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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Here’s a break down of my last healthcare stuff.

    Weekly insurance out of paycheck: $127

    Psychiatrist (ADHD) $150ish a visit, meds are ~$98

    Last PCP visit (included some general blood tests) $217 (mostly lab which wasn’t covered)

    Last ER visit: $792, waited over 10 hrs told to take an Advil and go home. Turns out I tore some of the sack (for lack of a better word) around my organs from weightlifting. it was thought a suspect gall bladder issue. I learned this from not the hospital.

    And my appendix removal ended up costing me just over $9,000.

    This is all what I paid out of pocket, the actual numbers for gross was, well, gross. I don’t need medical aid too often but it ends up pricey if I do.



  • I suppose I can awkward and as much as I have been trying I believe the way I talk is taken not as I intend. A good friend recently said I “talk directly but that’s just how I am”. Though I’m not sure how I speak differently than others.

    I’m not much a touchy person outside of relationships so that could also seem less friendly too. I will say that I avidly go out of my way to not be in charge, I dislike the attention it puts on me.

    I appreciate the insight though. It probably is a culmination of those factors and possibly some more too. I still find it hard to think of myself that way knowing what goes on internally haha, often I struggle just dealing with cashiers


  • I was told “No, you’re intimidating”. I forget exactly how it became the topic. It was an ex who said it and it was supposed to be a compliment in context. I still don’t understand it especially compared to the friend whom I was with.

    I am not tall, not heavy, not particularly muscular (especially at that time) and have soft features. My friend is a head taller, twice my size, built heftier/stockier and had sharper features. He is a big ol hairy Aussie. Awesome guy, no idea how I’d be more intimidating than him though









  • Not sure if you’re looking for a legitimate answer or not but I can provide my take: to me, looking at that standard, I cannot make heads or tales of the pronunciation at a glance. Learning a whole new set of symbols and standards is simply more effort and less efficient in the long run when considering the amount of necessity actually required. I.E. it is not an incredibly common everyday issue. It can also be meaningfully resolved with something more linguistically universal (the known and taught alphabet), so the time spent, the effort expended, does not pay dividends and ultimately the half measure typically works near equivocally.

    I am aware of Ghoti (fish) and Ptoughneigh (Tony) but really, those a more fun experimental ways to twist pronunciations and examples given generally sick to things people would know and understand the way to pronounce, and if not, could also be easily fixed. Even so many would not even second guess because the importance is usually of such low value that it can be wrong until corrected, further diminishing the value of learning a more rare and nonstandard (for general communication) standard.

    Different dialects do tend to have slights to the pronunciation but again, it just feels like such a non-issue.

    That’s simply my layman take as to why I wouldn’t learn it. I can’t speak for anyone else