And things improved for a little bit - Blue Cross Blue Shield rolled back their dystopian anesthesia time limit policy immediately after the UHC assassination. Can’t argue with the results!

Taco Bell

Tasty; notorious for destroying yous stomach, and later, your toilet. Fair warning. Keep in mind we share a border with Mexico, so we’ve got pretty decent options for Mexican food. If you’re in an area with food trucks, those are consistently the best for some reason.

Wendys

If I blindfolded you and fed you a Wendy’s burger and told you it was McDonalds, you wouldn’t question it. Until the cashier tells you how much your meal costs… I recall them being just expensive McDonalds.

Jack in the Box

Been ages since I’ve been there… can’t remember if it was them or Hardees/Carl’s Jr, but I recall their criscut fries being better than the average fast food.

In n out Burger

I know these are fighting words, but: they’re trash. In n’ Out, Hard Rock Cafe, and Five Guys are like the trinity of overrated fast food: poorly executed attempt at feeling like a fancy diner, but the food - the meat in particular - is absolutely flavorless. I’d point you instead to the regional chains like Culver’s or Braum’s.

…and I’d guess this is true of most largish cities around the world vs being uniquely American, but they tend to have districts that lean heavily toward or are outright dedicated to a specific culture or group, and the restaurants in those area are consistently among the best. Like if you want Vietnamese food, don’t just hit a pho chain in a random strip mall - find the Asian district, and look for the oldest, most beat-up looking hole-in-the-wall restaurant you can find there, and you’ll get the best pho you’ve ever had.

Lol, reminds me of one of the Mario games a while back - no idea what the context was, but Mario took on different personas, which I’m assuming gave him abilities specific to whatever ‘form’ he took kinda like Kirby.

Anywho, one of them was a Mexican theme, which made Mario don a sombrero and poncho. Lots of touchy white people on the internet were PISSED cuz how could Nintendo be so insensitive to the Mexican culture?!

…meanwhile, Mexican gamers were fucking ecstatic cuz HOLY SHIT MARIO’S WEARING A SOMBRERO! LET’S GOOOOOO!!!

Good times.

We’ve got multiple sizes and flavors of all of the above. If sugar and junk food are what you’re after, this is definitely the place. Reese’s just came out with a larger than normal cup with a glob of gooey caramel under the peanut butter… if you’re not opposed to flirting with diabetes, it’s pretty great :D

Hell, most of our ‘normal’ food probably qualifies as candy to the rest of the world - we can definitely hook you up!

'Murican here. We’re home to every personality under the sun - if you feel like the person you’re dealing with is an asshole, they probably are. Disengage and move on - you’ll find pleasant people.

Given the political disaster we’re about to dive into, you might want to wait a bit to gauge how we treat our guests over the next few months - we’ve definitely set the stage to go full Nazi, whether or not we actually do remains to be seen.

Fucked up politics aside, welcome aboard if you ever decide to visit!

Umm… yeah that’s bad. Not letting an alcohol based skin prep dry is what happens when you combine a shitty management pushing OR staff for faster and faster turnover times, and staff who don’t have the balls to push back, so corners start getting cut.

You don’t fuck around with fire in the OR, 10x so when you’re working around the head, cuz there’s an O2 line right there - the drapes can get saturated with oxygen, then when they do ignite, they go up in flames FAST.

So, you’ll ALWAYS want a bucket of sterile saline with a bulb syringe ready to go so you, so you can dump the whole bucket of there’s an external fire, or squirt saline into the airway if it starts internally (which can happen if there’s enough oxygen). If this guy’s burns were as bad as reported, that tells me they didn’t have saline handy either.

Multiple tiers of negligence going on here.

Cut/tan/stain/stamp the rich!

Be sure to whitelist words like “assassin” just in case we actually get some good news - you won’t want to miss it!

I’m at an uncomfortable crossroads of knowing enough to hate Microsoft, but not knowing enough to trust myself with switching to Linux. I’m like just barely tech-literate enough to wander into places like Lemmy, but beneath some surface level shit I’m probably one of the dumbest motherfuckers here when it comes to not setting my devices on fire.

So… a ‘Linux for dummies’ sounds exactly like what I need!

…starts?

Dude’s been intubated with Russian dick for so long that he’s probably developed tracheal stenosis by now.

And now he’s getting spit-roasted with Musk on the other end, too.

The thing about the right wing is that it always boils down to the cruelty being the point. People play it up -just- being a difference of opinion like we’re talking about whether or not pineapple is good on pizza; when the opinions in question are that brown people are inferior, trans people people don’t deserve rights, a woman’s life is worth less than a fetus, etc: there’s no valuable dialogue to be had. Ban the fucker and don’t look back.

The closest thing to valuable dialogue you’re going to get with that garbage is the bullshit veneer they slap onto their vitriol to make it easier to sell - the whole white knight bit about protecting babies or bathrooms or some other nonsense that conveniently lands the same outgroups into a bind every single time. If you think any of that shit is in good faith, you’ve fallen for a trap before the conversation even starts.

Diversity of thought is great, up until we start turning to hatred/bigotry for a fresh perspective. Those are not welcome here, nor should they be anywhere else.

There is no ethical way to become or remain a billionaire. Even if it’s more the product of a system than her personally, she’s still hoarding an unimaginable amount of resources and thus causing an unimaginable amount of suffering.

Yeah, she’s maybe one of the least malignant of an entire group that desperately needs a French haircut, but she’s still among a group that desperately needs a French haircut.

A dragon that eats fewer villagers than other dragons still needs to be slain.

What cheese best evokes “rip and tear”?

String cheese, ofc.

He’s not negotiating, he’s getting instructions.

The legality of all that is moot, since he’s above the law.

My guess is it didn’t, and the numbers were pulled out the OP’s ass.

Otherwise, idk how power banks monitor their percentage of charge, but being that it’s a percentage, if you fuck up the capacity, the same amount of energy will take up a higher percentage of that capacity. /shrug

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They’re purchasing influence over the POTUS. The event itself doesn’t matter to them or Trump; it’s just one many pathways to get their bribe into his pockets.

Completely legal, cuz our laws are made by folks who are also for sale.