This isn't even close to what Chernobyl was.

In general, the healthcare system in the US is just nuts. Most of you never lived in a socialist/communist country where the government really did take care of your health. Everything was free back then (regarding healthcare). I remember I had to have my tonsils removed when I was young, my mother's health care paid for 90% of the costs. The other 10% were covered by her being a blood donor, so basically, we paid nothing. 4 days at the hospital, plus the operation, all paid for by the state.

Macedonia, one of the Ex Yugoslavian republics.

I try and explain this to most westerners, they don't believe me, say I'm lying 🤷.

If you were a blood donor back then, everything regarding health care was free. Weelchairs, orthopedics, operations, drugs, everything. You just went in a pharmacy, show your blood donor badge and just hand over your perscriptions, they give you the drugs, no charge.

I know, it's hard to believe, but it really was like that.

Sorry for editing my post so many times, it was a long time ago, memories fade, takes time to remeber certain things.

It's kinda frustrating that no one outside of the ex Yu states believes us when we say "things were a lot better back then". People just think we're brainwashed. Every family, regardless of status, could afford basic luxuries, like being able to go on a vacation at least once a year (I can't afford that right now, I save up for 2 years to go on 1 vacation every 2 years), had 1 car per household (more than enough considering that most people lived in apartments near to where they worked, like maybe 3 to 7km away, public transport took care of these go to work/get back home trips), food was far from scarce, most people had decent meals, not to mention healthier and cheaper meals, almost everything was locally produced, so no VAT, no imported stuff, plus it was really cheap to buy vegetables and fruits, almost no preprocessed products whatsoever in the markets (maybe things like salami and sausages, but that was about it), and even those were fairly cheap (also locally produced).

Some did have more than others, but this was not by much. Wealthier families that were a part of the communist party and had some higher roles in society (polititian or maybe a CEO of a factory, stuff like that) had like 2 cars per household and maybe a house, not an apartment. They also most definitely had enough money to go on 2 vacations per year, but that was about it. Those were the wealthiest people in the country.

My granma was a housewife that lived off the salary of her dead husband (he died while working), had 4 kids, managed to get all of them through uni, aford a car and a large apartment for all 6 members of the family (she remaried). This was all provided by the state, because her first husband died on the job, so it was considered an honor that her husband died while helping the state grow.

I try and explain this, people say I'm lying 🤦.

Completely agree 👍. It's how everything should work IMO: try, fail, make better.

If I have to work for free, that's hardly a reform.

To be honest, there are some problems regarding lemmygrad and Jerboa. Threads not opening, comments not being submitted (connection closed), etc.

Know exactly how the poor fella feels 😞.

Second this. For example, I'm weird, yet outgoing. I have been described by many as friendly, but just too out of space (forgets things easily, have to shake him to actually listen to you, goes into his own world when doing something and just spaces out, etc.). I've been diagnosed with minor depression and take medication for that, but is that really a disability 🤔.

This ☝️. Seems like there's a lot of snowflake users on beehaw 😒.

I don't live in the US, so can't see therapists based there... maybe via video chat, but I don't have the finances to pay for that, my salary can barely handle local financial strains, let alone a therapist.

Thanks for the book recommendation, I'll definitely look it up 😉.

What do you mean by related to gender? You mean like if I was trans or something like that? I'm cis male BTW.

PS: For some reason, I can't reply in Jerboa, I'm writing this from the web UI, see if it goes through 🤷.

Yes, but that beats the whole essence of the "everyone's connected and can connect to anyone" fediverse selling point.

The solution is simple. You don't like a community? Block it. You don't like a user? Block him/her. Defederating is not the solution and beats the whole point of having a fediverse.

I'm currently juggling with 5 accounts because of this very reason. I had another reason to do so on reddit (multiple personalities, lol), but if you ask me, this reason is just stupid 😒.

Is anyone else finding the kid's haircut disturbing?

I've learned to manage it with time. I am present when I have to be, but when I don't, I can just drift away... pisses the hell out of the wife, lol 😂. I can do just one thing at a time, 2 or more is a nightmare for me. I've managed to pratice doing 2 quite well now, but 3 is really pushing it, I just can't do it.

And you're quite right, that usually happens when I'm under certain stress or in certain very emotional situations (regardless if the enotions are good or bad). I'd rather just be left alone and do whatever I want to do than deal with the emotions I'm currently having, cuz I know I might do something really bad or just crumble like a little kid, if I have to be present in reality. I'm bad at dealing with emotions, I have a lot to give and I want to receive, just no clear way of showing what I'm feeling or how to receive them. Thus, I'm sometimes perceived as cold. I really have no idea how to actually show emotion... it always comes out the wromg way... I've managed to better myself regarding this over the years, and I have made progress, but I still feel like I'm misunderstood most of the time.

I do it all the time. Why? Not gonna get paid any more when they call me for an emergency on a Sunday evening 🤷.

I was actually thinking it was Jerboa’s fault, holding the comments in cache, lol 😂. Cuz I know I posted some stuff in some of the threads, but now they're gone 😂.

In that case, we should also judge how communism and socialism was put into practice.

I can tell you the exact reasons why 1 in particular is no more. There were mistakes, but also 3rd party factors at play... I'd say it was about 50/50 regarding the mistakes and 3rd party foul play.

Meeh, so what 🤷.

It's not a metaloid, thus it doesn't conduct electricity as good as metaloids. The atoms in the grid are more closely packed.