• Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager
• Fear of Girls
• The Steven Segal Show (Ken McIntyre)

In the early days of Windows, it was semi-common for people to customize their cursors. You’d see some pretty weird and fun stuff sometimes.

I think Windows becoming the standard locked-down for work platform contributed to stifling that creative impulse in users.

In addition, some couples will even divorce when one of them gets a terminal diagnosis, just to avoid screwing the survivor.

In the US: a big gotcha is medical debt.

Surviving spouses are often stuck with the debt after the patient dies.

It’s one of the many reasons that when you check into a hospital they make you and your spouse sign all kinds of paperwork.

It’s usually the first thing they make you do, and why they roll out that stupid computer cart. Making sure you can and will pay (even after death) is all they really care about. Doing it right when you come in (scared and seeking help) is when they love to pounce.

Providing actual healthcare is way down the list of priorities. I’m talking about owners and admins, not providers.

Yes, it’s very predatory. Murica.

Reminds me of all those “tech magazine” articles years ago saying “akshually Edge is a really good browser” after the entire Windows user base only used it to download some other browser instead.

I have had similar thoughts. I certainly have some deep regrets that I never discuss. I wouldn’t feel comfortable putting them online, though.

PostSecret and /r/confession are/were like this.

When our clothes washer broke, we paid a local pro to repair it for almost the cost of a new one. It was worth it to us, and I’d rather pay a local worker for their labor than a big box store for a new appliance. This was several years ago, and fortunately it’s still working.

Holy cow, thank you. I have friends and family who are so entitled about travel and vacation it’s astonishing. They act like I’m the weirdo buzzkill for simply understanding that I can’t afford it.

Having children when you can’t even take care of yourself. Worse, doubling down and having lots of children in order to “play the odds” and hope at least some survive.

Obviously, I’m not talking about rape victims here, they didn’t choose that.

I’m talking about parents who have no means of support, and intentionally have kids anyway. Then society mostly applauds.

I’ve seen this shit firsthand many times. And humans the world over do it. They breed like mindless animals, then act so sad and surprised when their children suffer.

Definitely insane, yet normalized.

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My spouse and I talk about this often. A very obvious example is how rude (and recklessly dangerous) people are while driving. And myriad minor things out in public in general. No sense of community and a complete lack of consideration for others is the new normal. It got worse during and after the pandemic.

Health insurance company I worked for would automatically reject claims over a certain amount without reviewing them. Just to be dicks and make people have to resubmit. This was over 25 years ago, but it’s my understanding many health insurers still pull this shit. They don’t care if it’s legal or not. Enforcement is lazy and fines are cheaper than medical claims.

Obviously this is in the USA.