bro, i know all that stuff is bad, but have you heard her laugh? we made a solid choice.

(i hope i don’t need the /s, but Poe’s Law says i probably do)

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

i didn’t realize things had gotten so bad

I’m curious, what would happen if you failed kids anyway, despite the pressure from admin?

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

damn, same

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

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

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

just like Amazon no-checkout grocery store!