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- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 22 hours ago:
It’s not too cold there
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
The extra ridiculous thing is how they deny services that a doctor says are medically necessary… and not even in a reasonable way, in an abusive way. Like the system that automatically denies 60,000 things an hour or whatever, and count on people wasting tons of time to challenge it. Or when they have an ophthalmologist review your kidney disease and say that some treatment isn’t warranted. And that’s even after you’ve paid your stupid deductible costs for the year.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
A unit is a unit, so the dosages are the same. What varies is onset curve and length of action, so timing.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
The deductible system is ridiculous.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
The subs would be R and NPH, not the old mixed formulas like 70/30.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
The old formulas you can buy OTC for $25 are more inconvenient to use, but will indeed keep you from dying. The main difference between the R insulin and Novolog/Humalog are how quickly they act. Novolog starts lowering your glucose in about 60 minutes while the R takes 2 hours. Dietary management is not related to which insulin you’re using. So yes, the claim that OOP’s only alternative to paying $800 was to die is not true.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 2 weeks ago:
Source on the existence of unsubstantiated rumors? How would that help?
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 3 weeks ago:
There are rumors about him sexually abusing young boys as well
- Comment on Always sounds like fun but after 10 minutes you are ready to leave 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been learning that I’m way more extroverted than a lot of people. I’m Ready to drink, smoke and hang out until the bitter end.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 4 months ago:
It was fairly common in the US decades ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
They used to be better. I had a lot of success when they were relatively new. However the culture around them has gotten worse and more toxic, and the companies have grown more abusive of customers. Just what I gather… I haven’t tried since 2019.
Tinder was okay for meeting people interested in actual relationships when it was newer. It seemed to turn into more of purely a shallow hookup site. I tried Bumble, and that worked, though it apparently is not as good as it used to be. Never tried Hinge or any of the others.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 8 months ago:
I’m referring to things I explicitly signed up for.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 8 months ago:
If you try unsubbing and it doesn’t work, then that fits. I just suspect a lot of people don’t even try. I’m just tired of having things I signed up for ant want show up in spam.
Most recently I ordered some merch from Atari and all of their mails went to spam, including responses from customer service, which is annoying because I thought they just never wrote back.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 8 months ago:
Not lately. My gmails Spam sections mostly have legitimate marketing and news emails that idiots have apparently reported as spam instead of just unsubscribing from.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It seemed pretty out of left field. Like, okay… I’m not clicking on any of that. No explanation of why someone would message me this and as I expected, it seems to have been some sort of widespread spam.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 10 months ago:
That’s what I do not understand. She does use home telephones the same way, on speaker, but with those she comprehends it’s not always in speaker mode and if not, to hold it up to her ear.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 10 months ago:
My mom has long been clueless and resistant about anything tech related. Years back I switched her laptop to Linux because I was so sick of all the stupid crap with malware on windows. We used to have to Fix her computer one or more times a month. With Linux, that went to zero, and the only issue was setting up the software to download images from her camera (this was about 2010). These days she has a Chromebook and is constantly convinced it’s “screwed up”.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 10 months ago:
My mother can’t comprehend how to use a cell phone without it being on speaker. She also doesn’t know how to switch it to speaker. If I hand her the phone in normal mode she holds it out in front of her and can’t figure out why she can’t hear anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
what if innocent Saudis Arabians had no choice but to turn transgay on Lemmy??
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
he doesn’t want citizens of the Kingdom to see how few upvotes his memes were getting
- Comment on Germany Charges American For Stabbing Migrant Who Sexually Assaulted Her 11 months ago:
It’s kind of amusing how all the sources for this community are complete crap. Zerohedge, breitbart, dailywire are all as biased as can be.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 1 year ago:
Just look at the argumentative, insulting and provocative discussion style. OP is absolutely a troll of some sort, alright it’s difficult to distinguish that from a typical deluded and fanatical conservative.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 1 year ago:
OP should have as many kids as possible. What are they waiting for?
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 1 year ago:
Too bad republicans don’t even remotely give a fuck about making sure those babies have decent lives and support after they’re born.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 year ago:
They get manipulated about and distracted by certain issues. The people who want power know this and exploit topics such as guns, abortion, fear of crime, racism/nationalism, sexism, economic issues and taxes. Plenty of people vote republican because they have been convinced that Democrats will take their guns, allow in too many immigrants (with the implicit idea that immigrants are bad somehow), be worse on the economy, lower taxes, let criminals get off easy, reduce the influence of Christianity, and so forth.
There’s also the decades of propaganda about socialism and communism, and against social safety nets as well as government and anything run by the government vs a private entity. So basically, because they’re not very aware or well informed and all themselves to be convinced by propaganda.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 1 year ago:
I’m actually in a situation somewhat like this. A girl our online group knows became somewhat fixated on me. She wants to talk all the time, fantasizes about us living together, but I know she has a long term bf. She isn’t happy with him, but still, they love together and we know him, so it’s fairly inappropriate.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 year ago:
Right, if all you eat is meat, wheat, corn syrup and potatoes, no problem!
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 year ago:
It’s those darn liberal environmental and labor regulations
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 year ago:
Peter Theil coffee farm ships
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 year ago:
Why try that? It’s terribly regressive economic and taxation policy. It’s essentially a huge sales tax.