Bibi is tiny in comparison, and can be hard to get a hold of as well.

They sure as hell aren't a malpractice prone pill mill like Eustasis though. I've gotten good care from them, haven't had trouble with appointments, but communicating with them is frustrating as hell sometimes.

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

Ha, fuck you!

-That nut, probably

They live outside of Springfield where Brightspeed is the wired broadband/phone provider who took over Centurylink's wires. I won't dox them, or myself, any closer.

Her mother literally kept calling the service line for her home phone. Never got a response even when she did get through.

She just gave them an earful and cancelled her landline; you could get the accounts people fine. Her cell phone was on T-Mobile already, so switching wasn't a big deal.

I haven't asked her about it directly, it's just what my ex said to me. But the neighborhood my ex lives in, about 8 houses, have all gone to T-Mobile, during and after the switch.

Centurylink has been the provider there for decades. I always used to call them "barely, but adequately competent" compared to the horror stories I heard hear on here. Now I'm on mediacom, have great speed, and it barely goes down. Before AND after the switch, I don't consider them a provider anymore, because they can't provide the services they offer, and ignore service complaints.

You gotta understand, outside of a metropolitan area, you're a fucking second class citizen. What you're offered is overpriced, barely maintained, and high price. When she went to T-Mobile, she got double the speed, barely any downtime, at half the cost. This is a systemic issue, not a one time deal.

My parents don't even qualify for that, they're still on fucking HughesNet. They were 10 years out of date 10 years ago.

Yes. And when they inherited my ex wife and her mother's broadband, they continued in the tradition of Centurylink, shit service to the point they couldn't even keep their phone service running, and made almost everyone not within the town itself switch to T-Mobile to get broadband at all.

It may be great for you, but that doesn't make it great for everyone. It just makes it more of the same.

God yes, it's awful.

They are not fantastic. Most of my family is rural and used to be on Centurylink. We had Centurylink for almost 15 years. It was slow as shit but it rarely went down. Then during covid, while my now ex was working from home, it basically went down and stayed that way. I'm talking multiple hours daily, 5-7 days a week. Then they just stopped answering their support calls. After they sold, nothing improved. Her mother lost phone service and couldn't reach customer support. Ever. She just cancelled her account entirely.

She switched to T-Mobile and never drops, was half the price, and 5 times the speed.

While I love that their quality is high enough that their patient base is full, I hate that there are so few decent dentists that it becomes impossible to get in with one.

If you have an Advantage plan, Mahaffey Family Dentistry accepts Aetna's. It's what I'm on currently. They may accept other plans, but I can't say for sure.

They have been my family's dentists for decades and are absolutely top shelf. Zero upselling or any of that other scammy shit.

The fuck?

Usually people as salty as this guy are just projecting their own inadequacies.

Relax, dude.

Sounds like somebody bitter about his DUI.

You misspelled "petty, bigoted tyrant".

I and quite a few others have called it the Darth Vader building since not long after it was built.

Exactly. Statistically, it's obvious why Springfield is the "poorest city".

The ones above it are the rich suburbs of large cities, and the ones below it are barely cities.

"Which of the 3 urban areas in Missouri is poorest?" would give us the exact same conclusion.

Never heard of a Beef-a-roo before. Anybody want to share some details?

Cheddar fries are a good start.

My god they have so many inflatables I swear there's a difference in air pressure there. Also really nice folks. Worth the drive.

Selling advertising that loosely resembles articles and then selling advertising to go along side them is 417 Magazine's entire business plan.

It's the BBB in magazine form.

He delivered our son, who is in college now. He was amazing then, good to see he's still going strong!

It's in the far past, now. I left there, got a great therapist and psych PA, and a little known drug that's rarely prescribed and rarely works but turned out to be a great help for me.

So all in all, while I'm not "better" by most definitions, I'm "okay enough" by my own.

They aren't the only clinic like that. I'm at another one now that has the same policy, and threatened to drop me if I had alcohol in my system again (gosh, imagine being nervous the night before going to a new psych provider). Thankfully, after they saw I was overprescribed benzos and not drug seeking (I stepped my dosage down on my own), they relaxed that one. Eustasis didn't even warn me about interactions, they just said "take these".

I have a worse story but won't tell for my own privacy. I did feel in danger of being involuntarily committed and worse.

I was there when 6 employees all walked out within days of each other over the same incident.

The Dr. who runs Bibi and the Jains haaaate each other, supposedly.

Can confirm, both as a long time patient who was over prescribed, and as someone who knew several employees after their employment there at various other mental health clinics.

What we as the patients see is only half of the shitshow.

I don't care for their food, but they are an S tier ice cream place.

"You're dissssphicable!"