The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
This actually just affected me this weekend. I was out of town about 12 hours from home. My son was watching new dog that I’ve had for a month. She was puppy mill breeder so didn’t have good medical care. Anyways she had a bought of hemmoraghic gastroenteritis and I told my son to take her to the ER (regular vet was closed). The one I had gone to for about 30 years was no longer on google (my last dog died in 2019). There happened to be a new one not to far. I wanted to make it easy on my son so I told him to go there. It was a chain (Blue Pearl) that had bought out the previous emergency vet that I used to go to. Their facility was very nice but it cost $2600 to have her there for 24 hours. None of the of fees were super expensive but they added up.
If they are corporate, that means they have an office somewhere with a lot of people to pay. Bigger overhead means they need greater income to meet their gross profit targets.
The FTC website says it has an exception for Senior Executives which it defines as people making over 151k and are involved in policy making decisions.
I happen to watch Life Below Zero as background noise and other salmon fishing has been banned for a few years. A couple of the cast members used to catch large quantities of fish to feed their sled dogs.
Paxton, who will not have to enter a plea under the terms of the agreement, faced the prospect of decades in prison if he had been convicted of fraud....
It takes 3 tries no matter what the lighting conditions are. Also, neither of my laptops have ethernet ports. :-( Dell for work, Lenovo Carbon X1 for personal
Yeah, I meant 3.5 mm but I get lazy these days and call them all RCA jacks to mean “those perfectly fine audio jacks that have been replaced with usb and/or bluetooth”. As an unabashed pedant, I will try to do better.
BTW, it would appear that you are correct about which end is the jack: www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/audio-jackSo it was TIL that the jack is the hole you plug in to.
Less than a month after New York Attorney General Letitia James said she would be willing to seize former Republican President Donald Trump’s assets if he is unable to pay the $464 million required by last month’s judgment in his civil fraud case, Trump’s lawyers disclosed in court filings Monday that he had failed to...
Donald Trump has so far been unable to obtain a bond that would allow him to appeal a $454 million judgment against him in a New York civil fraud case without posting the full amount himself, his lawyers said on Monday.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being pedantic. In my case, it bugs me really bad that people say 110/220 for USA mains voltage. The standard has been 120/240 volts but there is a tolerance on both sides so the older 110/220 are still within specs. But the tolerance is defined from the nominal values of 120/240.
That would be Model S & X. Model 3 stalks are removed in 2023/2024 Highland refresh. Model 3 Performance hasn’t been highlanded yet so that one still has stalks. Model Y hasn’t released their refresh yet so all versions of Model Y have stalks.
There is a mechanical emergency release on the doors. All my friends tend to find that if I don’t preemptively tell them to press the button with the minus sign.
A few years back, a woman drove her car into a small retaining pond off a highway and 2 of the kids in the car drowned. Everyone was amazed that a car could be completely submerged in such a small pond. Those suckers are deep! twincities.com/…/st-louis-park-drowning-accident-…
I never said I was in an emergency situation. I said my friends tend to find the emergency release button rather than the one that actually opens the door.
Its more of a “can” thing rather than a “will” thing. I’ve had plenty of passengers use the emergency release instead of the real button and no broken windows yet. But I’m on my 4th windshield. Yeah rocks and ice chunks falling off an overpass.
Its already dark when I go to work and dark when I come home in the winter. I wouldn’t notice if we were on DST during the winter. I don’t care if America/Chicago ends up permanently at UTC-5 or UTC-6, just stop the twice a year shift.
President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”...
Gen alpha has no fucking clue (lemmy.world)
Corporations are buying local vet clinics — raising questions about price, choice and quality of care (www.cbc.ca)
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
Conservatives are freaking out because they learned that some animals are gay (www.lgbtqnation.com)
For the first time since 2004, the narwhal has been designated as Not at Risk by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (www.cosewic.ca)
That feeling when even Elon Musk thinks you're insufferable (lemmy.world)
Jon Stewart Tackles Biden’s Age, Anti-Woke Culture at Netflix Is a Joke Show (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Joe Biden keeps sneaking wins past Republicans distracted by Trump (www.salon.com)
The FTC Just Banned Noncompete Agreements And It's A Huge Deal (www.huffpost.com)
The FTC’s three Democratic members were in favor of adopting the regulation, while its two Republican members were against it....
To Fight ‘Shrinkflation’ France Will Force Retailers to Warn Shoppers: Merchants will be required to put signs in front of all products that have been reduced in size without a corresponding price cut (www.nytimes.com)
RIP in pieces (lemmy.world)
Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (edition.cnn.com)
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska (www.aptnnews.ca)
So sad (lemmy.world)
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor (www.cleveland.com)
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There used to be whole forests like this in the Pacific Northwest (lemmy.today)
All handy dandy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ken Paxton agrees to community service, paying restitution to avoid trial in securities fraud case (www.texastribune.org)
Paxton, who will not have to enter a plea under the terms of the agreement, faced the prospect of decades in prison if he had been convicted of fraud....
Me trying to insert a flash drive at night (lemmy.ml)
Trump claims he has $500 million in cash, undercutting lawyers' claims on bond money (www.nbcnews.com)
House Republicans Want to Ban Universal Free School Lunches (theintercept.com)
The Republican Study Committee’s annual budget also calls to permanently defund UNRWA and eliminate the National Labor Relations Board....
Major Asset Seizure Likely as Trump Can't Afford Bond for NY Fraud Case (www.commondreams.org)
Less than a month after New York Attorney General Letitia James said she would be willing to seize former Republican President Donald Trump’s assets if he is unable to pay the $464 million required by last month’s judgment in his civil fraud case, Trump’s lawyers disclosed in court filings Monday that he had failed to...
Trump has failed to get appeal bond for $454 mln civil fraud judgment, lawyers say (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump has so far been unable to obtain a bond that would allow him to appeal a $454 million judgment against him in a New York civil fraud case without posting the full amount himself, his lawyers said on Monday.
11-Year-Old Boy Hears For the First Time as Scientists Get Closer to Finding a Cure for Hearing Loss (www.headphonesty.com)
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Discovery will be the first Star Trek show in half a century to end without a single Jonathan Frakes appearance (startrek.website)
Mike Johnson Completely Blindsided by Resignation in His Own Party (newrepublic.com)
House Speaker Mike Johnson had no idea Representative Ken Buck is quitting, as the GOP is in complete shambles....
Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report (nypost.com)
Most Canadians changing clocks to spring forward for daylight time (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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Biden on hot mic: ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’ with Netanyahu on the way (thehill.com)
President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”...
hen yea (lemmy.world)
How to protect yourself from big corpo (jlai.lu)