My kid just WhatsApped from his German exchange trip. They had to call an ambulance for him.

He has food poisoning, was very pale and nauseous. He was dehydrated and his blood pressure was dropping.

He's fine now but I wanted to share this because it has the most Western Europe Is a Civilized Place ending ever.

The paramedics came to the mall, took him into the ambulance, gave him an IV, checked him out, stayed with him until he felt better, then told him "No charge. Enjoy your trip to Germany." And if that wasn't enough, when they realized the group had had to move onto the train station without him, they gave him a ride over there to catch up with them.

I'm so ground down by the predatory realities of America in general in 2025 that this just about blew my fucking mind.

@JustJimWillDo God damn.

@bastardsheep @stufromoz I'm always disturbed hearing people vow to rebuild. Building over a valley that has just been buried in an avalanche seems like a short road to having the new buildings buried again in a few months or years.

@stilgherrian One day, the guinea pigs will rise up against their oppressors. It will be a glorious day for the Guineas.

@stilgherrian Worse than scape goats.

@stilgherrian Haven't they suffered enough?

@NewtonMark Vulgar language "online" is a lazy survey.

@stilgherrian TIL there are dishwashers at the end of the world.

@static I'm getting MFA demands from at least one site (can't remember which) that I would consider trivial.

@NewtonMark They can make it exciting by making the cars really small so there's room to overtake

It must be "companies update their Terms of Use" season.

From NRMA: "Your continued use of your online account and Help Hub after 19 May 2025 will constitute your acceptance of the revised NRMA Insurance Online Terms of Use."

Honestly I don't know what the previous Terms of Use were, nor why I should try to remember this.

@bastardsheep @devopscats I'm unsure whose footbullet this is. Krasnov doesn't care. Insurance companies must love it. The person who gets hurt is the poor sap who bought their Tesla before they knew Elon is crazy.

@JustJimWillDo He's a person who should never, ever have to pay for a drink or a restaurant meal.

Education can be evidence-based or it can be faith-based, but not both.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-26/liberal-party-insiders-election-campaign-divided-four-corners/105313660

@aaronmeyers It looks overpriced at 35¢

Any thinking person would be hard-pressed not to hate Israel with all their guts after reading this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/24/israeli-airstrike-kills-nine-of-gaza-doctors-10-children-reports-say

@static I assume it's a branding thing and Sanrio want too much money.

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@kcarruthers @Viss Obsolete now (US) government works a different way.

@kcarruthers A great boon for the thousands of assholes using these tools to find bogus vulnerabilities and flooding the support teams with junk reports.