15:43:13mintygetting seen for anything in america is a gamble
15:43:13isoraqathedhPresumably if you bring it up to him he'd talk to his network, but I suppose he probably has none.
15:44:18isoraqathedh(My expected reaction is something like "see a doctor", "can't, it's too expensive", forty more lines of the same "healthcare in the USA is bad" call-and-response sequence that we've all been at before.)
15:46:30mintyfor my kid? no. i take him to the doctor. it's ME i don't take to the doctor
15:47:10mintymy kid's got good insurance. i have the legal bare minimum
15:48:40mintybut yeah health care in the u.s. is prohibitively expensive yada yada so is housing yada college costs are soul crushing blah blah
15:51:42mintyON A MUCH MORE CHEERY NOTE when i get the paycheck from this two weeks of working 6 days a week i'll be able to pay for my car's registration AND pay off my paypal credit line!
15:53:03mintyhaving two credit lines open, and student loans, that i make regular payments on is the only reason i was approved for the car loan.
15:53:44mintybanks need to know that they can reliably take your money before they approve you for something where they can take your money
15:53:52isoraqathedhThe knobheads over at G7 have finally decided that the things they wanted from two years ago are in fact the things they still want to say today.
15:54:05isoraqathedhThey sure haven't done anything to those effeects, but the things are the same.
16:09:34mintyi can do it... i have done it before. i don't want to
16:11:12mintyi really don't get the u.s. system. "we need an educated society for a competitive edge in the global business world" "let's financially crush everyone who wants a higher education"