"Privileged"! "Rich"!

The number of people who are powered by sheer envy is just depressing. Envy isn't a good thing, folks.

Jesus Christ man, does anything in your day not somehow involve thinking about Trump?

Checks are a last vestige of a higher trust society.

I work for a European firm and they (their auditors) despise checks and can't comprehend how America can be so backward as to still use them.

Ironically we just had a customer involved in seven-digit fraud payments ...which couldn't have happened without electronic payments. Had they been "allowed" to pay us in checks like they used to, it simply couldn't have happened.

I'm not sure listing another random rule that allows the German state to arrest people is a "win".

In a way this is good news.
Seriously.

If Russia expected to win this conflict, it's unlikely even they are dumb enough to cause major nuclear leaks in territory they expect to hold.

It's possible this is a clue that they DON'T expect to do so, and we've advanced to the "well if I can't have it nobody can" scorched earth stage, which is very Russian.

Trump says thanks for letting him live free in there.

Never saw the movie; I'll have to see it!

I just remember having my mind blown by the novel :)

I've read MRI scans require helium, and there is currently a shortage. It's not practically renewable or recyclable so far. If everyone gets an MRI it could cause a severe shortage.

I wonder if the tech can be reworked to not require helium or any other hard-to-find resource.

A real scramble suit. If we're going to be filmed at all times ...

At least she didn't set him on fire I guess ...

... For our elected officials, that is.

You guys would normally love this, but ... lol

I think you are confused. The corpse of Biden has shuffled off the stage.

Yeah, it's almost as though you should hire actual Americans, as actual employees.

Wow. That's quite a story. I've posted this similar story below. I've stuck with this GP. I spent a bit of cardiac muscle training him. :-)

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A few years ago, I presented to my GP - a skilled one - with sharp chest pain as a 43 year old with a history high BP and cholesterol. I met him alone. I asked him if it could be a heart attack. He said no. He diagnosed indigestion (even though I've never had indigestion in my life) and sent me home. He didn't go an ECG or a Troponin test (sometimes called a Troponin-T test, this is a blood test that dianoses ezymes released during a heart attack, when heart muscle is injured during a heart attack). He told me to keep taking my BP meds or I'd have a heart attack in 5 years.

I was likely already having a heart attack. :-)

A few hours later at night, when my condition didn't change, I drove to the ER where the hospital did an ECG and Troponin test. There, I got diagnosed with an ongoing heart attack and had a stent implanted immediately.

When I spoke to my GP afterward, he didn't consider heart disease because of my age, and because he'd be stuck there forever if he did an ECG and Troponin-T test with everyone with chest pain. When I spoke to the medical center's pathology nurse about this later, she was horrified the GP had done this. She said to come to her and she'd do an ECG and Troponin-T test if this reoccurred.

Which is a long-winded way to say this: you need second opinions. You ALWAYS need second opinions. A pathology nurse proferred a second opinion.

I think a doctor's notes and verbal discussion should be IMMEDIATELY relayed - as they are being made - to your own AI (or ChatGPT subscription). The AI should then have a chance to IMMEDIATELY second-guess the doctor's findings, and relay additional concerns to the doctor and to you. It would be like having a medically-informed layman accompanying you on your consultation.