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3 hours agoTBH, I haven’t watched late night television since we lost Letterman, Ferguson and O’Brien.
We will never again see the likes of:
or:
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If you prefer long form humor:
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7·5 hours ago“This does not contribute” button.
On a related topic, one thing I learned from the old Century Club days on reddit is the Courtesy Upvote.
If a thread is interesting enough that you commented, upvote it, upvote all the other comments.
If someone replies to you or one of your posts, upvote them too.
12·5 hours agoArticle is paywalled, but here’s another with a description and partial text of the letter:
Article is paywalled, but here’s another with a description and partial text of the letter:
Article is paywalled, but here’s another with a description and partial text of the letter:
Congestive Heart Failure is super scary, but survivable. Shit, I did it. In my case it was caused by an irregular heart beat following open heart surgery.
My fluid retention was all in my chest though, not my legs. I couldn’t lay down because it felt like I was drowning. (Because, thanks to the fluid, I was drowning.)
They pulled 4 liters of fluid off me every day for 7 days, then ran an electrocardioversion to fix the heart beat.
For those at home:
4 liters of fluid:
Electrocardioversion:
There is no news article here, just a video and video links aren’t allowed.
edit Aaaand fixed and restored!
285 miles, 459 km. But no, absolutely not. My home town is where I grew up, not where I was born.
Acid doesn’t take 20 years to metabolize. :)
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/lsd-abuse/how-long-system-body
“The half-life of LSD is 3.6 hours, which means it takes about that amount of time for half of the dose to be cleared from the bloodstream.4”
So, say you took a typical dose of 25μg to 150μg, 3.6 hours later you have 1/2 that… 12.5 to 75. Another 3.6 hours later, 6.25 to 37.5.
After even just a few days it would essentially be nothing. It’s no longer detectable in hair past 90 days.
2·7 hours agoIt wasn’t even a matter of impulsiveness, it was a matter of sheer ignorance.
Look at the Google searches that followed the Brexit vote:
We don’t allow editorialization of headlines.
“‘It’s miserable:’ ICE ‘morale in crapper’ as agents forced to ‘arrest gardeners’”
If you fix it, we can restore it.
Kind of why we bought the house. :)
Bathroom as an example:
Slide left to open, right to close. :) Except the round one.
48" (122cm) diameter so anything is possible! :)
Slide left/right, but I do have one window that does not open at all.
Fortunately (?) the reason for the insurance change was my company was acquired by a giant company. Bye bye signing bonus…
Honestly, it would depend on what kind of insurance you have in the US. Each employer has a different set of plans.
No insurance? Absolutely screwed. With insurance?
End of 2018 I had a heart attack and open heart surgery with really good insurance.
Emergency Room - $150
8 days in the hospital + open heart surgery from the head of the cardiac department - $100
Drugs and all the oxygen I could carry - $100Roll forward to January 2019… my company has been bought by a giant company. Health insurance changes. I lose my existing hospital and all my doctors and have to start over in a new system.
7 days in the hospital draining fluid from congestive heart failure - $6,500 - the annual out of pocket maximum for that insurance.
Good news though, hitting the out of pocket maximum on Jan 15 meant all my other medical care the rest of the year was covered at 100%.
Spike, in journalist language, means to take a completed news story and kill it before publication.