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Lmao, the best they could get.
Man combining/merging into an orange chair. It's from a shit AI video from Sora so it just looks bad.
December 10, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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That reminds me of a medical story that's stuck with me for whatever reason. Not even close to the worst one, but it's stuck with me for one reason or another. Insurer wasn't mentioned, fwiw.
Screenshot from NPR article on hospitals requiring pre-payment before surgeries, even emergency ones. After arriving by ambulance at the emergency department, Susan Bradshaw lay on a gurney in her hospital gown with a surgical bonnet on her head, waiting to be wheeled into surgery to remove her appendix at a hospital near her home in Maitland, Fla. A woman in street clothes approached her. Identifying herself as the surgeon's office manager, she demanded that Bradshaw make her $1,400 insurance payment before the surgery could proceed. "I said, 'You have got to be kidding. I don't even have a comb,' " Bradshaw, a 68-year-old exhibit designer, told the woman on that night eight years ago. "I don't have a credit card on me." The woman crossed her arms and Bradshaw remembers her saying, "You have to figure it out."
December 9, 2024 at 9:08 PM