A ticket for Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in 1971 was a total of $3.50, according to the study. When adjusting for inflation, that would mean tickets would be about $25.60 today. Instead, tickets for one Disney World park range from $109 to $159 per day, according to the study.
Found this receipt for delivery of my younger brother, in a rural Nebraska hospital, in 1953: One day's hospitalization: $38.45 Related medical services $10.25 Total: $48.70 I don't know which is more amazing, the small amount or the fact that I already existed in those days.
Hard to imagine. Adjusted for inflation, that should mean a delivery today would cost: One day's hospitalization: $426,41 Related medical services $113.67 Total: $540.08 I'd guess one ultrasound costs more than that today.
My granddaughter had to have an MRI when she was ten months old. It cost $18,000. Yeah. Really. $18,000.
I don't love my premiums (around $500/month) but Japanese National Health is wonderful. MRIs are pretty expensive, around $100 I've heard. X-rays? Got five, plus the doctor's consult, for something under $30. Maybe under $20, I'd have to check my receipts.
Just a bit fascinated by Cyberpunk 2077 slang. You got words like preem (premium), biz (business), eddies (eurodollars), detes (details), klep (steal), corpo (corporation worker), zero (to kill), flatlined (dead), and screamsheets (tv, news media). Makes me wonder how we will use words in the future, which words will prevail and which will not.
Anthony Burgess was doing this in his novel A Clockwork Orange, long before the makers of Cyberpunk 2077. https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/clockworkorange/terms/
Going to start using 'harsh realm.' It certainly adds flavour to fiction. Looks like they had different slang depending on the group as well.
Quite possibly the most bizarre graffiti I’ve ever seen. “Butter, Spreadable, Not Margarine ok” for anyone struggling to decipher. I’m guessing it’s a sexual acronym, but I can’t imagine for what.
Quinine has a distinct bitter flavor that many found almost unpalatable, back when it was used as a treatment for malaria, making it hard to enforce patient treatment compliance. To dilute the flavor, water and sugar were added, and tonic water was born.
I dig it. When I was a young man I read a slew of Shadowrun novels, and that setting uses a similar vernacular. Null perspiration = no sweat (obviously), chummer = friend, geek = murder, chrome = visible cybernetic enhancement, etcetera.
Well I certainly wasn’t one of those 4.1b. What the hell was the attraction?? I honestly didn’t watch a single second of the ludicrous spectacle. Thankfully quite easily done these days, with a TV hooked up to all the streaming services, YT, and a blu-ray player with a ton of films to choose from.
Me doing Genealogy research: Theres no way there are 2 irish immigrants with the exact same name, same birth year, and from the same irish county in this small town.... (There was) Me: well, that'll never happen again... Me looking up a guests record: -2 people with the same FIRST, MIDDLE AND LAST french name-
Continuing the international context a CAT scan, which is usually a bit cheaper than an MRI scan, was £1,500 a few years ago in the UK, going private that is (its free if you wait... and wait... and wait...)
I think my hernia surgery cost $38K all in. With my $4K deductible, I had to pay "only" that much out of pocket. Honestly (and sadly), in modern America, that ain't bad.
A 4 bedroom - 2 bath house in the States can go for anywhere between $300,000 - $400,000. Here in Canada, the same house goes for $800,000 - $1,000,000. More in the big cities.
My old boss had two hernias. He got some kind of mesh put in that he can apparently feel when it's cold. Did you at least have a short wait time?
I could have gotten it done within a week but I had to set up some work things before I took six weeks off. And yeah, the mesh periodically makes its presence known, though I don't think it's triggered by cold in my case. Kind of a numbing sensation, which can be weird because it's, you know, down there south of the equator.
Yeah, that must feel a bit strange. Still better than feeling viscera I guess. Jesus, as soon as within the week. Up in Canuckia my boss waited 9 months (that's pre Covid). So it's a give and take.
Why is book jacket design so fucking… pleasant these days?? There’s no big publishers out there anymore with the balls to put out truly unique designs.
Hmmmm..... How far "out there" do you want to go? Metaphorical ball sacs? Up-skirt shot? Naked lady riding a very unamused sea turtle? Pick your version of uniqueness and ill get back to you with a cover
