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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • What's your "American healthcare" story?

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  • I have health insurance through my employer. I haven't found a general practitioner doctor that will take my insurance that is within a two hours' drive. So I haven't been to a doctor for a regular checkup in years. I've just been going to Urgent Clinics when something bad happens. This is not sustainable.

    My obgyn retired two years ago. I haven't been able to find a replacement.

    I will likely need a hysterectomy within the next 5-10 years, assuming I follow the pattern of all older sisters, mom, and aunts and cousins on maternal side. That is my greatest medical concern right now; I'm not sure it will even be legal to get it by the time I need it. Getting it done now is not medically necessary so it won't be covered by insurance.

    I was in a car crash just over a year ago and am still waiting in line for physical therapy. There are places I could go sooner, but they aren't covered by my insurance.

  • What's your religion?

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  • Raised Catholic, drifting through agnosticism towards atheism.

  • Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger calls for prayer and fasting for employees

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  • If all it takes is prayers and intermittent fasting, I would like to throw my hat in as next CEO. I will fast two days a week if I get equal to Pat's 2023 compensation package of $16.86 million.

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  • Like my mom always taught me, don't get into the back of a stranger's van, not even if they offer you pretty blue cockroaches.

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  • I'm 5'9", honestly, truly. I have a work colleague who is maybe half an inch shorter than me and he insists I am 6 foot because he is. He also comments every damn time I wear a shoe with any sort of heel. Bruh, no I'm not 6'. He's a really intelligent guy who seems self-aware about most things, I really can't tell if he knows what he's saying in this case or if it's just a hilarious blind spot.

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  • Assume minus two inches from any self-reported height under six feet. Assume minus four inches from any over six feet.

    Except for me, I'm always perfectly honest about my height.

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  • 5'9", which is just fine for me. A touch taller than average, not so tall to cause health or ergonomic issues.

    Shoes are difficult, my size isn't typically carried in average stores. Also, larger womens shoe sizes often aren't scaled up with correct proportions.

  • what was your biggest, "it was at this moment he knew ... he fucked up" moment?

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  • Driving in snow, I gave myself a good four times the distance to brake like they teach you. It wasn't enough. I did get it slowed some, under 20mph I would estimate, and rode in slow motion as I rear-ended a brand new, lifted, very expensive looking pickup.

    No injuries, fortunately. That was the most "time dilation" I've ever experienced. Somehow it happened so fast but also so slow.

  • What are some useful general maintenance tips can you give to people living on their own in apartments or housing?

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  • And it's cheaper. I'm not full vegan nor vegetarian, but pared way down on red meat especially due to cost.

  • When was the last time someone in position of power resigned due to shame?

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  • Not sure what pressures exactly this guy faced to lead him to shift his career, but previously a VP at Cigna and now admitting to lies and propaganda. I've been seeing this pop up repeatedly the last two days.

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.5631285/this-former-u-s-health-insurance-exec-says-he-lied-to-americans-about-canadian-health-care-1.5631874

    https://www.npr.org/2020/06/27/884307565/after-pushing-lies-former-cigna-executive-praises-canadas-health-care-system

    The next one that comes to mind is Boeing CEO Calhoun stepping down, allegedly his choice.

    https://apnews.com/article/boeing-ceo-calhoun-0abff1ccc6262ffb03f97c6a619bd1ec

  • Whats your advantage in life?

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  • College educated parents. Education and early career is so much easier to navigate with parents who know the ropes and have a network.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know

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  • They seem overrepresented in my algorithms. I don't particularly like them, I don't click on them, I'll even spend limited free skips to rush past them sometimes, yet they seem to be everywhere. I can only assume their label is spending an ungodly amount of money to push them in the algorithm, making me shift from neutral about them to negative. Like how Nickelback was on every radio station despite not really being anything special. Hozier seems to sneak through despite my efforts to curate and train my algorithm intentionally.

    So Hozier represents what is wrong with enshittifying music streaming apps to me. Probably not entirely fair of me, but that is my explanation for why I am confused and mildly irritated Spotify would call them my top artist.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know

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  • Maybe, it doesn't ring a bell but I might recognize it if I heard it.

    I've come to the conclusion my top 5 lists are bunk. I know there is a particular song I listened to at least a half dozen times; neither it nor the artist were on my top lists. Yet somehow Hozier is my top artist? No, it's broken.

  • Have you ever made up a movie after only seeing the trailer?

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  • Musicals tend to have misleading trailers, IMO. Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp comes to mind. I knew it was a musical because I was already familiar with the stage musical, but would not have guessed based on the trailer alone. I had friends similarly surprised that the 2024 Mean Girls is also a musical.

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    Anyone else prefer a small home over a big one?

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  • Small, yes, but I draw the line at multiple adults in the same bedroom. Hard pass on hearing my dad farting and groaning from the other side of the room all night.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know

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  • Why this even calls for generative AI is beyond me. Just post my top 5 artists and top 5 songs. It's data already available.

    Mine said my top artist is Hozier, driving my Goblincore Fantasy Forest phase. I couldn't name a Hozier song since Take Me To Church, a song that falls into Nickelback territory for me, as in sellouts that get way too much playtime. And no idea how that turned into goblins and fantasy forests.

  • Trump appoints former PayPal exec David Sacks as AI and crypto czar

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  • Oooooh, tough call. This is their chance to put a "promiscuous woman" in her place.

    Do you not see what feminism has wrought?!?

    /s, because it's the internet and if I don't put it there people will actually think I'm blaming crypto scams on feminism.

  • Do you decorate your house/apartment for Christmas? Do you have a real or fake tree?

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  • No. Never since moving out of my parents house. Putting up and then taking down decorations was never anything more than a chore to me.

  • Do you think United Health Care is going to have trouble finding a replacement CEO?

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  • Boeing managed to wave enough money to entice Kelly Ortberg to be their new CEO. Surely UHC can do similar.

    Ortberg knows he's there to be the scapegoat. He'll eat crow in front of the media and Congress. He'll push layoffs and cost cutting and draw the ire of the unions. When he leaves, the next CEO will point the finger at Ortberg for any remaining problems. And he negotiated a salary to match.

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    When did people start caring about habits?

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  • People prior to the writing of Atomic Habits weren't idiots who stumbled about blindly "doing things" without a plan. I'm saying this "recent obsession" is just a commodification of what humans have done forever; optimize for survival and comfort.

    I've been intentionally forming habits my entire life. As have my parents. As have every people going back to nomads wandering the lands learning x spot is good in the spring for edible plants and y spot is good in the fall for hunting.

    That you need a book or podcast to be told habit formation is a useful thing is.... interesting. Are you just learning what capitalism is?