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whatwhatwutyut ,

Holy wow, where are you located if you don’t mind me asking? My dad lays carpet and makes like 35k a year.

whatwhatwutyut ,

Works for himself. But we live in Iowa so it isn’t quite as bad of a salary as it sounds. Still not great though

whatwhatwutyut ,

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/3c5c4b9b-0a1e-4a95-99f7-d8255d785f17.jpegThe calico is my recently passed Skittles The cow cat is an asshole adorable handful, Oreo

whatwhatwutyut ,

So what should they do without 10 days of income they likely need for food, shelter, etc? Not eat? Get evicted? Sounds like a great way to not avoid death

whatwhatwutyut ,

I’m deeply invested in bitterness for leaving 1 comment pointing out that it might not even be a choice for someone if they couldn’t afford it? Lol. Get a grip. I can simultaneously be thankful that modern medicine exists and also advocate for it being available to everyone, not just those that can afford it.

whatwhatwutyut ,

I live in Iowa but work remotely for a company in Minnesota - we got like 2 feet more snow than Minnesota did with the blizzard a few weeks back. The climate has been so crazy these last few months

whatwhatwutyut ,

The last few winters my dad had to drive up to Minnesota when he wanted to snowmobile - we would have like 1 inch of snow while they had feet of it

whatwhatwutyut ,

It isn’t free, but I use a seedbox for running my Plex server. That way none of the media downloading is done on our local internet, all the ISP should see is that we are streaming data from a Plex server. They’d have no knowledge on if we own that data or not. I’m sure Jellyfin can also easily be run from a seedbox

Having a seedbox is also helpful because our internet has a pretty low upload speed, which would make watching anything outside the house a massive pain.

whatwhatwutyut ,

This is super informative without being condescending, wonderful job

I hope you have a great day!

whatwhatwutyut ,

Would “just throw the whole thing away” (as in throw it into the trash) be a more fitting translation for the sentiment than “let it rot” then?

whatwhatwutyut ,

Interesting! Thank you for the insight, I’ve always loved the topic of direct translation vs contextual translation ever since I dove into it in a Contemporary Japanese Literature course in college

whatwhatwutyut ,

Highly agree. I love fishkeeping, so finding a dude that likes it too would be great… as long as they semi-understand what they’re talking about. No tropical fish without heaters, or tanks that aren’t properly cycled for example…

U.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined (www.statnews.com)

American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

whatwhatwutyut ,

I have to say, being on Medicaid through college showed just how true this is. Being able to put my health first, rather than worry about if I could afford a doctor visit (or an ER visit), was great. The peace of mind of knowing that I would pay $0 for ANYTHING medical lead to me putting my health first.

The one potential charge you could get was for going to the ER for something deemed a “non-emergency.” Even then I didn’t worry about whether I could go to the ER after whiffing it off my longboard and smacking my head into the pavement because… well, the non-emergency charge was $8.

whatwhatwutyut ,

I’m confused on where the walmart line is coming from, am I missing something?

whatwhatwutyut ,

I… I’m not convinced it’s a bot though. There are normal comments in the account history

whatwhatwutyut ,

Small correction - federal minimum wage is $7.25, not $7.29

whatwhatwutyut ,

I don’t think it’s selfish to not want kids. With how fucked the world is, maybe we should be thinking about if it’s instead selfish to have kids.

I determined from about age 12 that I didn’t want kids. 10 years later and I still don’t want them, so I removed the possibility of accidentally having them. The government can’t make me have kids - seeing as I yeeted my uterus.

whatwhatwutyut ,

It’s All Cops Are Bastards, not Bad

whatwhatwutyut ,

As someone with ADHD… What the fuck? Driving without my meds is much more dangerous because EVERY sensory input is jumping into my attention span. Much easier to focus on important things while on meds

whatwhatwutyut ,

Oh man, guess that anyone with ADHD should just try not having it if they want to be a pilot!

I want to believe that the rule is there to not bar people who were incorrectly diagnosed in the past but… I wouldn’t put it past them to believe ADHD can be “cured” or “gotten over”

whatwhatwutyut ,

My bank has a system where overcharging a checking account can pull from a linked savings account to avoid overdrafts.

Instead of a $35 overdraft fee, you get charged $10 for the intense labor they do of transferring the money for you. /s

whatwhatwutyut ,

I actually had more fees when with a credit union. Iirc they wanted $3 to issue a cashier’s check - the bank I was with charged $5 for a cashier’s check… after you had used the free one they allowed each month.

The bank also honored my request to decline charges that would overdraft my account. They don’t charge for declining these charges. The credit union ignored my choice on that and charged overdraft fees without any notification to me that my checking account was negative (I had money that was in a savings account linked to the checking, I had just forgotten to transfer after getting paid). So I think ymmv for the quality of banks and credit unions.

What is something (feature, modes, settings...) you would like to see become a standard in video games?

I’ve been thinking about making this thread for a few days. Sometimes, I play a game and it has some very basic features that are just not in every other game and I think to myself: Why is this not standard?! and I wanted to know what were yours....

whatwhatwutyut ,

I’ve noticed that at some point since it came out, Horizon: Forbidden West actually added a thalassophobia relief option into the settings! It brightens everything underwater and allows for infinite breath underwater regardless of if you’ve unlocked it in the story or not

whatwhatwutyut ,

As someone who rarely ever uses YouTube, $25 would be fucking bonkers to pay monthly for no ads. Imo a decent idea to explore would be x amount of minutes that are ad free per month, then after you hit that limit you get given ads. You’d have to be signed into an account, any instances with no account logged in get ads by default.

Another idea is to add lower tiers to the available plans. 5 people can sign in on the current option? Is there a cheaper plan that only allows linking 1 account? This could even tie in with the previous idea and have certain plans that give you x minutes of watching adless per month.

I’m sure there are plenty of other options out there. In fact I wouldn’t be bothered having to watch an ad before a video (or a midroll in a longer video) but the experiences I’ve had with using YouTube frequently involve me pulling up a certain scene within a movie or something and getting 2-3 ads that are a minute long each, unskippable, and potentially midrolls in there if the video is over 5 minutes. It just makes me close the video and think “yeah fuck that, I don’t need to watch that scene anymore”.

Overall point: the ads would be fine if they weren’t so excessive and intrusive

whatwhatwutyut ,

Aren’t Office Suite apps not even released for Linux? I feel like I remember having to use the web based apps, and not by choice

whatwhatwutyut ,

Im pretty sure it is using the sites’ own descriptions of themselves

whatwhatwutyut ,

Yep, the reddit community had (and still has, afaik) a community gathered list of providers in each state where community members had had luck getting sterilized.

I found my OBGYN through this list and actually have my hysterectomy a week from today. Minimal convincing of the doctor necessary - just explained why I wanted it (terrible, heavy periods with heavy cramps AND I never want kids) and she essentially said “your body, your choice” and got me scheduled. Had to wait a month due to insurance requiring a wait period but no other issues.

whatwhatwutyut ,

“Too risky” is such bullshit anyway. My OBGYN said that at my age (22), the only risks (aside from potential complications that come with ANY surgery) were a slightly early menopause (couple years max) and higher chance of vaginal prolapse (but that they put supports in place and there are things that can be done to correct this if it occurs)

whatwhatwutyut ,

To make the years mirror better maybe? That’s really all I can think of. 2012->2021 has the flip of the last two numbers

whatwhatwutyut ,

No, it couldn’t. Because men excluding women from tech in the first place is wholly excluding them - there isn’t another tech industry they can participate in. Men are being excluded from a single event when there are many other events doing the SAME THING that they are encouraged to attend.

Not saying I agree one way or the other, but the argument you make about the logic is not sound.

whatwhatwutyut ,

Too often internal biases make men look like the “best candidate,” even if a man and woman of equal skills are presented.

And the reason people don’t like your “positive” reason for wanting more women in the office is because the way you worded it made you sound like a creep who just wants more women around to ogle at, rather than seeing them as equal.

whatwhatwutyut ,

Yeah, the assumptions come from somewhere. From having men ogling at me since I began growing breasts. Women are constantly sexualized and I have 100% heard people say that they wouldn’t mind their company hiring more women because they like to look at them. I never even said that’s what you do, I said that’s what your wording made it sound like. So if anyone made assumptions here, it is you.

In regards to the tech interviews - I don’t see how you didn’t think about the possibility of both a woman and a man answering the question correctly. We then return to the problem of “similar candidates, who will get picked?” Which, in the past, would have always been the man. Assuming they even asked a woman in for an interview.

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