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Widely underrespected.

Guillermo del toro tried to adapt it for hbo but hbo refused.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Consider that whatever your wealth is, elon musk is probably ~100,000 times wealthier

It's not a pissing contest. You have something 5o lose, or you don't. That's the difference. If you rent, own nothing, work a job you can easily just get another like manual labor or fast food you have no skin in the political game or really anything to lose or protect from a financial standpoint.

This is a fact. It's an unfortunate fact, but it's a fact. When you accumulate worth of any kind, you instinctively protect it.

ArchNemo posted...

Have you donated a dollar tho

Because I see a lot of people say "it'd be like if I donated $100 when (random celeb) donates several million!"

But they still keep the $100

This thought process is lost on most people but its complete correct.

I used to be poor. I was a Democrat. I wanted handouts and tax the rich and thought all ultrawealthy were greedy and evil.

I'm not a multi millionaire by any means, but as I've accumulated wealth and a few lucky patents and good investments and very close to financial independence in my mid 30s my viewpoint has changed dramatically.

It's not something you can appreciate until you go through it, if you're lucky enough to do so. The more money you make ...the more you want to keep it. That's not evil, I think that's just human nature. What elon has done with his for ukraine is incredible, and king is a dick.

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I'm sorry, what have you done for this planet or global conflict? Rage post on the internet?

Noticed a lot of my frequent flyer copder/ESRD patients disappeared in that first year

Treated hundreds of patients with it

Even in the early days, when I was intubating deathly sick patients.

Never got it once.

It's really not that hard to not get sick. Some patients have told me they've had it five times. They just don't gaf

But this is the same world where vaccines cause everything bad, so I'm not surprised.

Can anyone clearly state a benefit of 11 over 10? I feel like 10 could just be final version pending radical changes

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So you basically didn't read anything I said

A reasonable person doesn't compare themselves to others outside their own situation, they compare to their own standing. By your logic the person that pointed out the salary discrepancy should just be happy he isn't homeless and forever be content with the money he makes, yes?

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

That's almost 8 times more than I'm making. Lay off on the Maseratis and Real Estate, bro.

4 years of undergrad
4 years of med school
3+ years of residency

Are you expecting someone that spent a decade of life in training to make the same as you? What did you do for your job, a two week orientation? If you wanted to make 8 times your salary you would have made different life choices. Why be bitter at someone that did?

He also probably has debt beyond 200k alone. I graduated with almost 400k in debt. Medical school is expensive. I've nearly paid mine off but you need to incentivize someone to be able to make those payments or the next time you get hurt there won't be a doctor there to attend to you.

Healthcare in this country is generally spiraling downward.

The real culprit driving all of this is private equity. Unfortunately reading through this topic most people are so wildly out of touch (doctors make too much money! nurses should strike for what's right!) a real discussion about causes is beyond the scope of this topic.

I sympathize for the patients. I do think that more cities will soon run into problems like Atlanta with major tertiary care center closures.

A loooooooooooot of people are going to die unnecessarily in the next decade or so. There is a mass exodus of healthcare workers (myself to be included in that timeframe, I'm burned out as fuck and completely unsupported) and total replacement of doctors with NPs/PAs on the horizon across most specialties.

Anyone considering going into nursing can still make a good living. Anyone going to medical school should strongly reconsider unless you're going into a cash-only or ultra rare subspeciality....but it is not possible to guarantee you'll be a neurosurgeon before you're even accepted. So I generally advise people to avoid going at all. Or be PA or something.

Fony posted...

> received kidney transplant in April
>take drugs to snuff out my immune system so it doesnt destroy new kidney
>cook food well and wear condoms to prevent icky icky

Steak = / = hamburger

Some of my friends are infectious disease docs and a microbiologist. All of them, like me, prefer rare or blue steak.

Unless you think you know more than the people managing your illness. I mean free country, do whatever.

The only way a blue steak can get you sick is if it came from a septic cow! the muscle tissue itself shouldn't have anything dangerous in it if it came from a well sourced and quality farm.

High end steakhouses will refuse to do anything higher than medium.

If you're going to some schmuck 5 dollar steak place it probably doesn't matter because you're eating rubber anyway.

But quality steak should be blue or rare. Anything else is a crime and I 100% judge people at work dinners when they choose any other option

I've treated hundreds of patients with it, including early in the pandemic when it was killing a lot of folks that I intubated (high risk exposure) and never once got it.

It's not hard to avoid getting respiratory viruses. I shake my head at people on their 4th covid infection, I assume they're just going around sucking in everyone's cough

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

$400,000/year is nice money but its definitely not rich and wealthy status

especially if you live in a high cost of living area

Yeah

So imagine half of that leaving your bank.

Wife makes 200 herself and we file jointly and jointly we take it up the ass

You're thinking of the ultra rich not paying taxes OP.

I make $400,000/yr and I watched almost half of that disappear to gov't. To a lot of people that probably seems like whining but when it's YOUR money getting taken away and redistributed you don't exactly feel happy about it.

WarfireX posted...

He gets paid to do this. Has someone been paying you to post here the last 19 years?

I also get paid from my YT channel. I'm sure his revenue is higher, but not my point....

But I also have....a real job? I mean I dunno, like me, he's not from the generation that was just born not wanting to work, so I'm just surprised he's still doing this crap.

He also stopped being funny more than a decade ago when he ran out of decent material.

oh my god

he's still doing this

I thought he had moved on with life

sad

Same

I'm over it

Giant_Aspirin posted...

so your problem is that you dont want to use two devices?

It's two headsets! I mean....yeah. One in ear, one over-the-ear. That's a lot of ear action.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

install Discord on your phone and talk through that?

running into the same problem. Using a PS5/laptop turns into using a PS5/phone. No real change...

BuckVanHammer posted...

Last I saw ps5 works but not without some tinkering.

Oh? That's new to me. I watch amazon movies on my PS5 and use a PS5 headset while a different in-ear headset blutooths to my laptop to talk to my friend at the same time. Kind of onerous. Would be ncie if PS5 did it all (he's watching on his laptop).

Will a PC account talk to a mac account?

I feel like the answer should be yes

but I don't see this written anywhere, at least easily. I know I can't do it over my PS5 with a PC, so....

Gross.

Thats some scummy awful meat you're eating probably.

If you go to a nice place most chefs will refuse that.

Blue or rare only on top quality cuts. Everything else says a lot...

It is completely normal to have a casual discussion about it, and only a psychopath asshole would randomly propose without having even a discussion about the future.

Anyone that says "yes" just can't see the big picture. Guy is a visionary. Unfortunately hard core liberal principles aren't in the grouped interest of humanity.

It's possible

You just have to beat through the crowd, ignore the noise and take what you want (legally).

It's everyone else that's left behind. I worked my ass off and I have no complaints now, other than the general decline of American Healthcare system. But I'll be out before it fully collapses.

GranolaPanic posted...

Its alarming how common this mindset is. Tell me, do you think minorities and women should be allowed to vote?

If they own property, sure

Young people shouldn't vote anyway. If anything there's too much freedom on it.

You should have to have some kind of skin in the game to make big policy decisions. Why should someone who doesn't pay taxes vote on a tax levy? They contribute nothing, they should get no say.

Taking it further but for the same reason, not sure why anyone other than propery owners are allowed to vote. When you own land, you have a vested decision in good government policy.