why is it that people are ashamed to say they still love animated films?
why, if given the choice, would i not want to see a film where every frame has been beautifully designed/drawn/cgi-ed/CREATED FROM SCRATCH through the work of incredibly skilled human hands and amazing technology??
why as an adult can i not just be allowed to appreciate these films even more???
Iâm a bit sad that Pepsi didnât decide to open up a PMC branch after buying up part of the Soviet navy in the 90âs
wait WHAT
âThe USSR offered to pay Pepsi with a fleet of diesel ships. Pepsi accepted the deal because they knew that it was the only way to continue to sell Pepsi in the USSR. The agreement included 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer, which were sold to a Swedish company for scrap recycling. Those 17 submarines made Pepsi become, for a few days, the 6th largest military power in the world by number of diesel submarines. The president of Pepsi, Donald Kendall, told the National Security Adviser of USA: âWe are disarming the USSR faster than youâ.â
i looked up the song thats playing in the background only to discover that the guy in the smiley face hoody literally wrote and recorded it this is his song
If youâre trying to catch a housecat thatâs gotten outside, donât forget: theyâre an ambush predator and youâre a persistence predator.
You have several times more endurance than they do – use that to your advantage!
Donât run after them; thatâs playing to the catâs strengths, and vigorous pursuit may cause them to hide. Instead, follow them at a brisk walking pace until they get tired and need to have a lie-down, at which point you can simply pick them up and take them home.
Ok but no shit this tactic is what allowed humans to survive pre-civilisation
Some mammoth: *chilling, eating grass, mammothing*
Itâs wild to me, the people who are willing to stan things like big pharma and health insurance companies in the US like somehow the cost of things isnât arbitrary and absolutely made for profit.
Just saw a comment that said âI donât think people realize how expensive health care actually is, itâs not like pill companies are out to make a profitâ like, Iâm sorry, my migraine meds which I can get for free or for a significantly lower cost in nearly every other country in the world, would cost me $120 per month in the US if I chose to fill the prescription. And yes, thatâs generic. And yes, thatâs with health insurance. My health insurance doesnât cover them.
My epi pens, a literal life saving rescue med, if I canât get a generic non auto-injector or if I donât have a coupon, can cost me $600 per pen. And youâre supposed to carry two and replace them yearly.
For that price I can literally fly home to the UK for two weeks and have them replaced for free (Iâm a UK citizen before anyone gets their knickers in a bunch about freeloading scroungers), and still have an extra $100-400 to play with depending on the time of year I fly out.
I literally plan trips home based around when my meds need refilled, because itâs works out cheaper than trying to get a pharmacy in the US that takes my insurance and provides generic non automated adrenaline pens.
Thatâs fucked up.
And it is absolutely because health insurance companies and âbig pharmaâ are in cahoots over how much profit they want to make from tragic events and debilitating illnesses. Meanwhile people die cause itâs a choice between food for their kids or insulin for their diabetes.
But go off I guess.
Another thing that ticks me off is people who go âoh just get new insurance if yours is too expensiveâ like I didnât already think of that, and am also not restricted with who will cover me because Iâm an immigrant.
Cause oh yeah, thatâs a thing.
Anyone that says âwell immigrants come here to get free healthcareâ are absolutely talking out of their asses.
âOh but we meant the illegalsâŚâ except you cannot get Medicaid or state equivalent without an official alien green card number??? So thatâs false???
âBut I heardâŚâ well ya heard wrong.
Free health care is such a weird phenomenon to me.
We have state clinics, which are cheaper than private hospitals. You still pay for your treatment though. Medical insurance is ridiculously expensive, and not a âBenefitâ with most jobs in my country. Youâre lucky if you land that gig.
My husband tore a ligament a year back, we carted him off to the state hospital, he sat in line for 9 hours, had a quick xray to confirm and was sent home with aspirin. That was the extent of the help he got.
I had my wisdom teeth removed in a private hospital. Iâm deathly allergic to tramal, which is the painkiller they inject you with after you come out of surgery. Noted on my chart and medical alert bracelet. I felt confident that the doctors wouldnât inject me with the thing that could kill me.
I guessed wrong.
If I hadnât asked the doctor what he was injecting me with ( still high on anaesthetic, fyi) he would have killed me. Do you know what he said to me when I told him I was allergic? âHOW allergic?â đ.
Pharma companies, healthcare in general? No one cares. Pay, donât pay. Youâre going to suffer regardless. All that matters is how much money they can make off of you.
âFreeâ healthcare isnt all its made out to be. The british NHS will do everything they can to blame YOU for anything that is wrong or that you need treatment for. If your BMI is over the optimim 18 to 25 points youâre screwed. Flu? Too fat. Broken Ankle? Too fat. Polycystic Ovaries? Too fat. Asthma? Too fat. Everything you would not have if you lost weight. Oh you have despression and are self harming? Well if you lost weight⌠do you see where this is going?
Also prescriptions; in Scotland and Wales prescriptions are free. But in England unless you have a medical exemption card youâre paying. I have asthma and regularly have to replace my inhalers for various reason; lose them, break them, they run out. I earn less than ÂŁ7k a year so i earn less than someone who claims benefits. The one exception is if they are what are classed as âlife saving drugsâ you dont have to pay.
Doc: If you dont carry your inhaler and have an attack youâre screwed and could die.
Me: Oh ok. So can i get a medical exemption card? These things are getting expensive.
Doc: Nope
Me: But you said if i dont have my inhaler i could die from an asthma attack.
Doc: Exemption cards are only for Life Saving Drugs.
Me: But you just said i have to carry my inhaler or else i could die. It could literally save my life.
Doc: Nope. Inhalers arent considered life saving drugs.
Me: butâŚ
Oh and lets get onto mental health care. I was diagnosed with post natal depression after i lost my first child. That then turned into the fairly rarely diagnosed pre-natal depression when i was pregnant with Superpup.
After he was born the trauma of his birth and the isolation that came with being a new mother tipped me back into severe post natal depression again. I found the strength to seek help and my GP referred me to a state shrinkâŚ
I walk into his office and before iâve even sat down he comments that he wished new mums didnt bring their babies with them. Then he told me (not asked) to tell him the history, asked some very emotionally painful questions before telling me to âsnap out of it before you get committedâ.
He then suggested i would feel better if i lost weight and was happy to write me a prescription for amphetamines that would make me very active and happy.
I told him to fuck off and stormed out.
So no, free healthcare isnt all its cracked up to be.
Oh friend. I got news for you. Private for cost care doesnât remove any of that shit.
It just means Iâm getting charged $500 per 20 minute appointment to be told itâs my fault.
That isnât a money or cost issue, itâs a systemic ussue of the sexism, the racism and ableism that is permitted to run riot in the medical world, regardless of cost.
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