I find it somewhat shocking that the doctors agreed to amputate. You can’t force patients to make good decisions, but amputating a finger because he doesn’t want to wait for it to heal seems to go beyond what’s ethical. If he wasn’t going to be stopped from going regardless I guess you could make an argument it was harm reduction.

I believe they’re represented in the photo by the man in a white shirt in the top right corner who isn’t paying attention to anything. Kind of on the nose, really.

(Which is a somewhat uncharitable interpretation, he could be looking away in disgust or just happen to glance away when the photo was taken)

Seems like the perfect situation for a BTI dunk. It contains a bacteria that will kill mosquito larvae only, and is certified for organic gardening by the EPA.

Yes! And I don’t remember anyone else’s unless it’s someone I really care about.

Therapy and possibly meds have helped me a lot with this, if it’s something you regularly struggle with and you have access to mental health services I’d really encourage you to use them.

Personally my most helpful takeaway was just to be nicer to myself. I’d never talk to another person the way I think of myself when I’m remembering embarrassing stuff, and learning to treat myself with kindness went a long way in making memory torture anxiety spiral events less bad and more infrequent.

Would you accept 10,000 times slower than the speed of light?

I'm not sure what you mean, the Blue Ridge Mountains are included from what I can tell?

This also isn’t a matter of opinion, Appalachia has been defined by Congress as 423 specific counties; you’re either in one of those counties or you aren’t. That said, some of eastern and southern Ohio is considered part of Appalachia, but not the part JD grew up in.

In an email to WyoFile after the meeting, he added that “as a result, how to handle issues surrounding kids that exhibit transgendered behavior has been left in the lap of school boards or, if they fail to act, superintendents, principals, teachers and school counselors.”

🖕Get fucked, the job of the state is not to monitor children for signs of gender nonconformity.

It’s funny how birds you’ve only seen in a guide book can seem like they’re ’supposed to be’ a very different size than they actually are! I always think shore birds are going to be bigger than they actually are. The first time I saw a willet it was enchantingly small.

Are you okay with some of the fine details getting blurred or faded in the long term? Depending on where the tattoo is it can fade before too many years, and it will inevitably have some fading no matter how well you take care of it. The biggest things that will fade a tattoo after it heals are UV exposure and friction.

AI making itself sick and worthless after flooding the internet with trash just gives me a warm glow.

Yeah, my husband and I both guessed early 40s before looking it up. I’m sure some of that is down to money and excellent healthcare access, but damn.

All the prisons listed in the article are state prisons, the prison problem in the US is only somewhat impacted by private prisons; the vast majority of prisoners (>90%) are in state or federally owned facilities. States make and save a shit ton of money through slave labor, they don’t necessarily want or need a business poking their nose in it.

The leaves also look consistent with the tree, but not identical or bleeding into each other. I also vote not artificial intelligence, but manual stupidity.

It’s for a cat, it’s clearly a smelloscope!

The first four movies are all better when viewed as a gay romance saga ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The religious vote that keeps losing in deep red states on abortion?

Khan brings about the circumstances that cause Spock to kill himself to save everyone else.

For my money those charts will look very different after the next debate.

There’s also not a combination of words that’s going to convince me leftists criticizing Dems are going to kill America. Even if Trump gets elected, you are missing every potential lesson if what you take away is “leftists too mean.”