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RE: Elon Musk
Yesterday at 12:01 am
(February 20, 2025 at 11:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (February 20, 2025 at 11:24 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The progression of my symptoms when my sinuses completely fail are so routine that I was comfortable with the telehealth thing. Though, I would have gotten better faster if she could have given me a steroid shot instead of having to take pills...which slows the process considerably. But with COVID going on, it was the best way to go.
Sorry to hear you've got such a hard row to hoe. Do you at least have VA support for it, for what that's worth?
I have recently signed up for Medicare. I haven't seen a doctor yet but with GoodRX my prescription refills have been quite reasonable.
I have never attempted to use the VA as I have never felt that my relatively short service and lack of any dangerous assignments means I should leave it for those who really need it. So far, I have not. There are people that I feel are more deserving and I don't need to add to their wait for care.
My discharge was honorable so it's not like I can't use it should I ever need to.
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RE: Elon Musk
Yesterday at 12:13 am
(This post was last modified: Yesterday at 12:22 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(Yesterday at 12:01 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I have never attempted to use the VA as I have never felt that my relatively short service and lack of any dangerous assignments means I should leave it for those who really need it. So far, I have not. There are people that I feel are more deserving and I don't need to add to their wait for care.
My discharge was honorable so it's not like I can't use it should I ever need to.
You deserve it as much as any other veteran. I get where you're coming from, and I use it minimally for exactly that reason -- I see our folks in the Temple hospital and my heart breaks, I don't want to waste resources better spent elsewhere -- but you earned it too.
ETA: Let's face it, @ The Grand Nudger would cost more than the two of us combined in his therapy.
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RE: Elon Musk
Yesterday at 1:28 pm
My partner relies on telehealth and it has saved me so many days off to not have to drive her for a routine visit.
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RE: Elon Musk
Yesterday at 5:15 pm
(Yesterday at 12:01 am)arewethereyet Wrote: (February 20, 2025 at 11:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Sorry to hear you've got such a hard row to hoe. Do you at least have VA support for it, for what that's worth?
I have recently signed up for Medicare. I haven't seen a doctor yet but with GoodRX my prescription refills have been quite reasonable.
I have never attempted to use the VA as I have never felt that my relatively short service and lack of any dangerous assignments means I should leave it for those who really need it. So far, I have not. There are people that I feel are more deserving and I don't need to add to their wait for care.
My discharge was honorable so it's not like I can't use it should I ever need to.
I did take advantage of the GI Bill for school money, my first house, too. I used the VA for medical services twice back when I was broke. But I have really good coverage now, and like you, would rather someone with greater need get it. My friends who were in the Navy keep beating on me to go to the VA.
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RE: Elon Musk
Yesterday at 5:55 pm
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Use it. We wait anyway. 
-honestly, that's how you firewall programs like the va. Get every single person eligible on it and up to their eyeballs in bennies so that the inevitable "congressman, tell me again how many tens of thousands of veteran families in all of our districts were deprived of care by your vote/malfeasance/cowardice" writes itself.
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RE: Elon Musk
10 hours ago
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Elon Musk
4 hours ago
MAGA family values.
Quote:Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk for Sole Legal Custody of Their Son
St. Clair filed the petition for custody with the New York Supreme Court on Friday, Feb. 21. The author, 26, alleges in the petition that Musk is the father of the boy, who was born in September 2024. She claims that Musk was not present at R.S.C.'s birth and "has met him only three (3) times and has had no involvement in his care and upbringing."
When discussing safety concerns, she claims Musk said, “If I make a mistake on security, [R.S.C.] will never know his father," which she says is another acknowledgment of parentage.
St. Clair says Musk eventually met his son on Sep 21, 2024, and spent two hours with them, and then for one hour the next day. She says the last time Musk saw R.S.C. was November 30, 2024, for only 30 minutes.
A week before that meeting, she claims that Musk texted her “I want to knock you up again” on November 24, 2024. Three months later, she claims Musk texted her again: “Well, we do have a legion of kids to make.”
St. Clair's lawsuit comes one day after Musk's former partner and mother of three of his children, singer-songwriter Grimes, pleaded with him on X to stop ignoring their child's "medical crisis."
https://people.com/ashley-st-clair-sues-...c-11684615
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RE: Elon Musk
3 hours ago
The show Zero Day was clearly a nod toward our current political climate, as well as the Kidder character being an almost direct reference to Musk.
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