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  1. Apep
    The SAT is once again 1600. The PSAT goes up to 1520, but the NMSQT selection index transforms the PSAT section scores into an index that tops out at 228.
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    After letting my son skip 10th grade this year, I was very afraid that my son would do something similar, but on the PSAT that is actually used for NMSQT. Fortunately, he got a 1470 on the PSAT and a 1560 on the SAT.
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    You bought a two year old a toy Mini Cooper and made him take the PSAT in 5th grade?
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    When my normal body temp dropped to around 97.5 a few years back.
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    Two, maybe three weeks back I had a slightly elevated temp after dinner, 99.1. Checked it 15 minutes later and it had shot up to 99.8. Sorta freaked out internally and went to bed early. Slept most of the next day. Not long afterwards, I noticed a post- lunch fever between 99.5. It went away not long after dinner. Soon I realized that was everyday, a post-lunch fever between 99.5 and 99.9. After looking into it some more, I realized that body temp can rise by up to two degrees while digesting. Last night I ate way too much pizza and puked it up around 1:00 AM. Since then, I’ve had a persistent low grade fever today, never getting above 100.1, mostly in the 99.5 range. Gotta wonder, was it always like this and I never checked my temperature? Or is my temple thermometer running hot? I have another thermometer, an oral one, that shows a lower temperature. Am I just freaking myself out over nothing? My pulse oximeter shows good O2 stats, so I don’t know.
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    Tarantulas and turnips will keep them busy.
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    They'll accept a dummy 2019 Schedule C. I can't recall if a 2018 would work.
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    I may say it sucked, but I'm more with Drew on this. For what it was and what it could have been, the mediocrity is galling.
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    IIRC, the interim final guidance that Treasury released earlier this week said "Schedule C", not the whole return. Not 100% sure, but I keep hearing that plenty of banks are asking for more than what is required. If you push back, they might drop it, but banks kinda do what they want.
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    Kim's an attorney and Mike used to operate the gate at the courthouse. They've met, though she might not remember him.
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    IANAL, but you need to discuss this with your psychiatrist. FWIW, I've gotten unemployment in Texas when I quit on the advice of my psychologist and advised my employer of such in my resignation letter. I was already on an "improvement plan" and slated for termination, so maybe they just didn't fight it. That was about ten years ago and it seriously fucked up my career. But getting unemployment was better than nothing.
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    The difference is that the Mandalorian didn’t suck. Picard needed to be twice as long and episodic or half as long and a purer serial.
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    Typical Clone Wars, good enough, not sure how they'll wrap it up in time, but I trust that they will and it will be ever so slightly underwhelming.
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    I bought some cloth masks with behind-the-head ties. Not that I'll be wearing them that long, but I've seen plenty of pictures of doctors and nurses with ears rubbed raw from elastic.
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    One of my (tax) colleagues in Oklahoma, a local politician, is working his DC delegation over the purported drop from $10k to $1k per employee and the lack of payout. IOW, there will be Congressional pushback.
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    Cartoons aren't WFH-friendly? Who knew?
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    It wasn't good, but it wasn't that bad. There wasn't enough time to properly develop the new characters, even though they actually tried to flesh them out and answer questions. Mystery and open questions are okay. We don't need things wrapped up in tidy packages. And they failed on that score. So arcs could have been cut. I'd say diversity was the weak point, because there were too many humans and human-looking aliens. I'm not asking for much, maybe a Ferengi or an Andorian. A Breen would have been awesome. The deus ex machina solution at the end of the series was telegraphed a mile away. In typical ST fashion, they finally have a decent SF trope, I expect them to ignore the bigger implications forever. They want space soap operas, not SF.
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    Could have been worse.
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    It may not be up for a vote, but I just saw them discussing it and taking public comments. We're probably still a day or two behind Dallas.
  20. Apep
    Here is a good discussion of using CPAPs for less severe cases of ARD, a topic which I touched on last week.
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    Tarrant County is currently having an emergency meeting to discuss shelter in place.
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    Unsurprising. One of my friends lives near Baltimore and he reported having to go to the hood to buy TP that fell off a truck.
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    That’s called an antibody test. China and Singapore have them. Not sure about us.
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    Shaming people for quarantining or not quarantining? It's hard not to do the latter.
  25. Apep
    For mild cases of ARDs, (acute respiratory distress), it sounds like CPAPs can be used as ventilators. They can even be improvised from standard ER equipment. They don't require much more than than hoses, masks, and a wall outlet. They can be used with O2 concentrators and a connector to supplement oxygen. If things are really that bad with ventilator supplies, shouldn't we start CPAP/BiPAP drives and decontamination procedures? For example, I have three working CPAPs, a primary, one for travel, and an old one that I never sold on the gray market.

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