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6 months agoThat is already illegal. Prior auth was not a necessary intervention for this problem.
Chetzemoka
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Oh man, there’s a name I haven’t heard in almost two decades. Back in the day when I was home shopping in Ohio, I had the misfortune of witnessing multiple Arbor Homes with basement floor joists 22" on center instead of 16. Funny how many of them had the identical hole in the first story floor in the identical spot right at the bottom of the stairs leading to the second story.
11·6 months agoThis is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.
Just did. Won our vote Wednesday night 💪
no illicit drugs were present
I’m deeply afraid that this might have turned out differently if she had even something as simple as cannabis in her system.
614·6 months agoThis is exactly why the billionaires are dismantling the current social media platforms. Organizing is the only threat they truly fear.
7·6 months agoThis Podcast Will Kill You
They did a whole series on Covid including the history of development of vaccines
4·6 months agoYes, Massachusetts. I have a dual fuel heat pump with natural gas backup installed in 2020, so it’s a newer system. And I have one heat pump mini split in the least energy efficient, but most used room in my house (large, high ceilings, exterior walls on three sides, and a skylight).
The first couple of years I noticed when it got just below freezing, the central heat pump seemed to struggle to keep up. Then this year I replaced my windows and got new wall insulation in both of the main bedrooms and bathrooms (previous insulation was original from the 1960s and shredded to bits with huge gaps.)
After those improvements, I’ve been running my heat pump down to 20⁰F/-7⁰C so far without any issues at all. I’m excited to see how cold we can get and this system still keep up. I am still supplementing my one large room with the mini split, but that’s mostly because all my plants are in here, so I keep this room warmer than 68⁰F/20⁰C.
I’d miss you guys. I’ve jumped in on conversations on your instance a couple of times and it always seems like a nice place
GOP death cult be like, “Hear me out, do you really NEED to live though?”
Mixed use land developments increase property values. My neighbors believe urban myths and lies, so I’m not particularly inclined to be any more fair to them than I would be to someone who believes that vaccines cause autism.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-02/does-affordable-housing-lower-property-values
I own a house here too, ya know. I don’t share their misguided concerns. Yes there will be traffic. I believe we have reasonable options to mitigate that.
But it looks like the rich, old NIMBYs are going to win this fight, and keep people locked out as always.
To me, it’s all about rational return on investment providing economic incentives to achieve what we want to achieve.
My favorite example to explain what I mean is my own personal health insurance. I have a chronic medical condition that requires constant medication, frequent visits to specialists, and expensive medical tests and procedures. There is simply zero chance that I will ever pay enough in a monthly premium to cover what I cost. Meaning I am always a net financial loss for a private, for-profit insurance company.
This gives a private company every incentive in the world to obstruct and deny my care in hopes that I’ll get frustrated and give up, or maybe even die and get off their books forever.
The government, on the other hand, has a positive financial incentive to keep me healthy. If I am healthy, I am working, paying taxes, buying goods and services that contribute to the economy, and hopefully contributing something beneficial to my community. Only the government (acting as a proxy for “society”) naturally profits from insuring my healthcare.
This is why I believe we should have fully socialized medical care. Because there are some specific things that only the government has natural positive economic incentives that align with what is beneficial for the general public.
Whatever those things are, they should be socialized. And generally those things are basic life sustaining things like food, housing, medicine, education, utilities.
I’m fine with privatized capitalism in a very restricted, heavily regulated niche form. But all the basic necessities should be socialized.
I’m the only person on my street actually in favor of the proposed multi-use housing/shopping complex a developer wants to build a block over from us. I can’t change the minds of all these old people. I’m pretty sure we’re just fucked until they all move out or pass on.
2·6 months agoThe power of healing could be used to infinitely torture someone without killing them. Definitely has a dark side.
All power must be applied ethically
Select the “available for local pickup” option to weed out all the trash. Even if you’re buying to be shipped.
Use Amazon as a search engine, find what you need, then Google the manufacturer and buy it directly from them. You’d be surprised how many have free shipping . It’s usually not two day shipping, but what do you really need that fast?
If it’s electronics, buy online for local pickup at Best Buy. If it’s tools or house supplies, buy online for local pickup at Lowe’s or Home Depot. Buy online for local pickup at Target.
I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in 4 years. It’s honestly way easier now than it was before Amazon started, but no one realizes that because Amazon got them locked in.
There’s no scandal. Some people who are leading proponents of MOND theory recently published a new paper using what might be the best scenario we currently have to detect MOND (wide binary stars), and their more precise calculations…are not consistent with MOND. They published evidence against the very theory they were betting on.
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But that’s literally true and fully acknowledged by the physics and astronomy fields. It’s why those things received the names “dark.” Because currently we can’t see what’s causing those effects. And there are currently physicists and astronomers who spend their time researching these effects in hopes of publishing that exact “Hey! I figured out what it is” paper. Then we’ll praise that person, add their name to the pantheon and fail to acknowledge the hoards of other people who contributed to the foundational research that allowed them to finally figure it out.
Same as it ever was.
Oh, you think I only steal hoodies from people I boned. Joke’s on you, no hoodie is safe in my presence.