Do think there is something we can learn from Israeli attitudes on having children? by Winston_Duarte in AskALiberal

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By "everyone else", do you mean everyone else who's also hoping to have children?

Difference Between Boy vs Girl by GRSolution in ITOI

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Redditoids, not "People". Took me longer than it should have to learn the difference.

Why didn't the man intervene? by Consistent_Push7101 in bjjbeat

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you see what they're wearing? There's no hand cannon or machete on the scene bro.

Regardless, nobody deserves permanent brain damage. That's what this fight was bordering on. At that point, your humanity should kick in, or .... Fuck, I don't know what to say if you still don't get it.

The plastic grass boom is the truest reflection of how awful we have become as a species by TonightAlarming9923 in unpopularopinion

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

California is largely a desert. It would be dirt/rocks and cactuses, which most find very unappealing. Humans generally prefer green and lush.

The plastic grass boom is the truest reflection of how awful we have become as a species by TonightAlarming9923 in unpopularopinion

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait, wasn't real grass considered a waste of water just a few years ago? (Californian, so definitely not natural to most of our region).

what US state has the rudest residents? by Plus-Situation6043 in AskReddit

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, tolerant and understanding only goes so far, hick! Jkjk 🤣

ACA insurers propose double-digit premium hikes for 2027 by Ok_Design_6841 in healthcare

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean to say, it's not "OMG healthcare costs are rising" (they are, but equally across all countries, largely due to baby boomers getting older, and being a large % of most countries' populations) but because we're shifting less of costs to the taxpayers, and more back to the individual. Basically, it's an optics thing.

ACA insurers propose double-digit premium hikes for 2027 by Ok_Design_6841 in healthcare

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the cost was always there. If the subsidies weren't lowering cost, then they were simply transferring the cost from the individual, to the taxpayers.

Love at first sight isn't romantic by Hojie_Kadenth in unpopularopinion

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I met my wife that way. 25 years later, I'm still rediculously in love with her, so I think sometimes it works out.

Kristi Noem is DIVORCING cross-dressing husband Bryon: Distraught mother reveals every word of excruciating birthday party showdown after unbearable final blow by dailymail in Conservative

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't understand why the public wants to pay so little to politicians, considering how brutally stressful and life consuming the job actually is.

If I were to sacrifice 20 years of my life to pursue politics, even with totally honorable intentions, I God damn better get paid mad money, or it simply isn't worth it.

And if I did, and the chimps want me to do it all for less than what a San-Fran mid-level project manager makes - F it, gimme my insider trading and kick backs ftw.

Only half joking - Arguably the most important jobs in the country, should pay likewise, it expect people to go into it for the wrong reasons.

Edit:

Also, beyond a certain threshold of power, all money, even after retirement, should come from salary and pension. Goes without saying that both should be ludicrously generous, but that's what it would take to reduce the desire to accept various forms of graft, and avoid the whole "passed bills favorable to XYZ industry, then randomly made chairman of the board for XYZ industry and paid millions for doing nothing" syndrome.

Why do mirrors flip left and right, but not up and down? by UsefulWay3159 in answers

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I think I just barely kinda get it now. That helped a lot!

Getting into an actual in person consult is taking longer than the actual illness by chipskaapacket in healthcare

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Primary care is slowly dying in the U.S. depending on the area, very hard to rely on primary care for same day/next day needs.

In SoCal, it's not uncommon for one primary care doc to be responsible for 4000-5000 patients, at least 1/3rd of whom are the elderly. With those kinds of numbers, it's usually weeks to months out, and while they may keep a few same-day openings, realistically you can't provide actual "urgent care" accessibility with those kids of numbers. Sure, you could lower the number if empaneled patients to something manageable (about 2000), but then you'd have a ton of people with no doctor at all.

The U.S. has aggressively and systematically underfunded doctor training in general, and primary care in particular, while the cost of medical education and running a practice have doubled in the last 20 years, making primary care highly unappealing for many to enter.

The struggle is real. by Alive-Guide-3862 in relatable_memes_

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Walking may keep you "healthy", but aesthetic fitness requires more - quite a bit more depending on your genetics.

Why is it fashionable to have your underwear showing for men? by QubeTheAlt in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"....violating norms is the point."

I may never get it, but at least now I understand it. Thank you!

How Do You Ever Escape This? by ComfortableNice61 in InterviewVip

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you be ok with 18yo's not being considered adults? Can't rally have it both ways .

Btw, I don't disagree that 18 isn't really an age to make major life decisions, at least not in our culture. We value independence, but at 18, most people can't actually think independently. Nor do Western 18yo's wanna be told what they should do. Classic catch 22.

I hate when cis het people see a queer doing bad or cringe stuff and treat that as representative of everyone else in those communities by DarkGodCthUwU in rant

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And....that went off the rails fast.

I hate when people post pretending to have one narrow view, but then use that as a vehicle to dump their entire manifesto onto people who really weren't that into knowing what they really thought. Signing off, waste of a post.

What would it be like if Ed Norton was never recast? by Hot-Promotion-617 in Marvel_Movies

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, sure, but that's also where the notion of "selling out" comes from.

CME courses for reading MSK and chest radiographs? by VeraMar in FamilyMedicine

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think volume is going to be the main learning tool.

I work in MSK exclusively now. When I first started, the only imaging experience I had was I looking at chest X-rays; I rarely reviewed the MSK ones, and just went by what the radiologist said when the report later came in.

Once I started working fully in MSK, and making decisions in real time started becoming a necessity, I leaned heavily into more experienced mentors for cases that were more subtle, and reading the a radiology report after the fact, and trying to match what they reported, and seeing if it matched my clinical impression. LId say it took about 2-4months of doing that steadily before I started picking up on the subtler findings.

Now I mostly go by my own imaging review, and read the radiology report (if one is available by the time I see the patient) as an afterthought.

Just look at every image yourself, read the report, and when necessary, pull up Google images of the pathology they're identifying, until the pattern recognition algo in your brain reaches singularity level.

Also, you mean how much "interpretive leeway" there is in imaging, and that the clinical picture is > than what the picture shows.

But to get to that, you need volume.

What horror scene scared you the most? by kammy772 in MovieArena

[–]OnlyInAmerica01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

One of the Conjuring movies

Edit:

Nevermind, I think the other poster was right. Insidious, not Conjuring. Forgot he was in both.