whatwhatwutyut

joined 11 months ago
[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Works for himself. But we live in Iowa so it isn't quite as bad of a salary as it sounds. Still not great though

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Holy wow, where are you located if you don't mind me asking? My dad lays carpet and makes like 35k a year.

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

The last few winters my dad had to drive up to Minnesota when he wanted to snowmobile - we would have like 1 inch of snow while they had feet of it

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I live in Iowa but work remotely for a company in Minnesota - we got like 2 feet more snow than Minnesota did with the blizzard a few weeks back. The climate has been so crazy these last few months

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

It isn't free, but I use a seedbox for running my Plex server. That way none of the media downloading is done on our local internet, all the ISP should see is that we are streaming data from a Plex server. They'd have no knowledge on if we own that data or not. I'm sure Jellyfin can also easily be run from a seedbox

Having a seedbox is also helpful because our internet has a pretty low upload speed, which would make watching anything outside the house a massive pain.

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is super informative without being condescending, wonderful job

I hope you have a great day!

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"But if we outlaw guns, only the bad people will have guns because they don't care about the law anyway!!"

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

I have to say, being on Medicaid through college showed just how true this is. Being able to put my health first, rather than worry about if I could afford a doctor visit (or an ER visit), was great. The peace of mind of knowing that I would pay $0 for ANYTHING medical lead to me putting my health first.

The one potential charge you could get was for going to the ER for something deemed a "non-emergency." Even then I didn't worry about whether I could go to the ER after whiffing it off my longboard and smacking my head into the pavement because... well, the non-emergency charge was $8.

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

Tell this to all the "entry level" positions that wanted 3-5 years of experience. Searching for a CS job with just a degree was terrible.

That's not to say I disagree with you though. Entry level should be the actual entry point into a field

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

Same. This is exactly what happens to me. Along with letting someone know at the beginning of a friendship that "hey sometimes people perceive me as an asshole or overly sensitive" and getting "oh I don't think you seem like that at all" only for them to tell me I'm an asshole or sensitive months later... and I don't feel like I've changed how I act at all in that time

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 19 points 9 months ago

I don't think it's selfish to not want kids. With how fucked the world is, maybe we should be thinking about if it's instead selfish to have kids.

I determined from about age 12 that I didn't want kids. 10 years later and I still don't want them, so I removed the possibility of accidentally having them. The government can't make me have kids - seeing as I yeeted my uterus.

[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's All Cops Are Bastards, not Bad

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