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K. Chen

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Heartless humanist, unmovable automaton, distributed midwit, fount of terrifying knowledge and purveyor of Collegey Velveteen Discourse. Insightful and painful enough to be the germ of something really excellent. @tznkai on Twitter and elsewhere

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Nov 8

I think I'll use this thread as a table of content for my health insurance and personal finance explainers, but with clickbait titles

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 2h

I see today is a very "fuck you I won't read" sort of day.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

Just an incredibly backwards way to think, it's still not the best term even in the situation where colonial powers literally drew lines on a map of Africa and made new states of differing tribes.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

I'm trying to find a way calling something "synthetic nationality" doesn't immediately out you as a bigot and I'm not coming up with much.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

Basically: focus on grokking Medicaid, which is state specific and the best resources will also be state specific.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

It's a bean and has the texture of a bean.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

So I would focus on knowing what your state level Medicaid programs are and see if you can find their social workers manual online.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

Medicare is relatively simple honestly. If you qualify, you can get Medicare classic plus whatever medigap plan is available or you can go with Medicare advantage which subcontracts through a commercial insurer. Upside is out of pocket maximums and imo more sensible cost share. Downside is networks.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

If you have both you're dual eligible. Expect insurance plans to try to sell you stuff. As a practical matter this is going to involve a lot of talking with your state HHS worker and figuring out what they call stuff.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

It's a mess and I'm not as strong on this stuff but the survey is:

Medicare is old age insurance and depends on credits

Medicaid is really a billion and one separate state programs some of which will cover your Medicare under Medicare Savings Plan or something.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 6h

Correct

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 6h

People out there are saying chickpeas are delicious outside of their very restricted lanes.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 7h

Also one of my permanent LED strip sections appears to have developed some sort of fatal short and I am not totally sure how to deal with that. The weatherproofing makes troubleshooting impractical, I may just have to redo the entire section. But my own inexperience was the problem.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 7h

I've finally given up on Z-Wave smart bulbs making a comeback and now I have to migrate everything to zigbee, or rather get enough devices for the mesh to function hopefully without killing the dependent z wave devices I have left.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 12h

I experimented a bit with telling an LLM to give me a conservative friendly retelling of Jan 6 and to not admit it was doing that. It did some spin but would not say Biden was illegitimate and kept admitting I asked it to.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 14h

Getting windows has improved my enjoyment of the game a lot already I just put a layer at groundish and a layer at 5+ and so far that's been enough

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 15h

Happy to be of service!

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 16h

It also has a concept of low ground units, which makes no sense but creates varied game play so sure why not

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 16h

It's an RTS with a very freeform fort building element and attacks that come in waves like a tower defense game. Gathering resources takes limited time, building and rebuilding between waves is instant and lossless.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 16h

Cataclismo scratches a very particular itch well but the voice acting is uhhhh not great.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 16h

God's grace is irresistible (he deems who has Wednesday nights free for committee work)

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 17h

Douthat too right?

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 17h

It's /technically/ laudatory, but

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 17h

Today's sermon is about how committees are part of the work of the church and it's funny.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 17h

Unfortunately in this particular case I think everyone who would normally be paid out of seized funds would have standing and they're going to be reluctant to do it.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is coming to mind right now as the president goes to unconstitutionally appropriate and spend funds during a shutdown, a thing he absolutely cannot do, but which I imagine the courts will say that no one - save perhaps congress, collectively - has standing to sue to block.