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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldTrumpcare
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    4 days ago

    and most people underestimate how infuriating it is sitting in a waiting room for 6 hours

    As an American: those are rookie numbers, I’ve been stuck waiting 6-8 on a bad day to get seen, not even counting the hours it takes to get more than vitals and some iv liquid…

    Not trying to one up, I wish we had a system like that here.






  • Because it was completely out of place, was a major tonal whiplash, and didn’t really have much explanation (other than the obvious) at the time to the readers who were mainly terminally online nerds before that was as much of a thing. Add in the toxicity of the forums and the existing B^U meme, (making fun of his inability to make that many facial expressions) and this was pretty much inevitable.

    I get that he needed to express the grief (and I’ve been there too), but sometimes the choices we make to deal with it aren’t the best ones to make.







  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldtrickle not
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    7 days ago

    Explain how your “point” makes any sense or stands at all, outside of a 5 year old’s version of fairness?

    How is it ‘fair’ to make poor people pay to cover up the fuckup of a multi trillion dollar company? One that doesn’t even pay its fair share in taxes. Is it ‘fair’ that the people making the fuckup keep their employees at starvation levels while they buy jewelry worth more than they’ll see in decades?

    No? Then your point is meaningless when the fairness doesn’t go both ways. You can say your argument stands all day, but its as meaningless as telling me you can jump to the moon.


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    7 days ago

    Pretending a loan is income and in turn taxing it as such, just because the ‘wrong thing’ was used as collateral, is nonsensically-arbitrary, I think.

    Why not make a law against using unrealized capital gains as loan collateral? Or just force ‘realization’ of the capital at loan time, and they can pay the taxes on that. A home equity loan is against real property, so it wouldn’t be subject to the same issue.