I’ve always thought they were doomed to fail, it sits right at the intersection of adverse selection and the tragedy of the commons.

Oh it's so good. Every time I watch it I notice something else... like just now at the very start he closes the door when he first sees it. Later he closes it again. The way he says succulent chinese meal always makes me hungry btw.

You’re assuming that the odds for each are independent, thus no influence on the other siblings when the first or second decided to adopt one of these recreational identities. / Ax Mode

Yup, someone (maybe here?) called the news "corporate media" which seems much more accurate. Every time there is a shooting, the news anchors...sorry the corporate media executives... salivate knowing there will be a ratings boost with the dramatic faux-somber coverage. But they'll always publish the face and name, so as to make the person infamous and thereby inspire other shooters.

@Jolly said in 5 years ago: My son's first child didn't weigh much more than that and also was a NICU baby. Tough times. The NICU nurses were absolutely fantastic. Talk about guardian angels. Great with parents, experts with tiny infants. They made us change the diapers from the start, which was good. We brought fresh milk each morning and evening and got our snuggles in until she was cleared to leave. On that day we arrived like normal and the doctor greeted us that today was the day she'll be coming home. In retrospect, a NICU stay for the first child was fortunate. The baby was in good hands, on monitors, and got on a good sleep cycle. Further, we didn't have to juggle other kids during our twice-daily visit to the hospital. Also this was the summer so we quickly learned where the free ice cream was each night on our way home.

@LuFins-Dad @Copper Great pics! Looks like it was a good time!!!

Girlfriend’s daughters and I threw her a surprise picnic on the waterfront. It was lovely.

Florida man strokes strikes again.

I agree, everyone is on WhatsApp. I also use telegram a lot, and prefer it over WhatsApp if I can choose. They offer real encryption, better anonymity, larger groups with many thousand members, a good desktop app, and a few other things that WhatsApp does not have.

I don’t know what it was.

@Copper said in Biden family's breathtaking corruption: @Renauda said in Biden family's breathtaking corruption: Maybe you should do something about it. Like you did? I could never do anything as clever as your post. Gee, that was really biting wit. Thanks for sharing, we all owe you so much. Not nearly as much as you deserve.

Cool! Have fun.

It makes very good sense because a charge is a half hour or or more. Meijer has already been doing it.

I thought that was pretty funny. LOL I remember reading a story about torture. And they would put a heat source very close to the person. And then throw cold water on them. What you get is not what you were expecting.

"My team and I are working around the clock to prevent this from happening again." lolz

When it comes to the Kennedy's one probably shouldn't use the phrase 'shoot the messenger', but still....the problem RFK has is that when he asks this question is that it's not going to get taken seriously due to all the other vaccine-related nonsense he's come out with. Also, correlation isn't causation, obviously. Still, if Americans are getting prescribed these things a lot more than everybody else. I guess it's worth asking why. Does the nature of health-care in the US lead to this sort of thing?

@jon-nyc said in A Nation of Beggers: @Jolly I don’t know. A friend of mine told me that during the hyperinflation era they didn’t put price tags on staples in the grocery store, rather they’d announce new prices every few hours. He told me about a woman crying when they announced new prices as she went to put some of her items back. I have a friend who worked in Taiwan Economic Cooperation Office in Brazil during their time of super high inflation. Credit cards were usually not accepted by most places because by the time the company got paid by the credit card company, it was worth so much less. TECO had to keep large large amounts of cash on hand to pay everything.