I have no idea how dental insurance companies make any money, why would you ever sign up if you didnât know they were going to pay out more than you put in?
I come across so many personal-finance bloggers who think dental/prescription insurance is just obviously a basic necessity, and then you look at the plan theyâre on and the payout caps are so low that itâs damn near physically impossible to get out more than you put in no matter *how* bad your health luck is.
#reply via reblog #medical cw #adventures in human capitalism #(unfortunately there *isn’t* high-deductible anti-catastrophe government dental insurance) #(and my dad sure did have some dental catastrophes this year) #((but a dental plan with a $400 cap wouldn’t have helped a damn))
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me Iâm a scheming bastard, I would pay someone a dollar to tell me Iâm a scheming bastard twice, repeating this process until both of us are filthy rich, splitting the gains 50/50
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #fun with loopholes
Santa is on strike due to global warming. Â All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Â Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.
fucking bizarre that computers heat up while operating. like dude itâs just math
i too heat up doing math. Theyâre not special
itâs worse than that. the laws of physics require doing math to produce waste heat.
itâs bonkers that the answer to âcan i make a more efficient steam engineâ is âno, and btw all good is temporaryâ, but itâs objectively even funnier that the answer to âcan my fucking cpu stop throttlingâ is âno, bc otherwise you could make more efficient steam enginesâ
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#that one post with the thing #aging cw #apocalypse cw
Making friends with people from other countries is so crazy. I sent my group chat a Big Bird gif.
And this one girl says, âwhy isnât he blue?â
Iâm like, the fuck you mean??
So today I learned that in the Dutch version of Sesame Street, they do, in fact, have a blue Big Bird.
I was baffled by this so I went on Muppets Wiki and guess what.
In Mexico, Big Bird is green and his name is Abelardo.
Turkish Big Bird (aka Minik Kus) is apparently fucking orange.
This looks like a fuckin alternate universe or smth. I canât.
Actually, in the Mexican version (which is the one I saw here in Colombia, and was probably streamed in other countries in Latin America) we had both the yellow and the green bird. That is because Abelardo (the green bird) is the Mexican cousin of Big bird. Initially it was supposed to be the Mexican version of Big Bird, but then it was decided to leave both characters and make them cousins to help explain the kids about the migration wave between USA and Mexico in the 90s
There is even a chapter of the show were Abelardo travels to the US to visit his cousin Big Bird
Later, they decided that all the different birds, from all the versions around the world, would be âcousinsâ too, with the idea of showing the diversity of cultures and teach the kids about unity and acceptance against racism and discrimination
Sorry sorry hold on sorry. sorry????
Cookie Monsterâs name in Spanish is LUCAS EATSCOOKIES????
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#[I don’t know how to write it downâ but please imagine me singing ”Cham Me’od Hayom” here] #((okay *wow* that’s ungoogleable)) #((here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYXYSQAfJs )) #Sesame Street #the more you know
I think the discussion that made time loops my brand was entirely confined to Twitter, so since this website has gone all in on time loops of late, here, have the story:
Several years ago, I suggested to my wife that we have an agreement that if either one of us ever came to the other and said that we were in a time loop, we just accept that itâs real and get on with things, thereby eliminating the frustration of the looping partner having to convince the other one every day.
She REFUSED. Because âtime loops arenât real.â
Well, we had this debate on and off for several years, and finally, she got tired of me bringing it up and agreed. So now we have a deal: Weâll believe each other, but if I ever do it as a joke, the dealâs off.
It turns out that the reason that my wife has been refusing to make this agreement is less that time loops arenât real, and more that sheâs concerned I would come to her one day, claim to be in a time loop, and then the next day declare the time loop had finally broken. And since that is, of course, exactly what it would look like to her if I really was in a time loop, sheâd have no way of proving it.
I explained to her that sheâs completely right, that would be incredibly funny, but Iâd never do it because thereâs a part of me that is legitimately nervous that I will actually end up in a time loop one day, and I need her to believe me.
This wonât help YOU, but it will help anyone who knows you and gets stuck in a time loop if you come up with a code phrase that means someone is in a time loop, commit it to memory, and NEVER tell anybody what the phrase is.
Then, if someone comes to you and tells you the code phrase (which, again, you have NEVER revealed to anyone), then you can trust that in a previous iteration of the time loop they mustâve successfully convinced you that they were in a time loop and so you gave them the pass phrase to speedrun in future iterations.
You can even just commit to giving it to anyone who says theyâre in a time loop, right? But you shouldnât believe them if they use it afterwards.
But you say âhey, hereâs the passphrase; use it on the next time through the loop and that me will believe you.â
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#I recommend having more than one #multiple security levels and all that #time travel #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
âThese copper ingots,â the devil said, âare of sub-par quality.â
âYou accepted them as payment,â the merchant said, âthe deal is done.â
âVery well. I will uphold my end of the bargain,â the devil said. âYour name will live forever.â
âThat is all I ask,â said Ea-nasir. (Source: Micro SF/F Stories)
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#I was double-checking whether I’d ever reblogged the previous post before #and it turns out that not only is *that* one not in hereâ I never reblogged *this* one #managed to dig it up on DuckDuckGo after a few tries #Ea nasir #that one post with the thing
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