Not sure what you mean by this. Are you just trying to gage some reason because it’s a German company? They made heating pads, heated blankets, stuff like that.

Oh man, there’s this German company Beurer that makes simple equipment for medical home application. They make this sort of zapper thing, which is battery oper and it just heats the shit out of a little ceramic plate. Put that on a bug bite, it heats away the irritation. No more itch, no more venom in your body, just gone.

I am no longer careful around biting bugs. Keep in mind it’s not supposed to work for stingers.

I figured for 15 euros it’d be too bad if it doesn’t work but I now can’t imagine not having it.

I’ve since also bought a TENS/EMS machine of theirs and a laser hair removal tool is underway for my wife.

I completely trust this company based on just two products.

Portugal is a lovely country and I’ve decided to go visiting it a lot in my life. I feel more comfortable abroad if I at least kind of speak the language. English and German are no issue for me, French goes in a pinch so I’m pretty comfortable in western Europe but I’d like to be more comfortable with the Mediterranean languages. In due time I might try learning Italian as well.

I’ve been learning Portuguese for well over two years now. I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on sentence building. The grammar of verb tense is sometimes still somewhat confusing and I think I’ve got a lot of words to learn still.

But if I read posts on Lemmy in Brazilian Portuguese, I kinda get the gist of it.

Ah no I started at one. You can transpose my list by one and set zeven as 12.

Dutch is an Anglo-Saxon language so that makes sense.

Acht, drie, een, elf, negen, tien, twaalf, twee, vier, vijf, zes, zeven.

8, 3, 1, 11, 9, 10, 12, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7

In that case I can really recommend Out of Time

Ballistic: Ecks VS Sever. Decent movie.

Also Out of Time and Déjà Vu, both with Denzel Washington, both sort of time based thrillers.

After Miracle Workers, Guns Akimbo and especially Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Daniel Radcliffe is so much more than Harry Potter to me. He’s got this almost Nicolas Cage-y vibe now

I take an injection every four weeks, they cost 600 each. Add up a few visits to the dentist, GP and a check up at an academic hospital and I’d pay about a third of the actual cost.

Then again my dad never has any ailments, lives a healthy lifestyle with a lot of exercise and he pays the same.

Yep the issue with our system is that people who never see a doctor or a hospital pay for the ones that have been dealt a rough hand or live unhealthy. The idea is that being ill is not the standard. You should be able to do a Pareto analysis of costs and it might check out.

It varies per country. If you would go to the Netherlands, you’d still need health insurance. You can only get it if you are a Dutch citizen in some way. The costs of this are about 180/month. Plus you have what we call your own risk. If you need healthcare you pay 385 maximum yourself. If you can’t pay that, there are installment plans. And if the 180 a month is too steep for you, there is support from the Belastingdienst (IRS) that is dependent on your income.

So example: if you need an operation that is covered in basic Dutch health insurance and you would live here for a year on work visum, you might pay 2400 a year in insurance costs and 385 own risk, totaling to 2785. If the operation would cost more than that in the US, you’re in luck.

This is all provided you can get health insurance in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, as a Dutch citizen, health insurance is mandatory.

I just get a notification stating I don’t allow them to track me so they have no garbage to stuff down my throat

To the point of the one above you, Belgium is technically younger than the United States.

But honestly, the only reason we really know how messed up a lot of these things are, is because of people digging into these things and finding out that power corrupts. We need transparency, integrity and honesty if we are to get to a point where we don’t read the news with existential dread.

I think most of governing at this point is cleaning up messes from before and creating new messes along the way because we are incapable of solving problems sustainably.

Take immigration, which has become a widespread issue all throughout the west. Rather than figuring out how to stop people from wanting to run away to our countries, we prefer to exile these people, separate them from our society and, if at all possible, just make them not come into our countries at all. I’m not saying there’s a simple solution, I’m just saying we are so focused on combating symptoms, we completely ignore the actual cause of issues.

So after several years of this guy plastered on every screen always anywhere, these are the ‘whys’ you came up with?

How the fuck do you accidentally create a fish hybrid

Pretty much yeah

Ha, came here for this and was not disappointed.

It’s interesting because a form of therapy I’m currently in is all about noticing bad thoughts and defusing from them