jpreston2005
@jpreston2005@lemmy.world
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 8 minutes ago:
Mine was the same way. trying to be there by 9AM meant that my hour commute, I should leave by 8. nope! and then 7:45? nope! how about 7:30? nope! even MORE traffic! I had to leave at 7, and if I was lucky, I’d sail right past the spot that usually had a massive traffic jam, and then I’d get into the office almost 45 minutes early 🙃 . But leaving at 7:15 would either get me there just on time, or 30 minutes late. It was nightmarish. Thank god I’m remote. (well actually thank me and my trauma therapist for filing out the proper AMA paperwork making me remote)
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 12 minutes ago:
Booo, Everyone else should just accept that I’m going to be at least a half an hour late
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
That’s not what he said though
he said
I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights.
Everyone with guns is worth school shootings, basically. Sandy Hook isn’t an issue for him, because it’s worth it.
That’s what he said.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
YES Daniel Radcliffe was so fucking bad in the harry potter movies, absolutely fucking ruined them. I loved that book series as a kid and he fucking RUINED the movies for me.
That being said, he’s gotten better at acting since then I think. … a little.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
People who use doordash and food delivery apps extensively, without a disability, are some lazy ass people, who deserve the shitty experience and high price it costs. Just go fucking get it yourself if you want it hot and fresh and not thrown on the ground.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
Ah well we used to be #1, I forgot we’ve dipped since the antichrist took over
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
The costs of medical school make this an impossible ask. The only people that can go to medical school are the people that have rich parents, or are OK with leveraging their future for the chance at becoming a successful doctor. Things go wrong in peoples lives all the time, school gets interrupted all the time. Asking people who just want to help others to pay $300k for the privilege of attempting to get to that point is literally insane. We also have a huge shortage of doctors. Go figure.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
It is ignorant and bigoted to say that Americans don’t care about one another. Literally the most charitable nation.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
PCP visit is supposed to be scheduled in advance, because it’s not an emergency. If you ask for a sooner appointment, they can call you when a cancellation occurs and see you sooner.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
I finally have a PCP, but I also need a couple teeth pulled due to enamel loss, that I’ve been putting off, because dealing with the pain is cheaper. I’m covered in freckles, and my family has a history of skin cancer, but I don’t go to the dermatologist, because last time I did they spent 45 seconds looking at my entire freckle covered body before confidently saying “nope! no skin cancer there!” I asked for pictures so they could compare to future visits, they said they don’t do that there. I haven’t been back. Probably won’t until I can identify the cancer myself and gee, I sure hope it’s on a part of my body I can regularly see in the mirror. My arm has felt like it was badly dislocated in my teens, and has hurt ever since, but that would require an extra doctor visit, and more tests, so no.
a bat got into my house while I slept, and I woke up to him on me. Me with the best insurance policy my good employer offers went to the hospital (the only place that actually carries the rabies vaccine), they wanted me to pay $1800 for it, after swearing up and down it’d be free after I paid my $150 dollar copay.
I’m not in the 8% either.
70,000 Americans die every year due to lack of access to health care.
530,000 Americans file for bankruptcy every year due to medical bills.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
70,000 Americans die every year due to lack of access to health care.
How quickly do you think an issue would be addressed if it killed 70 billionaires a year?
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 week ago:
oh outside the U.S. I’ve never had this problem, I’ve only had problems with U.S. hotels
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 week ago:
I’ve literally never had an Air BnB owner ask me to do anything I don’t already do. I put shit away, I leave the place like I found it. I clean up after myself, and if the trash can fills while I’m there, I empty it. Always glowing reviews, 5 stars, would have me back again.
Meanwhile I booked a hotel for a short trip back to my home state, and when I arrived, guess what? the 3rd party site I used has no affiliation with the hotel whatsoever, and the place was overbooked by like, double the amount of rooms they had. Went to a different site, found a different hotel, exact same thing happened. Also every hotel that’s a reasonable price, i.e. one that is priced about the same as an Air BnB, is completely shit. Like the door to my room has obviously been kicked in before. They don’t give me fucking towels unless I go and ask for them. Room is disgusting, bed is disgusting, broken TV, shitty everything.
Yeah I’m just not using hotels anymore.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
From Ohio, Can confirm, it sucks Ass
- Comment on Why can't I change the terms and conditions in a pre-signed contract with a corpo? 2 weeks ago:
The first time I rented an apartment, they sent me a lease to sign, and I made a bunch of addendums and changes, and sent it back.
They said “nah” and sent me the same lease to sign.
20 something me was was like “what the hell”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
mad? I just think vegans are fanatical and full of themselves? Kinda like sidewalk preachers… like, they could be preaching just love and the new testament teachings of jesus but… they’re still assholes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
oh dang, if my observations were so easy to disprove, you’d think you would do it 🤔
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Was talking to this woman on tinder. She told me she was vegan, and I instantly stopped caring about meeting her.
Like, it’s just performative bullshit. And it’s hypocritical. The only reason you can even BE vegan, is because society has advanced to the stage that there is enough varied vegan foodstuffs available that you can passable survive off it. But that doesn’t mean it’s all simple, like grains and veggies. No, half the time they’re eating this super specialized, water-intensive crops and laboratory grown shit with energy-intensive production cycles that actively harm the environment. It’s not some ultra-enlightened approach to living, it’s just a thin veneer of ethical consumption based entirely upon other heavily industrialized processes.
It’s bullshit. and you’re better off just eating mostly vegetarian, with meat being a special occasion thing, like it’s been for the majority of our species time on this earth.
- Comment on Netflix is garbage 2 weeks ago:
Been a Netflix subscriber since the early days. Talking getting DVDs in the mail, 3 at a time, watching all sorts of crazy shit, back when they let you have a profile where you could personally 5-star rate and even leave a review for movies you’d watched. Me and a friend got competitive about it, would watch movies all the time, rate and review them, we easily had lists into the 800-1000 range.
Then they deleted all of it with no warning.
But I kept with it, because although I pirate a lot, I still like the convenience of not having to download all the stuff on there, and there’s still some decent releases. And I share my account with my ex-wife, so she doesn’t have to pay for it. And then when I’m on vacation, usually there’s a smart TV or whatever and I can log on to keep watching whatever series I happen to be on at the moment (right now it’s Stargate SG1).
But the other day I got a warning about how I’m using a different device, and I had to double authenticate and reenter passwords to “allow” me to watch from my personal computer… and it made my blood boil. Shut the FUCK UP netflix, you dumb mother fucker. I’ll watch the service I fucking PAY FOR, on my OWN FUCKING DEVICE, WHENEVER I FUCKING WANT TO.
One more blood boiling moment and I’ll just cancel their bullshit all together. I have a gig internet connection, I can just download shit crazy fast, I don’t fucking need you anymore netflix. you forget that the slight convenience of not downloading things is the ONLY reason you exist. Stop being convenient, stop being used.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 3 weeks ago:
Shit I didn’t ever hear about this.
The Miranda warning isn’t required every time a police officer initiates an interaction with you.
For the Miranda rule to apply, a person must be in custody, meaning that they are “deprived of freedom of action in any significant way.” Routine traffic stops are usually not considered custodial.
For the Miranda warning to apply, a person must meet two conditions: 1) being in custody and 2) under interrogation. For example, if you are “un-Mirandized” and cuffed at the police station, blurting out a confession while you aren’t being questioned is admissible evidence in court because while you were in custody, you were not being actively interrogated.
Police are not required to read your Miranda rights before or during arrest. While some officers may choose to do so, they are only legally obligated to “Mirandize” suspects who are being questioned in custody.
- Comment on Interesting 4 weeks ago:
artificial scarcity exists by design
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 4 weeks ago:
yeah seeing him dancing in those stupid fucking AGI commercials now makes me hate him. I tried to watch a cute movie called the Sheep Detectives, and as soon as I saw his dumb ass face I had to turn it off.
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 4 weeks ago:
But how quickly will hackers be able to gain total control of them? Cops will probably have the administrator password as “password123” or some shit. Or maybe instead of engaging in combat directly, they’ll just be running humanoid cameras, lunging after you no matter how quickly you run, or whatever fence you jump over. Long gone will be the days when you could simply outrun the overweight, poorly trained cops. Now these things will be just inches behind you, the whole way blaring sirens and recording your every move. 😐
Image - Comment on Inside My Family's Slum House | The Raw of Low-Income Family's Reality in Vietnam ,(Low-income life) 4 weeks ago:
Nice little reminder that I’ve got it pretty good. Real honest video.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 5 weeks ago:
it’s because our society is designed around the appeasement of the rich, instead of the common people. More people are living in poverty, in toxic conditions, or are outright homeless. This has been going on for generations now, of people living with nothing. When you have a gun, and can force people to give you what you want, the threat of prison isn’t a great deterrent when it’s literally better than your current living situation. Desperate hungry people do desperate things.
- Comment on What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been around dogs my whole life. Big dogs. Mastiffs, Labradoodles, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, German Shepherds, Dobermans… Along with some experience with little dogs. The only dog ever to bite me, or attack my dogs, were pitbulls. Two attacks, my whole life, all pitbulls.
I dunno, man. It’s just my personal experience, but shit. I know what kind of dog I don’t trust.
- Comment on The Ol' Switcheroo 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup 1 month ago:
I live in NC and hate the hurricanes. Perhaps it’s just because I’m a disgruntled Blue Jackets fan, but hurricanes are one annoying ass fanbase, with a shitty owner, in a racist ass state that was the birthplace of the kkk and hasn’t changed much since then.
I knew I hate the hurricanes for good reason.
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 1 month ago:
so really, the only time he actually faced consequences for flipping out, was when he did it to a large corporation?
Yeah that tracks
- Comment on They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. 1 month ago:
routine veterinary care isn’t covered by pet health insurance?? What the fuck is it for then?
You know how insurance companies always have these massive buildings in every downtown? And you’re like, “wow, how can they afford to have such a large office right in the middle of the most expensive district to have it in?”
It’s because their entire operation is to take your money, and then never pay anything back. And because we are all so used to being scammed by them, we can’t seem to summon the inertia to do anything about it.
