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Hope the surgery went ok and that you're feeling better, friend. Where do you get your insurance from?
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theHUNGERian posted:Is there a thread on beds and/or back pain? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3813333&perpage=40&pagenumber=2 Or start one?
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veni veni veni posted:Where would I start if my health insurance didn't cover nearly as much as I thought on emergency surgery I had and I can't afford to pay it. Like, it's at least 5 times what I thought I was going to be paying, that was billed to 5 different companies and my insurance company just dumped it on me to deal with them. gently caress this country. Serious answer I've just not paid like 10 000 worth of bullshit in terms of construction bills and insurance(not medical) and have that be the right thing to do. They'll figure it out themselves if you don't roll over and start throwing away money.
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Nov 12, 2019 03:16
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Robokomodo posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3813333&perpage=40&pagenumber=2 Thanks. I seemt o remember a thread called "Back pain sucks", and I thought it was in YLLS, but I can't find it. But the beds thread is a good starting point.
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Nov 12, 2019 03:59
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life is a joke posted:Hope the surgery went ok and that you're feeling better, friend. Where do you get your insurance from? It went well and thank you! I have Cigna through my employer.
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Nov 12, 2019 05:11
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Qubee posted:The loving thing is morbidly obese so I wouldn't be surprised if it's on a feline McDonald's diet and has next to no portion control which helps it produce this apocalyptic neon yellow turd. Oh, didn't catch that you've identified the specific cat. It may well be sick, not just fat. I've known a few really fat ones and they still had normal poo poo. Though being an outdoor cat, yeah it could be eating rotting garbage, especially if it's too fat to catch mice and birds. Also, yikes. 
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Nov 12, 2019 12:17
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TLDR: This is all to say, I want a word which just means "this person right here I'm indicating, who is a person, whose gender is irrelevant." Is there such a word, or is there any kind of growing movement to creating such a word? Is there a stand-in pronoun or noun that just means "a person" or "this person"? I understand that gender-fluid, gender-noncomforming, gender-nonbinary and what have you have adopted "them" as a singular identifying pronoun. So, the problem that I'm having is that there becomes effectively three major gender identifiers, which go something like he = man, she = woman, them = gender-noncomforming, gender-nonbinary and gender-fluid. The situation here is that there's a local school board politics somethingorother going on, and one of the congressfolk referred to a "them" teacher as "she" and anyway, someone got very upset and it became a big thing. I want to respect anyone's preference of any kind of identifier, but it's a loving hassle to making sure you know everyone's gender or non-gender. It's not like just learning people's names; "he," "she," "are stand-ins for people, and now I feel like "they" is as well. Anyway, that's all to vent about this dumb conflict and how upset I am at, I don't know, the english language. I know there are some variations; zhe, ze, etc. but I'm not sure of their use or what they specifically mean...
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Nov 12, 2019 17:27
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credburn posted:TLDR: This is all to say, I want a word which just means "this person right here I'm indicating, who is a person, whose gender is irrelevant." Is there such a word, or is there any kind of growing movement to creating such a word? “That one/that person/this person/these people/[name]”?
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Nov 12, 2019 17:30
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credburn posted:TLDR: This is all to say, I want a word which just means "this person right here I'm indicating, who is a person, whose gender is irrelevant." Is there such a word, or is there any kind of growing movement to creating such a word? This/these fellow/s? My Colleague? This educator? Yeah I admit this is a difficult situation to easily answer.
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Nov 12, 2019 17:42
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Just go full walking on eggshells and refer to everyone as “Teacher Smith” or “Principle Willis”
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Nov 12, 2019 17:49
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Show community spirit and refer to everyone as comrade.
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Nov 12, 2019 18:09
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credburn posted:TLDR: This is all to say, I want a word which just means "this person right here I'm indicating, who is a person, whose gender is irrelevant." Is there such a word, or is there any kind of growing movement to creating such a word? "they" has been the standard for this rhetorical usage for hundreds of years, which is why it is being adopted and developing an extension to its current usage. Just think of it as a homophone, like how "right" can mean a direction, something being correct, or something being just. Or like the word "just" means something analogous to something else, or something that is morally righteous. Or like the word "like" which can mean something similar/analogous to something, affection towards something, an action someone performs on social media, a cultural signifier for a dated version of the valley girl dialect of English when it is, like, used habitually If you find this unsatisfying, think about it this way: Linguistics, the scientific field dedicated to understanding the human capacity to create and comprehend Language, has been around for around 2500 years, and we still don't have a solid, scientific definition for what the gently caress a "word" is. Language is the product of a loving weird biological system that may or may not be entirely logical, but it still works. Somehow. Tenik fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Nov 12, 2019 |
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Nov 12, 2019 18:20
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credburn posted:Anyway, that's all to vent about this dumb conflict and how upset I am at, I don't know, the english language. Feel free to be upset about the person who decided to make a big thing out of something that was probably an innocent mistake.
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Nov 12, 2019 23:34
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Is there a term for what you collectively call daylight saving time and standard time? They're not time zones, of course, but "times" is too vague.
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Nov 13, 2019 03:57
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hooah posted:Is there a term for what you collectively call daylight saving time and standard time? They're not time zones, of course, but "times" is too vague. They are time zones.
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Nov 13, 2019 03:59
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Tenik posted:"they" has been the standard for this rhetorical usage for hundreds of years, which is why it is being adopted and developing an extension to its current usage... Agreed. I found out because I had a gay professor in college and they referred to their fiance as "they". Everybody was totally cool with it (this was happening in the most liberal part of California). One class teased him about it by calling their group project, a musical, "They the fiance" and everybody had a good time. Ever since then, I say/type "they" instead of "he/she".
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Nov 13, 2019 04:07
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I have a lamp that takes an E14 bulb and says MAX 40 W. I'm assuming that I can put in a LED E14 bulb that's rated at 8 W but equivalent of 60 W with no issues, correct?
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Nov 13, 2019 06:21
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Busy Bee posted:I have a lamp that takes an E14 bulb and says MAX 40 W. I'm assuming that I can put in a LED E14 bulb that's rated at 8 W but equivalent of 60 W with no issues, correct? Correct. Unless it's a lava lamp or an easy-bake oven or something else that relies on the heat of the bulb, and even then, there's no safety issue, it just won't work very well.
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Nov 13, 2019 07:11
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In older hotels, ones from the 70s or so, sometimes there's an additional light switch in the bathroom that turns on a red light bulb that puts out a bunch of heat. What is that supposed to be for? Was turning one's bathroom into a sauna a thing in the 70s?
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Nov 13, 2019 13:28
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regulargonzalez posted:In older hotels, ones from the 70s or so, sometimes there's an additional light switch in the bathroom that turns on a red light bulb that puts out a bunch of heat. What is that supposed to be for? Was turning one's bathroom into a sauna a thing in the 70s? I don't know if I've seen red light ones, but the ones I've come across are heat lamps. The idea is that it can be nice to step out of a shower into a warm bathroom, especially if it is winter and the place is a little chilly. The apartment I am in has a bathroom fan that is also a combo heater. Turning the fan on to help with humidity from the shower also adds some hot air.
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Nov 13, 2019 13:34
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regulargonzalez posted:In older hotels, ones from the 70s or so, sometimes there's an additional light switch in the bathroom that turns on a red light bulb that puts out a bunch of heat. What is that supposed to be for? Was turning one's bathroom into a sauna a thing in the 70s?
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Nov 13, 2019 17:24
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Yeah it's just to take the chill out of that moment you step out of the shower/tub. P nice actually. Not sure why it went out of vogue even.
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Nov 13, 2019 17:41
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Yeah it's just to take the chill out of that moment you step out of the shower/tub. P nice actually. Not sure why it went out of vogue even. Turning electricity into heat is notoriously expensive.
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Nov 13, 2019 17:50
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Is there a way to check how many users have put an account on their ignore list? Can you check how many times an account has been quoted? Check how many users have ignore listed my account? Check how many times an account has been reported/flagged?
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Nov 13, 2019 18:44
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Is there a way to check how many users have put an account on their ignore list?
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Nov 13, 2019 18:54
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My local Wal-Mart has started checking receipts at the door. This pisses me off--probably more than is warranted, but here we are. This is a regular Wal-Mart, not a Sam's Club. What would happen if I just said "No thanks!" and kept walking? I assume nobody will tackle me to the floor, but will some poor old elderly door-minder lose her job?
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Nov 13, 2019 23:33
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jjack229 posted:I don't know if I've seen red light ones, but the ones I've come across are heat lamps. The idea is that it can be nice to step out of a shower into a warm bathroom, especially if it is winter and the place is a little chilly. Yeah, the outdated unit we rent in Sydney has one. It's really nice in the winter because in general Australian buildings have no insulation so get really cold for a couple of months. The bulb on ours is orange. The only other heating we have is a reverse cycle aircon and plug in heaters we bought ourselves.
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artsy fartsy posted:My local Wal-Mart has started checking receipts at the door. This pisses me off--probably more than is warranted, but here we are. This is a regular Wal-Mart, not a Sam's Club. The "say no thanks and keep walking" thing is what I always do at these places. The door checker would only get fired if they DID try to tackle you. Legally, they can ask to see anything they want, but they have no power to force you, and the door checker will (or at least should) know that and will let you go right by. Your new purchases are now your personal property and they have no right to search them. (They can make things like bag searches a condition of entry, but not of exit. On entry, after all, if you don't like it, you can walk away.)
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Powered Descent posted:Legally, they can ask to see anything they want, but they have no power to force you, and the door checker will (or at least should) know that and will let you go right by. As a general matter of US law, this is is not the case. To very briefly sum up the Shopkeeper's privilege and it's subsequent codifications: quote:Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in some parts of the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property. EDIT: Georgia statute: OCGA § 51-7-60 posted:Whenever the owner or operator of a mercantile establishment or any agent or employee of the owner or operator detains, arrests, or causes to be detained or arrested any person reasonably thought to be engaged in shoplifting or refund fraud and, as a result of the detention or arrest, the person so detained or arrested brings an action for false arrest or false imprisonment against the owner, operator, agent, or employee, no recovery shall be had by the plaintiff in such action where it is established by competent evidence: Louisiana statute: Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 215 posted:Art. 215. Detention and arrest of shoplifters ulmont fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Nov 14, 2019 |
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ulmont posted:As a general matter of US law, this is is not the case. To very briefly sum up the Shopkeeper's privilege and it's subsequent codifications: There’s no way a store is going to rely on shopkeepers privilege to detain someone not showing a receipt unless they have other suspicions.
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Quoting and bolding the relevant part:ulmont posted:Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in some parts of the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property. If they saw you conceal something and try to walk out with it, then yes, they have expanded rights to stop you. But they don't get to automatically invoke that against every single person who walks through their doors.
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You can walk on past them but do you really want to feel like a big tough person telling an elderly woman to gently caress off?
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The elderly woman isn't going to be heartbroken because someone ignored them at work, they're making 4$/hour or whatever the American minimum wage is now. They don't actually give a poo poo if you're stealing or not, just if they're fulfilling their obligation to get a paycheck.
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Powered Descent posted:(They can make things like bag searches a condition of entry, but not of exit. On entry, after all, if you don't like it, you can walk away.) I've always wondered, what would a retailer have to gain from this?
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Hipster_Doofus posted:I've always wondered, what would a retailer have to gain from this? Fewer people shooting up their building?
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The less people that can bring outside food and drinks to your venue "for safety" means the more attractive your $10 hotdog or $4 bottled water looks.
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Does anyone have experience with saddle chairs/saddle stools? Do they really help your posture and relieve back pain?
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Every time I make stew, I get burning on the bottom of my pan. This only happens when I coat the beef in flour, and I think it's because the flour separates during cooking and falls to the bottom and burns. How do I stop this happening? Putting heat on low doesn't help, and I can't baby the thing and stir it every ten minutes. A set and forget method would be amazing.
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Qubee posted:Every time I make stew, I get burning on the bottom of my pan. This only happens when I coat the beef in flour, and I think it's because the flour separates during cooking and falls to the bottom and burns. How do I stop this happening? Putting heat on low doesn't help, and I can't baby the thing and stir it every ten minutes. A set and forget method would be amazing. One of these then.
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A heat spreader helps on a gas hob. You'll also want to use a pan with sufficient thermal mass to help spread the heat more evenly.
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