I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
What I love about this is both of them are correct
The nlpd isn’t funny, just incredibly realistic and depressing
And another thing, I’m not mad, I’m going to put in the paper myself that I’m not mad
Wheelshare is an Israeli company too.
Making disabled people contribute to a genocide by existing is too dystopian to be in a novel and yet here we are
I wonder if anti genocide activists in the UK could do something about this, like provide free wheelchairs to people who need them and draw attention to this evil shit
I was imagining more smashing of things but that’s also cool
And could also supply the free wheelchairs to hand out
Caricature of a country. Completely shameless and soulless parasites.
wheelshare out here doing tropes
Remember back in 2019, when left-leaning folks in the UK were like “the tories want to turn the NHS in to American-style health system”? And then us Americans tried warning them too, explaining how shit our system is because people outside of the US and aren’t familiar with it simply can’t comprehend how bad it is? How we all said Corbyn was the only hope for saving the NHS? Only to have everyone else in the UK say “nahhhh they’d never actually do that”.
How’s that working out for you, UK public?
to be fair, everyone here loves and values the NHS, even the vast majority of conservative voters. the only question is: do we love the NHS more than we hate immigrants?
the answer is spectactularly predictable
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I don’t think we even have anything like this though that’s the shit part
We are SO close to the Phlip K Dick door that won’t let you out without paying it and will argue with you if you try. Someone just needs to add an llm to the wheelchair.
Remember the post where cops were stealing wheelchairs of homeless people? This will rollout soon I Amerikkka I just know it.
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Well in the US, you’d be given the wheelchair off the bat and then get the brutal invoice later.
Big Hospital doesn’t want you to know this, but all the equipment and supplies at a hospital is free.
All you need is a dulled safety vest and a metal clipboard.
Yeah the US system will bill you for $2000 if you have no insurance and $200 if you do have insurance
But is the wheelchair even billed??? I don’t think so, right?
Looking into some CMS documents, I think it’d fall under the category of rented durable medical equipment, and there would be charges if such equipment is used inpatient. But I’ll be frank that figuring out what hospitals actually charge for is kinda hell. I’ve been on the backend of these billing systems, and they are quite arcane.
This makes me think: there HAVE TO be open-source, affordable, easy to manufacture designs of mobility items, with either off-the-shelf parts or with salvaged materials. Anyone encountered anything like that?
I think the actual wheels on wheelchairs are… somewhat unique. Other parts might be more doable but you know, you need it to be comfortable and very durable and all these things. I don’t think freely available designs is really the issue here, though it would be cool
easy to manufacture is relative to your capacity. Are we talking “build them in your garage with hand tools”, or “can be made for $40 a pop by a factory in china” because one of those is always gonna come out on top
because one of those is always gonna come out on top
Yeah exactly, I’m all for DIY, but for medical equipment that is critical to care, there should be a big factory making them with strict quality standards and regulations, ideally owned by the state with an unionized workforce (if we’re still talking about capitalism at this point). Both costs and quality are much better at this point.
Put a card reader on all the exits. If patients can’t afford to leave, put them to work in the kitchens or changing bed pans.
Finally, a solution to the nursing shortage
And if they’re unable to work we can kill them and use their corpses as fertilizer!
This is a hospital!
Use their body parts as replacements for other patients.
For a fee, of course.
It’s an Israeli company too
Just holy fuck how can people be this fucking cartoonishly evil.
what if instead of paying for health insurance, usians saved that money for a trip to a place with actual healthcare
this is a thing actually lol. Although the individual mandate sorta screwed it up for a few years
most commonly it’s people near-ish to the northern or southern border going to canada or mexico for prescriptions, dental work, etc. There’s also a lot of people travelling for surgeries that aren’t covered by insurance and are ludicrously expensive and hard to get in the states, often things like hair transplants or trans top/bottom surgeries, but probably other things as well.
I mean shit people also order their medications from under-the-table overseas pharmacies pretty often.
My mom had to do that. She went to Costa Rica (I think) to get her dental work done. Saved tens of thousands of dollars.
I just ration my meds.
If i dont work, no meds for me
There’s a huge market of Americans who pop down to Mexico to get their dental work done for a lot less. Get near the border you may see billboards about it. It’s insane.
Nah i hear its okay, they’ve got a Labour government now, any second now Czar Kid Starver will rush in and take those wheelchairs away (so unsightly!)
$2/hr is far too cheap for US healthcare
This is dystopian cyberpunk shit lol.
It’s neither cyber nor punk though.
There isn’t much “punk” outside of superficial aesthetics in the Cyberpunkerinos 2077, either, especially after doing story jobs for cops and the fucking president and getting a Swerve-style lecture from the main narrative that trying to improve society somewhat is actually stupid and bad because look at how too far Keanu Reeves went (and he actually did it for selfish reasons and now his digital phantasm wants to take over Original-V-Do-Not-Steal’s brain!). It’s a diluted concept and kind of a lost cause to try to keep within old margins.
The main game was honestly not that bad (except for the side quest cop thing), the DLC was just pure bootlickery.
Sure, it didn’t level any valuable critiques, but it wasn’t like Black Panther or Bioshock Infinite where attempting to improve society somewhat is framed as sinister and harmful, the tone of Cyberpunk was more that it’s impossible and anyone who tries will end up a jaded asshole like Johnny Silverhand. It’s not the position of diehard centrists who think the status quo is good, but that of liberals who are aware of flaws in the system and may even agree with you that certain aspects of capitalism are unjust, but instead of imagining a better world, they shrug and go “ah well, that’s just how it is, what can ya do”. I found the story inoffensive in that regard, my expectations were low and it met them. I enjoyed vibes-based stuff like the bright neon vending machine in V’s apartment.
The DLC was fucking unbearable. I put over 70 hours into the Cyberpunkerinos but I could not get through the embarrassing story of the DLC where you literally save the president and join the FBI. I also liked how they made the president this tough lady who can fight for herself when the 2 most recent presidents have been bumbling geriatrics.
tl;dr Johnny Silverhand is kinda like
if you play Disco Elysium at 20x speed while also playing Subway Surfers on your phone and huffing lead paint.I could not get through the embarrassing story of the DLC where you literally save the president and join the FBI.
The thin act of humanity Myers and the FIA agents put on in the beginning steadily drops away, with your actual client (Songbird) even all but saying “Myers is actually ontologically evil” in part of the opening sequence, just in much more guarded words than that.
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It becomes increasingly obvious that the NUSA agents are in fact the bad guys as it sets up the moment of truth where you either keep working for Songbird or betray her and side with them instead, with Sol at one point breaking from the plan to just straight up murder two captive bystanders in front of you, and while I have no clue what side-with-the-FIA questline looks like the Songbird path ends with Myers ordering NUSA troops to No Russian the Night City spaceport and raving about wanting both V and Songbird dead.
I also liked how they made the president this tough lady who can fight for herself when the 2 most recent presidents have been bumbling geriatrics.
It’s a setting where wealth buys superpowers and nearly eternal youth, and Myers is basically Adam Smasher with a human mask.
I suppose my problem was that even the aesthetics fell flat for me. The whole “Japan is scary and its corporate octopus will take over the world” thing was an 80s propaganda product and seeing it presented ostensibly a century afterward felt like a boomer’s idea of what the future looks like.
The organ rental kiosk is off to the left, out of frame.
JUST LIKE IN THE TREATS
