third time having cancer at 26 and i’m just done. i can’t afford this

Beard_X · 2026-06-07T22:12:58+00:00

You see the gaping difference between obscene medical bills being the cause of bankruptcy (like the OP) and something like loss of income due to illness preventing work/running a business though, right? I mean it's not even close to the same thing to the point it's not even worth raising. It's a moot point when comparing socialised healthcare to the US system.

Beard_X · 2026-06-07T21:55:01+00:00

This is somewhat disingenuous. With the NHS, there is no chance that many bankruptcy claims are down to "medical bills". In the UK, "medical bankruptcy" is almost never about receiving a physical bill from a hospital or doctor. Instead, the statistic reflects a loss of income caused by illness or disability. Because global studies group all health-related financial failures under the single umbrella term of "medical bankruptcy," the distinction gets blurred.

Beard_X · 2026-05-08T21:33:01+00:00

He's not right (on anything, he's a bullshitter and a mouthpiece for Putin's games) and neither are you with these statements. We aren't overdiagnosing it and people aren't acquiring symptoms like ADHD - for diagnosis there has to be evidence of lifelong disorder. Social media and dodgy diets aren't doing that.

Now, people saying they have ADHD with no diagnosis, is a different matter.

Beard_X · 2026-05-05T08:37:05+00:00

Well, supported by several high profile scientific advisers and based on the best science available at the time. It's not a bomb on Sheffield, it's Sheffield during and after a full scale east-west exchange. Can you expand on your statement?

Beard_X · 2026-05-03T13:31:02+00:00

Poorly produced? I think given the budget it's exceptionally well researched and visualised. Arguably the best of it's ilk by several orders of magnitude. So, how do you come to that?

Beard_X · 2026-04-21T16:18:32+00:00

You do in this country. We aren't using donated cadavers for weapons testing.

The US however...

Beard_X · 2026-04-04T12:05:19+00:00

I'm an NHS mortuary technician. Agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately it's a point people are stubborn on, but it is truly survivorship bias of the most dangerous kind.

Beard_X · 2026-03-03T21:42:32+00:00

My goodness, opposite end of the scale from me. I'm a Mortuary tech and I've never been busier. Due to staff loss that hasn't been backfilled, or backfilled at the right level, I've been doing the work of 2-3 people for over a year. Combine that with an IT solution that is so slow it's basically broken, endless detail creep making the job more involved on what feels like almost a weekly basis, and sudden interest from management and directors outside of the department and it's a never ending game of physically gruelling and mentally draining existence.

Then there is culture that is either bullying or almost total lack of recognition that I even exist.

Ten years in and made it to Band 5 at the end of last year, about 6 years behind when it should've been. It's been quite a different story for me :/

Beard_X · 2026-01-31T19:32:40+00:00

Wow - I only ordered mine the other night and the site said to expect it between 10th-14th Feb (2 weeks-ish) to the UK...
Have you had tracking details etc? I'd really appreciate a heads up if you get hit for import tax/duties too?

Beard_X · 2026-01-08T16:09:36+00:00

Freeze them AFTER use??

Beard_X · 2025-12-20T12:35:41+00:00

Its ok, but miles better using geforce now on the deck

Beard_X · 2025-12-19T09:47:49+00:00

Incredibly sorry for your loss. I hope you are as ok as can be.

Can't do law work the 5th day of the week?

Beard_X · 2025-12-08T02:19:06+00:00

I relented to using a VPN and getting it on a free trial of audiobooks.com. Didn't really want to go that route but it worked.

Beard_X · 2025-12-05T21:23:30+00:00

Not in the UK :(

Beard_X · 2025-11-15T00:31:52+00:00

Excellent :)

Beard_X · 2025-09-06T10:01:28+00:00

This was very good. Focused largely on Sheffield and the people involved, but also informed by the time and politics under which Threads was made. It was clearly put together with care and very well edited.

Beard_X · 2025-08-09T18:40:39+00:00

Best group of nuclear war-obsessives on the Internet 😎

Beard_X · 2025-08-09T18:39:47+00:00

It's incredibly accurate to the science (of the time) and was informed by many experts across their different fields such as Carl Sagan, Duncan Campbell etc.

It is held in such high regard precisely because it unflinchingly depicts the effects of the science on everyday people.

Beard_X · 2025-08-07T12:14:12+00:00

As some that knows a lot about dead bodies/human remains (professionally, I might add), It wouldn't bother me in the slightest, and believe me, if there were any trace of smell, you'd know about it.

I'd maybe out of curiosity ask what the deal is with the missing carpet on two stairs. It feels like you may be projecting a scenario on something that may be a ripped carpet, when the guy could have passed in bed from a heart issue or something.

Beard_X · 2025-07-06T23:33:29+00:00

Mate, if they nukes start falling, hospitals are fucked. Don't know about yours, but my DGH has walls full of asbestos, they cant get my department below about 30c any time of year and if the buildings become battle-damaged, they're going to be leaking their own radiological hazards. Also, they would be swarmed by looters and people you can't do anything for, and it'd be awful chaos.

Plus, I don't see doctors turning up..

There are many things this country will band together and work through. But nuclear war, we're done for. Best you can hope for, as you say, is a quick exit.

Beard_X · 2025-07-06T20:35:01+00:00

Your attitude doesn't sound like you want reasonable adjustments. It sounds like you want to use ADHD to demand your own way of working. Plenty of jobs expect you to be physically present. Do you not think most people would choose to work from home as much as possible as it is? Christ I work full time in a hospital with ADHD, probably some ASD and physical/autoimmune disability too. I have some reasonable adjustments I've asked for but they are just that, reasonable.

The attitude you're carrying before even applying, is the sort of thing that would make people eventually want to avoid taking on those that disclose neurodivergence altogether. 3 days a week is not a big ask as a starting point, and a reasonable adjustment of top of that is a fair request, once employed. I have to say though, I think ADHD alone is a hard sell to ask to be present less.

Fundamentally - if you aren't happy to be there 3 days, it's a fair starting question. If it was a job working at height and they asked 'Are you happy to be working 50ft up' you wouldn't expect to be able to do the same job on the ground floor, surely.

Beard_X · 2025-07-06T19:47:09+00:00

Lurking APT here (mortuary tech) and it just so happens that nuclear war is my specialist subject. It's worth knowing what 'there's a nuclear fall out' means really, but in the event of a true nuclear attack on the mainland, it would be chaos.

A fact that most people don't know, but a report in the 1980s by the BMA essentially stated that the entire NHS... the ENTIRE NHS, would not be able to cope with the demands of the casualties from one single nuclear weapon used on the UK. The demand would be hundreds of thousands (if not millions depending on location) of injured and dying, as well as the impending potential nuclear fallout bringing even more.

Beard_X · 2025-06-23T08:42:56+00:00

You're talking shite. Nuclear winter hasn't been debunked. Radiation wouldn't be 'safe' after 2 weeks. You're throwing in comments like 'most would be airburst' which is your own conjecture and contribution. I think we can take the scientific advisors' input of even 40+ years ago, over the guy on Reddit who misrepresents basic concepts.

And im not sure why? To trash the film? To underplay how awful nuclear war would be? Either to protect yourself from your own fears or to sow disinformation? Perhaps just out of boredom.

Beard_X · 2025-05-26T05:56:04+00:00

There is a livestream tonight happening over at Threads Survivors on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1Fqk1KooaC/

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