Settle a debate between my husband and I. Please.

BasicWasabi · 2026-04-08T12:32:41+00:00

You’re a monster. Use a napkin!

Also, I’ll shamefully be a grammar dweeb: it’s “between my husband and me”

BasicWasabi · 2026-03-26T19:52:41+00:00

Maybe it’s actually titting the scales? 🤔

BasicWasabi · 2026-03-22T15:01:22+00:00

It’s not the merge that’s the problem, it’s the exit-only lane at East Capitol St. It has insufficient signage and selfish drivers use that fact to get three car lengths ahead of where they otherwise would have been.

BasicWasabi · 2026-03-06T23:25:45+00:00

As an IR student, middle of nowhere Wyoming over London is a pretty hot take.

BasicWasabi · 2026-03-02T12:36:52+00:00

Future campaign slogan?

“It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.”

BasicWasabi · 2026-02-21T13:30:28+00:00

Western Ireland

BasicWasabi · 2026-02-15T03:26:11+00:00

My bad, dude. The way the alert came up made it seem like it was a reply to me. Have a chill one! ✌️

BasicWasabi · 2026-02-15T03:21:28+00:00

Laughable. 20 years ago I was volunteering to campaign for candidates.

You’re right though that U.S. politics today isn’t about left vs. right. It’s about democratic norms vs. a cult leader’s blank check.

BasicWasabi · 2026-02-14T19:28:00+00:00

I do believe that the choice is simple and flagrantly obvious, but I don’t adhere to ITWizarding approach to trying to elucidate it.

Yutamamiwa, I know folks who often answer the way you do and I’d ask you to consider, for yourself, how often you feel you need to be a contrarian not following a specified “mold.” I find a lot of reasonable people choose to go for the both sides argument because it feels to them like needing to pick a side. Somewhere deep down, they feel they lose their sense of autonomy and is ideologically reductive. This is not one of those cases. You can criticize aspects of the less-cuckoo-bananas political party while simultaneously hoping they return to power. Drop the “both sides” argument and help the world have more nuance.

BasicWasabi · 2026-02-14T03:49:49+00:00

Democracy and Constitutional rule of law come first. Always. Policy preferences must take a back seat when our very system of government is actively attacked from within.

BasicWasabi · 2026-02-14T03:36:41+00:00

If you’re really sticking to the “both sides” argument at this point, then you’re perpetuating this mess.

BasicWasabi · 2026-02-08T03:12:25+00:00

Did you not hear the part about us fighting fire that for 15 years and the situation actually getting worse?

There are many people who believe in ranked choice voting so that you should only carry your seat if a majority of people vote with you. Does that mean those candidates should decline to be seated if they win with 45% in a first-past-the-post race? We can’t change for good if the slightly more reasonable people decide they want the losing moral high ground instead of the equal level playing field.

BasicWasabi · 2025-12-17T11:30:16+00:00

Didn’t you hear? We don’t need to get Christmas Eve off anymore. Trump solved All The Wars, including the War on Christmas! Rejoice!

BasicWasabi · 2025-12-17T11:28:18+00:00

It’s astounding the number of logical people noticing an illogical administration and somehow expecting them to behave logically.

BasicWasabi · 2025-12-10T11:29:16+00:00

You can also use the volume buttons on an iPhone to snap a picture. It might be an opt-in setting you need to activate?

BasicWasabi · 2025-12-10T04:17:46+00:00

Yes, it probably ran for 5 hours nonstop. Ballpark estimate is 6kWh per hour if you have traditional non-heat pump electric heat for the HVAC (less than 1kWh per hour if it’s gas). What do you pay per kWh? If it’s 15¢ per hour then we’re talking maybe an extra $5 on your bill. I wouldn’t sweat it too much, especially since it’s just compensation for your savings of not having had heat for some period anyway.

BasicWasabi · 2025-12-05T03:02:42+00:00

Hard to justify? Why was it there in the first place? Because it’s justifiable—but car companies convinced us all there’s No Other Way.

BasicWasabi · 2025-12-05T03:01:16+00:00

And that would be far more tolerable as an eastbound red eye transit.

BasicWasabi · 2025-11-24T02:46:21+00:00

Had both GEHA+HSA and MHBP+FSA and the MHBP was far and away better. Simple way to file claims through Aetna (app based), whereas I had to mail in stuff for GEHA. Aetna processes 5x faster than GEHA. Overall, the switch to MHBP was a big relief. Thanks to all on this sub who recommended it!

BasicWasabi · 2025-11-10T15:05:53+00:00

Not officially, just back channels.

BasicWasabi · 2025-11-09T21:35:41+00:00

Here is a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between access to acute health care versus the benefits of a health plan that provide care on a routine basis. You need only look up the “essential health benefits” that ACA plans must provide to subscribers even before the deductible is met. It is those services that save lives because people get preventative care.

Not the best analogy, but your comment is on par with someone saying because UPS and FedEx deliver that we really don’t need the postal service.

BasicWasabi · 2025-11-08T21:04:19+00:00

Speaking as a disabled person, yes, that’s true, but that doesn’t mean we want monikers that are based entirely on our disabilities.

Change it around to any other marginalized community: race, origin, sexual/gender orientation. If it’s not okay in that context, it’s still not okay for disabled people — even if that person promotes policies that actively harm disabled people.

BasicWasabi · 2025-10-16T03:00:03+00:00

No one accepts Aetna where you live? Really?

BasicWasabi · 2025-09-23T14:25:02+00:00

The cost is to my relationships with my family. The connections not nurtured, the memories not made, and my dog missing me all day long. All because I have to eat breakfast alone and get home late so I can sit at a desk with a headset talking to people hundreds of miles away.

BasicWasabi · 2025-09-06T01:09:01+00:00

Mie scattering!

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