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Brain Curry
Feb 15, 2007

People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school



Maed posted:

sometimes they do! but usually only as part of a sadistic gameshow

we’ll happily forgive fraudulent ppp loans and bribe companies to pretend to move to our area, but no money for poor people

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Canned Sunshine
Nov 20, 2005

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I’m glad to see that the ADA is continuing in TYOOL 2021 what they and the AMA started in 1947. :thunk:

Canned Sunshine
Nov 20, 2005

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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

The food budget gets really painful when you have a family with multiple dietary restrictions such as celiac disease and dairy allergies.

A gluten free loaf of bread, which is also smaller than a normal loaf, costs $10 for a bag of two at Costco. At a regular store they're $8 a pop. Gluten free pasta also costs at least $1 more a box as well if not more.

It at least prevents me from spending a dime in restaurants.

Yeah, it also sucks when one of your kids might turn out to have a peanut allergy :unsmith:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
TBH I’m surprised America hasn’t tried to kill the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
https://twitter.com/markets/status/1699424726274257228?t=37DqOElrwzE4anrAP44hUQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/NewsLambert/status/1699391614001553432?t=eGZI8wZwq2rrDJp4nWj69g&s=19

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

lol it's lower than in the great recession but otherwise things are great

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

SourKraut posted:

Yeah, it also sucks when one of your kids might turn out to have a peanut allergy :unsmith:

Nut allergies are scary as poo poo and I am thankful to not have that particular stress in my life.

Canned Sunshine
Nov 20, 2005

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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

Nut allergies are scary as poo poo and I am thankful to not have that particular stress in my life.

Yeah, I know. :(. We’re waiting to get in to the allergist, but when we first tried the smallest bit of peanut paste, our 9 month old got red. Of course since it’s :lolmerica:, when we contacted the allergist to get in, they told us we’d have to wait until February…

It’s especially scary since apparently only about 20% of infants out-grow a nut allergy.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

SourKraut posted:

Yeah, I know. :(. We’re waiting to get in to the allergist, but when we first tried the smallest bit of peanut paste, our 9 month old got red. Of course since it’s :lolmerica:, when we contacted the allergist to get in, they told us we’d have to wait until February…

It’s especially scary since apparently only about 20% of infants out-grow a nut allergy.

i don't understand how the Peanut lobby hasn't been able to research and fund a cure for this poo poo already

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
My nephew is allergic to dairy, wheat, and nuts. My sister spends a fortune on food because of his diet. :smith:

net work error
Feb 26, 2011


Lately I've been of the thinking that we can't compare to the gfc anymore because the free money effect has totally changed the conditions. Nobody appears to be loving around with bad balance sheets (I think?) because they were able to ppp their way up.

Conditions on the ground are bad but the people up top are still doing great so things just keep chugging along.

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

SourKraut posted:

Yeah, I know. :(. We’re waiting to get in to the allergist, but when we first tried the smallest bit of peanut paste, our 9 month old got red. Of course since it’s :lolmerica:, when we contacted the allergist to get in, they told us we’d have to wait until February…

It’s especially scary since apparently only about 20% of infants out-grow a nut allergy.

From experience, expect a call in a month or two rescheduling your appointment for 3 months later.


Since I expect my appointment to just be a "yup you got allergies. 300 dollars. See you in 7 months" I'm just gonna ghost it because I'm going to move next year anyway. Of course my decision to ghost them will be unacceptable but they can shove my appointment off a whole quarter because the doctor had better things to do that day.

Canned Sunshine
Nov 20, 2005

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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

i don't understand how the Peanut lobby hasn't been able to research and fund a cure for this poo poo already

Not sure why Big Peanut won’t do it, since they’re missing out on a decent amount of profits as a result!

skooma512 posted:

From experience, expect a call in a month or two rescheduling your appointment for 3 months later.


Since I expect my appointment to just be a "yup you got allergies. 300 dollars. See you in 7 months" I'm just gonna ghost it because I'm going to move next year anyway. Of course my decision to ghost them will be unacceptable but they can shove my appointment off a whole quarter because the doctor had better things to do that day.

Yeah, we’re on the cancelation/wait list; we could go to a general pediatric allergy office, but we were hoping to get into one of the actual testing/food challenge sites.

We had to go through this with our 2 year old too when we thought he might have an egg allergy, but it turned out ok for him.

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

SourKraut posted:

Yeah, I know. :(. We’re waiting to get in to the allergist, but when we first tried the smallest bit of peanut paste, our 9 month old got red. Of course since it’s :lolmerica:, when we contacted the allergist to get in, they told us we’d have to wait until February…

It’s especially scary since apparently only about 20% of infants out-grow a nut allergy.

We had to push for a diagnosis of celiac disease based upon our own research. The doctors were dismissive but ran the blood work after we argued for it several times. Lol and behold, we were right and that got the ball rolling for a specialist. It took six months to get an appointment, but it worked out.

Good luck with the testing and dealing with all that. You'll figure it out no matter what the test results are.

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

FlapYoJacks posted:

My nephew is allergic to dairy, wheat, and nuts. My sister spends a fortune on food because of his diet. :smith:

Yeah, for us it's wheat, barley, rye, oats, and dairy.

About 60% of gluten free food uses oats as a replacement so it's even more :argh:.

Brain Curry
Feb 15, 2007

People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school



rice and beans remain undefeated

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
lol went to a new psychologist for ADHD and SSRI meds today and they don’t accept the type of Blue Cross insurance I have. Now I get to call around and wait another month with crippling depression and anxiety while not being able to focus. Cool country very nice.

nexous
Jan 14, 2003

I just want to be pure

FlapYoJacks posted:

TBH I’m surprised America hasn’t tried to kill the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I cited the ADA to building management at my work(not enough handicap spots) and woo boy did they not like that. Disabled people are just an inconvience to be shrugged away. so yeah I expect Joe Biden to dismantle it

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

skooma512 posted:

From experience, expect a call in a month or two rescheduling your appointment for 3 months later.


Since I expect my appointment to just be a "yup you got allergies. 300 dollars. See you in 7 months" I'm just gonna ghost it because I'm going to move next year anyway. Of course my decision to ghost them will be unacceptable but they can shove my appointment off a whole quarter because the doctor had better things to do that day.

there aren’t doctors appointments anymore

it’s just getting on wait lists and hoping you snag an opening when it comes up

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

nexous posted:

I cited the ADA to building management at my work(not enough handicap spots) and woo boy did they not like that. Disabled people are just an inconvience to be shrugged away. so yeah I expect Joe Biden to dismantle it

Yep he will definitely do that!

nexous
Jan 14, 2003

I just want to be pure

euphronius posted:

there aren’t doctors appointments anymore

it’s just getting on wait lists and hoping you snag an opening when it comes up

my wife calls my drs office every day to see if they can move my appointment up because I have rapidly growing cancer but they finally just told her he won’t be back in the country until the day before my appointment so just give up

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

Akratic Method posted:

I always liked the book title Alexei Yurchak used for writing about the generation that saw the end of the USSR: “everything was forever, until it was no more”.

Feels that way a lot right now.

Woke Mind Virus
Aug 22, 2005

Slow News Day posted:

Yep he will definitely do that!

Slow News Day posted:

Probably nobody in this thread is aware of this due to all the hooting and hollering, but the Biden administration, after having their loan forgiveness plan struct down by SCOTUS, still managed to do a lot to reduce the repayment burden: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...s-of-borrowers/

VitalSigns posted:

The SAVE program forgives interest in excess of your payments, so interest won't accrue. As long as you make the payments the loan balance can at worst stay the same.

Still hosed up though because over 20 years you'll have paid tens of thousands back to the DoE but since it's all interest you still take the full tax hit on your original principal amount when it's forgiven and then you end up in another payment plan to the IRS, with interest. But at least tax debt can get wiped in bankruptcy so there's always that option at the age of 45 I guess.

This could be avoided if the government would at least not charge people interest on education loans but gotta monetize the rot I guess.

Maed
Aug 23, 2006


Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

i don't understand how the Peanut lobby hasn't been able to research and fund a cure for this poo poo already

the cure is funnily enough exposure to the tiniest tiniest amount of peanut protein with very slow increase in the amount. it seems to me that most parents/people are way too scared to try it though

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

euphronius posted:

there aren’t doctors appointments anymore

it’s just getting on wait lists and hoping you snag an opening when it comes up

An appointment or reservation is an option, but not an obligation, to provide service.

For the customer though, an appointment is an obligation and we will fine you if you are late/no show to this appointment that will not start until 45 minutes after the stated time.

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007


You heard it here first folks: Biden is gonna dismantle the ADA!

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

https://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/1699044791076409722

Thank you, Obamacare!

Canned Sunshine
Nov 20, 2005

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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

We had to push for a diagnosis of celiac disease based upon our own research. The doctors were dismissive but ran the blood work after we argued for it several times. Lol and behold, we were right and that got the ball rolling for a specialist. It took six months to get an appointment, but it worked out.

Good luck with the testing and dealing with all that. You'll figure it out no matter what the test results are.

Oh wow, that sucks, but I’m glad you were able to figure it out! And yeah, in the grand scheme of things, giving up nuts and nut-based foods is a very small price to pay to keep him safe.

nexous posted:

my wife calls my drs office every day to see if they can move my appointment up because I have rapidly growing cancer but they finally just told her he won’t be back in the country until the day before my appointment so just give up

Jesus gently caress that sucks, I hope your prognosis is at least good? :(

Maed posted:

the cure is funnily enough exposure to the tiniest tiniest amount of peanut protein with very slow increase in the amount. it seems to me that most parents/people are way too scared to try it though

Yeah, this is the route we’re going to try and go otherwise, though we’re starting a bit late (we first tried at 8 months, and typically now they like to see it start at 6 months). Even then, it isn’t necessarily a cure so much as a desensitization that would hopefully prevent anaphylaxis.

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

FlapYoJacks posted:

TBH I’m surprised America hasn’t tried to kill the Americans with Disabilities Act.

it only still exists due to heavy lobbying from Big Ramps

Woke Mind Virus
Aug 22, 2005

Slow News Day posted:

You heard it here first folks: Biden is gonna dismantle the ADA!

you'd think Roe would've satisfied him.

once chuck grassley goes it's toast

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009


you got it nothing happend in 2020-2022

celebrating mass death seems to be a thing you enjoy op

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

What happened in 2011?

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
old people started dying and people literally cannot access medical care at all and medicare is slowly being privatized

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

anime was right posted:

old people started dying and people literally cannot access medical care at all and medicare is slowly being privatized

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011


Interesting article

quote:

Medicare may even wind up saving money because of Covid-19 — because the older Americans who died from the disease tended to have other illnesses that would have been expensive to treat if they had survived, according to an analysis from the Medicare actuary.

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

just perma ban that creep already hes a psychopath

Rip Testes
Jan 29, 2004

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Yeah this country is a depression and anxiety potentiator.

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

VitalSigns posted:

Interesting article

thank you, obamacare

Woke Mind Virus
Aug 22, 2005

Obamacare passed the buck. incredible work!

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HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

thank you obamacare

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