I’d expect medicine to be highly precisely crafted in labs by highly educated professionals and that it’d be difficult and perhaps dangerous to make and take your own medicine. I could be wrong.
You’re not wrong—all of 4TVC’s work is extremely dangerous. Not as dangerous as you’d think, though. And, compared to living a life crushed by debilitating disease or debt, do those risks outweigh the outcome? Probably not.
Not to say that Steam doesn’t have some tremendous issues on this front (it does), but I truly wish more companies understood this. If you let me play / listen / watch your thing on whatever device I choose, for a reasonable one-time price, in perpetuity, I will pay that price.
Ten bucks for a Witcher season? Sure. A fiver for the latest season of Glup Shitto’s Starred War Adventure? Yeah, I’m in. I’m not gonna pay $180 a year to five different companies each to watch six or seven new maybe great but probably mid TV shows.
Same goes for games. I’m not paying $80 plus a $40 battle pass every year to play Call of Duty 2: 3: War Crimes Boogaloo, Part 5. I’m just gonna steal your shit. I will not feel bad about it in the slightest.
We’ve got our boosters scheduled for the week before school starts up.
We won’t be making the kids mask up again this year, though. Not because they don’t need to (they do), but because they’re old enough that bullying includes violence. Especially for a trans teenager.
Living in Hellworld is awesome!
Are you Albertan
Yes. I live in Hell, thank you for asking. Knocking on doors for the NDP is a nightmare here, but I do it, because it’s the least bad possible outcome.
or just shitting on things that could help you out of sheer anger and a desire to self-harm?
No. I’m being realistic. Why assume I’m angry about the government in bad faith? I have real material grievances: The current dental program doesn’t help us pay for one cent of my kid’s surgery. We’re going to need to resort to payday loans and pawning stuff to pay for it. That’s real anger about real stuff.
The Liberals will never follow through on rolling dental and pharmacare out without multiple layers of means testing. The NDP are going to force an early election they have no serious platform for, and will royally bungle their campaign. As is tradition.
Once the Conservatives are back in power in a year or two, the program will be cancelled. As is also tradition.
Sounds pretty Canadian to me. We have private healthcare in everything but name. I’m on the hook for a $2500 dental bill for my kid right now. It’s medically necessary. My insurance won’t cover it. We can’t pay it.
Meanwhile, the NDP are jacking themselves off over how they, "got dental and pharmacare for everyone1!!!
1 Does not apply if you have a job or a home. Until after the next election, when the program will be cancelled.
We have a meticulously curated list over here at our Pirated Pornography Board.