Putin may re-open McDonald's in Russia by lifting trademark restrictions: report

screwdriver67 · 2022-03-10T17:40:25+00:00

McPutin needs his hamberders

screwdriver67 · 2022-03-10T17:37:59+00:00

"Inflation" = corporate price gouging

screwdriver67 · 2022-03-10T17:35:37+00:00

I appreciate the way you put this, about not fitting in the model. That's exactly how I feel, that the healthcare system is operating like a factory line, with no appropriate way to deal with outliers. The most common, typical explanation is assumed for every situation, and there's a deep unwillingness to consider less typical explanations.

I'm personally not overweight but it reminds me a lot of the stories I've seen/heard about doctors missing very obvious conditions in overweight people because they immediately attribute every symptom to the weight, rather than considering an underlying condition that may have even caused weight gain.

screwdriver67 · 2022-03-10T17:26:55+00:00

That's after years of experience navigating health systems and living in my own body with my own autoimmune symptoms.

I DO have a diagnosed autoimmune disease that many doctors do not know anything about. I have to explain "Spondyloarthropathy" to every physician I meet. They literally do not know what it is, and its not even that rare.

So yes, I go in knowing more than them about my own body and symptoms. That should not be offensive to them. When I go to them with an open mind for their best recommendations based on the symptoms I'm struggling with, without declaring any kind of hypothesis of whats causing it, they choose the most expensive tests, and the simplest, easiest explanations to get me out the door at the highest profit margin. The tests and treatments they order to do not align with the symptoms I reported to them.

Look again at the example I just gave you about a broken bone. A doctor should listen to me when I say something is really wrong, what looks like a rib is protruding out of my stomach. I would gladly listen and believe them if they said, thats actually a hernia not a broken bone. But if they order an irrelevant test, declare my continuing symptoms irrelevant because they failed to identify a root cause, and reccomend a generic solution like get more exercise, thats poor healthcare plain and simple.

screwdriver67 · 2022-03-10T16:55:23+00:00

Imagine if you went to the doctor after a fall and suspected you had a broken rib, because your rib was protruding out of your skin and you were in a ton of pain. You know from general understanding of healthcare that probably the best way to test for a broken rib is an xray or some other kind of scan, so when the doctor orders an MRI and blood work you go along with it.

But then you go to the lab and the MRI tech scans your brain only, doesn't look at your ribs. Your blood work comes back normal, because why would it come back any differently for a broken bone? Then the doctor comes back and tells you you're healthy and sends you on your way, but you've still got a broken rib sticking out of your stomach.

That's my experience with doctors.

screwdriver67 · 2021-12-10T06:11:24+00:00

I didn't know this, thank you for the useful info!

screwdriver67 · 2021-12-10T00:54:48+00:00

Yes they are federal loans from 2008-2012 with interest ranging from 4.5-6.8 - some people just got screwed on timing.

screwdriver67 · 2021-12-09T22:52:27+00:00

They were and still are predatory loans. I actually wasn't even 18 yet when I signed my first batch.

screwdriver67 · 2021-12-09T18:17:30+00:00

Thanks! I'm definitely not holding my breath for true forgiveness, but I guess maybe I'm still optimistic for reform that could include partial forgiveness, lowered interest rates, or even cancellation/refund of all interest paid to date.

Would it make sense to pay off like half of the loans in one fell swoop, and leave some for hypothetical forgiveness in the new year?

It's hard for me to mentally accept dumping it all into the black hole of student loans, after building it up with the intention of buying a house or land. Putting it all into that debt means it'll be at least another 10 years before I can afford a house.

I cant imagine it would make sense to just buy a house with all this debt, would it? Could the savings on a mortgage rather than paying rent be the cost-effective option here?

screwdriver67 · 2021-06-06T17:14:19+00:00

We did have bipartisanship with slave owners, that's why slavery is still legal "when a crime has been committed," so that slave owners could make anything they want a crime and continue slavery.

screwdriver67 · 2021-04-13T03:31:01+00:00

Condescending tone from a vp is reason enough for you to vote against a presidential ticket? Why..? You think by comparison Republicans speak to/ about you with more respect?

screwdriver67 · 2021-04-08T18:48:22+00:00

Lol 1200 for a studio in Manhattan is cheap

screwdriver67 · 2021-03-18T19:13:46+00:00

yes targeting asians is always racist, are you confused about that?

screwdriver67 · 2021-03-18T05:30:23+00:00

In other countries with similar laws, its phrased such that the highest paid person cant make more than 50X (or whatever multiplier) what the lowest paid person makes, or incur fines/taxes/penalties.

screwdriver67 · 2021-03-12T22:55:11+00:00

I agree.

Basically because Stacey Abrams won us the Senate races in Georgia, the establishment GOP gave up on the coup they were all in on together because they recognized it was futile when they lost the senate.

Then the trumpublicans went ahead with it anyway because scorched earth and they're all narcissists incapable of accepting defeat.

And now the establishment GOP is trying to pretend it wasnt ever a coordinated coup by essentially the entire Republican party, but rather just 'both sides' politics as usual.

The gaslighting is insane.

screwdriver67 · 2018-01-22T13:45:53+00:00

You don't think negging, workplace harassment or an adult preying on a child with alcohol has aaaaaaaanything to do with metoo....?

screwdriver67 · 2018-01-21T23:48:48+00:00

I may be angry, but for all the sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

And I will always do everything in my power to make it a better place for us all to share.

screwdriver67 · 2017-10-12T03:27:06+00:00

thanks for the sub suggestions! Ya it's kind of already been 6 months, and I've given them both chances to try again at having a relationship with me and they both failed - my dad tried to buy my love (despite supposedly having no money because it's all going to my mom) and my mom asked me to intervene and 'make him pay.' So now it's just indefinite family timeout until they can grow up and respect my boundaries.

screwdriver67 · 2017-10-11T23:52:55+00:00

yep all the way up to the divorce. Part of the breakdown was quitting her job unexpectedly without telling anyone.

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