if you’re still heavily invested in the stock market near retirement age, you’re doing something very wrong

i can’t read what’s under the sharpie. hemoglobin? guys a vampire i guess

no a water heater heats the water.

a watersoftener removes dissolved minerals from water

terrible headline. good news.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-caused-americas-violent-crime-epidemic/

lead in gasoline caused lead poisoning, leading to an increase in violent crime. now most fuel is unleaded, reducing the incidence of lead poisoning, and leading directly to a decrease in violent crime

yep. also pretty gay

Windows eating meat user

paycheck to paycheck isn’t “the system”, or there’s no way 40% of people would be able to avoid it

gun control has racist roots, so it is not surprising

do self hosters use Windows? i would have thought most people were running Linux

no not really

everything you’ve listed is what you pay at the point of service. are your premiums covered 100% by your employer, or what?

thanks for explaining things i already know, and that have no fucking bearing on the question OP asked.

this isn’t “whose health care experience is better and less costly” - the question was “what does US health care cost”, which is the question i answered.

on the one hand - my wife and i didn’t have insurance when my oldest was born, as i was doing contractor work overseas. Between one thing and another over the course of that year, we paid like $8k in medical expenses, including all the obgyn visits and the actual delivery, plus a hernia repair for me. The hospital was very easy to work with. Our income was very high so it was not exactly a burden. (8k was about 2% of total salary)

on the other hand - this year, with insurance we’re going to pay about $6k in insurance premiums and $8k in medical expenses before we hit our deductible (~7% of total salary)

on the gripping hand - last year we had really excellent insurance. we paid a total of $1200 for the year in premiums, $50/pay period, and our deductible was only $2k. (~1% of total salary)

So it definitely varies a lot

I use Prometheus and grafana at home because i use it at work, so I’m familiar with it

exponentially would be e. g. 100%, 1000%, 10 000%, etc.

you meant geometricallly

maybe even a little light treason

there’s a pretty big difference between what you are saying, “i don’t like the way they help”, and what the person i responded to was saying, “they don’t help and hate the poor”.

based on this article, i would say it’s fortunate that they have very little power

conservatives help the poor by personal, direct giving. there’s lots of data on charitable giving broken down by party affiliation.