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Sir Thomas Goodwin, M.S.

@MikeDunnAuthor
We need to hear more of such heroic and humanitarian actions.

robosocks

@PGtheVRguy @MikeDunnAuthor yeah this is just one spicy pillow too far, a "mission failed successfuly" win.

Projektionsyta

@MikeDunnAuthor
No. No no no. That's not the plot curve I'm wired to expect from watching American movies.

MikeDunnAuthor

@projektionsyta

Maybe need to start watching more foreign and indy films

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@projektionsyta @MikeDunnAuthor This movie was popular 2 decades ago. Unfortunately US healthcare hasn't improved much, so it would probably still engage audiences today.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Q.

Projektionsyta

@theheck
Oh, that's the correct - expected - Hollywood plot arc... in a drama about health insurance!

That movie would seem utterly theoretical or contrived in Sweden. But of course an effective political statement in the American context.
@MikeDunnAuthor

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@Easydor @MikeDunnAuthor
No, they actually built him one for free.
Not as dramatic, but clearly demonstrates how drastically overpriced these things are.

Mer-fOKxTOwl

@duckwhistle @Easydor @MikeDunnAuthor would agree that they are overpriced in some regards.

but at the same time i can say from experience that there is a lot of time going into building these things, fitting them individually.
plus the materials cost quite a lot because they have to be tested rigorously beforehand, since the Orthopedic Mechanics who build id will be legally responsible if anything goes wrong with the wheelchair.

at least in Germany it is like this.

@duckwhistle @Easydor @MikeDunnAuthor would agree that they are overpriced in some regards.

but at the same time i can say from experience that there is a lot of time going into building these things, fitting them individually.
plus the materials cost quite a lot because they have to be tested rigorously beforehand, since the Orthopedic Mechanics who build id will be legally responsible if anything goes wrong with the wheelchair.

Mer-fOKxTOwl

@duckwhistle @Easydor @MikeDunnAuthor the bigger problem i see is insurances trying to pay the least amount possible and thus trying to reject every request they can.
all while their shareholders take huge profits into their own pockets :/

Tobi Okanlawon

@MikeDunnAuthor Heartwarming indeed.

I'd like to imagine that they stood around the burning building like a big bonfire and told stories about liberation.

Heartwarming.

Benjohn

@MikeDunnAuthor The good news story the world needs and deserves.

Galbinus Caeli 🌯

@MikeDunnAuthor isn't the insurance company's headquarters a file cabinet drawer in Aruba?

The Gray Witch

@MikeDunnAuthor @SkipHuffman Yes, think of all the hurdles they had to overcome to get to it.

Lee

@MikeDunnAuthor Better IF they had built or bought 1 for him.

CauseOfBSOD :fediverse:

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

bhahne

@MikeDunnAuthor And now property insurance rates for everybody are up; the insurance company was able to convince the city to spend additional money (that got taken out of the public parks budget) on more police to protect their other buildings; two janitors who were working in the building have permanent lung damage from smoke inhalation; and the 2-year-old still doesn't have a wheelchair.

While fantasies of violence can be fun in theory, in practice the outcome is usually worse for everybody.

Wes Montage

@MikeDunnAuthor The homes of the insurance company's executive team, board of directors and major shareholders would have been better targets. (After clearing all occupants out of their homes.)

MHowell

@jstatepost @MikeDunnAuthor High school robot team could also help an insurer stay warm for the rest of their life with a Robot Dog with a Flamethrower.

gizmodo.com/thermonator-robot-

PossiblyAutistic

@MHowell @jstatepost @MikeDunnAuthor "Start with the CEO, if that doesn't help, you can work your way down to the claims officer."

Kadin

@MikeDunnAuthor I'm surprised more people haven't realized just how vulnerable the Asshole Class would be to some cheap Chinese drones capable of lifting and releasing a pound or two of fresh dog shit.

Omnivore

@MikeDunnAuthor

I hope the wheelchair has flame throwers so that the two-year-old has the option of torching the headquarters before he develops a sense of right and wrong.

The "Piaget Defense" would go a long way here.

Chris Dolunt

@MikeDunnAuthor This is the kind of wholesome content I signed up for.

Diego Pappalardo

@MikeDunnAuthor now the real question should have been: were the headquarters insured? 'Coz if they weren't, boy, how ironic !

Minemo :verified_flashing:

@MikeDunnAuthor Everything and everyone this corrupted by greed should burn. They’re monsters. Not humans.

Good on the high school robotics team for doing the right thing.

We need more of this. Eat the rich. Fuck Capitalism.

Mister Shade

@MikeDunnAuthor Finally, a variation of this scenario that makes sense 😆

chicating

@MikeDunnAuthor Feeling that right in my cockles.(Or maybe my sub-cockle area.(/Denis Leary)

Dr. Med Johannes M. ✅

@MikeDunnAuthor and some desperate television station thinks that affected and brash are not opposites and that slanted beards and hats that are too big are actually a qualification. So Adam Savage can recreate the whole thing in a full feature...

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@MikeDunnAuthor

🇫🇷 the students would have CONSTRUCTED AN ELECTRONIC WHEELCHAIR for the kid; all over France there are TECHNOPOLE HIGH SCHOOLS, construction of robots with hand command.
Prizes are given every year.

To interest kiddies young from kindergarten, there is the concours of SMASHING BRIDGES: Kiddies train all year to construct a bridge with spaghetti glued together. The day comes in May, kids are given 2 hours, 1 kilo of spaghetti & Glue to reconstruct. The bridge supporting >wins

🇩🇰Blue

@MikeDunnAuthor To many people in the comments should not get invited to parties anymore.

Dndnerd4

@MikeDunnAuthor not all heroes wear capes ... some commit arson 🤣

Pablo Rrrrrrr

@MikeDunnAuthor Hopefully with drones and flame throwing robots.

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