Anyone with more #BritishColumbia#GovernmentofCanada#legalities on this private medical clinic in #VictoriaBC that I was alerted about today?
Alerted by a friend who was told by her family physician that if she wanted to remain a patient that she needs to pay $1500 first.
That sounds illegal & in violation of federal health act.
Can anyone in BC please tell me more about legalities of this??
@chris I thought that was kinda illegal, when she started telling me about her/her husband's horrific & what they felt as blackmail billing.
They weren't expecting to be hit like that. She's been going to walk-ins since being told to pay $1500 to remain a patient. I'm trying to help her get a new family doc ATM. Both her & her husband are elderly & need a family doctor who will help them manage their health.
Instance folks, I'm thinking we should have some kind of helpful message to send to new accounts here. What information would you have found most helpful when you joined?
@willaful I'm still not totally sure whether I belong. I don't know the trope names, I don't quite get where the break is between romance and smut, I feel really out of place.
I made one timid overture a while back but idk.
If there is some kind of orientation space that would help so much.
@pelielios Hmmm. I was thinking more about specifically adjusting to mastodon. An orientation space for the romance genre itself... I don't know if there's just one place. And a lot of it is subjective in any event.
Do you know the @romancelandia group? You can follow them and could direct specific discussion questions there. And you'd probably want to connect with other writers. The #amwriting hashtag is a good one to follow. Add #romancelandia to narrow it to other romance writers.
We're exploring ways to improve our research processes, using methods which encourage a panel of users to share perspectives through discussion and debate.
This has helped us gauge views on the future of travel, media, car ownership and technology:
@BBCRD Awesome! I'd love to see the BBC expanding into other avenues across the fediverse. Have you considered adopting the Ligma protocol to standardize traffic across instances?
Something I've noticed while playing #totk is that the further I progress, the less I want to fight enemies. It's no big deal killing everything I see when my weapon is stick with a rock attached but now that I'm running around with pristine weapons with lynel horns I don't want to use them on random enemies.
Weird question, but is anybody in my reach on Mastodon a native-speaker of Oceanic languages?
(that's Hawaiian, Samoan, Fijian, related or nearby Polynesian/Micronesian languages, which I say to clarify the question for other people in the middle who might be forwarding it, not because anyone who speaks one will need the clarification)
This is not for anything big; I'm just trying to get some POV about how folks refer to the alphabet & diacritic marks.
I should perhaps provide a little more detail... This is a yarn by Tyson Yunkaporta on his podcast The Other Others. Usually he does conversations with other guests, but in this one he's yarning with just the listener.
@NatureMC@handmade_ghost@indigenousauthors yes but what's strange is this specific episode is missing! The time traveller's wife's husband is the one I'm trying to share but can't find it anywhere else 🧐