Ferrous

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[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I showed up in Italy to work on a farm for a month.

Ate the wrong thing one night, and my airways started closing up. Despite my Americanism coming through "dont call the ambulance, I can feel the benadryl kicking in", my hosts called an ambulance.

After a 45 minute ambulance ride, a 5 hour hospital stay including chest x ray, monitoring, and fluids, I was trying to pay up. The doctor lady just laughed at me as a I flashed my debit card. They sent me on my way with some albuterol for $0.

We really do everything we can to enrich health execs here in America. Crazy to think about the mental benefits of knowing you live in a society that at least has the capacity to get you through a medical emergency without bankrupting you.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"We gave the Native American Indians a better life by genociding them."

Eat shit.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

right now things are better than they have ever been

What wonderful news. I'll be sure to alert the surviving Native Americans Indians and basically the entirety of the global south.

At a time when the planet is incinerating before our eyes, parroting "akshually things are great right now" isn't very brave.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Lmao, the psychologist is telling us we can halt fascism by "setting boundaries", "having faith" and "saying no". Lmao. This article is like concentrated liberalism.

Buy a gun.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Pretty much every component in a car these days has some sort of microcontroller. They use software to lock you out of repairing things that have no business being locked behind software. In your example, even suspension tuning is locked behind software for Teslas.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-repair-locks-owner-rights

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It will be challenged and Trump is going to capitulate

How's that blind faith working?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/trump-harvard-students-international.html

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you can look at how every single dem senator voted to confirm Rubio, and still not buy into the idea that the democrats are controlled opposition, I don't know what to say to you.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Then surely you'll respect the fact that George W sought to reduce the deficit just as Clinton did, correct?

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago

This is a liberal pitfall: attempting to explain fascism rising because of identity politics.

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