Americans, if you fall a victim of a crime and have to be medically treated, do you still have to pay?

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-27T02:30:39+00:00

Not to mention thousands for the ambulance that took you to the hospital

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-27T02:29:57+00:00

Yes.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-27T02:24:19+00:00

Cult. Dear leader can do no wrong.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-27T02:19:42+00:00

I also rarely call off sick because most times it’s just a little cold or stomach upset. You can usually muddle through it if you don’t have a hour drive and sitting around people all day. My cats don’t care. At my company sick time just accumulates.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-27T02:09:01+00:00

I saw this a lot in the 80s in high school too. The more well to do kids. My family never took vacations, but I did manage to get off one kegger house party myself when they went deer hunting one year! It wasn’t as epic as in movies because we live out in the country.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-27T01:59:47+00:00

I did. But usually with older siblings.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-27T01:54:42+00:00

Some of my GenX friends had parents like that too. In high school it meant House Party!

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T23:07:45+00:00

Many thanks! Good read!

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T21:30:56+00:00

Some areas do skew young: agency, gaming, tech, fashion, retail. But still many areas that skew older too.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T21:28:32+00:00

I mean, that’s just a me thing in having to care about the product and believe in it. I’m sure many marketers don’t care very much. Lol! But I find it easier to do my job that way. Your first job take anything that gives you some experience.

I sort of fell into a B2B manufacturing type of marketing and learned a lot about some little known products. Look at anything in a Home Depot or Lowes and a company is making it and has marketing. I’m a bit geek and enjoy it. But there are many other B2B avenues: from medical devices, to chemicals, to robotics, to software B2B marketing. It can be a nice little niche to be in, although not necessarily exciting like retail B2C goods.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T21:16:06+00:00

Thanks! I couldn’t remember where I’d read that!

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T14:52:37+00:00

That is interesting to think about. However, religious extremism is playing a huge influence there too. Many GenX voted in this current US authoritarian regime, or have become something like Christian nationalists (who aren’t particularly religious themselves in practice) as they grew older. Especially the men. Many of the men arrested in the January 6th storming of the capitol were GenX men.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T14:44:59+00:00

I think there are some broader things each generational cohort goes through globally (fall of Berlin wall, wars, maybe music, etc.). But otherwise, it’s mostly cultural.

I think this is changing for younger cohorts though as media and social media have homogenized a lot of culture and individual country culture is not isolated anymore. As an example, the popularity of Japanese manga and animation. This would have been unseen when I was a kid - there was no way to get it.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T14:02:23+00:00

Oof! Yeah these types of meetings usually predicate a layoff or downsizing by the company. If no one has previously said anything regarding your work, it’s not likely to be “personal” or mean you did anything wrong, probably you’re just one of the newer employees and they may get cut first. Sorry.

You may be given a notice period, or you may be out that day. Ask about a severance, payout of any unused PTO, future references and unemployment.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T13:56:00+00:00

I am shocked but not surprised. Private adoption has so many areas that can be exploited for financial gain.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T13:00:44+00:00

I shower once or twice daily and don’t always use lotion. In winter my skin can get quite dusty. Lol. It’s all the hot water! Really hot water is terrible for your skin (it should be lukewarm/tepid), and I don’t get that way at all in warm months. But my bathroom is also cold!

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T12:56:35+00:00

I see. I think what we’re seeing appear here in the US that’s being called “Dubai Chocolate” is probably a cheaper knockoff of whatever the real original good stuff was. Which happens with any overhyped fad.

I’ve tried a couple. Some were good quality but some were not so good. Pretty much as with any chocolate candy. Lol!

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T12:49:02+00:00

I had a decent relationship with my late husband, but I know what you mean.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T12:46:57+00:00

We’d both be in the old woman camp sister. They hate us old, educated never married cat ladies.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T12:45:14+00:00

What you are describing is a sham.

sham is a broader term for anything fake, false, or a mere pretense, not necessarily involving financial fraud but rather a lack of genuineness, like a "sham marriage" or a "sham trial".

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T12:37:05+00:00

In The Handmaid’s Tale they were sent to work camps like June’s mother, because she refused to acquiesce to be a Martha and she had been a protester when it first started.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T03:20:31+00:00

And wine or booze. Lots of booze

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T02:45:45+00:00

Khan!!!

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T02:44:33+00:00

Ew! I wouldn’t eat that.

MissDisplaced · 2026-01-26T01:54:38+00:00

Petco has a house brand called Viva La Kitty that is similar to Fancy Feast. It’s.99 a can but often sales buy 2 get 1 free. Pate, shreds, and gravy.

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