What about the last mile?!
I dont know about Toronto, but in every other big city I have driven in, walking a mile from my parking spot to my destination was pretty normal.
Fallout was the first time they showed me ads and made their service less convenient than piracy. Now I dont even bother. If they have something I am interested in I DL it. I still have a subscription since it comes with my item delivery service.
Having lived through the Trump years in the USA I do not grok how anyone can think it a proper way to run a government. It was not even the proper way to run a trash fire.
If this visit had cost me less that us$500 I would be shocked. Most likely answer is us$500-$1000.
When my wife had back surgery a few years ago the MRI alone cost us$600, the surgery with all of its various charges was over us$3k. I hope none of you have any idea how horrible it is waiting for a loved one to have surgery AND having to discuss payment/credit options with the staff on top of it. You are not thinking clearly and the numbers mean nothing because you dont have any choice but to agree. Then you feel horrible(r) because you are thinking about money instead of only if they will be OK.
smooth sailing once it moved into my bladder. before that the pain was enough to make me vomit.
Would not wish it on anyone. maybe Henry Kissinger but even then only maybe.
My family and I moved from the US to Canada in the summer of 2023 and last week was the first time I had to make use my Services Card. I went to the ER in excruciating pain, had blood and urine labs done, a shot of pain killers then waited around (a long time) for a CT scan. The doctor said it might be a new record, but I had been bumped a few times by suspected stroke patients that came in, so totally understandable. Several hours later with a prescription slip in hand I exited the hospital. Easy as pie.
For anyone who has never had the displeasure of experiencing an American hospital you can not understand how much simpler and less stressful and cheap the Canadian system is. I dont know what it would have cost me in the USA, probably whatever my insurance deductible was, but it certainly was not $0. That state of not knowing what all this is going to cost you, and how you will afford it, makes an already awful experience even worse. Not being harassed for money on the way out, never once discussing the cost of something with the DR was truly eye opening.
TL:DR Thanks BC Health. You are not perfect but you are amazing. Anyone promoting American style health care here in Canada has either never experienced that gong show or is independently wealthy enough not to have to think about the costs.
(kidney stone for anyone who is curious. it was horrible)
The article is not clear. Is the $71k price listed the cost of the surgery itself or surgery + hospital stay?
If it is just surgery then it is a very unfair comparison since the ICU stay would have been needed in either case, and at least some of the days in the ward for recovery.
As a former American, you do not want the American Health Care System unless you are very wealthy. It is an expensive bureaucratic disaster. BC Health may be imperfect but at least I am not paying us$700/month for family insurance that might be accepted by the doctor/hospital that sees me in an emergency.
Dwarf Fortress runs fine in Linux. Are you telling me there are other video games?!?
Here i was hoping that it had popped back up.
Corporations are people my friend!
You have proved the comment correct wrt your rudeness.
Checking in from Vancouver Island. Nearest one is 26hrs away.
I did love them when I was living in California and could be there in an hour. Now I take my chances with online sellers like Amazon.
That could be a longer wait because Gnome (hopefully) wont be standing still during that time.
That can be fixed, using Biden as an example.
except end up in the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame!
they want to bring in the most money and expend the least effort. I can respect that.
Policing customers/users is a PITA and generally sux to do even on the smaller scale of an office. Much cheaper and easier to do nothing.
That assumes that your deletions are actually deleted and not just unlinked. Even then they almost certainly still have all that data in the form of backups. There is a near 100% chance it has been sold and used to train LLMs.
And if they really want to they could restore the comments/posts with randomly generated user names.
