[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This explains so freaking much about how everyone is always terrified of Canadian health care when it works decently well. (Perfect? No!) But so many of their problems in accessing specialists are identical to ours. (Most common argument I hear.)

And it was just so much easier getting on antidepressants and switching up my birth control methods while I was in Canada than if I had tried the same in the US.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I want to test this out. Let's see how it goes. Today I went skiing and I have a pet rabbit.

Holy shit. I expected at least one typo

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

As someone who regularly mispronounces this as rhyming with almonds I feel a little attacked

I also say the following wrong: Ikea, Nutella, idea. Somehow my bilingual brain just gives up.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Nurses deal with criminals, mentally ill, homeless, and people resisting their help for 12 hours a shift on weekdays, weekends, and nights. They don't go crazy on people.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

But beware the nipples.

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Remember to support systems/organizations working to make changes that allow for challengers from outside the main two parties to succeed. (Like ranked choice voting where not voting democratic doesn't mean giving power to Republican or vice versa!)

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Hi all -

I need reassurance that having 60-80k in cash isn't wild if we plan to buy/look at buying a home in the next 2-3 years. We're in a DINK lifestyle in a LCOL area and are easily saving $2k+ towards specifically a down payment per month.

Currently: 8k is in a Vanguard account and has been invested in index funds for about 2-3 years now 10k is in treasury funds 5k is abroad in a high interest account that's locked for about another year from a grandparents inheritance 5k is in a CD making ~5% APY

I'm thinking that as we start building up more I'll be trying to keep opening 3-12 month CDs on a regular basis as long as rates stay at 5%

But I'm super risk tolerant and part of me sees all the cash laying around as a waste when I could add to the Vanguard account with more stocks. Mostly because until now I haven't had a real timeline for buying and it always seemed so far in the future that keeping it in stocks made sense.

Can someone help me think through what I'm giving up with both options? 5% isn't bad for now but I don't think rates are going to stay so high forever either.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun, and you will, coincidentally, die.

<3 from the Welcome to Nightvale NRA

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Noticed right before going to bed that Blossom managed to break off her tooth near the root and it was just hanging horizontally out of her mouth, saber tooth rabbit style. Maybe partially due to the fact that her bottom incisor has been pulled out due to fractures about a month ago and is still regrowing. (Yes, the vet is a little exasperated at us.)

She's not sedated and getting X-rays. Thankfully vet could fit her in because non of the emergency clinics had a rabbit specialist available last night and I decided she didn't look in pain and was able to eat her greens and pellets so I waited 8 hours after noticing (11 hours after it would have happened) to take her in.

... I had checked over the enemy rabbits on the other side of the pen when I realized she'd gotten out of bedroom and had access and didn't think to check her over immediately.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Which is why we need ranked choice voting so we steal power away from this bipartisan system that robs us of our actual choice.

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Hello fellow rabbit people - has anyone else noticed that if they scratch on their bun's lower back that said bun starts grooming? It feels exactly like when a dog's hind paw starts shaking except she turns and grooms her shoulders. It's super strange. She doesn't seem to hate the scratches (above her tail, in a region she's always a little scruffy in because I don't know if she can reach as well back there in her old age). It's just the strangest thing and I don't know if it's a sign of something.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

When California was Republican 😂

The issues and challenges people care most about change with time. Sometimes slowly.

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Is anyone willing to share PE practice materials?

I'd love to have access to the NCEES practice exams (old or new) with the geotechnical focus. I have some school of PE materials and McGraw Hill exams I could share.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Back of my neck! I always have a shower cap on on non shampoo days and I usually miss my neck.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

So I was thinking this same thing until I watched a Kurz Gesagt video on YouTube about the effects of unbalanced populations. They pointed out that by the time our population naturally starts decreasing we'll already be dealing with the worst consequences made worse by an aging population that cares more about maintaining the status quo than the innovation that a younger population would encourage. Grain of salt obviously... But now I'm trying to rethink how I see the issue of maintaining stability for ourselves and descendants while decreasing our strain on the system.

I don't know where I was going with this.

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