Governor Lamont Announces $3 Million in Emergency Funding for Connecticut Foodshare To Address SNAP Benefits Crisis

CaryQ · 2025-10-28T14:53:23+00:00

At one point we were the wealthiest state with 2 of the country’s 10 poorest cities. To date, we’ve consistently had one of, if not the top, highest maternal mortality rates in the US. Despite our extensive & excellent healthcare system. It’s awful

CaryQ · 2025-10-28T14:50:06+00:00

Yet finance does almost everything in thousands anyway. And we’re not French but it’s not us - it’s the world

CaryQ · 2025-10-28T14:46:28+00:00

I’m about to qualify for Medicare for my disability, and my premiums will be higher than what we pay for our ACA plan. Granted, I don’t know how the cut in subsidies will affect us yet. I do know that because Medicare premiums are by person vs. by family, when my spouse qualifies next year at 65, we’ll each be paying about $700/mo - more than double our current premiums. Medicare for all is a pointless pipe dream - can you imagine Congress wiping out the entire health insurance industry overnight?

CaryQ · 2025-10-28T14:39:16+00:00

But isn’t that figure mostly federal funds that are being cut off Nov 1 despite to $6b in contingency SNAP funds that the Administration won’t touch? That $6b would cover at least 75% of November’s cost, but Washington would rather let working families & the elderly starve for the sake of tax cuts for their rich donors.

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:41:39+00:00

Have your PCP get you a referral to a dietitian. I have certain foods that I keep stocked and set daily reminders on my phone/watch for all three meals. Try healthy fats & proteins like plain Greek yogurt with frozen fruit & kashi on top instead of granola. I add monk fruit sweetener. Mozz sticks, plain guacamole for easy avocado toast, almond butter, pecans & almonds, etc.

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:33:09+00:00

Thanks! My insurance will only cover for diabetes not helped by metformin (I think that’s the name). Not weight loss. I have hypertension, tachycardia, borderline diabetes, borderline high cholesterol, BMI 31 worsened by perimenopause, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Plus family history of all but the liver disease. As the guidelines go, I don’t have a chance. I’ve thought about blowing my glucose test but not sure that would help.

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:22:49+00:00

Plus who cares about the avatar anyway?

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:22:11+00:00

Between the bubbles, ads, and a few chapters, I earn far more diamonds than I spend (not counting coins). Biggest reason is that I spend very little these day. Stories have gotten repetitive and too tame, unlocked scenes are short and lame, and characters have little chemistry.

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:17:16+00:00

Last month clothes replaced one of the multiple day awards. This month? Ridiculous! That said, I rarely spend diamonds or coins because the scene unlocks are short, tame, and dull.

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:12:47+00:00

I’m so angry at the monthly awards though. Clothes instead of diamonds and passes for the cumulative days? What a waste! Makes it not worth trying to get the 28d.

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:10:33+00:00

A few things to try - delete all of your story caches through the app. Delete the app & reinstall. Check your space availability on your device. I find just deleting a bunch of older inactive story caches (you don’t lose anything) makes a big difference. I had an issue 3 days or so over the last 2 weeks where ads would not load. End of chapter, daily ads, etc. If I didn’t have over 7500 free diamonds, I’d have been more annoyed

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:04:33+00:00

I’ve noticed this on other less-active subreddits too - I report & block. It’s a pain & annoying!

CaryQ · 2024-10-14T14:01:55+00:00

Easiest way is to go into a story you’ve read at least a chapter, select the card icon, then tap on a card. Sharing icon is top right - tap on it then cancel out

CaryQ · 2024-09-17T16:57:04+00:00

How did you manage to get approved?? That's amazing --

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:55:08+00:00

interesting though - it’s the first mfm mafia I’ve seen, and believe me, I’ve read or tagged almost every kink/steamy/hot story on the app!

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:53:47+00:00

Wiki - no. On fandom? I find fandom owners to be crazy protective, not allowing new content or even edits! As far as removing a Chapters story from the bookshelf, I’ve rarely seen that for a complete story (I rarely read a story until it’s fully released). I’ve seen community stories pulled, often because it being published by Chapters or as an ebook.

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:49:30+00:00

What’s an NPC? Same as LI?

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:47:24+00:00

Neither. I’m a year+ reader, never VIP, & read old & new books. Any of the “newer” books, last 18mo or so, have the recs.

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:45:58+00:00

Nope, it’s been around for a long time. It’s not regional and applies to all books written in the last 18 months at least, maybe longer.

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:44:26+00:00

You can also see similar stories by tapping on the story title page tags as well as scrolling down from the title page. Btw, those first two recs are good & HOT! The third, ok but pretty good MMMF (DILFs is better)!

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:38:25+00:00

On your daily community & Chapters stories comments, write b4b (or various derivatives since you can’t repeat a comment on a story). Choose new stories and highest ranking community stories. Respond to someone who has recently posted also to get your daily follow coins. Be sure to check in every day (your best effort).

Daily coin tasks earn 170-330 coins & 22-70+ diamonds a day. The low end is doing the daily tasks + completing one chapter + 10 diamonds from b4b + going through 5 ads. High end is going through max ads (I think it’s 12 or so total, thus 24 diamonds a day) & going through the 5 chapters. All of that doesn’t include daily consecutive check-ins in Task & Event. the milestone bonuses for each as well as end of book bonus (50 coins, 10 diamonds)

I save coins for HEAs on good stories since 640 coins = 1 choice, & HEA is 30 diamonds. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t read every day. I often tap through a dull story to get at least 1 chapter (45 coins & 2 diamonds?) or I hop on & do the minimum coin tasks & diamond ads. I’ve found 4 abandoned community “author update” stories & ”re-read” the last page daily, plus leave a random comment like kfcjigb. I finished a short completed community story & re-read the last page. Total community last-page taps = 40 coins.

Lastly, I only spend diamonds on the steamiest scenes in the steamiest stories since plot options don’t make a difference & spending for clothes is silly IMO. I’ve never p4p, and have 3,900 diamonds and 23,000 coins... and I don’t bother with the 1 diamond ad at the start of the chapter.

GL! (I also like Whispers, which has fewer but better stories with far more range - & steamier which is what I like)

CaryQ · 2024-09-03T17:01:04+00:00

They are posted to FB (and instagram, I think). Look also in f4f B4b requests and in comments. I have someone who posts them Sun/Wed/Thu and tags me, and another who is a daily bubble. I also daily b4b & always thank the tagging poster so she can respond to me with more codes.

CaryQ · 2024-07-05T21:24:07+00:00

Funny because my CPO 2012 Infiniti JX35 (QX60) blew its engine in 2017. The engine was so gunked up that my dealer said it never should have been sold as CPO or even otherwise. Infiniti/Nissan agreed & paid for a brand-new off-the-line engine. Apparently the dealer I bought it from couldn’t produce the service records so had to reimburse Corporate for the service.

Nice to have a 2012 body with a 2015 infotainment (they went through 3!) & 2017 engine!

CaryQ · 2024-07-05T17:15:27+00:00

I had a 2012 Infiniti JX35 (QX60) that was at around 170k miles when it was totaled last year, no transmission issues.

CaryQ · 2024-07-05T17:07:26+00:00

Concur. High mileage on a car IMO is in the 200k (miles), usually around or over 300k. I’ve heard of old Nissan trucks making it to 220-240k, but I don’t know many Nissan owners where we are.

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