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Cake day: March 20th, 2025

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    If I’m sick or it’s the 1st step in getting something diagnosed: I call the (public) clinic to book an appointment, get a date within like 3 days max. I usually leave with a prescription and paid doctor’s leave for work. The visit costs nothing. If it’s urgent you can walk in without an appointment or call the ambulance/go to the ER in your local hospital. This is free.

    Sometimes the doctor gives you a medical referral to a specialist or for a certain test. This can be realized in the public health system, or at a private clinic.

    Wait times vary a lot - some things like a blood test are very quick, but some specialists in the public system have very long wait times. Like, 6 months to a year. Some surgeries in the public system can take even longer. The public system is free, or has a small symbolic fee.

    The private system is much faster for certain specialists - dentists, psychologists, dermatologists, injury rehabilitation, ect. but it also can’t do everything. In my experience, almost all serious and niche surgeries are done in the public system for example.

    Overall it’s a decent experience, but the system is severely underfunded. This isn’t really a case of mismanagement imo, it’s genuinely just a lack of money in the system. Some surgeries can get delayed because money allocated for them ran out for the year.







  • Pilotredsun “Warsaw” Jazz fusion Cover by poruu.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9Mk7DXPcI

    The original is great, it takes simple Chiptunes and manages to convey a stunning range of emotion and movement.

    This cover is fantastic because it takes what’s at the core of the original and explores it even more, with varying loudness, instruments, ect.

    It feels like the last warm august evening before going back to school.

    It sounds like moving to a far away place in the search of opportunities.

    It conveys the nostalgia of remembering your childhood friends with happiness, but also realizing that there’s a great and unknown road ahead of you.

    It gives you the comfort of knowing that every moment will pass, so you should enjoy it while it lasts and be hopeful for the future.

    It’s change, it’s movement, it’s nostalgia, it’s hope, it’s happiness, it’s a bitter sweet end and a fresh beginning.

    This cover gave me a lot of comfort and peace during difficult moments in my life and I can say with confidence that it far surpassed the original.




  • I agree that skipping content is the way to go, Lemmy is federated and all that, but I don’t think it works with a post like this.

    This post somehow got 1.2k likes but there’s no real discussion in the comments (mainly about the author like we are discussing right now) and it doesn’t contribute anything of value to the site. It’s a post that most people probably scroll past without giving it any thought, like, and immediately forget - the worst type of social media content for which I don’t see a reason to exist here.

    I like Lemmy because it has a kind of “people using a website” feel instead of a “generic content slop feed” vibe like reddit, tiktok, ect. I think Lemmy, as a community, should encourage high quality OC content on the platform instead of accepting generic and forgettable posts like this and just saying “ignore it”.