How do they shush in greek?

I am Nicaraguan/live in Nicaragua. My experience at hospitals has been… great, I guess. Yes, we have universal healthcare that covers a lot of things, but my experience has been good because both of my parents are doctors. When I was a kid, and I had to go to the hospital, I would get to my appointment pretty quickly, doctors where responsive, attentive and thorough. My parents may have been friends with them or at least they knew each other, so they were nice.

My experience is not necessarily common. Nowadays when my friends share their hospital experiences, they always complain about their doctors: they are rude, lack empathy, are not thorough, misdiagnose them, and the hospital system is a mess. Doctors are overworked, and they are not able to provide the care that they would be able to if the hospitals enrolled in the social security system didn’t take on so many patients. Their medical personnel doesn’t grow, but their number of patients does, just so they can keep accumulating as much wealth as they can.

My parents’ experience with hospitals hasn’t been great either. When my dad quit his job at the Army’s hospital, he was not paid any of the compensation required by law. This was not uncommon at the time, at least one person made a complaint at the Ministry of Labor, but it was dismissed because… it’s the Army’s Hospital.

My mom worked most of her life at the same hospital, she developed chronic pain due to her work, and was fired after she requested fewer hours. She later tried to file for compensation for an occupational injury and was denied by the (state-run) social security system. The Army’s Hospital is not run by right-wing Somoza-era guards, it is run and owned by Sandinista generals.

I am sharing all this because well, you asked for awful hospital stories, but also to illustrate something that people hate to hear in Marxist-Leninist spaces: Nicaragua is not a socialist paradise, we also live in our very own brand of a capitalist hellscape. A hellscape flavored with Ortega’s desire to enrich himself, his family and his closest allies.

I also live with chronic pain, I sometimes go without sleep for days, but I was able to get a diagnosis and the proper medication because my parents are friends with doctors. Only working class solidarity will save us, not fake socialists in power. (I want to point out, unlike other countries, being a doctor in Nicaragua doesn’t necessarily make you wealthy, only until I also started working did our financial struggles eased up a bit.)

I hope you get the medical care and medications that you need soon, good luck with your appointment!! Not being able to sleeps sucks, it’s just trying to get through the day to finally get to bed… and then being unable to fall sleep, and repeat. It’s terrible.

Of course it is. How do these foreign companies own such large amounts of land in these countries? (Hint: US-sponsored coups). Why are these countries producing large amounts of a single crop via monoculture practices instead of solving for the nutritional needs of their own population?

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Have you… read the news for the past two months?

Reading tarot cards IS labor.

Wondering why a move from Codeberg (non-profit, free software, self-hostable) to Github (propietary software, Microsoft)? Seems like Codeberg would be more aligned to the project’s values.

I don’t think which accounts or statuses someone has viewed/visited is public information. This is just a list of likes the account had, right? (Which is public and anyone can see without API access).

I think you have a pretty big typo at the end of your first paragraph.

But I agree with you, I hate that sub, and I don’t understand how people can stomach watching that as entertainment/a passtime. To me just watching videos of people being killed (no matter who they are) inevitably leads to dehumanization. Like, I’m glad Nazis were killed during WW2 but I don’t spend my day searching for pictures or videos of dead nazis.

I found it! Thanks, not sure how I missed it.

Yeah, Thunder is weird about their swipe to go back gesture. It works if you’re doing it over the post itself or if you’re scrolling through the comments (so while the comments are moving, swipe to go back).

Kinda crazy how many people use Liftoff when Thunder is so much better.

2 minutes of Googling led me to the poll: https://changeresearch.com/post/poll-young-voters-facing-tough-economic-reality/

The question asked was “Do you consider each of the following behaviors or traits a green, beige, or red flag in a partner?”.

I am using Compact mode and experiencing the same thing in the latest update.

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Would airport networks have randomization enabled?

Thanks for taking care of them! Just wanted to say that milk is generally not a good thing to give to cats as most of them are lactose intolerant.

I cycle between Thunder, Summit and Sync, they all have similar vibes.

In my experience, just consuming more media is a good way to become more familiar with the facial features that we might not pay enough attention to differentiate between people. When I first started watching Japanese movies, I had a bit of a hard time grasping who was who, but as time went on it became easier.

Lovely this happened because someone complained after being banned from the piracy instance for being a transphobic asshole.