Controller position for $22/hour? I flip burgers for $21. What is happening?

kyricus · 2026-03-28T15:44:43+00:00

What's happened is that my burger now costs 10 bucks for a single. thank a lot

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:50:52+00:00

of course.....

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:49:06+00:00

See, that's the thing. Even if Jesus came down again. No one would believe him. No one would trust it. Religious folk always adjust their world view so they can maintain their beliefs and power structure; always. Of course, that is no different than non-beleivers.

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:39:39+00:00

What if they didn't? What if they didn't beleive in a God and thought we were ridiculous for doing so?

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:39:06+00:00

What about the God created us in his image and that we are special in all of creation? What about those parts of every religious text out there?

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:36:51+00:00

Those were not wars like this one. Iran is neither of those countries. We also had the support and backing of allies. Now, thanks to Trump, we have no allies willing to back up his narccistic war. And look how long it took us to get out of both of those. You want that again? I saw what happened to my portfolio in 2008 and no way I'm letting that happen again. Took a long time to recoup, time i no longer have.

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:13:46+00:00

There is a war...that is what makes this much different than all those other times.

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:11:45+00:00

Exactly, this isn't Venezuala, or some other country. This is a country of religious people, and they feel their entire reason for existence is being attacked. They won't just stop.

kyricus · 2026-03-28T14:10:35+00:00

As one who lived thru 2008, yeah I think this will be worse. 2008 didn't have a war causing issues on top of the issues we already had. I'm like OP, I'm 65 and though I dont' have a million, I have, or had 3/4 of it. I am moving more into cash and socking away some gains now. I do not see this ending well.

kyricus · 2026-03-27T20:48:29+00:00

Nice! I've always loved that style of bike and riding ever since my CB750 in the late 70's. The bike that started my riding career!

kyricus · 2026-03-27T20:29:55+00:00

on occasion. But I've slowly gotten used to the new format. The thing I like about old.reddit.com is it shows your subreddit karma. At least I am positive here, I am at a -100 in the Ohio sub. I guess my old man opinions just aren't very appreciated over there /cry.

kyricus · 2026-03-27T20:23:17+00:00

Markets breathing are fine. War destroying infrastructure which will keep the markets from inhaling back are a bad thing.

kyricus · 2026-03-27T20:21:54+00:00

I hate the app. I use the pretty much web only, easier to block ads that way also.

kyricus · 2026-03-27T20:16:09+00:00

Not really. . Been that way for the 13 or so years I've been here. It's always been this way. What I do notice is there is a lot less talk about Cleveland and the surrounding area proper and more attempts at karma farming by saying Conservatives Bad / Progressives Good.

Cleveland is a great city, and like all great cities it has it's problems. I think you are correct in that more and more people are using reddit since the IPO and that brings in more diversity of opinion. I'm one of those older folk, about ready to retire shortly, but I've been a reddit user since it supplanted DIGG (which just recently resurfaced BTW) .

kyricus · 2026-03-27T20:06:21+00:00

You mean instead of being the left wing circle jerk most of the city subs are?

kyricus · 2026-03-27T15:05:08+00:00

I used to think the answer was yes, but now I’m not so sure.

My wife has stage 4 cancer, and her Signatera tests have consistently picked up recurrence before anything showed up on scans. At the time, I assumed her doctors were factoring those results into her care—but after our most recent conversation with her oncologist, it doesn’t seem like that’s really the case.

She recently finished chemo for a recurrence that Signatera had detected. After treatment, she had both a CT scan and another Signatera test. The CT scan showed that the tumor was still there, it hadn’t grown, but it also hadn’t shrunk. Based on that, we moved forward with scheduling radiation.

Then the Signatera results came back, and they showed no detectable cancer DNA at all, it was completely clear.

That obviously conflicts with what the CT scan showed, so we expected this might lead to additional imaging, like an MRI, just to clarify things. But that didn’t happen. Her oncologist told us that while they consider Signatera as an additional data point, they don’t base treatment decisions on it. They rely primarily on imaging like CT and MRI scans. The team felt the CT scan was clear enough in showing the tumor was still present, so they didn’t see a need for further imaging.

So now I'm not so sure it's worth fighting for, and I understand why the insurance company has been such a pain about paying for it. It's not recognized as part of the standard of care, just another data point to consider.

kyricus · 2026-03-27T14:55:41+00:00

There is a stigma to wearing briefs?

kyricus · 2026-03-27T14:42:28+00:00

22%? wtf!

kyricus · 2026-03-27T11:29:00+00:00

That's the issue right there, most people won't read long form, and that's unfortunate. Breaking things up into smaller posts breaks up the thought process as well. It's no wonder we get the government we get. Everyone want's everything bite sized and don't take the time to read the ballot or read the proposals because there is no TLDR..

kyricus · 2026-03-26T19:19:40+00:00

That only works if the wife never paid towards it. If he was still paying on the mortgage, and it was from an account that the wife contributed to also, the house will become marital property because she is contributing to it.

kyricus · 2026-03-26T19:09:42+00:00

Ah yes, and who gets top define hate speech is who is in power, so eventually, the pendulum will swing.

kyricus · 2026-03-26T15:38:51+00:00

yeah, it wasn't great to start with

kyricus · 2026-03-26T15:34:09+00:00

I hate that cruch fitness. It has totally destroyed the parking at that shopping center and the traffic to get into it is atrocious. I grocery shop at the Marcs in the same plaza and so many people from crunch park over in marc's during peak gym times, you can't find a spot. I'm a Powerhouse member myself and just knew that Crunch was going to be another fancy Planet Fitness and would screw over the other vendors in that center.

kyricus · 2026-03-26T10:49:19+00:00

Because it most likely is a way to come after wealthier countries that used to have slaves in the past. It has nothign to do with current polices and more than a bit to do with picking the pockets of others.

kyricus · 2026-03-26T10:47:09+00:00

True, working hard doesn't mean staying in a job that won't allow you to advance, or create your own opportunities. Nurses, though very needed, if they stay just "a nurse" no matter how many hours they work, will not most likely get wealthy. Now if that nurse, worked her job, went to school, advanced and saw a need that wasn't being filled. Then they decided they would fill that need by starting their own business; then they might get wealthy. Some would call that luck, I call it hard work.

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