I've been shaken since Tuesday when I heard about the murder of Nex Benedict, especially the way the school and police are victim blaming and explicitly lying about the medical report.
My little one isn't even in middle school yet but I'm not ready for what the future could bring.
Doesn't COVID mess with other immunities for some people? I swear I saw one of you post something about it in the past - and specifically draw an analogy to measles wiping out immunity. If so, that is one more layer of risk on top of the sntivaxxer b.s.
I find additions easier than restrictions. What are your favorite inexpensive meals? What are the easiest things to cook that don’t break the bank? Make them more frequently and think about variations of those recipes /cooking techniques:)
Also - look at your actual costs. Many people here are saying less meat = less expensive. But for our family, meat isn't what is driving food costs. Perhaps if we were eating Petrel sole a few days a week, but fresh produce can quickly add up too. We often spend more on fruit than meat.
I am the outlier. I would split it proportionately: each kid gets just over 1/3 of their loans covered. 3K to your son, 7K to your daughter. She still has a larger financial burden going forward. Being able to live with family is a significant gift - both DH and I did that for a portion of law/med school and came out with lower loans than our peers. So I wouldn't discount that.
I skimmed the article when I posted, so I don't know if this was mentioned - FL isn't requiring the unvaccinated kids that were exposed to stay home. Which is against all recommendations.
Yet again Florida making it unsafe for any child . . . to exists.
$20 says that when they get to the damages phase of the trial, they ask for higher damages since Alabama clinics have ceased IVF transfers so now they have lost the opportunity to try again or use donor eggs or embryos.
Did fertility clinics in Alabama shut down egg retrieval and fertilization procedures today?
I heard on NPR that UAB, a major medical system/ provider for the state, has stopped IVF procedures for now due to this ruling. They will still do egg retrieval but no fertilizations I believe.
yes - I just saw that too. No fertilization, no embryo development and no implantation of current embryos.
The idea that this case can go forward given the facts is particularly mind blowing.
If you can sue a hospital for wrongful death when a patient gets out of control and destroys your embryos, then surely you can sue the entire Alabama government, education system, the gun shop and the gun manufacturer if a gunman does the same to actual children at a school, right? Right?
We don’t have free bussing. It’s $300 each way per kid for a bus pass (so 1,200 for both if we used it). And there aren’t a lot of stops. The school timing and route works with my husband’s work schedule and I’m the afternoon we are often going straight to an activity. So paying $600 a year for a few days a week of busing would be steep.
Lol. We used to have a speed bump at the base of my block right after you enter the neighborhood. it was annoying (but understandable, especially when I didn't know there were alternatives) and gunk would always build up on the "uphill" side after a rain storm (there is a very mild incline to our street, but rain run off could tell. Last repaving, they replaced it with a similar depth drainage dip running across the full street but at a slight angle to work well for run off. It's awesome. No messy build up after storms, no "kathunk" feeling when you drive over it. Low riders aren't negatively affected. But it still slows down cars really well. And you can't drive around it because it doesn't dip on the sides like a speed bump. People don't even put out their "plastic neon kid holding a flag" thingies anymore pandorica
It should be the new standard.
Is the roadway along the curb then the same elevation as the drainage dip? Or are there catch basins in every dip? Or do these roads not have curbs? How do they prevent water from pooling in the dip?
Ours is specifically designed so it feeds right into the curb drainage and natural water flow pattern. It actually improves curb drainage. It's the work of those crazy civil engineers and their planning that others have mentioned up thread. lol.
You still need to slow down if you don't want car damage, they help with drainage, and if you take them at a good slow speed they aren't jarring at all. Speed bumps are unpleasant to drive over no matter how slow you go. With inverse speed bumps, you naturally comply without even thinking (it just becomes routine) but speed bumps, no matter how wanted, are also always annoying to drive over.
I was thrilled when my neighborhood switched and would be pissed if we went back to speed bumps.
I think we just call those potholes Very effective, although hard to control placement.
Seriously though, it sound like an interesting idea. I wonder if it works better for low profile cars than the bumps.
Lol.
We used to have a speed bump at the base of my block right after you enter the neighborhood. It was an annoying necessity (but understandable, especially when I didn't know there were alternatives) and debris would always pile up on the "uphill" side after a big rain storm (there is a very mild incline to our street).
Last repaving, they replaced it with a similar depth drainage dip running full width across street width but at a slight angle to work well for the run off. It's awesome. No messy build up after storms, no "kathunk" feeling when you drive over it at low speed. Low riders aren't negatively affected. But it slows down cars really well. And you can't drive around it because it doesn't dip back down on the sides like a speed bump. People don't even put out their "plastic neon kid holding a flag" thingies anymore pandorica
You still need to slow down if you don't want car damage, they help with drainage, and if you take them at a good slow speed they aren't jarring at all. Speed bumps are unpleasant to drive over no matter how slow you go. With inverse speed bumps, you naturally comply without even thinking (it just becomes routine) but speed bumps, no matter how wanted, are also always annoying to drive over.
I was thrilled when my neighborhood switched and would be pissed if we went back to speed bumps.
Three different organizations around the bay area that support trans people in general or trans kids/families specifically have folded or ceased services since last summer and a fourth is on the verge of collapse. These aren't new. Places that have been around since 1982 and 1996. Something has happened and it feels like someone is coming after their funding because grants they have gotten for years have dried up.
How interesting. I never had fever either time I had covid & my symptoms were mild, but seems like there is probably a range of ways to interpret "mild & improving symptoms" as a barometer.
and don’t forget, for COVID classification purposes, anything that didn’t land in the hospital is labeled mild. Wracked with pain, fever, chills, nausea, splitting headaches, coughing, can barely get out of bed to get to the bathroom for exhaustion, breathing problems that resolve with medication rather than an inpatient stay? No worries. You have mild COVID.
Unless this marriage ended because I woke up one day and realized I’m gay or trans or something that caused me to rethink who I am and how I want to engage in relationships, I don’t think so. I married at 29 but only lived alone for less than a month before that. I wouldn’t be alone for at least a decade anyway because of the kids , perhaps longer. So loneliness wouldn’t be an issue at first, and after that it sounds more like a new adventure than a new relationship would.
I'm a petite with a short waist. The crops work for me with high waisted jeans but they don't expose skin because of my height.
I'm the opposite so every top is a crop top on me. lol. High waisted jeans never reach my belly button. The current trends would show 6+ inches of my midriff and no one needs that.
I don't go swimming at the beach around here, just wading (too cold) so I keep my keys in my pocket while also tied to a belt loop so they don't fall out if we get super active. I don't bring a wallet , $, cards, purse or anything like that down the the sand (occasionally the phone, but not always. There is nothing to buy at the beaches around here. I also don't sweat the things we do take to the sand. (towel, bucket, water bottle, flip flops, snacks, etc.)
Cancer is awful. It doesn’t matter if he did things that raised his risk for this or that. Everyone does. We walk outside. We drink alcohol. We eat processed foods. We inherit genes. We live long enough for something to mutate. We live places with pollution. We date the wrong person. Whatever. Life itself is ‘known to the state of California to cause cancer.’ That isn’t a reason to throw around blame.
FYI - Costco has burnt ends in their refrigerated prepared food section right now (near the Aidels sausages etc) ours also has boudin bread, but I’m guessing that’s regional.
Can you imagine how differently this would have gone if someone had posted something similar but not a step kid? (My 18 year old will be graduating high school this summer and we won’t be paying the $700/month we’ve been spending on this or that educational therapy or sport. What should we do with the windfall?)
Sure, someone might point out there are expenses past 18 and FAFSA will expect thd will contribute to any college fund. But not this pile on.
With my actual kids, our swim coach always recommends keeping positive and not about performance (he suggests saying ‘I love to watch you swim’) but I don’t know that applies here.
I second going all Travis Kielce with a big poster board sign with their names, body paint, and lots of very loud yelling. Fencing is all about the rowdy fans.
Also, IF they would take the case AND rule in Donnie's favor, Biden can say, okay I have absolute immunity as the current sitting President, so I'm going to take the conservatives off the SC and install my own picks. Right? They would shoot themselves in the foot if they would rule in his favor.
he could shoot them on 5th Avenue in broad daylight and then appoint replacements by. Trumps ligix.
Is the Onion terrible because people will believe it and report it as news? Because that's happened over and over.
I think people know onion is satire vs a random Twitter user we've never heard of
A decade ago we would have all clocked it as satire. But so many people have said things so much more absurd than that in the interim. We now can only spot satire because it’s less ludicrous than reality.