If this visit had cost me less that us$500 I would be shocked. Most likely answer is us$500-$1000.

When my wife had back surgery a few years ago the MRI alone cost us$600, the surgery with all of its various charges was over us$3k. I hope none of you have any idea how horrible it is waiting for a loved one to have surgery AND having to discuss payment/credit options with the staff on top of it. You are not thinking clearly and the numbers mean nothing because you dont have any choice but to agree. Then you feel horrible® because you are thinking about money instead of only if they will be OK.

smooth sailing once it moved into my bladder. before that the pain was enough to make me vomit.

Would not wish it on anyone. maybe Henry Kissinger but even then only maybe.

The article is not clear. Is the $71k price listed the cost of the surgery itself or surgery + hospital stay?

If it is just surgery then it is a very unfair comparison since the ICU stay would have been needed in either case, and at least some of the days in the ward for recovery.

As a former American, you do not want the American Health Care System unless you are very wealthy. It is an expensive bureaucratic disaster. BC Health may be imperfect but at least I am not paying us$700/month for family insurance that might be accepted by the doctor/hospital that sees me in an emergency.

Dwarf Fortress runs fine in Linux. Are you telling me there are other video games?!?

Devastating.

Here i was hoping that it had popped back up.

You have proved the comment correct wrt your rudeness.

That could be a longer wait because Gnome (hopefully) wont be standing still during that time.

That can be fixed, using Biden as an example.

except end up in the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame!

they want to bring in the most money and expend the least effort. I can respect that.

Policing customers/users is a PITA and generally sux to do even on the smaller scale of an office. Much cheaper and easier to do nothing.

A penguin once bit my sister. its true!

That assumes that your deletions are actually deleted and not just unlinked. Even then they almost certainly still have all that data in the form of backups. There is a near 100% chance it has been sold and used to train LLMs.

And if they really want to they could restore the comments/posts with randomly generated user names.

Even without the added Russian jets and foreign establishing shots that speech was embarrassing. Really going all in on American style flag humping “patriotism”.

I knew quite a few linux fans who went with Apple laptops when OSX came out. At the time it was the best thing available that had unix under the hood which made it really powerful in the right hands.

that is not a thin-client in the traditional sense, just a small form factor (1liter) pc. Thin clients were minimal spec machines that were made to connect to a much more powerful server somewhere on the network that did all the work. The thin client handled the display and I/O.

Mini PCs are generally a far better deal than a Pi and much more powerful for any kind general computing use.

It is 15min and well worth watching. The 2nd half is the Harris/Walz event at the UAW Hall in Michigan. The thing O’Donnel says the news SHOULD have been showing instead of Trumps nonsensical ramblings at softball questions.

the Canadian government REQUIRES you to use Adobe reader to sign PDFs in order to immigrate to canada

This took a few frustrated attempts to discover for me. Moved to Canada last year and while I am a citizen my wife and kids are not. There was a lot of paperwork to fill out and submit and having repeated issues with documents not opening and seeming not to exist was crazy making. I dont normally install Adobe anything on my computers but decided it was worth a try…

Bright side of the story is that after less than a year the family is now all legal and have their PR cards. The Canadian gov can be refreshingly efficient sometimes.