FarFarAway

Thank you for the clarification.

Ah, sorry.

And they do. My family member still insists on only submitting thier taxes by snail mail. For 2021, the IRS lost the original, required a second submission (of original documents, lol), and then lost that one. In the end, they had to get an advocate to help them submit a third, and final return.

At least they didn't owe, or I'm sure they would have been in big trouble. But of course the IRS sending the refund check over a year late, has no repercussions...

I'm not sure that access to care is particularly the issue. I mean, it's part of it, but when you have women like Beyonce and Venus Williams describing thier near death experiences while giving birth, there's something else going on here.

Doctor education and bias, I believe, have alot to do with this issue. Women of color, esp. Black women, have the same rates of complications as white women do, but they die at a much higher rate. Many doctors don't want to listen to thier patients or don't recognize that diseases prevalent in communities of color take a larger toll than expected on a pregnant woman. Some doctors just cant or plain don't want to take the time to ensure that the pregnancy is deveolping in a healthy fashion for both the mother and the child.

And, now, with abortion bans driving doctors out of states that already have an issue, the problem is only going to get worse.

Brains gotta poop

I was not a previous sync user, but it seems to be a beloved app. Although...

I am somewhat surprised at the use of personal data in the privacy policy.

I understand a guy's gotta make a living, but with all the hype, I'm not sure I expected this.

Which one is worse?

Trump running the country from jail, or DeSantis running the country from the White House.

Honestly, I feel more comfortable having Trump run again. I'm way more confident that he would lose vs DeSantis.

If the full weight of the republican party plus some uninformed, curious swing voters, got behind DeSantis and he won...

Man, DeSantis scares the shit out of me.

I haven't seen this movie yet, but this article ends by saying that

Barbie and Ken reach a middle ground. Barbie encourages Ken to work out who he is outside of his relation to Barbie, and to learn being Just Ken is enough.

So, in reality, maybe the movie comes to the same conclusion for both genders. Being dependent on another person for happiness is not productive. Cultivating hobbies and interests, and being ok with who you are, is key.

Or when you order unsweetened, but you still get sweet anyways...

Not that I think this is the way, I don't, but...

Im in construction. With the amount of time it takes to train a completely green person off the street, even at seemingly menial tasks, im not sure corporations would actually allow this.

Although, they arent paying a wage, this plan would eat into real production time and materials, and with this "just in time," software oriented, prefab mindset they have, overall i think they would still lose money.

Sure they don't have to train people to think anymore, but even operating machinery correctly or following a preset design, is rough for alot of people.

The struggle to find knowledgeable, skilled labor is real, but unless paid people are taking time out of thier day to teach these interns the ins and outs of a machine or how to read plans, said intern wouldn't learn jack squat. Unless the company has time and money to kill, at the very least, trade school is still required.

Nah, corporations would never go for it.

I was "homeschooled" in someone else's home with thier family. The dad hired his elementary school teacher to teach us. We went to school from 8-12 with a 30 min break in between. I left public school the middle of 1st grade and went to "homeschool" for two years. When it came time for me to transfer back (we moved) I tested into 5th grade, although that's not where I was placed. I never had any homework.

The family of five that I was schooled with, all finished the curriculum at the age of 16.

There is absolutely no reason us public schools should function the way they do. The only positive I saw, was that I was more active and socialized. A few decades later, and its not like any of that made much of a difference. People are more to themselves than ever, not to mention overweight...

That was the general premise, but they definitely could have gone about it a different way. They cut everyone off, raised the price of passes, and keep adding more pay to play quests.

In my larger small town, even after this renewed push and the addition of campfire, there are still not enough people to successfully capture multiples of the most valuable pokemon.

Capturing the best pokemone requires at least 5 medium to high level players. Anytime we go into "town" to play, we just sit there staring at the screen waiting for even one more player to join in at any of handful of surrounding gyms. Very rarely (we could count on 1 hand) we happen across a group of people playing. By the time we get to the location they are supposed to be at, the group is long gone. I cant even imagine what disabled would have to go through to find other people. On top of this, it's regularly over 100 degrees outside.

After the change, a whole bunch of new features that reward playing in person were added. They should have led with these features, gauged community engagement, and then consider moving away from remote participation. Instead, they went straight for all the ways they could alienate a large portion of their player base, while digging deep into the wallets of the ones who stayed.