I’ve been coached into waiting until age 70 to get 100% of the payout. If you cash in at age 62, even once you hit 70 you’ll still be getting 70% of your payout. Could you bear to wait eight more years for the 100%? You’ve already waited 62 years! What’s 8 more?
Yeah I gathered it was satire, but the mere thought of it made me jump straight to interpreting it as reality because I wouldn’t be surprised if some landlords do feel that way!
What? We already give our whole paychecks to our landlords. How could we possibly give them more?
If landlords aren’t happy with the rent they receive, they need to get a real job and work their asses off every day all day long like everybody else does.
No alcohol. Not even caffeine. No fast food. Nothing with added sugar. Very rarely anything with any significant mount of natural sugar. My rule of thumb is nothing sweeter than a tomato or red bell pepper.
(Full disclosure, sugar gives me really bad acute symptoms. So that helps the motivation.)
SAME! It’s taken me decades to finally stop craving sugar but the last 10 years definitely I noticed every time I ate sugar,
within 30 minutes I’d get symptoms like a cold with a runny nose and severe aches and pains in all my joints and muscles, and severe depression and brain fog. I’m serious these symptoms set in within 30 minutes of eating this stuff, because I was feeling perfectly fine before I ate it. The correlation was undeniable. It’s the sugar.
The last time it happened to me I simply ate a bowl of fruit.
Same all around with anything bread products. So I can’t eat sugar, bread, not even eat fruit anymore!
Today I spoke to a coworker who had bad experiences with doctors and was seeking recommendations for a new one, then other coworkers chimed in, and so I decided to ask you guys as well. Well, not for a doctor recommendation, but about your bad experienced with doctors?...
That time in the year 2000 I had gotten extremely ill and I had never felt such peculiar horrific illness in my life, it was like a flu but worse and weirder and I felt like I was going to die because I couldn’t eat I couldn’t stand up, (I’m normally an extremely healthy active person), this went on for a couple weeks and I lived alone which made it impossible to see a doctor because I couldn’t drive myself in that condition,
but thankfully I had a spiritually intuitive friend who had a feeling she should call me and thankfully she did and she arranged for one of her friends to drive me to the hospital.
So I saw my primary care physician and he was very dismissive of me. When he came into the room he saw me laying on the crackly paper bed and he insultingly thought I was faking sick and trying to get out of work, and told me to sit up. He mockingly said “oh you’re not feeeeling well?” He troubled himself to run a throat culture on me then sent me home. I was not feeling well enough to go back home and die alone.
The next day my same friend arranged to come pick me up and take me to the emergency room where they admitted me into the hospital.
I was hospitalized for 2 weeks apparently I had cytomegalovirus, and they ran all kinds of tests on me including general anesthesia for throat probe down to my intestines, an eye exam for some reason, but mostly those two weeks were a complete blur to me, I mostly slept all the time.
The husband and son of my friend came to pick me up from the hospital when it was all over, and I was recuperating at home for another week before returning to work, when I got a phone call from my original primary care physician and he said “You know what, your throat culture came back looking a little unusual.”
I’m like
“No shit! I was just hospitalized nearly dead for 2 weeks. Now you’re calling me a month later telling me my throat culture was slightly abnormal? If I’d waited here all that time for your phone call, I wouldn’t have answered the phone because I would’ve been dead. Thanks for nothing.”
I didn’t actually say all those things to them, we don’t think of how to respond to such things until years later.
All right then, chemically and metabolically speaking, (this is hypothetical and I never have any intention of drinking rubbing alcohol or acetone), what is the maximum amount of these liquids a person could drink before it becomes dangerous?
alt textA meme with the caption “when I say I want improved public transportation, this is what I have in mind” There is a larger hedgehog on a bicycle, pulling smaller hedgehogs in an egg carton, with some wheels attached. The box says “hedgies on board”
So there’s really no reason for the hot dog thing right now? Everybody’s commenting with inside jokes and upvoting each other and I just don’t understand what’s going on.
Hi I’m late to the discussion but I’m a little closer to Barbie than a goth vampire but either way I don’t have the energy to analyze, categorize, or compare myself with anybody because I’m too busy surviving out here full time. Living the real thing. That’s the reality.
US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now?
I don’t think there is an earlier option for less money anymore but could be wrong.
What's the first name you always think of when asked to come up with a random name?
The Season of Warmth and Hope (feddit.de)
Do you sometimes buy things that are unhealthy for you? (Most people do.) Do you feel guilty for it? or have you accepted it's a normal & kinda necessary part of your life?
Before radios were invented, have there always been radio waves floating everywhere in the air? Just waiting to be harnessed and used for a purpose?
That kid bulked up big time (lemmy.world)
Pro Pain (lemmy.world)
Messed up things a doctor did to you or someone you know? / Bad experiences with doctors
Today I spoke to a coworker who had bad experiences with doctors and was seeking recommendations for a new one, then other coworkers chimed in, and so I decided to ask you guys as well. Well, not for a doctor recommendation, but about your bad experienced with doctors?...
The trickster letters (startrek.website)
OC I kinda hate the term vanlife, but I guess it's fitting because for the past 10 months I have been living my life in a van with my wife, our cat, and two motorcycles.
Hmmm... pungent, weakly aromatic! (mander.xyz)
Public transport (toot.site)
alt textA meme with the caption “when I say I want improved public transportation, this is what I have in mind” There is a larger hedgehog on a bicycle, pulling smaller hedgehogs in an egg carton, with some wheels attached. The box says “hedgies on board”
Study: Why Wikipedia is the Last Good Website (youtu.be)
Now that we're on Lemmy, the different categories aren't called "subreddits" anymore. What are they called now? Communities? And is there a way to link them like we used to with an r/ ?
Just purchased this big beauty - excited to see where it'll take me! (lemmy.world)
Drop any tips you may have for a new van owner like myself
Rollin'! Rollin'! Rollin'! (slrpnk.net)
What does the term "Vanlife" mean to you? (lemmy.world)
Okay, it seems like this is quite an aged discussion. How would you define the term “vanlife”? Also, I’m aware that many individuals dislike it....