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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I...I think I just had a stroke. I think it's like how there's a wiki for everything, there's a bingo for everything.
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Jul 8, 2014 16:36
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 The rest of those pictures are pretty hosed up, but I'd like to emphasize how much worse this is. Just... holy poo poo.
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Jul 8, 2014 16:47
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I...I think I just had a stroke. 
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Moatman posted:
Scarily enough it's a sentiment I've heard around from co-workers and classmates. Pretty much since New Mexico along with Sedona, Arizona was where the hippies who didn't want the counterculture thing to end ended up migrating to, there's a lot of multigenerational hippy/holistic types out here. I've lost count how many times when I've not been feeling well that I get loads of recommendations as to what herbs I need to take or which all natural organic food I need to be eating.
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Jul 8, 2014 17:21
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The funny thing about this one is that there's a gene that influences how cilantro tastes to people So part of why some people hate cilantro is because they are one of the unlucky few who it objectively tastes horrible to. Sucks for them, because cilantro is delicious for us superhumans who it doesn't taste gross to! Insects in India hate sugar water? 
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Jul 8, 2014 17:38
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Even copyright law is not a disability. Not gonna lie, I'd loving love coke bottles sold like this. Every now and then, misting my mouth with it would be a fun novelty. Oh, you sip your cola? You poor luddite... Arsonist Daria has a new favorite as of 17:42 on Jul 8, 2014 |
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canyoneer posted:
From what I've been able to look up, it's used diluted to attract the bugs that'll eat the other bugs.
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Krispy Kareem posted:I agree it can be construed as a slippery slope, but it's also really tough to claim a religious exemption. It's not like company A can just say, "Christian Scientists don't agree with doctors so we don't either." You'd have to make your religious beliefs part of your corporate culture, which most businesses won't do because it limits your consumer appeal. The problem is that it's not a legitimate argument. The drugs they have a problem with don't do the things they think they do. So there's no reason at all to oppose them since they work exactly the way the other 16 methods of birth control do. A privately-held corporation has no loving business being involved in this kind of discussion no matter what the religious beliefs of it's owners, and it's shameful that we as a country are forced to accept this.
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canyoneer posted:The funny thing about this one is that there's a gene that influences how cilantro tastes to people When my blueprints were submitted, they gave me "will hate cilantro" but took out "is allergic to brown recluse spider venom," so I'm a winner who hates homemade salsa but won't lose a limb to ballooning extremities if bitten by a particular nasty loving spider 
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Jul 8, 2014 17:59
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Elfface posted:Here's what I've gathered from other SA threads not directly dealing with it, like politoons. It doesn't. Emergency contraception prevents ovulation. There's a pretty NSFW comic that explains it reasonably well.  http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/emerencycontraception/ Edit: Bother, that's what I get for leaving a tab open for ages.
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DrNutt posted:The problem is that it's not a legitimate argument. The drugs they have a problem with don't do the things they think they do. So there's no reason at all to oppose them since they work exactly the way the other 16 methods of birth control do. A privately-held corporation has no loving business being involved in this kind of discussion no matter what the religious beliefs of it's owners, and it's shameful that we as a country are forced to accept this. A legally legitimate argument.
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My understanding is that it doesn't matter what the drugs actually do, as long as their sincerely held religious beliefs say that the drugs induce an abortion.
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Jul 8, 2014 18:26
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I like pointing out to people that I hope they don't find out after a life-saving blood transfusion that their Jehovah's Witness employer put together a custom insurance package that excludes blood transfusions and now they're stuck with a $20k bill.
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Jul 8, 2014 18:29
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What kind of chumps go with their employer's insurance plans instead of buying their own, anyway? 
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People who can't afford to buy their own?
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:People who can't afford to buy their own? Blue cross offered me a 1200 a month plan with a 200 dollar prescription copay for anything not related to pre-existing conditions.  Yaaaaaaay. Oh, and it wouldn't cover anything related to pre-existing or existing chronic conditions. Hope you don't get diagnosed with something you weren't aware you had!
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Aerofallosov posted:Blue cross offered me a 1200 a month plan with a 200 dollar prescription copay for anything not related to pre-existing conditions. I thought the ACA said preexisting condition have to be covered now?
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Orgophlax posted:I thought the ACA said preexisting condition have to be covered now? I think you just can't be completely denied for them, but I could be wrong.
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kinmik posted:Sounds like you're not getting enough cilantro. Yeah! How else are you going to upgrade your DNA??
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Jul 8, 2014 19:09
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Which plant is it, again, that improves comprehension of statistics?
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I think you just can't be completely denied for them, but I could be wrong. The ACA says you can't charge someone more for a pre-existing condition. An old guy with AIDS smoking a cigarette out his trac tube with his foot rotting off from diabetes pays the same premium as a 30 year old vegan. Although employer provided insurance can charge you more for smoking.
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I've always wondered how employers or insurance would know if you're a smoker in order to charge you more. Unless you're smoking at work like a chump instead of using smokeless tobacco that doesn't affect other people, anyway, how would they know what you're doing on your downtime? Edit: By the time they found out you had a smoking related illness it'd be too late for them to up your premiums before they had to pay up for your care
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HonorableTB posted:I've always wondered how employers or insurance would know if you're a smoker in order to charge you more. Unless you're smoking at work like a chump instead of using smokeless tobacco that doesn't affect other people, anyway, how would they know what you're doing on your downtime? They force you to take an annual medical as part of the coverage, if the notes they get say you're a smoker, bam. I mean, you COULD lie to your doctor, I guess...
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wow, in 1900 we were really lovely at diagnosing cancer
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Fatkraken posted:wow, in 1900 we were really lovely at diagnosing cancer Plus life expectancy in 1900 in the US was something like 47, so the odds of living until you caught cancer were... Lower.
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Krispy Kareem posted:A legally legitimate argument. 
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Orgophlax posted:I thought the ACA said preexisting condition have to be covered now? Now, yeah. That was slightly before ACA. Also, our call center's insurance had 'too many claims' (Gosh, a moldy building with slime coming out the fridge and black mold in the walls with shared headsets and computers full of sick, stressed people who are underpaid and overworked being yelled at to work more getting sick...? Naaaah), so it was too pricey for what you got from it.
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HonorableTB posted:I've always wondered how employers or insurance would know if you're a smoker in order to charge you more. Unless you're smoking at work like a chump instead of using smokeless tobacco that doesn't affect other people, anyway, how would they know what you're doing on your downtime? They can tell from an urine sample. quote:Edit: By the time they found out you had a smoking related illness it'd be too late for them to up your premiums before they had to pay up for your care Haha, no. If you lie about your condition you don't get covered. USUALLY, when there's a story about an evil insurance company dropping someone with cancer, it's because they lied about their condition to get coverage. The insurer can't say that publicly though because of patient confidentiality. So all you hear is 'evil insurance company'.
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FrozenVent posted:Plus life expectancy in 1900 in the US was something like 47, so the odds of living until you caught cancer were... Lower. In the 1200s there were no deaths from cancer. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP?!?!?!
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HonorableTB posted:I've always wondered how employers or insurance would know if you're a smoker in order to charge you more. Unless you're smoking at work like a chump instead of using smokeless tobacco that doesn't affect other people, anyway, how would they know what you're doing on your downtime? My employer (a really lovely hospital) had us fill out this long online questionnaire every year when we renewed our insurance. One of sections gave us information about the health benefits of not smoking. You had to scroll down to see that it was actually a question as to whether or not you smoked. "Yes I am a smoker" was automatically checked.  And you could continue on to the next section without having to scroll to the bottom.Thankfully I caught it and told my coworkers, but who knows how many people now have "yes I am a smoker" buried in a medical document somewhere.
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 http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/sto...d=SOC/FB/SNMain quote:Andrew Robert Rector admitted that he "briefly slept" while attending the April 13 game between A.L. East rivals, and when ESPN cameras caught him sleeping during the fourth inning, the Sunday Night Baseball announcers launched into what he described as an "unending verbal crusade" against him, with their "vituperative utterances" redistributed on the MLB website the following day. Excels has a new favorite as of 20:36 on Jul 8, 2014 |
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Excels posted:
Haha, he sounds like a real life Ignatius J. Reilly.
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Gropiemon posted:In the 1200s there were no deaths from cancer. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP?!?!?!
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NY Post posted:But his typo-ridden suit says Shulman and Kruk’s “false statements” include suggestions that Rector is “not worthy” to be a Yankee fan and “is a fatty cow that need two seats at all time and represent symbol of failure.”
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I'll have no more of your vituperative utterances!
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