• pyre@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “no real kids”

    “no real bills”

    🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

    the fact that he added “real” to both means she has them but he somehow doesn’t consider them real, whatever the fuck that means. but this sounds like a total piece of shit and i feel sorry for the 24 year old.

    nothing like ruining the economy and the future for the next generation and then refusing to help.

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      2 months ago

      I’m guessing the kids comment was about pets. ‘No real bills’ I’m guessing she still lives at home and pays some token amount towards rent/utilities.

      We can speculate all we like, but I could see this going either way, and I’d be frustrated if my 24 year old couldn’t support themselves too.

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        2 months ago

        I mean she’s a teacher. A very hard job with lots of unpaid work that often offers downright sad wages.

        Being unable to support oneself despite a full-time job is a more and more common thing in our world.

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    This pervasive selfishness in older generations sickens and astounds me.

    Imagine not wanting to give your kids everything.

    I would forego food if I had to in order to help my kids see better.

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          2 months ago

          LASIK isn’t some great cure. It has potential side effects and you can end up seeing worse than you did before.

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            2 months ago

            Every procedure has that risk, even a routine vaccination or stitches, strange reason to pay for glasses and contacts forever.

            There are people who legitimately can’t get the surgery, but that’s obviously not who’s being discussed here.

            What’s the ratio on people being worse of for vision after? Cant make a claim like that and not provide some data.

            Glasses and contacts also don’t fix the issue and can lead to worse vision too, so arguably that’s non-factor in a discussion like this anyways.

            LASIK is the only chance to have a permanent fix. It’s a very important factor to consider, above and beyond the complications, that are also applicable to the glasses and contacts. I’ve not heard of many people’s vision getting better by their continual use.

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              No, what you are comparing to is a one in a million. Lasik has a rather large complication rate with doctors lying about it and using “satisfaction rate” instead of actually counting complications. Basically people think “it’s worth it to have these problems”. But issues like dry eye, halos, glare, shitty night vision are extremely common. They’ll tell you shit like “serious complications are at 1%” when what they mean is 1% go basically blind - or unable to do daily activities like driving at night.

              https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/lasik/lasik-quality-life-collaboration-project

              46% of participants who didn’t have visual problems before lasik, said they have at least one 3 months after the surgery. 30% had dry eye issues. Those aren’t vaccine numbers.

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        2 months ago

        And I’d bet “real bills” are only bills that the parent deems worthy — mortgage, car payment, etc. I’m guessing teacher pays rent, utilities, pays for groceries…

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      She’s a teacher, so she has kids that aren’t hers, and probably pays her phone bill and auto loan and student debt (and possibly rent to her shitty parents). Those parents of course don’t consider those real bills.

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    24 y/o with a teaching job.

    No real income is what she has. Probably on top of a shitton student debt.