a_seattle_ian

Wasn't sure I'd listen to this whole thing but half way threw it starts to really get weird. Damn, kind of feel bad for her...it most be hell working for Elon.

She's even sighted in the wikipedia article "In 2023, Linda Yaccarino was appointed as the CEO of Twitter while the company was facing an uncertain future and a number of challenges, including outages, user discontent and advertiser skepticism. The company lost more than half of its value since its acquisition by Elon Musk six months prior."

Great article, what a historic time for SF. I used to love The Dead Kennedys. They were such a great band and I used to love visiting SF in the 90s but I doubt it's anything like what it was back then. I had a good friend who's parents were part of the Jim Jones Church that decided to not go to Guyana. It's interesting how much what Jim Jones would say sounds just like Trump. I don't know much about Feinstein but it almost seems like she ran as a Dem purely to get elected, maybe? Jello has always been pretty hilarious watching him run for mayor is almost as funny as his Nardware interviews.

What about Mono? Looks like most of the people working on .NET are working out of Redmond at Microsoft.

It would probably be cheaper for me to drive up to White Rock or Abbotsford BC then go see a doctor in Seattle even with my insurance. But when you get sick it's kind of hard to shop around.

I have a friend with cancer that just lost his insurance since he's not old enough for Medicare and makes too much money from his retirement benefits (it's barely enough to pays his mortgage and eat here in Seattle). He's going try to wait 6 months until he can get Medicare but I don't think he will make it and he's only worried about losing his house. I think it will cost around 60K to get back on his meds and keep going to his weekly medical appointment (probably way more) for the next 6 months. He was so sick before he started going to the doctor and seemed to be responding really well to treatment. Was going to try do a Gofundme.com me page for him. It's so derepressing. damn just thought about if he's going to even afford his pain meds...I think he has that covered but yeah it really sucks. Medicare will even take your home if you spend past a certain life time maximum while your dying. Most people don't really know just how bad it is until you have to deal with it and it's purposely super confusing and the the Insurance company's make insane amounts of money and so they spend a lot of money to keep it this way. Personally, I'm looking at trying to move to an other country that has even a basic medical system that is affordable just so I'm not so discouraged from even going to the doctor because it's so expense even with insurance.

Yeah, it's ruff there is the crazy work hours and then often the "mandatory" drinking parties after work. It really can put your own culture in perspective.

It's likely a side-effect of it being translated as Gairaigo then back to English. It's so common there are lots of interesting and funny examples all over the Japan and is referred to as "jinglish".

Unfortunately, the past war crimes, were horrific and the lack of accountability for them remains an issue. I can not speak for the average Japanese citizen but I have a feeling most of the Japanese people are ashamed of the cult of personality of their past leaders and wish the current government would handle things like the controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine differently. Much like most American's don't support Trumpism.