@flyswatter did that robotics team use robots to do it? /s

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Makes me wonder who else has been reading Radicalized by Cory Doctorow!

@RhinosWorryMe

@Ecosaurian @flyswatter

Which book did that happen in? I might have to read it!

@RhinosWorryMe

The book Radicalized is a collection of short stories about people finding ways to fight the system.
In one of them people who've been bereaved because of insurance company loopholes refusing to cover cost of medical treatment decide to start bombing insurance companies and politicians...

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@Ecosaurian @flyswatter

D'oh! I misread as "who else has been radicalized by Cory Doctorow". Thanks!

@flyswatter Stories like these just give me a warm fuzzy feeling. That or that's the insurer's headquarters.
@flyswatter So wholesome.
@cobie @flyswatter @jessamyn Oh man, I wish it were easier to add custom emoji to Friendica, because I'd add this to my server in a heartbeat.
@spencer @flyswatter @jessamyn it's courtesy of gboard on android that basically allows you to combine emoji. =]
@spencer this site lets you simulate it:
https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
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@flyswatter somebody get qntm on this toot thing, stat! I miss it.
@robcee I KNOW!!!!
@flyswatter there are like four variants on this: https://birdsite.slashdev.space/users/qntm and it’s just not enough.
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@flyswatter the problem with burning down insurers’ headquarters is that they probably have very affordable fire insurance with very good coverage, so you’re not making much of a dent.
Insurance didn’t cover 2-year-old’s wheelchair so high school robotics team built one

A 2-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder that doesn’t allow him to walk needed an electric wheelchair that his parents insurance didn’t cover, so a high school robotics team built him one instead. The Farmington High School robotics team in Minnesota last year built 2-year-old Cillian Jackson a custom electric wheelchair with the…

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@weezmgk The USA is a hellhole.
@flyswatter It can be, but a robotics club building a wheelchair for a 2 year old is not an example of that
@weezmgk the fact that the only way that child got a wheelchair is that a robotics team had to step in because the insurance company is a greedy monstrous institution shows that the US capitalist system needs to be burned to the ground. But that’s just me.
@flyswatter if the child were of school age (typ 5yo), the insurer would have been obligated to provide a wheelchair per Americans With Disabilities Act. I'm not sure it's any different anywhere else.
@flyswatter I’m gonna love this reboot of Breaking Bad
@flyswatter I will admit that is not the ending i expected.
(Acho que não vou mostrar esta aos alunos do meu clube de robótica)
@flyswatter plot twist: the kid's heart was literally warmed because he was inside the building as it burned.
Insurance didn’t cover 2-year-old’s wheelchair so high school robotics team built one

A 2-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder that doesn’t allow him to walk needed an electric wheelchair that his parents insurance didn’t cover, so a high school robotics team built him one instead. The Farmington High School robotics team in Minnesota last year built 2-year-old Cillian Jackson a custom electric wheelchair with the…

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@Ara @flyswatter they like to keep that thing out of the news.

*taps nose meaningfully*

@flyswatter @spaf This is the FIRST Robotics team that I will sponsor.
@flyswatter where is John Kramer when we need him the most?
@flyswatter wow, that IS heartwarming. I wonder if any of them thought to bring marshmallows?

@flyswatter

That sounds like a Jack Handy bit.