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HashtagGirlboss posted:When was the last time you saw anyone eat a mars bar? If I caught my reflection in a monitor, would that count?
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:they don't, in the US. They sneak them into those horribly overpriced Halloween bags sometimes
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Apr 28, 2024 20:59
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HashtagGirlboss posted:They sneak them into those horribly overpriced Halloween bags sometimes those FUCKERS
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Apr 28, 2024 20:59
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Xaris posted:yeah much like private equity has been gobbling up health care centers and independent MD practitioners in rural or smal-mid town places, it’s also been buying up a ton of independent vets and consolidating hard, jacking up prices, and making service much worse. a friend of mine just spent $4k to have her 13 yr old dog's toe amputated; it had some sort of lump on it and a biopsy alone was going to cost $1k; if it were cancer she'd have to spend a lot more than $4k for surgery & doggy chemo. it's a corporate vet practice that replaced a decades-old local business with a sterling reputation; they kept the old practice name intact, just as the story said most do.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:00
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Why the gently caress would amputation of a single toe cost $4,000 dollars (551 hours of minimum wage)? How can they possibly justify charging that much?
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Apr 28, 2024 21:01
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SKULL.GIF posted:Why the gently caress would amputation of a single toe cost $4,000 dollars (551 hours of minimum wage)? the same reason a dog licks his balls
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Apr 28, 2024 21:02
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SKULL.GIF posted:Why the gently caress would amputation of a single toe cost $4,000 dollars (551 hours of minimum wage)? Emotional blackmail. You wouldn't want to be responsible for killing your pet now, would you? So then, cough up.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:03
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SKULL.GIF posted:Why the gently caress would amputation of a single toe cost $4,000 dollars (551 hours of minimum wage)? Probably because they can.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:03
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Willa Rogers posted:the same reason a dog licks his balls it... tastes good???
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Apr 28, 2024 21:03
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What would the actual cost look like? Something like 10 minutes of labor, sterilizing the wound site, disposal of biomass?
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Apr 28, 2024 21:04
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Willa Rogers posted:the same reason a dog licks his balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRKafB6XB08
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Apr 28, 2024 21:04
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SKULL.GIF posted:What would the actual cost look like? Something like 10 minutes of labor, sterilizing the wound site, disposal of biomass? what about the hospital administrator's labor??
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Apr 28, 2024 21:05
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SKULL.GIF posted:What would the actual cost look like? Something like 10 minutes of labor, sterilizing the wound site, disposal of biomass? You're missing the most important part: shareholder value.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:05
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Willa Rogers posted:I think a lot of people would look at the chart & think "things are back to normal now" especially the libs I see who claim that prices under biden are back to what they used to be.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:07
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Willa Rogers posted:a friend of mine just spent $4k to have her 13 yr old dog's toe amputated; it had some sort of lump on it and a biopsy alone was going to cost $1k; if it were cancer she'd have to spend a lot more than $4k for surgery & doggy chemo. wtf I paid half that in 2020 to have an entire leg amputated (also cancer, fortunately hadn’t metastasized, he’s still around  )
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Apr 28, 2024 21:11
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Well yeah but it's still a ways to go before AI rids the planet of the human infection
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Apr 28, 2024 21:12
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Anecdotal evidence here, the vet office we had gone to for 15 years got bought by VCA and prices rose insanely, way outstripping inflation. After our old dog passed away and we got a new puppy, I took her to a different, closer private office that wasn't a VCA (they've bought up a ton of vets in the region) to get an exam, flea/tick, fecal test, and a round of shots. The vet tech apologized and said it was going to be about two hundred bucks and I just laughed because it was half of what the VCA would have charged.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:21
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All these vet posts and no goddam pet pictures. What in the absolute gently caress.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:25
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Itt people taking care of their pets and not being Kristi Noem or that weirdo in the covid thread who killed a dog with a brick
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Apr 28, 2024 21:30
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Microplastics posted:I enjoyed the bit that said mars bars basically dont exist in the us. very rarely you can find them. milkyway and snickers are mars' 2 biggest products here.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:32
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:All these vet posts and no goddam pet pictures. What in the absolute gently caress. I am elderly and dont know how Imgur works.. will this work?? I was doing drainage this morning and she was dragging around some corrugated pipe, trying to help out 
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Apr 28, 2024 21:35
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nikosoft posted:I am elderly and dont know how Imgur works.. will this work?? I was doing drainage this morning and she was dragging around some corrugated pipe, trying to help out would pet
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Apr 28, 2024 21:39
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ordinarily i dont condone necromancy but if its a computer doing it its fine actually
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Apr 28, 2024 21:45
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nikosoft posted:I am elderly and dont know how Imgur works.. will this work?? I was doing drainage this morning and she was dragging around some corrugated pipe, trying to help out Absolute great doggo. Lab always been in my family. Last yellow one ate construction sand to help out. Also, FYI use this site. Better than Imgur. https://postimages.org
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Apr 28, 2024 21:45
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Xaris posted:my local vet sold to Thrive Corporation and it loving sucks rear end now More like Thievery Corporation
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Apr 28, 2024 21:48
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:All these vet posts and no goddam pet pictures. What in the absolute gently caress. Down a leg but still going strong! 
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Apr 28, 2024 21:53
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nikosoft posted:I am elderly and dont know how Imgur works.. will this work?? I was doing drainage this morning and she was dragging around some corrugated pipe, trying to help out 14/10 i give a treat without checking for traps
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Apr 28, 2024 21:53
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if I could get even fraction of that without working in any outwardly evil industries i would. im not even a computer toucher although i do have a stagnant comp information sys degree https://twitter.com/IdahoBones/status/1784581479214784587?t=_598JHrmPFIAc_t0aG379Q&s=19
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Apr 28, 2024 22:01
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Down a leg but still going strong! would pet this dog
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Apr 28, 2024 22:04
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:if I could get even fraction of that without working in any outwardly evil industries i would. as someone suffering from universities giving money from humanities to compsci 
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Apr 28, 2024 22:10
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:if I could get even fraction of that without working in any outwardly evil industries i would. This was always the extremely predictable outcome of programming getting an insane amount of people swarming into it for Jobs. At some point sooner or later the sector would contract and squeeze out the bottom 20-40% of candidates.
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Apr 28, 2024 22:26
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SKULL.GIF posted:This was always the extremely predictable outcome of programming getting an insane amount of people swarming into it for Jobs. At some point sooner or later the sector would contract and squeeze out the bottom 20-40% of candidates. it'd be one thing if there were really merit involved, but sector contractions tend to affect people randomly, aside from those propped up by * P R E S T I G E * in either degree or company. it's mostly in the timing of when you lose your job or enter into the workforce
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Apr 28, 2024 22:33
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SKULL.GIF posted:This was always the extremely predictable outcome of programming getting an insane amount of people swarming into it for Jobs. At some point sooner or later the sector would contract and squeeze out the bottom 20-40% of candidates. Right wing guys that hate college students love to say they all should have gone into the trades instead, but if you had a huge infusion of new welders or pipe fitters the exact same thing would happen there too.
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Apr 28, 2024 22:34
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Yeah I think that was the plan, the reason Zuckerberg et al were pushing the "everybody learn to code at public expense" was to flood the job market and drive down wages.
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Apr 28, 2024 22:41
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SKULL.GIF posted:This was always the extremely predictable outcome of programming getting an insane amount of people swarming into it for Jobs. At some point sooner or later the sector would contract and squeeze out the bottom 20-40% of candidates. that was the raison d'etre big push for obama's learn2code and coal2code mine
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Apr 28, 2024 22:42
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:This happened in law years ago too. Tons of newly graduated law students couldn't get into practice. hmmm its almost as if the "fad" majors become fads because capital wishes to lower its outlays on some specific form of labor 
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Apr 28, 2024 22:42
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:All these vet posts and no goddam pet pictures. What in the absolute gently caress.  nikosoft posted:I am elderly and dont know how Imgur works.. will this work?? I was doing drainage this morning and she was dragging around some corrugated pipe, trying to help out HashtagGirlboss posted:Down a leg but still going strong!
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Apr 28, 2024 22:43
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oh well, welcome to my hell computer perverts
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Apr 28, 2024 22:43
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Raskolnikov38 posted:oh well, welcome to my hell computer perverts they should have unionized when they had the chance. now there's no chance if there's 10000 applications for every computer diddler job
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Apr 28, 2024 22:44
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Down a leg but still going strong! harder having one of the front legs, but also makes it so you get incredible rub length
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