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.

And yet still no gun control.

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?

There seems to be more and more stories of police hurting animals. What a POS.

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?

This is wild. I hope they get sued and lose horribly.

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.

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.

Condolences. She looked like a wonderful little one.

What is wrong with people?!

Thanks for the paywall free link. I didn't realize it had a paywall as it worked fine for me, it must have a certain number of "free" views.

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

Tch!

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.

I believe @rooki has a solid point. Your banner, and icon to a lesser extent, really hurt the eyes and if someone was epileptic it could be an issue. Not to say they aren't neat but I could see someone getting up in arms over it.

Interesting viewpoint but it sadly makes sense.

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