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AstheWorldWorlds posted:If your SO doesn't like garlic it may be time to sever. I don't think a relationship devoid of garlic is meant to last.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Your significant other will thank you! I'm single and have nothing in the horizon 
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Aug 27, 2014 01:37
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Pete Shumlin has defeated primary challengers Brooke Paige and Doug Racine to remain on the ballot as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Vermont. Scott Milne put down a Libertarian write-in challenge from Dan Feliciano to be the Republican nominee for that post. I wanted to laugh at Dan, because of couse I wanted to laugh at a Libertarian write-in candidate, but his platform isn't the funny version of Libertarianism, just the boring version. His only real issue is repealing the Vermont single-payer healthcare bill, which is also the top issue of the state's Republican party.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:38
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Joementum posted:His only real issue is repealing the Vermont single-payer healthcare bill, which is also the top issue of the state's Republican party. How is that going up there?
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Aug 27, 2014 01:40
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Zeitgueist posted:How is that going up there? It can't be implemented until 2017, and only then with a waiver from HHS, thanks to Obamacare. I'm sure President Cruz will be very accommodating in this matter. Because it can't take effect until then, most of the details of the program have yet to be finalized. The state spent most of its energy last year getting a PPACA exchange set up, which will be used to build the enrollment infrastructure for the single-payer program.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:48
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It's been so long that I can't remember the answer to this, but for what dumbass reason did PPACA require/encourage states to set up their own "exchanges" (i.e. loving web sites with lots of API calls and some matching logic)? America and its loving laboratories of democracy is one of the dumbest loving things that I can see in retrospect with some time apart. Okay, we're blessed with the gift of 50 quasi-independent states, but do we really need to double down on that blundering legacy at every turn? EDIT: Wait, hold on, this is going to end up being about insurance being regulated differently (and therefore having different bullshit products) in each of the states isn't it? Something that doesn't in any way necessitate 50 web sites.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:52
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ReindeerF posted:It's been so long that I can't remember the answer to this, but for what dumbass reason did PPACA require/encourage states to set up their own "exchanges" (i.e. loving web sites with lots of API calls and some matching logic)? Cause that's what the industry wanted and they wrote the legislation?
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Aug 27, 2014 01:55
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ReindeerF posted:It's been so long that I can't remember the answer to this, but for what dumbass reason did PPACA require/encourage states to set up their own "exchanges" (i.e. loving web sites with lots of API calls and some matching logic)? Is it actually legally possible for the Federal government to centralize all health care stuff administration under its authority?
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Aug 27, 2014 01:56
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Randler posted:Is it actually legally possible for the Federal government to centralize all health care stuff administration under its authority? Yes. It requires removing the words "over 65" from an amendment to title XVIII the Social Security Act.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:59
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I'm sure would have been a legal way to present any plan from any state, yeah, if they wanted to. The various exchange contracts and so on would still have to be state by state, as would provisioning and anything else, but there would have been some easy way to put it all under one roof legally I'm fairly sure. The web site is not the legal exchange, it's the marketing method through which you access the exchange.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:00
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Someone mentioned maple syrup and I just wanted to say that grade B is amazing, it's like the brown sugar of maple syrup.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:01
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Cheekio posted:Someone mentioned maple syrup and I just wanted to say that grade B is amazing, it's like the brown sugar of maple syrup. Correct. Grade B gives the best taste of maple. It is not to be looked down on.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:03
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Joementum posted:Correct. Grade B gives the best taste of maple. It is not to be looked down on. Only reason I would go to a Whole Foods-esque store. Although the one I got was from Canada.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:05
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Cheekio posted:Someone mentioned maple syrup and I just wanted to say that grade B is amazing, it's like the brown sugar of maple syrup. I like Grade B, though depending on how the sugaring season goes it's not always that easy to find.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:06
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The best garlic mashers are made in this manner: Mince/press two-three cloves of garlic into a small sauce pan. Heat until the garlic is caramelized and dark brown. Pour heavy cream into the sauce pan and boil gently, until reduced by at least 1/2 volume. Pour over boiled skin-on Yukon Gold potatoes. Chop up and throw in some chunks of cold butter. Mash by hand with a potato masher until just blended. Leave some chunks of potato. Salt and Pepper to taste. You are eating God's Mashed Potatoes.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:08
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Back to food chat, anyone want to guess what this Thai canned good is?
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Aug 27, 2014 02:11
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ReindeerF posted:Back to food chat, anyone want to guess what this Thai canned good is? Ketchup?
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Aug 27, 2014 02:12
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ReindeerF posted:Back to food chat, anyone want to guess what this Thai canned good is? Soup?
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Aug 27, 2014 02:13
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Negative, it is the Thai concept of tomato pasta sauce.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:14
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ReindeerF posted:Negative, it is the Thai concept of tomato pasta sauce. So the guy who guessed ketchup was right.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:18
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I was about to ask, "red curry" e: never mind, it didn't have curry powder or coconut milk or the like
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Aug 27, 2014 02:19
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That might be a decent foundation for a bloody mary at least.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:19
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Joementum posted:So the guy who guessed ketchup was right.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:20
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Joementum posted:So the guy who guessed ketchup was right.  Wait, why are you Tricky Dick now?
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Aug 27, 2014 02:22
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Did Joe's avatar just go back in time?
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Aug 27, 2014 02:22
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Rappaport posted:Did Joe's avatar just go back in time? LF here we come!!!
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Aug 27, 2014 02:26
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Rappaport posted:Did Joe's avatar just go back in time? Back in time to before someone bought me a different avatar because they thought I would like it. This has happened to me multiple times.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:27
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Well, did you like them?
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Aug 27, 2014 02:28
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made of bees posted:Well, did you like them? No! The Joe Biden avatar was particularly odious because it was the wrong Joe.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:30
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ReindeerF posted:Negative, it is the Thai concept of tomato pasta sauce. Five minutes in the MBK food court and I saw a dozen things odder than sweet pasta sauce, though.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:31
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Chantilly Say posted:Five minutes in the MBK food court and I saw a dozen things odder than sweet pasta sauce, though. 
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Aug 27, 2014 02:32
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I'll stop by the Sizzler at Phra Ram 9 today and get some pictures of the menu.
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Aug 27, 2014 02:35
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Joementum posted:Yes. It requires removing the words "over 65" from an amendment to title XVIII the Social Security Act. "That's crazy. Medicare taxes would skyrocket!" 
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Aug 27, 2014 04:59
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Joementum posted:No! In fairness, the other Joe's pretty fuckin' odious.
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Aug 27, 2014 05:00
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I like to freak out my SO by sneaking up and eating whole handfuls of raw garlic while she's cooking. Then a few minutes later after she puts down the knife I sneak in and kiss her. I was at the grocery store the other day and I saw this fragile old man in flannel who had nothing but bread labeled "Extra-Dark Jewish Rye" and gefeltefish in his cart. That might be me, in the future.
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Aug 27, 2014 05:12
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Extra-Dark Jewish Rye owns, especially if you can get it Lithuanian
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Aug 27, 2014 05:15
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I dont like strong bread. I dont really like bread, I prefer rice. I hope that I can send my impending child on a torturous journey of cross-cultural confusion. Korean fusion tacos with watermelon siracha in your lunch bag motherfucker!!! Freak out all the kindergarteners with your gross rear end breath.
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Aug 27, 2014 05:16
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What's Alan Alda up to these days? He might just be able to make 2016 a shoe-in for republicans.
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Aug 27, 2014 05:21
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Hedera Helix posted:Olive oil is amazing and fish/seafood (particularly smelly things like tuna and shirmp) are not amazing. So there. From a while back, but if you can smell your seafood you done hosed up in the purchasing. When purchasing make sure your seafood has no odor. If you can't find any seafood like that it means you made the wrong life choice of living in a landlocked area.
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You're all a bunch of decadent bourgeois scum. True proles eat brown bread that comes out of a can. 
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