A Boring Dystopia

YouTube version https://youtu.be/yRfhcDQ3LSI

With Tesla, you can turn a $2,442 windshield installation into a $3,174 windshield installation through the power of interest.

This is being reported by the Teslasphere as an "excellent option" to restore affordability.

Neither of those numbers is even vaguely affordable, but the higher one can be reduced to bite-sized chunks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32342093

Transcript of the video:

If you think that Medicaid cuts will not directly impact you, you are wrong.

Medicaid is the invisible backbone that keeps our entire healthcare industry functioning, working, [and] funded.

Without Medicaid, therapy clinics close, special education staff members are let go, [and] premiums skyrocket. Crowding in hospitals is out of control because patients who were receiving Medicaid services at home end up in hospitals. Wait-lists become unmanageable. And people die.

Basically, the entire healthcare system will go belly-up and we will all feel it.

So, if the fact that 50,000 Americans – many of which will be children – will die [every year] doesn't motivate you to call your Senators, maybe the fact that you will directly feel the impact will?

I don't know; I've tried to film this a thousand times and I cry every time so this is my last take.

Description written by the creator for the video:

You might think this doesn’t affect you because your kid isn’t disabled or your family isn’t on Medicaid but that’s just not how this works.

Medicaid is the invisible backbone of the entire care system. It pays for the speech therapist at your kid’s school. It keeps your neighbor’s medically fragile kid out of the ICU. It funds the home nurses, the therapy clinics, the medical supply companies, and the hospitals. Medicaid keeps systems running for everyone.

Disability isn’t a niche issue. If you live long enough, you’ll either become disabled or love someone who is. This isn’t only a “poor or disabled” issue. It’s everyone’s issue.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32208492

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It was supposed to be a golfer’s paradise.

Now, with a do-or-die deadline to approve a massive 300% water rate hike or face going completely dry, the Central California community of Diablo Grande is at a crossroads.

Now you can add water woes to the list of issues facing Diablo Grande. The community’s residents must approve a jaw-dropping water rate increase from $145 to $569 monthly — nearly a 300% jump — or watch their taps run dry on June 30.

Residents took over management of the water service in 2020, along with its mountain of debt. They face a June 30 deadline to approve the rate hike; otherwise, the agency says, water service to the development will be shut off.

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2358847

Imagine a taxi that can't operate in the rain. That is what Tesla has delivered in Austin TX.

These riders learned that the hard way, but don't have anything particularly negative to say about it... That's the advantage of only making a Robotaxi service available to hand-picked Tesla influencers.

Climate activists have lit themselves on fire trying to warn people of the looming catastrophe, and people still don't care because they are too scientifically illiterate. We are now in the "denial about ignorance" phase, in which convince ourselves we can somehow still ameliorate scientific illiteracy through bizarre methods like humor, sports, and fashion. We'll lol them into understanding math and science, this article suggests. Well, it's probably not worse than doing nothing, possibly?

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/44520548

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