I shat my credit into single digit range threeish decades ago (yeah, I’m a boomer puke). I couldn’t even get a bank account until about eight years ago. I finally was able to get an acct, got a secured card, and built my credit up to 729. ‘Upgraded’ my secured card to unsecured, but left the limit at $300 to keep me in check.
Then I made the mistake for applying for a modest credit line with my bank. Not only did I get denied, but the hard credit hit put me under 700. Then my credit took another major hit *because I used that card for more than 31% of its limit.*Never once made a late payment, neither.
As I hoped that a line of credit could afford me access to an oral surgeon (which I really need to even consider dentures, as I have mucho malo in my mouth), and as I have no interest in writing a grant to cover it, I’m fucked, as oral surgeons don’t seem to take Medicaid in my shit state.
If I survive another yearish, Medicare might be helpful, but the problems in my pie-hole might not wait that long.
I do not want a handout. I want the chance to pay it off and not leave it to Medicare…and not die of the infections spreading to either my brain (such as it is) or my heart.
I’d like to know other non-US citizen’s opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?...
My dad was a drunken asshole who grew up in a tough world. He wasn’t suited to fatherhood, and wasn’t prepared to deal with a kid that was not him.
I suspect he had his own ND issues that would have been even more difficult for him do deal with as a kid in the 40s and 50s, not to mention his parents.
He was probably raised with the same kind of abuse I was, and more. I don’t hate him.
“Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation…What age should you start to see public executions?” Kirk asked....
As much as I believe there are some whut deserve it, and boy howdy, do I, I’m not a bloodthirsty revenge hobo.
I just want folks to not be traitors, not be opportunistic thugs, not be Nazis, and not kill/wish to kill innocents that just want to live.
It’s really simple: don’t do that shit to others, don’t suck the dicks of those who tell you to, stay the fuck off and out of people’s bodies, don’t use God or whom/whatever as an excuse to be a cunt, and mind your own fucking business.
On Friday, he said his plan to “end democracy” included rolling back what he claimed is a list of Democratic policies, part of a “regime that we will overturn”. They say democracy, but they mean authoritarianism, and they know it,” he said.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates debated the merits of removing protections for public librarians and school librarians from criminal prosecution in the off chance a minor encounters books and content some consider to be obscene.
An attorney representing E. Jean Carroll has indicated the journalist could sue Donald Trump for a third time, as the former president continues to speak about her client publicly....
The numbers will determine your fate (lemmy.world)
They're the same picture (lemmy.world)
Oprah Exits Weight Watchers Board After Admitting She Took Weight Loss Meds, Stock Tumbling (futurism.com)
I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? (www.vox.com)
I’d like to know other non-US citizen’s opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?...
Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags (www.dailykos.com)
Hanging out with my nieces/nephews I now understand most the discipline I received as a child was most likely because I was being annoying and nothing to do with right or wrong.
'I Think We Should Kill 'Em All,' GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Says of Palestinians in Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
Kellogg’s CEO advice to cash-strapped shoppers: Let them eat Corn Flakes for dinner (www.cnn.com)
Trump ally Charlie Kirk suggests children should watch public executions (www.newsweek.com)
“Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation…What age should you start to see public executions?” Kirk asked....
‘We Didn’t Get All The Way There On Jan 6’: Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On (www.mediaite.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/12367209...
Republicans Rush to Scrub Mention of FBI Informant in Impeachment Letter (newrepublic.com)
House Republicans are quietly trying to remove traces of indicted ex–FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in their Biden impeachment quest....
Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfectly Legal. (www.forbes.com)
This alert I just got on my police scanner app. Kentucky, WTF are you doing? (lemmy.world)
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants women to stop tempting Christian men (www.newsweek.com)
Far-right speaker calls for ‘end of democracy’ at CPAC as Republicans downplay Jan 6 (www.independent.co.uk)
On Friday, he said his plan to “end democracy” included rolling back what he claimed is a list of Democratic policies, part of a “regime that we will overturn”. They say democracy, but they mean authoritarianism, and they know it,” he said.
Romney: If your position is being cheered by Vladimir Putin, it’s time to reconsider your position. (5:02) (www.youtube.com)
Donald Trump says his fraud ruling is the same treatment as Alexei Navalny (www.newsweek.com)
West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians (www.newsandsentinel.com)
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates debated the merits of removing protections for public librarians and school librarians from criminal prosecution in the off chance a minor encounters books and content some consider to be obscene.
E. Jean Carroll might sue Donald Trump a third time (www.newsweek.com)
An attorney representing E. Jean Carroll has indicated the journalist could sue Donald Trump for a third time, as the former president continues to speak about her client publicly....
Trump will likely run out of legal defense funds by summer, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Former President Donald Trump will likely run out of legal defense funds this summer, Bloomberg reported....