https://fxtwitter.com/BenClaimant/status/1844151758488318139
It's an Israeli company too
Just holy fuck how can people be this fucking cartoonishly evil.
Am I allowed to say people should kill them so on here or will I get banned? Because I think whoever came up with this shit should kill themselves along with whoever approved it. If I'm not allowed to say that, I apologise.
We got an emoji for it and everything. I'm on mobile so I can't post it but I'm sure someone will below me
Whoever came up with this deserves to be strapped to the floor and run over with wheelchairs until they're dead.
The poster on there actually says it only costs from the 5th hour Also, the Website of that rental thingy says that its free aside from a deposit fee
Nobody ever spends more than 4 hours in a hospital of course.
And it's fine to make people think "oh should I get a wheel chair or make rent this month" when they get to the hospital.
I dont say that it is a good business tactic, I myself had several violent fantasies about Burning that thing to the ground
We'll only charge you if you forget to return it during what is probably one of the most stressful times of your life
LEGENDARY levels of bootlickery. You're lower than slime. Fuck off forever.
Caricature of a country. Completely shameless and soulless parasites.
Making disabled people contribute to a genocide by existing is too dystopian to be in a novel and yet here we are
I wonder if anti genocide activists in the UK could do something about this, like provide free wheelchairs to people who need them and draw attention to this evil shit
I was imagining more smashing of things but that's also cool
And could also supply the free wheelchairs to hand out
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
And another thing, I'm not mad, I'm going to put in the paper myself that I'm not mad
The nlpd isn't funny, just incredibly realistic and depressing
Nah i hear its okay, they've got a Labour government now, any second now Czar Kid Starver will rush in and take those wheelchairs away (so unsightly!)
Remember back in 2019, when left-leaning folks in the UK were like “the tories want to turn the NHS in to American-style health system”? And then us Americans tried warning them too, explaining how shit our system is because people outside of the US and aren’t familiar with it simply can’t comprehend how bad it is? How we all said Corbyn was the only hope for saving the NHS? Only to have everyone else in the UK say “nahhhh they’d never actually do that”.
How’s that working out for you, UK public?
to be fair, everyone here loves and values the NHS, even the vast majority of conservative voters. the only question is: do we love the NHS more than we hate immigrants?
the answer is spectactularly predictable
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I don't think we even have anything like this though that's the shit part
Well in the US, you'd be given the wheelchair off the bat and then get the brutal invoice later.
Yeah the US system will bill you for $2000 if you have no insurance and $200 if you do have insurance
Big Hospital doesn't want you to know this, but all the equipment and supplies at a hospital is free.
All you need is a dulled safety vest and a metal clipboard.
Looking into some CMS documents, I think it'd fall under the category of rented durable medical equipment, and there would be charges if such equipment is used inpatient. But I'll be frank that figuring out what hospitals actually charge for is kinda hell. I've been on the backend of these billing systems, and they are quite arcane.
https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/MedDMEPOSInpatient-MLN1541573.pdf
"See, the really great thing about this system is the Freedom of Choice. Either you choose to pony up the 2 pounds, or you choose to admit that you were always fully capable of crawling on your hands and knee and mangled bloody stump through the hospital and were just trying to be lazy and mooch off of our generosity. So now, nobody is oppressed. Isn't this better?"There isn't much "punk" outside of superficial aesthetics in the Cyberpunkerinos 2077, either, especially after doing story jobs for cops and the fucking president and getting a Swerve-style lecture from the main narrative that trying to improve society somewhat is actually stupid and bad because look at how too far Keanu Reeves went (and he actually did it for selfish reasons and now his digital phantasm wants to take over Original-V-Do-Not-Steal's brain!). It's a diluted concept and kind of a lost cause to try to keep within old margins.
The main game was honestly not that bad (except for the side quest cop thing), the DLC was just pure bootlickery.
Sure, it didn't level any valuable critiques, but it wasn't like Black Panther or Bioshock Infinite where attempting to improve society somewhat is framed as sinister and harmful, the tone of Cyberpunk was more that it's impossible and anyone who tries will end up a jaded asshole like Johnny Silverhand. It's not the position of diehard centrists who think the status quo is good, but that of liberals who are aware of flaws in the system and may even agree with you that certain aspects of capitalism are unjust, but instead of imagining a better world, they shrug and go "ah well, that's just how it is, what can ya do". I found the story inoffensive in that regard, my expectations were low and it met them. I enjoyed vibes-based stuff like the bright neon vending machine in V's apartment.
The DLC was fucking unbearable. I put over 70 hours into the Cyberpunkerinos but I could not get through the embarrassing story of the DLC where you literally save the president and join the FBI. I also liked how they made the president this tough lady who can fight for herself when the 2 most recent presidents have been bumbling geriatrics.
tl;dr Johnny Silverhand is kinda like
if you play Disco Elysium at 20x speed while also playing Subway Surfers on your phone and huffing lead paint.I could not get through the embarrassing story of the DLC where you literally save the president and join the FBI.
The thin act of humanity Myers and the FIA agents put on in the beginning steadily drops away, with your actual client (Songbird) even all but saying "Myers is actually ontologically evil" in part of the opening sequence, just in much more guarded words than that.
spoilers
It becomes increasingly obvious that the NUSA agents are in fact the bad guys as it sets up the moment of truth where you either keep working for Songbird or betray her and side with them instead, with Sol at one point breaking from the plan to just straight up murder two captive bystanders in front of you, and while I have no clue what side-with-the-FIA questline looks like the Songbird path ends with Myers ordering NUSA troops to No Russian the Night City spaceport and raving about wanting both V and Songbird dead.
I also liked how they made the president this tough lady who can fight for herself when the 2 most recent presidents have been bumbling geriatrics.
It's a setting where wealth buys superpowers and nearly eternal youth, and Myers is basically Adam Smasher with a human mask.
I suppose my problem was that even the aesthetics fell flat for me. The whole "Japan is scary and its corporate octopus will take over the world" thing was an 80s propaganda product and seeing it presented ostensibly a century afterward felt like a boomer's idea of what the future looks like.
We are SO close to the Phlip K Dick door that won't let you out without paying it and will argue with you if you try. Someone just needs to add an llm to the wheelchair.
Put a card reader on all the exits. If patients can't afford to leave, put them to work in the kitchens or changing bed pans.
And if they’re unable to work we can kill them and use their corpses as fertilizer!
This is a hospital!
Use their body parts as replacements for other patients.
For a fee, of course.
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