HubertManne

@HubertManne@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Im going to go out on a limb and assume you are from the us. us healthcare is nuts. Here is the funny thing. My wife has thyroid issues. Her bloodtests shows it within normal but on the low end. Doctor refuses to raise her cheap thyroid medicine and instead insists on a gpl. Even though she has other symptoms for low thyroid. insurance we had did pay for it. it makes no fucking sense. at times we can’t get stuff we need and at others we are given options we don’t want. A similar thing is there is this pretty cheap procedure called prp where they draw blood and centrifuge it down and dake the serum and inject it in a joint and it seems to relieve pain and does so for awhile. Like she could just get it once a year. They would not cover that but they did at one time. It kinda was based around what medicare was doing. They will pay for surgery that from our experinece may or may not make it better and may make it worse (we have more experience with surgery than anyone would want to have). That surgery is so expensive that if you were to stick the cost into a savings account it would easily make interest enough to do the prp. So even economics wise the insurance company should do the prp. Why don’t they. Because its like a game of chicken. people may get surgery but it does not always go well so many people will not get it. Also prp is done in the doctors office and does not require anything. They will pay for things from drug companies injected into the joint. We have just the worst system. Also you know why your insurance covers some things but not others? Some high muckity muck at your company want something. We had one that did unlimited chiro. Im like 100% the president or one of his family must get chiro adjustments every week or something. Either that or someone between the president and the hr level that decides on what insurance to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate cars. My wife loves them. Now I sometimes talk about my wifes medical issues and im generally talking about about her physical ones. Now I know you say most people but like it would not be impossible for her to ride public transit. Heck people in wheelchairs do it. But its a pain and additionally when she was healthier she could just not mentally handle it. If im with her she can but still does not like it. To use bike lanes they have to be completely protected and separated from the street (again she would also have to be back when she was in better health). She would walk but again with me. She needed that support. She did not need that support when driving. The car for her is safety and feedom. Its funny as its kinda opposite to me. A car means possibly being broken down at the side of the road with no way to get home whereas a transit pass makes me feel safe. When I drive I am engaging in an activity that is very disproportionally large in possibly injuring or killing someone compared to absolutely everything else I do. Now if society was filled with people like me the suburbs would disapear and we could hav a lot less cars, but for folks like my wife. So let me put it this way. I actually just got up and talked with her to really place her here. I honestly though she would choose having a car over indoor plumbing. But she draws the line at indoor plumbing. So she would exchange the internet, electricity, phones, tv, raido. She would rather live in a world with indoor plumbing and gas light/heat with a car. Than live with all our conveniences without a car. I will tell you to. She is waaaayyy moderated on this stuff having lived with me. So like I think if she was in great health and there was fantastic bike infrastructure and we could live in a safe dense urban area. I think she would go for it. But it would have to be so perfect relative to me as to be impossible for it to come to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure a good lot of you, like me, had been anticipating/dreading that moment when we say, oh fuck this is it, for real. Like the BIG oh fuck. My question is, how ready are you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  its all downward and been way to real already for my tastes. computer. end program. computer. arch. computer. exit. computer. COMPUTER!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 1st⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally in the underdark in bg3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Hard Is Making a Clone, Really?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that one. Dying is a fact of life. So many people and animals have died. Nature can be crazy aweful and in looking over the long term can’t say I had it very horribly. Thats depressing in its own way though when you think about how much nicer the world could be. Like it really would not take much for humanity to have nice lives all around. Secure in food and shelter. education and healthcare. decent amount of self directed time. nice variety in food an scenary throughout the year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farming for self sustainance⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The big issue is things like healthcare. As long as your lucky and stay healthy its workable. Can even raise kids and homeschool. Theoretically insurance should fix the healthcare thing but. I assume your in the us mentioning amish. I know at one point medical education was one of the few things amish communities encouraged their members to go out and get. Just having a large community of many families is a big help with many medical issues. Help if your laid up especially at an important time. Keep in mind that is dependent on otherwise having a peaceful or isolated area. I mean farms and outlying areas are plum draft areas in russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah although its kinda funny because despite that dying under reagan it sounds like they were pushing it with the colbert thing. another for me and not for thee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we need to go back to the regulations in the 70’s where no company could own more than one type for an area. one newspaper, one radio station and one tv station.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is creatine safe?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A meat eating american ingests more than enough creatine and your body can make it. Its not particularly dangerous but like many things having to much effects depending on substance either the liver or kidneys depending on the substance (apparently this one is kidneys). This is why its bad to get to much of most anything as you body has to deal with eliminating it. Some water soluble things are almost impossible to get to much of as it does not need to be filtered out but even water you can have too much of but that is more due to electrolyte balance. Anyway if your supplementing then you better excersise enough to actually use it and that should be real strength training. Don’t be taking because you intend to excersize. Be dependable in your excersise routine and then you can start supplements and junk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chart Of Countries That Work The Most Hours Annually - borninspace⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not when I wfh but I make it a point to push harder from home and take my time in the office because if they are doing metrics I want wfh to clearly win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You missed the boat. 2025 was when the we should not support the democrats because they don’t do neough voting happened. Yipee!! Its been awesome. Can’t wait for more. Look. I will abandon the democrats when the republicans are no longer a thing. Want my votes or others like me. All we have to do is have republicans losing in droves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and kneepads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  gah. this is one of the things my wife showed me and I had to say look im not going to do a deep dive into debunking because it makes no logical sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vance got together with other members of the adminstration and decided they are all assholes so have to pause some medicaid funding. Oh and reduce snap some more. They will find more asshole things later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apologies if I'm making an incorrect judgement, but does anybody else get dystopian propaganda vibes from the Working with Cancer Pledge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought our society would get better with people being able to get by without work if needed. At my age and with my wifes health issues I wish I could do ad hoc work like gig stuff and substitute teaching and know it would work for us being able to live that way. I had no problem working most of my life and even working long hours but situations change and we need some support now. But no a large part of our society wants to go from the twentieth century to the nineteenth century rather tha profressing to the twenty first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  well us adults would likely never really see the benefit but as I said in a generation or two it would be huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the dude I knew was all like well evp’s and im like yeah and play records backwards to hear satan. They are like well all these researches with hauntings and im like yeah and all the verified miracles the churches detectives do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean for myself there are things I do that can’t say have rigorous scientific proof but usually have some basis and personal experience that it works for me. I mean if I found prayer effectively solved problems for myself I likely would not be athiest even if no studies showed that. I take fish oil because an eye doctor recommended it for dry eye and my personal experience is it helps but I have no study to back it up. I take a vitamin supplemented cod in particular because my doctor said I needed to get more d and that was the only way I was willing to get it. I take a diosimin supplement because when I had a bad hemmoriod it was prescribed to bring it down and I found out it was also prescribed as a profolatic at lower doses so I basically self medicated. Seems to help. When I talk about the effects of these on myself I should mention im bad at consistantly taking them and when I don’t I notice stuff. I like long baths and it seems to have a variety of beneficial effects especially with sleep and stuff so its good when done to be done at night. I think I have seen studies but not things I would consider rigorous. I mean. I really don’t think I have anything that does not have some basis and im pretty aware of how weak or strong the basis is of most things I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see why the concept of god collapses under scrutiny. Sure any specific does but so does like specifically romulans existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its wierd to me when someone does not believe in god because of no evidence but will believe in ghosts, spirits, elves, fairies, aliens, magic, etc with no evidence. To me atheism is not believing in the supernatural at all be it god or the philosphers stone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The irony⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was funny. Feel like its more trying to put together a vibe in a way it would fit in a meme. Like the forget everything you learned in college is a saying (feel its from long ago though) that you would only here with jobs that required a college degree. Usually the idea is it was the old jaded guy to the fresh out of school guy on the first day while showing the ropes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew an athiest who believed in ghosts. no idea how he squared that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  we still have grocery tax in my state. I think at the least they should not allow tax on fresh foods and I would include bags of beans and grains as fresh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  to be done right it has to be done early. This means parents or schools have to choose the languages learned. It needs to be immersive to. Schools will have to have teachers for every language. That can be expensive. Its a bit easier with non english speaking countries as they generally teach english and like catholic schools at one time taught latin. Now personally I would love the whole world to standardize on one sign language and teach that so that in a generation or two everyone would be able to communicate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  its the ultimate trump card! why wouldn’t you use it? If you don’t do stupid they will stupid you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Hard Is Making a Clone, Really?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  id love to live healthily forever but at the same time im pretty done with this life. Its wierd. I don’t wanna be kept going in ways that harms folks though even if its my own clone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bad behavior of the richest: what I learned from wealth managers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even get the folks wanting people who don’t want to work working. Have you ever worked with folks that don’t want to work. I would rather they be sitting on the couch getting high. basic income all the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So. In this scenario the guy saved some underage girl from being run over but went on the sex offender. I would take that trade. I 100% know my wife on hearing what happened would be mad this was done to me but would support me for saving a life. I do think this is an urban legend but sometimes I think you have to do a thought experiment. Some kid dying due to my inaction is not something I want to go to my grave with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From my experience once you start doing it she will insist obvious garbage should not be thrown away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work on those in the 90’s.