[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 month ago

Is it the weed, or is it the growing awareness of our bleak reality that comes with age?

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 months ago

I work in American healthcare. Your doctor is actually one of the worst people to ask about coverage.

Unfortunately, the only solid way to be 100% sure of coverage is to call your insurance company and make them guarantee your planned procedures in writing. Every doctors office has a department to deal with insurance—after you talk to the insurance company you will want to talk to the insurance department at the doctors office and give them the written statement from the insurance company.

After your procedures, your bill will be processed by a medical coder at the doctors office, and a clearing house coder who gets things ready for your insurance company, before it potentially gets double checked again by coders who actually work for the insurance company. Those people will not have any clue about the arrangement made prior to your procedure, and this is the series of steps where something might happen that would cause your insurance company to not pay.

If you did your due diligence and got everything in writing beforehand, then the insurance company will kick the bill back to the doctor, at which point it will be reviewed by a payment specialist who will be able to see and use the written commitment to force the insurance company to process the bill.

This whole process takes anywhere from weeks to months, so you may not know there is a problem until a while after your appointment.

Welcome to American healthcare. Good luck getting whatever you can.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 months ago

Dude, read the room.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bruh…he was in Guantanamo Bay. It’s literally a torture chamber.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 7 months ago

He systematically used the power and influence of the presidency to project falsehoods, encourage division and violence, and potentially feed classified information illegally to foreign governments for his own personal gain.

He is currently on trial for bribing people to stay silent about his affairs during the 2016 election. He was previously found to have illegally taken classified documents back to his home in Florida and kept them after he was president, potentially to sell information. His son in law was given a career in the White House with no prior experience, and there is a huge paper trail to suggest that he got paid 2 billion by foreign governments for representing their interests during that time.

He’s like a corruption buffet, and he has openly stated he will retaliate against everyone he considers an enemy if he wins again.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We all know what Plex is for—the weird streaming integration wasn’t even part of the original design. They have to act like they don’t approve of the pirates because it keeps them from being next on the litigation chopping block.

They’ve done some annoying things in the last 5 years, but there is a huge gulf between tech literate people and the tech illiterate entertainment business. They know this, and they say the things they need to say to keep on keeping on.

Meanwhile, they have not reduced the 100 account limit for sharing with others, nor have they tried to paywall account sharing services as a business plan. Seems like their actions don’t threaten us salty sea-dogs at all.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 8 months ago

I also run Debian, btw.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 8 months ago

It wasn’t right in 1965, and it isn’t right today. Creating inverse discrimination to draw attention to historical discrimination is still a form of discrimination, even if it is temporary.

This was just a poorly executed concept that could have been done better.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 8 months ago

Perfectly replicating a Mac trackpad on a Linux system might be the final push for me to switch. Once those gestures are part of your flow, they are almost impossible to live without. It is one of the primary things Apple has ever gotten consistently right.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago

Did you read the article? This is the eighth coup in a French colonized African country in the last three years. There is a trend building.

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