Works for himself. But we live in Iowa so it isn't quite as bad of a salary as it sounds. Still not great though

Holy wow, where are you located if you don't mind me asking? My dad lays carpet and makes like 35k a year.

What they fail to realize is that optimizing and spreadsheets are fun for some people

I'm deeply invested in bitterness for leaving 1 comment pointing out that it might not even be a choice for someone if they couldn't afford it? Lol. Get a grip. I can simultaneously be thankful that modern medicine exists and also advocate for it being available to everyone, not just those that can afford it.

So what should they do without 10 days of income they likely need for food, shelter, etc? Not eat? Get evicted? Sounds like a great way to not avoid death

The last few winters my dad had to drive up to Minnesota when he wanted to snowmobile - we would have like 1 inch of snow while they had feet of it

I live in Iowa but work remotely for a company in Minnesota - we got like 2 feet more snow than Minnesota did with the blizzard a few weeks back. The climate has been so crazy these last few months

It isn't free, but I use a seedbox for running my Plex server. That way none of the media downloading is done on our local internet, all the ISP should see is that we are streaming data from a Plex server. They'd have no knowledge on if we own that data or not. I'm sure Jellyfin can also easily be run from a seedbox

Having a seedbox is also helpful because our internet has a pretty low upload speed, which would make watching anything outside the house a massive pain.

This is super informative without being condescending, wonderful job

I hope you have a great day!

Interesting! Thank you for the insight, I've always loved the topic of direct translation vs contextual translation ever since I dove into it in a Contemporary Japanese Literature course in college

Would "just throw the whole thing away" (as in throw it into the trash) be a more fitting translation for the sentiment than "let it rot" then?

"But if we outlaw guns, only the bad people will have guns because they don't care about the law anyway!!"

Or even Ho Mobile, as in a phone company

As much as I shit on Iowa/the Midwest USA, they are a wonderful place for this

Source: I am stuck in Iowa

Same. This is exactly what happens to me. Along with letting someone know at the beginning of a friendship that "hey sometimes people perceive me as an asshole or overly sensitive" and getting "oh I don't think you seem like that at all" only for them to tell me I'm an asshole or sensitive months later... and I don't feel like I've changed how I act at all in that time

I wonder if it restores removed body parts in their prior condition or in their optimal condition. Because some organs are removed for a good reason.

And I'd be mad as fuck if I had to go through a hysterectomy again.

I don't think it's selfish to not want kids. With how fucked the world is, maybe we should be thinking about if it's instead selfish to have kids.

I determined from about age 12 that I didn't want kids. 10 years later and I still don't want them, so I removed the possibility of accidentally having them. The government can't make me have kids - seeing as I yeeted my uterus.

It's All Cops Are Bastards, not Bad

I've seen it happen with my mother's Alexa, but not with my Google Home. And when hers does start listening it stops pretty quick when it realizes that it misheard the wake word.

Even worse than your doors getting stuck closed: your vision disappears.