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Hikermick

@ Hikermick @lemmy.world

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  • The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

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  • I don't think this is earth shattering news. These companies identify when the audience is barely paying attention (to content and ads) and spits out the cheap stuff. I watch fly fishing and fly tying videos on YouTube and often fall asleep with it on. Then I wake up to the third hour of a professional bass fishing tournament. It happens a lot

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    What's the most impactful thing you've done this year for yourself or others?

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  • Got the boiler running in a church without heat (not my job). Handed out a few gift cards for Subway to panhandlers and gave a sleeping bag to a guy who looked like he could use it.

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    What's the most impactful thing you've done this year for yourself or others?

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  • Ha! The bartender just asked if I was laughing at her

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    What's the most impactful thing you've done this year for yourself or others?

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  • Ha! The bartender just asked if I was laughing at her

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  • This won't help you on the tech stuff but one technique I use at work is to set "traps". Very simple things like placing a tiny piece of paper in a place where it will fall if a door is opened. A piece of tape or thread works too. I'll take a picture for reference

  • As a passenger in the car, whats the things a driver does that pisses you off, makes you uncomfortable, or terrifies you?

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  • The nerve of that guy driving so close to the car behind them!

  • Societal Collapse

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  • Don't forget those delicious paint chips

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    So tone deaf it's almost a dog whistle

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  • To say "insurance company bad" oversimplifies the problem. That's why it's foolish to base opinions on memes. Where there's lots of money, greedy people will find a way to get at it or as I like to say "shit attracts flies". In my work I deal with private companies that are paid with public dollars. What I see going on has jaded me hardcore. Publicly funding the health care system will be a disaster without overhauling the whole system.

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    So tone deaf it's almost a dog whistle

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  • No it doesn't but I can understand why they don't greenlight everything. This all is a glaring example why we need single payer health care and doctors that earn a flat rate and not get paid per procedure (there is a name for this, i don't know it).

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    So tone deaf it's almost a dog whistle

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  • A few. I had a primary care doctor who would talk my ear off. After we discussed whatever my problem was he would talk about religion and politics. He was pretty right wing, me having a catholic school education and have long paid attention to politics can hold my own. The odd thing, there was always a waiting room full of patients but he would gab on and on. Eventually I came in for an appointment and I said to his receptionist "the doctor sure doesn't rush me out of there". That's when she said "yeah most insurance companies want you out in fifteen minutes". At that moment it clicked. The doctor was always looking at his watch, if he went over fifteen minutes he could charge for another fifteen minutes. He also had a waiting room full of posters and pamphlets paid for by pharmaceutical companies. He suggested prescribing me medication for my anxiety, i just laughed. My doctor now has none of that propaganda in his waiting room. My last visit he pushed eating fresh fruit and vegetables. I told him that's why I come to him, he tells me what I don't want to hear. I had a dentist who was the same way. Also very religious and right wing.

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    So tone deaf it's almost a dog whistle

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  • So it's a good argument for single payer healthcare

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    So tone deaf it's almost a dog whistle

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  • To be fair, I've had doctors pad the bill. I'm lucky enough to have decent insurance and I have a few stories about doctors taking advantage of that.

  • Societal Collapse

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  • Gen X: you pussies should have been around in the 70's and 80's

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  • It all started when I said "damn teenagers" while driving home one day

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  • When I was younger I swore I'd never change and stay true to myself. Easy enough but everything and everyone around me changed and I found myself shaking my fist at the clouds saying how everything was better when I was young. Then I realized I had turned into my old man.

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    What absurd luxury have you been savoring lately?

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  • I recently quit drinking... so much. I allow myself one fancy Belgian beer each night

  • How would you get back into hobbies you've abandoned for years?

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  • Fishing fits the bill

  • What's the best habit that improved your life?

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  • Started a savings account. Used to be what I had in my wallet was my life's savings, didn't think I earned enough to accumulate anything. I was wrong

  • If you were a rich man... What would you do?

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  • I was thinking more along the lines of The Tick, they're not so far apart I suppose