Microblog Memes

So glad they censored fre*king. I almost had to read a minced oath.

My kid got in a fall and I had to leave work to go to Urgent Care. Three hours for a doctor to give my kid a pain med and a bandaid, and costing us $2k.

Ive been helping my unemployed ex-teammates find work and stay motivated.

My wife's side of the family messed up on their paperwork and because they're also dark skinned, I'm worried about ICE.

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for "looking how I look".

My cousins have called me twice in the past month concerned about bills, and I'm sending them food money.

Oh and the Europeans on Lemmy is yelling at me for being an American because I'm not doing enough to stop Trump.

WHO IS CENSORING THE WORD "BURN" ???

What the fuck, here there are no algorithms to please, there's no fucking need to censor "freaking" or "burn".

Have we really reached a point where censoring "Burn out" is necessary?

Why the fuck is burn censored?

fuck that censoring

Fuckity cunt, lickety clit screw this god damn censorship shit.

We’re censoring the word burn now? Fucking what?

Our lives wouldn't be so complicated if we had financial freedom via a UBI and didn't have that metaphorical gun put to our heads to make us keep working forever.

Most animals do very little every day, humans are one of the only animals to have no resource scarcity but still work ourselves into an early grave from stress.

why did they self censor "burn"?

While this is an issue everywhere, America dials it up to 11 by making you deal with all sorts of overcomplicated nonsense.

Healthcare in the US:

• Annual Prep: Open enrollment
  • Figure out what HMO, PPO and HDCP means, and what it means to you (which one is better depends on both your needs, your job, and also your spouse's job, so good luck coasting on knowledge from last year)
  • Figure out what to do with HSA and/or the various FSAs, requires mapping out what you're expecting to happen with your health, childcare and elderly care that year
• If your chest hurts and you're worried:
  • Go to the ER (not urgent care, they'll forward you to the ER even if you seem fine)
  • Get lots of unnecessary care (like three EKGs, a chest X-ray and some blood work) before they conclude you're just stressed from living in America
  • Receive five different bills several weeks later
  • Keep those in mind for another week or two until your health insurance sends their version of events
  • Receive the explanation of benefits, which does not match the bills
  • Call both the provider and your insurance a few times to figure out what's going on, because of course you have to mediate between them (they don't talk to each other)
  • After thinking about these bills every day for about three months, you can finally pay them and be done with it

Healthcare in Norway:

• Annual Prep: None
• If your chest hurts and you're worried:
  • Get a same-day emergency appointment at your doctor or call an ambulance, depending on how worried you are
  • They listen to you with a stethoscope and maybe do an EKG, conclude you're fine
  • You pay your copay on the way out, and never think about it again

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

Okay, I’ll bite: what SMS is this screenshot being posted to where “freaking” and “burn” are deemed necessary to “censor”? Y’know, so I can avoid even accidentally going on it.

Smashmouth tried to warn us. The years keep coming and they do not stop coming.

It never ends and it doesn't get better with age. Aging sucks and the endless drudgery of the useless activities like work just wears on you, and when that fat, bloated, bald creep looks back at you in the mirror and you wonder what the fuck is going on, you wonder what a .45 feels like at the back of your throat.

I wake up every morning with a knot in my stomach and I need to yell for about ten minutes about how sick and fucking tired I am of all this endless useless crap.

Why does Pepe have a face on the side of his head?

FWIW, I'm signing a lease today on a place just for me and my endlessly-loving ESA —after several months of consecutive homelessness. ("van life", my ass) Even though it costs >50% of my current monthly pay (from whatever gig work I can piece together), it's not living in my car and it's hopefully a step toward stability...

Unless, of course, the world continues being, well, ahem... sweeps arm at horizon 😅🤢🫡🤷🏼‍♂️

I feel like a lot of this is due entirely to the shift away from generational/communal living.

If you live with a bunch of other people, and those people actually contribute to the environment you all live in, the daily tasks get split up such that they are much easier to maintain, for everyone.

Say you’ve got a set of parents, 2 kids and their spouses, and whatever offspring under that. Sure you need a bit more space than your average single family starter home offers, but if only one house is needed, that frees up a lot of money elsewhere so I feel like that’s an OK trade.

But beyond the added space, you could have one person who cooks, one who cleans common areas, one who does dishes, one who does laundry, one who pays bills and manages appointments, and one who makes sure the kids are handled. Rotate those jobs as desired, or assign them to whomever likes doing them most of the time, and all the big major draining tasks are handled. EZ.

With individualized living, everything falls to one or two people, and yeah that’s an absolute ton. Especially if one of the two can’t or won’t pull their weight.