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by corrral 4y ago
I truly don't think everyone involved could be making so many mistakes in their own favor if it weren't the result of policies tuned to ensure that happens.
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by corrral 4y ago
No joke. If we'd been compensated at any kind of reasonable rate (not even our day-job rates) for time spent dealing with billing and insurance crap, it would've covered a good chunk of our (substantial) bills.
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by corrral 4y ago
We would have to colossally and uniquely fuck up any version of "socialized" medicine for it not to be a substantial net savings .
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by corrral 4y ago
If you're not incredibly rich, you're just temporarily holding all your savings & retirement accounts for the hospitals and nursing homes that'll eventually take all of it. And then some.
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by corrral 4y ago
2/3 childbirths we missed one (tiny, in both cases) medical bill and it ended up in collections. We were getting like 3-5 letters per provider per visit, and many visits resulted in bills from multiple providers. "NOT A BILL"
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by corrral 4y ago
I don't get the part that's not making sense. Do you think the salary's too low? Sure as shit beats roofing. Won't wreck your knees and back like the trades or concrete work or framing. Industry as a whole's less of
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by corrral 4y ago
The screens that make it take 4x as long to order as just telling a human what you want? People like those?
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by corrral 4y ago
Housing prices in my boring-ass nothing of a city were up like 30% over a two year span, before the war started. Asset inflation had been going nuts for years before it happened. Before Covid, even. Practically since the we started to dig
519.
by corrral 4y ago
True in very large stretches of the US, as well. Though we also have a bunch of huge regions with beautiful, varied, striking natural environments, of course.
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by corrral 4y ago
I wouldn't have classed Return of the Obra Din as a walking simulator, but more of a puzzler like Myst. Was great, though. I'd recommend both The Talos Principle and The Witness, along those lines. My favorite pure "walking s
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by corrral 4y ago
Depending on the walking simulator, they've got more in common with some kind of immersive art installation than a "game". I get why people want to draw the distinction. > Uncharted Funnily enough, my favorite parts of Unc
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by corrral 4y ago
You can start a game instantly. No travel. No travel expense, either. No packing. No un-packing. No arranging for someone to watch your pets if it's going to be long enough for that to matter. No dealing with taking the kids with you,
523.
by corrral 4y ago
I'm looking at moving to a significantly nicer [edit: than where I am now, that is], coastal region with excellent schools and within occasional-but-not-daily commute distance of two top-tier US cities, including by rail (some of y
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by corrral 4y ago
There's a reason Fussell puts college professors as a kind of appendix on the side of his "Upper-Middle", and not down in classes that tend to be closer to their income level (Middle, or even Prole). Still, I'm not sure
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by corrral 4y ago
If you grew up somewhere cheap, you probably encountered the attitude that people moving to big cities and expensive states were insane because of the housing prices (and/or taxes and general living expenses). Actual concern over the w
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by corrral 4y ago
> Trump’s #1 foreign policy accomplishment was pulling the USA out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, undermining US economic and social power in the region to China’s great benefit. Yeah, I know. Again, I'm not saying he was good .
527.
by corrral 4y ago
That might be a good idea! Let's start at a hundreds-of-millions cutoff and see how it goes.
528.
by corrral 4y ago
Cool. They can retire and one of the thousands of other people who can (and want to) do their job can step in. If that starts causing problems, companies need to work on training programs for their leadership. It'd be an amazing side-e
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by corrral 4y ago
Syria was the worst part, because the fallout from that was really bad. Not sure we'd have had Brexit without the extra pressure that put on Europe. Likely empowered Erdogan somewhat (doubt it made a big difference there, admittedly) a
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by corrral 4y ago
> It doesn't though. Taxing the rich, limiting the existence of billionaires is not going to do anything for equalizing opportunities. > If you think so, then please tell me the name of one efficiently-run government organization
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by corrral 4y ago
Yeah, goodbye wool shirts, as it all gets sucked into suit production again.
532.
by corrral 4y ago
> Why are some people rooting for more and more needless death and destruction? Maybe ask on a Russian forum?
533.
by corrral 4y ago
I think the initial reluctance was because they didn't want Russia to capture a whole bunch of intact, powerful, advanced weapon systems if Ukraine capitulated fast, plus not being sure how Russia would react to extensive Western invol
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by corrral 4y ago
I've actually been pleasantly surprised at how well Biden's administration has walked the tightrope on Ukraine. And though I'm very liberal by US standards, I'm not terribly partisan when it comes to foreign policy—I t
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by corrral 4y ago
A spike in food prices. We can probably weather it OK in the developed world, but last time something like this happened it helped kick off the Arab Spring. Abrupt, large changes in quality of life tend to spark revolutions. They usually ge
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by corrral 4y ago
Really hard to do. Better get used to gardening—a lot. Produce? Often wrapped in plastic. Anything canned? Those cans are lined in plastic, so goodbye canned tomatoes. Frozen veggies? Plastic bags. Anything that comes in an apparently paper
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by corrral 4y ago
> You want mold-resistant carpets and kitchen towels Ugh, synthetic towels. They don't absorb anything, just push it around. They burn and/or melt if you try to use them as a substitute oven mitt. They're beyond awful. Get
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by corrral 4y ago
Offtopic, but is mises.org considered a "smart" site, by libertarians? Like, I can tell that they think they're smart, or at least present themselves as if they think that, but is that considered true by lots of libertarian
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by corrral 4y ago
Been using macOS/OSX for work since 2010 or 2011. It seems basically the same to me, aside from a couple performance-enhancing releases that really did improve things noticeably. And better/smoother interoperation with iOS and iCl
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by corrral 4y ago
> that's a fair point and that's not what i meant. Apologies for the misunderstanding, then. Agree that keeping one's partner "in the loop", especially early on [edit: early on in seeking help for something, that

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