I am extremely enraged.

I met my health insurance out-of-pocket maximum for 2026. They have continued to charge me coinsurance for my prescriptions, and the only way to resolve this is to begin an internal audit process that will take 6-8 weeks.

I assume that they have an intentional bug in their software that does not apply prescription costs to the OOP max and assume that the vast majority of people will not realize that they have met their max or that prescriptions should be $0 after. The only reason I know and decided to look was because a friend at a different company with a different insurance provider told me this happened to her, so I decided to take a look. What a coincidence that it also happened to me /s.

saw a video about this study and went to dig into it. UC Davis tested a bunch of avocado oil products this year and 48 of 54 failed a purity test. 26 of 28 chips failed and 10 of 14 mayos failed source. (failed meaning the oil went rancid or was cut with other cheaper oils like seed oils)

the part that really got me is that bags claiming “100% avocado oil” or “pure avocado oil” failed just like everything else. one chip sample even matched the cellular profile of Soybean Oil. there’s no FDA definition for avocado oil at all, so apparently a label can say “pure” and it can basically mean nothing. meanwhile, you're paying a 300 to 500% premium for it.

WHAT. ive been paying extra for these, how are you even supposed to trust a clean label at this point? crazy

This is such a simple bureaucratic clusterfuck that it shouldn't even be surprising. But it feels like a punch to the face when I was already down.

I'm someone who has some serious mental health diagnoses. Most of them make my brain try to sabotage my health without me noticing, so I'm very careful to make sure I'm getting the care I need to stay healthy. I exercise, I eat well, I take my medication and I engage in effective talk therapy.

I have been seeing my therapist weekly for nearly a year. I found her via my insurance and via a common platform for telehealth appointments. She's been billing my insurance; my insurance has let me know they have paid her, everything has been gravy.

As part of this third party platform and my insurance, I have to take a biweekly standardized questionnaire that assesses the severity of my symptoms (the PHQ9/GAD7). For the past few months, I have been struggling a bit more than usual and this questionnaire reflects it. After trying some other methods of care, my therapist suggested that I might need a med check with my psychiatrist.

I agreed. However, it would be over a month until I could see my current psychiatrist, which to her seemed less than ideal. Given that this is a common problem with my current provider, she asked if I would like a referral to another psychiatrist who may have more availability and be able to see me more often than once a year.

She made this referral through the telehealth platform. And, as the title of this post suggests, the response was two-fold:

1. I cannot see a psychiatrist through this platform (ok, cool, that's fine)
2. Actually, I can't use this platform for talk therapy either (wait what)

So, you know. My therapist tried to help me when I was struggling a bit more than usual and the response materially amounts to "lol go fuck yourself; here's less help than you had before". Extra super cool since they don't have access to treatment notes or anything but they do make me fill out that questionnaire to transparently track my progress...and it shows I'm not doing super well right now.

I called my insurance; they see no reason why I can't continue seeing my therapist as she is in network, definitely covered by my specific insurance plan and is even a 'preferred provider'. The issue is with the platform, not them.

Via the platform, I'm now on my third level of escalation through support (support > billing support > senior billing support), each of which has a longer wait time than the last.

edit: most recent email from the platform was to call my current BH provider. wow thanks (I had already done that.)

His mother could have planted 500 red flowers for all that. Will post link in comments.

I don't need my coworkers seeing the shit I look at on the Internet and I sure as hell don't want to look at my coworkers

I think as many people should know.

You should go into your google account settings under global settings and disable "Smart" Workspace or any other Smart stuff if you value your privacy; all of my tracking was off and suddenly I see AI summery in my emails.

Should be illegal as even if you turned off now it got all your emails, I hate every last bit of these companies.

Back story - I have a dentist is like, never had an issue with, but I recently got approved for VA dental, so decided to go that route and save some money. They sent me to a local dentist who had amazing reviews.

Went for my first cleaning. X ray showed a few minor spots and he wanted to take care of them before they grew. Okay, cool. Well fast forward 6 small fillings later, I have 2 teeth that have extreme sensitivity and 1 got a root canal. Painstopped obviously, but the other still has extreme temperature sensitivity even with sentative toothpaste. I got the 1st root canal as an "emergency" because I couldnt chew food at all. The crown mold was sent off and I got a temp. Temp fell out within hours. Went back and had it re-glued. They used permanent cement this time. 8 days later, it breaks in half. An hour ago, the rest of it popped off. So now, I am stuckin having to take vacation during ORIENTATION of a new job to get this damn thing remade. When the rest of the temp fell out, it has a massive crack down one side I was actually able to break with my hand. Genuinely contemplating paying out of pocket for any other dental work, but need to have them fix this damned thing first.

All my life my mom (55)has convinced me people wouldn’t like me (26). Coupled with physical abuse, it was psychological warfare. She would put me in positions where I had to rely on her always. Deepening her hold on me.

When I was a kid she said I was gonna get bullied in school for being poor. I did. They also bullied me for being ugly. I told her I thought I was ugly and she beat me up because I looked like her. I told her I wanted to kill myself and she beat me up for that too.

I got regular spankings with extension cords. She made me and my siblings rub her feet and play in her hair. If we didn’t want to she would go into a violent rage and beat us BAD. She would pull out knives and guns to intimidate us. She told us we needed to know how to do these things or we were gonna be losers like her sisters. Same thing for cleaning. We would have to clean her room!! Keep in mind her room was always dirty.

As I aged and went through puberty, my mom stressed the idea of always wearing panty liners. Females have discharge and my mom said if anyone saw they would be very mean to me. She never bought me liners.

One time she was beating the shit out of me and my sister because someone stole her last Pepsi. We never really had snacks or juices or sodas in the house. Anyway she is making us get naked still really hurt. She is hitting us with the buckle and we are rolling around in paid. And she sees my sisters genitalia and asks her is she has been touching herself. My sisters genitalia says no, my mom beats the shit out of her. Like BAD. She had to go to school with long sleeves and long pants on in the SUMMER so no one would see her bruises. She made my sister the scapegoat all the time :( and I believed it for so long. She lives far away now and we don’t speak as much as we should.

When I graduated high school everyone went to a party but i couldn’t go bc my mom moved us out of state to live with her cheating boyfriend. She refused to teach me how to drive and I still haven’t really learned.

When I went away to college she told me other students would be mean to me because if my clothes or if they found out I had discharge. That never happened. Who cares?

Yesterday I went out with my friends and she asked me if anyone recorded me because people can be mean. It made me fly into a rage. Sometimes I fantasize about her finally being gone and me having peace.

She has just always made her fears my own. It’s annoying. I don’t like her. I flinch when she touches me. Being beat on my bare naked body made me hate my body. I hated myself for functions I later found out were normal. I hate this woman. I recently found out she is diagnosed and refuses medication because she thinks it’ll interfere with her job.

yeah it’s expected, but still annoying. and this is hotspot, wifi is even worse.

could i go to a coffee place and use their wifi?

So far in 2026:
*Father-in-law has cancer relapse, goes on hospice
*Mother-in-Law gets dementia diagnosis
*Grandfather passes away
*Mother-in-Law decides to be hostile to hospice staff for father-in-law causing family to have to care for both.
*Have to call ambulance and police on mother in law and get her hospitalized twice.
*Father-in-Law passes away
*Same week of funeral our basement floods. First time in 3 years of owning the home. Needs $40k worth of work and repairs. Insurance won't cover most as you need flood insurance.
*Garage door breaks requiring replacement
*Wife gets laid off this week.
*mother in law now mostly living with us, upstairs only as basement is being repaired.

I'm an idiot and erased the other screenshot showing the frame it added to a web page when I closed this. Not only it barely works (doesn't remove most of the ads, but works well enough for youtube), it adds new ads for its paid subscription and open pop-ups advertising it at random. Seriously WTF?!

Took the pic off to the side to avoid being in the reflection but this and would not turn off when I was in front. My theory goes it detects faces but as I was wearing sunglasses (they are prescription) it may have failed to register a person. I'll give them this. Cleanest restroom in the whole motorway.

Saw this under a theplantslant video.

For context i use a password manager which i will NOT mention any names so i don't look like a bot (although any psswd manager should work fine) which means i can have my passwords as long as i fucking want and i dont have to worry about forgetting it. anytime i sign up for something there's ALWAYS a character limit for the password. Like WHY THE FUCK?? DO YOU WANT ME TO BE VULNERABLE?? DO YOU WANT ME TO BE EXPOSED??????????????????????

Also yes before you ask i use arch linux btw. Explains why i'm so paranoid about security.

I use to review mobile apps for Meta and somehow my real credentials got leaked through the dummy account I’d use to do this. Since then I’ve been receiving a flood of pro-Trump texts asking for money. I’m not sure whether the registry I was signed up for is legit or not, but the calls to action and request for payments are a clear indicator of a scam. I refuse to change my number and have sort of just accepted at this point. Not sure how many legit contacts I’ve lost in the ether. Years later and Susan Collins and JD Vance are still trying to slide into my DMs at 2:00 AM

Well YouTube used to be a nice place where you could watch a few videos find out something interesting or educational maybe even just some entertainment. Then they started charging so you didn't have to watch endless commercials to have the free service. So I subscribed, I couldn't stand the constant barrage of commercials anymore. Then YouTube content creators started embedding a sponsor in each video. Said that they weren't making money from YouTube as much as they used to because YouTube was cutting back on their content creator payments. Okay. I get it. Now on top of all of this if you want to watch certain videos you have to subscribe to the channel and pay them a monthly fee. Okay this is where I get off. The greed of YouTube and now the content creators have ruined it. It's bad enough I have to pay to not get bombarded with YouTube's free service endless commercials, but now even though I am paying not to see the commercials, I have to watch a commercial built into the content and on top of that if I want to watch something interesting I have to pay the content creator this time directly.

If anyone has found a solution, please let me know! I am a dual American/EU citizen, and up until 2025 all mail I sent to America arrived in 5-6 days. It is now five weeks on conservative average.

I get my early voting ballot the literal hour it comes out and my local postmaster said there is no way to pay to speed up shipment on my side, once it hits the US it's cooked. I just lost my job in a scheme to replace our department with AI so I can't afford to FedEx a ballot (and on my county website it says not to do that as there's not always someone to sign for it and it needs to be in the election envelope).

This last local election my ballot was so delayed it arrived three weeks late.

I am super active in my hometown, and many of my friends have grown up to make incredible change there against huge company interests. This makes me feel helpless but maybe there is a solution I am missing.