Yeah but it’s back to the “good ole boy”network here. Not excusing the guy but there are assholes everywhere. However it t makes a huge difference whether their behavior is acceptable or not.

I like to believe that in most places people would be horrified and he would have immediately been discouraged/cesured/sanctioned and never do that again

Whoosh

Edit: for those missing the point, this was directed at myself

Edit2: and one more try after another coffee, saying more of the words out loud since apparently I have no social skills this morning ……

/me, ducking in panic, as a thunderous whooshing noise fills the sky, as @[email protected] kindly identifies the point sailing by just out of my reach

/me, red-faced with embarrassment, as @[email protected] kindly points out my word conveys unintended meaning to those of you not listening to my inner monologue

Why? I’m following the Reddit convention of replying before I watch the video, but even if you don’t have someone who can speak sign language,

• a lot can be communicated by gestures and touch
• surely the flight attendant has or can get an effing smartphone to type or translate

Edit:

• she noted on the ticket she was deaf; flight attendants shouldn’t be surprised

Even if that story is bs and the airline’s story about an open container is true

• they’re not claiming she was visibly drunk
• we’ve all done that - sucked down our drink so we don’t waste it, even if it’s just water, while complying with open container restrictions
• reads like an excuse, especially with the detail about the gate agent

Her navigator wasn’t the most famous woman pilot of the time

Never forget the furry

It’s a nice ideal. Insurance can in theory help smooth out whatever life throws at you. But in the modern world, their incentives are to not

This is not as big a deal as the headline shows. No one would pay that much.

The unfortunate reality is American healthcare is geared to generate humongous bills but that’s just the starting point. Normally your insurance company will then negotiate it down. If you don’t have insurance, you can usually get them to write off huge amounts.

One of the underlying problems is not everyone has insurance but everyone will get at least emergency care. Hospitals know there will be a lot of bills that can never be paid, so their initial bill to everyone needs yo account for that loss.

That and the general extractive nature of the us health care system, the massive number of layers and middlemen that all need to show a profit

But clearly the problem here is the non-us insurance company not dealing with it until forced to nine months later

Worst case scenario- go home and never come bs k. That bill is not following you to another country

That’s great

Let them. How is this not huge free publicity!

I don’t see why condom companies aren’t shipping in truckloads for free. You can’t beat that kind of publicity. L

This sort of anecdote is important, because it’s too easy to claim that working for your family is an exception, or that kids should be able to help out with the family business.

Also in “reliable” news …… Olympic pome vaulters seek an advantage by using cross-dress tech to “tuck” and tape to help clear a higher bar

There was a related article, that I found as one of the most hopeful and positives for the environment……

I don’t remember how long they said mercury remains in the food chain but what I got out of it was that global coal is peaking and likely to decline rapidly and mercury settles out of the food chain in decades so my children may eventually be able to eat tuna and other seafood without worrying about mercury!

The real problem is so many different recommendations, but ….

I do see a higher amount consistently recommended as you get older, but never in the same sentence as exercise. I’m well past the age and weight where it takes intentional action to maintain muscle mass, and I really need to start doing that.

The algorithm started feeding me “Tai chi for older men”, so even that is telling me to exercise

Now it’s on the menu. While you can still ask for double meat in your burrito, you can also order a “protein bowl” that starts with double meat

A lot of educated professional people are NOT eager to live in a “race to the bottom” type of place. Without serious attention to massive quality of life improvements, you couldn’t pay me enough

I imagine more like with x-rays. You’ll have a tech doing the procedure, and automation to guide the tech and interpret results. The results will be emailed to a remote ob/gyn, who will hopefully actually look instead of blindly believing ai slop. Hopefully they can do this with quick enough turnaround to respond to any issues but I’m not optimistic

Gotta watch that newfangled philosophy - why don’t we just use the classics? /s

Yeah, I wonder about this. I have a similar situation with a “2” car driveway where I must park within a foot to clear the sidewalk. It’s inconvenient since sometimes you need to rearrange cars and you can’t be at all sloppy with parking.

I might have to park one car on the grass if I didn’t want to be inconvenienced by rearranging cars, if I couldn’t park closely, or if I had larger vehicles.

And those uppity women …. who allowed them to vote? They need to stay home and raise my babies and cook for me. If mine gets out of hand again, I swear I’ll smack her upside of the head until she learns

/s

Ya know, I always used to believe we were getting closer to fix both sexism and racism, made decent progress , what do I know. Now every day I see the worst in humanity and all too often someone elected them into office or let them bribe their way into power