If You're Asking Then You Should Take It. The Optimal Amount Of Pain Is None. And You Should Have An

If only in the states we had price transparency!!! If you knew what the cost was upfront you could price shop! But there's no way to really streamline that process with insurance companies involved. Yet. We're getting closer. But even with the flaws, I'd rather pay for what I need when I need it instead of giving my money to the government to manage anything.

National Healthcare

I get it. I do. I was raised in a country with socialized healthcare. The ERs took care of all my acute childhood injuries, fractures, injuries from a car accident, etc. It seemed perfect. As a child.

Someone very close to me back in the UK told me yesterday that she stopped by a 95 year old's house the evening prior to check on him (she's a pastor and he attends her church).

He was collapsed on the floor, suffering with pneumonia and had fallen. She couldn't move him alone and the 999 dispatch (911) told her not to in case he was injured from the fall (pretty likely given his age).

She called the emergency line early evening. And the ambulance arrived at 5am.

There were only 10 rigs running the entire county that night due to government budget cuts. A 95 year old with pneumonia lay on the floor with his pastor holding his hand for nearly 12 hours, waiting on care.

I have family members who had to move across the country for better chronic care, family members sent home with sepsis, given wrong instructions that led to devastating consequences, who have shelled out of pocket for private care on TOP of their extensive taxes that go to the NHS.

My friends who are *doctors* in the NHS have gone on strike more than once to protest for living wages and hours that aren't dangerous. Don't get me started on the overworked nurses.

I have also worked within the US's only government run healthcare. And there are huge problems within it's system, still! (And amazing people who are really trying, too)

Stop thinking the same issues that we have with the current system won't arise. Understaffing, opioid crises, medical mistakes, high costs of chronic care.

Stop thinking that government budget cuts (that can and will happen) won't affect care.

Stop thinking that taxes won't rise across the board.

Stop thinking healthcare for all is a magic remedy.

I am an American, and an immigrant, and my healthcare here has been routinely phenomenal. There are issues everywhere. Please don't vote for someone who promises a magic solution.

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

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In honor of the Ides of March, my favorite Tiktok

It's sad, because the most down to earth people tend to be outdoorsmen. Hunters, fishers, campers, hikers, ect. All have a good relationship with nature and respect for maintaining it while thinking "climate change" is a bunch of hoopla. Everyone has a critique for the forest service and the braindead politicians making environmental decisions they don't understand, but it's not a political movement. Maybe it should be.

I don't like the stupid boomer insult, but everything else is spot on. Honestly, real environmentalism--things like conservation, supporting zoos, and limiting pollution--is something the right has a really big opportunity to be leaders on. Every aspect of environmentalism is infected by the climate cult. I've talked about it before, but you can't donate to any environmental cause without there being a good possibility that your money is going to go towards lobbying politicians to ban air conditioning or instituting a gas tax. Even things like zoos are infected. Every zoo I've been to in the last 5 years has listed climate change as one of the biggest--if not the biggest--reasons why species or their habitats are endangered. Every single natural disaster is blamed on climate change.

And all of this is possible only because the right ceded the entire environmental protection movement not just to the left, but to the craziest of the crazies. People who attack whaling boats and put spikes in trees to loggers get maimed when their chainsaws strike them. The environmental terrorists are the face of environmentalism. But at least in the past the slightly less crazy ones would publicly distance themselves from the ones actually committing terrorism, even if their efforts were lukewarm. These days, the World Is In Crisis! It's the Climate Emergency! The future of humanity and the planet are literally at stake, so nothing is too extreme in the face of extinction.

We really need some right wing environmental groups. Groups that recognize the need to preserve and cherish our land and wildlife, but who also understand economic and developmental reality, along with energy needs. Groups that will actually do things like fighting beach erosion or repopulating species or rebuilding habitats that were destroyed in natural disasters, not shutting down pipelines because oil makes them mad, or seizing people's private property because there's a puddle that's just big enough to qualify as a regulated body of water on their land. I know it's a fever dream at this point, but I really do think the environmental left has gotten so crazy and so insufferable that there's a real chance to move in and make those issues our own.

the next time someone wants to argue about "what is a woman", i'll just send them this post honestly

i told myself "hey i need to stop making uselessly long projects and just do simple easy quick stuff to work on my art". and i immediately got started on this thing

lydia davis

Crab Day!!!

Where:

Here on Tumblr!!

What:

Buy crabs!

Why:

As we now know, Tumblr is $30 million dollars in debt. Oops. Tumblr has announced some major (and unpopular) changes to the site in their attempt to get back above water. The alternative is that Tumblr ceases to exist. But maybe we can change that...

How:

There are 327 million unique tumblr visits per month, and almost 500 million active accounts. If 10 million unique users (or less, if we bought more than one) bought or gifted Crabs from the Tumblr store, we could knock out Tumblr's debt easily. Buy crabs!

When:

July 29, 2023 is Crab Day, running through August 5 (for anyone who can't log on that day) as Crab Week!

Who:

Everyone!! If you truly can't afford to participate with a $3 crab, (or other item from the shop) post crab memes!

Time for Tumblr users to rise again and surprise everyone...