Well, with the Biden Administration almost a year in service, I can no longer call the VA and talk to a human pharmacist. Could last year, but now it's 100% machines.
But at least the fucking US Mail is still dead, so I can't count on my scripts that way.
Build more highways!
🤮
The biggest problem the VA has it that veterans aren't dying young enough. There's a bunch of worthless old farts who aren't computer hotdogs, and everybody knows anyone who isn't tech savvy should just fucking die.
I used to be an IT professional, but now I'm just old. Useless.
After you fire all the people who used to answer phones, the only way to employ them is burning fossil fuels to build highways.
Progress!
I'll die when I can't get any more thyroid hormone.
But we'll have electric cars, running on coal on brand new highways.
For the climate!
And the reason I don't have a thyroid is medical error when I was a teenager (treating acne with x-ray) followed by excessively aggressive treatment of the resulting thyroid cancer.
Two years after the took out my thyroid, doc says, "Oh, we wouldn't take it now."
Fuck 'em all.

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