Notices by Dr. Amy, Psy.D. (dramypsyd@ohai.social)

Oh I finally got a response about jury duty! They dismissed me. Apparently in South Dakota “I have to work” is excusable (which, I did not ask to be excused, just to move the date)

The form also said you can be excused if you’re retired, disabled, or have a child care conflict. So…who even serves on juries here?!

I know I'm getting old because what the fuck is a skibidi toilet

Hey if you're considering hopping into a random American's replies to scream at them for "voting him in," consider for a moment that many of us did NOT vote him in, and your comment is asinine, useless, and you are an asshole.

Hey, if you’re in the US, they’re looking at a law that would eliminate minimum wage exceptions for disabled people - please comment if you can! It’s disgusting employers are allowed to pay less based on disability. If they can DO the job, pay them the appropriate wage for it!!

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/04/2024-27880/employment-of-workers-with-disabilities-under-section-14c-of-the-fair-labor-standards-act

For me the funniest part of being an author is I’ll be like do I talk about my books too much and the first reply is you wrote a book?

Hey so I saw that evacuation routes in California are paywalled (what capitalism hell is this) so here is a paywall bypass that I’ve used in the past if anyone needs it https://www.removepaywall.com/#google_vignette

The WiFi at the office today is being glitchy so I want to give a special THANK YOU to everyone using alt text because pictures are not loading so I can only perceive images with alt text right now.

It's also a good thing to do for accessibility in general for those who rely on it all the time of course. Just pointing out that it's got a LOT of benefits. :)

So that scammer in the podcast I've been listening to (two podcasts actually, she's also the focus of this season of Something Was Wrong) made a Reddit thread doxxing one of her victims because she's tired of him being "allowed" to be anonymous when she isn't allowed to be. Then she screenshotted his messages asking her to take it down and posted them, mocking him for having an autistic meltdown.

What a (series of curse words)

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I painted this recently 💜

Just finished a lecture on burnout and the CEO of the company in question was present so I made sure to mention that financial security is the biggest protective factor, and it's up to leadership to provide that. 💜

My ADHD manuscript crossed 69k words today, NICE

I still have 15 sections to write so I'm definitely gonna be over my estimated word count of 70k

Gonna be a major buzzkill at the art collective today. People keep saying “The weather is so great! It’s so warm for December” and I’m like “Yeah it’s climate change we’re all gonna die”

Art Collective is today if anyone is in the Sioux Falls area! I always talk to the coolest people at these 💜

A 2010 study showed that 72 Americans die each DAY due to lack of health insurance, or lack of adequate health insurance. I'm trying to find more recent data, not having much success, but I have a feeling that number hasn't gone down. 😡

By putting profits over human beings, insurance companies kill thousands every year. In 2023, United Healthcare was caught using faulty AI to deny claims: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/

This is still happening. Daily.

Today BlueCross announced several of their plans are simply going to stop covering anesthesia if a surgery goes longer than expected. You know, as surgeries do sometimes. https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/11/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-will-not-pay-complete-duration-of-anesthesia-for-surgical-procedures

This policy absolutely will lead to people not getting necessary procedures because of cost.

Insurance execs have blood on their hands.

@me I feel like it shouldn't be legal, but the thing is breaking the law like this typically results in fines, so the business just pays the fine and keeps breaking the law

@JessTheUnstill Oh definitely, this was an excellent reminder to me to use the actual website and not the search results for contact info.

@JessTheUnstill Yup! And apparently this hotel offered discounts if you're traveling for a funeral, which of course Expedia did not include.