Tesla owners usually have to get insurance through Tesla because most insurance companies refuse to underwrite those death traps.

Well, if we’re talking about the Tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell, it wouldn’t be all bad. They were capable of enlightenment and self-sacrifice.

*Raise taxes on poor people. The billionaires can easily just fly to Europe for a shopping spree attached to their regular weekend jaunt and bring everything home in their luggage (if they cared about the prices of anything to begin with, that is).

It’s entirely possible that it just wasn’t diagnosed until very recently. Prostate cancer screening is not a standard recommendation at his age, and there are a lot of cancers that are very insidious. A lot of times, if there wasn’t a screening test done for it, cancer is caught because of the symptoms of metastasis meaning that unless we’re screening for cancer, we don’t catch it until it’s already progressed.

Some people are more attuned to their bodies and might notice the smaller, earlier symptoms, but for prostate cancer, they can be pretty easy to miss and the primary metastasis symptom is usually back pain from the cancer spreading into the lumbar vertebrae. A lot of people will just write that off as regular back pain and not go to the doctor for it.

I’m already in a US medical school, and the thing the ads don’t address is the complexity of Canadian medical licensing on top of the immigration system there.

I’m not even done with medical school and I get targeted advertisements about how well British Columbia treats their doctors.

Did anyone else see this headline and immediately jump to Ghost in the Shell?

For Youtubers, I wish H. Bomberguy would post more often because I’ve seen him cited as some people’s animus for de-radicalization. Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube was another good “male role model” prior to her transition and a lot of viewers commented about how she gave them a better model of masculinity to emulate (particularly ironic as she turned out to be trans). I think FD Signifier is a good example for young black men in particular, and Devin of Legal Eagle is a fine example of a successful professional for those that are more business-minded.

I’m a medical student in America and we’re required to know some of the legal cases that define our standards and practices. The legal precedent that requires the breach of confidentiality to report a patient for being a danger to themselves or others is the Tarasoff case.

A patient has to be a direct threat to themselves or others in terms of suicide, self-harm, assault, or murder (i.e. meaningful bodily harm) to justify the breach of confidentiality.

The TL;DR of the Tarasoff case was a patient was talking to his physician about wanting to kill his stalking target and then he did so. The precedent means that a physician is required to notify the potential victim and/or the police if a direct threat is made.

Look into the federal consolidation loans and the income driven repayment. Bankruptcy doesn’t get you out of student loans.

I’m just looking forward to when I have time to yeet my uterus (get a hysterectomy). It was a pain to find an OBGyn who would do it without asking too many questions, but I still brought my husband to the consultation appointment just in case there was any push back because I’m a woman in her 30’s with no children. I’ve had previous OBGyn’s refuse to even discuss a hysterectomy with me because “what if your future husband wants children” when I wasn’t even in a relationship or dating at the time.

That’s what I’ve been seeing. I don’t use Netflix anyways and I mostly just have a VPN for when I’m on a university or hospital campus and I’d like to keep my internet usage private. (Or when sailing the high seas for books.)

Yeah, my 2 year plan is up in June. I haven’t decided what I’m switching to. I’ve heard good things about Mullvad’s privacy policies and politics, but I’ve also seen reviews that a bunch of sites and services have them blocked.

I’m open to suggestions at this point.

And up to 80% of children are covered by Medicaid depending on the state.

I have a number of complex chronic health problems and I usually hit my out-of-pocket limit around April every year. I find spiteful glee in costing my health insurance tens of thousands of dollars every year. (And every penny of it is actually medically necessary.)

I’m assuming folks aren’t paying a mortgage’s worth of tuition each month though.

I was fairly young, but I do remember using Windows 95 or 98 with Netscape and there were popups that had to be killed through the task manager (or equivalent, it was 30 years ago, so I don’t remember precisely).

Back on Windows 95 through XP, each individual window was a process that could be killed in Task Manager, and popups opened in a new window.

Time to prepare is very important because we have crap labor laws. It can be very hard for people to get time off work and missing a day can be very painful. For folks living paycheck to paycheck, missing a day of pay means missing a rent payment or not being able to afford food. In a lot of jobs, time off is very limited, even for illness, and is highly likely to be unpaid.

The robber barons have done an extremely good job at nailing our bootstraps in the pits of Tartarus through debt and indenture.

It was using secretions from cowpox lesions as protection from smallpox. Cowpox is a similar, but much less dangerous pathogen, so it conferred some cross-immunity without risking actual smallpox infection.