Three dudes, luxury cars. The highlight of all the articles is a wildlife expert that is quoted: “It’s clearly a person in a bear suit.”

Don’t worry, spawn would take care of him in a few seconds once the weird fetus demon was handled.

New york being above new jersey, maryland, or virginia is surprising to me, but then, this is probably only counting where a hurricane made landfall. I tried to find a breakdown of per state costs over this time, but didn’t find much that was more specific. Noaa’s website lists total economic damage in the trillions, but not per state.

I would bet florida would still be at the top, followed by texas, but I would be curious about the middle of the list. Mississippi/alabama would likely move up, because they would get a lot of the brunt when louisiana/texas/mississippi took the ‘direct hit,’ because of the eastern side being the ‘dirty side’ of a hurricane. There might even be something unexpected, like arkansas/kentucky jumping up. They often take the fallout of a storm as it begins moving northeast after landfall.

It’s also interesting to see how different the severity of the storms are. The eastern coast has less % of cat 3-5 storms. Moving northward, they go 13.6% / 16.6% / 12.7% / 20% / 8.3% while the gulf states are, moving westward, 30.8% / 20.8% / 42.1% / 31.4% / 29.6%. Off hand I would have agreed with that idea, but nice to see stats on it. Low numbers make bigger percentages easier to happen, but it’s still surprising to see that 20% of the storms that hit new york were severe.

Turn off notifications. Even if they reply, you’ll never see it. One comment, if you have to, and then you ‘walk away.’

The first time my hawaiian friend fried the spam my mind was blown. No one I knew had ever cooked it, and we all thought it was nasty.

I don’t remember who said it, but I’ve always remembered the best description of the whole process as: “my body is punishing me for not being pregnant.”

Always gets a sympathetic groan.

That’s odd, because it’s the exact opposite in my experience. I know of at least two friends who went to a vet and their ‘dog’ was diagnosed with back pain and a drug prescribed for it, because the price of the animal’s drug was wildly cheaper.

Throw in that athenian politician who has a name I never remember… One of the ‘charges’ against him was that he was acting as a bottom despite being older. The athenian pederasty had the older man taking a younger man as ‘appropriate,’ while the reverse was viewed as scandalous.

Blackmail tax, or ‘we’ll prosecute you under anti-gay laws or something later’ tax.

Whatever the person ranting can contort it to be. I’m of the thought that your aboveposter was referring to that, due to the use of quotation marks.

No, that’s actually a thing, private or public. We treat at the scene, unless there is a need to get to the ER for something that we can’t do. CPR, as an example, is pretty much the exact same thing when a paramedic is conducting it at a scene and in the ER. You might have some more people around, but the drugs being given and the device used to deliver shocks are exactly the same.* We have ‘standing orders’ for termination of cpr depending on how things are going (20 minutes and 30 minutes, respectively, for our agency), and we wouldn’t be transporting the body afterwards.

This is also how it is in cases of obvious, unattended death. The cops get called, they call us, we throw electrodes on and print a flatline for the cops, and leave (the cops then wait for the coroner/medical examiner [medical examiners are fancier and only the big cities have them] who then leaves and the cops call [well, they should have already called] the mortuary/funeral home and then they take the body).

The point is, the hospitals don’t want a dead body to deal with, so unless the person is alive or close enough to alive (I’ve transported ‘corpses’ that are having blood pumped by machines for organ harvesting purposes, it’s really weird/unsettling the first few times) that they’re still kicking, the ambulances don’t transport. Looking at it from another point of view, we have live patients waiting on us to come, why would we waste our time transporting a dead one to a funeral home?

*not even kidding; the monitors on the back of the stretcher are often THE EXACT SAME as the ones hanging in the trauma room of the ER.

I personally think Kesha being a fox-bee in an adult cartoon is much better for an example of a popular singer having a great fursona.

Supposedly the video portion is fine because of some specifics of how PII is worded/used/defined. It is, at the very least, such a small window into the rear compartment that combined with the angle you can’t see much. Also supposedly, it’s why the internal camera doesn’t record audio (which none of us believe but the videos they share never have audio).

I’m paraphrasing from a pretty good book about calvinism called “against calvinism.” The author notes that all ‘calvinist’ beliefs have some central tenets, summarized as TULIP.

• Total depravity: or humans are assholes and deserve all the pain/death/hell experience
• Unlimited power: or god is supreme and can do anything (don’t ask him to create a rock so big he can’t lift it though)
• Limited grace: or god has preselected who can/will be saved
• irresistible (something I can’t remember… call, maybe?): or those who god has preselected will follow the plan to be saved, they can’t ‘turn away’ from it (which leads to all sorts of mental bullshit inside of the ‘cult,’ especially when someone who was in it turns away [because them turning away means they were actually never a real {whatever the cult members call themselves}])
• Predestination (mmm, this one might actually have a different word, but it’s been 15 years or so, give me a break): which means that everything is going according to god’s plan, because it can be nothing else.

Obviously, those principles lead to all sorts of morally fucked up beliefs and actions, similar to how reincarnation folks tend to horribly mistreat or denigrate people in ‘lower’ stations in life.

Calvinism also isn’t really its own denomination. It’s a style or camp in the christian belief sphere. It’s usually contrasted with Arminianism, which focuses on humans and their choice to seek and accept god. It’s definitely surprising how much a random preacher’s teachings will fall under one of those two belief systems though, without them ever knowing anything about them.

The predestination thing is probably the biggest talking point for people discussing christianity in general or calvinism vs arminianism. Calvinists will trend towards the ‘double predestination’ of augustine-fame, which I find a little silly and just getting really pedantic. Catholics have the double predestination thing as a fundamental part of their ability to handwave away god being an asshole if people are destined to hell, while calvinists seem to use it without any consideration of god being an asshole because those people deserved it anyway and isn’t it just so nice that he’s decided to save some and, oh, look, we’re part of the saved. Thus god (and in the comic, jesus) being quite ‘mean’ is just part and parcel of calvinist beliefs.

I think we’re at three that have been seen, aren’t we? And considering the difficulty for a person who has been significantly affected by the current bullshit (I’m not saying that there aren’t a lot of people affected) to even get an approach…

The rich, which in this case includes even middle class and the upper tiers of ‘the poors,’ are going to be focusing on holding on to what they have, or coasting along with what they have. They haven’t missed three hot meals yet.

Huh. Good thing those chemists didn’t get started on anything like chemistry until 1926.

But do you start lifting on the pee or the aow?

This is why you have a practice count! “On three, everybody… one, two, three!”

“Okay, got that? Here we go: one, two… three!”

Now they have a bloody camera on us. “AI” tracks things like speed (and ‘knows’ the appropriate limit), cell phone usage, ‘attention wandering’ as in your eyes not being focused forward for a period of time, drowsiness, etc.

lulz. A bunch of places have ‘limits’ on your driving even with lights on. There’s a place near me that the limit on the ambulance’s speed is less than the actual speed limit. It’s quite funny to get passed with lights on, let me tell you.