Brazil.

If I’m at home and simply unwell, I can walk to the neighborhood clinic (one specific clinic based on my address) and get checked - that usually takes half an hour to a couple hours, but it may not always have a doctor available.

So most people skip the local clinic completely and go to a municipal hospital instead (something doctors often plead people not to do). These should always have a couple doctors available and they’ll see anybody - even if you have no documents. When you get there a nurse will check your pulse and stuff and ask some questions to determine your priority level, then the waiting time can go up to 4 hours if it’s low priority.

If you need specific exams, that will depend on how well equipped the hospital is. Many will do it right there, some will request it from other cities and that may take time, so there’s the option of doing it in private clinics too.

No matter what you may end up needing, if you do it through the public health system you won’t need to pay anything at all. Even experimental treatments and surgeries can get arranged. But there’s always the option of going to private clinics as well. Those can have much shorter waiting times.

Based on my limited experience, this is what people seem to do for each kind of visit:

Emergencies: pretty much everybody go to public hospitals. Most places don’t even have private options for this.

Basic check up: most people will use the public system first, unless it’s something very specific and they are well financially.

Dental care: most people who won’t be financially crippled by it will go private. People tend to stick with the same dentist once they find a good one. On the public system you never know who you might be seeing.

Eye doctor: 50/50. There are nearly as many private options for this as there are for dental care, but a lot of them suck.

Expensive exams and operations: people will try to get them for free at first, or through some Health insurance plan they may have from work. Everybody knows someone who’s been waiting months for something on the public system.

Intelligential Artificence

Intelligent Artifacts?

I haven’t stayed in that many hotels so I’m not sure what to pick as worst. It’s either the one that was very stingy with the breakfast and I had to order everything individually and request 3 doses of milk for my coffee, or the hotel where right in front of the entrance I got robbed at gunpoint and punched for being too slow to hand over the money.

The second one I was 20 and trying to get the cheapest option I could find. The first one I was 36 and paying premium for comfort.

I non-ironically quite like the leek spin song (Ievan Polkka).

I’ve seen a few bands, but only tagging along with friends, never seen anyone I actually like. Tbh I’m not a big fan of live music anyway. There’s something about it not being 100% the same as I’m used to that just makes me not like it as much.

You’re confusing “normal” with “common”. Pain is never normal.

That’s why I started with “in that regard”

That’s pretty cool, great job!

In that regard I have to praise Stephanie Meyer: she made her money and then fucked off, never to be heard from again.

Without the internet I probably wouldn’t have lived in the same places I did, nor met the same people I did. So I guess it would’ve taken me longer to reach the political views I have today, but I think I would’ve them, eventually.

I remember that even before having access to the internet I was already seeing some hypocrisy in the arguments that I parroted from everyone around me, and I would sometimes argue back against some of them even without proper knowledge of the subject.

I prefer books that don’t waste too many sentences describing things that have no relevance, but I can still enjoy a good story.

Careful about reversing charges with large companies like Google and Amazon if there’s any. If you dispute a charge from Amazon they may wipe away every account that ever used that card - even if you didn’t dispute any charge related to that account.

Foot held point shoot thing

There are avatars?

My app do display them, but I hadn’t paid attention to it.

Not to mention that even if you judge them only on appearance, they aren’t cute.

I didn’t know the song before Rick Roll was a thing and I quite enjoyed it. I have other songs by Rick Astley in my playlist these days.

I simply translated literally a term that exists in my language and didn’t realize it wasn’t really a thing in English.

A farm hotel is a hotel that is focused on leisure activities, usually connected to nature and often established in what would otherwise have been a farm. They tend to have ponds and lots of trees, flowers and sometimes animals too. They tend to also have areas for private events so that companies can bring their folks to stay there for a few days for meetings and presentations.

The one we were at had access to some pristine rivers where we could practice snorkeling, had some beautiful grottos we could enter, some trails for walking through the woods and also access to other rivers for several water sports. Some of those were provided by the hotel itself and others were general touristic attractions from that region.

I don’t own anybody at all.

People would know what the last seconds before death actually feels like.

You would just carry over the traumas, without any good memories.