You might be mixing up urgent care with emergency care. Urgent care is a walk-in for sicknesses etc. If I tried to make an appointment with my primary physician, it’s like 2 months out, minimum. Another awful part of our current system.

I came down with flu symptoms this week and went to the local urgent care. Waited an hour to be seen, they did a rapid flu and covid swab and it came back negative. They told me that the flu strain going around right now doesn’t test positive for a few days and that it’s probably the flu given all of the symptoms. They told me that I am young and healthy enough so I should just take Tylenol and drink fluids and ride it out. All in all it took 2 hours and there was a $100 co-pay with my insurance that I pay out the ass for. No tamiflu script. This medical system is trash. Every time I get sick my wife urges me to go to urgent care and I’m like “no, they are completely unhelpful and it costs too much money”

I would be much more willing to go if it didn’t cost so much and take so long.

One of these days something is actually going to be wrong, and my distrust for the medical system is going to land me in the hospital for something that was treatable.

The ones that fantasize about killing did.

Yeah, and why wasn’t Miley Cyrus at the Hanna Montana concert?

So what you’re saying is that having these thugs run around in schools and streets abducting people and shooting civilians is innefective? I’m not sure you are making the point you think you are making.

Yup, there it is. At first I was like “well it routes them to the sellers website, so that’s good, right?”

But I had to stop and think “No. That’s not how Amazon operates. What’s in it for them?”

And it’s this. This is 1000% the plan.

I think there was even one more evolution where the plastic caps came in a strip instead of a ring. The strip was put in a magazine that slid into the bottom of the pistol. Most of them just moved the strip up as they fired, but if I recall correctly there were even ones that cut each cap off individually after firing it and ejected it like an empty shell. Awful for litter, but pretty cool for cap gun technology. I am pretty sure all of this stuff has been banned where I live.

Yup. I learned cursive in the 2nd or 3rd grade. Probably the last time I used it as well. If I needed to write something in cursive, I would be pretty screwed. I remember some of the easier stuff, like the vowels. But if I needed to write a “q” or “k” I don’t think I could remember it.

With that said, learning how to read an analog clock is way easier. It’s a formula/method, and the numbers are right there. It’s not memorization. This should be something easy to teach.

The problem is that analog clocks are not in the curriculum for middle school and high school. It’s hard to find time to teach middle schoolers how to read clocks when you are struggling through “To Kill a Mockingbird” with a bunch of students on a 4th grade reading level.

Teenagers in inner city schools not knowing how to read analog clocks is a much more complicated issue than it seems on the surface. The solution is not “well they should have just had the childhood that I had and it wouldn’t be a problem”

I don’t normally do the whole trolling thing, but I gotta say I was tempted to write “Windows” with no explanation just to see how poorly it would go.

Is anybody else seeing Christopher Walken’s face in the top left of this picture when you look at the bottom right of it? I think I need a nap.

Round up the billionaires and put them in camps? Don’t threaten me with a good time.

I was in a ring pop commercial for about half a second, and it was just my silhouette.

I also started a Smash Brothers tournament for Smash 4 that ended up in the national rankings at one point. I think our largest tournament had 80 people. We had some high ranking players like Jtails come, and even guest commentators like Max Ketchum. I was actually college room mates with one of PC Chris’ close friends, and I had the pleasure of getting absolutely destroyed by Chris in Melee a few times in some basement hangouts. My college room mate actually made a brief appearance in the Smash Brothers documentary in the chapter about PC Chris.

First rat off the ship

I was in the Supermarket a few weeks ago and “All for Love” by Bryan Adams came on and I was like “Is this the fucking song from The Three Musketeers movie that came out in the 90s?”.

Indeed it was. Not sure who is making the Shop rite playlist, but rock on dude or dudette.

I just tried this on my Pixel 10 Pro and it opened the AI assistant and now I’m angry.

Here’s my Christmas eve Wellington from this year. It’s only a 4 year old tradition at this point, but I’m getting pretty damn good at it. I sous vide the beef so it’s always perfectly cooked and tender. Getting the puff pastry to cook without over cooking the beef is the hard part. It takes several steps of refrigeration while doing the layers/wraps.

https://imgur.com/a/4O2ATMo

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Hah thanks. I had no idea about the reference and I was like “That’s a pretty weird animal to use in this context”

A giant sea bird?

Yeah that crossed my mind, but if I’m not mistaken Pokemon was developed by Game Freak, only licensed by Nintendo.

I prefer the PSDownload module. It’s lightweight and accounts for timeouts and the such.