Sir_Vival

You're right on the second point - we were all always taught that precum can contain sperm. It can...if the guy hasn't urinated after ejaculating the last time he did it. Not all that long ago someone had the bright idea to actually test it and found no sperm otherwise.

It's certainly not a foolproof method but the success rates are up there with condoms, when both are used properly.

I'm pro life as a whole but that's a crazy take on things. The average woman would need to get an abortion a year. That runs me the wrong way on a bunch of different levels. Abortion should be an "oh shit" plan, not a routine thing.

There are plenty of methods of birth control that don't affect moods. Condoms, IUDs, and pulling out (if you're in a very trusting relationship and the guy is "good" at it) all work.

That does provide healthcare - Medicare and Medicaid, which I believe covers about half of the US population. One reason some are opposed to going to a government paid system is the fact that we spend so much on that where if the costs were simply doubled it'd be a rediculous expense.

That's disengenuous at best. Health care only goes so far when half of our population is obese. I would think survival rates for various diseases would be a better metric.

I had a job 5 or 6 years ago where I needed to maintain/add to a website using ColdFusion. I actually kind of liked it, compared to PHP. That said I wasn't doing anything especially complex, which might have changed my mind.

I hate any application in Windows that doesn't close when I hit the close button. If you want your application to minimize to the taskbar, have that happen when I hit the minimize button.

The same goes for phones, too. The last time I used Discord on my phone I ended up restarting the whole phone because I couldn't figure out how to close it.

I've have a weakened immune system and am also a wedding photographer, so staying healthy is important. If I can use a bathroom with touching anything but myself (#1), I'm going to do it. If everything is motion activated I'll wash my hands, otherwise I'll just use hand sanitizer at the next opportunity just to be sure.

Lasik usually costs a few thousand dollars. Mayo Clinic charged me $1400 for someone to look back over an old MRI of mine.

I wouldn't have done said yes to that if I had known the price.

Asian beetles also bite. I have to spray my house every fall lest they find their way in, which leads me to vacuuming their corpses up every few days the entire winter.

That'd do the exact opposite of what you want by absorbing most of the light.

The wet plate collodion process is only sensitive to blue/UV light. Those tattoos must fall elsewhere in the spectrum.

As an aside, I've just started doing them myself and it's clear why there's been a resurgence. Scans don't really do them justice, and the aforementioned sensitivity makes freckles/other features really stand out. It's also really hard, and takes a good 5-10 minutes per shot.

It would be astoundingly easy to fix. All you'd need is a law/regulation that says drug companies can't charge US customers more than the average price for the same drug in say, Canada, France, Britain, Australia, and Japan.

Suddenly we'd be paying a lot less and if we are subsidizing the cost it'll for them to raise prices in those other countries.

Do more Peloton jobs have the option to be remote? My wife is an accountant and she's looking for something, but it's hard to find non-dev remote jobs.

Not so fun fact - the medication HCG is derived from human urine and can possibly pass CJD on. There is no warning on the label, and since CJD takes 20-30 years to kill you once infected we don't really know yet if it's a problem or not.

And I took it for years.

I get cluster headaches or something similar - still being diagnosed. Anyways, they're extremely painful, by far the most pain I've ever experienced. I have a meditation/visualization I do that largely negates the pain. I actually got the idea from The Dresden Files books, oddly enough - the main character does something similar at a few points throughout the series.

It works, but only if I can wholly concentrate on it.

And it's well known that disreputable repair shops will ask you up front how much your insurance is paying you so they can get the full amount.

You don't choose to be born. You choose to take out the loan. You sign forms telling you exactly how much it will cost you in the end. It's a decision. I can't imagine anyone saying "Let's all stop paying our Auto loans! They were unfair and predatory."

You made the decision. Own up to it. If you can't do the math at 18 years old you shouldn't be going to university anyways.

I would guess our lawn sizes are larger on average. You have cities where there are no lawns, suburbs where they would have a use, and a lot of rural areas where the lawns are simply too large. It takes me 2 hours to mow my lawn using a riding lawnmower.

That used to be true but in the past two years they've gotten quite bad. For instance, during the child separation story they called it "President Trump's child separation policy," when describing it. Only weeks later did they call it "the increase of child separations due to President Trump's zero tolerance policy." It was known the day the story broke that he didn't enact the policy.

That's used to be true but in the past two years they've gotten quite bad. For instance, during the child separation story they called it "President Trump's child separation policy," when describing it. Only weeks later did they call it "the increase of child separations due to President Trump's zero tolerance policy." It was known the day the story broke that he didn't enact the policy.

It's ironic you'd mention Tasty as a counterexample to them repackaging content. Kenji Lopez-Alt called them out for stealing recipes:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/worl...

So much of what you said is just plain inaccurate. For instance, Trump did not say that Mexican judges are incompetent. A case against him before the election had a Mexican judge presiding over it and he was afraid that the judge wouldn't be objective due to his wall/the perception that he's racist.

That's just one point. Most of the other points you made can be equally refuted or are just ridiculous - "dog whistles," come on. That's code for "they didn't say anything bad but I'm going to interpret bad intentions because I don't like them."

I don't like the guy but I hate the lies and misinformation about him more. Not because they're damaging to Trump but because they're harming our democracy itself.

It doesn't seem like "over testing" or "harm" if the end result is less people dying. The fact of the matter is that I was able to get an MRI the same day I went to the doctor with an issue twice in the US. One of those times was for severe recurrent headaches. The doctor didn't think it was a tumor (and it wasn't), but he did it to be sure. If I were in Canada chances are I would have waited months for that appointment. In the worst case that would mean the tumor had time to grow. In the best case that's months of unnecessary worry, which isn't healthy in itself.

It's insane more people haven't realized this. All you need to do to fix our healthcare system is bring transparency to prices and have insurance actually be insurance again instead of health plans. I have multiple anecdotes from my own life where I didn't care about the cost of something due to my insurance paying for it (and in some instances not being able to be informed of the price beforehand). When you have a whole country like that it's easy to see how things have gotten to this point.

The only downside is I don't see how it would fly politically...which is a big downside.

Sorry, but I hate when people say this to indie developers like it's some grand new idea to them. Marketing is hard. You can't just post about it online as many places have self promotion rules. You can try to reach out to get reviews, but chances are you won't get noticed. Everything else costs money, and if you don't know what you're doing (and chances are the indie developers doesn't) you're just throwing your money away.

Its not a 1:1 comparison, but I relatively recently released three extensions for Photoshop. They're well made and designed, unique, and would be a boon to a lot of photographers out there. I contacted every place I could find and got reviewed at only one place, Fstoppers. The reviewer really liked the extensions. I got a whopping $1,000 of sales from that and my many months of development time. Frankly, I didn't have a clue where to go from there. I'm a wedding photographer and I had to release them before my wedding season got going. Now that the season is over I still don't know. I've been running Facebook ads but without being able to target professions I haven't been able to work out a strategy that works.

Long story short, marketing is hard and takes both time and money.

Transparency and high deductibles for everyone would instantly lower costs dramatically. I have to take testosterone, and you have two primary options. One is a gel that you rub on every day that's really hard to dose correctly due to absorbency issues, and the other is a weekly injection. I wasn't even offered the second option until I asked for it. The gel was $400 a month and the injection is around $20 a month. I generally hit my deductible a month or two in to the year for various reasons and the difference in copays isn't enough for me to care, generally. Medical insurance needs to be insurance again.

I'll give you a firm example. I'm close to a town of 20,000 in rural Minnesota, and the biggest employer is a well known turkey company. Their plants used to be staffed with primarily native (and being in Minnesota, white) people. It was menial, hard labor but it paid well because of that. By the 90s the plant was primarily staffed by illegal Mexican immigrants, and now it's almost entirely Somalians.

The jobs are repetitive, mindless, and it's cold, wet, and loud in there. The pay is barely above minimum wage. If the company didn't have access to those immigrants that are happy for any work at all, they would have been forced to raise those wages long ago. If people in the plant were paid, say, $15 an hour, the hourly workers in the office next door sure wouldn't be happy being paid the same amount. Their wages would have to be higher, which would mean the salaried folks would also want to be paid more.

That town is a perfect microcosm of how the massive amount of immigration our country has seen has kept wages stagnant.

I hear this a lot and have never had anyone explain what laws were broken by those executives.

I think everyone should learn how to drive in the snow without ABS and the like - just like I did, and I'm 30. The car was $400, front heavy, and had rear wheel drive Learning when you should be applying gas, when you should simply take your foot off, and when you should brake (rarely!) in icy conditions is hard to learn otherwise.

I would pay good money for this for Nikon. I'm a wedding photographer and on the D750 the primary ISO button is right next to a "quality" button. Because of this, with one slip you can change from shooting raw + high quality jpeg to only basic quality jpeg. The button doesn't need to exist. Nobody ever needed to quickly change their quality settings. Most people would probably never change it. The only indication you've done this is the number of shots you can take on your current SD card will go up.

You can enable another button to be your ISO button, but it's a bit less handy to use and quite small.

Best of all, the predecessor to the D750 has the ISO and quality buttons next to each other but in a slightly different place. Fun stuff if you only upgraded one camera.