My father has Parkinson’s and my mother, who was his primary caregiver, passed a few months ago. They went from being comfortable with their finances and having a small, but nice home, to my father now going into a nursing home and likely lose everything he owns because of how expensive nursing care is. We are looking at $7k a month with zero assistance from Medicare and he has enough money that he doesn’t qualify for Medicaid but will burn through all his assets in just a short time. It’s ridiculous that people work hard and save and it’s all gone in a flash.

I don't believe the GOP would ever let this pass but this would help considerably towards getting out of debt, although slowly. The student debt loan relief would have been even better but obviously that didn't happen.

Every day I think the dumpster fire can't get any bigger and every day I'm proven wrong.

This absolutely terrifies me, especially since so many people deny climate change. What is it going to be like in 5-10 years?

I’ve never heard anyone say this. Maybe we need more context?

Can anyone ELI5 what the difference is between Mastodon and Firefish? Are they basically the same but a different instance similar to sh.itjust.works vs lemmy.world?

That's okay though. It takes time and if you can get your community to really take off then maybe the other mods will come over. Every subreddit had to start somewhere and wasn't huge overnight. Honestly, Lemmy is not a replacement for Reddit and shouldn't be treated as such. It's just different.

What is wrong with people?!

I read that as in she is unable to work or research, in the medical field, not as a patient.

I have many hours in Slay the Spire and would absolutely buy the game again in support if the moved.

Part of it is the sunk cost fallacy. They are/were heavily invested in the community and it's hard to walk away from something that has been important to you. I don't necessarily disagree with you as I walked away from Reddit and only recently logged in to give away all my coins but I do empathize some with those who haven't yet.

Interesting viewpoint but it sadly makes sense.

Wishing for a speedy recovery!!!

Interest question. I would guess (with no scientific evidence) that it wouldn’t have a significant impact but that is only a guess.

Weirdly we were literally watching YouTube shorts of people farting into pots.

Well that is a small bit of relief.

I'm excited but nervous about the idea of a new game/remake. The voice acting is stellar and I'm not sure how I feel about someone else taking up the mantle.

I believe she also worked on the original Tomb Raider series.

I’m an administrator so I work with MS Office but that is about it as far tech. I did dabble a bit in high school and college with some basic computer programming but that was ages ago and things have vastly changed since then.

Had my account for 13 years and was a lurker for a while prior to that.

I thought I might miss Reddit but I really don't. Only issue is trying to find info on random things I can't find anywhere else.

I have it on Steam but I could never get the games to work and just used an emulator instead.

Probably but I honestly can’t remember. I will look when I get home.

My mother passed recently and was the caregiver for my father who has Parkinson’s and can’t live alone. My parents managed to save some money but not enough to afford him moving to an assisted living facility but has too much to qualify for Medicaid. There won’t be enough money to care for him let alone any sort of inheritance. Fucking system is so fucking broken.

I think part of that is due to them leaving at a cliffhanger. They did a lot of world building and set up in Defiance.

Touche, my desk is a bit dusty (maybe more than a bit) and needs a solid cleaning.

Good catch!

It’s sad to see that this is something we are currently battling. We shouldn’t have to have another civil rights movement in order to stop people from white washing history.