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Even with an MRI showing that my mom's breast cancer has likely metastasized to her spine, she has to wait 2 weeks to see the Orthopedist. Just for the consultation, not 2 weeks for surgery. America is fucking bonkers on wait times. Imagine being in debilitating pain with tens of lesions in your spine and being told you have to just deal with it for 2 weeks before you even know what it is for sure.

As much as I shit on Iowa/the Midwest USA, they are a wonderful place for this

Source: I am stuck in Iowa

Same. This is exactly what happens to me. Along with letting someone know at the beginning of a friendship that "hey sometimes people perceive me as an asshole or overly sensitive" and getting "oh I don't think you seem like that at all" only for them to tell me I'm an asshole or sensitive months later... and I don't feel like I've changed how I act at all in that time

I wonder if it restores removed body parts in their prior condition or in their optimal condition. Because some organs are removed for a good reason.

And I'd be mad as fuck if I had to go through a hysterectomy again.

Small correction - federal minimum wage is $7.25, not $7.29

I don't think it's selfish to not want kids. With how fucked the world is, maybe we should be thinking about if it's instead selfish to have kids.

I determined from about age 12 that I didn't want kids. 10 years later and I still don't want them, so I removed the possibility of accidentally having them. The government can't make me have kids - seeing as I yeeted my uterus.

Thx must have been too many letters because all I see now is "ty"

It's All Cops Are Bastards, not Bad

I've seen it happen with my mother's Alexa, but not with my Google Home. And when hers does start listening it stops pretty quick when it realizes that it misheard the wake word.

Even worse than your doors getting stuck closed: your vision disappears.

Man, the real problem with smart devices is that most of the time they don't listen to me. I can't count the times that I've had to repeat "Hey Google" 4 times, louder every time, until it finally hears me. And then starts playing music instead of turning off the lights.

In all seriousness I do agree though - it really is a balancing act between convenience and security.

Software programmer. I have a Google Home running because I'm lazy af and like to be able to verbally turn on/off lights. I also use it to combat ADHD symptoms because saying "set an alarm" is less likely to distract me from what I'm doing than pulling out my phone is.