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ETA: At this time I was paying $900/month for insurance that had an individual deductible of $2000 and $3000 as a family, I believe.


I haven't looked at my medical insurance in awhile, but what was your maximum out of pocket? Did your pregnancy not hit that? Your out of network maximum was higher than your pregnancy/ delivery/ hospital bill being in network?

ETA: I'd be curious what an "in network" bill would be? Any idea? Your issue here is that it was out of network. But what would your cost/ coverage have been for "in network"?

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Paul Eells cheese dip.


Never heard the velvetta and rotel dip called that, nor ever heard or seen someone add whipping cream to it. That sounds incredibly creamy…lol. Never felt the need but I guess yolo.

ETA: my tailgate menu depends on kick off. I’ll do overnight bbq like pulled pork for afternoon games as I prefer to concentrate on not cooking during game day. I’ve to grill for night games. Early kick off is usually brunch.
There’s countless stories of 3 legged deer and deer living with massive gunshot and broadhead injuries.

As said I bet it’s a vehicle injury and he may not recover completely physically, but looking at the cut off pic in the OP it looks damn healthy body weight wise to me. Doesn’t look abnormally skinny or anything. Probably just used to being in a suburban area around people either way and the injury makes it a little less mobile.
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It’s not the LPGA fault, but there a TON of players that can’t speak English and that limits the “connection” fans can have with them. The players that can speak English seem very nice and approachable


This shocks me, I’m clueless. But golf is a rich person sport outside of the USA (annd inside frankly) and not a lot of rich people don’t speak English now a days.
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Which is more likely? Someone turned off 2 switches then turned them back on and the engines started reigniting or that 2 switches suddenly went bad then fixed themselves?


Exactly. One engine was reignited and one attempted to.

I don’t think it was even suicide, it’s just an odd way to go. I think it’s more hungover, sick, feeling like shite, or just simply incompetent. It’s not like they were going fast enough to even 100% guarantee death, 1 fricking dude survived.
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Not saying it disproves your statement. I actually agree. The people that don’t necessarily agree, in practice, are mlb execs.


While winning is good, execs also want to sell tickets, beer, and hotdogs. You sell those by getting people to the park, you get people to the park by hitting dingers. It is what it is.
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All Sabrmetrics is saying is OBP (on base percentage) is more important than batting avg not that lower ba leads to more runs. A player hitting.250 with a .400 OBP is more valuable than one hitting .300 with a .350 OBP


I agree with this 100%. Where I don’t agree with is that IMO batting average is down because people are going for power and not getting on base.

Players are paid because their slugging and OBP is up, I agree. But you can have a high batting avg and a high OBP. They are combined, not working against each other.

What’s being taught is basically to sit on pitches until you have one to hit out of the park. Instead of sitting on pitches ( walking) to get a pitch to get on base.

Everyone has always and will always love the long ball.

But not everyone is an elite hitter and you don’t need 9 elite hitters to win a championship. I just think it’s sad how low BAs are.
All else being equal, I understand slugging is preferred. But there’s a lot of bad teams in the MLB, I’m not convinced someone couldn’t go back to concentrating on walks and getting on base to field a playoff caliber team with small ball guys.

re: Explain BRICS to me

Posted by baldona on 7/13/25 at 8:34 am
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BRICS is just a hedge against sanctions. They know it’s unlikely to push off the dollar from its status. USA is still the world’s daddy.


In order for the dollar to be pushed off, something else has to be more trusted. That was a big reason for the euro. If the euro can’t do it, what else options are out there? Even the Chinese don’t trust the Yen.
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dirty sock syndrome is mold and bacteria growing on the evaporator coil... have it treated before you go making huge changes


Evaporator coils are fairly easy to clean DIY. Just get coil cleaning brush and be gentle, and some coil cleaning solution.

If the humidity was 84% that definitely very high and likely a mold growing situation.

People freak and pay tons of money for killing mold. Remove the proper environment for growth and it will die and be fine over time. Clean it up where you can.
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I’ve been to places far more remote than that camp and we had WiFi and cell service It’s not the 1990s


Yep. Wasn’t it Obama that put something like billions of dollars into rural fiber internet installation?

Internet and cell towers go down. But can weather radio stations not go down also?

Connecting phones to Internet that’s either satellite, fiber, etc seems like the main solution. Again, people were at home in bed. It’s one thing to not be able to prevent a search and rescue effort in remote areas. But some sort of notification of people at home in bed, imo starts with WiFi and cell towers.

There’s only so much the government can do. I liken this to the parable of the drowning man, where God sends 3 attempts to rescue a man but he kept praying expecting God to stop the flooding. At some point, people have to take some individual responsibility to be self sufficient.
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We’ve seen lack of action due to holidays before. I wonder, had it been a regular weekday, if there would have been someone watching the river.


I thought there was 5 weather staff working when there is normally 2, due to the high chance of flooding?

I really don’t know this area, but it looks pretty rural. All these talks about sirens, where are you putting them in a rural river canyon? The canyon very possibly muffles the sound.

To me, the main answer is for large camps they should have had a night watch anytime there was rain. For individual homes some sort of weather radio or cell signal. Again how many of them have Internet at home? You start there Imo.
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No cell service there anyway. It wouldn’t have mattered.


What about Internet? Very normal to use WiFi to with a cell phone. This is common in a lot of rural and rugged areas for phone calls.
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Something that may be considered is the speed needed to restart an engine if the APU was shut down, which is typically done after engine start on the ground. The minimum windmilling speed of the A350 is typically over 250kts, altitude dependent. If not mistaken Air India didn't get above 180kts.


The report says one engine did restart and the other was attempting to, but didn’t have enough time.

Sure the pilots were busy, but i still can’t see how there was no communication at all the fuel was turned back on. The only logical reason, would be that the person that turned them off turned it back on without saying anything either way.
When I lived in Hawaii we had tsunami sirens. I can tell you we didn’t pay much attention to them. Now if they went off continuously for 10 mins or 30 mins that’s probably a different story.

At some point there’s only so much you can do.
I haven’t read every post, but only 20 or so of the 100+ deaths were at the camp. Most of this thread focuses on the camp, for good reasons, but it’s not like it was an isolated incident.

The sad reality is the flood warnings were issued later at night and this happened from 4-6am. If it had happened at 4-6pm we likely have 20% or less of the deaths.

The camps are in the flood plain because they are summer camps based on water and that’s next to the swimming areas. I’m shocked they didn’t have anyone stay up, could have split it into shifts fairly easily with 900 campers that’s a lot of staff.

But the bigger issue is that 75% or more of the deaths and missing were normal folks at home living their life.
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Yes, its edible...mostly the meat is donated to charity, and the fish is measured and then mounted


It’s been a long time but I remember Marlin being served in restaurants in Hawaii.

What is the mercury content compared to swordfish?
The fuel was turned back on but there’s no mention of it in the voice recordings, that seems odd?
The chances of it happening at take off when pilots are very active compared to the other 95% of the time? Seems glaringly like pilot error whether they meant to or not