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  • You are 3x correct, dingdingding! Go have a treat.

  • I am certainly not going to save Instagram, since I never joined. But if you mean it can't be saved, that might be true as well.

    If every female person left Instagram today, what would happen to the misogyny? Would it be starved of fuel or would it escalate and spiral until it explodes in (increased) physical attacks?

    And if the women and girls created their own female-positive space, how long before it was brigaded? Judging by everyTwoX post that ever hit R/All, I'm putting the over/under at 6 hours.

  • He was just exercising his Second Amendment rights! And apparently the right to bear fuel as well. Maybe he just wanted to talk with his hero about the pizzagate evidence he's sure must be in those files someplace. I'm pretty sure we only have the officers' word he brandished the gun.

  • The 2:1 ratio of course just degrades the platform further because there's too few to challenge the misogyny. Like public officials quitting under Trump, you can hardly blame them but it makes the problem worse not better.

  • If you have lingerie marked "hand wash only" you can use a clean sink and a little liquid hand soap if you don't have liquid laundry detergent. Do just a few at a time. Plug the sink, wet the clothes but don't fill the sink. Put a little dab of soap on the crotch and/or pits of the items and rub between your hands, lathering and working the lather into the whole item. Then swish them all in the sink water for a few minutes. Drain the sink and refill it halfway. (A full sink will splash all over the floor when you swish.) Give the clothes some squeezes and swishes to get most of the soap out. Drain and rinse one more time. Remove each item and squeeze out the water, but don't wring them hard like you would a rag. Hang them up where they can drip dry.

    Or get a mesh bag and put them in the washing machine in cold water, gentle cycle. Hang to dry.

  • As a woman, imagining situations like those: I can see the brightly lit center is empty, that's all I need to know about it. The stairs require several glances especially if I'm in heels or other unstable shoes. But those dark corners need checking and rechecking the whole time I'm walking, to be sure no tiny changes betray a lurker. Who is probably going to wait until they're at my back to make a move.

    My mental image of the guys scanning the same image: "Yeah that's where I'm going, that's obviously where I'm looking." Sure, they could get mugged but it's less likely, and physical threat isn't on their mind.

  • Jack didn't die on the Titanic

  • I'm not going to send you my personal info, but it's no secret that anyone with US health first gets a bill with a huge number $$ that's marked THIS IS NOT A BILL, then some weeks later we get another one from the insurance company which shows that number, and then a much smaller number "allowed" by the insurance which then shows as paid by them, then whatever "copay" we might have, usually about $30 with my insurance. Then there's "your responsibility" which is just the copay if the doctor/hospital is in your insurance network. In that situation the provider has to accept what the insurance allows and no more. If they're out of network, you may have to pay the difference between the original bill and what the insurance paid. Which can be a lot, so the first thing you should do is request an itemized bill. This will often be lower to start with, and gives you information to negotiate/contest items. Hospitals will also work with you to make a payment plan at that point.

    In the OP case it was Swiss travel insurance not US health insurance and they finally agreed to pay the NICU bill, good work by the couple's lawyer.

  • She was a woman by the time she was able to report it, but it's very poorly worded.

  • For most US medical bills the number you see and what the insurance company will actually pay (even to completely settle the bill) are entirely different numbers. Although this isn't medical insurance per se. I bet they negotiated it down though.

  • Ingestion of lead ammunition is the primary reason California Condors (obligate carrion eaters) almost became extinct, are still endangered, and aren't having the greatest success with being reintroduced.

    As for bald eagles, they're lazy smart, if they see takeout just sitting there, they're not gonna make dinner from scratch.

  • I think next time I'm going to tell them all about bees! And I could throw in a few facts about chambered nautiluses, too although I don't know enough to center the call about them.

  • I don't know about Canada but I'm in the other CA, and I know UCLA for instance actively partners with (gets a lot of funding from) pharmaceutical companies for their research projects.

    Fred Banting did what was possible, even considered impossible, at the time. Today's question, how come we still haven't discovered a cure? Best we can do is a transplanted pancreas and kidney, if we can find a dead but healthy donor.

  • Nfi, mate

  • Not the whole story but the gist:

    "A couple were told they faced a $200,000 (£146,500) medical bill when their baby was born prematurely in the US, despite them having travel insurance which covered her pregnancy.

    Musicians Issy Ferris, from Cornwall, and Archie Sylvester, from Somerset, who perform as folk duo Ferris & Sylvester, were on tour in Nashville when Issy became unwell with pre-eclampsia.

    Their baby was born in an American hospital seven weeks early, but the couple said Zurich Insurance Group refused to uphold the policy and cover their costs because the baby was not named in the document.

    After a nine month legal battle, Zurich has reversed its decision and told the BBC it was sorry for the stress caused."

    Nine months, that's a familiar number...

  • He probably started the sewage spill into the Potomac so he'd have a place to swim.

  • Patrician Vetinari: "Tax the rat (cobra) farms."

  • When you find it necessary do this, be sure the conversation is also getting bcc'd to a home email

  • Hey does Lemmy have a BabyElephants ?