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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Two people I know at CrossFit were talking about that this morning, but for HUMANS.
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Don't be rhabdophobic.
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Nov 13, 2017 22:57
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Higgy posted:Business Idea: Cloud-enabled horses. Horses are cloud-enabled by default. They also get tiny harps.
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Nov 13, 2017 23:45
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Tales Of Desire posted:Maybe there's some cash in inventing lasering booths. Just put on eye protection and wave your body part in front of the laser. If you can operate a self-checkout, you can be your own laser therapist. This DQ's 75% of America.
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Nov 14, 2017 01:46
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Hoodwinker posted:There is high intersection between these two things. The CrossFit community and the, "Why would you loving pay for some stupid bullshit?" community. Yup that's a pot meet kettle of situation if I do say so myself I'm surprised this was only pointed out four posts later rather than immediately
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Nov 14, 2017 02:46
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quote:I basically fell for https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-impersonation-scam-target-college-students-nonexistent-federal-student-tax/ except I did not realize I was paying for gift cards; I thought I was buying "corporate bonds". My bank is not willing to reimburse me for losing money in fraud even though I filled a report to IC3 because I "willingly" paid for the cards despite coercion or deception. To be fair, I was and probably still am an idiot. But I lost the money I got from work and financial aid that I needed to pay for school and housing. So I need some way to minimize my losses. I'd make a comment if people are really this gullible but people buy horses so...
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Photex posted:I'd make a comment if people are really this gullible but people buy horses so... Senior journalism major. Should be suing her school for fraud.
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Nov 14, 2017 14:15
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On the one hand I get the sentiment that  : "why would you pay to work out when you can just pick up rocks in your back yard and put them down and bicycle to and from work like MMM to stay in shape" is valid and appropriate but on the other hand staying healthy with exercise is long-term GWL, there are dumber things to spend our discretionary income on and I quite like the accountability and rigor of an 0500 group HIIT workout so these classes are sort of a good fit for that mindset.
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Nov 14, 2017 16:23
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Personal leisure/enrichment pursuits are not BWM if you can afford them, whatever they may be. Now, hitching yourself to someone who makes $300 a week, has a disabled child but can't figure out how to get disability assistance, and has four student loans? That's very much BWM. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7cuxu2/gf_is_horrible_with_money_has_horrid_credit_i/ posted:I have a g/f of 1.5 years. She has no idea how to handle money and doesn't really make that much. She has a lot of debt and has no hope of recovering quickly by herself. I have a credit score >700 and make decent money.
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Nov 14, 2017 16:33
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I hope someone can intervene on behalf of the four-year-old.
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Nov 14, 2017 16:45
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werdnam posted:I hope someone can intervene on behalf of the four-year-old. That woman had better be just the best thing in bed because you couldn't stack up more bad luck and bad decisions if you tried. That's like the financial equivalent of comically stumbling through a crowded restaurant with a stack of cream pies and dropping them on the Queen of England.
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Nov 14, 2017 16:58
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Solice Kirsk posted:That woman had better be just the best thing in bed because you couldn't stack up more bad luck and bad decisions if you tried. That's like the financial equivalent of comically stumbling through a crowded restaurant with a stack of cream pies and dropping them on the Queen of England. They never are. My manager's son married a woman pregnant with another man's child, who was in jail. He then adopted the kid and abandoned them both after one year. None of the people involved looked good and I'm going to go out on a limb and say a six month pregnant woman is not good in bed. And if you're keeping score at home, that means the son is now legally responsible for the kid. The real father just got out of having to pay child support.
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Nov 14, 2017 17:08
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Krispy Wafer posted:They never are. My manager's son married a woman pregnant with another man's child, who was in jail. He then adopted the kid and abandoned them both after one year. None of the people involved looked good and I'm going to go out on a limb and say a six month pregnant woman is not good in bed. 15% of what you make working in the prison cafeteria isn't much.
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Nov 14, 2017 17:33
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Jesus that's a sad story. Congenital CMV is no joke.
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Nov 14, 2017 18:06
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Let that be a lesson to us all. Never adopt. Not kids, not better manners, not a new operating system for your home computer. Nothing. Never adopt.
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Nov 14, 2017 18:58
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That is the saddest story all around. That child is profoundly disabled and his mom is dumb as a brick, this country is a dystopian loving nightmare. The pharmacy tech test is stupid easy. I sat for that test with ~1.5 years of pharmacy cashier experience and whatever knowledge I picked up from picking people's brains. I hadn't done proper tech work yet because I had just turned 18 when I sat for it and I didn't even take the company prep course. I finished the exam in 1/3 the time allotted for it. I'm not saying that to toot my own horn, I'm saying that someone who can't pass that test in three tries after taking an actual go-into-debt-to-pay-for-this class probably has learning disabilities and needs, you know, assistance. I was the highest paid tech in my store and the max I ever made as a tech was just under $16/hr so it's not something you should ever take a class for anyway.
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Nov 14, 2017 19:01
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I don't see her ever having a chance to get out of this giant and increasing hole. He can leave, but she's essentially stuck with little hope of fixing things at this point and with a child who will need long term care and help 
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Nov 14, 2017 19:15
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Hey everyone I just wanted to drop by the thread to remind you of the Republican Party's constant efforts to slash Medicaid funding, the source of money that is largely responsible for taking care of chronically ill, disabled, and indigent children in this country!
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Nov 14, 2017 19:28
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She wouldve been better off getting in massive medical debt treating her child. A kid that age needs to be fitted for a hearing aid and get speech therapy. At the very least tech him ASL.
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Nov 14, 2017 19:29
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Hey everyone I just wanted to drop by the thread to remind you of the Republican Party's constant efforts to slash Medicaid funding, the source of money that is largely responsible for taking care of chronically ill, disabled, and indigent children in this country! Actually, disability falls under social security....
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Nov 14, 2017 19:36
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rotaryfun posted:Actually, disability falls under social security.... But when they end up in a nursing home/rehab/other health facility it's Medicaid that's billed for the care.
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Nov 14, 2017 19:38
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rotaryfun posted:Actually, disability falls under social security.... ACTUALLY this is like saying that medicare doesn't take care of old people because social security ******ACTUALLY****** does that
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Nov 14, 2017 19:39
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Yes, lets get mad at a welfare system in place instead of the lovely parent that can't take care of their sick child of which we no nothing about the steps she's gone through or not to get aid.
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Nov 14, 2017 19:46
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NancyPants posted:That is the saddest story all around. That child is profoundly disabled and his mom is dumb as a brick, this country is a dystopian loving nightmare. I administer pharmacy tech exams, and can vouch for this. Plenty of people fail, but most just needed a "hrmmm I should probably study next time" wake-up call. If you fail that thing three times in a row, however, you should cross your fingers for diagnosable learning disabilities, because the alternative is that you're a Grade A gently caress-up. edit: To be clear, I'm not slagging off this woman for not having time to study. Sick kid is #1 priority; I get that. But signing up for a third test after she'd failed twice, having still not made the time to study properly, and having not achieved any new level of content mastery... well that there would be some BWM/BWL poo poo. Trustworthy fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Nov 14, 2017 |
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Nov 14, 2017 19:48
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rotaryfun posted:Yes, lets get mad at a welfare system in place instead of the lovely parent that can't take care of their sick child of which we no nothing about the steps she's gone through or not to get aid. quote:The son is getting medical attention. He does get Medicare. Nah you can blame the system
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Nov 14, 2017 19:52
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You can still go to the hospital when it happens. That creates paperwork. Paperwork is proof of medical care. I don't understand the hard stop here. I've taken my child to the hospital because of a seizure. Just because she stopped having the seizure, did not mean I turned the car around and went home.
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Nov 14, 2017 19:56
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She had four years to get assistance for her child. Hospitals have social workers specifically to assist with obtaining services for people in her situation. If she lived in California, she'd definitely have her kid qualify for medi Cal and First 5 among other services. The depressing thing is that if that kid was in foster care, all his medical expenses would be covered till 18 and he'd be classified as medically fragile which would give the foster parents additional money on top of fostering. If they adopted him, they'd continue to receive this money depending on the severity of the disability.
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Nov 14, 2017 19:57
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rotaryfun posted:You can still go to the hospital when it happens. That creates paperwork. Paperwork is proof of medical care. I don't understand the hard stop here. Congratulations on your enormous levels of privilege, I hope you keep enjoying them.
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Nov 14, 2017 20:02
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Nov 14, 2017 20:02
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Lots of smart white men with decent earnings, strong support networks and cool rationality totally unable to empathize with a woman who is probably at least learning disabled if not actually mildly intellectually disabled having to work part time minimum wage with lovely benefits unable to find the time to take her child serially to the hospital month after month for his countless seizures and obvious congenital abnormalities and get the ball rolling on the years-long process of getting him all the help he'll need in the WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH IN 2018. I swear to God I thought I'd never want her back but y'all need a taste of Tiny Bronto on this one.
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Nov 14, 2017 20:05
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rotaryfun posted:You can still go to the hospital when it happens. That creates paperwork. Paperwork is proof of medical care. I don't understand the hard stop here. Or instead of having their dumb rigid system that wastes even more money with unnecessary care that will likely stress out the child and mother, they could talk to the kid's doctors and figure out that the problem is legitimate. Yeah she should jump through the bullshit hoops to get money, but saying she's a lovely parent is really callous.
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Nov 14, 2017 20:08
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Sorry to try to deter from the derail of whether Crossfit is a waste of money, I suppose. The BWM one in this story is the guy for thinking at $23 an hour he can save someone in such a deep financial hole, this wasn't about whether the situation of the kid is just (it's not).
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Nov 14, 2017 20:09
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Congratulations on your enormous levels of privilege, I hope you keep enjoying them. So I'm thinking this is common sense. Correct my thought here. Why is this privilege and not common sense?
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Nov 14, 2017 20:09
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Inept posted:Or instead of having their dumb rigid system that wastes even more money with unnecessary care that will likely stress out the child and mother, they could talk to the kid's doctors and figure out that the problem is legitimate. Yeah she should jump through the bullshit hoops to get money, but saying she's a lovely parent is really callous. So I can actually confirm to you that they do. My wife has been part of a 6 month process to get herself on disability. In which time she was assigned a case worker from social security and review group that contacted her doctors to verify appointments / surgeries / medical conditions / etc... what you are saying does already happen. Look I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm not even saying it's great. I'm just saying that it's there and for her to not pursue it is not the fault of the system in place. rotaryfun fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Nov 14, 2017 |
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Nov 14, 2017 20:18
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Tales Of Desire posted:Now, you can book a session with your laser-friendly vet or random laser therapist, or you can buy your own. Lasers can cost up to 26k for the priciest FDA-approved models, or they start at $575 if you don't care about pesky regulations Bad With Money: Unregulated Horse Lasers
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Nov 14, 2017 20:22
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rotaryfun posted:what you are saying does already happen. Sounds like it didn't happen for her. Again, system's fault if it went as she said. Not her being a lovely parent.
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Nov 14, 2017 20:23
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Inept posted:Sounds like it didn't happen for her. Again, system's fault if it went as she said. Not her being a lovely parent. It can't happen if you give your kid Tylenol and wait for them to cool down instead of going to the hospital... is all my point is.
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Nov 14, 2017 20:24
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rotaryfun posted:It can't happen if you give your kid Tylenol and wait for them to cool down instead of going to the hospital... is all my point is. And my point is that if the doctors can confirm the kid has regular seizures then making them go to the hospital is a waste of time.
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Nov 14, 2017 20:27
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beep boop going to the hospital costs money that poor people do not possess beep boop
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I just gotta wonder if perhaps a person that managed to rack up 4 student loans with nothing to show for it might not be making all the best decisions for their child's care. Which is why it is so important site talks to a social worker who can walk her through the process.
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