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At 3 weeks it can still vary quite a bit in terms of centiles. I know it's common behaviour for excited parents, but definitely don't try to plan the kid's life around him being tall or anything.

90th centile for height isn't NBA-tall either. Most of those dudes are >98
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The relevant excerpt:

An air traffic controller told the U.S. Marshals Service she saw Jeffrey Epstein get off his plane with girls as young as 11 on two occasions in 2018.

The controller, who worked at the Cyril E. King Airport in the U.S. Virgin Islands for a year, said she saw Epstein disembark his plane with two white girls who appeared to be 11 to 12 years old. On a second occasion, the controller recalled seeing Epstein leave his plane with a girl who looked to be 16 to 18 and of mixed race.

In the interview, the controller said she used binoculars to spot Epstein from the airport control tower, which was about 50 yards away from the convicted sex offenders plane. Epstein owned his own island, St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The sightings happened between June or July and November of 2018, according to the controller, who sat for an interview with a deputy U.S. Marshal in July days after Epsteins arrest in New York on sex trafficking charges.

It's a pretty loose accusation; we're essentially relying on one person's estimation of age from a year ago, at 50 yards. The man's story is disturbing as hell, but this only really serves to build a narrative, rather than any solid lead to investigate.
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Surprise mechanics
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Left, if the character is right handed. Or just whichever direction the aim was moving from
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So far zero, in the last 12 years
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FFVII_REMAKE posted...

I heard he was a piece of shit in real life just like the character he played.

This opinion is a real problem he has had to deal with in his life.
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TC has handled things well, good job. That second message seemed a bit tone-deaf, but I don't read anything in the conversation as malicious. Giving yourself more time is the right choice.

I'm surprised by the hard line attitude a lot of people here reacted with, tbh. Maybe it's because I haven't had any really fiery breakups.
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Sphyx posted...

The optimist in me thinks it might be a genuine attempt to keep a person they like in their life, and possibly a realisation that they may still have feelings, and maybe even a misguided attempt to see if they've made the wrong choice.

The pessimist in me thinks she's yanking your chain to see if she can still make you squirm.

Honestly, neither side of me thinks you're under any obligation to be the better person and swallow your feelings. Males have enough trouble doing that as it is.

If there's a friendship worth keeping, surely it can wait until you're emotionally clear to let it happen.

This. If you're not ready, just let her know
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Smashed
Trollied
Pissed
Sloshed
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There are dozens of slang terms for being drunk, you could basically just invent one by saying "Man I was so [verb]ed last night!"
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Crisscross posted...

Sonic Cannon posted...

This concept is ridiculous and stupid because they are just added together electronically after the polling. Which at that point can be hacked or interfered with or fake votes added, etc. With the complete anonymity making it even easier to hack and change.

I mean, my actual opinion is that you can have 1 or the other of:

A) Secure, reliable online voting
OR
B) Fully anonymous voting


If you don't care about anonymity, it should be quite possible to do an online vote which the user can then log back into the system and confirm what has been recorded against their name. Some places in the world do this for things like a local election or a referendum, but not for a general national election.
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Duncanwii posted...

Copyright law needs to be nuetered in this country. This kind of thing shouldnt be allowed to happen.

This is mostly an issue with Youtube's internal poliy, rather than copyright law itself. The majority of copyright claims there are internal and don't even begin the DMCA process.
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metallica846 posted...

The UK is switching to biosimilars to save 300 million a year.

We have just a few in NZ so far. Filgrastim and somatropin come to mind. Infliximab was going to be swapped, but the original manufacturer dropped their price instead to compete, so they kept the contract.

DarkRoast posted...

You also have to fail basically every possible on-label and off-label treatment for those conditions before mabs are covered.

Sometimes it's not too crazy, but some diseases are stricter than oters. The usual phrasing is something like:
"Patient has tried but had an inadequate response to, or has experienced intolerable side effects from, prior systemic therapy withimmunomodulators at maximum tolerated doses (unless contraindicated) and corticosteroids"
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DarkRoast posted...

spaghettyhoop posted...

Do people actually pay these costs in America? I dont see how its even feasible.

Let me drop this on you:

Nobody can afford monoclonal antibody drugs. Not America, not Europe. Nobody.

And most universal systems sure as hell aren't going to cover them in large numbers.

Our universal system covers some mabs, but like I alluded to earlier, they're fairly narrowly indicated. Most common indications I see people receiving them for include ulcerative colitis/crohns, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, macular degeneration, rheumatoid arthritis.
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I subscribe to XBL and PS+ not because I play online (I almost never do), but because their giveaways supply most of my console games library these days, and the price is reasonable for that IMO.
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"I don't like y'all" is mild as hell. If another unpopular profession like a lawyer or IRS agent got told something similar I wonder if the response would have been the same.
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Yeah basically. And I don't think it's appropriate to fire someone over that story.
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darkphoenix181 posted...

10 posts and no one asked tc for citation smh

This.

[citation needed]
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I've never put a user on ignore or block. I'd prefer to see what's going on.
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I thought this was going to be something like the staff member saying "Fuck the police" to a customer, but the relevant passage:

She walks off and returns with the manager and says doesnt Law Enforcement receive a discount? Her manager, [who] was a slender male ... stated yea unfortunately we do. ... and when he finished he glanced at me and said I dont like yall.

That's about as mild as it comes. Maybe worth a talking to from the boss about professionalism, but firing is over the top IMO.
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Hanky_Bannister posted...

has any research been done on diet possibly affecting symptoms?

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD005203.pub2/full
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD005205.pub3/full
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hockeybub89 posted...

Generics can take decades before they're allowed. He's also forgetting that people speak in brand names all the time regardless of what they think of generic equivalents.

I've got to assume this is a regional thing. Doctors and most patients where I live speak and prescribe in generic names almost all the time.

MabusIncarnate posted...

A woman I work with had worn long sleeves year round because her condition was severe and she found no relief from it. She started using something called Emu Oil (Emu Cream?) and had been doing so for a year, it's over the counter and can be ordered easily online, and she said it was life changing for her and it cleared up about 98% of it. She wears short sleeves during the summer now and you really can hardly notice anything on her arms.

Just something I thought i'd toss out there, I know little to nothing about it but it worked very well for her.

Assuming this is for eczema, emu oil is an oil/emoilient just like any other, and should work ok. Like any similar product, the key is applying it very frequently - 4-6x a day ideally. For psoriasis, moisturisers just prevent flaking and cracking, but won't make the plaques go away.

JlM posted...

Sorry. My 'calcipotriene and betamethasone dipropionate foam' is about $1200 per can.

Betamethasone + calcipotriol shouldn't be anywhere near that price tag. A different formulation (ointment or gel rather than foam) should be more like $20-50 for a 60g tube, and has the same concentration of both active ingredients.
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hockeybub89 posted...

Motherfucking insurance companies hate to cover topicals.

I'm assuming you mean biologics, and there's good reason for this - they're damn expensive. Even in places with public coverage there are eligibility criteria that typically require a particular severity of disease after all other alternatives have been tried.
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JlM posted...

Sonic Cannon posted...

The endless stream of brand names in this topic makes me a bit sad. The marketing/advertising is real, I guess.

There are no generics for a shit ton of medications. Advertising has nothing to do with it. You either get it from the source or you don't get it.

Generic name is still preferable though, since it's consistent across different countries and allows the reader to know what drug class it is at a glance.

On topic: Dupilimab dopesn't really appear to justify its enormous price tag. It works vs placebo at least, but there's only been one clinical trial that compares it to any kind of other treatment (topical corticosteroids), which had only 31 participants and was powered only to assess adverse events (not benefit) in the first 29 days of treatment.
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The endless stream of brand names in this topic makes me a bit sad. The marketing/advertising is real, I guess.
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Pitfall for Atari 2600 at my grandparents' house (in the early 90s)
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pres_madagascar posted...

Videos of the trucks rolling it and APCs and shit are being deleted all over major western sites.

Fucking liveleak of all places, is the only one not deleting shit.

These videos were literally on our national evening news tonight. I don't think I buy the censorship argument
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Remember when it was Next-gen Gaming General? Console wars central
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totalnerdken posted...

There will also very likely be a lot more red tape and bureaucratic nonsense.

I strongly doubt this. The flavour of the bureaucracy will be different, but the endless pre-auth requirements, the documentation bloat solely for billing box-ticking, the checking of every individual's specific coverage for different members of the care team, and the arcane black-box billing negotiation system where nobody knows what the real cost of anything is, will all go away.
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Medicare expansion would have huge flow-on effects in terms of downsizing the parasitic medical insurance and billing industries. Healthcare costs would almost certainly drop over the medium term.
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It's on the 6pm news every couple of days here.
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Try less fruit, more vegetables
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Most of the best ones, including basically all of the multiplats, have since been ported to a curren gen system (The Last of Us, Uncharted series, God of War, Ni No Kuni, Kingdom Hearts HD Remix, Heavy Rain)

The remaining ones that come to mind (not poted to PC or current gen) include:
- Demon's Souls
- Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
- Nier (also on 360)
- Jak and Daxter trilogy
- Ratchet and Clank games + HD trilogy (although I prefer the PS4 game)

Also, I would recommend not buying the Batman Arkham games on PS3. They have been remastered for modern systems, and the 360 version was better anyway.
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Alright, I'll give it a go. Now I need to wait to be accepted onto the board.
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AssultTank posted...

If you want to abolish tipping, you need to be prepared for full service restaurant prices to skyrocket and quality of service to drop significantly.

Right now, I usually run 8-10 servers a shift and our PPA(Per Person Average) is about $15. For ease of math, we'll assume 10 servers making $2.23, $8000 in sales, and $1000 in labor dollars total for a day. So we have about 533 customers in that day.

Now for our purposes, we ignore the non-server pay. That won't change. But we are open from 11 to 10. So that is 11 hours at 22.30/hr in labor, or $245.30 total.

Current minimum wage is 7.25, so we will assume that servers get bumped up to that. That means my total amount spent on server pay is now $797.50 (An increase of $552.20). Now this is over a 50% increase in total pay which is now $1552.20

Before, we were running a 12.5% labor. To maintain that, we need to increase sales by $4,417.60 to $12,417.60. Assuming we don't get any more customers than normal, we would need a ticket average of $23.30, or $8.30 more than it currently is, a 55% increase in price. Now we can mitigate this cost increase by cutting staffing levels, however this is limited by minimal staffing levels for service. But it will impact service times and quality.

I should also note, my average server pulls in about $16/hr just in tips... <_< So they would take a massive pay cut...

While this is good perspective, there are 2 important things to consider:

1) Tipping isn't going to disappear overnight just because minimum wage laws no longer make an exception for it. It's unlikely your servers would actually experience a pay cut in reality.
2) The rest of the world manages to staff and operate restaurants just fine without the waitstaff wages being offloaded directly onto customers rather than the employer. Prices don't seem obviously higher either.
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shockthemonkey posted...

Is there anyone more reliable reporting on this?

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I agree with the general premise of the OP
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Gamers Rise Up is one of my least favourite memes lately
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Probably once or twice a month. In summer I drink more frequently (winter here at the moment)
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Workplaces having different break rules for smokers is shitty.

Once you've been off for a couple of months, I'd suggest trying to work your way down off the vape as well, or switching to a nicotine-free one,
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Most of it would go into the investment money pit, or the mortgage offset.
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Honestly, nothing major. We've never yelled at each other. Sometimes if she gets upset she'll avoid me for a little while, like half an hour.

We've been together 11 years
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Verdekal posted...

made my blood sugar get a bit low but I'm not a diabetic.

So you own a glucometer despite not having diabetes?
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Anyone who's trained tbh
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AFAIK YouTube still hasn't broken even. Those operating costs are so damn high.
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