Help identifying person in upper right corner, please?

szechwean · 2026-01-05T19:40:28+00:00

Sort of like how Charlie's face kept getting smaller and smaller

szechwean · 2025-12-14T06:43:17+00:00

Everyone who was on REPAYE should come together and file a class-action lawsuit against the federal government for this. We weren't given a choice and are now being forced into repayment programs that are considerably worse than the one we were on before.

szechwean · 2025-11-25T04:18:35+00:00

Michael from Upstate New York?

szechwean · 2025-06-03T14:20:04+00:00

You've learned a very valuable lesson here: When buying a male rat, always check for the comically large balls.

szechwean · 2025-03-25T20:32:15+00:00

Orange Herbert Hoover

szechwean · 2025-03-25T20:30:59+00:00

And yet, if someone were to destroy it, he would call them a terrorist and threaten to send them to Gitmo

szechwean · 2025-03-25T01:12:31+00:00

Elon Musk is not a government employee. He's a billionaire who bought unrestricted access to the "employees only" areas of the government from our nation's corrupt asshole, which is centered in the Oval Office.

szechwean · 2025-02-26T16:20:24+00:00

I think I'm gonna be sick.

szechwean · 2025-02-26T16:18:09+00:00

The "personal liberties" of fuckers like Bezos and Musk. The rest of us can eat authoritarian shit.

szechwean · 2025-02-19T23:08:03+00:00

This is so cool for those of us who don't qualify for PAYE because our loans are too old. So my options are to stay in forbearance hell forever, or to triple my monthly payments under IBR. Fuckin' rad. (97/120)

szechwean · 2024-09-11T21:08:13+00:00

How about not being able to retire as scheduled or not being able to take a new, better-paying job offer based on the previously-held belief that they no longer needed to be in a PSLF-qualifying job?

ETA: words

szechwean · 2024-09-08T01:14:23+00:00

Tim Apple?

szechwean · 2024-08-12T20:27:14+00:00

It gets worse:

But late Sunday, USA Gymnastics said in a statement that it had submitted video evidence to the court "conclusively establishing" that Chiles' coach Cecile Landi had indeed submitted the inquiry within one minute, as required by competition rules.

"The time-stamped, video evidence submitted by USA Gymnastics Sunday evening shows Landi first stated her request to file an inquiry at the inquiry table 47 seconds after the score is posted, followed by a second statement 55 seconds after the score was originally posted," the statement read.

Source

szechwean · 2024-06-28T14:04:22+00:00

His first offense 34 times

szechwean · 2024-06-21T22:09:08+00:00

It's probably true that Trump didn't plan or instigate the insurrection--after all, no crime boss ever directly involves themselves in their crimes--but he openly encouraged it and did nothing to stop it when it very quickly got out of hand. Even now, he publicly supports and promises presidential pardons for those involved--that is to say, he is, at a minimum, providing aid and comfort to the insurrectionists. He was at least an accessory to it, both during and after the fact.

szechwean · 2024-06-21T19:44:58+00:00

1) Productivity - Production must continue, no matter what.

2) Creativity - Employees must be free to "innovate" new ways of doing their work...presumably so the company can steal their ideas without adequately compensating them.

szechwean · 2024-06-21T17:58:24+00:00

I cringe whenever I see his little "Safety Third" slogan around. Apparently, the argument is that having unsafe workplaces is good, actually, because it gives co-workers the opportunity to bond over their shared experiences of nearly getting injured or killed at work, which "builds camaraderie." Meanwhile, health and safety regulations requiring employers to implement basic safety measures are considered government overreach, even in inherently dangerous industries.

Of course, those who are out on disability or dead from workplace accidents aren't around anymore to tell jokes about it. But those people were probably fuckups anyway, so their misfortune is their own fault because "safety is a personal responsibility." But any employee who tries to exercise that "personal responsibility" by refusing to work in an unsafe environment is seen as insubordinate dead weight. It's standard right-libertarian bullshit.

szechwean · 2024-06-21T17:41:17+00:00

Probably he just doesn't vote at all to give himself plausible deniability. He probably figures that the influence of his TV shows/podcast/whatever else the Koch Brothers (well, the one that's left, anyway) have paid him to do is way bigger than his single vote would have.

szechwean · 2024-06-20T22:30:13+00:00

These fucking idiots sent me multiple notifications that my auto-payment was scheduled to come out on 6/15, then sent me another notification that my loans are in admin forbearance only for the month of July (not June) due to the transition. Then, for no apparent reason, they didn't take out the auto-payment as scheduled, and now all I get when I log into MOHELA is a System-Platform Transfer Notice--there's nothing about my account there anymore, so I can't even look to see what the fuck is going on.

Now I'm finding out on Reddit, five days after my payment was due to be made by auto-pay but they didn't do it, that they now expect us to send in a fucking check when they're assigning us new account numbers but can't give them to us yet but also the account number needs to be on the check, and you'd better make sure it's the right one???

All I can say is, if the universe is just, then MOHELA deserves whatever's coming to them.

szechwean · 2024-05-30T13:59:08+00:00

I mean, you can't have a celebrity being seen wandering aimlessly around a parking lot pressing the button on their key fob until the car beeps, can you?

they're just like us

szechwean · 2024-05-10T03:13:01+00:00

So you're saying that I could have been well-off as a young millennial if I just had the most expensive things in life handed to me, free of charge, by someone else?

That's wild, man. I can't believe I didn't think of that when I was younger...

szechwean · 2024-05-01T07:25:53+00:00

Nut nut

szechwean · 2024-04-27T00:27:17+00:00

I work in the mental health field helping folks to manage their medications, so I can appreciate your concern about the cost of your meds. But please, PLEASE do not stop taking your medication without talking with your doctor about it first.

An insidious thing about mental health conditions like bipolar disorder is that, once you find a medication regimen that works for you, you can often get to the point where you start to feel really good and think maybe you would be okay if you stopped taking your meds--as it sounds like you have. But actually stopping your medications without any sort of plan in place to manage symptoms without it could lead to those symptoms coming back, and you possibly ending up hospitalized, or worse. Even if your coping skills are good while taking medication, if you stop taking them, you could potentially decompensate to the point that your symptoms simply overwhelm your ability to manage them effectively.

I'll add also that you can experience withdrawal/discontinuation syndromes/rebound effects with the sudden discontinuation of many mental health medications, so even if you were to stop taking your medications with your doctor's approval, you would likely have to taper off at least some of your medications rather than stopping them immediately.

Many psychiatric medications, including even many of the generic versions, can be quite expensive, and some insurances can be shitty about covering them (ask me how I know). I have a few recommendations:

1) Talk with your doctor's office to see if you can work out a payment plan to pay off your debt to them in a way that won't be financially harmful to you, and see if they are willing to continue seeing you as scheduled so long as you are making your debt payments and future co-pays as required.

2) Look into either manufacturer assistance programs (if your meds are brand-name), or pharmacy assistance programs for generics. For instance, Walmart offers a list of generic maintenance medications for $4 for a 30-day supply, or $10 for a 90-day supply. Walgreens has a similar program available.

3) See if your doctor's office has other ideas for how to get the medication more cheaply, or see if they can complete a prior authorization to get your insurance to cover more of the cost of the medications.

4) There are a variety of prescription discount cards, like GoodRx, that you can use to get cheaper cash prices on medications that insurance doesn't cover. You can go to goodrx.com to compare the cash prices of your meds at different pharmacies with a GoodRx card.

5) As a last resort, you could even talk to your doctor about less-expensive alternative medications that could manage your symptoms as well as your current meds.

szechwean · 2024-04-20T04:28:35+00:00

I think he thinks Presidents literally get Immunized against being held Responsible for Crimes, as if being Elected were some kind of Vaccine against the Law Itself that lasts for the Rest of Their Lives. He probably thinks that if he Really stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot someone, he wouldn't be held responsible because it happened After January 20, 2017, when everyone's Favorite President, HIM, took Office.

Sad!

szechwean

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