Well, after three consecutive summers of throwing money at the problem, my kids decided they would learn to swim this weekend. I’m only half joking. Two weekends ago, it was like water was actively dangerous, rather than a passive inhalation hazard, and yesterday the almost 4 year old was jumping in from the side. Today at lessons, he was swimming all the way across the pool and taking breaths without ever putting his feet down. So I guess if you need me, I’ll be at the pool for the rest of the summer, because that is pretty much what they ask now. When can we go swimming?
Two people who were hilarious at their best, but usually just annoying are teaming up. I eagerly await the Antifa vs. Roseanne impersonators fist fights.
Man, this makes me glad to be a Seminole. Its not like Mike Sr. didn’t have more chances than any other program to win the big one.
This is what happens when you welsh on a golf bet.
That sonofabitch Trump keeps doing things to make me like him. I mean, SLD, simulated transparency in a highly-regulated market is less desirable than the actual transparency a much less regulated market would generate, but…
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Transparency in health care pricing?!!!!
*jets out cloud of squid ink*
/various industry parasites
As transparent as the rules of Fizbin.
Each player gets six cards, except for the player on the dealer’s right, who gets seven. Simultaneously, the first and second card are turned up, except on Tuesdays, when the first card alone is turned up. Kirk dealt the henchman two like cards (jacks), which are a “half-fizzbin”. When the henchman said he needs another jack, Kirk warned that a third jack is a “shralk” and is grounds for disqualification. With a half-fizzbin, one wants a king and a deuce, except at night, when one wants a queen and a four.
“Publicly disclosing competitively negotiated, proprietary rates will reduce competition and push prices higher — not lower — for consumers, patients, and taxpayers,” said Matt Eyles, CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans in a statement. He says it will perpetuate “the old days of the American health care system paying for volume over value. We know that is a formula for higher costs and worse care for everyone.”
Some health economists and industry observers without a vested interest expressed a similar view. Larry Levitt, senior vice president for health reform the Kaiser Family Foundation, tweeted that although the idea of greater price transparency makes sense from the perspective of consumer protection, it doesn’t guarantee lower prices.
“I’m skeptical that disclosure of health care prices will drive prices down, and could even increase prices once hospitals and doctors know what their competitors down the street are getting paid,” Levitt wrote.
Lol, so health care providers are opposed because they could charge more if they knew what their competitors were charging?
A spin that ran into a spin:)
They already know what they charge. Also, a guy from Kaiser doesn’t have a vested interest, okay.
I like Trump, there’s, I said it…
Second?
2nd and addressed “Trump keeps doing things to make me like him.” So unofficial true second as far as I am concerned. Can we get a ruling from Brett L?
Fuck off Tulpa! It doesn’t even matter……
You brought it up.
He’s channeling his inner Trump.
Ah.
I too like Ivanka Trump. Would all day.
Second. She is very voluptuous.
Mobile home golf course, is the correct answer,
“This is what happens when you welsh on a golf bet.” casa grande mobile estates escondido ca. Not Florida Man.
It’s in Santa Maria, north of Santa Barbara. Escondido is down by San Diego.
I lived on a farm there for about 6 mo.s in 1978. It was potatos on one side and chili peppers on the other. We ate a lot of potatos because they were not even fenced in. The chilis were guarded like fort knox. Got shot with rock salt trying to kype some once.
Kype? I haven’t heard that word in 50-60 years. Never knew how to spell it, I thought it was some slang word us youngsters used. Man, you are old!
Congrats on your little swimmers turning into little swimmers. Hopefully will make vacations easier, open up more destinations, etc.
I applaud your wordplay and regret that it is too late to employ it WRT my own little swimmers.
My kid’s adopted, so…
I prefer the term “failed condoms”.
Roseanne Barr Joins Andrew Dice Clay for “Mr. and Mrs. America” Comedy Tour
Dennis Miller had this line about German re-unification was like a new Lewis and Martin movie: he was familiar enough with their older work to never want to see any more.
That’s funny
This is proof that God hates America and wants us all to suffer
I don’t want to see the show, but I can’t wait to see the faux outrage it generates.
Antifa is going to meet some towering Midwestern rural folk who have no idea why Roseanne is controversial now. I would pay just to watch that
Hello glibs, after a weekend shooting guns at trees with my son, I’ve come to the conclusion he doesn’t just “not like loud noises” but has some legit sensory issues. He’s fine with 22LR, but the report from a standard AR15 induces a lot of stress in his system, even with foamy ear plugs + 30 dbl muffs on.
So I’m looking to figure out what my options are for supressed MSRs and pistols. I hear tell that the AAC 7.62-SND-6 can supress supersonic 5.56 and subsonic 300 AAC. That fits my future purchase plans of getting a full length AR-15 and either a SBR or pistol in AAC.
Does the brain trust here have any words of wisdom, other than don’t argue about putt-putt golf when fire arms are around.
Shoot more .22 until he gets more comfortable?
We shoot a lot of 22, but I’m looking to expand into things that will reliably put down a 200 lb mamall should the need come up, and I’d like to be able to shoot those next to him instead of telling him he has to run into the cabin when Daddy breaks out the bigger guns.
How about a .357 lever gun? Or a 9mm carbine?
Maybe that will help bridge the gap.
Also, does your AR have a muzzle brake? Maybe if he stands directly behind you, it would help mitigate the sound/pressures.
My AR is currently a figment of my immagination and a surplus in my bank account. I do not own one yet.
.357 mag is the loudest handgun round
muzzle brakes generally increase report
huh?
I see you haven’t fired any of the 32 caliber rounds. 30 carbine and the 32 mags are the worst.
Yes, and .357 in a rifle is quieter than a pistol and yet is effective for 200 lbs mammals.
Yes, muzzle brakes increase sound/pressure to the *sides* to the rifle.
Um, my .44 mag literally booms. It stops the whole handgun line at range because it’s so loud.
+1 do ya feel lucky, punk
Also, I shot a Henry Classic Rimfire, which is their cheapest, entry level lever gun. That must be what having sex with a robot is like because it was as smooth, repeatable, and satisfying as anything I’ve ever shot.
Was it the .22? Because Animal has inspired me to look at those.
It is.
My buddy has a suppressed S&W Victory .22. With the right subsonic ammunition (we had to test several brands as some wouldn’t rack the slide) the report is so quiet that you can hear the slide rack and then a second later the slug hit the target. No muffs needed.
“No muffs needed”
Fake news. Muffs are always needed.
I honestly believe some folk process color, food texture, and smell differently from others. But some of that is learned: I like the smell of sweat and horse shit, and I’m not sure I can teach that association to others.
Until the regimens of relaxing, sighting, breathing, and squeezing off are natural, he needs to stick to rimfire. There’s no shame in that: perfecting the 22LR isn’t something many folks ever do. One side road to toughening up might be cans and pistols: that teaches that noise and unholy destruction can both be fun; fill ’em with water and rip ’em up.
I like the smell of sweat and horse shit,
Kinky.
Those smells probably bring with it great memories.
Diesel exhaust for me…
I have many smells I know, but don’t really like. If you’ve ever smelled really old fork oil from a motorcycle (as in REALLY old) there’s nothing else quite as bad. Another is trash trucks. I worked on them for about three years and they have a certain smell. Actually the mop buckets at the trash truck shop have a much worse stench. I really don’t know why, but they smell way worse.
My wife loves the smell of soldering. To me, it smells like work. Every Harley mechanic in the world can tell you what loctite tases like. It tastes like sweet and low.
I like the smell of diesel fuel and Jovan musk.
Both are attached to specific memories.
You had a fling with a trucker in the ’70s?
Or German.
Well, my kids on the spectrum. So its not an overstatement to say that he processess very loud noises differently that I do. I’ve resisted the diagnosis for as long as I can, but it is what it is.
He’s still shooting only 22LR and will be for a long time I assume. The issue is that when he’s all muffed up standing 10 feet away from me shooting an AR or 12 gague, the noise and pressure causes a stress response in him.
He’s fine if he goes into the cabin a bit away. But we drive 2.5 hours to get to our Secret MN Outdoor Range, and we actually enjoy each other’s company, so I’d like to spend the time actually hanging out with him. But on the other hand, I want to be in regular practice with all my goblin-stoppers, not just by little pew-pew guns.
Get a suppressor.
I should have guessed that’s what you meant.
Rituals are comforting. Maybe you two have this routine where he squeezes off three and then you loose one (I’m assuming you’re slinging at a deliberate, refined pace focused on accuracy and seldom matching him round for round).
When you inject medicine into a horse’s neck, you take the needle in your fingers so that you can pat with your palm and then pat, pat, pat with this even rhythm and the fifth one or so it’s the whole hand with fingers and pat the needle in: they don’t even flinch.
You want him to stick a needle in his kids neck? I don’t think that will improve his stress response very much.
Speaking of kids on the spectrum, mine is getting kicked out of ABA therapy — in the good way.
Her most recent VM-Mapp score is a 142 (out of 170), which puts her at or above age level in nearly everything (she is almost 3 1/2).
They are recommending regular pre-school, with some ABA therapy as supplement if we think she needs it.
Probably the same for her speech therapy, but she will need to continue in OT for a while.
And she is in her last phases of intensive feeding therapy. Last September she was only eating stage 2 baby food, now she is eating PB&J sandwiches and grilled cheese and etc. We still have some work on meat and veggies and some fruits, she is still eating those pureed, but the process of moving her from puree to solid is established, so its just a step at a time.
Everything about her is me at that age turned up to 11.
I am pretty sure she is smarter than me too.
That’s really great news. Glad to hear.
Awesome!
If you go with a suppressor, put it in a trust. It will take longer to get approval, but it would allow both of you to use it. If it’s in your name, you’re the only one that can handle it.
Yes, people have vastly different degrees of sensation — that guy with limited ability to smell and taste is probably never going to be a chef, the can-barely-hear guy not a musician, that color-blind guy not a visual artist, etc. Smell is the most primal sense and is the last one to go as you age.
the can-barely-hear guy not a musician,
+1 Evelyn Glennie
right, but even this: it’s about interpretation, not limited ability
Orange just puts some folks off; and having an advanced sense of taste doesn’t keep some people from being turned off by textures (coconut, clams) even though they have wide culinary interests otherwise
I suspect human factors is going to be a big area of advancement for the rest of my life
That’s not going to turn out well…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
That’s what I think about when I see the sign for Enumclaw. It’s the Santorum of western Washington towns.
“I like the smell of sweat and horse shit”
I knew I liked that Don guy. Add the smell of burned gunpowder and he is at the top of the list.
burned gunpowder
that’s implied, of course
The thing about horse shit and many other smells is that I didn’t know I liked them until someone exclaimed that they hated them. It’s a wild journey learning how varied are the ways that people perceive, process, decide, and communicate.
Nitromethane burning and mixed with melted rubber?
I bought this one because I want it to last forever. I have limited experience but am satisfied.
https://deadairsilencers.com/products/sandman-ti/
Have you tried exposing him to fire crackers without the plugs or a non semi auto rifle bolt or lever with a longer barrel? Something like a 30-30 with a light load or a .223 in a bolt gun with a longer barrel might be less shocking. I was the the range yesterday and can tell you the AR and Mni -14 platforms with 16inch barrels are loud.
This was literally his second time to the range. The first time the only rounds we shot were 22LR rifles and I think I put a few rounds through my 9mm pistol. Those didn’t bother him.
He and I talked, and we agreed that over time we would work on desensitizing him. But since this is all brand new to him, his job #1 is safe handling, confidence, and then marksmanship. Once that is second nature, we will work on desnesitization once he is ready.
If this was his second time, I would not get too worked up yet. My nephew was very apprehensive about shooting any rifles beyond a 22lr during the first and second time shooting. In his case he was very surprised at the concussion and noise from a larger rifle and a pistol. He didn’t want to try to shoot the larger calibers. Video games poorly prepared him to react to such things.
In his case I’ll ease him in and allow him to keep shooting 22lr for as long as he is comfortable. He will not be in the woods too often and does not have any guns in his home.
That’s a fair point. I do have a tendency to over analyze things and make mountians out of molehills.
Ahh. Give it time. He should get better with more experience.
He’s fine with 22LR, but the report from a standard AR15 induces a lot of stress in his system, even with foamy ear plugs + 30 dbl muffs on.
Does he flinch around fireworks and other loud noises? I have a triggerhair flinch reflex, and it takes 15 minutes or so for me to settle down at the range. Aside from the involuntary flinch reaction, there’s rhe involuntary dump of adrenaline into my bloodstream making me feel jittery and amped up, and the shame/embarrassment of being such a flinchy mess.
If he’s having similar issues, repeated exposure and riding out the initial wave of involuntary bodily reactions makes it better. It’s not like it completely shuts off, but it goes from a small involuntary flinch after every report to only occasionally getting me when when a big boomer catches me off guard.
A little bit, but not more than I would call normal.
He *does* have a problem with loud noise + chaos. He keeps a pair of ear muffs in his backpack and wears them on the bus a lot because it is loud, enclosed, and a bunch of the kids he rides the bus with are very boisterous. He used to wear them in the classroom sometimes, but has tappered that off lately.
When the loud booms started, it wasn’t like a flunch or a jerk. The color drained from his face, his knees got weak, and he just turned and started walking to the cabin. It was different in kind than the way most people would respond to loud noises.
And like I said above, exposure to the noise is planned once we get past safety, confidence, and basic marksmanship.
Flame-throwers are pretty quiet. Should start out with a blade though.
https://www.ronsguideservice.com/hog-hunting/knife
Transparency in health care pricing doesn’t really resolve the third party payer problem. But I guess it’s a start towards free market thinking.
With my high deductible plan I would appreciate up front pricing, as I pay almost everything up to the deductible.
Though I’m sure pricing will be harder to decipher than a group cell phone plan.
+1 $2,000 MRI.
Still pisses me off.
$1,200 ER visit for 12 stitches
I’m looking at you Cuyuna Regional Medical Center!
Doctor looked at my ear, called a specialist and prescribed me antibiotics, spent 10 minutes tops. Wanted $750, on top of the $400 for the ER.
Holy cats! I went to Patient First for a chronic sinus infection. Similar deal, walked out with antibiotics. OOP would have been $200. My insurance company got a 50% discount, which is a pretty sweet deal if you ask me, and I owe $15 when all is said and done. I think it was $10 for the amoxicillin.
That was the bitch of it all, I went to the urgent care first and the nurse lady did exactly what the doctor did but she prescribed the wrong antibiotics, total cost there? $48.00, a week later at the ER the exact same treatment cost 23 times as much.
Except the getting the correct treatment part…
Meh, the treatment was the same the ER doc merely said “oh plan A didn’t work, here’s plan B” yeah he got the drugs right but my impression was that he only did so because the first batch didn’t work. And even if he actually did “know” the right drug, is that really worth the up charge, hell for $750 I could have just randomly tried antibiotics til I found the one that worked, I’d wager I’d still be hundreds of dollars ahead of the game.
Ah, I see.
That is what they do in India. My wife didn’t know that prescriptions were required for basic medicines, and thinks ‘land of the free’ is a joke, partly based on that.
Last time I wrecked a bike, I went to the ER and they charged 5k and didn’t even fix what was wrong with me. I had to preform minor surgery myself to remove an 1/8″ triangle shaped piece of mirror from my thumb! It was shortly after that celeb chick died from brain swelling after a ski accident, so they checked my head 9 ways from Sunday, but ignored my actual complaints.
Was that the charge? Your insurance negotiated price? Your out-of-pocket/deductible? You must have some awesome/shitty insurance. I can’t tell. The whole system is fucked. No wait, we are. They want us to beg for single payer.
A few years ago, I needed a CT scan. If I used my insurance, the “bill” was to be about $800. With “negotiated” fees, I would have paid about $500 towards my wonderful new high deductible. There was a “special program” from the hospital system which would let me bypass the whole fucked up insurance process, and I was offered a nice flat rate of $250. I took it of course. A year later, I needed an ultrasound. Again, there was a bullshit excessive charge to be negotiated. I asked about the “special program”. “Oh, that’s over now”, they said.
My old business parter’s brother never had health insurance. Whenever he needed some healthcare, he would pay cash. It was astounding how big of a discount he could get. In one instance he got some minor surgery for $2000 that included him giving the doc, the nurse and the anesthesiologist envelopes full of crisp $100 bills. I think the original price for that one was over $15,000.
So my next question is… did he have assets? I know they can’t take your car/house/401k (yet), but if you have some upper class money, can’t they bill the hell out of you?
My point is that they will fuck you if they can, everyone else gets a nice discount.
No, not really. He was pretty much a dumbass.
He would negotiate all this stuff up front, so I don’t think that there was any chance of them stealing all his stuff.
My vet gives a detailed estimate before a procedure, but it’s just that– an estimate. Couple in insurance billing.. ugh. How soon before the class action lawyers sue over the final bill doesn’t match the estimate?
Before the first bill is actually received, I’d guess.
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I already keep Dicker, Quick & Hyde on retainer.
“THE LAW OFFICES OF DEWEY, CHEATEM, & HOWE”
+1 Car Talk
Actually that law firm name originally came from the Three Stooges.
Estimate with an option for arbitrage by an arbiter of the doctor’s choosing?
Not my area of expertise, but the order only orders a regulation to be drafted and put in the pipeline, and vulnerability to that probably hinges on the final product of what gets promulgated. In general, keep in mind that written estimates usually come with lawyer-approved disclaimer. However, IIRC, there was a class action in Canada against Mister Transmission claiming they deliberately lowballed the estimates.
I did not respond to your answer because I did not know the morning links commenting was still going on after Animal’s piece went up. Threads usually dry up. You make some valid points about unfairness. However, I am familiar with this IRL and AFAIK, Code just cares about it being gone. The trucks come and go as easily as vendor delivery trucks, no permit to operate or anything like that. So I do not know what “favorable rule making” you have in mind. Maybe in theory it is backstopped, but in practice they are shoot out of luck getting general revenue and usually shoot out of luck getting a residential rate increase. Maybe you live somewhere more ‘blue.’
this makes me glad to be a Seminole.
try to think rationally and look at this hire from a rationale point of view
whew, I don’t even know what to say
How are you not touched by this poor woman and her dream $250k college!?
I apologize to the moderators for another three link embedded tweet. I will try to do better.
I just can’t wait for the Democrats, led by AOC and Bernie, to come down squarely on the side of hospital networks and insurance companies in opposition to price transparency. We all know that’s coming, and it’s going to be good for some serious laughs.
ITS JUST MORE DOG EAT DOG CAPITALISM THAT IS PUTTING PROFITS BEFORE PATIENTS!!!!
It’s fun to watch the kids finally get it. I taught swimming lessons when I was a kid and it was really cool to see a kid go from terrified to diving off the diving board in a few short hours.
I think I had Spawn 2 in the pool when she was just a few months old, so she was a fish at a really early age. With all our water here, I consider it child abuse to not teach the kids to swim.
I ran into one of my former swim class students. She is now a grown ass woman with kids of her own.
I’m old! How did that happen?
Job1: Lifeguard at 5:30 am lap swim at the Y
Job 2: Teach swim lessons at the Y
Job 3: Lifeguard at open swim at the Rec Center
Job 4: Computer Center Help Desk at College
I was hustlin’ back then
Lol. I went to the wedding of one of mine! And I saw her at a grad party a couple weeks ago with her husband and high school aged kids.
I’m old! How did that happen?
We are too tough to die?
How much has her ass grown?
Thiccteen inches.
*spews Martini*
Nice!
I think that’s about one demirose in metric, right?
My daughter had her first swimming meet last week. She struggled like hell but dammit, I’m so proud of her for gutting it out and finishing both her races – didn’t finish last in either one! 🙂
*high five*
While I’m truly sorry swim meets are in your future, I’m really happy for your Girl-Spawn!
Update on the kid’s trip to the ER on Friday with round 2 of supraventricular tachycardia: She’s fine, I’ll be freaked out until the cardiologist sees her on Friday.
For now she’s on a beta blocker, which I’m hoping isn’t for long. But the other option is cardiac ablation, which isn’t exactly what I want either. Stupid human body.
Oh man, that’s got to suck so bad to have a kid in the ER. Sorry that happened to your family. Glad things are improving for her. I hope everything turns out well.
I second all of this.
Good luck, JB.
Ditto. Friday will come soon enough. If she’s doing fine now, that’s good, the crisis has passed for the moment. Best thing is to calm yourself and just see what the doc says before going too far down the road of what if.
I’ll be freaked out until the cardiologist sees her on Friday
of course; hang in there
+1
Glad she’s ok. Hoping for a good long-term prognosis.
Sorry to hear about that. They didn’t give the option of cardioversion?
is your kid exhausted? i’ve had palpations for weeks at a time and it knocks my ass out.
my MIL goes in for an ablation in a couple weeks to fix her AFib. and an older neighbor had it done five years ago and hasn’t had an AFib recurrence since. apparently the procedure switched from using heat to using cold to remove any excess tissue.
Prayers, JB.
Good luck, man> That sucks. I hope it’s not something congenital.
Holy shit…..I have no idea what those things are but I’m terrified for you anyway. God bless, good luck and all the best for you and yours.
Supraventricular tachycardia = Abnormally fast heartbeat caused by improper electrical activity in the heart. Last time it happened (18 months ago) her heartbeat was faster than we could measure. This time it was 280.
Cardiac ablation = Doctor goes up into the heart with a catheter and shocks a piece to block the rogue electrical signal, which generally prevents future attacks. Unless it doesn’t.
Ablation should take care of it. Fingers crossed.
Good luck JB. Nothing worse than a sick kid. The feeling of helplessness absolutely sucks.
Sorry 🙁
It hurts so much when it’s a kid, and even more when it’s your kid.
That’s gotta be rough. Hope everything comes out OK.
This shit makes my eyes swell up. I really wish the best for her.
Car guys, you might remember a Scirocco I linked last week. As expected, it brought a bunch of money.
It’s what I love about BaT. You see so many different vehicles and it’s interesting to see what people dig.
For those of you with deep pockets and exquisite taste, I give you the 1956 Alfa Romeo 1900C Super Sprint Coupe.
Beautiful.
Best thing about that Romeo is that, if you are very careful, you can probably even get it to start once in a while.
And if you listen closely you can actually hear it rusting.
Oh, aluminum body! Anybody know how these cars dealt with galvanic action?
*shakes head*
I expected better from you, Sensei.
Oh, I still want it. It falls on the correct side of the auto version of hot/crazy.
Oh My!
Stop it already!
Alfas of that vintage are incredible. Cars like this are why the new stuff leaves me mostly cold. It couldn’t be because I’m old could it? Nah.
That Alfa is badassed! Not quite as cool as a DB5, but in the vicinity.
Hm. His boss for 8 years didn’t seem to think so. I guess he was just afraid to raise his objections.
To be fair, nobody really seemed to care for the past eight years.
This is old, but it brings me back to the question of when these doctors start getting their licenses pulled for violating the Hippocratic Oath.
https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/12/u-s-doctors-performing-double-mastectomies-healthy-13-year-old-girls/
Lobotomies used to be all the rage; I wonder how long until trans surgery on minors is in the same category.
It’s OK to authorize your child to have a double mastectomy, but if you don’t vaccine them you are literally Hitler.
There is a heaping helping of hypocrisy on both sides of those issues
Ethel Kennedy concurs…
This is getting ridiculous. I can only hope the kids come back and deal with the parents/doctors appropriately.
Or the Tuskegee experiments.
In a breathtaking dismissal of possible regret, Olson also said, “And here’s the other thing about chest surgery: If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them.”
Now do penises.
…or the physical ability to reproduce.
It’s remarkable how fast the politically correct position on transgenderism established itself as non-questionable dogma. For many decades decent people were allowed to have different opinions on gay issues. But the promotion of transgenderism has been truly totalitarian.
I don’t think the Progressives have forgiven us for accepting gay people and gay marriage. That was supposed to be a long and glorious struggle where they could virtue signal for years. Instead everyone else said “you know what, you are right.”
So now they are going fully scorched earth on trans issues from the start. No way they are going to fuck up and try to persuade us on this shit. Nope. They will not be denied their rightful place on the “right side of history”.
One of the reasons I’ve stopped going to Pride is the trans kids flaunting their mastectomy scars. It’s just sad.
Be even sadder in 5-10 years when some of them change their minds and wish they had never done such a thing.
It’s fucking insanity.
How many people do you know who regret tattoos that they got in their mid-20s? And we’re supposed to believe that 13-year olds can make a sound decision on excising some gender-essential anatomy??
I can’t help but wonder how much of the high transsexual suicide rate is due to the realization that you haven’t changed your sex at all but merely created a flimsy facade.
that’s not really a thing, right?
I just got promoted. After 15 years of doing nothing, suddenly I’m constantly doing stuff. This is so fucked up!
Make a pass at your boss. Problem solved
…unless the boss is into it. Don’t write a check your genitals can’t cash.
Or other parts…
Congrats?
ugh: herding cats
SME or GTFO
Don’t worry, next year you’ll be laid off because now you’re making too much money.
Lol. Two of my friends got nuked last year immediately after having the best years of their careers. Fuck beancounter management.
I’ve known sales people who got canned because they were making more than the CEO with their commissions and the CEO was so thin skinned that they couldn’t handle it.
I suspect this was the case here as well.
It’s a bad, bad thing.
paying commissions is a problem you pray for
It should be. But CEO’s can be pretty full of themselves…
I’ve noticed
CEO Don would be too busy taking credit for extra revenue leading to extra profit; look at the great sales team I put together.
Mammary Monday bounces forward!
https://thechive.com/2019/06/23/hotness-so-real-youll-need-to-check-your-thermostat-31-photos/
And check your fucking thermostat.
Filters Q, its filters right now
Shit. You’re right. I was supposed to swap mine out this month.
Thanks Yusef.
Checked mine yesterday… looked good.
Faceit, you showed up! You win a prize! Work!
“So I guess if you need me, I’ll be at the pool for the rest of the summer, because that is pretty much what they ask now. When can we go swimming?”
That’s how I was raised. And I’m glad I did because at 62, I’m remarkably healthy.
My four year old loves to swim, even though she’s not 100% on the whole not inhaling water part. The problem is, God love her, she’s utterly fearless (except regarding bugs) and never shuts up, so as soon as she hits the water she’s paddling for the deep end and giving you a running stream-of-consciousness narration.
My kids went in at 9 months, and Mom had then swimming in a season, all three are waterings, it’s a joy to know they are safe when they are that size,mostly safe.
Waterdogs! Fuck!
The Altar Girl was a fearless swimmer as well. Her first lesson had everyone jump into the pool. All the other kids jumped in close enough to immediately grab the side of the pool. My kid leapt as far as she could into the pool and then started paddling back to the side of the pool.
Holocaust Museum Makes a Statement
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary. That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum’s official statement on the matter – a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now. The link to the Museum’s statement is here.
The Museum further reiterates that a statement ascribed to a Museum staff historian regarding recent attempts to analogize the situation on the United States southern border to concentration camps in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s does not reflect the position of the Museum.
The Museum deeply regrets any offense to Holocaust survivors and others that may have been engendered by any statement ascribed to a Museum historian in a personal capacity.
Oh my God, guys, when she said “concentration camps” she meant like camps during the Boer War. You know, the Boers, whose descendants it’s racist now to even mention about being killed in South Africa.
Isn’t that where they originated? Or was that the Armenians?
Boer War predates the Armenian genocide, so yes
I Was more thinking about the term, not the timeline, I think it was Rhodes who devised it.
Unpossible. White people cannot be put into concentration camps. If anyone were to try and do so, Cthulhu himself would rise up and strike down the innocent POC being falsely accused all while bellowing “WHITE PRIVILEGE” in the tongue of the Ancient Ones.
Armenians are pretty White, but 1.5 million of them vanished, somehow, in some place, a sort of camp,
What a bunch of alt-right racists.
Splinter is sad: The Holocaust Museum’s Dreadful Intervention In the Concentration Camp Debate
Good.
If you want to simulate a traumatic brain injury, go read the comments.
After reading the comments I may have given myself an actual brain injury banging my head against the wall.
Sweet Jesus, I should just listen and take hint sometimes.
It’s the museum itself (along with plenty of bad-faith Republicans) that made the leap from “concentration camps” to “Holocaust analogy” without for a moment recognizing—or at least admitting—the term’s well-established historical independence from the Nazi’s treatment of European Jewry.
Swastikas have a well established historical independence from the Nazis, yet somehow that’s different, right?
unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary
I wonder how long before the Holocaust joins myriad other mass murder episodes in textbooks as just another incident. 100 years? 200?
I don’t think you’re gonna need to wait nearly that long. 20 years at most. After all, if it’s treated uniquely, it’s not nearly as useful as a political cudgel.
That’s going to leave a mark.
Uffda. How is the government supposed to get its control freak fix if doctors start pulling shit like this?
My chiropractor did this years ago and it works great. No insurance, just pay a monthly fee and go when you need it. He raves about how great it is for his business.
$300 a month is not a good deal unless they house every specialist you might need in that office. Especially not a good deal for the healthy who only go to the doctor once a year.
Meh. If you have little kids it could be a steal.
Regardless, it’s great to have options.
I pay about $16,000 a year for health insurance for 3 people, with a $5000 deductible and a $7500 out of pocket maximum on a high deductible plan. This kind of plan would potentially save me significant money.
Sure Iowan and NoDaks aren’t really the sorts of neighbors a great state like Minnesoda deserves, but at least they ain’t Wisconsinites
They will probably be painting it green and gold this summer.
“Raccoons have figured out how to open the doors, so it’s a fight to keep them out,”
Freakin’ pest.
To be fair, if the raccoons hadn’t figured out how to pop those doors, those drunken Packer Backers who bought the monorail would still be trapped inside.
I have one that gets on my roof and tries to come in the window. I do not like it.
MN wishes it could invent something as genius as the deep fried cheese curd. Enjoy your lutefisk.
The great state of
VermontMinnesoda will not apologize for itscheeselutefisk!More Splinter Derp:
One of the Best Ideas Any Democrats Have Had for a Long Time
Can you guess?
Just a blog about the loan forgiveness. It’s apparently never been thought of before.
Free shit? Been around since there has been elections.
We were warned, but
WE DIDNT LISTENNNNNNN!!!!!!!
Reps. Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jaypal and Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping proposal on Monday that would cancel all $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt in America, erasing a burden held by some 45 million Americans. It’s one of the best ideas anyone in the Democratic Party has had in a very long time.
Torches and pitchforks. It’s time.
I am a tradesman, wheres my free shit?
I just turned 62. I expected to be buried under AARP brochures and what not in the mail. Instead I’m getting promotional mail from Sallie Mae offering me student loans. The system is truly fucked.
They started on me at 50, I’m only 55 now
My brother Tom is 69. He says if you join, they quit sending shit.
There’s no age limit for joining AARP. There is (or was) a substantial AARP discount on British Airways business class tickets. I know some people joined despite their (relative) youth.
Maybe you should have studied something worthy of a subsidy, like Medieval Transgender Studies.
Maybe I’m just not reading the articles too closely, but I don’t recall anyone addressing the reasons for all that debt. Which means in 4-5 years, we’ll do it all over again! Yay!
forgiveness . . . . cancel
At least the headlines should package these ideas with the actions that they truly represent. I dare anyone to tell the plumbers their taxes are going up because Suzy went to Smith.
Raises hand
I don’t think they’ll get that until certain other people get reparations.
I repaid my student loans, but I’ll be reimbursed for that, right? Right? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’m the giant sucker who is paying for my kids to go through school. I should have made them ring up huge debts I guess.
Is there still time for them to do a sweet study abroad on the backs of everyone else?
Yeah, I do wonder whether Ill regret aggressively paying off my 6-figure student loan debt. Well, regret is a bit too strong. It’s the right thing to do, no matter whether fedgov decides to steal money from me and other taxpayers to bail out other student loans.
When I went to law school, why did I turn down better schools to go to Syracuse where I got a good scholarship? What an idiot I was.
You didn’t go to college because you couldn’t afford it? You get nothing.
You went to a cheaper school so you had less to pay off? You get nothing.
You stuck to a budget so you could pay off your loans on time? You get nothing.
You overextended yourself borrowing too much for a degree that’s not useful? HERE’S A FAT CHECK!
FIFY
No, we clearly need reparations for people who never went to college.
Don’t forget about those of us who never got to sign up for all those cool clubs our student fees paid for because we were too busy working full/part time and left class to go work.
You didn’t go to college because you weren’t college material, but you have a small successful business and you’re not happy about paying for a bailout for jerkoff college kids with studies degrees.
Why do you hate your betters?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/54/9d/0f549d824cdcfbf23ed0ff32c8f2d02a.png
I hear an ad on SiriusXm all the time for some debt relief scam, the line that gets me is something like-“If you have over 5 thousand dollars in credit card debt, don’t let the credit card companies trick you into thinking you have to pay it all.” What kind of person buys into that way of thinking? I’ve never been wealthy but I have always paid my debts in full.
I think it would be more moral for Democrats to argue for bailing out poor people with credit card debt rather than college kids with loans. Both are bad, but only one would actually be an attempt to benefit the least in our society
what about poor people with rent-a-center debts?
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The numbskulls at my kid’s play group were raving about how they really need loan forgiveness and how shitty their lives are… with their 2 cats, and 3 iguanas, and… yeah, lots of expenses they didn’t need to make, but how ever much they’d love to rob me so they can buy a house finally.
I’m always happy as a clam when I get to help others as I’m struggling to pay my bills. Like the other day at the grocery when the girl in front of me was showing her friend her new $300 tattoo as she whipped out her EBT card to pay for her name brand groceries. I bought some ramen and discounted beef that was already brown.
*nods in stingy middle class*
How dare you flaunt your privilege!
An ex-girlfriend of mine had a full ride to a big-name state university on a variety of public and private scholarships/aid, but she chose to go to a private university instead where many of those were not applicable. Now she’s in massive debt and enthusiastically supports Bernie Sanders in the hopes that he’ll erase student debt – the student debt that she has entirely of her own choosing (seriously, the school that she passed up has a better reputation than the one she chose, yet this is still the fault of “the system”).
But Akira, how could she know when she signed the loan documents that she’d actually have to pay?
“The president knows the best way to lower costs in health care is to put patients in control by increasing choice and competition,” HHS Secretary Alex Azar said at a phone briefing for reporters Monday morning.
Nonsense. Everyone knows that centralized, government bureaucrat control is what creates efficiency and lower costs.
And now, some good news:
The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here
Let me know when they sort that shit out.
Yeah, my Pi3 has been awesome playing old games with my son, but I am ready to move into the N64/PS1 phase (and beyond). I’ve also never been successful pairing bluetooth controllers, which it would be amazing if the 4 solved that issue.
My shocked face, where it be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re9Xp6cdkro&feature=youtu.be
TL;DW – Goolag sez that they are the only ones capable of stopping current and future “Trump situations”; tacitly admit altering search algorithm to that end.
PS: Yes I realize the irony of linking to youtube for this, but bitchute did not have the video. And for those of you still in the Goolag, I’ll just leave this here…
http://www.protonmail.com
How is that declaration of internet independence working out?
“ProtonMail – the choice of paranoiacs worldwide… and maybe beyond.”
I’m only mildly paranoid and I love ProtonMail.
Well, that video is gone for a “privacy violation”
While bitchute did not have the Goolag video, it did have this:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/L0jx2u7qYLIp/
Paging, HM… HM please dial extension 3…
Gorsuch v Kavanaugh. Thunderdome!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gorsuch-sides-with-liberals-in-shooting-down-tougher-sentences-for-gun-crimes
Why would liberals object to tougher sentences for gun crimes
And why would conservatives approve of them?
Gorsuch is the only good, actually legally consistent person on the Court.
They are lying and/or weak pragmatists?
I love Gorsuch. It’s a shame Kavanaugh is such a statist.
why would conservatives approve of them
Because they actually aren’t opposed to gun control at all?
“disparate application” is their reasoning, i think.
It’s a theme through the entire Docket. The liberals + gorsuch are pro-accused in criminal cases. Kav is middle of the road, Roberts leans L&O, and the rest are strictly L&O
Criminal cases are generally 7-2 in favor of the government. The 2 are either Sotomayor and Gorsuch (4th amendment cases) or Ginsburg and Gorsuch (other criminal cases). This was a rare one.
That’s a pretty broad oversimplification. A lot of it depends on the issue at hand.
There were a few interesting ones this cycle. IIRC, one was a 5-4 on whether robbery is a violent crime, and another was 5-4 essentially on whether the death penalty should be legal.
Those death penalty cases were just getting stupid. Kavanaugh switched sides on two identical cases and then pretended as if the two cases were materially different rather than admitting that he fucked up
I know there are some aviation enthusiasts here. I’m not really one, but I stumbled across these videos recently and I’ve been oddly captivated by them.
Supersonic. It’s coming back for commercial aviation.
How Green is it?
“I know there are some aviation enthusiasts here.”
Search youtube for “gyrocopter girl”
You can thank me later.
Didn’t see this in a search unless it was in earlier posts today – followed this story in 2 or 3 parts over the course of the day courtesy of NRO.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-k-court-reverses-ruling-that-would-have-forced-mentally-ill-woman-to-have-an-abortion/
At least some common sense is still present – for the moment.
The mere fact that the UK is considered to be a part of the “liberal order” discredits liberalism more than anything.
Where were the condemnations from pro-choice people? Or is “choice” more of a nomenclature more than anything?
“Pro-choice” means the correct choice only, of course.
Your remarks that liberals discredit liberalism is 100% true. See the Jacobins, Lloyd-George and Asquith or how the Democrats very willingly embraced Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, etc.
They are called revealed preferences and yes, they put the lie to their professed preferences.
If there were common sense over there there wouldn’t be any ruling to reverse.
I loved swimming as a kid. As soon as the ice went out off the lakes, I was agitating to go swimming. I remember one year that I was so obnoxious that my dad actually drove me down to the lake and told me to jump in. I got in to about my knees and turned blue and tried to tell him through my chattering teeth that it wasn’t too bad.
Back in my younger, even stupider days, we used to swim in the BWCA just after ice-out. Polar fucking plunge.
Chemicals helped then. I think I’d die if I did it now.
I lived a mile from where I live now from age 3-9. From about 6 on, swimming was on the menu Valentine’s Day thru Thanksgiving. Once my parents could not get in with me.
Trump on Bolton: “I have some hawks. John Bolton is absolutely a hawk. If it was up to him he’d take on the whole world at one time.“ (This has probably already been posted today but here it is again just in case)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-23/trump-unleashes-uber-hawk-bolton-he-would-take-whole-world-one-time
It’s good you realize that my man, now fire that Mark Twain looking fuck.
If Trump thinks he can play carrot to Bolton’s stick then he’s too dumb to breathe. The neocon is a machine. You cannot reason or plead with him. His sole mission is to bomb shit
I can understand wanting to have different perspectives among your advisors but I don’t think Bolton would be above being a saboteur to a nonmilitary solution for damn near any international problem. The man’s a dangerous snake.
His sole mission is to bomb shit
Good thing Bolton can’t authorize a damn thing, then.
During the Spanish-American War, Twain became a fervent anti-imperialist, even joining the Anti-Imperialist League.
He had also given up the cause after a desultory stint in gray.
Let’s pick a better class of idiot to compare Bolton to!
He also thought people were being too mean to Robespierre and how Russia had nothing to fear from revolution.
Do you know who else had a mustache that kinda looked like Bolton’s?
Captain Kangaroo?
John Holmes ?
I find this whole obsession with SCOTUS rather worrisome. Isn’t it rather problematic that the judges are appointed by politicians or that these judges need to get their legal theories from somewhere?
It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the alternative.
The obsession with the Supreme Court is, in part, based on the same problem that’s causing obsession with the federal government in general: the federal government has usurped far more power than it should ever have had, so people end up focusing on the federal government, rather than state or local governance.
The Federal Government appoints SCOTUS so unsurprisingly SCOTUS is filled with Judges who support federal power.
Then there is how for historical reasons in the US there is a belief that we need a strong federal government to stop slavery and racism. Even supposed anti-nationalists believe that.
I’ve mention before whether or not rights exist if no believes in them. It isn’t so much that there is some popularity contest but that it is very difficult to exercise your rights if no one else believes that you have them.
Also more importantly how can you exercise your rights if you yourself do not recognize that you have them? You do need to learn of your rights from somewhere.
And yes I’m aware of the dangers of “we need someone to teach us what our rights are!” And the public school system was supposed to that and we see how well that worked.
since we live in the greatest/most retarded of all timelines this is happening right now-
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1143170307194314752
Oh, that’s really good.
I may have to order one of those hats…
Maybe he and the good people at Under Armour will be the ones that bring back sanity to the flashing of innocuous hand symbols.
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Some Czech bad asses. The Masin gang.
Hawt
“EXCLUSIVE: Pictured – LAPD off-duty cop who shot and killed nonverbal man in Costco during ‘argument’ over chicken teriyaki as dead man’s family say they fear his mom will not survive
Beaming on his wedding day, this is Salvador Sanchez, the off-duty LAPD patrol officer who shot and killed unarmed mentally disabled Kenneth French and critically-wounded French’s parents at Costco.
DailyMail.com can also reveal that the French family fear Kenneth’s comatose mother Paola French, who tried to protect her son from the hail of bullets, may not survive.
Sanchez, an officer for seven years, killed Kenneth French, 32, at Costco Wholesale in Corona, southeast of Los Angeles, on June 14, after French hit Sanchez.
Also present during the shooting was Salvador’s wife, Rosemary Quintero and their 18-month-old son.
Sanchez had been holding the child, waiting for a food sample of chicken teriyaki at the meat counter, when his lawyer David Winslow said an unprovoked French knocked Sanchez temporarily unconscious.
CCTV footage from the store has not been released yet but witnesses claim, when he came to, Sanchez got up from the floor and fired up to eight times at French with a handgun.
Kenneth’s father Russell, 58, and mom Paola attempted to protect their son from Sanchez when the officer fired, witnesses have told French family lawyer Dale Galipo.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7167549/PICTURED-Cop-killed-unarmed-nonverbal-man-Costco-dead-mans-mom-not-survive.html
Bets that the CCTV shows an argument happening before all that?
Yeah, I’m not believing a thing the cops says until I see the footage.
witnesses claim, when he came to, Sanchez got up from the floor and fired up to eight times at French with a handgun.
Assuming he was knocked out, I have to wonder if a mere citizen who gunned a couple of people down in the same circumstances would walk. Because you know he’s going to. Even though he shot up somebody who never attacked him and posed no threat at all.
I don’t believe a word of that. I want to see the video.
Anyway I am worried that the campaign against thug cops (racist or otherwise) might backfire disastrously. Why? Because it might lead to more federal control over the police and that has never had any bad effects. Look at Weimar Germany or Post WWII Czechoslovakia!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27état
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preußenschlag
Not to mention that the major justification for Double Jeopardy is being thrown out is to deal with racist cops.
Late to the party, but a few thoughts on this:
Funny how it doesn’t mention doctors, no? Especially when almost the entirety of the “surprise bills” that people get are from doctors who are out of network. “Surprise bills” were the headline that got this going, so naturally the proposed solution does absolutely nothing for the supposed problem that needs solving.
All of our commercial managed care contracts have confidentiality clauses that prohibit us from disclosing what our rates are from that company. If all the hospitals in town can now find out what Blue Cross is paying the hospital with the best rates, do you not imagine that will create upward pressure on rates? “Now we know Blue Cross will pay X in this market, so let’s tell them that’s what we want.”
Can’t be done, because a big chunk of your out-of-pocket is your deductible. We have no idea what that is, and it changes from person to person and day to day. Even the insurance companies can’t tell you today what your deductible will be (and thus, what your out-of-pocket will be) if you have an operation tomorrow, because they don’t know what other services you’ve had that the bills haven’t dropped for.
Ooh! Then an enterprising state AG can sue for collusion! Win win!
Sounds like a complete shit-show.
Yes, health care finance is, in fact, a complete shitshow. It is permeated stem to stern with government (and private) bureaucracy, from Medicare and Medicaid, to state insurance regulators, to insurance companies who calculate their savings in the millions for every day that they delay paying claims.
I’m “in the trenches” of healthcare billing, trying to get insurance companies to pay for rejected claims. Also trying to sort out the fucking mess that results when Medicaid seems to think that there’s some other insurance and declines everything but the patient and their family are telling us that there is no other insurance, so the claims just sit there in La-La land while I try to wrangle one of these payers into covering it.
And half the time, the people who work those health insurance or Medicaid helpdesks have no idea what they’re doing. I had some guy react with utter confusion when I explained to him that these two fills of Oxycodone on the same day are not actually duplicate fills because one is a routine fill and the other is PRN. He had no idea what PRN meant. Another guy required me to spell out every single medication for him (I had about ten claims).
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/06/24/clay-travis-and-others-dunk-on-nba-commissioner-for-phasing-out-owner-in-favor-of-something-less-racially-insensitive/
Whoa, the NBA has retired the term “owner” cuz slavery and replaced it with “governor”.
Considering how Southern states are headed by governors is that really woke?
Also does the implication that black NBA players are being “governed” rather than “owned” much better?
Not to mention “owner” implies that they own a controlling chunk of the team but “governor” implies that they are just some management position without any stake.
They could use president but Trump and those slaveowning ones might be triggering.
I’ve got nothin’. This issue is too stupid for words.
I like it, I always liked those old English shows where some old dude was called “Governor”, in fact from now on that’s my preferred pronoun. Governor Hyperbole, has a nice ring to it.
Nothing to get triggered there.
I thought of “The Major” and guess what? He got censored.
Best timeline ever my ass.
I heard something about this and assumed it was a joke and carried on.
Where’s that damn meteor? We need to start over.
How about Boss. Or maybe Master.
This is hard to take. My Harley looked just like the red on in the foreground.
red one
Gov. Chris Sununu ordered all flags on public buildings and grounds in the state to be flown at half-staff from dawn to dusk Monday.
Posited: half-staff is used too often, and, in any event, the change to allow governors to make such decisions about the local use of the American flag was certainly inappropriate. The flag flies, we take our losses and we move on comforted by the flag at full mast.
Mostly agree. In this case it was a group of Marine vets so dipping the colors might be appropriate.
We acknowledge a bummer,
CARRY ON!
Interestingly, the only mention that I could find of the incident was on Fox. None of the other news websites that I visit had anything on it.*
*I didn’t search very hard. As a former biker it was quite disturbing. Couldn’t finish the video on Fox.
Fuck.
I could have gone all day without knowing about that.
Can’t swim. Can’t float. Even had lessons on how to float and my ass would just sink
I am not buoyant, no matter how much I’m told this is impossible.
I once lost my kick boards in the deep end and calmly walked along the bottom of the pool until my head was above the water.
I’m the same way. My sister was a swimming instructor who said everyone can do it. She was surprised to find out I couldn’t. My legs are too long for my torso/lungs to maintain a neutral buoyancy at the surface.
When I sail, it’s always aPFD for all on the boat, when you hit the water, you need to conserve energy, floating helps
My legs sink too. They are too muscular. At least that’s what I tell myself.
That’s a humans tenancy, to lay with lungs high, try a backstroke, you can swim for hours, legs up…
That’s my solution. I can float on my back with minimal movement. But as far as a basic survival float. Nope.
Obligatory
Thought you would go with this one.
Go to a scuba shop, buy a wet suit. 5mm body, 3mm sleeves. That will make you buoyant. Learning to swim when you are buoyant is a snap.
LEARN TO SWIM. There is no excuse for not being able to swim. It can save your life or the lives of others. You have a moral obligation to be able to swim.
LEARN TO SWIM.
LEARN TO SWIM
Cannot be emphasized enough. I can’t remember not knowing how to swim. The first time I was on water skis I was 5 1/2 years old.
It’s more fun than coding.
It isn’t just about fun, though it is a lot of fun. Like Hobbit I can’t remember a time when I couldn’t swim.
It’s really about that Sunday afternoon bbq at. your son’s house when you suddenly notice your 3 year old grandchild has fallen in the pool while no one was looking.
Heh I was mostly joking. I can swim well enough, even if I don’t particularly enjoy it. But you’re right – it is a skill that everyone should learn. I took extra lessons at the local HS when I was little.
And I code for fun 🙂
I had swimming lessons as a kid, but don’t really swim much. Last year, I took lessons again. After the third ear infection, I gave up. I’m content to just splash around.
I keep 90% isopropyl in my jeep. I mostly use it to wash my hands but if I swim afterwards I will pour some in my ears. I have earache problems after swimming also. The alcohol puts an end to that problem.
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YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
/I can swim and float just fine.
Yeah, I grew up at the beach. We swam in it unsupervised from about 5 y/o on. All day. With waves and shit. I really have no recollection of life before that ( well, I do, but not in regards to water.) I only wore shoes at school until I was maybe 12 or so. Then, it was because of skateboarding.
I had a friend contemplating not taking his kids to swim lessons. Honestly, I find it nearly tantamount to child abuse. You’d don’t’ need to be good at it, but you should at least know the basics. I guess what I’m really saying is blame your parents.
Yup. I learned at age 4 or 5, and was in lessons until I was 10 or 11. My daughter is in lessons at 2, and we were at the pool today teaching her about holding her breath when she jumps in and kicking to surface. Hopefully she becomes more proficient in the water than I am. I’m not uncomfortable, but I’m not great at diving or lapping the pool.
If I hadn’t learned to swim as a young child, I never would have won the beer relay on Daytona Beach in college.
I used to work at a YMCA, and the aquatics director there was an absolute sadist when it came to the lifeguard training classes. We had another guy who was the “passive” victim who weighed about 250 pounds and would sink like a stone. He could also hold his breath for more than two minutes. I only saw a handful of the trainees successfully get him to the surface and out of the pool.
I was the “active” victim – the one splashing around on the surface that the lifeguards had to drag back over to the side. The one person that had the easiest time rescuing me was this petite, 90 pound female. After watching me repeatedly tackle and dunk the trainees that attempted rescue before her, she developed a different plan – she swam up to me as I was splashing around, and just as I lunged at her, she punched me square in the face. The momentary shock stopped me long enough for her to spin me around on my back in position to swim me back to the side.
You can also dive under the ‘victim’ and come up behind them. I guess punching works too.
One of my buddies, a former sailor, used to say that that was SOP for the guys recovering pilots who had bailed out at sea. He said that they were in such a panic that the sea rescue guy would punch out the pilot to prevent him from drowning the rescuer.
Summertime in Florida sucks big time without a/c. We’ve been two weeks on a partially functional system, two days on a non-functional system. HVAC company already replaced the coils in the air handler, but found another leak in the outside coils. They’ve been to the house five times in the last two weeks to top off the refrigerant, but that’s not helping anymore. At 8pm, the inside temperature of the house is 92 degrees.
We have a portable A/C set up in the bedroom, but it’s only cooling it down to the lower 80s, mainly due to two humans and two dogs crammed in here the last few hours.
It seems only a day or two ago I was complaining about my office getting down into the lower 60s. I should have kept my $&@!ing mouth shut….
Ouch. We had a 24 hour power outage last week, and another one last night. Fortunately the storm front last night cooled things off nicely. Last week, not so much.
I feel for. you.
It sounds like you need a new system. by the time the coils go out….well check the thermostat and consult with Yusef.
The system is only a year and a half to two years old. I’m not convinced the air handler coils needed to be replaced, but it was done under warranty, so not a biggie. HVAC company has done us right – haven’t charged us since the initial visit, despite putting two pounds of refrigerant in each time they come out. The last time they did the dye pack and inspected everything, so we’re fairly confident they found the main leak now.
Ah, ok.
Our system is working on 12 years old. I recently had our air guy come check it out just for caution’s sake. The coils are getting fairly corroded and I am sure it will die in the next year or two. We saw this coming and have saved up the money already for a replacement. I am going to replace the HVAC system and water heater at the same time…and moving them down out of the attic. I don’t know who the moron is that dreamed up putting water systems in attics but I am fairly certain they are in hell. Oh, and a new water main. The top layer(3feet or so) of soil on this hill is sliding and the water main (PVC) has broken twice. I am going to replace that with an indestructable single line from a coil.
*shudder*
The typical east coast summer fug will soon spread up north to NYC and I won’t like it one bit. Thank god it’s only a few months a year. (Though much later than usual this year.)
At the end of last summer my A/C broke. I figured I wouldn’t need it much longer and would just get it fixed in the spring (money was tight). We proceeded to have the hottest fall in recent memory. 90+ days went on until late October. It was misery. I did have a window unit for my bedroom, but I don’t do anything in there but sleep. I don’t care for hanging out in bedrooms.
We’ve got a pool. I’ve spent a fair amount of time floating around in that to try to stay cool. Unfortunately, the water is about 85 degrees as well.
“President Trump signed an executive order Monday on price transparency in health care that aims to lower rising health care costs by showing prices to patients. The idea is that if people can shop around, market forces may drive down costs.”
“Market Forces” is a term of art for “people making choices”. Referring to market forces as if they are some exogenous “force” that acts on people the way gravity acts on your body just muddies your thinking.