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[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or the idiotic "open enrollment" period. Can't believe they only let us change health insurance once a year.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am proud to be an American, where at least I know I am free 🤡

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

🎶 Ain't that America? Home of the fee, baby! 🎶

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose".

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you got a baby. Like you need to be in an accident that will take 9 months to conclude....say you're the only female astronaut going to the space station for a weekend on a Boeing starliner spacecraft but it starts leaking helium. What would you do if you suddenly needed to pay for inter spacial health care but open enrollment was a month ago? I don't known what, but I'd start gathering tungsten parts from around the craft and I'd take some spacewalks at strategic times to loose said parts straight on to -toss has censored this part- and the car would roll down the hill in American movie style and we'd be laughing! Wait what about a baby! You could get pregnant in space and then you could sign up!...the baby, not you.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] djsp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what substances were involved in writing that post. Mind sharing, @werefreeatlast? :P