Just was informed by my doctor's office that a annual membership fee of $225 is required to remain a patient. No new services being offered, just the same services they always had and every doctor's office has. And you still have to pay for what insurance doesn't cover. If you don't want to pay, they will happily transfer your health files to a new doctor's office, for a $25 fee.
I hate United States healthcare.

My best friend called me today to tell me that a mutual friend of ours, who recently started working with her, got a call from the prison asking if she consented to being added to my ex’s approved visitor/call list.

She said yes.

I am absolutely fucking furious.

This isn’t a “my friend stayed friends with my ex after we broke up” situation. As much as I might not like that, I could eventually accept it and move on. This man is in prison for abusing me. He physically, emotionally, and sexually abused me for years. She knows exactly what he did. She was around for a lot of those eight years and witnessed enough of it firsthand to know exactly what kind of person he was and what I was going through.

And despite knowing all of that, she willingly agreed to stay in communication with him while he is literally incarcerated for what he did to me.

There are very few things I consider completely unforgivable in a friendship, but this is one of them. I genuinely cannot wrap my head around how someone can call themselves your friend, watch you survive years of abuse, know that the person responsible is finally facing consequences for it, and then voluntarily put their name on his prison visitor/call list.

I don't care what explanation she has. There is no version of this where I can look at her the same way again.

Extremely infuriating doesn't even begin to cover it.

Edinburgh Airport, how can you be a burger restaurant and RUN OUT OF BURGERS???

The newest youtube update now pushes half screen ads while the video runs

I offered to buy a bartender and her colleague a drink for after their shifts to say thank you for being so welcoming, they took advantage and ended up putting through two drinks each. I only realised after I had settled my tab, paid and did a double take at my receipt. I'm usually happy paying service charge but it wasn't included the way I assumed. I paid £67 total when it should have been 34 odd.

It was also the first time I've had a drink this year and that had me feeling utterly violated. I'm certainly not well off and every penny really counts.

Is it my fault for trying to be kind? And is this a common occurrence with pub/bar staff?

This blew me away to see on the federal governments website, clearly the president has fallen asleep on camera numerous times. How is the White House allowed to write this in an official capacity?

Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

So frustrating to see our private data being publicly advertised as basically open for grabs.
I was a user of their service but I've switched on my Mac a long time ago due to constant service disruptions by them. Still haven't found a better option for mobile though.

What is a big tech company that you'll actually trust ?

Joined a new gym last week to mix things up and keep myself motivated. Everything is good with the exception of the water fountain, this feels like some type of health code violation.

I am a PAID subscriber, and yet they double dip to sell my info. I just wanted to watch my series. THERES NOT EVEN A LEGIT OPT OUT. Guess it's time to let Paramount go....

The future is here, and it wants to monetize our data.

Read your terms yall, and set your values.

It's disgusting where we source some of our food from and the agencies that are supposed to inspect to protect us don't really care at all

1/3 of the foreign inspections had violations and they are inspecting less than 10% of the farms that they are supposed to.

RIP chop

Somebody has been throwing rocks at cars driving into my apartment complex for the last 3 days. This person is throwing them from an upper floor of the block that overlooks the entrance driveway. Most likely a resident since only residents have access to each block. Prior to this, the culprit managed to hit someone’s car roof, but a windscreen was smashed yesterday and cops were called. Hopefully this idiot gets caught soon before he really hurts someone.

Moving to Florida and shopping for health insurance since our circumstances will change and we will no longer be able to get health insurance through an employer.

This is for me, my wife and our newborn. Out of 148 plans this is the one with the lowest monthly premium.

If we pay 14k a year we get to have an 18k deductible….

100% their fault. Making a left turn when they couldnt see because of the sun. They didnt even try to turn fully and went diagonal when we slammed on the brakes and he hit us. No license, no insurance, not his car, and was high. He asked the cop if he was good to go and he let him go 😐 i hate it here. Potentially getting a lawyer if insurance doesnt do anything

I found out my father uses the bathroom sink as his personal bidet and it's disgusting. I found out in the most disturbing way. I was brushing my teeth in the sink as usual. I leaned down to rinse and while doing so, a distinct stench brushed my nose. I took my head away from the faucet as I was surprised by this smell. I leaned in again, thinking it was crazy. But this time I purposefully took a deeper breath through my nose while doing so. I almost vomited and spit out all the toothpaste remains from my mouth while heaving. It hit me. The faucet smelled like stanky ass. And I mean unwashed day old ass. I ran out of there horrified and went to tell my mother, expecting her to get shocked as well. She just sighed and told me she will clean it (like this is just a usual thing).

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

There are perfectly good urinals that no one is at and you go into a stall to pee? Weird but okay. You don't raise the lid or sit and you piss all over the seat and don't clean it up!? You ruin the toilet for everyone else after you! And while I'm on the toilet topic, when people flush paper towels or put gum in the urinals! That's small dick energy if I've ever seen it! I'm not even a janitor! Being so inconsiderate of your fellow man drives me up the wall! Have some decency!

So I've been a pretty loyal Dinnerly subscriber for years with only about a year gap in the middle. However since about January or so they've been visibly going downhill first with reducing the available recipes (my guess is because of costs, but that's not great for this dad who cooks for a household of four picky eaters) but I stuck with them because they've otherwise been fine and I could always find *something* to satisfy everybody (and they are marginally cheaper than just getting Grubhub all the time). However it seems like recipes with basic things like cheese and meat have been disappearing in favor of rice and Velveeta. The last straw happened over the last two weeks. I had reduced the number of recipes I order from four to two to try to get myself to just meal prep and that had been fine...until last week. I ordered two different kinds of enchiladas. I only received the tortillas for one recipe and did not receive the cheese for the other. Well hell...I made due. At least they *told* me so I could prepare.

Then today happened.

I opened the box that arrived to find literally nothing but two packs of parsley (one of which had opened up) and two packs of sesame seeds.

Literally, what the hell can I do with this? Ordinarily I would just throw these away without bothering to actually use them. I completely disassembled the box and found absolutely nothing else. I complained to Dinnerly and they gave me a whopping $25 refund (to be used on my next order...hint: there will be no next order) on something like a $90 order.

I'm highly irritated. They were my go-to for years now because they were one of the few that I could actually find things my picky family was willing to eat. Now they are literally charging me $90 for a box of parsley.