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She was bed ridden for like a week before they figured out what want wrong. Turns out she needed a blood transfusion. A week in the ICU is really expensive, though. We still haven't paid that bill. The best part about all this is that I do believe we'll eventually get universal healthcare in this country. That said, there's no way past medical debts will ever be forgiven for folks. If they were, some dipshit in Congress will demand that count as income, because we suck.

With our third kid, we got hit with more than that with an in hospital natural delivery with the best and most complete insurance package my company has to offer in a state with great healthcare all because my wife had the audacity to almost die shortly after child birth. I should also note that ambulance rides in this country are hilariously overpriced. I've mentioned it before, but my son needed surgery at 1 month old. Our local hospital couldn't perform surgery on someone that young so we had to move him to another hospital. We tried to not do that in an ambulance, but we were required to. It was an hour long drive and we were charged thousands. He was strapped into his car seat the entire way with my wife riding along next to him. The ambulance was literally just a taxi from one hospital to another.

Medical debt is one of the biggest stressors in this country. Even with insurance, people can very easily be saddled with tens of thousands of dollars they have no way of paying. Debt that limits what jobs they can get and where they can even live.

We're the same age. I don't think I've ever said "17 year old woman". I mean, my wife says I sound old when I refer to people in their early 20s as kids.

I have family that works at the VA that tells me the same thing. I've always assumed it's a combination of depression and "therapy is for pussies".

The problem with Cats is they went backwards. CG cats on practical sets makes zero sense when they could have just done practical cats on CG sets. Full CG could be tricky, though. Sounds like he might be looking into going the Avatar route...maybe just a little less real? Avatar meets Speed Racer? I'd really love for this to actually work, but that sounds really hard to pull off.

Someone Photoshop a bo staff into Taylor Swift's hands. First, I really hope they go practical with the makeup. Second, wearing clothes will make it so much less creepy than whatever this is.

And now Nike has to sue MSCHF because Republicans are stupid. Nike sues over Lil Nas X’s ‘unauthorized Satan Shoes’ WWW.THEVERGE.COM MSCHF is selling 666 pairs of the $1,018 sneakers. I'm going to guess they'll settle out of court for an undisclosed sum of like $5 that Nike's lawyers will then "accidentally" drop on their way out of the bank. @marioandsonic Ha, thanks for making me realize I posted this in the wrong thread

Never. I just usually use she since Godzilla has totally laid eggs in the past. I doubt I'm at all consistent here, though. Not like the movies are either. I think you're right. These are important questions in 2021.

That's what I'm saying. I don't really watch much wrestling these days, but I watched a WHOLE lot of wrestling I'm the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. If they're looking to chop out the offensive segments, but not pull the entire episode, there are going to be a whole bunch of 15 minute episodes all over the place.

Peacock pulls racist WWE segments from streaming service WWW.THEVERGE.COM Some fans are displeased with Peacock for deleting history. I guess that explains why they're saying they won't have the entire library up until August.

What's wild is that it's not even a focus for Fox News either, but I'm assuming the issue there is that he isn't brown enough to tick the right boxes on their outrage machine. Either that or it was too close to the last shooting and they don't want their viewers to think mass shootings are an issue in this country.

He should keep it up. Leave them in outrage mode over petty stuff like this.

Probably because they both went on shooting sprees. I'm actually not sure if the Atlanta shooter is technically a mass murder either. Mass shootings usually involve shooting around four or more people as you can in as short a time as possible. I guess the Atlanta shooter might count here. These two guys ran around and shot one person here, one person there, and so on. Like, they're all terrible people, but they likely won't show up listed below... https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting Oh, hey look, 15 people shot in Chicago eleven days ago. At least 15 people shot, 2 killed in mass shooting on South Side - Chicago Monitor CHICAGOMONITOR.COM CHICAGO — At least 15 people were shot at a party Sunday morning in Chicago’s Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, leaving at least two people dead, according to police. Police say 39-year-old Lionel... I didn't know about that one...or the 8 in Dallas this past Saturday... Dallas Police Identify Jonathanlacory Rogers As Suspect In Deadly Shooting At Pryme Bar Nightclub DFW.CBSLOCAL.COM Police said Rogers, 21, is wanted for murder and seven counts of aggravated assaults with a deadly weapon. I guess the are so many of them in the US, they don't make national news unless more than a few people die.

I don't think responding to that tweet is working out very well for Amazon. Amazon denies stories of workers peeing in bottles, receives a flood of evidence in return WWW.THEVERGE.COM Amazon fails to hold back the tide.

Will NYPD now be stopped from harassing folks because they smell marijuana? I wonder what excuse cops come up with next when they can no longer lean on "I smell weed".

Facebook has tens of thousands of human moderators that deal with shit worse than what is already out in the open. The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America WWW.THEVERGE.COM "I’m fucked up." The stuff with white supremacists and Nazis are just allowed because they have high engagement and isn't technically illegal.

Their AI can handle it fine. They specifically don't want it too. It's just that simple. Internal teams at Facebook have figured this out over and over again, only to have Zuck squash it.

Sounds like this will wind up going through a few hurdles while Sony explains how Netflix and Amazon are their chief anime competitors. The Justice Department is worried about an anime monopoly after the Sony deal WWW.THEVERGE.COM Anime is yet another place where streaming services are competing Nobody else is airing anime simulcasts outside of Funimation and Crunchyroll, so that's not great. That only changes if Netflix decides to offer some anime simulcasts the way they've opened up to the idea with a few other foreign dramas.

Sorry, yeah, the Homestar projector was also cheaper on Amazon Japan than in the US. Looks like it'll be the same for the Astro Mini. Good to know all the menus are in English. This week look nice next to my Mini Neo Geo.

If it's just a packaging difference then I'll just do that. Amusingly, the last thing I bought on Amazon Japan was another Sega toy. In that case, though, it was one of their Homestar planetarium projectors for my kids. Still cheaper to buying it from here in the US.

I HIGHLY doubt anyone is going to weigh you at the time of vaccination.

SEGA Astro City Mini LIMITEDRUNGAMES.COM This item has not gone on sale yet. It will be available on Friday, March 26th at 10AM Eastern Time. The Astro City Mini is a functional miniature version of the full-sized arcade cabinet that goes by the same name, and it includes 37 playable games. The Mini features a built-in LCD screen, but if you’re interested in There are only 3500 of them and they go on sale starting the 26th. I fully expect to not be able to buy one when they wind up in scalpers' hands come 10:01AM ET on Friday.

St. Martin de Porres School: White headmaster placed on leave after telling a Black student to kneel and apologize 'the African way' - CNN AMP.CNN.COM The White headmaster of a Catholic school on Long Island has been placed on leave following reports that he had a Black student kneel in apology last month, calling it "the African way" to apologize.