NutinButNet

Not my video, but I thought this man tells a story really well in an entertaining way and I just wanted to share his coworker’s experience.

This is absolutely incredible being able to experience this in my lifetime. Never got to experience Apollo and always wanted to see us make our return back to the moon someday.

Congratulations to the teams involved and good luck to the crew!

Insurance companies make a killing off people like me that never go to the doctor or anything for years, but that’s still not good enough.

I spend more than $200 per paycheck, so more than $500 each month for the privilege of having health insurance. When I go to the ER, I am charged $450 for that visit on top of that monthly fee.

So the one time I actually use it because I had a bloody nose that wouldn’t stop, I get two different bills.

$450? No. That’s not enough. I have to pay $595 for that.

I know how insurance is and how they play games, so there’s nothing I can do here except pay this. I’m pissed but it’s one of those things you just get pissed about knowing there’s nothing you can do about it. They are effectively charging me for them looking at me, checking vitals, and giving me 3 nasal sprays in my nose. And I guess a prescription I never went and picked up. The visit was largely unneeded because my nose stopped bleeding in the 3 hours I waited in the “rush” lane of the ER.

But the charge that really got me? $145 for “out of network provider”. Why?

Because the facility I went to was in network. They didn’t send my blood anywhere, I didn’t go to another facility…so….how is there an out of network provider charge here?

I call them up and the lady talks like this is normal which it sounds like it is. Just a BS charge they top on top of everything.

She says that’s how facilities often do it. The physician helping me was probably a contractor that is out of network.

But the facility is in network, so what difference does this make? This sounds like a “you” issue. Tell the facility to not let this contractor touch your patients (you can’t because the law won’t allow that, but still not my problem) or to let them go and you won’t have them in network until they only have in network physicians.

This is like going to McDonald’s and the manager and bread supplier tell you that they can’t agree on a price, so you’re paying for the buns on a separate bill. Bullshit. Manager pays for it and I pay manager what quotes me. And not after all is said and done.

I might still end up paying the same fee at the end of the day, but in this moment, I am fighting the petty fight of how you are going about this because: fuck you, that’s why.

I asked the person on the phone how I can avoid this in the future. I checked and made sure this facility was in network before going (I didn’t, because that’s fucking stupid in an emergency like blood gushing out of your nose, but she doesn’t need to know that) so how can I be expected to pay for an out of network charge that wasn’t made clear to me beforehand going to a facility that is clearly labeled as “in network”?

She didn’t have an answer 🙃

She told me “we gave you a discount! It could have been $3k but we lowered it to $149 for you.”

No, I didn’t get a discount because you’re being nice because you could have. I got a “discount” because both state and federal law prevent you from charging that full amount in this situation.

I asked her “do I talk to you about contesting this or do you transfer me to another department?” Because fuck all that “can I file a complaint” BS, I phrased this exactly so you start the complaint on this because I’m not putting up with it.

She asked me why I what I was contesting. Oh okay…it’s clear we’re not getting anywhere here. Bye bye. I’ll file my complaint elsewhere but best believe that shit is getting filed and I’m fighting as long and hard as it takes.

If I go to an in network facility and nowhere else, then there is no such thing as an out of network fee. End of story. None of that makes any sense.

It seems like cancer is the biggest thing we all think of when it comes to medicine and what we’d most like to eradicate from our species. So my question is phrased this way out of curiosity what the second worst thing medicine is currently trying to eradicate.

When I was a kid, I went to some big family and friend get together with other kids and adults.

As was tradition, a lot of the older adult men would play dominoes and drink beer. This night had Budweiser beer cans.

I walked up to one of the guys and asked him what he was drinking. To keep my innocence intact, he replied, “it’s water”.

I’ve never forgotten that moment and so every time I see one of those cans with that classic Budweiser design, my mind immediately first thinks there’s water in there.

Got this really weird issue. I just binged through the Psych series and movies and now I’m watching the Scrubs series on my Plex server hosted in a docker container on my Linux server with a DAS.

I had zero issues except some minor buffering on start of each episode when watching Psych.

But on Scrubs, I don’t have any buffering issues. But I have a weird issue where if I pause the video, the video unpauses itself after a few moments. If I pause it again, it does the same thing. To truly pause, I have to exit out of the episode and click back in to continue watching again.

I’m watching on an Apple TV 4K mostly where this happens.

I’ve had this server for years and never had any issues like this. I was watching Scrubs years ago but don’t remember this happening then either. I’m not sure what happened for this to suddenly happen. I’ve googled and found other people experiencing this issue, but nothing seems to be a solution or matches what I’m dealing with here.

Any ideas?

In a group, it makes sense. You want to get someone’s attention in a sea of others all messaging back and forth and make sure they know you’re talking to them, in particular.

But when it’s just you and me…WHY ARE YOU TAGGING ME?! This is a chat with just you and me. There is zero reason to, in effect, yell to call out to me to get my attention.

Yeah and that was how my weekend went.

Hey @you! Yeah, you! What are your plans for this upcoming week?

And I blame companies like Microsoft for enabling this. Why is this even a feature in an individual chat? Who realistically would use this in a meaningful way?

On the help desk, it’s always this one team that does this. I am messaging you already from the help desk email. Why does my direct email need to be CC’d as well? I am clearly getting the emails from you as I am responding back to you, aren’t I? I remove my email from the list and these fucking morons add it back. It was removed for a reason. Leave it off! I don’t need your duplicate emails. This guy went above and beyond today by figuring out it was me because I intentionally left my name off knowing how he is. But these are the same people who think they need to CC every fucking person they’ve ever talked to on a ticket about them needing their password reset…I am not kidding. There are 15 people CC’d on this ticket he submitted.

And he’s supposed to be an engineer……….

This is law that goes into effect January 1, 2027.

Colorado has a similar bill that has yet to become a law https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

What started off as an egg sandwich turned into a veggie sandwich with a fried egg in.

I bought a ton of veggies last night for a weekly salad and figured I’d add this and that and this is what I ended up with.

Picture of the interior

Ingredients: potato bread, mayo, sweet and spicy pickle slices, 2 eggs fried, lettuce, Roma tomato slices, red onion slice, alfalfa sprouts, and avocado slices.

And now that I write this, I realize I forgot my damn pickled beet slices!! Would’ve added some extra flavor. But they’re in my weekly salad along with olives.

Very tasty sandwich and good way to start my day!

You both legally have to stop and talk and share information, or else it’s a felony for leaving the scene of an accident.

Also works on celebrities too. Who wouldn’t think it’s cool that you got George Clooney’s number??

Never mind that you’re now on the hook for the accident’s damages and they’ll probably be mad at you. But that’s glass half empty talk.

I have at least two devices I can’t use/update since ditching Windows and moving to Linux and macOS.

I have a water cooler on my Bazzite gaming PC that has an LCD. It was pretty cool because it displayed content on this screen like temps and cool graphics. I got the program running just fine using Proton and Wine, but it won’t properly discover the device in their proprietary software. The LCD screen is connected to one of my motherboard’s USB ports (not an actual USB port, but the one you plug front IOs into).

Same is true for a keyboard I have. It has a cool LCD for displaying gifs and this comes by software the keyboard uses. It can also update the firmware of the keyboard, when updates are available. I got the software running just fine on both Linux and macOS using Proton and Wine, but, same issue as before, the software once installed doesn’t find the USB keyboard.

Neither of these have software/drivers made or available for Linux or macOS.

I’ve played around with winecfg and device configurations in here and not found a way to get the devices to show up there.

Is there any way to get USB devices to work with software like this?