Piep, rein ins Loch!

Give it time, I’m sure we’ll soon have both.

SAP is a strong contender for the second worst thing Germany has ever done.

Not that this kind of coordination worked well in the 90’s. But even if it did (I was there, it didn’t), it’s incredibly hard to drag people back in time with you.

I know that Lemmy is full of dumb-phone users who exclusively communicate via PGP encrypted carrier pigeon - but that shit simply doesn’t fly if you try to coordinate a children’s birthday party in 2025.

That doesn’t take the most essential feature of such a wishlist into account:

Items are removed when purchased, preventing accidental double purchases by multiple guests.

With your E-Mail list, chances are high that you’d be getting the same item twice or more.

Are those Gateron Banana switches? ;-)

Bei EVs geht es denn meisten Kunden insbesondere um die Reichweite und da hatte Tesla lange die Nase vorn. Zumindest auf dem Papier.

So eine Manipulation, sollte sie sich bewahrheiten, hätte auch andere Vorteile für Tesla: dadurch kann man Reichweite und Verbrauch schönrechnen.

Ehrlichen Herstellern würde es schwer fallen, ähnliche Werte zu erreichen.

I love how accommodating they are to bigger sizes:

https://nordwolle.com/products/calma

Looks like a roomy fit.

Die Unsicherheit über die Zölle erstreckte sich aber auch auf diejenigen, dessen Job es ist/war sie kontrollieren und einzusammeln. Aktiv durchgesetzt wurden Trumps Zölle wohl noch nie.

There are barely enough rest stops in many places of Europe to accommodate truck drivers just taking their mandatory rest breaks. Look at the stops along any busy German highway at night, it’s pure pandemonium. There’s an estimated 20 000 truck parking spots missing in Germany alone: https://www.adac.de/news/lkw-parken-an-raststaetten/

Now imagine that every single one of those spots (not the missing ones, not the new ones, all of them - millions) also needs a charging station. That’s a monumental undertaking.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’ll be extremely hard and would take a lot of time and money. This isn’t a “we’re halfway there” situation, we haven’t even started.

Kompromat / компромат

and, yes, the Chinese government has used similar methods.

Ich hab nicht viel beizutragen außer: danke, ich habe deinen Beitrag mit Aufmerksamkeit gelesen. Ein Upvote allein schien mir dafür nicht ausreichend.

Bob

True. But if there’s anything to take away from all of this is that those prices aren’t natural, god-given or unavoidable. It’s probably a good idea for op to shop around - wound care, anesthesia and antibiotics shouldn’t be $2000 even in the US.

I’m not the person you are replying to, but I do wonder what “third world countries” you are thinking of when you hear “Western Europe”?

As someone who has lived in both the US and Germany (one of those “third world countries” with significantly lower health care cost, for both humans and animals) and who has seen the benefits and drawbacks of both countries - it’s completely delusional if you actually believe that someone who is supposedly living paycheck to paycheck is getting better health care in the US. The German system certainly has its flaws, but it beats the US in just about every sensible metric (accessibility, cost, life expectancy, infant mortality etc.), usually quite significantly so. The US does a solid number of things better than other countries, entrepreneurship and innovation for example, but health care absolutely isn’t among those things.

What’s new to me (I had no exposure to the veterinary health care system during my time in the US) is that the inflated fantasy prices aren’t limited to humans only, but extend to pets as well. Anesthesia and extensive wound care, antibiotics, aftercare etc. are pretty standard therapies and they should cost little over a tenth of what you were quoted for your typical house cat.

You honestly might want to shop around, because even within the US, those rates are almost certainly inflated.

I don’t think the downvotes are warranted. That is an exorbitant amount for the planned vet procedure OP describes.

Vet rates in Germany, for example, are regulated and wound care under anesthesia is pretty standard treatment. Even with multiple, complicated wounds, a round of antibiotics, extensive after care, this would be a three digit bill - while likely more than 200€, it would still be far closer to that number than OP’s tenfold quote…

Heck, even surgery for a complicated fracture wouldn’t come close to the 2000€ mark and can often stay below 1000€.

We are all aware that the US healthcare system works with ridiculously inflated fantasy prices, but that this extends to veterinary care is news to me.

Amateur! I usually make things worse by sitting around doing nothing. That’s called efficiency.