It’s funny to think if most people drove smaller, less powerful, slower vehicles, they would probably get places faster by reducing traffic congestion.

Human summary:

Yep, they named it that. The mayor seems cool. I look forward to the truck being used to plow ice out of the city. It’s a short article that doesn’t really need a summary.

That’s interesting to hear, I wouldn’t have assumed flyers work much. Honestly I can’t remember the last time I got a flyer that wasn’t from some huge corporation. It’d be a nice change of pace to get some local anything in the mailbox.

Now that I’ve said that, watch me get bombarded like the Dursley’s haha.

Do you know if clients ever hear of your business via other clients, like word of mouth advertising? Or is it primarily through targeted marketing?

It seems a little funny to claim I am here upholding an agenda. What I am is unsure. Unsure where you’ve read my moving goalposts when I have just stated I stand by my initial comment - which in fact does not lay the blame on the hospital, but the for profit healthcare industry in the United States.

Tell you the truth, this thread has drifted into a commentary on my word choices and my general disinterest in disclosing my career history to someone on the internet, so bringing this to a polite close isn’t something I’m willing to try for any further.

Consider my insufferable self to be backed down, apologetic, and thoroughly defeated.

This ended up longer than I expected, so I’ve tried to use spoiler tags to make it less of a wall of text.

I appreciate City News showed three people voicing why they supported removal of this painted bike lane and the reinstatement of street parking. It succinctly exemplifies how these individuals think.

The first and second people are talking about putting their own convenience above others, where the third is allowing an anecdotal experience to give way to reason. In either case, this is selfishness.

Along with this change only being seasonal, it’s also a short stretch that accommodates maybe a few dozen parking spaces at the expense and endangerment of the hundreds that ride through there daily.

It may be worth pointing out that only about half of eligible voters in this burrow cast a ballot in the recent municipal election. Hopefully next time, people will take it more seriously.

Only a matter of time before these advanced printers begin printing themselves, then we’ll have to develop a 4D printer to fight them off!

That’s quite interesting. It reminds me of a group of people that are building a castle using period correct construction and material gathering techniques. I saw a Tom Scott video about it, I think they started in the 90’s or something.

Very cool to hear about. I’m glad people do these things, even if it’s sort of the first I’m learning of it. I’ll keep an eye out for such events in my area in the future. Thanks!

And that’s not counting the armor.

Are you a time travelling hedge knight?

What is it you’re getting up to that you could have a suitcase full of historically accurate clothing in any place outside a museum? Only thing that comes to my mind is renaissance festivals or similar, but I wouldn’t have thought accuracy was taken that seriously.

Why would my wish for voters only apply to 400 people? Apply it to 79,173 and see how that stacks up to the 200 complaints.

I agree, advocacy and public meetings are key, but in the diagram of who votes and who advocates, I’d wager you’ll find about zero people that advocate for a cause that don’t also vote. The inverse is not true.

Regardless, 30% don’t vote in federal elections, 40% skip general elections. In Medicine Hat, 78% didn’t vote in last year’s municipal election. Over in Lethbridge, 83% chose to forgo their civic duty.

While federal and provincial turnouts have room for improvement, they aren’t bad. Municipal affairs, on the other hand, are in such a sad state it’s incomprehensible to me how anyone could ask “what would voting even do here?”

I don’t make it a habit to preface a general comment by preemptively stating why I may be qualified to weigh in on a topic. This is the internet after all, not really a formal setting. My qualifications are just as irrelevant as yours here. While we may have insight that others lack, we aren’t doing anything but commenting on an article.

Without going point for point as you have done, it should suffice to say that even now after I have reread this thread and what I wrote previously, the underpinning of my initial comment stands - these people were failed, and it shouldn’t have happened.

You sound like stealth camping extraordinaire Steve Wallis.

It’s quite funny to think ‘expensive thing’ could be just anything, like an orchestral harp or some of them jewels from the Louvre, and you’re just hanging out under a hedge with a copy of your insurance policy as a pillow haha.

You aren’t the only one whose work has involved medical insurance.

From my experience, it was quite uncommon for the practitioner themselves to be preparing and sending an invoice to the insurance company. Typically they would pass this off to the billing department, though in smaller places like a dental office I’ve seen the ‘billing department’ just be the front desk. It’s a touch misleading to equate the billing hospital with the doctor as if penning invoices is a shared responsibility between the two with each taking roughly equal part.

In any case, it’s irrelevant. I’m not here arguing minutia about on which continent the responsibility specifically failed, nor whatever individual made an error. The system failed these people, even if the end result was only a momentary heart rate increase from seeing a medical bill until a phone call resolved the issue.

If my underlying point remains unclear, I doubt I can clarify further.

Well perhaps you’re right, though if I search for green apples and the first few results are from applecatelogue, I might not think that an ad so much as a search result.

I see your point though, multiple of the same domain can seem questionable.

I don’t see an ad in there but even so, why quibble on a dead man’s behalf that the communication method is called Vail’s cipher and not Morse code. It’s like taking up arms whenever a guillotine is mentioned.

So often people forget they are also a precious resource.

For the great many non renewables they consume, we ought to try converting them to energy some which way. Might be my math is wrong, but we may be able to power a continent by burning just one. Don’t bother double checking, let’s just give it a go shall we. If it doesn’t work, I vote we try, try again.

I imagine an image of the Teletubbies vacuum with a label on its nozzle reading ‘apps’, a label on its hose reading ‘advertisers’, and a third label on the tank that reads ‘data brokers’.

I realise that, my connecting thought was that the hospital looking at their insurance policy should have been able to understand the pregnancy was covered. Even with it being unclear due to the contract’s wording, it should have triggered the billing department contacting the insurer for clarification.

That’s not how America works though, they operate on a ‘invoice first, ask questions later’ approach. If one in a thousand bills get paid without question, the superfluousness is considered justified. Oh well, I would add this to my list of reasons to avoid the country if it weren’t so long already.

As artists that go on tour, the US leg likely provides a significant chunk of their income. If they were just on vacation, that’s a different story.

Worth figuring out for them, as it boiled down to an administrative issue with unclear wording in the insurance contract.