Otherbarry

In my early 30’s still felt like I was in my late 20’s so never really gave it much thought. Maybe around 33-35 I actually started getting into a more 30’s mindset.

Anyway, don’t overthink it :)

In the U.S. with insurance you would have easily hit the deductible and out-of-pocket costs though that does mean you would have been billed a few thousand dollars easily (on top of the regular monthly insurance costs). Everyone has slightly different health insurance plans so the actual amount would be hard to predict for a hypothetical question.

One thing you got me thinking, I’m not too sure how often U.S. insurers would actually cover someone to literally stay 4 months in a hospital, maybe in rare extreme cases? Insurance companies typically only approve x amount of days/weeks in hospitals or rehabilitation facilities so once you use up those approved days the hospital has to figure out how to get you out or start billing you directly at a few thousand per day.

On a weekday would take 24-48 hours, work would probably start making calls if I just randomly stopped showing up. It would be odd enough if I didn’t show up for one day without calling/emailing anyone, 2 days would become concerning.

Might take longer over a weekend, depends whether I have any family trying to text or call me.

Only browse old.reddit when searching around for info I might not run into otherwise but haven’t needed to log in there in the last 1-2 years or so. Beyond that usage it’s just Lemmy for the normal browsing/posting/commenting.

Wish I had more free time but unfortunately my work/life balance is pretty bad at the moment.

But every once in a while the urge will hit and I’ll end up playing something obsessively for a few weeks or so while suffering through a lack of sleep during that time.

Yeah with Propagandhi it’s always a toss-up whether they’ll make it into the U.S., they were set to play Fest this year too until they canceled. Kind of wonder if they’ll even bother trying to tour the U.S. for the next 4 years at least, ugh.

PS - Streetlight is playing Asbury Park later this month if you want to add another show to your count :P (you probably already know about that one)

World/Inferno Friendship Society by far, must have seen them 10-15 times in the NYC/NJ area. Averaged 1-2 times a year up until the lead singer passed away 4 years ago (RIP CLOTH). Their live show was kind of a intense mix of dancing, moshing, singing along and just kind of letting loose. The fans sort of created an entire community around the band and we’d recognize each other from all the other shows we’ve been to together. Their annual halloween show (Hallowmas) was always the highlight, the band would go all out with live show spectacles both on and off the stage.

I still go to plenty of other live shows, at the moment have leaned into folk punk bands. Apes Of State and Escape From the Zoo are some of my current favorites maybe seen them 4-5 times now.

May be overthinking it a bit, the typical opportunistic thief that would try to snatch a phone and run is just looking to see what bank apps you have installed. Usually they are looking to see if you have something like Venmo installed so they can go into your app and send themselves your money. Venmo of course will say that money was transferred from your phone so it was clearly you and there’s nothing to dispute, hence you’re fucked.

These type of thieves already know to try to keep the screen unlocked long enough to do that, afterwards they usually just toss the phone somewhere. The phone hardware itself isn’t that useful while it’s still locked down and tied to someone’s Google/Apple account, most phones are firmware locked in that fashion. Sure they could wait it out until you finally remove the phone from your Google/Apple account but every time they check it’ll keep giving out their location, not really worth it.

Nowadays current Android phones do have theft protection to prevent loss in a snatch attempt e.g. my Android has settings to auto lock it if it detects fast movement while unlocked, and it also auto locks if the entire phone itself has been set offline/airplane mode for a while.

Almost never, maybe once a year if that.

But I do consistently drop brand new phones within the first 3 months of owning it. Usually on concrete. Not intentionally of course… yet for some reason it’s happened to me every single time.

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!