• axh@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    And I would walk 500 hundred miles and I would walk 500 more… to avoid ambulance cost

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Screw that! Medicare costs money. I want mine covered by the taxes I already pay. Just cut out the wars and we’re good.

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      26 days ago

      Are you kidding me!? I love paying taxes for Medicare that I’ll never get, as well as premiums to for profit health insurance that rejects the tests that my dr wants. Oh and I love that I still have to pay even more out of pocket when I get some odd bill six months later.

      Why on earth would anyone in their right mind want to give that up!?

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    26 days ago

    For the record, if anyone is in a serious situation and needs rescue, SAR is free in the US. A medical helicopter, on the other hand, is not.

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      26 days ago

      It depends. SAR in my state is coordinated by our Fish & Wildlife Department and staffed with volunteers.

      They will bill you if they determine you willfully caused the situation leading to you having to be extracted.

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    I can’t believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this.

    What the actual fuck are you talking about? This is fodder for all communities on this platform.

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    26 days ago

    The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in southwestern Victoria is home to one of the oldest and most extensive aquaculture systems on Earth, built by the Gunditjmara people to farm kooyang — the short-finned eel (Anguilla australis).

    About 6,600 years ago — and possibly much earlier — the Gunditjmara used the basalt rock from ancient lava flows of the Budj Bim volcano to construct a sophisticated network of channels, weirs, dams, and ponds across roughly 100 square kilometres around Lake Condah. Some stone channels were dug up to 200 metres long to divert water and exploit seasonal water-level changes, creating a managed wetland factory that trapped, stored, and harvested migrating eels.

    https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1577/
    https://www.eit.edu.au/the-ancient-aboriginal-engineering-of-the-budj-bim-eel-traps/