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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.

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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"?

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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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?

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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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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

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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.

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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.

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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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I’ve been to places far more remote than that camp and we had WiFi and cell service It’s not the 1990s

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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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No cell service there anyway. It wouldn’t have mattered.

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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.

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.

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Yes, its edible...mostly the meat is donated to charity, and the fish is measured and then mounted

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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 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