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Don't Repeat Yourself
author=dragonheartmanauthor=Max McGeeThis. Because some of us use RM2k3 for more than making little chests and doors.
There is a certain point where the difference between those two things is so small that pointing it out is obnoxious. I mean blocks of 'eventing' in RM that I can point to and go 'fuck you, this is code'.
Whenever I hear scripting, I think of lamebrained people stealing codes from the internet, and not learning even basic eventing.
Display Clock/Any Variables on Screen
Uhhhh, quick note. Don't make your entire tutorial by youtube. It was taken down, and now you have no real tutorial.
Pathfinding
Maybe it's just me, but if you've got this many variables, chances are you're thinking about this wrong. The only time I do that is for events involving heroes and that is because doing it by numbers sometimes fails.
Lusine - Just a Stat
Easyrpg [RPG Maker 2000/2003 Player] - Developer Perks
Who's working on this, btw? I think Pepsi mentioned it earlier, but I dunno. Can I add some ideas of things to expand upon? Whoever, pass this along before someone declares this engine "done". These are things that are noticeably absent in the tsukuru 2k3.
The thinking is keep all 2k/2k3 settings for compatibility, just add menu options. Yeah, yeah, it's probly too difficult. I wanted to ask anyway, since I don't know how to make my own engine that would definitely address some of these oversights.
- Party Size does not count beyond 4. There should really be a Current Party Size (limit 4), but also a Party Size. As it is, without switches, it isn't even clear if the engine really even knows party members are there, and this certainly doesn't help if you want to divide something by 10 members. It also means that shifting the order is worthless. (Ideally, Order could actually swap party members and create a low tech way to party change. But I have a feeling this might mess with compatibility, so the more important one is just adding some support for heroes in party mentioned as reserve members.)
- Monster Behavior events, there is no variable events, and in neither Monster nor Monster Party is there any discernible means to easily check status, and without some patch, no way to check monster status at all. The latter thing is a very annoying oversight.
- What 2k3 does with pictures is blocks them from battle. There's a PicturesInBattle patch, but what that sometimes does is cause pictures in battle to hang after battle, forcing a manual remove. What should really happen is allowing pictures in battle (through Common Events) but partition battle pictures and non-battle, automatically erasing all pictures during transition.
- I believe there's a Common This Event patch, because this events usually crash inside common events. You cannot for instance make boulder pushing behavior or door opening a common event.
- From pushing blocks, I discovered that it appears ThisEvent is not actually this event. That is, when I make block puzzles, and I trigger a boulder to This EventX, which works fine... until of course I try to reuse the variable because I don't want 8 different boulder variables (and yes, I tried using variable reference). It's an overwrite issue. Ultimately, I got it to stop doing this by putting the XY info in the boulder events themselves, and then the last line using a variable to differentiate similar events.
A lack of Local Switches is also thing, but there should be more of a distinct sense that making a variable isn't an overwrite. I guess what I really want, along with maybe local events, is a ThisID (effectively using the EventID) option on the Sprite section of variables. That way, instead of marking each boulder 1, 2, 3 with variables, I could simply do var ThisEventID, Set ThisEvent ThisID - Change Event Location should really have a means of importing a certain event (basically, copying then erasing after the common event or local event has finished). This would facilitate things like custom menus or stuff like firing arrows, as you wouldn't have to copypaste to every screen.
- Monster Party and certain other events simply put "above" for variables. And these switches are ON by default
- There seems to be no way do alot of things in battle (such as target All for monsters, which leads to annoying missing enemy glitches and loads of extra lines of coding) and there's poor interaction between battle and common events.
- Basically, since the DynRPG probably wouldn't work, have a scripting system using C++, and basically add a page of code in the same way you add common event pages, only it allows free typing and copypasting from 2k3 codes. I could actually use my FileControl plugin.
The thinking is keep all 2k/2k3 settings for compatibility, just add menu options. Yeah, yeah, it's probly too difficult. I wanted to ask anyway, since I don't know how to make my own engine that would definitely address some of these oversights.
A CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW YEAR: Make a game sometime this year where an alpaca is prominently featured. Do it. Doooo iiiiiiit! You'll get an alpaca badge!
Voter Fraud
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
Yeah. Like I say, liberals are racists. But like I also said last post, it doesn't matter. What matters is knowing it, and coping with it. Will you bend over backwards to try to accomodate racial minorities out of a sense of guilt, even when doing so does more harm than good? Or will you say, "Tbh, I do discriminate. Everyone does to some extent. I'll try not to make a habit of it, but I won't appease assholes either."
I'm not going to talk about healthcare, instead I'm gonna talk about my prioritizing money over life, and the very thing you got upset about.
And yes, healthcare is about saving money. Doctors talk all they want to people about how virtuous they are. They're a bunch of fiends. Scum of the earth.
"40 They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”
This was Jesus speaking of the priests of his day. But he could have been speaking of the average doctor today. They bleed families dry, using their guilt to ruin them, they feel no remorse about the fact that there are minimal and even effective treatments, but those are being suppressed or dismissed as quackery, so you can't even try them. Nope, chemo, surgery, and radiation, those are your options.
Actually, a change in diet helps. Actually quitting coffee in some cases reverses cancer. Actually, antioxidants and regular exercise help. Nah, don't talk about that, I want to pull out a loved one's internal organs despite the fact that makes them weaker and this reduces their immunity. Chemotherapy is also immunosuppressant. And radiation kills healthy cells. None of these are good for you. Why are they prescribing them? And why aren't they telling you about anything proven effective? Besides, of course, those big three, which all weaken the body.
Money is not important. But it represents something important to you. In this case, time with your family lost, because sick people valued profit over life, omitting any other treatment as options. That's why I valued it first, because doctors despite their fancy robes do. They wrecked my grandma's neck trying to fix it. Don't you think you should be able to boycott them if you feel like me? Not pay their salary when you don't believe in the process?
Will you also feel no remorse, as you pay their salary through insurance? Or don't you think it's time to fight back against the people who robbed you of your family? You should be angry. I'm angry at being forced to choose between no insurance and shit insurance at more cost than I can afford. I'm angry at feeling like I burdened my mom and dad who were willing to pay because they thought I wanted insurance more than I wanted to just not see them stressed.
I am assigning you homework, StormCrow. Goto Netflix or Amazon and rent First Do No Harm. Not gonna watch it? Here, it's about a mother who kid, like me, had seizures. She gives the kid all kinds of medicines, only to find out from another mother that eventually all these drugs have a toxic effect on the system, after losing at least one kid to them. She goes outside the box, and finds out about a doctor who prescribes a ketogenic diet. Guess what? It works, those big pharma doctors were all wrong, and basically almost killed her kid.
Yeah. Like I say, liberals are racists. But like I also said last post, it doesn't matter. What matters is knowing it, and coping with it. Will you bend over backwards to try to accomodate racial minorities out of a sense of guilt, even when doing so does more harm than good? Or will you say, "Tbh, I do discriminate. Everyone does to some extent. I'll try not to make a habit of it, but I won't appease assholes either."
I'm not going to talk about healthcare, instead I'm gonna talk about my prioritizing money over life, and the very thing you got upset about.
And yes, healthcare is about saving money. Doctors talk all they want to people about how virtuous they are. They're a bunch of fiends. Scum of the earth.
"40 They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”
This was Jesus speaking of the priests of his day. But he could have been speaking of the average doctor today. They bleed families dry, using their guilt to ruin them, they feel no remorse about the fact that there are minimal and even effective treatments, but those are being suppressed or dismissed as quackery, so you can't even try them. Nope, chemo, surgery, and radiation, those are your options.
Actually, a change in diet helps. Actually quitting coffee in some cases reverses cancer. Actually, antioxidants and regular exercise help. Nah, don't talk about that, I want to pull out a loved one's internal organs despite the fact that makes them weaker and this reduces their immunity. Chemotherapy is also immunosuppressant. And radiation kills healthy cells. None of these are good for you. Why are they prescribing them? And why aren't they telling you about anything proven effective? Besides, of course, those big three, which all weaken the body.
author=AlsoTheBible
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Money is not important. But it represents something important to you. In this case, time with your family lost, because sick people valued profit over life, omitting any other treatment as options. That's why I valued it first, because doctors despite their fancy robes do. They wrecked my grandma's neck trying to fix it. Don't you think you should be able to boycott them if you feel like me? Not pay their salary when you don't believe in the process?
Will you also feel no remorse, as you pay their salary through insurance? Or don't you think it's time to fight back against the people who robbed you of your family? You should be angry. I'm angry at being forced to choose between no insurance and shit insurance at more cost than I can afford. I'm angry at feeling like I burdened my mom and dad who were willing to pay because they thought I wanted insurance more than I wanted to just not see them stressed.
I am assigning you homework, StormCrow. Goto Netflix or Amazon and rent First Do No Harm. Not gonna watch it? Here, it's about a mother who kid, like me, had seizures. She gives the kid all kinds of medicines, only to find out from another mother that eventually all these drugs have a toxic effect on the system, after losing at least one kid to them. She goes outside the box, and finds out about a doctor who prescribes a ketogenic diet. Guess what? It works, those big pharma doctors were all wrong, and basically almost killed her kid.
Voter Fraud
I would say then, that you are probably looking at a stereotype. A funhouse mirror.
Here's what I see.
There are a few distinct categories of people:
That's because liberals are real racists. I live in the county seat of a county with 4000 people, maximum. There are blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, and I think I met four people with the first or last name Muhammad (well, one was named Muhummud but yeah; this guy was traveling with a liberal black handler who struck me as "social worker" type). I worked at the library. Racism? What racism? We serve everyone. Then I see people here like "we need to hire according to quotas." "Oh? Why's that?" "Because... "(Two inches from their face) Why? Why? Why are really doing this?" If I pushed them like a bad cop, I would have a feeling they would start to sweat and dodge the question.
But I KNOW the answer. They are doing this because of shame. Why do Swedes take in a bazillion immigrants? After all, they've already made their point, they're friendly to outsiders. Because they can't be seen as having hateful thoughts. That wouldn't be nice or pleasant. Yes, and... ummm it's probably not nice or pleasant to shoo out Nazis prior to World War II, but as they start to kill your gays, Jews, Romani, and handicapped, it's probably time to be rude.
Here's the thing. When countries lose their core morality, they mistake being nice or being agreeable for actual virtue. Then when they see others refusing to do so, all a third party collaborator must do is turn around and tell them "those people are racists." No, actually, they're not. They're people who love their country. They like going into their small town and meet Billy Jack and Jim Bob. It does not matter if Billy Jack is actually Native American, and Jim Bob is actually a black woman. What matters is that these are their neighbors. Their families, their friends. But the left loathes these things. They control rent and shift populations to destabilize communities. They loathe our holidays, preferring to supplant them with foreign ones. The useful idiot falls for it. "yeah, they don't seem into the environment either." Do you think I don't like trees? Birds? Waterfalls? Etc? Of course I do! I live in the country. Meanwhile, city environmentalists want to tax me for using electric farm tools, while they have internet blog jobs typing about how green their electric car is. Hint: it's really not.
Here's what's really behind all this virtue signalling about how we've filled quotas or done things equally, or been environmentally conscious. As I say, shame. The average conservative grows up having a somewhat good idea of what they think is right and wrong, and actually feel shame productively. But they also know about grace. They know that people out there love them, not because they are some minority that can be exploited, but because they are worth loving. Liberals are worth loving too, but it starts by dropping the shame. So maybe sometimes you are racist. So what? You don't have to spend your whole life lying to yourself. You're human. You have flaws. It's OKAY. What isn't okay is trying to hide your feelings behind a mask of virtue. Trust me on this, 30 years of my life were wasted hiding what I felt inside. "Will people judge me if I come out as trans?" Yes. Who cares?
Here's what I see.
There are a few distinct categories of people:
- Guns and God conservatives
- God Hates Blacks & Gays conservatives (yeah, kill these people)
- RINOs (Republican In Name Only, claim to be conservative, have alot more in common with liberals, including how they spend their money)
- Log Cabin conservatives (LGBT but have very traditional values as to how the country should look. Still pro-equality, but rather jaded about the idea that liberals make anything equal or do anything besides spend our money on programs that we "need". This is where I am, with a slice of direct democracy/anarchy thrown in)
- True moderates (this makes up alot of the population, they don't have strong political opinions, they are pro-equality and pro-work and probably for a normal society. I have alot of this, though liberals have really made me hate them lately. I can't imagine why, looking at all these posts)
- "Useful idiots" (These are people who are actually conservative, judging from their mindset, but are convinced of everything they read in the news including blatant lies. These are the people who support Hillary because they idealistically believe she supports some vague notion of equality, and that all people from the country are some sort of evil demonic people who are pure racists instead of everyday folk working at Walmart or Costco)
- Well-seeming Marxists (what TvTropes calls Black Shirts. These are people who seem normal, but would prefer countries fall so they have what they want)
- Liberal protestor types (people who don't have a day job, and spend all their time in one protest group or another)
- Members of Antifa (masked hoodlums that smash everything)
- Political agitators (of either party, people who intentionally stire up discord)
That's because liberals are real racists. I live in the county seat of a county with 4000 people, maximum. There are blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, and I think I met four people with the first or last name Muhammad (well, one was named Muhummud but yeah; this guy was traveling with a liberal black handler who struck me as "social worker" type). I worked at the library. Racism? What racism? We serve everyone. Then I see people here like "we need to hire according to quotas." "Oh? Why's that?" "Because... "(Two inches from their face) Why? Why? Why are really doing this?" If I pushed them like a bad cop, I would have a feeling they would start to sweat and dodge the question.
But I KNOW the answer. They are doing this because of shame. Why do Swedes take in a bazillion immigrants? After all, they've already made their point, they're friendly to outsiders. Because they can't be seen as having hateful thoughts. That wouldn't be nice or pleasant. Yes, and... ummm it's probably not nice or pleasant to shoo out Nazis prior to World War II, but as they start to kill your gays, Jews, Romani, and handicapped, it's probably time to be rude.
Here's the thing. When countries lose their core morality, they mistake being nice or being agreeable for actual virtue. Then when they see others refusing to do so, all a third party collaborator must do is turn around and tell them "those people are racists." No, actually, they're not. They're people who love their country. They like going into their small town and meet Billy Jack and Jim Bob. It does not matter if Billy Jack is actually Native American, and Jim Bob is actually a black woman. What matters is that these are their neighbors. Their families, their friends. But the left loathes these things. They control rent and shift populations to destabilize communities. They loathe our holidays, preferring to supplant them with foreign ones. The useful idiot falls for it. "yeah, they don't seem into the environment either." Do you think I don't like trees? Birds? Waterfalls? Etc? Of course I do! I live in the country. Meanwhile, city environmentalists want to tax me for using electric farm tools, while they have internet blog jobs typing about how green their electric car is. Hint: it's really not.
Here's what's really behind all this virtue signalling about how we've filled quotas or done things equally, or been environmentally conscious. As I say, shame. The average conservative grows up having a somewhat good idea of what they think is right and wrong, and actually feel shame productively. But they also know about grace. They know that people out there love them, not because they are some minority that can be exploited, but because they are worth loving. Liberals are worth loving too, but it starts by dropping the shame. So maybe sometimes you are racist. So what? You don't have to spend your whole life lying to yourself. You're human. You have flaws. It's OKAY. What isn't okay is trying to hide your feelings behind a mask of virtue. Trust me on this, 30 years of my life were wasted hiding what I felt inside. "Will people judge me if I come out as trans?" Yes. Who cares?
Voter Fraud
1. "Written fact." Yeah okay. My uncle comes from Detroit. He can give me a pretty good description of alot that's wrong with the city. And I've visited there. I would like to think I've got a better feel for the town than someone parroting off "facts" from a textbook. But sure, you keep keeping on.
2. The Democratic party has been the party of the KKK for years. Then the civil rights movement passed, and they took all credit for it, acting like the black voter's best friend. Well now, if those guys are such good friends... I've been poor before. Tell me why 2/3 of all people collecting in such foodstamp and welfare places are black or other minority? I mean, if they REALLY care for such people, shouldn't the first thing on their minds to eliminate poverty and unemployment? Black unemployment in America is actually down from Obama's period to Trump's. That is, there are less blacks unemployed now than there were during the height of Obama's reign. But this isn't covered by CNN or the like. It would be politically inconvenient to mention that. Instead, let's call a blanket list of things hate. "Everything I disagree with is hatred." Enforcing quotas to invite more Hispanics or Arabs or whatever is currently trendy is racism in effort to prove one is not racist. Conservatives have no time for this bullshit. I am concerned with the fact that despite so called homophobia or transphobia (I'm LGBT and trans, I don't vote Democrat and I've never seen such slurs as a result), I have a job and intend to keep one. In fact, historically, I've gotten the most grief from liberals. Town of Richmond, at prime shopping district? Wouldn't even hire me. Might as well have said "we don't want your KIND here." Went home, to mostly conservative town? No real issues. Bottom line? I'm far more afraid of liberals coming to hurt me than conservatives. Everyone accepted me here. Not everything you read in the news happens to be true.
3. Uhhhh, no they don't. Look, it seems like a medical emergency that you have a long term condition. But there are millions of people who managed to survive before universal health insurance proposed by Obama. They took took control of their salt or sugar or whatever intake, they kept active, and they only used their medical insurance when there was something they really couldn't pay for (like a sudden heart attack). This lack of use of hospitals keeps costs low, because they are not constantly using resources on people who are only sorta sick. In other words, if you're lactose intolerant, stop getting regular prescriptions to let your body adjust, just don't drink milk.
Also, if you look at this program, it's intentionally designed to fail. It's designed to be so bureaucratic and oppressive that people will eventually decide to go to single payer. And why not, you ask? Because it costs the taxpayer $32 billion. Do I need to spell out how much per year you're likely to pay for insurance? And what if you don't want to use insurance?
Since I stopped having insurance, I've gone to the doctor a grand total of... (wait for it) zero times. This includes the dentist. Human beings need food, water, rest, love, and occasionally physical and/or emotional intimacy. Medical insurance is NOT a right, nor a human need. We did without for centuries. We can do so again. Say I have asthma. My life is over if I run too fast. I NEED medical help, right? Well, maybe not. https://www.wikihow.com/Control-Asthma-Without-Medicine
2. The Democratic party has been the party of the KKK for years. Then the civil rights movement passed, and they took all credit for it, acting like the black voter's best friend. Well now, if those guys are such good friends... I've been poor before. Tell me why 2/3 of all people collecting in such foodstamp and welfare places are black or other minority? I mean, if they REALLY care for such people, shouldn't the first thing on their minds to eliminate poverty and unemployment? Black unemployment in America is actually down from Obama's period to Trump's. That is, there are less blacks unemployed now than there were during the height of Obama's reign. But this isn't covered by CNN or the like. It would be politically inconvenient to mention that. Instead, let's call a blanket list of things hate. "Everything I disagree with is hatred." Enforcing quotas to invite more Hispanics or Arabs or whatever is currently trendy is racism in effort to prove one is not racist. Conservatives have no time for this bullshit. I am concerned with the fact that despite so called homophobia or transphobia (I'm LGBT and trans, I don't vote Democrat and I've never seen such slurs as a result), I have a job and intend to keep one. In fact, historically, I've gotten the most grief from liberals. Town of Richmond, at prime shopping district? Wouldn't even hire me. Might as well have said "we don't want your KIND here." Went home, to mostly conservative town? No real issues. Bottom line? I'm far more afraid of liberals coming to hurt me than conservatives. Everyone accepted me here. Not everything you read in the news happens to be true.
3. Uhhhh, no they don't. Look, it seems like a medical emergency that you have a long term condition. But there are millions of people who managed to survive before universal health insurance proposed by Obama. They took took control of their salt or sugar or whatever intake, they kept active, and they only used their medical insurance when there was something they really couldn't pay for (like a sudden heart attack). This lack of use of hospitals keeps costs low, because they are not constantly using resources on people who are only sorta sick. In other words, if you're lactose intolerant, stop getting regular prescriptions to let your body adjust, just don't drink milk.
Also, if you look at this program, it's intentionally designed to fail. It's designed to be so bureaucratic and oppressive that people will eventually decide to go to single payer. And why not, you ask? Because it costs the taxpayer $32 billion. Do I need to spell out how much per year you're likely to pay for insurance? And what if you don't want to use insurance?
Since I stopped having insurance, I've gone to the doctor a grand total of... (wait for it) zero times. This includes the dentist. Human beings need food, water, rest, love, and occasionally physical and/or emotional intimacy. Medical insurance is NOT a right, nor a human need. We did without for centuries. We can do so again. Say I have asthma. My life is over if I run too fast. I NEED medical help, right? Well, maybe not. https://www.wikihow.com/Control-Asthma-Without-Medicine
Voter Fraud
Not talking about Detroit anymore. You wanna believe something, whatever. I don't have to believe as you do though. That's kinda the point of most of this thread, people trying to impose their will on others, cuz they can't keep their shit together and deal with stuff they might not like.
You clearly are allergic to links so I'll post it here. As much as you ppl (used unironically, I swear) swear you're not racist watch this video and tell me what you think.
(Translation: "voter ID is racist", but we don't think blacks are smart enough to use the internet, have the resources to have ID, and can't find a DMV without help. We see blacks as victims not as people. That's actually quite patronizing, and yes extremely racist.) Here's the truth about so-called racism in Detroit. Suppose as you say, a black guy was manager material. They first and foremost were popular enough that it wouldn't seed jealousy with coworkers if they were raised to assistant manager or manager. Also, we're ruling out the Peter Principle (that once they get promoted, it turns out they're really incompetent at the job), and saying that yes they deserve it, yes they've earned it, and yes the company is able to do so without making headlines in a world that still has Jim Crow laws. Yeah sure. But I bet that guy wouldn't be the guy quotas would pick to be manager. They'd be offended at the idea that workers should deserve their job, and would choose who they thought "needed" it most. Hiring basically on the color of one's skin without regard to merit. There word for that... hold on... ummm... oh yea! Racism.
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You're misunderstanding something. There are very very few actual genetic disorders. Cancer isn't one, although doctors routinely wave around the genetic abnormality thing. It's a result of lifestyle, mainly high exposure to carcinogens. Epigenetics is just a fancy word for "it's not really genetics, it's lifestyle degrade of the body." Down syndrome is one. Type 1 diabetes is one. Sickle-cell is one. Siamese twins, that split lip thing, and deformed fingers and toes are one. Those are genetic. Many many so-called genetic disorders aren't actually genetic. They are inherent familial disorders. That sounds like genetic, right? No. It's like, children have started being born with IBS because of an increasing junk food diet in American culture. Or everyone in your family has thyroid problems, not because of genes but because nobody in your family eats fish. There is an epic amount of not owning problems in the medical field.
Oh can't I? Because I can readily compare three aspects of life to others in terms of pricing according to inflation, and these are are standouts. These are: higher education, housing, and medicine.
Housing has mortgage and I think there are loans you can take out toward buying. You effectively can borrow against the value of the house, meaning you are offsetting the price somewhat. The whole house flipping thing doesnt help either. Adam Smith mentioned risk as a source of price. So, you have people buying beyond their real means, and yup the price increases. Cars have all those financing deals, so yeah, pretty much the same issue. But not nearly to the extent of housing, education, and medicine. Why because there isn't a real sense of being stuck without a car like a house. Using a bus is an option, whereas being homeless is seen as such a pariah that parks, forests, and even shopping centers go out of their way to make it so you can't sleep much of anywhere. This sort of absolute 100% necessity. Demand.
Higher education, "EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO TO COLLEGE". What do you think happens when demand approaches 100% despite rises? Yeah, it gets sucky real quick. They also have student loans, and increasing government involvement. Many colleges seem to spend more on the swimming pools than the actual education materials.
Medicine has insurance, not as in other insurace against emergencies (compare to fire or flood insurance) but in case of cost. But cost is not a what-if, it's a how much. And again "EVERYONE SHOULD GET HEALTH INSURANCE" not to prevent any incidents, but actually so the insurance can act as a sort of debt collector, making sure you pay.
All three have demand close to 100%. All three offset their payment with some other means of buying, and no surprise, all of these are hyperinflated, because people will never say "this is too much" since they generally see it as "someone else is paying." Why doesn't it occur to any of you to say, "I don't care that someone else is paying, it's not right. It's one thing for family or friends to help me out because they love me, it's another to be a mooch and take advantage of people who you never asked permission to help. I'm not letting them pay, I don't need this."
I think one of you said that if all that crap couldn't be earned with salary, the system has failed. At what point would medical insurance costs have to be for you to say, "I'm not paying this"? $400 was too low. Let's say $800 a month. Still not worried? Next year it's $1600. People still can pay, because they're earning six figures and visit everyday. $3200. A month. Sounds absurd? Good, I'm trying to get under your skin a bit. When prices get out of control but people keep buying, eventually some people taper off. This is when the price also tapers off. When insurance stops saving money, it's not really insurance. When everyone HAS insurance, insurance has itself (not even the medicine, which is already expensive) become a commodity. That's exactly what happened.
I get warts on my finger. The price of removal can be up to $610 for freezing. That's absurd. Dental work? $190, just for routine checkup. Prescription medicine, some of which is placebo? Don't ask. It got too expensive for most people to even think about paying, so they just blindly put it on their tab, rather than figuring out whether the doctor was lying about it being genetic, they just kept shelling out money. What if bread cost that much? $500 for a slice of bread, $2500 for a whole loaf. But don't worry, we'll let you take out a food loan.
You clearly are allergic to links so I'll post it here. As much as you ppl (used unironically, I swear) swear you're not racist watch this video and tell me what you think.
(Translation: "voter ID is racist", but we don't think blacks are smart enough to use the internet, have the resources to have ID, and can't find a DMV without help. We see blacks as victims not as people. That's actually quite patronizing, and yes extremely racist.) Here's the truth about so-called racism in Detroit. Suppose as you say, a black guy was manager material. They first and foremost were popular enough that it wouldn't seed jealousy with coworkers if they were raised to assistant manager or manager. Also, we're ruling out the Peter Principle (that once they get promoted, it turns out they're really incompetent at the job), and saying that yes they deserve it, yes they've earned it, and yes the company is able to do so without making headlines in a world that still has Jim Crow laws. Yeah sure. But I bet that guy wouldn't be the guy quotas would pick to be manager. They'd be offended at the idea that workers should deserve their job, and would choose who they thought "needed" it most. Hiring basically on the color of one's skin without regard to merit. There word for that... hold on... ummm... oh yea! Racism.
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You're misunderstanding something. There are very very few actual genetic disorders. Cancer isn't one, although doctors routinely wave around the genetic abnormality thing. It's a result of lifestyle, mainly high exposure to carcinogens. Epigenetics is just a fancy word for "it's not really genetics, it's lifestyle degrade of the body." Down syndrome is one. Type 1 diabetes is one. Sickle-cell is one. Siamese twins, that split lip thing, and deformed fingers and toes are one. Those are genetic. Many many so-called genetic disorders aren't actually genetic. They are inherent familial disorders. That sounds like genetic, right? No. It's like, children have started being born with IBS because of an increasing junk food diet in American culture. Or everyone in your family has thyroid problems, not because of genes but because nobody in your family eats fish. There is an epic amount of not owning problems in the medical field.
Oh can't I? Because I can readily compare three aspects of life to others in terms of pricing according to inflation, and these are are standouts. These are: higher education, housing, and medicine.
Housing has mortgage and I think there are loans you can take out toward buying. You effectively can borrow against the value of the house, meaning you are offsetting the price somewhat. The whole house flipping thing doesnt help either. Adam Smith mentioned risk as a source of price. So, you have people buying beyond their real means, and yup the price increases. Cars have all those financing deals, so yeah, pretty much the same issue. But not nearly to the extent of housing, education, and medicine. Why because there isn't a real sense of being stuck without a car like a house. Using a bus is an option, whereas being homeless is seen as such a pariah that parks, forests, and even shopping centers go out of their way to make it so you can't sleep much of anywhere. This sort of absolute 100% necessity. Demand.
Higher education, "EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO TO COLLEGE". What do you think happens when demand approaches 100% despite rises? Yeah, it gets sucky real quick. They also have student loans, and increasing government involvement. Many colleges seem to spend more on the swimming pools than the actual education materials.
Medicine has insurance, not as in other insurace against emergencies (compare to fire or flood insurance) but in case of cost. But cost is not a what-if, it's a how much. And again "EVERYONE SHOULD GET HEALTH INSURANCE" not to prevent any incidents, but actually so the insurance can act as a sort of debt collector, making sure you pay.
All three have demand close to 100%. All three offset their payment with some other means of buying, and no surprise, all of these are hyperinflated, because people will never say "this is too much" since they generally see it as "someone else is paying." Why doesn't it occur to any of you to say, "I don't care that someone else is paying, it's not right. It's one thing for family or friends to help me out because they love me, it's another to be a mooch and take advantage of people who you never asked permission to help. I'm not letting them pay, I don't need this."
I think one of you said that if all that crap couldn't be earned with salary, the system has failed. At what point would medical insurance costs have to be for you to say, "I'm not paying this"? $400 was too low. Let's say $800 a month. Still not worried? Next year it's $1600. People still can pay, because they're earning six figures and visit everyday. $3200. A month. Sounds absurd? Good, I'm trying to get under your skin a bit. When prices get out of control but people keep buying, eventually some people taper off. This is when the price also tapers off. When insurance stops saving money, it's not really insurance. When everyone HAS insurance, insurance has itself (not even the medicine, which is already expensive) become a commodity. That's exactly what happened.
I get warts on my finger. The price of removal can be up to $610 for freezing. That's absurd. Dental work? $190, just for routine checkup. Prescription medicine, some of which is placebo? Don't ask. It got too expensive for most people to even think about paying, so they just blindly put it on their tab, rather than figuring out whether the doctor was lying about it being genetic, they just kept shelling out money. What if bread cost that much? $500 for a slice of bread, $2500 for a whole loaf. But don't worry, we'll let you take out a food loan.
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