I fold them and set them on a dresser or in a drawer, depending on how soon I’m going to wear them. Shirts I hang up with the hanger facing the “wrong” way to indicate to myself that one’s already been worn once.

Dang Trump already assumed office huh

The fake anime with the weird forehead people, yeah I know it

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Naw, go for it

Why not simply make fees proportional to income? For parking and other traffic infractions.

Balatro, absolutely. Now that it’s on mobile, work will never get 100% out of me again.

Your daughter married someone who’s a year older than you? How old were you when she was born?

How does this relate to living in a dystopia?

I’ve been really considering one but I’m not sold yet.

I’ve been wanting a tablet or small laptop to do some minor computer stuff sitting on the couch, like looking up recipes or updating budget sheets, researching new products, but I couldn’t justify the cost of either considering its a fairly minor upgrade to my “workflow” vs the phone or sitting at my desktop.

But now my Note 20 5G is aging. The back plastic popped off (though I bet I can glue it back on), the screen is cracked in a way that doesn’t really matter and one of the back camera glass covers also has cracked. Otherwise, it’s been functioning fine, so I can keep using this for another year or so, but it’s also an opportunity to look at the foldable.

I’m looking at the Samsung Galaxy Fold 6, but I’d honestly rather get the Honor Magic V3, since it’s pretty much the same specs at a lower price, but I’m in the US so importing one seems tricky.

I held a coworkers and one small benefit I didn’t realize when looking at ads was that when folded, it’s thinner than the Note so it would be easier to operate with one hand.

The soundtrack to The Music Man

There are far worse out there, but about a year ago I injured my hand somehow. I couldn’t close my fist, which made it hard for me to work and support my partner as I do a majority of the cooking and chores. I couldn’t make a firm enough grip to use cast iron cookware. I was really concerned about this for a number of obvious reasons, so I went to the doctor.

I looked up an in network doc, call them up, confirm they take my insurance, double check that the kind of care I was looking for was covered. At my appointment they ask to do a physical as well, since I was due for one. During that they asked all the normal questions, the poignant one here being “do you smoke?” I replied “I have one or two cigarettes socially when drinking with some friends, which happens maybe once every other month or less.” This changed the tone of the entire visit.

My concern about my hand was largely disregarded and the doctor began talking to me about smoking cessation and the dangers of tobacco. Gave me pamphlets, tried to ask if I’d consider quitting, asked if I’ve tried alternatives. I tried to turn things back to my hand and she wasn’t interested. After I strongly insisted that was my sole medical interest, she gave me a referral.

I pay my copay up front and leave. I go to the specialist a few days later. He looks at my hand for 45 seconds and gives me a wrist brace and tells me to sleep with it on. I pay my copay and leave. Wouldn’t ya know? That did it! My hand was working again.

I call the specialist to follow up on his care and say it worked well. He told me I need to speak with billing to settle my bill. I’m confused. Wasn’t the copay for that? He says the insurance covered the visit but not the medical device (the wrist brace). So I check with billing and they want four hundred dollars. I’m flabbergasted. I check where they got the product, because surely it couldn’t cost that. I found the identical product, brand and all, on Amazon for $13. I’m livid. I argue with them, they say they can’t do anything.

I call the insurance and they say my policy was clear about specialists and medical devices. Dejected and feeling stupid, I just pay.

About a week later I get a call from the first doc saying I needed to settle up as well. I owe them five hundred dollars!!! How?? They say the bloodwork they did wasn’t covered. I plead saying that’s a normal part of a physical, no? They say yes, but I didn’t come in for a physical, according to the billing, I came in for a smoking cessation meeting!!

I tried for weeks to get the doctor on the phone to rectify this but they wouldn’t speak to me. My insurance company said they didn’t cover bloodwork as part of that and the doctors office wouldn’t change the billing.

I’m sick of doctors, I’m sick of insurance companies. If I get sick, I make chicken soup, drink tea, and scarf OTC drugs. I sprang my ankle fishing earlier this year. Did I go to a doctor? Absolutely not! I can’t afford a $900 bill every time something goes wrong.

I pay $360 a month for this. Thankfully I make enough that this wasn’t so damaging on my life, but I stopped buying as much meat and ate mostly beans for a year and didn’t travel for my vacation. I had been hoping to visit my father across the country that year but we had to put it off. It changed my outlook on medical services drastically and I’ll never be so honest to doctors again.

How is the Magic V3?

My Note 20 5G is falling apart slowly and I was thinking of trying to import a Magic V3 from Europe to the US.

I’m actually really not concerned about foreign governments spying on me but I am bothered by my own government, the guys with the guns who can arrest me, doing it.

Tho I suspect if the government is recommending ways to avoid messages being intercepted, they’ve already cracked how to intercept them.

Sounds to me like it’s some government operation we’re not supposed to concern ourselves with.

The current parties will do nothing. We would need to replace over half of both legislative houses with people who support single payer Healthcare (right now there’s like less than 5 iirc) to make substantial change.

Insurance claims are approved or denied by medical professionals. In the state of NY it’s even required for a specialist to approve or deny specialist care.

Some doctors are just absolute scum.

I think these are very reasonable points and the hypothetical is poignant, but it’s important to remember that corporations aren’t reasonable people, they don’t behave like reasonable beings and they get a system of justice totally different than you or I.

So one doesn’t need to be reasonable in any aggression against them, just disruptive.

They just got tried and true recipes there… it’s like asking the LLM to make something up for you but someone’s already made sure it’s good.

You don’t have to read the blog posts either, it’s just nice to get insight into why something works.

I wouldn’t trust cooking to a program anyway. The LLM has no concept of flavor or nutrition and some shortcuts and techniques can be counterintuitive in a way that a memetic approach isn’t necessarily helpful. Like the only reason an LLM would know to add baking soda to a dry brine mixture is because J. Kenji Lopez-Alt blogged about it already.

Try reading the recipes and blog posts on Serious Eats.

Then you can learn from skilled chefs who have taken the time to test different variations on recipes and figure out what works best and why.

I’m quite partial to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s recipes, but most of them on that site are quite good and show a great deal of labor and practice has gone into them.