I read a story where an elderly dementia patient died during a helicopter ambulance ride that cost more than value of the family home. The craziest part is that insurance would have paid a fraction of the price, but the ambulance service had no reason to negotiate with an estate that had an asset to take.
Normally I wouldn't feel too bad about someone not getting their inheritance, but the daughter had moved in to keep her mom from going to a nursing home.
Dragon Quest Builders. It's a collect and build stuff block game with the dragon quest creatures, it's relaxing. My only gripe is that the combat is way too easy, and that's coming from someone who sucks at games.
I only do hotels when I visit my family for holidays, but the ones I stay at have been way more expensive than they were 5 years ago.
They're also worse quality. My biggest gripe is that they put the AC on a motion sensor, so it stops working when you go to sleep. I'd be fine with it if the room stayed cool, but when you're on a higher floor it the heat rises. Climate control used the be the most basic feature of a hotel room.
I'm training for a 10k race and it's going pretty well. I'm running farther and faster than I've ever done. I probably won't actually compete in the race since it's $60, but I'm going to run the route and try to hit my goal time.
On other fronts I'm not doing as well. I've got to go back to work sometime late this year after 15 years out of the workforce. I've been trying to simulate what'll be like by volunteering, but I'm having trouble getting along with people. I feel like quitting because it's making me more anxious.
I'm just going to try to stay positive and not worry about it.
Not surprising from the guy that wants to have an Olympics with unlimited drug use. He wants someone else to be the test subjects for the research chemicals he's been experimenting on himself with.
I love how these tech dipshits believe so hard in meritocracy. They really think being rich means they're smarter than everyone else, including actual scientists. He really thinks he'll find the cure for death by trying random drugs and using blood boys. Instead he's tweaking and choking back vomit.
Did not know that. Won't be resubscribing
The reason those brands have crazy names is that they're rebranding stuff they bought from the actual manufacturer. Amazon will let any seller list identical products on the same listing, unless your brand name is trademarked. So to prevent another seller from using their (paid) product reviews, listing images, SEO, and advertising spend they make a new trademark. Because it takes a long time and a lot of legal work to find out if your trademark is unique for your product category, they make it something crazy that's never been used for anything so there's no chance they later lose their exclusive product listing.
I can't imagine a cop spending doing anything about it besides arresting you for trying to break into it.
They'll just use their magic words that get them out of protecting anyone but the bourgeoisie, "It's a civil matter".
It depends a lot on the game. I've played a lot of switch games with no problems on my 12600k and 6800xt. The new Zelda game was really hard to play, though, even with all of the various performance tweaks and mods available 3 months after the launch. Frame rate drops, glitches, timing flaws, bugs, etc. It's probably in a better state now, but I got sick of trying the latest settings and mods and still having issues.
What I don't get is why did almost everyone in government and media try so hard to prove it wasn't a lab leak? Wouldn't it serve their hegemonic goals to have Americans think the evil CCP is making bioweapons and simultaneously organizationally incompetent because communism?
While I acknowledge I am not smart enough to have an informed opinion on this subject, I've read stuff on both sides of the argument that make sense to me. The overwhelming effort to shout down anyone saying it was a lab leak makes me skeptical of the natural origin narrative.
This is like stackoverflow or most Linux forums. Aggressively dickish, condescending and arrogant. A bunch of people who are trying to look smart by trashing someone for daring to come into their community and ask a relevant question.
"Did you even use the search function(that one doesn't work for shit)?
I can't believe you're so lazy that you want someone to spoon-feed you answers on this questions and answer site.
I am far to busy and have better things to do than answer your questions on this support forum. I will however write several paragraphs chastising you, I have time for that."
That was Chicago.
I think we'll see more of this stuff. It's just too tempting for politicians. They can fill a budget hole, lower property taxes, etc, and make it some future administrations problem. Especially if they structure it with a gradual increase in prices.
It's like taxing people 50 years in the future but getting to spend the money now.