insufferableninja @ insufferableninja @lemdro.id

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bro, i know all that stuff is bad, but have you heard her laugh? we made a solid choice.

(i hope i don't need the /s, but Poe's Law says i probably do)

if you're still heavily invested in the stock market near retirement age, you're doing something very wrong

i can't read what's under the sharpie. hemoglobin? guys a vampire i guess

no a water heater heats the water.

a watersoftener removes dissolved minerals from water

i know, it was a joke

3-5 bucks ain't much

yep. also pretty gay

paycheck to paycheck isn't "the system", or there's no way 40% of people would be able to avoid it

gun control has racist roots, so it is not surprising

your dog's claws need a trim

everything you've listed is what you pay at the point of service. are your premiums covered 100% by your employer, or what?

thanks for explaining things i already know, and that have no fucking bearing on the question OP asked.

this isn't "whose health care experience is better and less costly" - the question was "what does US health care cost", which is the question i answered.

on the one hand - my wife and i didn't have insurance when my oldest was born, as i was doing contractor work overseas. Between one thing and another over the course of that year, we paid like $8k in medical expenses, including all the obgyn visits and the actual delivery, plus a hernia repair for me. The hospital was very easy to work with. Our income was very high so it was not exactly a burden. (8k was about 2% of total salary)

on the other hand - this year, with insurance we're going to pay about $6k in insurance premiums and $8k in medical expenses before we hit our deductible (~7% of total salary)

on the gripping hand - last year we had really excellent insurance. we paid a total of $1200 for the year in premiums, $50/pay period, and our deductible was only $2k. (~1% of total salary)

So it definitely varies a lot

100% true, just the first thing that stuck out at me

pretty sure iterate is the wrong word choice there

exponentially would be e. g. 100%, 1000%, 10 000%, etc.

you meant geometricallly

obviously the people that object to the word object to needing a word for "non-trans", not that they have some particular objection to the word "cis" itself.

it's important to understand your opponents' point of view if you want to be able to destroy it effectively

maybe even a little light treason

there's a pretty big difference between what you are saying, "i don't like the way they help", and what the person i responded to was saying, "they don't help and hate the poor".

conservatives help the poor by personal, direct giving. there's lots of data on charitable giving broken down by party affiliation.