The largest outbreak since the disease was eliminated is like the largest attack since the ceasefire started. Both are real headlines that I’ve seen this year.

She’s been hanging around politicians her whole life, of course she’s comfortable begging rich people for money. The important thing to remember is never vote for a politician who’s been associated with her. Even if it was years ago.

Symbols are for the symbol minded - George Carlin

The thing that makes this regime similar to the Nazis isn’t the way they draw eagles.

What makes you think that people haven’t been cutting their hair since forever? Our ancestors who came before homo-sapien had cutting tools. Hair can also be burned by the fire they could also make. I’d imagine hairstyles are older than humanity.

Using AI should count as plagiarism. All the elements are nearly identical except it’s harder to tell who your stealing from with AI. At the very least your passing off the computer’s work for your own.

AIDS.

I came of age during the crisis and it would be hard to exaggerate how big a deal that was. Sex could kill you, not just ruin your life. Sex ed in 7th grade was more like a haunted house than a classroom.

EDIT:

I took sex ed in 7th grade in one of the former Slave Holding States. Due to a quirk in the reconstruction State Constitution, many cabinet positions were voted on instead of appointed. (this point was to weaken the Governorship should a black man gain the office).

Anyway, at that time, Democrats had controlled the Secretary of Education for decades and the sex ed course was surprisingly comprehensive. They taught us about contraception, STIs, consent, as well as the anatomy of human reproduction. Abstinence was emphasized.

We kinda had two sex eds. One in Elementary school that was segregated by sex; taught in a single day; and was basically “you may notice changes in your body” type lecture. Obviously, sex wasn’t mentioned at all.

The dishwasher should be run when it’s convenient, not when it’s full.

I run the dishwasher so it’s finished at least an hour before I start dinner. So when I start cooking, 1. all the dishes are clean, and 2. the dishwasher is empty. This will save you so much effort if you can just learn to run the thing half full once in a while.

I know he’s blind and all, but the true test of a warrior is testosterone levels.

A girl canceled a date once because I’m not on Facebook or anything else. (I asked her out in person).

She combed through socials as a kind of background check and interpreted my absence as suspicious. Modern problems.

investigated and held accountable. Suspended for one semester, couldn’t have been that serious.

This must be the first time you’ve heard about a university investigation of sexual violence. Bless your heart.

Yesterday I finished the book “Babylon South Dakota”. Geller and Angela Collier had done a “book chat” about it, but I skipped the video until I had read it.

So I’m looking for this video yesterday and it’s not on Collier’s book channel. Weird, so I check her science channel. No good either. So I check Geller’s channel. (this is on Nebula, not YT) And Geller is gone, no videos by him at all. I thought, did Jacob Geller get canceled?

This is how I found out that Geller had been canceled.

This is a politician’s idea. Their wages and benefits are trivial compared to the insider trading and other corruption.

Instead of making them live on a low salary, why not try making them live on their high salary first?

Thriller -Michael Jackson.

Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon know how to do the Thriller dance.

it’s a green onion, with flow.

How would this even work? Recruit on the suicide prevention line? How would you train suicidal people? Just give them the rundown on the way to the earthquake or mine disaster? Do we think suicidal people are organized, motivated, fit, and competent?

Trump aside, this is good. Healthcare prices are intentionally obscure and inaccurate in the US.

For any given procedure or equipment, the manufacturer/provider will have a price called the “billed amount”. This is a fictional number that serves as a negotiating position. The insurance company has an “allowable” which is what they’ve negotiated with providers to actually pay. Every year the insurance companies and medical providers negotiate on the actual price. So providers are incentivized to inflate their costs in hopes of getting a better deal.

Usually, the difference between the billed and the allowable vanishes. But the patient may be on the hook, depending on circumstances. I know people with decades of experience in the industry who still get confused and struggle dealing with insurers.

The moral of the story is that if you ever have to pay medical costs out of pocket, the first thing you should do is ask to reduce the prices from the fictional and inflated “billable” down to an “allowable” amount, usually using Medicare’s allowable as a standard.

LOL, you silly. Vegans would have to live in TSMC clean-rooms their entire lives to avoid consuming yeast, and it probably wouldn’t work.

For example, by learning engineering it made me loose my jewish faith…

The Conservatives are right to worry about University. I mean faith leaders expect to loose biology majors, but when engineers are getting de-converted you’ve got a serious problem.

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. I notice that Econ101 people never want to include profit, or advertising to the cost of production. Both are inefficiencies due to adding cost without value, but it’s invisible to the system. Always left out when it comes to factoring costs. Weird.