I considered it incredible when we had insurance that only cost $100 for an ER visit. That’s $100 to walk in the door and be seen, any treatments you get on top of that are extra.

Matching != identical

I’d say from your lips to God’s ears, but I don’t want Trump appointing another one

That sounds really disturbing to go through, I hope you’re feeling at least somewhat better now! If you don’t mind me asking, was there anything in particular that helped you reconnect with reality? Even if you don’t want to answer, thank you for sharing your experience.

Having a good breakfast is always necessary for me when I’ve got a long day planned. 1/2 cup oatmeal with a couple of tablespoons of hemp seeds is 11 g of protein, nearly 20% of the recommended daily fiber, and around 250 calories before toppings. The hemp seeds add protein and healthy fats and the fiber from the oatmeal keeps you satisfied longer. Oatmeal is also supposed to be good for your cholesterol, too.

Chocolate chips, cream cheese, peanut butter, or jam each work great in it. If you’ve never had hemp seeds they’re slightly nutty, but it works well with oatmeal IMO. Don’t forget to add a few shakes of salt.

Imagine being in the hospital for a stroke, being confused and impaired, and THEN having a DMT trip on top of it. I’m sure any potential application for human stroke victims wouldn’t be that intense, but it’s a darkly funny image. Nurse, this man is having a stroke! Make him trip balls, stat!

I graduated a couple of years before police started getting put in schools where I grew up (yes, I’m old) and it still shocks me that parents are okay with it. I know people who have been pinned to the ground and assaulted by cops for fighting in school when a year or two before a teacher would have just grabbed them by the shirt and hauled them off each other. I understand that can be dangerous and a liability to teachers as well, but the solution absolutely isn’t cops.

Are sled dogs a new type, or do they fall under manual?

Oh sweet, it’s real? The state senator is right, and bless the people of Hawaii for coming down hard on that kind of behavior.

Have you spoken to a doctor about this? Please do, especially if you have sudden hearing loss in one or both ears. You could have an underlying issue that can be treated, but you want to get it checked sooner rather than later.

When a witness confronted Lytvynchuk, he said “he did not care and was ‘rich’ enough to pay any fines,” according to the complaint.

Props to the author for quickly establishing this dude is the worst type of tourist to come to Hawaii and deserves little benefit of doubt.

Afterward, a man “brutally assaulted” Lytvynchuk, his defense attorney Myles Breiner told The Associated Press. Lytvynchuk declined to file a police report on the assault, the attorney said.

So his lawyer pinky promises he was horrifically beat up, but was just too noble to press charges? lol

He said his client is being treated unfairly because he’s a white outsider. “The vast majority of attacks on monk seal and turtle are by locals,” he said.

Oh fuck off.

Maybe that’s true of other babies, but mine is mature enough to handle it. I’ll make sure things don’t get too crazy.

“A novel ruling,” Christ almighty.

Karsnitz dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware’s Superior Court, citing “the principle of one person/entity/one vote.”

This is how you get people to bring back dragging someone into the street and horsewhipping them. I’m not advocating it, it’s just the natural response some people are going to have to being told corporations get to vote in a state with more corporations than people.

Wrong, wrong, everyone is wrong! Blend it together so it’s a uniform mix of jelly and peanut butter.

It’s so useless for niche topics it’s not even funny… which is the only thing I’d ever want actual AI for in the first place.

Oh, they can throw in a lot more racist stereotypes and racial slurs! Not doing that to your face is what we’ve been conditioned to accept as progress for the south.

the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life

Damn, the white southerners have started behaving themselves since I left a couple of decades ago if that’s the worst you heard! Barely even joking, I’ve met so many people where I live now who are from the south that say ‘I just had to get the fuck out’. Gorgeous places, tiny clusters of great people, and vast swathes of shit straight out of Deliverance.

It’s clear at this point you’re not able to have an unemotional conversation about it. Your anecdotal experience as someone dropping the cost of a down payment on a house on a vacation to a place with serious, long lasting issues with the tourist trade and talking to two dudes you are paying isn’t the same as a team of journalists investigating. You keep saying documentary for some reason, which is only revealing you didn’t even bother reading the very extensive article I linked. If you’d like to discuss specific points from it you’re going to have to read it. It’s also grasping at straws to pretend using electricity in a city is just like the environmental destruction or human exploitation happening to climb the mountain.

I hope you find less destructive and exploitative hobbies in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

What a species is and how genes flow between populations is complex and weird!

A good company costs 60K minimum

You get how that’s even grosser, right?

Don’t speak on behalf of the locals. I personally knew 2 different Sherpas

‘Don’t speak on behalf of the locals, allow me, who knew two dudes, to do so instead’? No, I think I’ll listen to reporting by the BBC, who talked to people whose livelihoods didn’t depend on telling them what they wanted to hear. Obviously some locals do want to climb, but you are delusional if you believe nobody is doing it for money to support their family.

Everything else you’re saying here is irrelevant, I never said it wasn’t physically challenging. It’s just immoral to climb Everest due to the local exploitation and environmental degradation inherent to climbing it. Outside of the nearly 20 lbs of waste each person creates climbing the mountain (the majority of which doesn’t get removed), there are also deforestation issues from locals over harvesting wood to meet tourist demand.

There is not an amount of explanation that is going to move me beyond those facts.