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aestra
13y ago
Did you see the interview with the coach? He showed up, identified himself, said these kids were in the right place and they were going to a basketball game all while speaking very respecfully and the cops said if he didn't leave the c
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aestra
13y ago
WOW! The most shocking linked article is the kids who got arrested for waiting for the bus. They were excepted to plea bargain. That's right, the charges weren't dropped!!!!!! edit the DA dismissed the charges but the police chief
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aestra
13y ago
I never understood so called Starbucks Squatters. The local public library is a free resource that is specifically set up for work and study. I spent many hours there when I was a student, well at the school library. It allowed me to focus
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aestra
13y ago
>Many women, at least by my anecdotal experience, see sex as something that they give up, and are expected to, after certain checkpoints in a dating relationship. This is absolutely absurd and I don't know what kind of women you are
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13y ago
This is really absurd. Most janitors are paid by the hour. Why would someone engineer their paycheck away? You obviously don't want to spend a real long time doing your job less get fired or be seen slacking off. However if you were pa
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aestra
13y ago
We are a long long long way from that. Only 66% of Americans even understand the statistical concept of mean. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/c7/c7s2.htm Americans encounter basic statistics and charts
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aestra
13y ago
>Go to Manhattan and talk to a bunch of 25-35 year olds. Count how many men are sick of just "giving it up" and want to get married versus how many women express a similar view. I am a woman in my 30s and I have never ever once
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13y ago
I really wish I could find the original paper I read on the subject for you. I just went looking for it again and I didn't find it. It was something I read randomly in my travels, it was really long and really well researched with lots
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aestra
13y ago
There's some conflicting reports and I read a pretty good analysis a while ago that convinced me, but I don't have it, here's some light reading. http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-c
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aestra
13y ago
My views on religion? Um? Both my parents grew up in families with 9+ children because all of my grandparents thought birth control was a sin. That's my experiences. That's in an urban setting. All their large family neighbors did
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aestra
13y ago
In my (limited) experience, large families like this tend to be extremely religious and view birth control as a sin.
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13y ago
I didn't say or even imply any did. I said "minor nitpick." I said "I still don't know how much the parent pays in taxes." The GP might be counting all their payroll deductions as kinda a "tax" depend
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aestra
13y ago
Minor nitpick, the parent said they pay 40% in state and federal taxes and social security and you quoted only federal taxes (looks like the last graph includes Social Security) I still don't know how much the parent pays in taxes, b
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13y ago
>If you're a professional and try to be nice online, I doubt it'll hurt you with anyone you care to be associated You are incredibly short-sighted if you believe that. Imagine if you have been or are being stalked or harassed o
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aestra
13y ago
>You want to be googleable I do not want to be Googleable.
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aestra
13y ago
My doctor injects medication into me every few months. I go to the pharmacy to pick it up first, and then go to the doctor to get it injected.
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13y ago
Plenty of organizations in the US have bake sales to raise money. People donate baked goods and they are sold to the public for a profit. These people don't want to open a hotel, they are doing it illegally because it is easy money wit
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13y ago
People saying nuclear power plants having zero carbon footprint aren't really according for the entire nuclear fuel chain. the energy-intensive stages of the nuclear fuel chain are building the power plant, uranium mining, and nuclear
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13y ago
In primary school my mom told me she learned different bases of numbers in math. She said her dad kept saying "who would ever need this!"
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13y ago
Those people probably had health insurance and did not pay out of pocket, their insurance footed the bill. I know someone who paid out of pocket for a delivery and I think they said it was around $12K.
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aestra
13y ago
Doesn't mean too much actually. Insurance companies have their own negotiated prices that are lower than that.
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aestra
13y ago
Have you looked at programs offered through the manufacturer of her medications? Many have programs for free or low cost meds for low income people who are un or under insured. Try here http://www.pparx.org/en/prescript
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13y ago
>But this requires them to actually be in a condition (mentally/physically/education-wise) to figure out how to sign up and be approved for it, since coverage isn't automatic. This is a tough one. I have a disabled family
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aestra
13y ago
Nobody in the United States gets access to cutting edge/experimental medicine either. Insurances just won't pay for it. They say "too experimental" and "not medically nessessary" is a reason not to pay. I am cu
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aestra
13y ago
>Needless to say that this American hospital would not even have admitted us without a certified check in advance. An emergency room cannot refuse treatment to a women in labor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency
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13y ago
In the United States it is FDA approved for use in men however it still isn't widely used in boys.
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aestra
13y ago
I think we should also be vaccinating males for HPV, they spread it, and it also causes cancer in men (though it is less likely) such as penile and anal cancer. Right now we are only vaccinating women.
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aestra
13y ago
> there is a very real danger of a reaction when you combine so many vaccines [citation needed] I'd like to see the studies that say that combos are worse than individual. I'm not trying to be a dick, but when you make claims,
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13y ago
Wow, Yes of course it is! Usually it it is coded under law as vehicular manslaughter; generally, it involves death that results from the negligent operation of a vehicle. Same as if you killed someone while drinking and driving or if you ju
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13y ago
The studies have been done again and again and again and again. It is well studied. The link was only purposed by one study that used fake data that was done because some greedy assholes wanted to make a profit suing. THAT IS IT. That'
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