OPEN BAR: it rubs the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh yes, but the government will never pony up the cash.  Just the other day, our valiant Prime Minister was telling us there would be "unlimited funds" to deal with the crisis.  Which is obviously bullshit, but when the Environment Agency put in its calculation for the additional costs imposed by flood damage, it was told to find the money in it's current budget or fuck off.  Essentially.

Our government is determined to not do anything which costs any money or involves listening to civil servant expertise.  Their vast knowledge of hydrology, land deeds, marsh removal and flood defence was earned working for fancy banks in the private sector, and they're not about to let a bunch of know-nothing losers who couldn't make it in the Free Market tell them what's what.

Sort of like all the education experts here in the US... they became experts by A. going into politics or B. making a lot of money selling software, which obviously makes them more qualified to make changes to the educational system than some dumb schmucks who just went to college for 4-8 years to learn how to be educators and then worked in education for 20 years.

[Telarus]

Filled out my healthcare.gov application.

Still cannot afford it, still outragously high deductible.

Still need a biposy for a "mole" that failed A,B,C, and D. E is still good though.

Shit, that sucks. Did you qualify for any of the "tax credit" subsidies? I know that they're labeled as "tax credits" but there is a provision in the bill that allows you to draw on those month-to-month to cover part of the premium costs....

[Suu]

Luna and I just went for pizza. It's not snowing anymore. It's raining.

It's raining on top of 3" of fresh wet snow, which was on top of about 5-10" of accumulated frozen snow and ice. Since the drainage gutters are icelogged, there's no place for this street slurpee to go.

There's gonna be a hell of a lot of accidents tonight when this shit freezes back over.

[Salty]

Filled out my healthcare.gov application.

Still cannot afford it, still outragously high deductible.

Still need a biposy for a "mole" that failed A,B,C, and D. E is still good though.

Shit, that sucks. Did you qualify for any of the "tax credit" subsidies? I know that they're labeled as "tax credits" but there is a provision in the bill that allows you to draw on those month-to-month to cover part of the premium costs....

Not that I could tell. I didn't include my school info, so I delted that application and am going to try again.

It was totally absurd. It asked for my expected income for the month, $200, net.
My lowest option for catastrophic plans were $252. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

[East Coast Hustle]

That seems exorbitantly high. Is that just for you or for you and your son?

[East Coast Hustle]

Not that I have any real idea of what that stuff is costing in other states.

[Salty]

Just me, I claim my son on this years taxes. His mom claims him in 2014. It would probably be lower for just me with him listed as a dependent, but the coverage would be higher if it included him under that coverage.

I assume it's that high because the cost of living and average pay in AK is unusually high.

As an example, bananas are 99 cents a pound on a good day. Cigarettes are $10 a pack.

The Siver plan is $333 per month with a $2,700 deductible and a $5, motherfucking 700 out of pocket maximum.

I COULD afford it if my business hand't tanked because of broken promises made by my shitass tenants, or if maybe my wife could have pulled her head out of her ass and lived a happy life with me, especially after not spending $400 -+ on weed per month anymore. And not owning a car or cable or internet that isn't on my phone.

I live so damned cheaply and work hard to help others be free of pain. If you want a clear and shining example, not that you really  need it, of how fucked up shit has gotten, here I am.

I was bummed about it yesterday, wanted to get loaded. But after some yoga and some good food and sleep I feel better about it today.

There's a sliding scale health clinic here and with my whopping $8,000 net profit on my schedule C from last years run I ought to be able to drop the cost a tad. Good thing I raised my rates from $45 to $85.

[Salty]

Of course, the sliding scale clinic can't give me an estimate.

That poor billing office woman sounded like the phone was soaked in acid and wanted to get it away from her face, asap.

Where is the humorless smirk emote?

[Salty]

I would spend what money I have on a oneway plane ticket out of here if I could. Debts and leases be damned.

[Telarus]

Dug up some info for Alty, may be useful to you guys (I'm still digging thro this myself in Oregon...)

• First off: If the lowest costing plan costs more than 8% of your income, you qualify for an exemption from the Uninsured Tax Penalty:
  https://www.healthcare.gov/exemptions/
• If you live in Alaska > If you are the only person in your household: •If your yearly income is below $14,350, you may not qualify for any Marketplace savings programs.
  https://www.healthcare.gov/how-can-i-save-money-on-marketplace-coverage-ak-hi/
• So they want to drive the low-income folks to Medicaid. Problem is, not all states are "expanding" Medicaid to cover everyone who doesn't qualify for a subsidy......  so, it seems that there is a "coverage gap" in state's that are not expanding Medicaid.
• According to the below page, Alaska is NOT expanding Medicaid... So the advice is to apply for Mediaid anyway to see if you qualify for the current Medicaid setup.
  https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-my-state-is-not-expanding-medicaid/#state=alaska
• I'm not finding the fincancial requirements clearly marked.
  http://dhss.alaska.gov/dpa/Pages/medicaid/default.aspx
  Try here, I guess, it's a list of local offices:
  http://dhss.alaska.gov/dpa/Pages/features/org/dpado.aspx
  

Man, wtf is up with that coverage gap? Good luck man.

[Salty]

I looked into medicaid about 3 years back, it would require my kid's mom to pay me child suppor.


I just recently suggested to her that we move in togther to make things easier on us and the boys, she chose to simply ignore me.



I am in a great mood, however, as I just traded massage with a highly talented young therapist. So I could give a fuck about being screwed otherwise.

[Suu]

I'm about to enter the world of making medieval soap (yes, they had it, and didn't just bathe once a year) and perfumes. I had to promise the boyfriend that I wouldn't make my own lye*. Where's the fun in that?  Other than that, what could possible go wrong? Add lye to water, don't breathe, add to olive oil, pour into a wooden box. Wait two days, pop it out, cut into pieces, set aside for a month... SOAP.





*Lye is extremely easy to make, but caustic as fuck. I could use it to ret flax and dye linen also, but all of this is a terrible idea when living in an apartment.

[LMNO]

And then Suu was in Project Mayhem.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The people in my philosophy class are AMAZING. This week's assignment, along with writing a brief analysis of an article posted by the instructor, was to simply write an argument using ten different fallacies, chosen from a list of about  14 fallacies. That was it. In order to complete the assignment, we each write our argument, then identify and explain five of the fallacies used in a classmate's post.

This assignment has been posted since Monday. As of right now, only myself and two other students have posted their arguments, and both of the other two just used the same two fallacies over and over and over again. I can't finish the second part of the assignment unless somebody who actually understands it posts an argument. 

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I'm about to enter the world of making medieval soap (yes, they had it, and didn't just bathe once a year) and perfumes. I had to promise the boyfriend that I wouldn't make my own lye*. Where's the fun in that?  Other than that, what could possible go wrong? Add lye to water, don't breathe, add to olive oil, pour into a wooden box. Wait two days, pop it out, cut into pieces, set aside for a month... SOAP.





*Lye is extremely easy to make, but caustic as fuck. I could use it to ret flax and dye linen also, but all of this is a terrible idea when living in an apartment.

This is relevant to my interests. Would like to see how it turns out.