live with, and with the work I do, getting a random day off isn’t easy, so I go through “well it’s fine” phases and then “no really I want this fixed”. Phases. I have a friend who just went to the states (2 years ago) and had 6 appointments in a week and had all her concerns addressed, with followup phonecalls and another visit for one issue…

Why our system doesn’t work better is because there is more money to be made (on a corporate ledger, not a “society actually saves money with healthy happy people” way) if it slowly fails and privatizes.

You seem to be choosing the few people who were able to get a lawyer in time… In your hypothetical, that is not guaranteed or even something I’d bet on. And you are also pointing out that they won’t obey judges orders anyways so… I’m very confused as to what argument you think you are making.

Anyone who sees anyone being kidnapped should do their civic duty to stop it. Just because it suddenly seems to be government representatives that are doing the kidnapping now does not change that. You don’t know which it is.

I do wonder how many people have already been disappeared with no cameras around and they are just “missing” according to their families who can’t/don’t want to go to the cops in case it was the cops all along.

I have mistaken you for the person you were agreeing with. I apologize.

Misgendering someone is rude and disrespectful, regardless of if you do it to their face or anonymously online. You knew she identified as she, you made a choice to use ‘they’. And your “reason” (excuse) is cowardly.

“It feels like people are purposely making it impossible to be respectful to everyone…” Yeah by ignoring simple social cues (or a written article) that would have allowed them to correctly and respectfully refer to another person, if they would have had the energy to allow a single additional neuron to fire off in there.

“…I will go with offending the gendered people.” You know everyone here can see your previous posts right? Where you correctly gender Trump, Musk, and probably every other cicgendered person without having any trouble. But nice edgy touch…

This is ok because it’s us and not them.

Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a tv

Hey, thanks! It’s easy to assume it’s some bot posting garbage these days, harder to be respectful and just ask for a better source.

I salute your efforts.

What in the hell garbage website is this?

Spoooooky

Are the consequences in the room with us now?

We all hate this guy, don’t get me wrong, but making disgusting claims like that just lowers us to their level.

You can be a pedophile without being an HOA president.

You know what.

That’s sadder.

Thanks for the advice. I’ll go back and do some more tower tests, but (and again, this could be a skill/understanding issue) I don’t really understand how to get a print to change temp mid print, without using the touchscreen and staring at it waiting…

Right now I have bunch of settings saved that results in a pretty decent PLA print, but it takes ages. (Layer of .15, print speed 50-100, gyroid infill 15%. Bed 60* nozzle 210). And I tried to print a tube to put coins in and it’s 5 hours. And the threads didn’t come out great.

Overhangs get me usually, but sometime later adhesion if I dare use the ultimate presets like “course”, even if I adjust the temp.

Also I tried updating utlimaker to the latest version, rather than the one it comes with, and then was a disaster that lead me down a rabbit hole to Orca.

Which was another rabbit hole that my partner had to emotionally support me through as the equivalents of “PCLOADLETTER” would trash my prints on a whim. Usually 3/4 of the way through.

I bought this printer to print dust collector fittings and adaptors for power tools (I lead a construction team and I’m pro-safety) and I can usually get a print strong enough for the job, if not pretty.

But I’d like pretty…I’d like to be able to fine tune a print so it’s sexy and strong and also didn’t take 16 hours… Boaty takes 20 minutes and o Looks good every time I print so I just don’t get why something not as complex and the same size takes over an hour and doesn’t come out as clean.

If not bambu, what do you recommend?

Current sovol sv07 plus user and facing this wall where I can’t decide if it’s a skills/knowledge issue or a hardware limit.

They have been… In this very article they claim (with no evidence) that the Democrats are finding the NGOs that are doing this.

Wasn’t it a duck roll back then?

We were all hoping for that last time and look where we are now. …

Oh! Haha now I know who you are talking about. Yes he is very… Intense on Bluesky. I must say I understand. Living in this world is like taking crazy pills and I can understand “just reciting reality out loud for as many people to see” as a coping mechanism.