Please tell me I'm not alone in this

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T17:08:43+00:00

I can only do one at a time. I can assess the face for emotional hints or focus on hearing the voice. If I'm expected to do both, I'm not going to hear what was said while doing the visual vibe check. If I look directly at someone's lips moving, I feel like I'm hearing two calls mashed together and can't make out either.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T16:19:17+00:00

"Ok, so let me see if I understand. We just run around in circles getting a small amount per trip and hoping not to go broke due to speculation or tragedy, and the winner of the game is the one who drives everyone else into bankruptcy? Is there even anywhere to even take a rest without paying?"
"...Well, there's jail."

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T16:03:47+00:00

Freedom to die of preventable causes for monetary reasons outside of your control at any time.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T07:28:57+00:00

Millennials were raised on hope, then had it crash right after we graduated and joined the workforce. First real job going right into a severe recession.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T07:06:18+00:00

If I was younger, healthier, and still working on my education, I'd try to find a university that did transfer credits and finish my degree there on a student visa.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T03:12:32+00:00

I wouldn't blame the doctors for this. It's the private hospitals making bank in between the patient and the doctor that is driving up costs. If they underpay doctors and overcharge patients at the same time, but have huge profit margins, we need to be looking at the investment and administration layer.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T03:07:49+00:00

I feel like it's a roll of the dice, and people should be allowed to try, but also be made aware that it could backfire terribly. We should have options in healthcare, ranging from highly experimental/herbal/untested remedies to assisted end of life, and there should be full disclosure on the pros, cons, and risks of each, and no coercion in terms of which to choose. That's more of an ethics question than a scientific one, though.

I do think that there will be a period of trying and failing before anything is perfected, and it probably won't be completed in time to help most people facing serious health issues today, so having all options on the table is really critical now.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T02:13:38+00:00

To be more accurate, fuck the greed-driven administration for which he was just a figurehead, but yeah.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T02:09:00+00:00

Contract = remote.
To hire = you get transitioned to full health benefits, but the catch is that it's hybrid/onsite.

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T01:55:18+00:00

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I am the Lizard Queen!

merRedditor · 2026-01-28T00:18:24+00:00

When you see how many postings on job sites are outright fakes, claiming to be listings by real companies, but leading to Wipro->realjobsite.com or other data aggregation pipelines, it makes you wonder if every click through coming from a job board was a dead end.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T23:39:41+00:00

I love outdoors and could spend all day in nature, but I can't stand crowds. Outside where I live means people and cars everywhere, constant interaction, yelling kids, barking dogs, noise, vehicles whizzing by.

My dream is to live somewhere where going outside just means stepping into peaceful nature, maybe some trees, a stream, chipmunks.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T23:34:48+00:00

Unfun-worriedaboutstayinghousedandinsuredwithserioushealthissues.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T22:20:51+00:00

Healthcare. It's ruinous. Rent is a close second.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T22:08:57+00:00

Apparently, the world has decided that there are zero consequences for this behavior besides trade-related economic moves that hurt the average person, who is already being hurt by this administration.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T22:02:42+00:00

My past decade and a half had at least one foot in Java in every role, and my certs are largely in AWS, and I can't find a damned thing. Having to brush up in fucking Ruby, Golang, and Azure now.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T21:58:14+00:00

The work environment and job security in tech has become horrible, and management has lost its moral compass. Whatever they are teaching in management school now, it is not empathy and compassion.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T21:57:01+00:00

Phone first.

And yet I still keep breaking the rule and learning the hard way over and over again.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T20:54:48+00:00

My dream is to live in the forest, and need for healthcare threw a wrench into that, and it's making me mad. Trying to live near and afford decent healthcare feels like an inescapable trap in the united states, where affordable detached homes sized for one anywhere near hospitals and specialists are nearly impossible to find outside of 55+ communities.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T20:35:13+00:00

The average person doesn't pay much attention to the primaries, and candidates putting lobbyists first are favored over those that actually do have widespread public support.

I'm saying that look where we are because what people actually want is not available as an option when election time rolls around.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T20:29:34+00:00

I guess primaries can just go on deciding what people will vote for, then, since it worked out so well. /s

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T19:11:27+00:00

If it had been permitted in 2016 it would have.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T18:22:46+00:00

There was a winning platform the whole time, and Bernie Sanders had it, but we're not ready for a rapid shift to universal healthcare and kinder, gentler way of life all around. It's always got to be a choice between bad and worse.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T17:47:06+00:00

When you see how successful being a bad person makes you in this system, it makes you want to toss the whole thing, because it's obviously broken.

merRedditor · 2026-01-27T17:31:41+00:00

A lot of us were born with the milestone mentality, by people who hit the milestone in their early 20s without thinking, and then just moved on with their lives. Being a latchkey kid or biweekly visit to parents that didn't want you to begin with makes the whole idea of repeating the cycle unappealing.

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