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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My son was in the hospital for 4 days and the charge was $20,000.
The ER visit before admitting was a separate $2,000 charge.

We have insurance, so we only had to pay around $8,000 out of pocket. It would have been less, but some of the people in the hospital didn't take our insurance, and our insurance also said that some procedures were overpriced so they only paid the amount they thought was fair.

We didn't get to pick any of the people who provided care, and we were not presented with the ability to negotiate on prices to make sure our insurance wasn't being taken advantage of while they were doing respiratory therapy on our baby.

Our entire system needs to be torn the fuck down and be replaced with something entirely free. I don't even give a fuck about people abusing the system at this point. Fuck it, let it cover elective cosmetic surgery. Never say no to anyone unless the doctor says it first.
My taxes will go up, but I can fucking promise they won't go up by as much as I'd be saving in premium.
Because of right, I pay hundreds of dollars a month for the insurance that then only pays once I get fucked hard enough, and then still doesn't pay for all of it.
Fuck the entire industry, fire them all and seize their assets.

And I'm well off compared to a lot of people.

[–] priusdrivingcunt@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

Better yet, have Mario pay them a visit. They have more than earned it! 👹

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 8 months ago

Our entire system needs to be torn the fuck down and be replaced with something entirely free. I don’t even give a fuck about people abusing the system at this point.

Make a lemmy community and make people subscribe who want change.