I knew it!

Is that you Elon?

I work on a team with mainly infrastructure and operations. As one of the only people writing code on the team. I have to appreciate what IT support does to keep everything moving. I don’t know why so many programmers have to get a chip on their shoulder.

After a super busy friends wedding weekend. I’m just going to sit down and play some mass effect. Just to not do anything at all.

Minnesota and governor Tim Walz for the win.

This was mine too. The bathtub scene with the lady gave me nightmares for weeks.

Honestly, batteries of any kind. Only buy from the manufacturers of the product the batteries work with. If it’s underpriced on Amazon, it’s probably a fucked up battery that has a higher risk of starting an electrical fire. Portable tool batteries, ebike batteries, handheld system batteries.

I’m not fucking around with unsafe batteries.

I live a comfortable decently comfortable life. I know a lot of people are struggling. We just got a house a year ago. And as a younger generation, that’s hard to do these days. I would say simply having a house feels like a luxury.

Oh totally agree with you. Our system is sooooo dumb. Plus, this is all just the payments for the actual healthcare and how it interacts with my insurance. This does not include the insurance premiums I pay every paycheck.

I spend all of this on top of my insurance premiums.

Typically you have a choice between public Medicare/Medicaid, high deductible health care plan through work. Or co pay plan through work. And as for per month. It really depends on the job. Everything depends on where you work. If you work at a company with good healthcare you will probably pay more. But have a lower max out of pocket.

If you want I could look up what I pay on a monthly basis for my healthcare and get back to you.

I have insurance. Just to give you perspective. I had a video call for some mental health diagnosis. I now have a bill of $568 dollars. Reminder, this is WITH insurance. I have to pay that out of pocket. And I even have to set up additional appointments. Which will be probably around the same price.

I also have an inhaler. I had a doctor’s appointment to get a refill on my medication because I don’t have to use the inhaler too much (meaning I don’t have to refill often). I try to stay healthy and workout and only have to use it when working out/exercising. $300 dollars for the appointment. Another $212 for the actual medication that I picked up. In the last 30 days I have blown over a grand on medical. And I’m not even sick/unhealthy.

My wife on the other hand has very expensive monthly medication for a rare disease. She hits her max out of pocket every year which is 5k. Which we just have to pay forever. If I was on her healthcare plan, we would end up paying 10k every year just for healthcare.

I would say on a regular year. We pay around 7k in healthcare costs with our insurance (depending on how healthy I am throughout the year). On a light year 5.5k.

Hey, don’t let your job define you. I feel like I have imposter syndrome every day at my job. But at the end of the day, a job is a job. Do you have any hobbies? Music?

Also, the job market is hard. Try not to let it get you down (as much as you can. I know it’s demoralizing.)

At the Olympics,

In the performance broadcast during the ceremony, a woman wearing a silver, halo-like headdress stood at the center of a long table, with drag queens posing on either side of her. Later, at the same table, a giant cloche lifted, revealing a man, nearly naked and painted blue, on a dinner plate surrounded by fruit. He broke into a song as, behind him, the drag queens danced.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/sports/olympics-opening-ceremony-last-supper-paris.html Frankly, I think the whole thing is dumb. You know how sensitive christians are to everything. It was a dumb idea. But I also think it’s dumb how this is news.

Edit:I see it wasn’t intended to be the last supper. Sounds like art to me. People can do what they want.

Culver’s ftw. I know it’s not everywhere though.

Anything that’s like “real American patriot” or something similar. Literally anything that calls yourself a patriot.

I certainly don’t believe it.

The third party switch. Plus I have found lemmy to be quite refreshing. On Reddit all I did was lurk. But now I actually comment and participate. Because it feels like I’m talking to real people.

Are we talking about the same game? What factory? And what previous layout? I’m a little confused. Are you talking about unlocking new weapons and using them throughout the different sections of the ship?