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I could never understand how colleges employ hundreds or thousands of non-teachers and still fail so hard at every a student actually needs. Actually becoming antagonistic to the students.

Until I realized the administration is only there so service and increase the administration.

effingwewton The wealth of the 1% just hit a record $44T

What happened was the hospital weote it off. It doesn't detract from the fact that it was thousands initially.

Also that's just for the ride. If they need to stabilize you in any way it's going to increase drastically.

When my ex-wife was pregnant with our first child she caught valley fever and we went to the emergency room.

While there a tatted-up tough as nails gang-banger came in cradling his elderly dad in his arms. He was crying hysterically that his father was having a heart attack and please help.

The lady at the front desk tossed a clipboard at him and told him to fill it out and have a seat.

His father was turning blue. He cried please help he's dying and her response was he should have taken an ambulance.

He replied his dad didnt want to cuz he cant afford it. While crying while holding his dying father.

An EMT was coming out from just having dropped someone off. He heard all this go down and told the guy to call 911. He did while the EMT took his father and placed him on the gurney to wheel him outside.

He then turned around and came right back in, past the receptionist screaming at him and wheeled dude's father to the back while ignoring her.

This same hospital that night told my 7 months pregnant wife with coughing fits and lesions on her legs to go home they dont have a treatment for valley fever and tried to charge us for an overnight stay and stabilization.

Fuck the healthcare system in the US it's completely insane.

I have way too many horror stories I've experienced personally to ever have faith in it.

effingwewton Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check

Lol this was the plot of the matrix.

The version that was paradise was rejected for being too perfect.

They had to model a version during a time of strife so people wouldn't question it.

effingwewton Bay Area tech workers are seeing 'salary stagnation,' new report says

Its not a feee market with forced participation.

People need to quit changing the definitions of words to fit their argument or worldview.

effingwewton Bay Area tech workers are seeing 'salary stagnation,' new report says

Ive never heard of s free market where people are forced to participate lest they die of hunger and homelessness.

We have a disgusting power imbalance that gets worse every day.

effingwewton Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate

Let me try to explain- galaxies moving would be like balls floating in a pool. The galaxies are moving across the water.

Space moving would be like balls placed on a bed sheet and the sheet expanding. The galaxies aren't moving- the sheet is.

What's actually happening is more like galaxies moving around on a sheet that's being pulled further at all sides.

effingwewton E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)

Self deception and cognitive dissonance are actually distinct from each other.

As you say self deception is easy to fall into. I have on at least one occasion I can remember thought doing something was stupid, and then realized I had done the same thing.

My face still burns from blushing when I think about it.

I don't know which that scenario would fall under, but I know it wasn't pleasant, and it always makes me pause and try to see things from outside my own perspective.

effingwewton Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

Then go back and answer the questions to which you copy and paste- spammed your email all over this thread.

effingwewton Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

Or you could pretend this is a forum for discussion and not yiur advertising space and answer the questions directly rather than spamming your email.

effingwewton Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages

You missed the 'arbitrary platform' part of 5he original comment.

We all know steam exists that wasnt what OP meant.

effingwewton Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban UBI Experiments

Would have been better had you not. Many people have many reasons not to post under their government names.

Just because yours looks real doesn't make it so. Anyone can make up a real-sounding name.

effingwewton The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing

The saying don't hate the player hate the game is pure cope.

It's finger pointing. Blame the game and the players who perpetuate them.

effingwewton The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing

You nention ltt but theyve had their own issues woth fake stuff, and linus famously considers ad- blocking to be theft I've no trust left in damn near anything anymore.

effingwewton SBF asks for 5-year prison sentence, calls 100-year recommendation "grotesque"

That's not even close to comparable.

Also, Shkreli should have gotten far longer.

E- context->comparable

effingwewton Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone

This sounds like you've never been hunting. Animals move, sometimes right as you pull the trigger. Wounding doesn't mean you mortally wounded it either, sometimes it takes several shots no matter how good a marksman you are.

No hunter wants a wounded animal as it will fill the meat with fight or flight hormones such as adrenaline.

I don't know why you think its any more dangerous, no hunters save maybe bows are right up next to it.

Some hunters will track for hours upon hours only to lose the prey, and this would help alleviate that.

I think nixxing drones completely is throwing out the baby with the bath water.

effingwewton RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study

Perhaps because I am a frequent lurker.

I mean you can look the bot's post history yourself, no need to ask me.

And I'm sorry but lol @ 'strong inflammatory language' (it was neither imho) we are supposed to be adults here.

effingwewton RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study

This is a bot account and should be flagged as such.

It also posts bullshit dupe comments like this one. They are not dupes, the two linked and this one are originals.

Program your bot better.

effingwewton Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)

Those were magazines, newspaper (especially the stock used back in the day) is far more flammable.

effingwewton Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

....Because an actual judge hadn't said it yet.

I still.remember when Microsoft updated thr 360 TOS to force arbitration the day after it was deemed legal in a completely separate case.

Rest assured there is an incoming flood of TOS updates.

effingwewton Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age

Good point. Could be nice if the origins of things could be traced.

Especially quotes since the big thing became a random quote against a black and white photo of a random famous person,so proper attribution is near impossible.

effingwewton Apple reportedly faces €500M fine from EU

Very well put.

There used to be a site posted here every so often that would take the best examples of this and the snark was so on-point. I donated to it but think eventually the creator moved on.

Every once in a while an old 4-chan thread will resurface that is another perfect mirror.

I personally almost never used to post as someone would have already said what I'd intended. Now I feel sometimes like the one who flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Am I the old man shouting at clouds, is the site demo skewing further, both? Neither? May as well ask how many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

Edit- comments aren't usually deleted here I wonder if an old-fashioned comment scrape would do, but how to collate and what would even be the separators?

effingwewton Palworld fans concerned after Nintendo issues surprise takedown

No,it's pure laziness and has been since the gameboy days.

They don't want people to trade they want people to buy both games. JFC Nintendo even sells them as pairs without a single cent off the price for buying both games at once.

People were mad at the split between red and blue. Yellow came along as an apology but still had to buy another game (yellow).

When the N64 came out we thought for sure we'd get a legitimate pokemon game...we got snap and arena.

Nintendo and Gamefreak have known for decades what players wanted and they couldn't care less.

Every new iteration is an asset flip with power creep. I stopped after black/white since it was obvious we'd never see a real pokemon game.

We had fan made MMOs that were amazing but chose quite stupidly to add microtransactions. Still they were hugely popular.

Companies bully and buy out competition so they never have to please their audience and keep stringing them along and no company personifies that attitude more than Nintendo and gamefreak.

I truly hope this is the year of comeuppance for companies who want us beholden to them instead of the other way around. The entire world is fucking backwards.

effingwewton Wealth inequality is root cause of all current economic woes. Interview. [video]

Bullshit resources are finite.

You are just being obstinate all over this thread not even rebutting points, just straw-manning.

You read like an argumentative'AI'.

effingwewton Passing stars changed the orbits of planets in the solar system

I get where you are coming from, but journalists today aren't real journalists. Public trust in media is at an all-time low for a reason.

I understand that real journalism must be paid for, but allowing megacorps to buy up all maintream media was a huge mistake and now they are all corporate mouthpieces.

I don't know what the answer is, but trusting 'journalists' of today is not it.

The head of journalism at my college warned us of this over a decade ago, and he didn't have the answer either. They lost their ethics in search of clicks and clout and cry foul when they aren't believed. They use divisive language, outright lie, holy crap this election cycle will be a shitshow. There's no unbiased truth finders anymore.

The ones I feel sorry for are the real journalists drowned out by the fake.