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Kaboom , to nostupidquestions in Why doesn't the American market provide efficient and effective health insurance like it does for car insurance?

You can get your own health insurance. Its called market place insurance. Most use their employers health insurance, but that option exists. And theres no “enrollment period”

fifbiff ,

Yeah but it’s way more expensive

Kaboom ,

Yes. With employment insurance, your employer pays a large chunk of it, its called benefits for a reason. Like 401k matching, if you dont use it, youre leaving money on the table

zbyte64 ,

They call it benefits because it’s marketing that works.

elephantium ,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

What would you call it? What’s your objection to the term “employee benefits”? You sound like you have an axe to grind, but I don’t get your angle.

zbyte64 ,

My angle is to paid the most. If we let the person we are negotiating with to define all the terms and conditions, then there is not much room to ask for more.

db2 ,

They definitely marketed effectively to you.

That’s not a good thing.

Kaboom ,

Do you not have a 401k? Or a Roth IRA? Are you at least paying into social security?

db2 ,

No, no, and yes until the so-called Republicans gut it and pocket the money.

You’re not speaking the same language here.

Kaboom ,

You really need to start saving for retirement, its never too early, and if you start late, it can still help

db2 ,

Unless you’re offering to pay for it I’m in the same boat as many others. I live check to check, there is no extra.

bradorsomething ,

Unfortunately a lot of americans are out of touch with how bad a large percentage of our population live. “It’s not a problem until it effects me” should be on our currency.

Kaboom ,

I really doubt you cant find ten bucks every pay period

zbyte64 ,

Imagine how much more money you’d make grinding your life away instead of hanging out here with us losers. Hell, you should be charging for your advice here, no need to give it away for free!

Kaboom ,

“You should save for retirement” isnt exactly ground breaking advice.

zbyte64 ,

Hey buddy, don’t be so hard on yourself. I’m sure you’ll find a better way to contribute.

cm0002 ,

Healthcare is a human right, it should have never been a benefit tied to employment.

Kaboom ,

Thats why Medicare and Medicaid exist

cm0002 ,

Those things are a joke, have you ever been on Medicare? It’s terrible and are still strangled by private insurances at every turn.

A few years ago, it was calculated that moving to a single-payer healthcare system and abolishing private healthcare would, at worst, increase an individuals tax to like <$1000/yr

I have a fairly decent employer provided insurance and even then it’s still 500+ a MONTH in just premiums. Before even factoring in other private insurance bullshit like copays and out of pockets and a myriad of other fees and gotchas, I’ll exceed that 1000 tax bill in like 2 months.

Even if you’re a selfish conservative asshole, it would save you so much money as well.

But sure, keep listening spouting the rich elite propaganda, you’re just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire after all.

_bcron , to science_memes in Omg

That feel when you order 5 burgers alone and they ask “to go?” and you nonchalantly say “naw”

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

I ain’t eating that shit in public

Kwiila ,

“You must have a large family to feed.” “Ya.” " Here?" “Naw.”

Brkdncr ,

True story: Taco John’s, a mexican fast food place in parts of the USA. Dude in front ordered two “6-packs and a pound” which is a total of 12 tacos and 2lbs of fried potatoes. Dine-in, then ordered a diet coke. dude sat down and started his mission while we took our nearly same order for 3 people to go (we didn’t order any diet coke).

fiddlesticks ,
@fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Hey at least he got the diet coke, wouldn’t want to have too many calories right?

buttfarts ,

Sometimes I drive to a second McDonald’s late at night because I don’t want to experience the shame of going through the same drive-thru twice.

Veraxis , (edited ) to linux in Need help with setting up home server
@Veraxis@lemmy.world avatar

I am having a hard time following everything happening here. What is all this about hotspots and your neighbor’s router? Do you not own a wifi router? Most wifi routers will also have ethernet connections on the back. I apologize for not understanding. Edit: I am guessing by “I do not have a lan line” you mean that you do not have a working internet connection at all at home? I am confused as to how you intend to run a server permanently over a phone hotspot.

My one thought is: have you gone into your router and reserved a static internal IP on your LAN? (e.g. 192.168.0.##)? Often servers and things will lose communication if their internal IP changes and your devices cannot find them.

Also, if you are porting out onto the public internet, are you using something like a dynamic DNS so that your devices can route to your public IP? your public IP will be constantly changing, so you need some way for your devices to find it.

RatzChatsubo OP ,

Yeah I’m using public wifi

Wolf314159 ,

Well there’s your problem. Public wifi is going to have systems in place to stop exactly the kind of thing you’re trying to do.

tranarchist , to memes in Pills
@tranarchist@lemmy.ml avatar

and it’s anarcho communism, which I think will turn into anarcjo syndicalism at some point

FlashMobOfOne , to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 8th
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Mostly Neverwinter Nights.

We’ve had more active players on the server I DM for, so I’ve been popping in more often to run quests and ambience for all the newbies.

Noxious , to android in What Browser do you use on Android, and why?

Mull

jjjalljs , to asklemmy in What's an immediate turn off in a person?

So many things.

  • queer phobic. I’m not queer but many of my friends are. I don’t need that negativity in my life.
  • smoker. Maybe a pass if they are actively trying to quit. Maybe. Most active smokers I’ve known have kind of been assholes about it, though.
  • littering. Sometimes combined with the above when smokers throw their butts on the ground
  • being a jerk about people having healthy hobbies. Like, just let someone enjoy some video games or bird watching or whatever. I can’t with people who are like “omg that’s so childish you still [play games/read fiction/go to the zoo/whatever]?”.
  • being anti-consent. I’ve met a few women who are like “just do stuff and I’ll tell you if I don’t like it” and I’m like lady there’s some “stuff” that can be done that by the time it’s happening , the damage is done. Let’s just have a conversation about what we like and what our boundaries are.
dharmacurious ,

littering.

I was going out with this guy I really liked. Probably 3rd or 4th date. We decided to take a drive, and went to a local grist mill. Walked around, had a nice time. Took the scenic route home on this road that ran along a pristine Tennessee Creek. He was drinking a Gatorade or something, and when he finished it, rolled down the window and chucked the bottle out into the creek.

I stopped the car, made him go pick it up (or I wasn’t going to drive him the 20+ miles home), and never called him again. Fuck. That. Behavior.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

Good for you. That’s disgusting behaviour.

AlecSadler ,

The fuck is wrong with going to the zoo? Other than if it’s a shitty zoo giving animals a shit life, but c’mon.

juliebean ,

it’s “childish” to enjoy fun things like the zoo, according to some incomprehensibly boring and immature people.

refalo ,

this is so many people on IRC it’s not even funny

CanadaPlus ,

Ah yes, so childish you need a Master’s degree to get an internship there.

Jax ,

smoking

anti-consent

Can’t help but feel a “my body my choice, your body my choice” vibe from this

jjjalljs ,

I don’t understand what you are trying to say.

Jax ,

I just think it’s odd that you immediately associate smoking with being an asshole - unless they’re quitting. Like you make it very clear that personal agency is important to you - but smoking makes you a piece of shit.

jjjalljs ,

Smoking is bad for the smoker and everyone around them. If you’re not even trying to stop, you are kind of a piece of shit.

I don’t see what that has to do with asking for consent to touch someone’s butt.

vfreire85 ,

i don’t think being a smoker necessarily makes you an a*shole, but surely makes other people live with the smell and the taste of tobacco. and you can’t force people to do that.

Jax ,

I make it a point to not discuss things like this when people aren’t thinking clearly.

When you smoke a cigarette the smoke doesn’t automatically find the nearest non-smokers lungs in order to harm them. The smoke settles, and there are more than enough places far enough away from people to smoke at.

If you’re worried about secondhand smoke harming you in any context outside of smoking indoors - I’m sorry but you just aren’t thinking clearly.

richieadler ,

Nope. You literally cannot smoke without polluting others.

Azzu ,

You also literally can’t play videogames without polluting others, since some of the electricity is still generated by burning coal.

I think if someone tries to make sure not to smoke near unknown people or people that don’t want it, they’re good in my book.

Jax ,

These people are under the impression that secondhand smoke is sentient and immediately finds the nearest non-smokers lungs to pollute. I wouldn’t expect logic to get through to them.

AVincentInSpace ,

It’s fine to not be into whatever you want. If I said I wasn’t into Asians, that wouldn’t make me a racist. (I am, for the record, same as I’m into boys of every other nationality, but if I wasn’t it would still be a personal preference.)

Miaou ,

You mean smokers cannot respect consent? Agreed

TheFriar ,

People think there’s a fuckin cutoff age for reading fiction?

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nmtake , to linux in [Solved] [Void Linux] Audio refuses to work on a new user

You don’t need pulseaudio and pipewire at the same time because pipewire provides pulseaudio-compatible server (pipewire-pulse). Also, pipewire usually doesn’t require audio group. Did you follow the official docs or other online guide?

WolfLink , to games in Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2?

Are there aspects of the game that still offer value or enjoyment

I like the core D2 experience as much as I always have. The gunplay is great, the abilities and build crafting is great, the vibes and graphics and soundtrack are excellent.

The current season is kinda eh but they always put the weakest season they have lined up first because it launches at the same time as the campaign. The current season is more substantial than previous first seasons though, which is good since they are doing 3 seasons per year instead of 4 this time.

The main plot line is finished but there are still sub-plots that need to be resolved. Xivu is not fully defeated. We need to come to a more long-term arrangement with Savathun. (The Xivu-Savathun plot is going to be touched on later this year). Some sort of Vex alliance is long overdue. With the bigger threats out of the way, it would be neat to help the Eliksni and Cabal retake their home planets. Clovis could be a full villain any time now. Plus they are trying to sow the seeds for the new plots down the line with their “traveler/witness demise led to magic seeds being shot into space”. Plus they should answer more details about the fallout after the events of TFS.

All that being said, the main reason I’m still playing is simply because I bought the campaign + season pass combo just like I did for the past 5 years, and I intend to play the content I paid for. However there is a good chance I won’t pay for next year’s pass. There is a lot of potential left in the Destiny IP but the current state of Bungie will have to prove they can still tap into it.

It’s also worth mentioning that I’ve definitely been playing less of it lately than I used to.

psilotop , to lemmyshitpost in Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet

First!

Decronym Bot , (edited ) to selfhosted in LDAP to UNIX user proxy

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
SSO Single Sign-On
nginx Popular HTTP server

2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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acockworkorange ,

Missed LDAP, bot.

chagall , to nostupidquestions in How come it shows that I have 7 messages? Then when I click on it it shows nothing?

You sound like my dad

Don_Dickle OP ,

Well sorry to dissapoint but I am female.

jeffw ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

Okay Marc

lord_ryvan ,

Or my grandma

Fizz , to lemmyshitpost in Unbanned
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Where others see a dumpster thread Track shovel sees a playground.

Track_Shovel OP ,
@Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

I’m a possum, the world is my dumpster

olafurp , to lemmyshitpost in All things serve the beam.

This picture is not accurate. The world should be flat on top of the turtle.

TachyonTele OP ,

It aso says “all the things”, which bothers me. But the overall picture is fun.

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