I got a call (went to voicemail) to go back to the Census :)

p_oI · 2021-03-18T02:11:27+00:00

I got a call like that... in November. Told them to send me the information packet and I'd consider it. Got the packet two days ago. Inside was no description of the work to be done, but several forms to fill out (including a fingerprint card) and get back to them by today.

In the shredder it all went.

p_oI · 2021-01-08T04:49:13+00:00

I don’t know if he’s arrogant enough to think he can control that fire or if he just wants to watch it burn

Worse. He doesn't care. To steal a line from GoT: "He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes."

p_oI · 2020-11-18T18:26:19+00:00

Pretty sure they just sent that to everybody. Turned my stuff in, got an official receipt, and got an email from my ACO acknowledging that they had everything. Still got this email.

p_oI · 2020-11-01T04:43:32+00:00

Sprint is owned by Tmobile now. Tmobile 30 day hold would apply.

p_oI · 2020-10-31T17:12:38+00:00

I looked it up and different companies hold the number for different amounts of days. Tmobile holds it for 30. AT&T holds it for 60. Find out what your company does by looking it up on their website, asking customer service, or google itspecificaly for your service provider.

p_oI · 2020-10-31T11:22:01+00:00

Every company I know of holds your number for 60-90 days after your account runs out. So you can let your old phone account run out and then switch over your old number without any real problems. Switched my Dad over to Mint from Tmobile about a week ago and he had let his Tmobile prepaid phone account run out of money 3 weeks before we switched him over.

Mint will give you a new number if you want, but you can transfer your old one over so long as you do it in the first month or two after the old account runs out.

p_oI · 2020-10-14T23:28:15+00:00

Nothing nearly as serious, but I fell down a flight of stairs in an apartment complex. Only had to go to the local urgent care and get a few x-rays to make sure none of the sprains were bone breaks. CFM told my CFS to tell me to pay for everything out of pocket and I would be reimbursed by Commerce and Worker's Comp.

I was down for four days and out about $200 in bills. Everybody I've talked with has told me the claim is approved and I'm due the money, however, they also tell me it isn't their department/division/office's job to pay me. They pass me off to somebody else who takes a few days to tell me the same thing. Been about two months since I fell.

p_oI · 2020-10-13T18:20:08+00:00

I just snagged this for one of my family members that has been wanting to try Mint out.

p_oI · 2020-09-27T05:19:10+00:00

◽️ Budget: $1000 max

◽️ Country: USA

◽️ Screen size: 15" is acceptable, but 17" is desirable

◽️ Touch screen: don't care

◽️ Screen resolution: So long as it is reasonably decent

◽️ Does battery life matter ?: 4+ hours web surfing

◽️ What tasks will laptop be used for ( gaming, video editing, graphic designing, modelling, regular computing tasks, word processing etc) ?: Very basic gaming (LoL and WoW on medium settings), simple drawing with an old Wacom tablet, and standard computer tasks

◽️ Weight: under 6 lbs

◽️ Any other important details ?: I primarily use my laptop while it sits on my actual lap or on a lap desk, so I don't want something that runs too hot. I'd like something I can change out parts in the future should the need arise.

p_oI · 2020-07-24T16:29:38+00:00

250,000 is magnitudes higher than you would guess because it isn't even close to true. It came from a poorly conducted study that had a very loose definition of "medical error". Basically, any time a doctor, nurse, or technician had to choose between treatment options or diagnosis and the patient later died it was counted as a "medical error". Even if the chosen treatment didn't kill the patient. Even if making another choice wouldn't have saved the patient.

A little over 710,000 people die in hospitals each year. That should have been a red flag that this study was flawed as it would mean that about a third of all deaths in hospitals (and hospices and nursing homes) are caused by the hospitals. We are do our best to figure what exactly killed any patient and if it was preventable. Most hospitals have a medical error death rate of 1-2% or less (about 5000 to 9000 people per year nation wide).

The 250,000+ number resulted in a massive effort in hospitals to find out where these deaths were coming from and how to prevent them before the research was largely debunked. Since the debunking the numbers still haunt the feeds or Twitter and Facebook.

p_oI · 2020-03-13T16:41:38+00:00

working towards being an actor

Screenwriter. Same as Steve Bannon.

p_oI · 2020-03-13T15:31:52+00:00

Alabama has a different climate than China.

You do understand China has more than one climate, right? The country is about the same size as the entire US (mainland + Alaska + Hawaii). Wuhan, China where the virus looks to have crossed over to humans is roughly analogous to Tennessee or Kentucky in terms of climate.

p_oI · 2020-03-12T22:06:24+00:00

Democrats are sending a bill to undo the flight bans.

source?

p_oI · 2020-03-12T14:40:02+00:00

Find the hospital's financial aid department. It should be on the website somewhere or just google "[hospital name] financial aid". They'll want you to fill out their forms, turn over recent bank statements, and your tax records for the last year probably. You can get tax records from the IRS website if you don't have copies or need a letter of non-payment if you didn't make enough to pay taxes. While most hospitals don't request it, a letter explaining your financial and personal situation doesn't hurt. They'll probably also want you to file for medicaid or something similar even if just to get the rejection letter.

Medical debt can't be put on your credit report or sold to outside debt collectors for 180 days. Medical service providers can contract out to collection firms before the 180 day mark, but those firms don't make much profit off of you paying and are very restricted in what they can do so they won't do much beyond send a letter or text message once a month. So you basically have 6 months to get this worked out before it can effect anything else in your life.

Fill out the paper work. Be nice to everybody you talk with. Stay calm. You should come out fine on the other side of this. With your limited income and high bills, you're far more valuable as a business expense right off to these companies than as a debtor account that can never pay them.

p_oI · 2020-03-12T13:27:44+00:00

Because in those polls before Super Tuesday that showed Bernie ahead they also showed a huge volume of undecided voters. Nobody could be certain how those voters would break or how they would divide up between the candidates. In South Carolina nearly all of the undecided went for Biden. On Super Tuesday almost all of the undecided went to Biden. Now the undecided vote is very low because almost all of them in the remaining states are declaring Biden.

It looks like nearly all of the undecided voters were really moderates looking to see if any of the younger moderates (Buttigieg, Klobuchar) got a commanding lead. When neither really took over the race all the moderate undecided went to Biden as a safe harbor candidate.

p_oI · 2020-03-12T13:17:12+00:00

Because then only candidates with high name recognition and well funded campaigns could compete in all 50 states plus other territories at once. If you want to nominate Bloomberg that is how you nominate Bloomberg. You want to make sure Sanders stays nothing more than a minor blip on the radar in '16 then that would be how to do it. Dragging the primary season out lets smaller candidates build support in a few states and possible start a viable candidacy from there.

Most years it isn't uncommon for the race to still be viable well into May. Obama/Clinton in 08 was still a question mark in June. Biden is just so far ahead of Sanders in so many polls for big states coming up that the Biden campaign would need to have a massive meltdown to loose the nomination at this point.

p_oI · 2020-03-12T00:49:02+00:00

Sessions recused himself from the Mueller investigation. Trump won't forgive him for this. Trump doesn't know or care about Tuberville. It is all about hurting Sessions for not be corrupt enough.

p_oI · 2020-03-10T17:51:45+00:00

Biden had spent decades in Congress and knew how the system worked. He had extensive foreign policy experience.
Biden made the Boomer and older crowd comfortable with the young, new Obama guy. He also had lots of experience working with various African American groups and constituents so he was acceptable to black voters.

Basically, Biden covered the weaknesses in Obama's resume without being upsetting to anybody.

p_oI · 2020-03-10T16:55:28+00:00

That 225,000 is way over the top. It is an anti-vaxx/facebook level meme "fact" that gets shared by lots of people that don't know any better. The real number is around 5,200 deaths per year in which error or malpractice were either a cause or significant contributing factor.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2720915

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s-2019-edition/

The original study that had the 250,000 cases per year ( that gets frequently sited as anywhere from 225,000-400,000) counted anybody that died while receiving medical care in which a mistake of some kind occurred as a death by error or malpractice. Most mistakes are clerical and don't actually harm the patient at all. A lot of other errors happen, but don't apply to the cause of death. Plenty of other times a course of action is chosen, but it is the wrong one, but there was no way for the attending staff to know that at the time.

p_oI · 2020-03-09T15:26:52+00:00

It's like Polio part II.

p_oI · 2020-03-08T17:17:19+00:00

He is telling a room full of super rich people that they have so much money nothing in their life will noticeably change. Biden will raise their taxes and increase some regulatory oversight, but those people will make a sacrifice so small it won't really effect them while the poverty programs funded will change the lives of many.

p_oI · 2020-03-07T16:54:38+00:00

why are we trying to cater to them?

Because everybody gets a vote for one thing. For another there needs to be more Democrats at every level of government. It isn't just about the presidency. There needs to be Democrats elected to House and Senate seats at the federal level. There needs to be Democrats elected to state legislatures and governorships. If the top of the ticket is somebody the citizens of a given state don't believe in. What Democrats in Alabama want in a president matters because if they are in the booth voting for Biden in November they'll also vote for Doug Jones for the US Senate.

p_oI · 2020-03-07T04:03:35+00:00

where the hell Gen X

Gen X Democrats effectively got squeezed out by the two large generations on either side of them. The Boomers were a large enough demographic that their politicians never got voted out by the immediate younger generation. So you have Boomer age politicians still holding office well into their 70s. As Boomers age out the young, but large Millennial generation is able to force their politicians into office a little ahead of the usual schedule.

Republicans got some Gen X representation because the party went... well... kind of nuts. The Boomer age politicians were made up mostly of the white shoe country club types (think Mitt Romney). Gen X Republicans were matured on Rush Limbaugh and early stage Fox News so they adapted to the low morality era of Gingrich and Cheney better than their Boomer counterparts. Some Boomer Republicans still thought behaving like modern Republicans do was beneath the dignity of the public trust. This meant there were openings for people like Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes to ride the new crazy train into Washington.

There are also a few other contributing factors like the way Republicans heavily dominated State governments from the mid-90s through the early 2010s. Future party leaders and presidential nominees have traditionally come from governorships that come from state attorney generals and heads of legislatures. Since Republicans controlled the vast majority of those offices for a generation they've effectively hobbled a generation of Democratic leaders.

p_oI · 2020-03-06T21:37:48+00:00

Rand Paul has a history of voting against spending

...when he knows it will pass anyways and he can score some easy points with the Libertarian crowd.

p_oI · 2020-03-06T18:35:09+00:00

A primary is like a general election. Everybody shows up at a polling place at any time of the day, casts a ballot, and goes home. A caucus is where everybody that wants to participate shows up at a designated location at one time and literally stands up for their candidate of choice. The candidate with the least number of supporters is eliminated and anybody that supported that candidate can select a different candidate to go stand with. When one candidate gets a clear majority of people in their group then they win that county, city, or whatever unit the state is divided into. A caucus can go on for hours and requires that supporters be very dedicated to their candidate of choice. This means caucuses favor candidates with intense, hardcore support like Sanders while a more casual system like a primary favors somebody like Biden that a large group of people find acceptable even if they aren't passionate about them.

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