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TheFlopster

@ TheFlopster @lemmy.world

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  • In search of Psychiatrist/MD in TX

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  • I agree, but how do I find that special doctor? My bf's insurance is shit. Every visit to a new doctor costs at least $200. We can't just trial and error this until we find a good one. He's likely to run out of money first.

    This is why I posted. In hopes of getting some direction toward that doctor without a lot of money going down the drain.

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  • Stone is a common British weight measuring unit, and this is a bbc article, so... That's why that happened.

  • Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected.

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  • Wilford* Brimley. But I still enjoyed your joke. :)

  • Gen Z is ‘task masking’ in the workplace. How harmful is it?

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  • As the article points out, pretending to do work and look busy isn't new.

    It happens for a lot of reasons, and I'm sure I'm leaving some out:

    • I'm constantly overworked, and pretending to work will keep something new from being pushed into my lap.
    • I hate this company and I'm collecting a paycheck until I can find something better. Who cares if I'm actually working.
    • My supervisor has been told by the higher ups that if the workers don't look busy when they walk by, then we certainly don't need any more workers (despite the fact that the workload has natural fluctuations and we do need more people).
    • I only get paid so much. If there aren't any tasks for me today, great. They're not going to get me to ask for more work, or work beyond my job description.
    • I'm only doing just enough work to not get hassled or fired (a la Office Space).

  • Sedentary too long

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  • Nah, I don't think Office Space had a "Jim" character. My bet would be The Office TV show, American version.

  • no words, much feelings

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  • Nope. Especially not in Texas in the summertime. The pipes are close enough to the surface that they warm up (unless you have well water, which is always cold).

  • Time to chop wood

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  • Ooh, I'll play! I'm 40 years old. I write checks every month to pay my rent, which has to be delivered to their office either by snail mail or in person (no online payment option).

    The last time I saw a dedicated fax machine was my retail job in 2008.

    The last time I used a deposit slip was three years ago when I deposited a gallon bag of change in person with a bank teller.

  • Happy birthday, peon

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  • I've never heard of a company giving you your birthday off either. But it's the only day every year that I feel special, so I always use vacation time to have that day off. And usually a couple of days surrounding it too.

  • My feed today

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  • He is Grant Gustin. This was a behind the scenes shot. There's a character's name on that gravestone in the original picture.

    I'm not sure if I'm getting whooshed.

  • Time to break out this meme again

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  • I'm full of cheese at all times. What else is there to live for?

  • Pete Hegseth’s remarks about women in combat are met with disgust and dissent

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  • Chaos? A distraction from whatever else he's up to that night be worse? Idk.

  • Rule

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  • Mine was 22.

  • Gov. Tim Walz vows to fight Donald Trump’s agenda while working to understand his appeal

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  • I agree that the behavior will absolutely continue. But if the new leader doesn't have that special "something" that everyone rallies around, the cult divides.

    Again, I still have no idea what people see in Trump or why anyone would choose to follow him. But there's obviously something about him that appeals to them. Visible anger and hate for everyone not in the cult? Promises to destroy them all? Idk.

  • Gov. Tim Walz vows to fight Donald Trump’s agenda while working to understand his appeal

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  • I think you're absolutely right about the hate vs. fear. But when the charismatic (Trump? Ew, how?) cult leader dies, sometimes the cult doesn't have anyone else they all believe in, and it breaks apart. I'm hoping for that.

  • news

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  • And The Handmaid's Tale was supposed to be fiction. But here we are.

  • Burning Man contends with unusually slow ticket sales

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  • A ticket is $575! And that's like, starting price. No wonder the average income of the attendees has gone up. They're the only people who can afford to go. The rest of us down here spending our entire paychecks on rent and food can't be wasting money on shit like this.

  • I respect it when I hear someone clearly attempting a word they've only seen written

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  • Her - my - un - ee

  • I respect it when I hear someone clearly attempting a word they've only seen written

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  • Yo - seh - mit - ee

  • 'It'll Be Fixed!': Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future.

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  • Other people organized, staged, and enacted that coup. When he realized it was happening, he decided the coup stagers were "loyal" to him, so he was on board from that point on.

  • Cop described Sonya Massey shooting as ‘self-inflicted’ in initial dispatch

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  • I agree with you that some people don't deserve a quick death.

    But I don't think it should be government sanctioned or within the prison system, because they get it wrong all the time, and the innocent suffer.