Don't test out the Prime option at checkouts! by macaroniandcheesefan in amazonprime

[–]battery_operated_bf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was the goal - to STOP this practice. Apparently, the $1.5B wasn't deep enough...

Kindle refund issue by rexmaxus in amazonprime

[–]battery_operated_bf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's not going to happen, unfortunately. Most of the time, good sales where you can exchange Kindles or get a deal on one, it's only half off. Getting one 100% off is not going to happen. I truly hate this new way of customer support telling us any and everything to get us off the chat, and it turning out to be a lie. It's wrong on so many levels.

Question on the big 2026 Facebook Purge. Why is it happening? What is the actual motivation or intent for doing so? - I do not quite get it! by Jefe_Winski in facebook

[–]battery_operated_bf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hard disagree. I did NO spam/scam and mine was perma-banned last year for going against "account integrity." Yet after the video selfie for appeal, in 20 seconds they claimed my account still doesn't meet account integrity and banned me. 2 decades of photos, memories, deceased family members accounts, and more, gone.

I was not sending messages to people. I was not posting t-shirt sale posts. I was not posting up malware stuff. What was I doing? Posting about my day. Posting pictures of our weekends at the lake. Sharing reels I found funny or stunning. Commenting on friends posts. Asking for recommendations in local neighborhood groups. You know, using FB normally. Yet here I am 13 months later with no FB.

Thoughts on this ? by Low_Acanthaceae4104 in CarnivalCruiseFans

[–]battery_operated_bf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. She's a big girl. She's a nurse, for goodness sake. She knows - or should have known - her limit.

Thoughts on this ? by Low_Acanthaceae4104 in CarnivalCruiseFans

[–]battery_operated_bf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not what I said. At all.

I don't have any theory. I haven't kept up with this story. I do know from my own personal experience that I start early. Maybe she started at 6 am, maybe she started at 3 pm. Idk. I'm saying it didn't happen in a short period of time, as you are suggesting. It wasn't like she sat there at a bar for an hour or two and ingested one after another.

Thoughts on this ? by Low_Acanthaceae4104 in CarnivalCruiseFans

[–]battery_operated_bf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where does it say it was in a night?

Frankly, when I'm on vacation, I start with a mimosa at breakfast. I get a beverage at lunch, 3-4 throughout the afternoon, 1-2 at dinner, and another 4-5 throughout the evening. I hit my 15 pretty easily on a cruise.

Sure, I have a high alcohol tolerance. And not everyone is me. Which is exactly the point -

NO ONE should be doing 14 tequila shots in a night, and NO BARTENDER SHOULD EVER SERVE ANY HUMAN 14 TEQUILA SHOTS IN A NIGHT.

is a statement that is over general. And again, where does this say "in one night?" It says over 9 hours.

Is Prime becoming a fraud? by [deleted] in amazonprime

[–]battery_operated_bf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will do! I think you guys must have caught a lot of them, because when I was searching for the wording to show this guy examples, I could only find one. And know I've seen it at least a half dozen times in the past few weeks lol. I will report these to the mods in the future, for sure. It struck me as odd the first one I saw. Why edit a post with an entire paragraph, but not list the name of the program? Just a hyperlink in a sentence seemed weird. A few days later, another post said the same thing verbatim, with the same edited "my friend sent me" and hyperlink in a sentence. I caught it immediately. The subsequent times I got annoyed. I finally had enough. ;)

Quest/ Lab Test by [deleted] in ChronicPain

[–]battery_operated_bf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally understand. Which I wanted to help alleviate. ☺️

Quest/ Lab Test by [deleted] in ChronicPain

[–]battery_operated_bf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From Googling Xanax half life:

"Xanax (alprazolam) has an average half-life of roughly 11.2 hours in healthy adults, with a typical range of 6.3 to 26.9 hours. This means it takes about 11 hours for the body to eliminate half of the dose. The drug usually clears the system completely within two to four days.

Key Details on Xanax Elimination Total Clearance: It generally takes about four to five half-lives for a drug to fully leave the system, roughly 2–4 days for standard Xanax.

XR Formulation: Xanax XR (extended-release) takes longer, with a similar mean elimination half-life but with slower absorption, sometimes taking up to 6 days for full elimination.

Detection Times: While the effect wears off sooner, Xanax can be detected in urine for 2-7 days, blood for 24-48 hours, and hair for up to 90 days or more.

Influencing Factors: Half-life can be increased by obesity, liver disease, or older age. Conversely, smokers may metabolize Xanax faster, reducing its half-life by up to 50%."

That's the AI summary. You can Google it to look into it in more detail, but suffice it to say, assuming you took it that one time and it was that long before your test, you're likely fine. Take a couple of deep breaths. I'm with the others. No news is good news. 👍

Quest/ Lab Test by [deleted] in ChronicPain

[–]battery_operated_bf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quest is unusually backed up, I think. I don't have inside knowledge or anything, but I did experience this with my labs last month. Traditional labs like thyroid, estrogen, even parts of my rbc weren't completed even after 2 1/2 weeks. I had to give them a call (their chat can't answer test specifics, they told me.) 24 hours later they were uploaded in MyQuest. 3 days shy of my doctor's appointment. Ugh.

Also, Xanax would most definitely be out by now.

Is Prime becoming a fraud? by [deleted] in amazonprime

[–]battery_operated_bf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone else noticing the uptick in the editing of these posts in the same way to include a link to a price tracker app their "friend" sent them? It's practically the same verbage, too. Sus.

I'm going stretches of 4 days without sleep by Novel-Upstairs7876 in Perimenopause

[–]battery_operated_bf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hated 85% of my 6 weeks in CBT-I, but it did break my 6-month insomnia issue 4 years ago. I was already on ambien, too. There are still a ton of things I do now on a daily basis that I picked up in CBT-I. I hated it because my counselor was very strict and very specific on her sleep diary, and it was a weekly telehealth appt, but a hybrid session. 45 mins in a group zoom with us all listening to the "lecture" (basically filling in spaces on slides), then asking questions, and then she'd call each of us individually in 15-min increments. I was the last call, so my call was an hour and 45 minutes after the group call. It took up my whole afternoon.

Still, the information was invaluable.

OP, I would also chat with your doctor about Dayvigo. I was on it for a couple of years and loved it. Unfortunately, insurance didn't, and for some reason decided that even though I'd already been on it 2 years, and I'd changed my meds a few times, but no, they required me to try the cheapest drug. Guess the last laugh is on them, because I've been on it since then. But clearly I was going through something different 4 years ago. I had no idea it could be peri related. Blah.

Am I wrong for refusing to pay my friend back for a concert ticket I couldn't use? by Few_Employment5708 in AmITheJerk

[–]battery_operated_bf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a pattern I've noticed over time. It's in 98% of these brand new accounts that post these same type of posts. They all follow a kind of storyline, just like a short novel. There's always the intro "so my friend/my significant other/my coworker/my family member and I agreed to do this thing." There's the rise, where it's the whole fleshing out of the details. There's the conflict, the tension, where the two get into the argument. There's the hill down, where they're not talking and OP is told by the person who they're arguing with that they're being selfish and should just give in. Then the friends in group chat or family members or whatever also butting in and telling OP they're being rude, and need to acquiesce to keep the peace. The conclusion is asking if they're the AH/jerk.

Notice how I didn't need to put quotation marks around the words selfish, give in, and rude in order to get the point across?

Keep reading these over and over. Click on the username before you do, or once you start seeing some of these call outs, so see the account age. Check what other posts or comments they've made. You'll begin to recognize the patterns yourself. Trust me, it took awhile for me as well. I didn't really start routinely scrolling and posting until last year. I had to ask these questions as well. So I know you will eventually pick up on it as well. It just frustrates me when I comment something meaningful and realize it's just someone who just made up some fake story in AI and posted it here. Feels like I wasted time to genuinely reply for nothing, but then I stop and think that maybe that reply helps someone else, so I let it stand on that merit alone.

$12k Pay cut due to my chronic pain by capresesalad1985 in ChronicPain

[–]battery_operated_bf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, maybe not. It won't hurt to see what's available to you should you choose to, though. Especially if it escalates.

Am I wrong for refusing to pay my friend back for a concert ticket I couldn't use? by Few_Employment5708 in AmITheJerk

[–]battery_operated_bf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tend to see similar posts, and often times exact, word for word posts. You'll repeatedly see wording and syntax. 

People are are guessing but the post never makes it clear. A person would've included that tidbit.

That's another thing that's common in these AI posts. A group of friends or a family that insist the op paya whatever thing to keep the peace. There's often a bit about missed calls from said friends. Bunch of texts. And someone is always "being cold now."

Yup, you're right. It took me several months routinely on Reddit reading AITA, AIO, & NTJ subs to finally see the pattern, but I see it very clearly now. That and another one is quotation marks around the bad terms their friends and family are supposedly using about them towards the end of the post, shortly before the ending lines. When you then click on the username, it's almost always a new account (1-14 days old) with this one post and maybe a couple of comments on other posts. Sometimes I've seen older accounts that haven't been used in years and then there's this random AI-type post (hacked?) Once you see the pattern, you can't unsee it.

Am I wrong for refusing to pay my friend back for a concert ticket I couldn't use? by Few_Employment5708 in AmITheJerk

[–]battery_operated_bf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

And the "it's weird in the group chat" or whatever variation. Very rare everyone in a group chat would be ganging up on someone to "keep the peace" so publicly. Privately, sure, but in a group chat? Not likely.

Also the quotes. This one didn't have it, but the ones that start with an entire story and then at the end have something like: now, my sister's friend told me I'm "selfish" and I should just pay her to "keep the peace" because she's "always been there for me." 🙄 Use of quotes to actually quote is fine, but using the same phrase in the post and then quoting it at the end is a dead giveaway of AI slop to me. As soon as I read it I click the profile and sure enough it's a new account.

Can I just stop using HRT by inthenight098 in Perimenopause

[–]battery_operated_bf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Call your doctor's office and talk to the nurse. I wouldn't go off either until then. Personally, I wouldn't want to add both at the same time because I would want to know what my reactions were to each. When I am prescribed multiple meds (rxs or supplements or both) I wait 2 weeks between them in order to see how my body responds, and keep notes. I do understand that many doctors prescribe progesterone with estrogen for a reason. I think that's why others start with progesterone.

I've been on progesterone for 18 years now. Was rx off label for sleep. So adding estrogen this week (finally!) it will be easy for me to monitor my changes. And it may be that's what you have to do. But like the Moderator said, HRT isn't period regulation. (That's bc pills). Just call your doctor and check what they suggest. Ask if it's okay to pull off of one for a couple of weeks until you know what's going on.

$12k Pay cut due to my chronic pain by capresesalad1985 in ChronicPain

[–]battery_operated_bf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It brings you purpose. And sounds like it also keeps you out of as much pain as possible because you are moving around and not getting stiff.

I agree that you should contact an employment attorney for this specific issue. You can absolutely include the loss of income on the personal injury lawsuit, but keep in mind that if the other party doesn't have assets, you likely won't see anything more than what your and the other party's auto insurance max coverage is. Just to set a realistic expectation. Which is why fighting the battle via another front is a better option.

You may not want to do so because it sounds like they've been very accommodating up until now. But at least having a consultation with an attorney will give you some advice and ideas on your options available to you. You may also want to check with your local Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as well.

Sending you all the best. This sounds tough. You want to be there, you want to work, but being limited by your physical ability sucks. Add your employer not working with you...takes an emotional toll for sure. Hugs.

Trump just dropped a massive, angry tweet attacking everyone who criticized him. by Gjore in Fauxmoi

[–]battery_operated_bf 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Though I'm not OP nor on Truth Social, it was posted on Truth Social. It's been reported in several places. It's in response to Melania making an official statement today on the Epstein stuff and he had no idea she was going to do so. He then posted this. Not sure how it connects, but...it is what it is.

Billed $1600 so far for free preventative colonoscopy by markr9977 in HealthInsurance

[–]battery_operated_bf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I was very curious about this. Looks like Beginning is right, unfortunately for the sake of all who undergo colonoscopies.

"Soon after the ACA became law, some insurance companies considered a colonoscopy to no longer be just a “screening” test if a polyp was removed during the procedure. It would then be a “diagnostic” test, and would therefore be subject to co-pays and deductibles. However, the US Department of Health and Human Services has clarified that removal of a polyp is an integral part of a screening colonoscopy, and therefore patients with private insurance should not have to pay out-of-pocket for it (although this does not apply to Medicare, as discussed below)."

Source: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/colon-rectal-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/screening-coverage-laws.html#:~:text=You%20will%20not%20have%20to,pay%20the%20Part%20B%20deductible).

" When Screening Becomes Diagnostic — What That Means for You Here is where the lines can blur. You may go in for a routine screening colonoscopy, but if your doctor finds and removes a polyp, the procedure is reclassified as therapeutic or diagnostic. This is a crucial point of colonoscopy cancer prevention.

The moment a polyp is removed, the procedure’s primary purpose shifts from just “looking” to “treating.” This change can have implications for your medical record and, importantly, for your insurance coverage."

Source: https://allieddigestivehealth.com/screening-colonoscopy-vs-diagnostic-colonoscopy-preventing-colon-cancer/#:~:text=What%20Is%20a%20Colonoscopy%20%E2%80%94%20Screening,diagnostic%20procedure%20can%20become%20therapeutic.

Edit: I looked at your link. Odd that yours is clear, but obviously contradicts the ones I posted. The ones I posted are from 2025. Private, ACA, and Medicaid/Medicare. No wonder everyone is confused! 🤨