grumpycat71.bsky.social
IT guy. Likes sports. May aggressively share my opinions from time to time.
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Spot on and well described.
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So... spot on for Trump and the Trump-ettes?
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I have a number of family still very pro-MAGA. Most are lifelong, multi-generational Republicans that believe Democrats are as bad as Atheists. And they are ignorant b/c they believe all anti-Trump info is fake news. It's sad to see.
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Well, consider the bar set. Biden is viewed as intelligent, so a decline is measurable. Trump has always been an idiot, so how would you notice any decline?
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Giving birth is an act. Many can do it, even those that shouldn't. Being a mother/parent is a role. It's something a person chooses to do. Sometimes the act and the role intersect, and those children are blessed. But sometimes they do not. That doesn't diminish the parent taking the role.
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The downside though is while this hits them harder as owners of the companies, it's impacting 401Ks and IRAs of regular people. Sadly, many people are invested in their success.
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If you take his rants and just add "unless it's me" to them, they make total sense. And I assure you, that's exactly how he means them.
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Haven't you heard? All Star voters are DEI hires. That's the source of all problems.... or illegal aliens. Pick one, but that's the cause to all bad things.
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This! H1Bs are a good thing, at times. But the big tech companies (and other tech reliant companies) had major layoffs in the last 2 years putting a glut of tech talent on the bench. H1Bs should be slowed or stopped for now.
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Elvis Pugsley says hello!
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You got lost in the transition, didn't you? I'm not cheering him on. He should not have done what he did. But if my very simple, tame (by comparison) example was that, imagine a life threatening situation that gets that or worse treatment. Now you can see the motivation. It happens daily.
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UHC has the highest decline rate of any major insurer. This is well documented. For some families, this means they avoided or were significantly impacted (financially) by care. If you're one of the MILLIONS of Americans impacted by this, I can see why you feel a certain way about this.
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My district is extremely blue. But nonetheless, here we are. The election process ran its course and "we" elected Trump. So "we" all have to live with it. I don't like it... but here "we" are.
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If you're keeping tabs, that's $24K in "costs" (and yes, that's inflated by the health care system) but as much as 60% of that could be passed on to me, and I have "good" insurance through my employer. No issue with that? And this wasn't life threatening.
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The 3rd claim was deemed out of network and is $14K. The cost to me is still TBD, but we were there less than 2 hours. BTW, both tests came back clean and it was classified as a diet/alergic reaction.
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You are joking right? I can cite my own recent experience with UHC. My wife went to a clinic b/c of some swelling around her neck. The took 1 xray and did blood work. I have 3 claims to UHC. Two were deemed in network with only $800 out of pocket to me (out of $10K of claim).
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Ooh, great point. What do you think happens, assuming this makes it to trial? A hung jury or guilty? I don't see innocent as an outcome. But a hung jury could happen.
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True that. No denying. But, that CEO has set policies and processes in motion that have led to the death of more people than Bin Laden. So you can see why some people feel a certain way about that, right? It doesn't justify the crime, at all, but you can see the motivation.
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I agree with what you said 100%. However, I can understand the opposing optics. Osama Bin Laden killed ~3K American's with what his organization did on 9/11. We didn't hesitate to kill him. This CEO has arguably "killed" as many or more during his tenure with his decisions and practices.
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Sure we can. We elect them as President of the US!
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One nice feature - one character can be all things. That's very different from WoW and GW2 where you have to play alts to try other things. I can be all professions (crafting/gathering) and jobs (ie. classes).
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Yeah, it can get a bit tedious at times reading it all. They do have some VERY long cinematics. It usually warns you - "make sure you set aside adequate time" - or something like that. The longest was a chain that took 20-25 mins.
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My path of MMOs was Wow (15+ years), FFXIV (last 3 years), GW2 (last month). FFXIV has an amazing story but you are pushed to do the MSQ. GW2 is more open. You can kind of do whatever, but I'm still early on that one.