I have no experience with healthcare outside of Canada but as a kid I was always taken for routine checkups. As a young adult I don’t do regular checkups but that’s mostly because I’m lazy and finding a doctor who will agree to give you regular checkups can be difficult.
I did have an experience where my vision became blurred and I passed out. Someone called an ambulance for me and I was seen by a doctor as soon as I got to the hospital.
They did some basic tests and decided whatever it was it wasn’t immediately killing me so they referred me to a neurologist. Their office setup some appointments for me over the next week and I had all kinds of tests run. Then I was sent to a heart specialist who scheduled me for a bunch of tests the next week. At the end of it all both specialist decided I was perfectly healthy and I passed out because of an anxiety attack. They recommended I be less stressed. Thanks!
Between the hospital visit, the tests by the neurologist, and the tests by the cardiologist, I paid $45 for the ambulance and got my clean bill of health in about 2 weeks.
This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.
where landlords feel that the tenants are extremely lucky to have them
This pisses me off so much! I’ve even seen it posted on Lemmy and I wouldn’t be surprised if a few show up here with their “without me these people would be on the street!” rhetoric. Without landlords there would be lower competition, lower demand, and lower prices. I think these people forget there was a point in time that houses were less expensive than cars and people paid them off in a few years. This was before “income property” was a concept.
More players means more smurfs. Playing at a time when lots of people are on makes it more likely you’ll run into someone who lowered their rank on purpose just to stomp lower level lobbies.
DotA2 recently banned 90,000 smurf accounts. They have about 400,000 players per day. That’s nearly 25% of players smurfing!
Maybe I’m just old, but I don’t remember games being like this. The amount of crybabies in Rocket League is insane. People leaving the lobby less than a minute in because of a goal (or even just sometimes a bad play) happens all the time. It wouldn’t shock me if people smurf because they hate losing so much. If you follow the pros they’re not any different. They’ll cry on social media after every loss blaming everyone but themselves. It’s sad really. It’s a game! It’s okay to lose!