Wenn die telefonische Krankschreibung abgeschafft wird sind die Praxen noch voller. Kranke gehen entweder krank in die Praxis oder krank zur Arbeit. https://t.co/JeAE8KF8Yp
"Hausbesuche mache ich nicht. Das wird zu schlecht bezahlt."
Aussage einer Hausärztin gegenüber einer Person, die einen ME/CFS-Patienten pflegt, der schwer betroffen ist und das Haus nicht mehr verlassen kann.
Mal so als Reality Check zum Stichwort "gut versorgt".
Niemand würde heutzutage eine Depression als "chronische Traurigkeit" bezeichnen.
Genauso falsch ist der Begriff "chronische Erschöpfung" oder "chronische Müdigkeit", auf den die komplexe Erkrankung ME/CFS oft reduziert wird.
Words matter. In Medien genau wie in Fachliteratur.
🦔 HP launched a gaming laptop subscription where you pay monthly but never own the hardware. The high-end option is $130/month for an RTX 5080 Omen Max 16. That same laptop costs $2,110 to buy outright, meaning you'd pay the full price in about 16 months but still own nothing.
If you cancel after the first month, you face hefty fees. Canceling the top-tier subscription in month two costs $1,430 plus you have to return the laptop. You can only cancel for free after 13 months, by which point you've paid $1,690 and still have no laptop.
HP's justification: "The traditional upgrade cycle keeps most gamers perpetually one step behind. But with access to a new laptop every year, your subscription breaks that cycle completely."
My Take
This feels like the logical endpoint of the subscription economy. You pay forever, you own nothing, and the company frames it as doing you a favor. HP is betting that people are so conditioned to monthly payments that they won't do the math showing they'd pay full price in 16 months and keep paying after that.
Memory chip prices are up 60% because data centers are consuming everything. Hardware costs are rising. And now HP is using the affordability crisis to push a model where you never build equity in anything you use. We've seen this with software, streaming, cars, and now gaming hardware. The pitch is always about flexibility and staying current. The reality is you're perpetually renting your life from companies that figured out recurring revenue beats selling you something once. At least when you finance a laptop you eventually own it. I don't know how we got to a place where "you will own nothing" stopped being a dystopian warning and became a business model.
Hedgie🤗
Wieder plant ein #MECFS Patient Sterbehilfe, weil er keinen anderen Ausweg hat,um den unerträglichen Qualen zu entfliehen!
„Ich bin Samuel,21,leide an ME/CFS und in 12 Tagen sterbe ich“
Helft auf die humanitäre Katastrophe aufmerksam zu machen, damit sein Tod nicht umsonst ist!
This is a nightmare for testing engineers
Here is a classic joke which describes the situation:
A testing Engineer walks into a bar.
Orders a beer.
Orders 0 beers.
Orders 99999999999 beers.
Orders a lizard.
Orders -1 beers.
Orders a ueicbksjdhd.
Everything worked as expected.
The first real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is.
The bar bursts into flames.