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Not really? I'm pretty sure the vast majority of health insurance customers are part of group plans from their employer and so the individual customers have very little influence or choice in the matter, and basically just have to put up with whatever bullshit the insurance companies throw at them since the alternative is seeking individual coverage separate from their employer and paying double or even triple in premiums alone.

I've never had or heard of a company giving people time off on father's or mother's day.

My general rule about communicating that I tell people about is that if you want/need a response call me, otherwise I have no guarantee I'll remember to reply or text you back.

Yeah but those people are functional members of society and act relatively rational when compared to untreated severely mentally ill homeless people. Even if you happen to walk by a rapist/murderer/pedo, they're not likely to do anything in broad daylight on a public sidewalk to random passerbys with tons of other people around. The same cannot be said for some homeless.

My assumption -- with the initial infection the body creates antibodies to fight off that original strain. As it spreads to more and more cells and churns out copies, it mutates slightly every time it replicates. And then each of those instances replicates and mutates a little more, becoming a bunch of different strains. And while initially the original antibodies will be effective to start with those strains, eventually they'll muttate enough to where you have so many different strains where suddenly the antibodies aren't working anymore and that's probably the point where the immune systems gets overloaded trying to produce antibodies for all these different strains, and as soon as it catches up it all becomes worthless, because in the meantime a ton of other different strains have mutated in the meantime, and so on and so on.

tl;dr snowball effect

The kids could also just ditch their phones and learn to live without them for a few hours when they wanna leave campus. Or buy a cheapo used one and use WhatsApp/Messenger off WiFi if they need to communicate with friends.

Not that I'm saying the parents doing this are in the right, just that it's pretty easily defeated IMO. Kids have been sneaking around behind their parents back since the beginning of civilization doing things they wouldn't approve of, this is just the next step really

Not quite, it actually does fully exile, and even exists very briefly in the exile zone, but then fizzles once state based actions are checked again, which is usually very quickly.

>Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield [the latter half is redundant with it being a token].

It's not necessarily redundant or useless, there are some cards that will trigger off exiling permanents, or count the number of permanents that have been exiled during the turn to change how powerful an ability is, so if it was destroyed in battle or kill-spelled and instead exiled, it would be more useful than it simply being destroyed unexiled since it would trigger the ability or increase the count of permanents exiled that turn.

>You know what's really infuriating? Maintaining a healthy weight, getting exercise, making an effort to eat a balanced diet that hits lots of nutrients....and seeing these people cost my insurance company several orders of magnitude more money to keep alive than I do.

Not to veer too far off topic but this is something that always bugs my mind when people talk about how they don't want "socialized" healthcare because they don't wanna pay for other people to live unhealthy lives. Like dude, healthcare is already socialized, where exactly do you think the money the insurance companies uses to pay for all of your health costs comes from? From....other members paying into it. Which means that they already adjust prices to account for all their unhealthy members. You're already paying for it, might as well cut out the part where the company's incentivized to put turning a profit over providing quality care.

I'm all for the student loan bailout, at least this one is going directly to the pockets of consumers instead of having to trickle down like the PPP loans or previous corporate bailouts.

Eh, cats usually adapt pretty well when transitioning from house cat -> stray cat, but they're probably an outlier as they're predators themselves.

My girlfriend used to smirk and roll her eyes at me when I would stop and stare at drivers and wave to them when we would cross in front of them at crosswalks and stop signs and wait for them to wave back, until someone almost ran us over the one time I didn't. Now she's a waver like me.

You haven't experienced a whole lifetime. Every moment up until the current [whatever the smallest unit of time really physically possible is] is just a memory of an experience. Subjectively from your perspective there's absolutely no difference between having actually experienced all that and merely having memories of having experienced all of it. You could materialize into existence for exactly one moment and believe you've lived an entire lifetime, but in reality you're just a brain floating in space experiencing one brief moment of a lie told by the chance arrangement of the molecules that make up your being.

Loved Yik Yak, there was a quant little sense of community with these strangers that lived within a certain radius of my home/work/school. Someone asking if anyone else saw those 2 flipped vehicles on the corner of Campbell and if anyone saw it live and knew what the hell happened, a flood of posts at 3am with everyone bitching as the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night at the dorms. I actually met my college girlfriend on that app believe it or not.

He clearly means sufficiently advanced technology.

That's assuming the bank actually finds the transaction(s) were fraudulent when they do their "investigation". If they disagree with you and decide it wasn't fraudulent for whatever reason it's quite often a giant pain to argue with them and get it sorted out.

He probably bought a lot on Wednesday and stuck them in the fridge/freezer for the rest of the week

I work for a pretty huge well-known fortune 500 company with a global presence and personally handle the tape rotations for several of our data centers, and they're all still on LTO-6 tapes

Not to be rude but you ascribing an equal likelihood of causing tinnitus to one night of using earplugs(which BLOCK sound from your ears) vs presumably regular/sustained use of noise cancelling headphones(which BLAST sound into your ears) borders on ridiculousness and make me think you're just trolling..

So first off I never said I agreed with those doctors' reasoning and love that I'm getting downvoted despite it being a reply to a comment literally exemplifying what I'm talking about, and several other people are commenting things among similar lines.

It happens and I don't agree with it, but I totally understand why they do it. General practitioners and family practice doctors see dozens to hundreds of patients every week, and they get maybe half an hour with each patient and they know that out of the 300 people they see, maybe two or three of them will actually commit to the lifestyle changes they need to control their condition. So instead they optimize for what's going to work for the majority of their patients and skip straight to medication.

Unfortunately the vast vast majority of people won't commit to a big lifestyle change like that in the first place, and a big majority of the people that due end up not following through. So most doctors won't bother suggesting it as a legitimate option because for most people it kind of isn't.

Could rig up a switch somewhere inside the car near the driver's seat pretty easily. I had an old motorcycle with some kind of electrical issue that would drain the battery if I left it off for more than a day at a time.

But instead of spending days and weeks chasing it down, I spent maybe $30 on a battery cover with a little hidden flip switch. It was originally designed for turning on (illegal in my state)under lights, but I modified it slightly and had the switch connected to the ground terminal instead, so whenever I got off the bike I'd flip the switch and boom, problem solved, no more dead bike.

I'm not saying it's bad, just that "deep" to my understanding is when a piece of art has more to it than what it appears to at first glance. Midnight Gospel is about a guy doing a "spacecast" where he interviews random aliens he finds. But when you look "deeper', it's really....a guy doing a podcast where he interviews people. Not a lot going on under the surface, just reskinning the interviews into a different format and adding a small bit of sci-fi world building.

I wouldn't say Midnight Gospel is really deep, isn't it basically just his podcast set to a aesthetically stimulating background animation that's tangentially related to what their talking about?

Okay, so maybe don't lie on the internet and go around telling people a bartender told you to fuck off when all he said was "No" and we won't have to make assumptions about what you had to have done to get a service worker to tell you "Fuck off".

Also -- if the bar is on the first floor why would they be taking kegs upstairs in the first place?

> A business is going to get judged on its physical space regardless of ownership or fairness

The portion you quoted from my post doesn't necessarily represent my actual opinion, I was just pointing out his statement doesn't always hold true.

But I don't disagree with you, you can definitely judge a business for it's physical aspects, however I don't think your friends go up to the bartender demanding they fix the sketchy stairs, and then get upset to the point your "blood boils" when they don't personally apologize to you for them. There's a difference between judging and complaining with your friends privately, and hassling someone that happens to work there over stuff they have no control over.

An apology from someone who has absolutely no ability to influence those decisions or policies isn't a sincere one, and is basically coerced under threat of getting in trouble when someone complains to their boss that they weren't "understanding enough".

Are you American by chance? I find that lots of Americans seem to want and even feel they're owed that kind of false sincerity/kindness from "low skill" workers they interact with.

Also I doubt it got to the point of someone telling OP to fuck off just for asking if there's an elevator, there has to be more to that story.

Also also there's no indication that the same business that owns the bar is the same business that owns the building, maybe they just rent a space on the bottom floor. So again, not the bartenders responsibility to apologize for something they have no control over, and possibly they're not even a representative of the same business that owns the building that chose not to include the accommodations.

In regards to accessibility accommodations, the only responsibility I can see to the bartender is telling people that there's not an elevator when they ask and he seems to have fulfilled that.

Is there a reason he should be apologizing? He's a bartender, the only thing he's responsible for is serving you drinks, he has absolutely no say in the accessibility accommodations the building chooses to put in. I don't really blame him for telling you to fuck off if you kept pestering/berating him after he told you there's no an elevator. What exactly did you expect him to do?

The Dragon Prince is set in a fantasy world, so not really a fair comparison. It's possible that in their universe the chances of being black or homosexual is different than ours, and that the onscreen representation of those minorities is perfectly proportional. So trying to compare the two is a moot point.

That's a little different than a tenant who is renting wrecking someone else's property though, as the sheriff said in the case of foreclosures it's still their property up until the forced vacate date and they can technically do whatever they want and can't be sued for the damages, whereas tenants can but in most cases it's simply not worth it because the people you're suing usually don't have any assets or positive net worth in the first place.