I have a 2 year agreement with my home Internet for a lower price. It’s not a contract because I can leave at any time, but I get a deal for a cheaper plan. It’s up in a few months, and all the options available for me to switch to are way higher. I’m going to call and try to pull the “well give me the new customer deal” shit, and if they call my bluff that they’re the only option I’ll just go without home Internet for a month or two then try to sign up again as a new customer and hope it works. I have unlimited hotspotting on my phone, it’s super slow but I can make do for a bit if I have to.

Emergency room wait times in my area are regularly 8+ hours because uninsured, underinsured, or just plain dumb people can’t or won’t go see their doctor and go to the Emergency room for all their medical care because they know they can’t be turned away. So you have someone sitting in the Emergency room waiting to take a pregnancy test that they could have just bought at the pharmacy next to someone who has had a cold for a week and thinks the ER docs have some magic pill to make them instantly better. Meanwhile they’re also trying to treat things like strokes and heart attacks and major traumas and non life threatening but legitimate emergencies like major broken bones and more acute illnesses. Everyone is miserable and no one wins except the insurance companies.

They just announced that they’re raising water and sewage in my area by 300% by the end of the year. No reason given, just because they can. It should be fucking illegal. They’re also planning on putting in a few data centers, which are currently being hotly contested, because they’re supposed to make everyone’s electric bill go up about 300% as well. I’m terrified as to how I’m going to afford my electric bill. Water and sewage is included in my rent, I can’t wait to see how much that increases when my lease is up this winter and I also have no idea how I’ll afford it, but I also don’t know if I could find anywhere to move that would be cheaper and not give me a commute that negates any savings.