luthis

Ok figured out the origin,

I reconnected protonvpn and we are back in business. What is going on here? Why is my DNS being blocked when protonvpn is off? This is after multiple restarts.

I can reliably reproduce this issue if I logout without disconnecting protonvpn.

Really curious to find out the cause for this!

Pretty sure this is the NTFS windows thing. I have never had this issue when using ext file systems

Also hospital is free and ambulances ask for a donation of like $100.

In NZ for basic healthcare, you call to make an appointment with your GP, go in later that day, they give you a prescription and you pay $5 for the medication and about $40 for the appointment.

For specialists in the public sector, there is a long waiting period, like a few months sometimes. You can pay for a private specialist, but it is of course expensive. Completely depends on the type of specialist etc.

Dental is not covered by public health care because we still live in 1864 apparently where barbers are meant to be pulling our teeth, but we are getting very close to having dental as part of public healthcare.

A huge amount of medication is subsidised here, basically anything life-saving like insulin, asthma medication, etc. I have an infinite supply of paracetamol because I just get it prescribed when I go to the doctors and pay nothing for it.

It really blows my mind that the US has an objectively vampiric and unfair healthcare system.

I haven't gone back to Reddit as an active user at all since the event.

Lemmy will get another boost of users as a side effect as Mastodon picks up in popularity with the continued elonning of Twitter.

It's fairly active here, I constantly see new posts etc. But if you want more activity, post more!

Yeah, it's probably just BS.

Nah bro, more likely it's 'well you didn't say it could seriously injure or kill me so it's probably not important to listen to.'

This is coincidentally also the framework for how adolescent males navigate the world.

You can't design safety measures for stupid, that's for sure.

These days it's mostly backwards developing world countries that put all the money towards appearances and take shortcuts when it comes to safety. cough cough China cough

But still more developed countries are guilty of this too. Fascinating Horror does excellent 10 minute videos on disasters caused by negligence, and the following regulations that get put into place to prevent the same thing in future.

I know how you feel.

I'm slightly left of centre, but I am now voting quite far left to try counter the right swing we are most likely going to have with this next election.

One time I was riding my motorbike and being impatient, I hit a car and accidentally killed the driver. I reloaded the save.

I mostly drive around obeying the traffic laws (which is difficult because everyone drives on the wrong side of the road) because it gives me that vibe of cruising around as a no-good delinquent, scoping out places for the next job.