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  1. I just saw on my newsfeed that Peter Frampton has myositis Peter Frampton is on his final tour after ‘troubling’ diagnosis of incurable disease PETER FRAMPTON, 72, has been on his live performance finale The Farewell Tour years after being diagnosed with a devastating disease that causes muscles to waste away. https://www.hopkinsmyositis.org/gift/peter-frampton-myositis-research-fund/#:~:text=The Peter Frampton Myositis Research,to ultimately find a cure.
  2. I can beat that. I have to take a drug 2x a year that costs $60k a pop, so $120k a year, according to my insurance EOB. Oops you said $40k a month or $480k a year. You win.
  3. Same. Except the usual meds didn't work for me and I had to stair step to the most aggressive and expensive one and the jury is still out (though I'm stair stepping down from prednisone these days, too, slowly but surely).
  4. As someone who has been on Prednisone, at a very high dosage (40-60mg), daily for over a year, I cannot wait to be off it. That said, it is a miracle drug for combatting inflation. I had CK numbers in the 9000's before steroids. Got them down sub-500 (normal range is 0-235). From what I understand, long-term use sucks the life out of your bones and leaves you with brittle, weak bones and a risk for osteoarthritis and bone disease.
  5. Thought I'd update this-- I finally got the insurance company to approve the Rituxan. It was a pain and took a lot of time and appeals, but from what I've read, it's really good to stop and repair the lung involvement (ILD) with my auto-immune.
  6. I searched and didn't see one. Especially for first time founders, do we have one? I'd love to read through people's experiences as a first time going through things like pitch decks, VC-meetings, resources and websites or consultancies that helped, legal, cap tables, incubators, the whole thing. I know being Austin-focused probably half of us have started something, at some point in time, and I realize that times are tough now compared to the heady days of pre-2022 for starting something, but general wisdom is the best time to start a new business is during a downturn in the economy?
  7. Figured I'd bump this thread as it appears that IVIG is not really helping. It's interesting because I'm on "good therapy" for the majority of people with this illness with IVIG and prednisone and methotrexate (CellCept has too extreme of side effects)-- so next step is Rituxan if insurance will pay for it. My doctors are concerned that they won't pay for it but it's the only thing they think that can stop the lung involvement which has become serious in rapid fashion. Anyone have any GOOD experiences with their insurances helping with expensive therapies for AID?
  8. This wins the internet for me.
  9. Lady of the Palace speaking!
  10. I got the Kat Williams reference, my ba-rother.
  11. I understand what the pedant Roma is saying because it was the most cringe, telegraphed "twist" that the King was going to announce the Hand's daughter in that dramatic fashion and surprise. Yawn. Boring. Predictable and lazy writing. Also Daemon seems to be written inconsistently for my tastes so far. Otherwise, it's decent, I love the costumes and set pieces and production value. I don't mind the slower pace, I like the intrigue and politics as much if not more than the scifi dragon cgi crap. Ser Cristen is being set up to be Grey Worm or Jorah or the long haired daenyrios (sp?) a la strong, loyal and good protector to Rhayenra's (sp?) Dany. 5/10, will watch ep. 3.
  12. Biden delivered on loan forgiveness; weed is up next. Do this and you’ll be a legend, Dark Brandon.
  13. Libertarians: “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
  14. The question is now, will it stop here? Or can it be extended or built upon (higher threshold of income, more forgiveness, etc.) like how the student loan deferment has been. Like most have said, a one time jubilee is great but it's not going to change anything fundamentally and we will need to do this again since nothing chnages. I disagree with those who think this will be an inflationary event though-- the people getting this and make under $125k were not servicing that debt anyways as they haven't been legally obligated since the early days of COVID-19. That money earmarked for servicing the $10k in debt was already circulating in the economy.
  15. That is fair, but also having zero sympathy for others who did suffer and did the right thing and made painful sacrifices, whatever the situation not just this student loan situation, just had "bad timing" is also not a very emotionally healthy or empathetic approach.
  16. Sucks that it was means tested, but hey, it's a step in the right direction. And I agree that probably there was actuary concerns that could have made this unwieldy and cost prohibitive even going from income of 125k to 150k as the previous poster mentioned. I wonder why it wasn't just 10k cut across the board no matter what. That was my expectation and hope, at least.
  17. P&L*
  18. I hope the means testing part is a bad translation of the rumor, I haven’t seen anything about the 125k leaked by anyone official looking, at least.
  19. Serious-ish kind of answer: I did something super cool and kind for someone recently and they racked their brain and couldn't think of anything and probably posted on some esoteric website of their interests, but I ended up with a $500 gift card to a luxury hotel with a spa that I could use for a stay or a spa day or dinner or whatever. I thought that was cool-- but it's been sitting unredeemed in my email and who has the time? Though a massage sounds awesome.
  20. When we were young we were hungry to be seen and heard and desperately make an impact which made us look naive or adorable, at best, and annoying and insufferable at worst. Let the managing director or partner run the strategy and just take notes, 25 year old. That said, I feel like it's been beaten like a dead horse, but the popular acronym WAIT needs to be a topic of new-hire onboarding: W.A.I.T. the acronym for Why Am I Talking?
  21. Got it, I was wrong then. It just seemed to this layman's eyes that it was the same set pieces and standard, straight out of central casting "Medieval Era" setting and they made an effort to highlight to viewers that this is nearly 200 years prior to that last Medieval Era settings you saw which looked exactly like this one.
  22. I’m with you, especially as we saw his cheap move against the hands son and we are led to believe he’s ruthless and doesn’t fight with complete honor. But yea his armor and helmet was dope. Weird how the “tech” is the exact same in the GoT/HoD universe. Though it’s nearly 200 years there is still the same village and building styles and designs based of same material and same weaponry. Not even a little advancement in 3 generations?
  23. Exactly. Just because it’s canon doesn’t mean it should be revived. It’s clearly not golden era of comics and even old school comic books had misses and bad characters and attempts.
  24. This show is really bad as an earnest attempt at entertainment, but also so cheesy it was kinda fun. It’s campy in that way, I guess. I’ll watch more, for now.
  25. This guy is well known to be a media/attention-seeking narcissist whose "$70k min. wage" was something he used for his own ego and glory (and use it he did-- at every turn and with every breath) and it was whispered he had a pattern of past abusive behavior. Clearly there was some truth to those allegations. If all you knew was his quipy tweets or linkedin posts I can see how you'd probably think it was cool. But that tells me you don't follow hilarious twitter accounts, like the one that makes fun of Dan Price daily.
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