It frustrates me beyond words that we can’t even get 51% of Americans to agree on something like this, which I think is so obvious. But, that’s where we are as a country. I suppose I need to have enough wisdom to accept that.

Said every American on every issue ever.

Cool!

Thanks, I’ll check that out for these ones

Maybe I got bad ones but they lose their memory after a while for me.

Well, that’s a plus! Thanks.

Gotta be worth a try, anything to not be laying here at 1.15am messaging on Lemmy!

We don’t have Costco here but I hear your point.

Fast fashion pillow time.

Definitely worth a try. I worry they’re “noisy” if I move in the night. Which I do. A lot.

If these work, I’ll buy you a house internet stranger.

If they don’t make them anymore, can I get your address for no sinister reason?

is it 131ft long? 🤔

The two major narratives I see on Lemmy about healthcare in the US.

1. The medical companies are profit driven and untrustworthy

2. People who don’t trust the medical companies are frustratingly ignorant.

Of course the issues are complicated and woven with details and nuance, though I have to wonder if there isn’t a reason why this happening beyond “They’re brainwashed”

The same phenomenon has been identified even in the UK where cultural divides and differences are present in media and often discussed in terms of accuracy or inaccuracy. Their use and abuse.

I can only imagine in a place like the US, which is on such a different scale, that the problem is going to be even wider, more pervasive due to the dominance of the media, and more infuriating given some of the passionate views people have on their home territory.

Apparently, now I’ve stopped to check, it’s a reference to Tacobell using the word “Grande” on their menus, and the hospital is called Taco Bellevue, so yeah, it is the Taco Bell dog 😃

Not being American, I had no understanding of these cultural points.

In the Futurama episode where Leela gets blinded there’s another patient in the hospital who asks “Doctor, how’s my cyst?”

The little Doctor, who appears to be an anthro-Chihuahua says “Grande”

I still have no idea what this is about.

Want to point out that you can have this conversation with your therapist without triggering any disclosure alarms.

Find out what you can and can’t say.

For example, you can talk about how “the stress of home” effects you without saying what actions of others are.

Might feel like tip toeing, could also get you through whilst staying on the fine line

And the same as me!

But then I don’t live in America.

Though that doesn’t always stop them expecting someone to pay taxes

That I wasn’t Zen about endings, I was just never allowing anyone close.

Nintendos? The sub atomic particles?

Pokémon?

Yeah. So are tomatoes.