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- Comment on Video games 5 days ago:
I can’t think of any aspect of The Last of Us that didn’t appear in an earlier game. It was well enough done, but I don’t feel like it was innovative in any way.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 1 week ago:
It is just marketing. What he is really saying is “keep slaving plebs.” This is jut trying to make it sound noble. Like telling a toddler, “I don’t think you are mature enough to eat your vegetables.” Only in this case, instead of the goal of making a kid eat healthier, the goal is to keep us slaving on behalf of the ownership class.
I guess what I am saying is either way, you will be too poor to retire.
For me, the biggest concern that keeps me from retiring is the cost of healthcare, Medicare for all would abate that concern some, so people like me might retire early. Obviously, the wage slave owners are opposed to that, so Medicare for all is reviled by the both the right wing party (Dems) and the far right party (repubs).
- Comment on Republicans are arguing over if trans people can play sports while the world laughs at us 1 week ago:
I live in the U.S. and I have “health insurance” from my employer (over 200k employees worldwide and billions in profit). My contribution to my health insurance premiums is around $4500 per year (I think). The last four years I have hit my deductible for at least one family member and out of pocket maximum. I am fortunate that I have been able to afford the roughly $20k per year that I have been spending on health care, but it has wrecked my ability to save or do anything else.
So I guess my point is that I believe that 27M uninsured dramatically understates the scale of the US healthcare crisis. I feel like the political elite are so far out of touch that they hear a story like mine and think “$20k? That’s like a nice bottle of wine, what’s the problem?” It’s been devastating to my finances and by virtually any definition, I am in the working rich. Most people absolutely could not afford $20k per year. I am hoping next year will be better, but devastating medical bills are inevitable for most of us, and our socialized medicine is administered through the bankruptcy courts.
For profit insurance is pure exploitation.
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Just do a charge back on your credit card. It costs them more than merely cancelling. Take a screenshot of your cancellation attempts to send to your credit card company when you dispute the charges. If everyone does this, eventually they will have to change their behavior.
If they fight the charge back, file a DTPA complaint (varies some from state to state). In Texas you get $11k for every DTPA violation.
- Comment on Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens. 2 weeks ago:
One tried to attack my son when he was about 6 while we were walking in a park, not particularly close to where it started. I reminded it of which species eats the other species by kicking it in its stupid bill. It backed off. I was prepared to kill it.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 weeks ago:
I’m the Dark Urge? Ya’ll better watch out.
- Comment on MeIRL 3 weeks ago:
Just wait until you get to the point where you might have enough to retire. The urge to bail gets really strong.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 3 weeks ago:
We had this problem in a communal bathroom in a dorm I lived in. People were practically coming to blows over it. Turns out that when the toilet flushed, it would spray piss up out of the bowl onto the seat. We all thought it was someone else, but it was really every one of us inadvertently.
- Comment on MicroSlop 4 weeks ago:
Driving installation of Linux. I finally switched to Linux on my main home PC because I disabled copilot in the registry and it came back after a winblows update.
- Comment on You can't unsee him 1 month ago:
I’d make one with Lindsey Graham and his ladybugs, but no one wants to see that.
- Comment on definitely not recording! 1 month ago:
I guess the way to get this regulated is to use the glasses to record cops breaking the law.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 1 month ago:
6 or 16 if they’re out of 6.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 months ago:
Looks like they found a stash of Buzzballs…
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 months ago:
You wouldn’t even have to make a huge reform to make a big difference. If we changed using “unrealized gains” as collateral to count as realizing those gains, the ultra wealthy would pay a fuck ton more in taxes. Also, the interest on those loans should not be deductible. Boo hoo if you end up with a margin call. Don’t make risky bets.
- Comment on Why Ireland? 3 months ago:
No way could fat pedo find Ireland on an unlabeled map. Even less likely that he could find Bulgaria. I would speculate he might not even get the correct continent for Bulgaria.
- Comment on Can't afford going on a cruise? No problem! 3 months ago:
Trump has already had the dry run for turning it into a global pandemic. Anyone think JFK Jr. Is the right person to be in charge of the response plan? Anyone?
- Comment on We're so back 3 months ago:
And remember, if you get sick with the hantavirus you can get over it quickly by taking 2x the LD50 of Tylenol. A couple of days and you won’t even feel sick. Be sure to tell all your conservative friends because the government likes to cover up this kind of information.
- Comment on -Artemis crew: I think I can hold it. 4 months ago:
They have to hold it because their toilet runs on Windows and broke.
- Comment on Just leave it on the porch bro 4 months ago:
Bag is probably full of shit that he is about to set on fire so you stomp it to put the fire out. Except that sort of plan requires more executive function than he possesses.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Pretty sure a Trump bomb is a diaper filling operation.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 5 months ago:
I think maybe substitute the word planet for towns.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
That’s not saying much. The average fart sounds more erudite than Pete.
- Comment on US foreign policy circa ???? 5 months ago:
Dying that air strike was very anti-Semitic of those children. /S
- Comment on They're calling it the Trump Laptop. Highest quality. So affordable. We're making technology great again, folks. 5 months ago:
I bet it would be depressing as fuck to watch that fat asshole try to Google how to fix something.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 months ago:
Next step: putting the cells into one of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs with a gun attached. What could go wrong?
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 5 months ago:
Better than cops too.
- Comment on I've never seen Joker get this heated before 6 months ago:
One of his brothers got probation for punching a fan at a Nuggets game and his other brother is an amateur MMA fighter. I don’t think you really want to get on the bad side of the Serbs.
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 6 months ago:
I put kubuntu on an old laptop. It runs well enough that I am going to dual boot it on my main PC.
Microsoft out here doing Linux marketing for them.
- Comment on Anon has a question 6 months ago:
“All American” in the sense that it is a fantastic barometer of America’s decline (apologies to the other countries in America)?
- Comment on sigh 6 months ago:
In my fifties, can confirm it doesn’t get better. Do you want some additional stress like aging parents? Insufficient retirement savings? Insufficient savings to put your offspring through college? Escalating medical bills/failing health? Slowing reaction times? Bifocals? Dozens of other things that I am too senile to remember?