Assuming you’re talking about the US, this is correct.

In the US you need to both actively acknowledge acceptance of the T&Cs, which simply opening a package typically doesn’t meet.

Also, and arguably more important, they need to include the entirety of the T&Cs for you to be able to review before accepting. This means on the packaging or presented at time of purchase, not requiring you to go elsewhere to find them or having to search them out.

Now even though it’s not legally enforceable, I’d say it’s still scummy and companies that do it should be avoided.

It’s crazy to me that needing a heart transplant doesn’t make you eligible to enroll in Medicare but needing a kidney does.

As an alcoholic whose life was barely under control.

The long story short version is that, over 10ish years I drank myself almost to death, ended up hospitalized with liver and kidney failure, got discharged and went through treatment and the ended back in the hospital in pretty serious need (so they told me) of a transplant.

Fortunately for me I got listed and was transplanted 5 days later. After that I realized I was given a second chance most people don’t get and worked to turn my life around.

I’m now 8 years sober, good credit, married with a house, 2 dogs, 2 cats and I wake up every day grateful to have this extra time.

I saw somewhere that Bazzite was good for purpose built gaming rigs. I have yet to try it out though. My gut have to change it if I don’t like how it runs.

As of two days ago we are official a Microsoft Windows free household (except when my wife is WFH).

The holdout was our gaming PC but I put Bazzite on it because who wants to use Windows 11?

Many parents in the US have to make a decision to both keep working and have one persons income essentially only pay for childcare or have one person stop working to be a stay at home parent until their kid(s) are school aged.

Things like this are a big contributor to population decline in the US.

Looks like one of them shark coochie boards

Polaroid is actually a genericization for instant print camera film though o doubt he would have known it by the proper term either.

First of all: if you don’t want to correct people, then maybe you shouldn’t start comment threads off trying to correct people.

You said slavery wasn’t federally legal. That was wrong.

You said the 13th amendment had nothing to do with it. That was wrong.

You don’t seem to understand how laws work at all.

You kept bringing up the 13th amendment and the federal outlawing of slavery, which was irrelevant to the conversation.

Really?

Every response from you has been classic Dunning-Kruger.

Roe v. Wade was a landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, based on the right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment

the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding Mississippi’s law and overturning Roe v. Wade. With that ruling, the Court returned lawmaking decisions about abortion to the states.

The Roe decision folded abortion into the 14th Amendment until it was overturned in Dobbs returning legislation over it to the states.

That other stuff is fair, I’m simply saying that you should have started with that. Fair?

If you don’t know what you are talking about then maybe you should not chime in and research the issue instead. This is all basic American history. Honestly, spoon feeding you things you could learn yourself to correct your wrongly made statements is exhausting. It’s time for me to block you and move on.

Yes, and they are not cheap. I typically hit my insurance deductible by the end of February each year.

I’m the kind of person insurance companies hate because I’m expensive and they can’t deny most of my care.

Not a high bar, but thanks!

I am doing better though it’s looking like I’ll need another transplant at some point.

Fortunately, I had good insurance through work and because I ended up in renal failure that makes you automatically eligible for Medicare (one good thing Nixon did). Also, the billed amount gets discounted based on whatever deal your particular insurance has with the provider, so billed amount ≠ paid amount. Unless you’re uninsured.

I did ended up going through bankruptcy anyway but that had more to do with my choices and lifestyle leading up to all of this. It did wipe out any portion of that bill that would have been my responsibility though

Thanks! Good chance I’d be unalive if it didn’t happen when it did.

We were required to take civics but I also spent 4 years of college working towards my degree and licensure as a police officer in my state.

Got all the way to our version of the hands-on academy and decided policing wasn’t for me. Now I work in IT.

That’s… not how laws in the US work. I take it you’re not familiar with the maxim “everything which is not forbidden is allowed”. Abortion was never legalized by federal law in the US either yet they were still being performed.

The federal law protects states rights until the federal law directly overwrites it

Not exactly. State laws can be as, or more restrictive, than federal laws but they cannot be less. This means that if the federal government doesn’t restrict it then states can be as restrictive as they want, as long as those restrictions aren’t in opposition to existing federal laws.

Slavery wasn’t federally legalized

Well…

Slavery was legally practiced across America (the United States ) until its federal abolition in 1865.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 prohibited Congress from banning the importation of slaves for twenty years, effectively allowing the international slave trade to continue until 1808

In 1807, Congress passed the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves, taking effect on January 1, 1808. This intended to end transatlantic slave trade, but it didn’t abolish slavery or domestic sale of enslaved people within the US.

The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.

This is all in any decent history about slavery in the US. In fact, slavery is still not completely illegal in the US. Remember the 13th amendment? It formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the US, except as a punishment for a crime.

This is too hard to answer because of the number of variables at play like, do you have insurance, does your condition/issue qualify you for Medicare, does your job offer disability leave, are you FMLA eligible, do you meet requirements for SSA disability etc.

Anecdotally, in 2017 I spent two non-consecutive months in the hospital. The first visit I came in through the ER, ended up in the ICU intubated and worked my way through each section as I got better.

My second stay I skipped the ICU but had a transplant halfway through. I also was on dialysis for the ~6 months in between.

Dialysis was billed at $7k a visit, roughly $500k in total. The transplant surgery alone was ~$750k. The hospital stays came to about $5k a day on average for roughly $300k in total.

So straight billed amount I was somewhere in the $1.5-$1.7 million range.

Yes.

Sounds like the police chief in Cottonwood Heights, Utah needs to quit and run for state legislature since they seem confused about their job. Police chiefs don’t make the laws, they enforce them because they are law enforcement officers.