neomachino

u/neomachino@lemmy.world
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on Gone but not forgotten · c/cat · 33 pts · 1y

My son is 3 and goes over to the pear trees where we buried 2 pets in the past 2 years.

Our cat Bruce and our bearded dragon CJ.

He still feels a need to take care of them. He was "in charge" of feeding the lizards so every one in a while he grabs lettuce from the fridge and tries to take it outside for her. While he's over there he says stuff like "pspsps Bruce wanna play with me" and it fucking obliterates me every time.

Bruce was his best friend, he would do his bed time routine with us everynight and loved my son so much. I'm suprised he even remembers him since he was so young but their immediate bond was really special.

I don't think think I'll ever "retire" in the traditional sense.

My thought was to always have a severe mental breakdown around 50 and run off to the woods to build a log cabin and grow my own food. My wife knows of this plan but I'm pretty sure she thinks it's a joke. It's not.

I'm on papers for some stuff I did about 10 years back. I have another 3 to go.

I absolutely would. I've always wanted to at the very least so exploring and never imagined staying here, but my wife wouldn't even leave the state since all her family lives here. So that dream is pretty much dead.

Plus I imagine getting accepted anywhere would be pretty challenging with a criminal record.

on Universal health care · c/aiop · 1 pts · 1y

Wait is that normal? The last 3 jobs I've had had a waiting period of at least a month.

on Universal health care · c/aiop · 1 pts · 1y

I always assumed it had to with whatever cost comes with adding someone to the insurance plan + the cost they're paying. They want to make sure the person is going to stick around. But to me that just seems like the cost of doing business.

on Universal health care · c/aiop · 6 pts · 1y

A huge reason that I took the job I have now is because they let me start my health insurance plan asap. It was supposed to be after 3 months but I just asked nice and they didn't hesitate to agree even without my whole spcheil. I have a wife and a son, at the time my wife was still going through some post pregnancy health issues and my son was going through some stuff that required regular visits. I turned down some cushy jobs solely because they wanted me to wait 3-6 months to be insured, which I get from a business perspective, but what the actual fuck? It took me a while to switch jobs for that reason alone. I guess it's a good indicator of a company that has common sense/common decency.

I see stories like this a lot and can't believe it. My wife was in a similar situation and had to get an emergency dnc, and still came close to dying from sepsis.

The doctors were so on it, we waited in the ER for a while because they were packed but as soon as they took her blood and realized what was going on she was in surgery within the hour.

Our son want even 2 at the time. If we were 30 minutes west she would've died. It's absolutely fucking wild.

How could anyone think this is right?

on 'We're #1' · c/latestagecapitalism · 1 pts · 1y

My mom decided to gradually start working a while back, she's on all the government assistance programs you can think of and after years of that decided she wanted some financial independence.

She worked part time for like 3 months at a seasonal holiday place and made something like $2.5k. It was great, she was planning on doing it again the next year and seeing what she could do on the summer. She was happy, more of a person, made some friends.

The only problem is with that extra $2.5k she lost like $6k in benefits the next year, which for someone getting a couple hundred bucks a month to surving is a lot. So she never went back and fell back into a semi reclusive state. I can't blame her for it either, who wants to go to work to lose money at the end of the day.

For the longest time I thought people who had solar panels had a battery on their property somewhere, they're panels would charge battery and they would only switch to the grid if their battery ran out.

I don't know much about it, but this seems like a pretty viable solution and I still can't believe this isn't how it works.

on Foundation crack · c/homeimprovement · 1 pts · 1y

The top crack and the little stairstep pattern crack following below it were my main concern. I've just always hear to watch out for the stair pattern and when I saw the big gap I panicked a little.

Thank you so much!