Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
At 7k a year and cash discounts you need a significant injury to make it worth getting.
Yes, that's what I mean: it's literally insurance against catastrophic injury. I think that's one of the biggest flaws in the system, really: it conflates a health care plan with health insurance, when an awful lot of people would be perfectly fine with a bare-bones plan that only covers the latter, and then paying for the former out of pocket.
Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
I love visiting Britain, but you would have to pay me to make me live in London.
That is generally how salaries work, yes.
Mantergeistmann
6hr ago
This is exactly the sort of reason I love this place.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
Makes no sense to carry insurance in US unless employee sponsored. Better to just pay cash.
The point of insurance (at least to me) has never been to deal with routine care, but for catastrophic situations, like how car insurance isn't for covering oil changes. In practice, health insurance covers both, but I sure don't think too much about it covering my annual physical. I like having health insurance so I know I won't break the bank if I get a significant broken arm.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
I remember going to the Saratoga Battlefield, where Arnold was shot in the leg. The interpretation was pretty clear that if he had died from that wound, he would have gone down in history as one of America's most beloved generals and patriots.
Instead, he received a nameless memorial. I wonder sometimes if that wouldn't have been a decent enough compromise to deal with the Confederate legacy, but I think everything is so poisoned that neither side would accept it anymore.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
This model is locked down tighter than a nun's asshole!
Someone hasn't been reading enough medieval and Renaissance literature, then.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find the Italian sodas I've had to feel different carbonation-wise from American soda.
Similarly, yes, gelato is basically a type of ice cream, but that's like saying "someone told me I had to try Chicago deep dish, and I did, but it was just a mid thin-crust pizza."
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
UV light
That was an actual product currently in R&D, and I recall the youtube video by the research hospital working on it -- which predatex Trump's press conference mentioning it -- being triumphantly taken down as misinformation on the report of a journalist. I think from one of the big rags, too, but I don't want to slander when I'm not sure which.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I suppose a simple test is to ask a question like, "Can you tell me some things Trump has done that you disagree with, or that you think went badly?" Every politically sane person has some disagreements or disappointments even with their own favoured side.
My dad's a fan of asking the devout Trumpists he knows that question.
He's also a fan of asking the anti-Trumpists he knows the inverse.
I'm a big fan of my dad, even (or perhaps especially) when I don't agree with him on a specific point.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
When she turned 18 USAA locked us parents out of her minor accounts and extended a credit card offer to her.
What's your opinion of USAA in this regard? I use them for their insurance offerings, but I've found that Navy Fed tends to be better for the online banking & credit card offerings.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Kennedy wanted to tax specifically white rich people?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
That was kind of the point of my post: that they have been keeping the gloves on thanks to having the Iron Dome to allow them to be moderate, rather than full "ignore civilian casualties & make it a parking lot" war, let alone actively targeting civilians and intending genocide.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I voted for both; never voted for Trump.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
US military hardware is what stands between the Palestinians and an Israel that doesn't have Patriot missiles, but can build their own artillery. Not sure that's better for anyone.
I think a lot of people don't realize (or don't want to acknowledge) that if Israel were to be unable to effectively defend its population from terrorist rockets and mortars and missles, their reponse wouldn't be capitulation or negotiation. It would be annihilation. As it would be for pretty much any polity in existence whose civilians are being relentlessly targeted and killed by a militarily inferior opponent.
As it stands, Israel has the breathing room to be more judicious in their attacks, even if it really doesn't look that way to the uninformed, who call use of more than one JDAM "indiscriminate and unproportional carpet bombing". But without the Iron Dome, I think we'd be reminded what carpet bombing really looks like, and I wouldn't blame them (or anyone else) in their operational situation.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
The leftists don't passionately oppose pedophilia because doing so is low-class and right-wing coded
Which leftists do you know? The ones I'm in circles with love talking about "the Epstein class".
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Did she? Or was it just a group she founded, after she had left?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
My father mostly made "set-up" offers/deals: "Get a full ride to college? We'll buy you a car since we're not helping with student loans." "Ready to move out with a full-time job? Security deposit and your first month's rent is on me."
Other than that, it was mostly just advice. My father wasn't the most knowledgeable of planning for retirement (he never really needed to early on, having had an excellent pension), so his only advice in that regard was "get the company match. Prioritize that over anything else you plan to do, it's free money."
it's been more that she uses my CC to handle gas, etc
One thing to consider is having her open her own credit card, possibly secured, with you contributing payments/reimbursement for certain expenses. Get that credit score building up early.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Sounds right. I believe France is one of the few that respects Roth and HSA tax-advantaged status.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
as well as those who work "made-up services" that the party deems serve no societal function, such as bureaucrats, consultants, public sector communications specialists, strategists and HR-specialists.
Will these also be deported?
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Religion is such an important part of history and many modern cultures; we're absolutely doing kids a disservice by not teaching it.
Of course, the problem is, how much does one trust teachers to teach this properly, from one angle or another?
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
the retirement math in the US is much different than that in Italy/France, let alone somewhere like Brazil/Paraguay
It's interesting you mention France, since I think tax treaties with the US make them a pretty good option.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Sometimes things aren't the right fit for everyone?
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
My issues with RDR2 were: I didn't feel like slogging through the tutorial, I just wanted to do the open world stuff, and: I honestly didn't really care about any of the characters, so there was no emotional feeling to the story missions.
I've been seeing talk about VAR having been improperly used in this case, and how that's the unspoken justification (because FIFA doesn't want to admit a mistake). Any truth to that?
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