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Thanks @secretly-a-plant for the tag. This was actually super fun. Search on Pinterest your name + core or name + aesthetic (ex. “Emma core" or "Alex anesthetic" ) and choose 9 photos to make a moodboard. Terra core is all exercise routines (??) so this is Terra aesthetic. Noice.

My husband, who has never seen Tiger King, had a dream about a sequel called "Bat King" starring Bruce Wayne. I laughed so hard and then spent 2 hours of my life illustrating this dumb shit. Enjoy.

#Tiger King #Bat King #Batman #Bruce Wayne #Jsjfkksnsijdpfnbv #Kill me

whitepeopletwitter

#Hey look its Portland!

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bobacupcake

tag yourself (x)

thegalaxyinyoureye

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#Wicked *eat a tree*

There's leftover Chinese food in my fridge, it's 9 am and I can't concentrate on anything else.

artofmanliness

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The Risks of NOT Letting Your Kids Do Risky Things https://t.co/aTNYVFxqh9 pic.twitter.com/lVN7jVSbgS

— Art of Manliness (@artofmanliness) April 22, 2019

mostlysignssomeportents

A detailed analysis of American ER bills reveals rampant, impossible-to-avoid price-gouging

For more than a year, Vox’s Sarah Kliff has been investigating hospital price-gouging in America, collecting hospital bills from her readers and comparing them, chasing up anomalies and pulling on threads, producing a stream of outstanding reports on her findings.

In her latest installment, Kliff digs deep into the famously bizarre world of ER bills and points out some of the most egregious ways in which these are rigged.

For example, if you are injured and also financially precarious, you might travel to a more distant ER just to be sure that the hospital you’re visiting is in-network for your insurer, but that means nothing. “In-network” ERs often staff “out-of-network” doctors, and there is no way to find out whether the doctor treating you is covered by your insurer until you get the bill: one of Kliff’s readers got bills for $8,000 from an out-of-network surgeon who treated his broken jaw at an in-network hospital.

And much of the care you receive at an ER is subject to bizarre price gouging: one of Kliff’s readers was charged $238 for two drops of the generic eyedrop ofloxacin which retails for $15/vial; the routine pregnancy test that ERs administer to women of childbearing years can cost up to $465, enough to buy 84 pregnancy kits at the pharmacy; and one Seattle hospital charged $76 for a squirt of generic neosporin. Not all hospitals gouge on all drugs, and many of these drugs are not being administered for urgent health problems – a halfway honest hospital could advise a patient, “We charge $238 for this eyedrop, why don’t you pick up a bottle for $15 next door and administer it yourself?”

Finally, Kliff uncovers wild variability in the “ER facility fee,” which is a cover-charge you’re assessed just for walking in the door at an ER. One of Kliff’s readers paid $5,751 for sitting in a hospital waiting room with an ice-pack and a bandage while waiting to see a doctor, but who left because she was feeling better and didn’t need care after all. Kliff’s work reveals that these “facility fees” are rising at twice the rate of other health charges, with no rhyme or reason.

All of this refers to people who come into the ER under their own power, out of an abundance of caution – for example, my daughter recently broke her collarbone, but we didn’t know that until we went to the ER for an X-ray, and if we’d less prudent, we could have iced it and made a regular doctor’s appointment for the next day, leaving her untreated and undiagnosed. But of course, ERs treat large numbers of people who are unconscious or in agony when they arrive, either on their own or on an ambulance gurney. These patients can’t possibly be expected to shop around, to demand to know whether their medicines are medically necessary (I once had a small eye injury that I went to get checked out on a Sunday just in case and had to stop the nurses from pumping me full of IV dramamine just in case it turned out I would need neurosurgery!), to evaluate whether the doctors are in- or out-of-network, and so on.

(We ended up paying $2,400 out of pocket for our daughter’s ER visit, including $2.50 for a generic tylenol, despite having gold-plated insurance from Cigna)

Kliff’s work reveals the whole story of “market based medicine” to be a fiction. Markets are regulated zones where consumers compare the offerings of producers and make purchase choices based on their information. To call being wheeled unconscious into an ER and raced into an operating theater and then presented with a bill months later a “market transaction” is to make a terribly, grisly joke.

It’s as good an argument for Medicare for All and single-payer health care as you could ask for.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/14/grifters-in-gowns.html

sataniccapitalist

#thewaronyou

neaq

Want to be a #seatizen scientist? Our friends @noaaocean created this great graphic to teach you how! . #Repost from @nationalmarinelifecenter with @regram.app … Celebrate Citizen Science Day! (Especially appropriate that this year’s #CitSciDay occurs during the @official_nsta conference!) With gratitude to @noaaocean for the wonderful graphic. #citizenscience #NSTA19 #noaaocean — view on Instagram http://bit.ly/2KEv7BQ

svinto

i wish there wasn’t such a stigma around being proved wrong, bc it’s a part of life, no one can be right all the time. if we didn’t feel as much shame about it i think a lot of things would change a lot faster

feminismandhappiness

we all need to practice saying “I hadn’t thought of it like that” “I hadn’t seen it that way before” “I must have misunderstood the first time I heard about it” “if I had known those facts I wouldn’t have thought like I did”

18dayswopower

We also need to practice saying "it's okay, I was there once" "thanks for letting me explain" "no one is born knowing everything" "we all start somewhere" "I appreciate you taking the time to listen & understand" "I'm so glad you're willing to change your mind" "once you know better, do better"

fullpraxisnow

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

bae-in-maine

“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.

18dayswopower

It is the boot metaphor - that a rich person pays $100 for a nice set of boots that lasts 10 years, while a poor person pays $20 for a pair that lasts 1 year, so that 10 years down the line, the poor person has paid twice as much for their shoes. And probably has had blisters along the way.

megansplants

18dayswopower

@secretly-a-plant

littlealienproducts

Crab with a Knife!!! embroidery by Ghost Barn

saechla

Wer aufrecht seinen Weg sucht, stets seinem Gewissen verantwortlich, dem dürfen wir unsere Achtung nicht versagen, er mag mit uns oder gegen uns gehen. Robert Bosch

https://saechla.de/zitate-aus-dem-schwabenland/

thatswhywelovegermany

We must not deny our respect to those who seek their way in an honest manner, always responsible to their conscience, may they go with us or against us.

Robert Bosch (1861 – 1942), German industrialist, engineer, and inventor