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  1. This seems like a problem with David Dennison's post about ratings in the 20's. We need AoC to decide it's her time. No. more. geriatrics.
  2. Agree it had nothing to do with being gay but more that Pete has the rich young bright wunderkind McKinsey stink on him. Kitchen table issues with Joe Six Pack Democrats and minorities don't trust or like someone too smarty pants for them. Story as old as time.
  3. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if she said F Trump or F Biden or I hate America or whatever. She is an American citizen. You bring her back home if you can and then we can all debate and politic later. The only character trait that matters is one that says she born on American soil and we have a duty to protect her. Even if we think she sucks. Maybe even especially if we think she sucks, because that is putting your money where your mouth is. Now, let her do the exact same thing again in the same way once she’s back, well, you only get one crack it with 100% tolerance. But maybe it’s just me but every American citizen deserves at least that. The same for the numb nuts who goes on a blackout binge and gets arrested. We will yell at you for being stupid when we get home but now is the time to make sure you are safe first.
  4. Awesome. As weird as it sounds, total bucket list event for me.
  5. Yea cool. Whatever will work and stick and see some legal culpability. I'm not a lawyer and don't pretend to be one on TV so that's why I couched it with criminal negligence or something vague enough to stick but not too prescriptive to be beaten legally or by technicality.
  6. All I know is insurance is paying for it or I probably couldn't afford it based on how you are making it sound financially at least!
  7. The veteran fatty (not the poster everyone hates but the person who eats drive-thru enough to know this move), is to not pull away from the drive-thru until you have put hands and eyes on all orders and cross-checked against the physical paper receipt. It takes 60 seconds tops and saves you the trouble. 50% of the time there is an issue and you get it handled immediately. 50% of the time you have wasted 30-60 seconds of the line behind you. But generally speaking, it's best for everyone's mental health to understand the dynamic we are dealing with and have tolerance for error. Staffing issues that cause shortage of workers, the workers who are there are either really young and inexperienced or not the sharpest of individuals, and lots of times they just don't care. As someone who worked drive-thru as a teenager, I get it. It's just a job, there is no pride of ownership or doing an amazing job unless you are a stellar teenaged individual of impeccable moral character and work ethic which I'm sure you are all and I was the exception.
  8. Contrast with back in the 90's on a train in Germany when authorities rifled through a duffle bag and just confiscated a little hash. Just a different global landscape and world we live in for those of us old geezers with young kids and thinking about the world they will grow to inhabit without us. Britney Griner, while not anyone on here's favorite person, is still someone's daughter and wife and I can't help but feel for her. I hope her pleading guilty will get her home and not be a bad strategic move that makes her hole deeper, but at this point I wouldn't doubt that as an option too.
  9. You sound like a real doctor and not a Holiday Inn tenant, so thanks for your contributions. I'm scared of side effects of IVIG but your experience of them being minimal is comforting.
  10. For you data guys, I have linked this guy before but David Epstein (author of Range) has a concise weekly newsletter that is usually pretty good. He tackles "bad data" a lot in this posts and this week is around gun violence and gun laws and he makes some interesting points if anyone is interested in reading further: https://davidepstein.bulletin.com/why-comparing-gun-ownership-rates-across-states-shouldn-t-inform-policy
  11. I'm with Hayden on this one. On one hand, you feel for her because she's being used and there isn't much that can be done but be a political diplomatic pawn. And on the other hand, you are an adult making adult decisions and clearly didn't do a good job with the risk and reward analysis of going to Russia on the brink of war with pot.
  12. The dad needs to have some charges drawn up on him IMO. Criminal negligence or something akin to that for you law types. I'm sure they can find something to punitively throw at him.
  13. America in 2022 wants to help each other and look out for each other. But only if they look and act and sound like one of their own tribe. We are impossibly broken and splintered. Political Cartoon thread and New Yorker cover out front shoulda told ya.
  14. I understand that, but was trying to meet the OP who posted that data where he was (which is a place that didn't seem to understand it's not the tradeoff).
  15. If we didn't do anything when the Norks killed Otto Warmbier then I don't suspect we will do much outside of more of the same diplomatic pressure we are doing now for Britney Griner. But then again we got Trevor Reed back after his petty crimes by trading a Russian cocaine trafficker on a 20 year sentence, maybe we will find a good trade but it's going slower than Cleveland trading Baker Mayfield. I do wonder if it was a more popular athlete or celebrity (or straight male) if things would be different though, as much as that sucks to say.
  16. I don't know, when I think meningitis, I think potentially lethal and could kill you. Rat Lungworm just sounds like something you take some laxative for and a week later you are 10 lbs lighter.
  17. If this data is true, and I'm not suggesting that I've fact checked it and believe it or disbelieve it, but if it is true I'm reminded of the Trolley Question thread and the philosophical angle on this topic. It's more a moral and philosophical quandary than it is a math equation, then. The trolly question for you would look like this: 1 thousand innocent and random americans ranging from toddlers to the elderly will be mercilessly run over by a trolly when they least expect it. You can pull a lever and instead save them and instead disallow 2 million defensive uses of guns (without any secondary data pointing to how many lives saved or taken in that time). What do you do?
  18. It's about 22 years old now, but the great mighty algorithm this morning served up the story Stephen King wrote in The New Yorker about getting back to writing after being hit by a car. He recounts the accident in great, vivid detail and it's a must read for SK fans: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/06/19/on-impact
  19. What does this mean to the non-medical laymen and dummy? "It is a huge amount of fluid so you want to be careful with someone dealing with cardiac output" That someone is me, are you saying I should be careful with exercising after infusion? Getting heart rate up? At risk for heart failure or attack? Between the prednisone and this stuff I'm sure I'll be 50 pounds overweight before you know it.
  20. I think that is the move right there.
  21. Understood-- I knew the lockers were fair game I guess I just thought your own personal car fell out of scope of the school's autonomy to search and seize. So what happens when you complain about getting your seats and dashboard torn over to look for lurid RX's which turned out to be legally prescribed? I'm assuming you got an apology and a shoulder shrug?
  22. Myositis, with more tests to specify as best as possible the "flavor".
  23. Can the school do that without a warrant?
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