SARGE

I'm gonna go with "ascended energy being" since that's a common trope. Nothing springs to mind otherwise.

Any time my wife has been given the run around by doctors, I usually ask for her to schedule another appointment so I can be there, and I demand the doctors put notes, make something on the record that they SPECIFICALLY ARE DENYING TESTING and the reason behind it before I will leave.

So far it's worked every time to get them to just do the goddamn test, take the fucking scan, or do some simple blood work.

Doctors like that are more afraid of malpractice suits than they are of killing a patient over negligence.

The first time it happened was because she had cholecystitis and the doctor was insisting she was too young to have any issues with it, but I was older and had already had my gallbladder removed over it several years before. So I knew the signs, I knew the feeling, and I had doctors from the same hospital ignore my symptoms. Once the demand for notes to be recorded, suddenly everyone is all for doing a simple scan and what do you know, her gallbladder is filled with sludge and stones, neither of which should be there, and it's swelling. A week later it was out, but they wanted to wait 6 months "to wait and see if you're still having discomfort"

To anyone who has never had gallstones, it's like someone is taking a glowing hot knife and stabbing you from just above the stomach toward your spine. It's "discomfort" the way giving birth is "mild pain"

Demand tests and demand records of test denials. Fear of lawsuits and losing licenses goes a lot further than "you're a doctor who is supposed to help people get better" to some.

birth bath

Uhhhhhh you should probably at least drain out the placenta fluid...

I'm a simple man.

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GROND

Yeah, I'm getting really tired of people saying "well it's an illegal order so it doesn't matter" and not giving it another thought, despite everyone in power treating them as perfectly legal, and nobody doing a goddamn thing to put a stop to it.

If trump issues an executive order calling for executions of minorities, it doesn't fucking matter how legal it is if the powers that be let people do it, and let Trump stay out of prison.

We aren't to that point just yet, but I fully believe something on that level is coming, they've just got to ease into it so it just doesn't seem that much worse than the last thing that was done.

Until I see actual consequences that make a difference, my hopes are sitting around 0.

My first thought was ".... Again? They need some better contraceptives" but no, it's the same one... A shame, that would open the door for so many jokes.

Union man through and through.

Luckily the issue of "cars park too long in spaces" is a solved problem.

Meters, meter monitors, timed parking in general has been around for a long time.

Tow the cars parking beyond the limit, and that becomes a non-issue. No idea what the maximum charge time is on compatible EVs but just put it a little longer than that, and nobody has a reason (beyond the normal things that affect all drivers in timed spaces) to stay there beyond the charging time.

To continue with the argument of "the market will self-regulate and people wouldn't buy that brand anymore so they would never do it again"

Okay but how many people died, how many people are suffering long-term effects, and what's stopping them from adding a different deadly thing to our food?

DENY

It was a stereo from 1987.

Ye Olde Analog airwaves, no fancy digital nonsense.