ThePhotoDept Chris Sturm

[AlwaysScience]

Thanks for the screenshots, Makes sense. Some writing on the screen obscured the word 'Scary' for me, and I'm too tech challenged to find it.

I had been thinking that his sudden silence online, especially when he'd been so vocal, had something to do with us. Maybe some would say his issues were trivial: driving while under care for seizures and brain mets! (if he was driving, and I still wonder) Saying clearly that he had "bought" an obamacare policy (though he was annoyed that he had to buy it in order to see a doctor) - but THEN, when asking for money, he claimed he had no insurance at all. So which one was the truth?? He never cleared that up. Anyway... I would never have commented if these glaring issues didn't exist.

I do think tattle performs an important service, scrutinizing people who are asking the public for money. They owe their donors the whole truth and they don't always provide that, and we're a kind of cyber security firm, of sorts. Or something like that. A form of oversight, when there's really nobody else around to do it!

I think the reason Chris claimed he had bought insurance on the exchange is that he assumed he could sign up for insurance under the ACA at any time, and was surprised later when he received notice of rejection of his application. The sign up process online is actually an application. During the annual open enrollment period no one can be rejected so I think people confuse what they are doing as enrolling, when technically they are applying.

I agree about Tattle Life performing an important service. It is not journalism, but it does serve a similar function. No government can be held accountable to citizens without a free press to question what the government claims. Tattle Life appears to be the only way that claims of cancer bloggers who are asking for money on YouTube can be easily discussed and challenged. People can create channels to criticize cancer bloggers but many of us do not have the know,edge for that.

If YouTube cancer bloggers did not delete comments that questioned their claims then the discussions found on Tattle Life could be found on YouTube. I would actually prefer that as the questions and replies from the cancer bloggers could be easily found by anyone with concerns about the bloggers’ credibility. Accountability is a good thing.

Tattle Life can be used for unfair and even hostile comments. But I don’t own it and no one has offered to hire me as a moderator so that is something I cannot do anything about. I use Tattle Life in the way that I think is honest and fair. I appreciate the other users here who use it the same way.

Welcome to anyone new who has found Tattle Life because of Chris sharing it and who has decided to create an account to engage in discussions we can’t have in the comments section of YouTube. Please be honest, fair and kind here.

 

[mayday mayday]

He lives in a two-income household, is able to afford to drive a Subaru, but didn't bother to spend the money to obtain health insurance as expected of a
responsible adult. I wonder if the nurse girlfriend ever had a serious chat with him about the consequences of being uninsured.

 

[Make sense of it!]

Passive aggressive, much.

 

[Elpis]

I think he's about to move to California. He posted that he's bought walkie-talkies that cover long distances because he doesn't want to risk texting while driving there, with his girlfriend I presume. Ever the cautious driver, you know.