Last week I learned one of my cats (my first feline buddy) has cancer. He’s 14, so we are going to keep him as comfortable as we can until he’s in too much pain.

Why even work with private equity then?

Why is it so hard for a group of doctors to set up their own practice?

And they’ll write on their notes they had a conversation with you about _____ because they uttered the correct incantation.

A few weeks ago, for the first time in my life, they got to my appointment EARLY. And not just 30 seconds early. I’m talking 20 minutes. I was flabbergasted.

Sounds like you’re not married to a psychopath. Congratulations!

Mr. Rogers died 23 years ago, unfortunately.

phones should charge wirelessly while they’re in my pocket or being held.

As a gimp myself, I agree that being offended is pretty far-fetched. But I can definitely envision a scenario in which someone would rather not be reminded of that word every time they open their image editor. Disability is traumatic and people can be absolutely horrible.

If you made this rule, poverty would literally be solved by tomorrow.

this is why I always try to schedule doctor appointments for 1 or 2 pm

Where are people getting that this is a rebrand?

It’s just an environment variable you can set that changes the name if it offends you.

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As time marches on, it only gets harder to make a unique plot, does it not?

Thanks for reminding me about this – such an astounding work of art.

where are you getting these numbers… from what I can see, the global average was 23% in 2000 and 34% today.

I was always partial to Miranda, Uranus’ closest moon. Despite having a diameter of only 470km, it features the tallest cliff in the solar system at 20km high!

Because Uranus “rolls” around the sun like a bowling ball instead of spinning like the other planets, Miranda revolves perpendicular to most other moons in the solar system. This causes some pretty crazy seasons: they last more than 20 years, often with the sun visible (or not) the entire time.

Also, a 2023 study found that there’s a good chance Miranda has a subsurface water ocean!

I’m shocked by how well the US does compared to other countries. I would have thought that it is very easy to be a conspiracy theorist when your country has death panels in the form of health insurance companies denying treatments.

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Sometimes I wonder if people see numbers like 45% and think “OMG, 45% chance!” instead of “small number * 1.45 = another small number.”

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