Same reasoning behind not giving infants anesthetics during surgery.

Is ‘z’ even in the British alphabet?

39 yo American. This is the first time I have ever seen or heard of the word normality… And I read a decent amount of British regency literature.

My personal opinion is that it fails because SpaceX, like a lot of space startups, embrace a silicon valley coding mindset of ‘move fast and break things’, which results on them spending much more of their time and effort on testing than on design. Make a change, test, make a subsequent change, test. It gets them to a working prototype more quickly than legacy space/ defense companies. However, there’s no emphasis on modeling or design, which is problematic for solving complex problems that haven’t been solved for 50 years already.

You mean like Starship?

So we oppose US intelligence agencies overthrowing democratically elected leaders in other countries but not their own?

In fairness to Colin Powell, my understand was he didn’t know it was a lie/ trumped up evidence at the time, and was pretty bitter about it in later years.

Attacking the commenter personally is not helpful. Obviously the whole destruction-of-American-Democracy thing is very different. But let’s look at some salient issues.

As far as the war in Gaza, Biden/ establishment Democrats still stood behind Netanyahu in the wake of Oct 7th. There was only slight functional differences in Biden’s America’s stance on Israel in Gaza and Trump’s.

Less salient, adding a cap on mortgage interest deductions on taxes. Republicans under Trump I did it to punish wealthy coastal (high home value) residents who rented to vote blue. Democrats left it in place because they approved of people who have more home value paying more taxes.

It goes on. Both Democrats and Republicans failed to close Guantanamo, advance voting reform, advance marijuana legalization, end the war in Afghanistan, or take ANY action about climate change for decades, etc.

It’s not every issue mind you, but Democrats are frustratingly adherent to the status quo while the United States has needed meaningful reform for decades.

Smite! Smite! Smite! Smite!

I’m in favor of sticking him out there and seeing if Zeus is ready to smite him yet.

Maybe new? Their account has been suspended (I know the temporary looks like that, unsure about the permanent suspension).

I can’t laugh because Uvalde still makes me choke up.

NGL, I’m pretty sad to lose this handle.

If you’re making minimum wage, what do you really have to lose by improving your marketable skills?

I mean, I don’t see how it’s possible if you’re only going to have entry level skills… You’re not really building up a wealth of marketable skills if you quit all the jobs after a year.

I think the problem might be how quickly you quit to do it. It takes a good year to train a new person to be productive. If they only get about a year of productivity from you after training you for a year (and a junior level amount of productivity at that), then it’s not worth their time and effort to invest in you. If you did it every 5-7 years instead, it would probably go over better. That’s long enough to see whole projects through to completion and then just take a break in between.

There’s also the issue of how long you take off. If you take off 6 months to a year, it’s less likely that new technology comes in and changes everything than if you take off 2 years. Ex: 2 years from today you can expect huge swaths of industries to adopt using AI tools in day-to-day tasks. Another ex: I’m an engineer, not a CS person. I’ve helped design computer systems, but sophisticated coding isn’t the main part of my job. In the last 3ish years I’ve seen every system I’ve encountered switch to containerization.

My husband blows on his soup to cool it so it doesn’t burn his mouth … Intelligence is also attractive.

As a heterosexual cis woman, soccer players always have the sexiest physique. One of the only sports I look up for, just to check out the players, not because I ever care.

When one of my good friends lost how mother, to help distract him, I enlarged this soft porn imagine of a woman in pirate gear showing what she’s got. I blew it up to poster size or something, and then I printed it on a regular printer (along with a picture of a penis at approximately the right size and angle). I think that gave me 15ish individual pictures? I mixed them up and mailed him one per day, saving the goods for last, with the fakeout penis second to last.

I think he had a good chuckle. It was still on his wall months later when I went to visit him.

Your comment made me look up the way Maryland does it, and yes, it varies a lot by county.

Have you received care from EMS without being taken to the hospital? The case posted by OP did not involve going to the hospital, and do I used an example that did not involve going to the hospital. I had a vague impression that if you require transport to a hospital, you are more likely to be billed for it.