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  • Isn’t it common knowledge that if Trump were to do what he’s saying he’s going to do tomorrow, that Iran will demolish all the drilling, refining, and shipping infrastructure they can in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE? Iran has said they would do this. If Trump decides to do this, the oil and commodities shock that’s still barely begun to hit will be 10x worse, and permanent. That’s not to speak of the civilian death toll Trump and Netanyahu would cause







  • protist@retrofed.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyzFake News
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    2 days ago

    I assume you mean well, but this is serious “confidently incorrect” energy. Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes bubonic plague, never changed to become less virulent and can still affect humans to this day. It has been killing a ton of humans for thousands of years and was still killing thousands of people at a time in localized outbreaks up until we discovered the antibiotics that cure it.

    Also, it’s transmitted through the fleas on small mammals, not through the mammals themselves. Flea transmission is far and away the primary vector. Human to human transmission has always been pretty rare, since it can only be transmitted between humans through contact with bodily fluids, similar to how HIV spreads.




  • In May 1888, Keller started attending the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1893, Keller, along with Sullivan, attended William Wade House and Finishing School. In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College of Harvard University, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

    Yeah, she did it all by herself lol

    Let me be clear, I’m by no means knocking Helen Keller. But dude, let it go that doing everything by yourself is somehow better, because it’s not.





  • protist@retrofed.comtoLemmy Shitpost🫤🤬🥴
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    A copay is what you pay up front at the doctor’s office. Depending on the services provided, you may receive a bill after the fact that will be either the percentage you’re obligated to pay by your insurance company (coinsurance) or the balance your insurance didn’t cover, for example if you haven’t met your deductible. You’ll definitely sometimes get separate bills from a provider and a facility, but usually at hospitals moreso than outpatient clinics





  • protist@retrofed.comtoLemmy Shitpost🫤🤬🥴
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    I’ve worked in healthcare for decades and have literally never seen this. Are you sure you’re not thinking of coinsurance? Coinsurance and copays are two different things, a copay is a set fee dictated by your insurance that you pay up front, whereas coinsurance is usually the percentage you owe of anything billed to your insurance, which includes both facility and provider fees