Yay! (and happy birthday, btw)
It’s something [head nods to side, slight shrug]
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I’ve been having health insurance problems too. I shouldn’t be, but I am. It’s all about taxes - I arrived in Germany in 2014 and had quite a bit of trouble getting the hang of the tax system here. I was in communication with the tax office quite a bit and made a number of mistakes, but eventually answered all of their requests and thought that was it. As it turns out, there were two yearly summaries that I was supposed to hand in, and I only submitted one. I wasn’t told about the second one until 2015, so I completed that one. The the health insurance checked my tax records and sent me a surprise bill for over 8000 euros, since the tax office hugely overestimated my income for 2014 and that’s what the health insurance uses as a basis for my monthly premiums (generally this is a great system, but not when it’s based on an income almost double what I actually earned). I seem to be having a double conversation with the health insurance at the moment - in person, they’re very understanding and say that it will all be smoothed out soon. By mail, they keep reiterating the same demands and have told me that I can’t use the insurance after Monday. This is a particular problem as my son is on my insurance, and he’s had bronchitis/pneumonia three times since September. I’d pay the money and hope that the process gets sorted out soon (which it will, although I may have to pay a much more modest amount), but I just don’t have the money at the moment. While my income is clear from my 2015 report, I’ve had to pay a higher monthly premium until this is sorted out.
On a more positive note, it looks like we’ll be getting our deposit back soon. The deposit money should have been kept in a bank account and left alone until we left the house, but our landlord used it to renovate the house before he sold it. Fortunately the house has sold (which could have taken months longer), and we’ll be getting our deposit back as soon as the money is handed over. If we do end up having to pay the health insurance fees, that’s at least some of the way toward covering it.
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So I get three weeks of garbage and (literally) shit into the back of the van and head over to the transfer station. Which has a sign reading “closed at noon due to the storm”.
Noon.
When I was still shoveling.
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Cat peed on our brand new comforter and queen sized mattress. Found her very very lethargic sitting where she peed. $700 later (two visits and two rounds of testing) still no idea what is wrong. Cat will be fine I am sure – her leg is bothering her but not broken. Just pissed about the new mattress and the $700.
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Seems like my bank card got skimmed.
So that’s hundreds of bucks taken out of my account while I sort this shit out.
Merry Christmas, thieving scumbags.
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In the interim maybe use socks on your hands.
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Trump is still president elect… Only one more day until the Electoral College fails to do it’s duty…
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This Hamilton elector thing confuses me. On the one hand, I don’t want Trump to get elected, but on the other hand it sets a very dangerous precedent. Suppose a Bernie Sanders style Social Democrat got elected. The electors could just as easily say “this person’s a socialist, which means they’re a communist, which means Russia owns them! We need to get rid of them!”
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Either the EC is a stupid anachronism, in which case it should be removed, or it’s a safety valve to protect the state (which it will fail at).
All it does right now is screw with what the people want and reduce non-white voices.
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A Syrian refugee who I know has been taken into hospital with breathing difficulties.
I’m hoping it is just a panic attack (not that panic attacks aren’t serious, but the other possibilites are far worse).
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He’s in hospital with now. He has an infection that he hadn’t been looking after.
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Yes, it’s piling up. gr* darn f*
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I’m happy to cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Just checking in to tell today to fuck right off and try again tomorrow. It has failed and I’m just done with it and it’s shit.
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You know, I was about to say I couldn’t get behind the electoral college stopping Trump here, but I just reconsidered. I thought about all the possible consequences of them doing so - from a continuous string of impeachments on the lesser end to domestic terrorism and civil war on the other - and it occurred to me that one obvious consequence of them doing so would be overwhelming momentum to get rid of the electoral college. So then it wouldn’t be around to stop that future commie after all.
I mean, if you are going to have four years of chaos (and you are, either way) then you might as well get some kind of lasting change out of the deal.
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What we’ve got is a further opportunity for Dems to fight with each other and for the Republicans to laugh at them.
All I can hope for is severe buyers remorse for those that voted for Trump.
I’m too depressed for anything else.
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That article about Poland today was pretty depressing. It sounds like things are going to hell and people who voted for things going to hell are pretty happy with the way things are progressing towards hell.
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Trump will have approval ratings in the Rod Blagojevich zone before he gets his ass thrown out.
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