Can you please seek the professional help that would make you feel better and stop using AskLemmy as your therapist?
(Before down voting me, take a look at OP’s post and comment history. They are all like this, followed by refusing or arguing against any and all encouragement or advice.)
This guy posts like this a lot. It always devolves into a pity party where he rebukes every bit of advice or consolation he receives. Check the comment history.
You’ve been trolled and wasted your time. Sorry.
Anyone use Deezer? How does the feature set compare? How does it compare to Tidal? I’d love to get off Spotify, just need a good replacement for all the music I listen to.
Ok. Just keep in mind that in a system like that, you likely die. I likely die. All of us outside of that “ruling class” suffer way more than they do when people start getting killed.
What is your take then?
I think that health insurance companies are predatory and cause deaths. They are terrible, medical support should not be a for-profit market, and their existence is one of many many indicators of how incredibly broken our society often is.
However, I don’t believe individuals should be legally allowed to take matters into their own hands and execute other citizens. Regardless of their reasoning. If this man can execute the CEO of an insurance company because he believes he was wronged by that company, unfortunately the exact same argument can be used for a student to up and execute their university Dean, or a man of one religion can execute the preacher of another.
Citizens can’t choose when and where it is appropriate to kill each other based on their feelings. That’s lawlessness. As much as I hate, and I mean truly hate, these companies and everything they stand for, you can’t have people just getting shot to death by others and still be a civilized society.
Hey man, if they were putting trailer houses on Beacon Hill in Boston I’d take one.
I wish housing prices were actually reasonable and my generation (tail end of millennials) could afford to buy a house in the cities we have to work in.
If I can throw it at the wall and it doesn’t stick I just put it back on.
Not really the point, but sure, whatever.
Stars. I don’t see them as much anymore as I did growing up.
$5 million of spare money. Not net total wealth but actually $5 million investable dollars.
At that point, I’d you stick that money in a very conservative and safe brokerage account allocation, 5% return per year is $250k. That is a higher salary than almost anyone needs, meaning you can live very comfortably without working. You can’t buy a yacht but you can be “done” and so can your children and their children if they aren’t stupid.
If you choose to work, then you can just reinvest that $250k and let compound interest do its thing and get richer. Lucky you.
Gotta be Black/White. It was the first time the writing really took a step forward. The antagonist wasn’t just evil for no reason. They had a compelling story and their motivations made sense and you could sympathize with them.
I was a skeptical kid. A fat man making his way down every single chimney in the country in one night? No way. Never really bought into it.
Yes, for education and medical reasons. If you are not a legal guardian (which doesn’t need to include adoption if you don’t want it to) you are unable to officially be a contact point, decision maker, or caretaker of a child.
That means that if the kid falls off a bicycle and breaks his wrist or needs some stitches, the hospital cannot release him to you. It means that if anything happens at school, the school legally cannot call you and has to contact his parents. It means that you cannot sign release forms for school trips. You can’t pay for his medical expenses via your insurance. You can’t sign any form or piece of paper in general that he may need until he’s 18.
What you have done is a wonderful and generous thing. Do the paperwork to become his legal guardian now so that when a situation arises where you need to be, it’s all set.
Worth noting that I’m sure your plan is “up to 1000mbps”. They always use the words “up to”. The speed you are paying for is the maximum you can get, not the minimum that they guarantee you will get.
15 years seems like more than long enough with a human’s brain to assimilate all other ant colonies and do some hilarious levels of damage to the most ecologically destructive human buildings and apparatuses.
Here is a better article about this change: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/11/stravas-changes-to-kill-off-apps.html
Here is the precise line that sucks: “You may not process or disclose Strava Data, even publicly viewable Strava Data, including in an aggregated or de-identified manner, for the purposes of, including but not limited to, analytics, analyses, customer insights generation, and products or services improvements. Strava Data may not be combined with other customer data, for these or any other purposes."
I use Strava a ton. This update sucks.
Strava has positioned themselves as two things:
So there are a lot of people, like myself, who bike and use a Wahoo bike computer, or bike inside on Zwift, or run outside with a Garmin or Apple watch, and push all those activities to Strava because everything integrates with it.
Then, if you want to, you can easily tap into all that data with another platform like TrainingPeaks or Intervals.icu (I bike more than run but there are more for runners). These platforms do really fun data analytics that Strava doesn’t provide, and also have coaching integrations so your coaches can log in and you can authorize them to see your workout results, which helps them build plans for you.
Two changes from this update fuck up everything:
In short, as a guy who likes training and tracking my fitness, this breaks everything for me. Many many people who casually run or bike or swim or whatever will be in the same boat as me. This sucks.
EDIT:
They have framed this as a user protection. It isn’t. No one could see my data that I hadn’t provided explicit permission for via the third party app of my choosing, after voluntarily entering my own API key.
What this does do is likely set them up to offer a paid API in a few months, so everything that is free and has been free since it’s inception will now cost these third party applications per-request to retrieve. Which is bullshit, because this data is not Strava’s - it’s mine.
This on the heels of their shitty AI summary bot experiment which was not opt-in but opt-out. There’s a 0% chance Strava built their own AI LLM so even while they’re shutting out access I explicitly invited, they’re piping all my workout data, including any activities I mark as private, straight over to OpenAI without my explicit consent unless I go through the effort to opt out.
Don’t think that things like “rescinding your apology” are necessary - just be done. If you can support yourself, and have friends or other people you can emotionally rely on, I would just simply “stop” with your family. Why “rescind your apology”, that will just start another argument for the sake of trying to give yourself some sort of moral high ground, which it aounds like your mother will not acknowledge.
You don’t need to make a statement about it, you don’t need to announce to them some big decision, just move on. Live a happy life. Be you. Don’t include them in that process if they are not going to be a positive part of it.
2019 Subaru Crosstrek.
When I was buying a new car I wanted three things:
Turns out there were only three cars that checked those boxes in the US for manufacturing year 2019: a Ford Focus RS (too expensive), a Mini Cooper Countryman (too Mini Cooper), and a Subaru Crosstrek. So I got the Crosstrek.