Do what y’all gotta do imo. I’m looking forward to a less American future if we survive this shit.

A misunderstanding on your part I thinks. I believe they are saying it was inappropriate to attempt to sanitize reality so they could release a “feel good puff piece”.

Not everyone has people they can rely on, homie. At a certain point just accept that there can be a genuinely good reason for not returning a cart instead of doing mental gymnastics to justify a crazy “no tolerance” policy. Literally all that is being asked is that you take that other commenter at face value: it’s not always a 100% judge of character. In the first place, the idea of it being a judge of character is a meme, a joke- anyone with actual character would acknowledge that and also acknowledge that they don’t always know everything and there are exceptions to every rule..

Ableists are subhuman slime.

Not ironic, morally consistent. There is no paradox of tolerance.

Having a temporary injury still affects ability.

Crazy to expect people with difficulty moving to move more for your sake.

If they are assuming “everyone who’s disabled should have an aide”, well, first off they’re strictly wrong. And secondly? They shouldn’t be making assumptions? Ever heard that saying?

I didn’t make assumptions. I saw someone make ableist statements. I called them ableist. They can retract their ableism at their discretion.

Get a grip. And maybe a more thoughtful argument steeped in logic and rational objectivity.

Well, I can think of at least two other interpretations off the top of my head, but I’m not really interested in explaining them to you.

At the end of the day, not everyone’s dislocated knee is the same. Doubling down on your position of “oh yeah? Well I got a dislocated knee, too, buddy, and I was still able to function!” is incredibly embarrassing for you, from my perspective.

I’ve never not returned a cart myself.

Sorry you’re such a butthurt loser over a person with a severe injury not returning their shopping cart to the corral. You sound like someone who is terrible to be around. Please never address me again.

Not everyone has the luxury of not driving themselves despite whatever pain they have. There’s not always a passerby around, and besides, some people just fucking suck (looking at the driver who pulled over for my sibling when their face was caved in during an accident which resulted in like over 60 nose surgeries or something. Said driver literally said “I don’t have time for this, sorry” and left. Didn’t even call emergency services for them).

To clarify, you were doing the shopping yourself? With the dislocated knee? Because that’s literally what they are saying happened. Not that they dislocated it once and then never returned the carts again. They say clearly below that they are fully mobile and return the carts now. So do you really want to stand by what you’re saying?

Yes, this is always an option available. There are always parking spots near the corrals, and the corrals are never in the middle of the parking lot, forcing a person with a disability to cover considerably more distance.

You were able to run the first 90% of the mile! Why’re you slowing down so much?!

this guy is right and the downvotes are insane. You don’t always know what’s going on. All they are asking is that maybe you don’t judge people so harshly when you don’t understand their situation. Jesus christ.

“No, I refuse! The world is perfect and you should have had a nurse or aide that you could totally afford help you out if it’s such a challenge for you! You were able to run the first half of the mile! Why can’t you finish it out?”

Ableist slime.

Just what an insanely out-of-touch thing to say lol.

People from the “fuck cars” community are plainly aware that America largely does not have walkable cities and understands cars being necessary in some of those places, while advocating for infrastructural changes which would render cars unnecessary.

“It’s fucking sad that was the first thing you thought was relevant” yeah, it sucks that we literally would have to walk miles through pathless landscape, crossing over busy highways on foot, to reach our destination. And since, naturally, it would be fucking insane to do that literally every day, we have to buy in bulk.

Idk, sounds like you’re just kinda privileged.

Doordash, hyerbolically? Metaphorically? referring to the transport vehicles as limos

I took a look! Hell yeah, I will get on it… as soon as I put down No Man’s Sky, which I picked up recently.

I have! Another interest of mine is TTRPG, specifically I am a frequent DM. I love designing custom encounters with unique mechanics to engage my players.

I have also dabbled in coding. I started with HTML and BYOND (I never made anything beyond a 2d tile map of grass, an icon to move around on it, and a “hello world” message).

When I was a teenager, I tried to get into modding New Vegas via the GECK, but it was complicated and tedious looking. I wonder if I could go back now, as an adult, and make something I’m really proud of.

More recently, I got into making a mod for Stardew Valley. Idk what the code language would be called, but it’s an extremely simple text-based system. I was making a mod to add a pop media character to the game because my close friend really likes him. It was going pretty well and honestly the scope creep got big, I was really fleshing the character’s custom story out. Until I realized I had missed something in my testing, and noticed that certain triggers weren’t working, and realized there were character limits for triggers. Which meant that I couldn’t set up events with complex enough decisions to meet the goal I wanted to reach.

So I’ve taken a step back from that for awhile.

I did want to design video games as a kid, but it seemed like such a lofty goal that I never even tried pursuing it.

You quite literally attempted to place blame directly on the hospital and its staff at least once, and implied it multiple times. You also are attacking the for profit healthcare industry in the US (which is bad), but also are refusing to acknowledge the failure of a UK entity which is participating in, and profiting off, the same for profit industry. Rereading all your comments, you have refused to acknowledge the insurance company as the party at fault. The closest you come to admitting it is saying “the system is bad.”

So maybe we can end it with a conciliatory agreement, since you “admit defeat” by writing out a comment attempting to reframe me as some sort of aggressor.

So: we both agree. The American hospital, by participating in the for profit health industry, de facto sucks. The for profit health industry in America, sucks. The insurance company, by participating in the for profit health industry, de facto sucks. The insurance company, specifically, is the party directly responsible for this specific issue.

Agree to those statements, as each one is factually true, and I’ll concede that you aren’t trying to whitewash the insurance company’s participation in the course of events.

And yet you still have the opportunity to chime in about how you have televant qualifications, and you haven’t.

Yes, like I said, we already agree that the system is bad. They were failed directly by the insurance company in this case, and there is pretty much nothing additional you could reasonably have expected from a hospital in an emergency situation like a premature birth.

Your original comment put the blame at the hospital’s feet, not the insurance company’s feet. When called out, you justified it by saying “the whole system was wrong, I’m not here to argue minutia”.

Indeed, you are here to force out a point, backtrack and move goalposts when called out, and act as if your messaging has an underlying “the system is bad” message, when you could have just said “yeah, the insurance company sucks in this case. Whole system is bad.”

These people were failed (directly by the insurance company), and it shouldn’t have happened.

Insufferable. Just learn to back down when you misspeak instead of getting defensive.

Yeah man, I know I need to give cyberpunk a try sometime, but there is truly such a back log! On your recc, I’ll definitely move it up in priority tho.

TTW has been so good because Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game and New Vegas is my favorite.

It’s awesome. But yeah, the installation I think is more complex when you have it like that.

Something I noticed after replaying Fallout 3 for the first time in like 10 years, also, was how bad the voice direction in the game was. Like it isn’t always bad but it is obvious that the voice actors weren’t given much to work with at all.

Can I get uh… chimken numget?

…right, you still seem confused about what is being said, since the first half of your reply is just… stating that the practitioner themselves usually don’t directly send the bill, the billing department does.

I guess I could see how you could misconstrue that from what I said, but it doesn’t really address the crux of who was at fault here: the insurance company.

The system failed these people? Uh… sure… the American health care system is hot dog ass and insurance is bullshit. I agree, the system sucks.

My only point here is that your comment directly makes it out to be the US/hospitals fault.

But! That being said! I see where the confusion is, now.

I realise that, my connecting thought was that the hospital looking at their insurance policy should have been able to understand the pregnancy was covered.

You presumably meant to say “the pregnancy wasn’t covered”. Because of this typo, it made me think you were saying that it WAS covered and that the hospital made a mistake when reading.

Also:

You aren’t the only one whose work has involved medical insurance

To be fair, when you say “I wouldn’t choose to live or travel through the US”, it makes it pretty fair to assume you aren’t already there. If you are out of the states, I have no idea how your experiences with a different healthcare system could be relevant? But hey, maybe you should lead with relevant information about why your input has more weight behind it than the average commenter.

That being said… it still doesn’t. You spent half your comment acting like I was being misleading because I said “the billing doctor/hospital sent it to the insurance company”, when any reasonable person would extrapolate that obviously the staff is responsible for that? I said billing doctor because the hospital sends the bill in the doctor’s name. They might not be literally penning the bill, but they are the biller, they are doing the billing.

Edit: also, insurance companies are mostly all closed on weekends and you can’t just “call to confirm the policy” in every situation.

I can only info dump when I’m prompted to start talking about something now. I have special interests, but I have no interest in talking about them with people that I can feel aren’t really engaged. And the only people who ever engage eventually do get worn down after a while, or they’re more knowledgeable than me about something and that makes me fall in infatuation with them.

So if anyone wants to talk about modding video games and get married, hmu. Modding specifically is my special interest, and the games I mod include:

Elder Scrolls series (primarily Oblivion/ Skyrim but I have played some modded morrowind within the last 5 years)

Fallout series (all of them! Ok, I haven’t played 2 or the offshoots, but… shut up. New Vegas is my favorite :3)

Stardew Valley (I have 2700 hours in stardew :3 burnt out rn tho lowkey)

Dark Souls 1/3, Elden Ring

Baldurs Gate 3

Dragon Age (mostly origins, it continuously went downhill from there for me. I have done a couple modded replays of inquistion tho)

Minecraft

If you were to ask me what I could go on for the longest about? Probably New Vegas? Especially since I recently put in a fresh 200 hours. I finally got into TTW (a mod for new vegas that utilizes your copy of Fallout 3 goty to combine both games into a single experience) and installed it alongside some modernization modlists and HOLY SHIT.

I hadn’t played since 2021, an era that seemed like New Vegas was dying. People had long moved onto Fallout 4, quest mods weren’t coming out at the same frequency, etc

There was a total renaissance right after I left. If you haven’t played new vegas in a while: consider coming back and finding a guide or using a program like wabbajack to mod your game.

I personally followed the Viva New Vegas guide, then after deciding to jump into TTW, I found that the VNV people have a guide for a TTW list called TBoT (The Best of Times). Both of these lists are,'in my experience, more stable than the base game. A lot of important performance and configuration mods came out.

Then, there’s another list called WSG that I followed (wasteland survival guide), which added new content to the game and made it more hardcore.

If you made it this far and you really want to hear more, ask me a question. :3