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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We are spending billions of dollars on these things but didn't think far enough ahead to supply adequate ground based comms.

    https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-artemis-1-communications

  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,471 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/08/health-care-even-more-dysfunctional-after-medicare-cuts/

    "I realize that physicians complaining about pay might not generate much sympathy from the public. But please hear me out. Many primary care physicians are in private practice, meaning they’re responsible for their own overhead. Medicare physician reimbursements are set to be cut by approximately 4% on January 1. When factored in with other projected Medicare cuts, the total cuts physicians can expect to see are closer to 8.5%. And that’s not even accounting for inflation. If reimbursements fall that dramatically, these physicians may have no choice but to stop accepting Medicare patients in order to keep their lights on. And given that most insurance companies set their reimbursement rates based on Medicare’s, it’s reasonable to expect that reimbursement will fall across the board, meaning that primary care doctors may be forced to accept only patients who can pay out-of-pocket."

  • JrflicksterJrflickster Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/08/health-care-even-more-dysfunctional-after-medicare-cuts/

    "I realize that physicians complaining about pay might not generate much sympathy from the public. But please hear me out. Many primary care physicians are in private practice, meaning they’re responsible for their own overhead. Medicare physician reimbursements are set to be cut by approximately 4% on January 1. When factored in with other projected Medicare cuts, the total cuts physicians can expect to see are closer to 8.5%. And that’s not even accounting for inflation. If reimbursements fall that dramatically, these physicians may have no choice but to stop accepting Medicare patients in order to keep their lights on. And given that most insurance companies set their reimbursement rates based on Medicare’s, it’s reasonable to expect that reimbursement will fall across the board, meaning that primary care doctors may be forced to accept only patients who can pay out-of-pocket."

    Seems doubtful but I understand the argument

  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm glad I have the VA regardless of how it is sometimes difficult.

  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    lol

    There are buyers for just about anything.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,522 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Biden/Harris cards would come free in packs of gum.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,522 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Or on the backs of cereal boxes.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • TheKrakenTheKraken Posts: 2,253 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My WTF, funny that ART is capitalized

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sold out in one day.

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,802 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A famous P.T. Barnum quote comes to mind...

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • d_bladesd_blades Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Or on the backs of cereal boxes.

    I'd prefer milk cartons.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2022

    GM is planning to install chargers at dealership to encourage more ev sales. But the chargers are level 2 so it's 3 hours for an 80% charge. Not very encouraging imho.

  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2022

    @silvermouse said:
    GM is planning to install chargers at dealership to encourage more ev sales. But the chargers are level 2 so it's 3 hours for an 80% charge. Not very encouraging imho.

    Only those who know will see this as marketing, the rest will say, 'Gee, isn't that nice? We should get a Bolt."

    But I ask, who is going to be parking there and charging? Who parks at a dealership, and why? If they could charge them while the car's being serviced, that'd be nice. Maybe it's for those who are traveling?

    Edit: stopping to admit to myself I may not have enough information on this to form an accurate opinion.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • d_bladesd_blades Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My local GM dealer installed one a few months ago haven't seen a car use it yet.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    While you’re there they will be offering you trade in value and showing you around the lot. Free coffee too.

  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,471 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    While you’re there they will be offering you trade in value and showing you around the lot. Free coffee too.

    Maybe they can talk to you about your car's warranty, yes?

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The latest social media selfie trend. I hesitate to ask what it indicates..

    lobotomy chic aesthetic

    https://petapixel.com/2022/12/21/the-lobotomy-chic-aesthetic-is-taking-over-instagram/

  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2022

    @silvermouse said:
    The latest social media selfie trend. I hesitate to ask what it indicates..

    lobotomy chic aesthetic

    https://petapixel.com/2022/12/21/the-lobotomy-chic-aesthetic-is-taking-over-instagram/


    Actually, I can't wait til my girl adopts this style for "our" selfies, because my smiles are sometimes judged to be inferior. So, I'll be grateful and joyous to show my ungrateful and joyless look.

  • Hobbes86Hobbes86 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2022

    @silvermouse said:
    The latest social media selfie trend. I hesitate to ask what it indicates..

    lobotomy chic aesthetic

    https://petapixel.com/2022/12/21/the-lobotomy-chic-aesthetic-is-taking-over-instagram/

    I think it indicates that young folks need to find more constructive hobbies.

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think young people need to learn how to WORK.

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    we live in a debt economy, the messages on media all say buy, you've got credit, upgrade your phone, your car, you need to.... So many people I know live paycheck to paycheck and when they work hard and earn more they spend more.

  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,924 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    we live in a debt economy, the messages on media all say buy, you've got credit, upgrade your phone, your car, you need to.... So many people I know live paycheck to paycheck and when they work hard and earn more they spend more.

    The gentleman who I owe my livelihood too not only taught me how to make money, but how to make that money make money. I was/am lucky. Can’t complain too much.

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    sign of the times:

    "Representative-elect George Santos, a New York Republican, admitted to lying about his work and college history but said it would not stop him from taking office."

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