Kurt Cobain was the first death that really freaking hit me as a teenager, but I am not bothered by Nirvana.
When Dime got killed it took me a while to be able to listen to Pantera again. That was a damn gut punch.
Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington still haunt me to this day because I felt like I was seen when I listened to their music — especially Chester. I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety my whole life and have attempted 3 times (along with being an alcoholic). Those two bands just remind me of the dark times and I never want to go back.
Hunger Strike just because Cornell was part of that band and I loved the hell out of that song.
Bonus song: Bother by Stone Sour
Take everything I said above and multiply it by 100 with this song. Every word feels like a mirror on my soul and things get ugly
I just can’t. He makes me anxious just seeing him on screen. I so want to watch Meet the Fockers because DeNiro is one of my faves, I just can’t do it.
I have both Medicaid and Medicare because I don’t make enough on SSDI to be able to afford Medicare premiums but it’s a requirement of SSDI to have it.
"There are 18 very important trading relationships, and we are currently negotiating with 17 of those trading partners," Bessent told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on Tuesday. "Approximately 97 or 98% of our trade deficit is with 15 countries, 18% of the countries are our major trading partners. And I would be surprised if we don’t have more than 80 or 90% of those wrapped up by the end of the year, and that may be much sooner."
Uhhh....I'm not sure you understand the gravity of the self-made situation when you have major retailers saying shelves could be empty in weeks because of this stupidity.
"Obviously, we're working as expeditiously as possible, but we're not trying to make deals that are Band-Aids for the sake of making deals," the official added.
But....the whole point of Medicaid was that it is there to cover those who are poor because they wouldn't be able to afford health care otherwise.
I'm on SSDI and get Medicaid and Medicare with the only cost to me being the Medicare Part B coverage that is close to $200/month. I don't pay copays or for any of my prescriptions. However I have noticed the quality of my healthcare from the same doctor that I had while on private pay health insurance has taken a nosedive. My guess is the office doesn't want to deal with Medicaid or Medicare more than they have to. Or my health could just be that bad, either way it's worse.
If this proposal ends up as legislation I would end up having to pay copays for health services and prescriptions I use right now that would most likely not be financially viable. If Medicaid gets taken away from me completely I lose all access and if stopping medications doesn't kill me then the lack of oxygen due to extreme sleep apnea will.
I'm so sick of being terrified the last few months (SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing). Just fucking do it already and get this over with instead of fucking torturing those of us at the bottom more than we've already been tortured just going through the process of trying to get access to these programs.
What's more likely to happen is a full on economic collapse soon. Where things go from there is anyone's guess -- but I don't see balkanization as a part of it. If Trump and team declare martial law and start doing even more human atrocities it might be the spark for WW3. Does that happen before China attacks Taiwan and start WW3?
Regardless of what happens, this is going to be ugly and a whole lot of people are going to die.
Yeah I saw the public broadcasting defunding one. To be honest, I lost track of all the things going on because I've been so focused on Social Security, Medicaid, and HUD because anything that happens to them affects me in some way more than anything else being on disability and in HUD housing.
I imagine once things come up in the Supreme Court we'll see a flurry of activity regardless of their decisions
I was born and raised as a Catholic, did my time in Catholic school until I graduated high school. Too many years later (more than I care to admit) and several different beliefs later I still automatically don't see the abbreviation and see the "Saint" instead. It was ingrained in my damn DNA.
I was like.... Saint Upid? huh? Then it hit me and I almost busted a gut laughing so hard.
No, only states do. Although territories have members in congress, they can't vote on any legislation. They have a government set up by Congress and pretty much oversee themselves with no ability to influence elections or laws in the states. The last territory to become a state was Hawaii. Territories are land grabs, statehood comes after that.
Canada would unfortunately be a land grab for the resources and nothing else for Trump. It would be ravaged and the people of Canada would suffer greatly for it without an ounce of ability to do anything about it.
I don’t think Trump is actually running the white house anymore. Watching the project 2025 checklist, it’s far too complete for Trump to be able to dictate any of it.
What bothers me more is that it's been stuck at 42% complete for what seems like a month. Things have taken a nose dive compared to the first couple of months. Makes me wonder if we're going to go from 42% to 80% with martial law all at once soon.
The military preys on the poor and desperate. It brain washes those that don't know fully what they are getting involved with.
Exactly this. In 96/97 I was supposed to have gone to college and fucked that whole thing up and had to look for a job. I was having a really hard time trying to find a job and thought about the military.
Out of the blue I got a phone call from one of the military recruitment centers (you're lucky I remember this at all, let alone what branch) telling me about military service since I had turned 18. I told them I was hearing impaired and wear hearing aids as well as legally blind in one eye. I was told I was not a good candidate and would be denied despite my willingness to take the offer since I couldn't find a job fresh out of high school.
This comment connected this memory of that call and the Iraq War in a way I hadn't thought of before -- I no doubt know now that if I had been accepted into the military I would have gone to Iraq in 2003. At this moment, I am grateful that I have an unusually heavy burden of medical issues when I normally don't find much to be positive about in life.
So right now I'm not in a financial situation that I can even possibly think about donating.
My general issue with FOSS is the guilt trip I go on when devs plead for donations -- that's MY issue, not any of the dev teams -- but it plays a part in not using FOSS as much as I would like. I don't want to sell my soul, but that's about all I have to give right now so free ad-supported services and software are where I tend to lean to these days.
However, I am trying to put as much focus on supporting less shitty humans and buy locally whenever I can now. I didn't realize the views of the devs of Lemmy until a few days ago and I'm a little concerned to be even using Lemmy as a whole as it shows some level of tacit support for the devs and their beliefs. If they weren't open about it, obviously this wouldn't be an issue but since it's out in public it's an issue.
I swear I have a point to all this....
Is Lemmy funded just by direct contributions from users or do instances take extra money from their donations and funnel it down to the main project?
If anyone is familiar with the various 12 Step programs, this is pretty much how those main programs get funded. The local meetings take donations that pay for the rent and any other expenses and then donate left over funds to the main service organization while keeping a reserve for emergencies.
If I were in the position to donate, I would feel much better donating to Lemmy.ee rather than the main project considering their views on certain political issues. I would not be directly donating, but if the instance donated extra funds I might be ok with that. It just feels different for some reason.
Yeah I have the AirPods Pro and have tried out the transparency feature, specifically because Apple has been floating the idea around that these could technically act as hearing aids and I'm looking for alternatives that might be cheaper now that I'm on disability.
It reminds me of when hearing aids first came out when I was a kid, only not quite as good. But you get the idea with the frequencies and also background noise. Go into a loud coffee shop with them on and try to carrying on a conversation with someone only using the transparency feature.
For someone with slightly declining hearing it might be ok. For me I have mild-to-moderate hearing loss and I have to use an actual hearing aid, not a hearing device which is what all these "hearing aids" that are cheap are. I have to order them through an audiologist and they are not cheap and barely covered by insurance (most of which won't cover them if you don't use THEIR cheaper brand). But hey, at least they're kinda covered now. For 40 years or so of my life it was all $4,000 - $6,000 out-of-pocket every 5-7 years depending on how long they lasted and if they could be repaired.
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