I am live.
“welcome to McDonald’s, will you be using the app today?”
“No, lemme get a number 9 medium diet coke”
“Hey how you doing, what can I get you?”
“number 9 medium diet coke”
“Two hamburger meal, and what to drink?”
“Diet coke”
“What size?”
“Medium”
“Does everything look right on the screen?”
“Yes”
“Would you like to round up for the Ronald McDonald Foundation”
“No”
“Drive around to the second window”
I wonder what Andrew Taint would have to say about this.
Absolutely disgusting.
Who the fuck is researching this and what is the process of their information gathering?
Just a bunch of scientists sitting around watching birds goon all day going “ya, this seems perfectly natural!”
Making crap up to fit one’s narrative.
Man. I tired getting into this band… I really really did because the mix and master, sound quality is intensely good.
But some of the dissonance is too much even for me and I love diminished sounds.
Wait wait wait. You mean the oil industry made 59 billion dollars.
Saudi Armaco made around 1.8 TRILLION dollars last year. It cost them $11.50 to produce one barrel of oil. They make around 3.9 billion barrels per year. There roughly 45 billion in production costs.
Guys. The war with Iran was nothing more than an excuse to raise prices.
It’s phunny how fotographs phunction in filosofy.
There is nothing more useless than ph.
So I’m not sure what is happening in this post. The premise is ludacris and the top responses are nonsense.
A five mile ambulance ride to the hospital for non emergency services is like 5k alone.
A simple conversation and basic exam by a doctor is 300 bucks on the low side. That’s just the doctor with a stethoscope checking your heart and lungs.
If you have to go to the emergency room you’re done.
That’s why we have health insurance here. It’s basically a racket.
My inbox is flooded with doomsayers and fear mongering about how they’re going to kill Linux because of this and no matter how hard I tried to convince them that it would be physically impossible to enforce such a law/rule on open source software they just wouldn’t listen.
Looks like the blokes in calif had to eat a lot of truth to come to this decision.
O, before you comment I am fully expecting more doomsayers. So please enlighten me.
Granted you paid for that John Deere update.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
I already defined it in my first post.
But here it is again: an indie game is any game made by a none-major publisher.
Examples of major publishers: Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony.
Examples of non-major publishers: Larian Studios, Annapurna Interactive, Playstack.
An indie game has nothing to do with budget or how many people developed the game. It is exclusively referring to the publisher.
Well. Luckily there’s already an established definition of the word indie.
You know what’s funny? I actually think the situation is a lot better than you’re making it out to be.
You’re not entirely wrong. There absolutely are positions in hospitals where people do insane schedules like 24 or 48 hour shifts. But that’s mostly concentrated around emergency medicine, trauma, surgical residency, ICU coverage, and certain on-call specialties. There’s definitely a culture surrounding ER staff and surgeons where sleep deprivation almost gets treated like some badge of honor.
But the majority of the medical world in America does not operate like that.
Most hospitals primarily run on normal shift structures. Nurses on regular floors and patient wings are usually working standard 8 or 12 hour rotations with multiple shift changes throughout the day just like any other industry. And once you get into private practice, some doctors are only in office a few days a week seeing a relatively small number of patients across different locations.
People also forget hospitals are not run exclusively by doctors and nurses. They’re massive operations with huge amounts of support staff, technicians, imaging departments, transport, administration, custodial staff, billing, labs, and so on, most of whom work completely normal schedules.
So yes, what you’re describing does exist. But I don’t think it’s remotely as universal or apocalyptic as people make it sound. A lot of public perception comes from dramatized media where every hospital is portrayed like a nonstop trauma center operating at DEFCON 1 twenty-four hours a day.
It’s never been a major studio. They make a very specific kind of game they publish themselves or through a small publisher. So they’re by definition indie. In fact many people call larian AAA indie.
Actually, the guy with the headset taking my order is fine. He’s usually just zoned in on the process and not really thinking about it, so I go along with it because that’s the fastest and most expedient way to get through the drive-thru.
What annoys me is the automatic “Are you using the app today?” followed by the donation pitch.
I will never, ever use the app. Ever. It’s fucking McDonald’s. I don’t need to hunt down the best deal they’ve got this week. They push that app constantly, and I’m not going to spend a second pre-ordering a damn Big Mac meal. Just take my order, take my money, and let me go.