My best friend is looking forward to attending our 20 year high school reunion. He was shocked when I said I had no interest in going. He’s curious to see everyone and catch up. I told him I just don’t ave that same feeling. I’ve been in touch with most of these people through Facebook and if there was any real…

I get this to some point. The hypocrisy of the Beautiful People approaching you in an air of nostalgia as if you’re long lost buddies is annoying to me at least.

Same. I was contacted by a woman a few years ago about a HS reunion. I vaguely remembered her but she wasn’t a friend of any kind from those days and her email was all “OMG! Can you believe how long it’s been? Can’t wait to see all the old gang!” My reaction was “Wut?” Anyways, I had no desire to attend this shindig…

Me too. Sure wasn't hauling along 4 extra giant books when I moved.

Ugh. I recycled my yearbooks a decade ago after I realized that I didn't get a shit about any of the people in them. Honestly, I haven't spoken to anyone from my highschool in over 20 years nor have I had any desire to go down memory lane.

What will also not be surprising (unfortunately so): right-wingers calling her “weak” for it.

The most surprising thing to me is that she had been slowing down on therapy prior to the riots. She's spent years being despised by Congressional Democrats for reminding us that hey, maybe we should expect a little more from them, being performatively hated by all Republican politicians because a boogyman is way…

Not surprising (though still sad). Good on her for getting help and being open about it.

If it was just a “well I wasn’t but what’s the problem with drugs” then fine but the way in which the guy sounded desperately pleading and the band have said how they’re “really against drugs” is just the antithesis of a genre of music that is meant to be anti-establishment and counterculture ever since it was birthed…

The whole “OMG a Metal band won Eurovision!” thing has been hilarious for a bunch of reasons, not just because of the frustrating “why do you even care about mainstream acceptance/validation?” factor, but also because apparently this is what mainstream audiences think Metal is?

The fact they’re so upset about being seen as drug users just makes me hate how this is being spun as a win for rock or metal music even more. This is a supposed “rock band” where the lead vocalist wants to be clean cut and that blond guy was the most embarrassing drunk of the night who then blubbered like a small…

Seriously, fuck this corrupt system. I am currently dealing with appealing a $2000 charge for genetic testing for breast cancer genes that my OBGYN advised me to give a blood sample for during a routine visit because I have such a strong family history. The cost and whether the testing service was out of network was…

That reminds me of this time my mom needed a quick surgery (normally it is done outpatient but the surgeon was working in hospital that day) and she just needed a room to change and hold her while waiting for the procedure. She spent about 10 mins in the room and was billed 20k. Thankfully that was all covered so the…

All of this.  When the next revolution comes, I say we start with the “healthcare insurance” companies first.

The whole system is irredeemably corrupt.

It’s absolutely a feature and not a bug that systems for billing insurance are error prone. My partner had an accident that qualified for workers comp and we would still receive bill after bill after bill with warnings about going to collections from the private ambulance company who was “accidentally” double billing…

As you point out, that is how the insurance industry works. They will try to avoid paying out claims at all costs. They are fully aware that it is extremely stressful and time consuming to get reimbursement and know that a good percentage of clients will just give up at some point. 

I’m calling major b.s. on the “It’s difficult to learn new codes in such a small amout of time” shit. When the school that I word at shut down last year, all of our teachers spent less than a week figuring out how to transition their in person classrooms to online. Our Algebra teacher (who is very old school) had to…

That’s what so many non-truck people don’t get...mock all you want, but the the American pickup truck is the ultimate “don’t tell me what I can’t do” vehicle. To those customers, the downsides to owning a truck - the size, poor dynamics, cost, fuel economy - don’t matter as much as the feeling that you can do just…

There’s no easy way to fix this. The American pickup truck market is driven by feature inflation; everybody likes to think they could tow 10 tons over an epic series of mountain passes, even though they actually drive one occupant for a few miles along nicely paved roads. Those aspirations determine the size and shape…