Yeah. I lived in America for 6 years; and when I left, it was primarily because of the tangible risk of getting in a minor car accident and being financially ruined.

Even so, I quickly forget about the undercurrent of fear and avoidance I had with doctors or clinics of any kind.

So we’d rather take abdominal pain so bad it keeps you from functioning, because the alternative could be an expensive nothing-burger.

Well, now it’s recycling, right?

Pixelfed? That’s an IG emulant. What about Friendica? Do they have groups?

If you don’t poop for several days even though you are eating, that needs to be looked at

Had an injury and needed some baby morphine pills. The side effects was notable and the pain of even just a full day was incredible. There’s no way I could go 4 days with a hospital right across the street.

My friend had a heart attack during a divorce proceeding and was on medical leave for 3 months recovering. He was required to pay a sum that was 110% of his gross pay while he was on medical leave.

Super-bad divorce settlements happen.

Lake Louise Village […] Western Canada

You mean MID-Western Canada. Western Canada is a little bit to the left.

I ket what ya mine

Translation?

Henry Cavill? Did you get another account?

I mean, well, after a review.

I caught some Icelandic rap the other night on that global radio website and now I need to find it. I caught some Algerian rap - rap again, even though it’s usually not my thing - a few months back, too, and it was awesome.

Dragostei din tei(sp) or so, by Romanians O-Zone?

That is some seriously addictive stuff. Good call.

Okay. NEXT COUNTRY , you’re up. Levy those fines.

Maybe the nations belligerently bombed by Israel should begin issuing their own evac orders? “We are going to do something nasty. Please don’t be inside overnight on Monday” and then bomb something minor.

Repeat weekly, different day each time. Something small.

Week 11 say Thursday, really wreck some stuff the day before with no injuries, and say “oops”.

Repeat until they fucking get it.

The vaccine they were testing was derailed when participants reported behaviours that resemble anti-vax talking points now. It killed the human testing in the final stages at a huge commercial loss.

But if you go to the vet and get a vax for a big dog and it accidentally gets into your arm and not Rover’s paw, that’s the same thing. They repurposed the ‘failed’ vax for use in pets.

Or so I heard. Go confirm.

I worked at a company run by a SWEngineer.

He was code-smart for code, but really bad for business.

You need to get a real CEO who does management, but keep that person in firm check by mandating half the board be stacked by engineers. Even as advisory roles, like if your company makes widgets you should have some Serious Fucking widget people dominating the board for big decisions.

“You make one thing” is like “you had one job.”

(And if you make two things so disparate, spin one off into a sub)

Old VWs just had a mark on the speedo telling you what gear to be in. So you kinda shift around the marker. So easy.

There is – jabber and jingle. And for a ver-ry brief few weeks, Google’s jabber/jingle worked openly with Facebook’s, and everyone could message each other. And then BOTH arbitrarily broke it with some sparkle-junkie resume-bait software 'up’grade and neither worked with anything else after that.

It was glorious.

“explained” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

You papered something, but I didn’t see an explanation per se.

Try again? Start by pointing to where the Dems started their insurrection, so I can compare.

Here’s the weird thing.

I’ve been telecommuting for 23 years. I’ve never been able to just roll outta bed and put in a full day. If it’s scheduled then I’m showered and dressed and ready to go; just in shorts and a tee vs khakis and a fucking polo.

The only indulgence is on a o5oo wakeup I’m not shaving lest I lose an eyebrow or an ear. Even in our basic training it was o520.

But yeah, no smelly sweatpants for me.