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BigPaddy posted:My wife has a chronic illness that means she has to see at least 6 different specialists. None of them will talk to each other or the insurance company so she is her own case manager while barely being able to function some days. Private healthcare in the UK is a joke because it is just NHS doctors moonlighting for extra money in a lot of cases. I know of a couple of private hospitals that are next door to an NHS hospital that just take people who don't want to wait for their procedure on the NHS with the same staff with the time difference being like a week or two. This is for elective and low priority things because if you have something that needs surgery today you will get it on the NHS. Here in Canada, you have a family doctor whose job it is to co-ordinate with the specialists. Our provincial government is in charge of healthcare with money provided by the feds. The current government lead by the worst human on the planet is simultaneously trying to bring in for-profit healthcare to "compete' with the public system while simultaneously trying to drive out doctors and nurses by cutting doctor pay and seeking retroactive pay cuts from the nurses. I went into the hospital in mid September with a bi-lateral pulmonary embolism. Within a week of getting out, all of my specialists had contacted me to see how i was doing. I'm pretty happy with the Canadian system and I'm terrified with how much damage the greedy ideologues in power until 2023 can damage it by the time we can remove them. They noticed tumors in my spine in the CT scan for my lungs. got out of the hospital into October and doctor ordered a nuclear bone scan. they called me last week to come in for it and i just talked to the doctor. I have spinal tumors on a number of vertebrae, luckily they had enough recent chest x-rays to see that they are stable in size so not likely cancerous or a sign of cancer. Likely benign spinal hemangioma which they can't really do anything about because it's a tumor inside the bone. So good news no cancer, and a possible explanation for the back pain I've been experiencing for a number of years. Powershift fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Between CSB and Spyder's experiences with diesel and this anecdote, my long-term position that diesels can be a fuckload of hassle despite their reputation doesn't seem to have been so paranoid. Despite my love for diesels, i've been saying this for years. Modern small diesels have also given up the traditional diesel's base overbuiltness and all of them will have expensive DPF problems in their lifetime, The 3.0 FCA ecodiesel drives a failure prone fuel pump off of the timing gear for an exhaust cam which is pressed onto the camshaft. the new 3.0 duramax has a 150,000 mile engine or transmission out service to replace the belt that drives the oil pump. The 5.0 Cummins.... jesus christ the 5.0 Cummins
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cursedshitbox posted:The simple overbuilt diesels are too old to depend on, the new ones are too fickle to depend on. Buy a LS or Godzilla. Throw a turbo on it if you need the extra torque. I only drive it like 3000km a year, but my complete pre-emissions 7.3 is unbelievably solid. I just used it for the first time in a few months a couple days ago and it was just ready to play. That said, if it every needs anything like injectors or a turbo, i'm scrapping the truck. It's an ex-railroad yard truck, too. It was probably only ever shut off for oil changes in it's first 13 years of life.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Mining for poo poo the battery needs + the burning of batteries due to climate-change fueled wildfires aside, I completely agree. First time I drove a Tesla was a game-changer (in spite of the poo poo-rear end interface). My next car is going to be electric, I just wish manufacturers could understand that certain aspects of car design have been solved for years and don't need re-solving. A non-zero amount of people have died because of "creative, advanced" shifters and door handles, which is loving disgraceful. Also sunroofs should open. sunroofs peaked at the Lincoln Zephyr  Made me curious,  oof probably only 2-3 years until it's NLA e: drat, 63 pounds
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I actually thought about the SA RX-7 as an EV but part of the joy is the light weight. You're getting rid of the powertrain but I feel like an EV powertrain is going to be heavier. The Gen Leaf battery (just as a reference point) is about 1/3 of the total all up kerb weight of a SA. Granted, you could use a smaller battery but the Leaf isn't exactly long legged. The advantage of starting with a light car though is that you need fewer batteries to move everything that's not a battery. I would imagine much of the fun lost through overall weight gain could be clawed back thanks to center of gravity. My issue outside of cost is the need for battery conditioning with our -40 weather and all the fun roads being 3 hours away.
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Rhyno posted:Hello. Stick with it, man. It sounds like good progress. It's nice to get a better understand what's happening in your head and put together the pieces of the what and the why of things you've been carrying for years. If i could give you advice based on my on similar difficulties, it's to start a journal or diary to document how you feel day to day. The changes with some of these medications is so slow and subtle, it's good to have an idea how much they are helping because there will still be hard days where it feels like they're not. It can also help to identify seemingly innocuous that cause discomfort and help figure out why. There were so many stupid things that broke me for even stupider reasons, and it feels really good to just let them go. I once started crying and went to bed at 4pm because i burnt a frozen pizza.
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Charles posted:Is there some kind of simple photo editor that has editable text? Paint.net flattens it what are you trying to do? Gimp isn't that hard once you remember where the tools are/hotkeys. I just tried to see what windows photos could do and it resulted in this which i am now claiming I intentionally created as art. flashing image warning: https://imgur.com/pxWd6en Paint 3d seems to give you text in a modifyable layer. even 3d text you can rotate and flip and stuff 
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KozmoNaut posted:Its text tool and font selection dialog are abysmal, though. Maybe try photopea? It's almost like a gimp-lite. It does have a little weirdness being in-browser. https://www.photopea.com/ Open up the text toolbox on the right, 4th icon down. set your parameters to start, you'll want at least 150 point on a 1080p image, probably 3 pixel stroke(the ... beside text color) for a contrasting outline if you're on a detailed image. hit T to create a text toolbox, drag it to size where you want it placed and type your stuff, you can select all and modify the font/size, or check transform controls in the top left corner to manipulate the text layer like an image to move/scale it  Maybe a steep learning curve but lots of flexibility. I don't know how much simpler it gets without losing the layers. You can also save as psd to keep the layers, and re-open later. If you're looking for something super simple, maybe a meme maker would work? https://imgflip.com/memegenerator Powershift fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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The Lotus will probably hold it's value a little better while costing a lot more to maintain. It will feel quite a bit more special i think though. There is a similar car on BAT right now, and you can see others that have sold recently to gauge if that's a good price. There seem to be better cars that have gone cheaper recently, even on BAT. https://bringatrailer.com/lotus/elise/?q=lotus%20elise A car without a working stock cluster would scare me a little.I don't know what kind of maniac keeps service records then uses stop-leak.
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My launch i5 2500k is still trucking along doing media duties. It’s stock clocked now but was at 4.8ghz for years. Amazing chips all around. What amazes me is the reference R9 290x and the now 8 year old AIO cooler I zip tied to it are still working perfectly. It hasn’t been shut off for more than a few months in that 8 years, I wonder what the fluid inside it or the water pump bearings look like at this point.
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Dec 20, 2021 06:45
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ryanrs posted:Can I get a one-liner explanation of what this sheep thing is? I feel like I've been stubbornly refusing to click on this stuff for weeks. There are 20 questions. You can either try to guess the most popular answer for each or the least popular. You get 1 point for each person who gives the same answer you do. You can play trying to guess which answers people are trying to score 1 point with.
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Dec 21, 2021 01:57
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I think I just saw a meteorite just northeast of here.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:13
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slothrop posted:Is it a Planet-Killer or just a tease? It looked like a really crappy firework. Apparently much brighter from Fort Mac.
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https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/9344 See! don't you see? I'm not crazy!
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Darchangel posted:...about that, at least. Got 99 halucinations but a fireball ain't one.
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Dec 21, 2021 22:40
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I'm currently lusting after the siren song of a "running, driving but not road legal" Shadow Mulliner Park Ward Fixed-Head Saloon. Looks mint but needs the hydro stuff redoing by the sounds. That interior is a beautiful shade of blue.
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I didn't buy a black on black low mileage 560 SEC AMG for 8 grand  Probably 80 loving grand now. I did buy a rusty AE86 GT-S for $1700 this summer but have been too unwell to really get into it. they've gone completely nuts as well.
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When they first started coming over, R32 GT-Rs were around $8k here. I laughed at the dude wanting $18k for his midnight purple R33 GTR Now they've all been crashed out. I don't think i've seen one in a few years.
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Darchangel posted:Merry Christmas (eve) from Texas. Currently 72F at 8:20 PM. Supposed to be 82F on Christmas Day! We’ve already had a week of -20*c and are heading into a week below -30. If we hit the forecasts it will be record lows every day. On a scale of 1 - 10, my anxiety is just north of Graham’s number right now. I don’t plan on getting out of bed tomorrow and that’s going to upset some of the causes. I don’t have the energy to even pretend to be okay at this point. Anyways, merry Christmas, my dudes.
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Hopefully this is viewable outside of Canada. Car documentary from 1960: https://youtu.be/_kYA5mGWNgo
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Humphreys posted:My test results came up negative so yay Mine too but it was an IQ test 
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