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The US likes their slaves with as few off days as can be prevented by less than ¢50…$.5¿ Never really did learn the finer… Of financial punctuation.
I’m really surprised to hear that somewhere in the EU doesn’t cover the cost of preventative vaccines. In the USA, even the most basic insurance covers vaccines for HPV and a bunch of other stuff.
At least in Germany, insurance generally only covers the vaccines recommended by a federal expert group of physicians and statisticians called the Stiko, standing committee on vaccination, who tend to be conservative in their recommendations. The HPV vaccine is only recommended for under 18 year olds and it can be difficult to find a physician who will go against the recommendation for liability reasons.
That 87€ would likely be the standard price without any additional coverage though.
Still does seem a bit pricey if its just one shot but also seems like a number OOOP just made up on a guesstimate.
In the United States even the most basic health insurance is hundreds of dollars a month. I imagine it’s cheaper in European countries.
It’s literally free in most of them
Fair point. There is Medicaid for the poor in the USA. It covers vaccines, and like 40% of births in the US are covered by Medicaid. But for those that earn too much it sucks to pay for insurance.
It still sounds crazy to me that you guys pay to be born. What a way to start off in life.
All vaccines? Where I am in Europe, some vaccines are covered and it varies by group, but not all.
In mexico is all 100% but at the age and rythm dictated by government officials (doctors, at least).
Some optional vaccines (think second shots for non endemic illneses for example) are paid but even then you can get them for free if they have them in health centers.
I, the only gay in my USA village, asked my provider about this vaccine. It was going to cost me about $1,000 USD total.
It is not covered by my insurance. Each dose of the vaccine costs around $300 USD out-of-pocket and a full course is 3 doses, if I recall correctly. So in addition to that particular visit, I would have had to make 2 additional appointments with my healthcare provider, each of which would have a $55 co-pay – which is in addition to the $300 cost per dose of the vaccine.
As much as my provider and I were on board with getting me vaccinated, an extra $1,000 expense was not written in the cards for me.
Oof. I got my series of vaccinations years back at Planned Parenthood. I remember it not being covered by my insurance (I was outside the target age range) but not incredibly expensive.
What is a USA village?
A village in the USA
I hope any statistics gathered from this data considers the 87 euro credit.
Like i always say $20 is coough cough 87 pounds is 87 pounds.
Euros?
Not sure who cares pull down your pants
Europe?
Damn it, I will prove it to save $87.
I want my doctor to be honest with me, and give it to me straight, like a pear cider that’s made from 100% pears.
I had a pear ale in the airport before we took off for the environmental nonprofit that I got a job with that turned out to be a cult that I hadto cut into my arm to escape from. One of the best drinks I’ve ever had!
Was it like ginger ale but pear? Because that sounds pretty good
I just remember that it was a pear ale and it was delicious.
that turned out to be a cult that I hadto cut into my arm to escape from
You can’t just teaser us like this without telling the whole story.
I’ll be gay for €87. Where do I sign? Is there any induction material to read? Does anyone show me around gay headquarters? Do I have to meet any key stakeholders?
Hi, yes, I would like to meet the CEO of gay?
Do you have an appointment?
He has a full load, according to the schedule, but he might be able to sneak you in somewhere
Is there any induction material to read? Does anyone show me around gay headquarters? Do I have to meet any key stakeholders?
Fuck it, that’s too much work. I’ll just suck some dicks on the day, and see if that works.
I’ll be gay for free
Sent you a PM. Let’s meet…to discuss this further.
I’m pretty sure gay headquarters is The Village in Montreal.
€and¢are vaguely similar symbolsAssuming they didn’t confuse ¢ and €, it’s possible they were asking a threshold question. Like, if you’d be officially gay for €87, what would you do for less than a dollar?
It depends on the proportional savings. Not to me, I understand how math works, but to most people.
They’ll drive across town to save 5 cents per gallon on fuel, with a vehicle that has a 10 gallon tank (a total savings of half a dollar) but often wont drive the same distance for a product thats $10 lower than wherever they are if the product costs $500 to begin with.
I’ll be gay to save any money. Doesn’t matter to me. You got some other discount I don’t have to prove? Sure I’ll say I’m a disease vector for $2. Oh, you have a student discount where I save $1? How handy that I still have my decade-old student ID on me and always do because it doesn’t have dates on it. Why yes I did look up the local zip code to save $0.25/person on admission!
There’s also ₡ (the CRC symbol)
Ya but ¢ goes after the number
Do people pay attention to that? € should go in front, but I always put it after (because that’s how we pronounce the value in Italian) and nobody ever corrected me
I’ve never even heard that it’s supposed to go in front. Interestingly, the English Wikipedia article for the Euro does put it in front, the Italian, French and German articles does not.
Maybe it was decided to put the € in front for English, because £ and $ are in front, but to put it behind like every other measuring unit for other languages?
This is the page you’re looking for Written conventions for the euro in the languages of EU member states.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Deeper down from there, I also found the information that:
- Countries/languages were allowed to continue putting the € in front or behind, like where they put their currency sign before the euro was introduced.
- Yes, for English, it was decided on before, because of the £ and $.
- The English EU style guide says explicitly:
The euro sign is followed by the amount without space: “a sum of €30”
The same rule applies in Dutch, Irish and Maltese. In all other official EU languages the order is reversed; the amount is followed by a hard space and the euro sign: “une somme de 30 €”
Sources:
I’m glad I could point you in the direction of the rabbit hole. It’s not for nothing that my name’s Alice :)
For me it was also a good read learning about how the various languages make the plural of euro. Some languages keep “euro” as the plural, some others have a plural form (which is fine), but some others have really weird shit with complex logic. I’m always fascinated by languages!
Yes and no, I guess. It’s the arbitrary, prescriptive way to write cents that USians learn in school.
It would look wrong to me if I saw a sign advertising something for ¢50 or 0.50$.
That said, I also learned to always put commas inside the quotation, “like so,” but I think that’s super dumb and I refuse to do it.
logical quotation supremacy
That makes so much sense, thank you.
They’d forget that their currency is $ if corporate capitalism wasn’t so heavily ingrained into their national identity
(Assuming the one who made a mistake is American - even though many countries use dollars the US are the only ones bold enough to forget the internet isn’t just for them)
I genuinely wonder how many click-bait/rage-bait links about American politics get clicked abroad. Is it a chicken and the egg situation? Companies only put out what people want to see and people only see what companies put out?
Personally, it seems like people love to hate America.
Sounds like a King of the Hill episode in which Hank regrets letting Peggy fill out his medical forms.
He gets really upset about it, and the whole episode everyone thinks he’s just homophobic, but at the end we find out he’s only upset because she lied to the government.
Boomhauer mumbles something about about sucking a dick one time don’t make you gay man.
Bill questions whether he is gay.
Dale goes conspiratorial about gay frogs.
Interesting. Why is gay considered an at risk group for HPV? I thought it was most likely to cause problems in women?
Thanks. That makes sense.
Yeah man, 87 euros is more than 87 dollars…
Big if true
It dipped briefly post COVID but… In general yeah.
I know lol. Now that we’re being literal and earnest, though, I’m gonna guess that the commenter in the OP was confused by the (very) slight visual similarity between the euro sign € and the American cent sign ¢ 🤷🏻
Sorry I got that you were joking but I’m caffeinated and that makes me addicted to earnestness.
No worries, there are far worse addictions to have 😄
I just want to applaud everyone for being so nice and clear!
We don’t have good healthcare here, he probably doesn’t have glasses to see the small print with
You gotta look at the better numbers. It was nearly equal until mid-January 2025. Then it dropped rapidly. Wonder what happened?
What do you mean by “at the better numbers”? The ones I linked are the historical international exchange rates. It’s the Google preview (not the AI Overview) but I can find a source from a webpage if you prefer, the numbers won’t change.
It’s almost never been “nearly equal”. Unless 1 EUR = 1.15 USD is nearly equal for you, in which case the data I linked is correct so again which numbers are you talking about?
I think you really took my comment very negatively. That was not my intention
It rose to 1 usd = .97 euro in January of 2025. Then it began a sharp decline immediately after Trump took office. I pulled my data here
https://www.investing.com/currencies/usd-eur-historical-data
Google’s overview is similar, but for the same time period if you convert Euro to USD you get the same ratios you posted. Currency markets are weird.
But as an American currently living in the EU the difference between pre-Trump to now I get significantly less when converting USD to Euro. A few cents doesn’t seem like much but when you transfer enough you feel it.
Anyway, I wasn’t trying to call your data bad. My goal was to insult Trump.
the link you gave looks more like march. i vaguely remember from uni economics that depreciation can be caused by decreased exports because less people now need to buy your currency which is needed to buy your export, thus demand falls and the euro’s price in dollars falls (though usually it’s depreciation that happens first causing increased exports since it’s cheaper to buy your export now). march 2025 sounds like when trump announced a ton of tariffs
I set it for January, but just adjust the parameters
Well, I was talking about the value of the euro, you were talking about the value of the USD (basically, inverse values), that’s why your “sharp decline” made no sense to me on the context of the image I linked.
In any case, if you see the graph, it’s not really a plunge/increase from a plain, but more of a valley/mountain situation. The value of the dollar rose from the election, I guess from expectation or whatever, but then rapidly went back to its usually values after the pig took office.
It might be somewhat lower than before though as you said, I’ve not checked the ±0.05 ratios (not trying to be condescending btw, you are right, those cents matter. I wish I had a 4% raise lol).
AFAIK in Germany, the vaccine is even more expensive per dosis, and you need multiple dosises (doses?).
How gay are you for 87€? How about 500€?
(IDK if German health insurers actually care about that in the first place)
Germany is a communist country, so vaccines are covered by health insurance.
What do you think “communist” means?
I hate to break the news for you like this, but the German Democratic Republic ceased to be 36 years ago.
In general, vaccines are covered, but the HPV vaccine is only definitely covered for younger people. If you get it later in life, you can get the money back if the insurer considers it necessary, but I wasn’t able to quickly find info on what the criteria are.
the German Democratic Republic ceased to be 36 years ago
I’m pretty sure that was a joke
Boys…
