Manuel 👤

[Shane 🦧 @TheMonkeyJungle]

You should be able to leave work 2 and a half hours early if you don’t feel like being there any more

[Handre @Handre]

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.

When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation.

Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements.

The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

[Don Tony @KeitumetseTonyy]

all you can do is watch a headless chicken perform before it’s lifeless

[𝖗𝖊𝖉✞ @_redfeels]

POV: It's your day off tomorrow and you don't need to set your daily alarm and suddenly it starts raining

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Streamer “Jbeezyup” hosted an event for his viewers to rate their music transitions and was shocked when he heard the best transition ever.

[Sifa @rehema_sifa]

"Good writing doesn't make you look smart; it makes readers feel seen. You can't win people over with intellect. You do it by describing something they've felt their whole life but never had the words for. "

[Genie @lettersfromjuno]

The key to living a comfortable life is confrontation and chaos actually. You have to say no. You have to tell people to fuck off. You have to be mean in necessary situations. A life of peace isn’t built off of being a yes man and taking a passive approach to everything

[kamau @poorteffy]

Growing up is realizing that getting jobs is about having good vibes, being attractive/desirable, or nepotism. Education has so little to do with it.

[𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙘 @TheeGodric]

Battlefield 6 players are fighting for their damn life over there. The game has lost 84% of its player base, good players feel like they have anvils for feet, bad players think the movement is like COD, visibility looks like everyone has cataracts, vehicle mechanics feel like you're drunk, new maps are mid, TTK feels like hardcore mode, controller players have 25% less recoil, sweet spot has mid players looking like Chris Kyle, and the audio....?

[Mads @europemaxxed]

having nothing to say to someone i really want to talk to

[gonzalo @notgonzaloco1]

Soy medio autista pero en ese momento de la película pensé que habían decidido romper el realismo de la película de la nada misma y el tipo realmente había nacido en 1601.

[blue @bluewmist]

saw an inspiring video that said you need to have 4 hobbies.

create, consume, cavort, commune

create: bring something to life consume: appreciate the art of another cavort: move your body daily commune: have a community to socialize with

[Issa Guadagnigga @Foutanienne]

this is absolutely insane when you sit down and think about it.

[𝟮𝟭.🛸 @Big_tagg]

You need good friends. You need community. You need family. You can’t do this life alone.

[𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @BriAnimator_]

is it even a Josh Safdie film if the main character isn’t running for their life at some point during the movie??

[fresh @fauxfresh]

giving a dollar to a lil kid don’t even hit the same no more

fuck he gon do wit that

[gio ⋆ @colinfarrellsgf]

christmas week depression is hitting

[CharlieIntel @charlieINTEL]

In his incredible career, Vince Zampella:

- Worked on Medal of Honor
- Founded Infinity Ward
- Co-created Call of Duty
- Founded Respawn Entertainment
- Created Titanfall
- Created Apex Legends
- Was Head of Battlefield

RIP, Vince. 💔