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Cake day: October 17th, 2024

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  • I work in a call center that helps employees of companies select their coverage and process their enrollment with carriers. This will be my 4th time through the annual enrollment period, and it’s been by far the biggest jump in price that I’ve seen. Last year monthy premiums went up between 15-20% for the policies we administrate. This year prices jumped up 45-55%.

    Annual enrollment is the busiest 2 weeks of the year for us since everyone needs to get their elections in, but this year I’ve noticed that I’ve taken more calls from retirees dropping their policies than employees renewing them. Most people’s pensions simply do not cover the cost of Healthcare, god forbid they need $10 a month left over to pay for food.

    As someone who works with Healthcare everyday, it is exactly as bleak as you think it is.




  • A friend of mine gifted me a copy of Island Adventure as what I thought was a gag gift. Well, we’re 10 hours is at this point and it’s actually really fun! Great game if you’re looking for something easy when it’s too late to play something sweaty but too early to call it a night.






  • This was my solution for the longest time until I finally bought a bidet. Wet wipes are definitely a thousand times better than just dry tissue and if they’re working for you go for it, I just got tired if having to go buy more and decided a one time purchase and install of a bidet would be easier. Everyone in this thread is going to recommend a bidet, as do I now that I’ve started using one, but wet wipes were my go to and no bathroom should be without them



  • I’m not going to make any comment on if it’s AI or not, but the ‘weird flash at the end’ is the visualize touch option for Samsung phones with at least half of the pixels fried off. If it’s real, it could be that whoever was cropping this video left the touch at the end, and if it’s AI it somehow got in its head that the end of videos often have this pop up.



  • bunnyBoy@pawb.socialtoCasual UK@feddit.ukI need all of them
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    28 days ago

    My boyfriend from the UK is actually staying with us right now and damn, the accent is powerful. Free food at restaurants, free drinks at bars. People just jumping into our conversations because they want to talk to him. Earlier this week we were taking the train to do some shopping, and when the ticket taker came around to get our tickets, he just said ‘Oh, I’m from leeds, I didn’t know I needed a ticket’ (Even though I bought one for each of us already) and it was fine. Ticket taker just said ‘Oh its all good, welcome to america’ and just… moved on.




  • bunnyBoy@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMetruleidvania
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    1 month ago

    I absolutely loved Rusted Moss!!! I’m not even a huge metroidvania fan, but that game made movement so fun that the usual slog of running back through locations you’ve already been was honestly fun for me.

    Also the world/setting of Fae taking the realm over again was really cool imo. Highly recommend to anyone


  • It’s an article going over the history of ‘lowtax’ who was the creator of Something Awful forums. The short version is Something like:

    Low tax creates SA, consumes way too much of it and becomes chronically online and starts having general freak outs on the forums. Then, domestic abuse charges are discovered by the forums, sparking outrage. Then lowtax commits sudoku.

    I guess the context here is that people are mad at one of the bluesy owners/creators, so we’re implying that they’re making the same mistakes that lowtax did.