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My son and I play pranks on each other, but we have established rules to keep pranks from becoming malicious:

1. No one can get hurt or think they're going to get hurt.

2. No pretending someone is hurt.

3. If you do it to someone else, expect them to do it back to you.

4. The bathroom is a safe zone.

Our pranks usually consist of us hiding those Halloween "screamers" around the house, ambushing each other in the morning with nerf guns, or putting stickers on someone while they sleep.

Obligatory link to faucet lock.

This is getting to become a specialty of mine; yesterday I was linking to a locked container to prevent fridge bandits.

I wish more states would add a provision like Texas that says all apartments must have a deadbolt that can only be operated from the inside. I really miss the security of knowing that nobody could open my door but me once I’d locked it.

I live in another state now and my only deadbolt is one that can be opened from the outside with a key. My apartment maintenance takes a week or two to address many issues and two weeks is a long time to wonder if today’s the day maintenance is gonna decide to show up while I’m in the shower, or on the toilet, or wandering around in a bra and underwear or whatever. Not to mention that my dog might bite anybody who comes through my door unexpectedly without me, or would at least run at them and bark. I got one of those door jammers pretty quick but it’s annoying to use.

I do kennel my dog when I am not home, but it’s hard to remember to kennel her every time I go to the bathroom

Anorexia ranks #1 deadliest psychiatric killer. Twice that of schizophrenics. Four times that of major depression.

These links are old, but I think the data still applies.

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Psychology Today

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>Histoplasmosis is caused by the spores of a fungus that grows on bat droppings. Rare cases of the more severe disseminated histoplasmosis can be fatal.

I had to google what the F is Graves Disease holy shit that might sounds like being in menopause all your life and pmsing at the same time.

This is like my worst nightmare. I use PlugShare and Open Charge Map to find plugs if/when I need them, and it's been successful so far. Some people offer their home chargers for public use, which has helped me out a lot.

That being said... I really dislike that statement "being that I had no choice." This is the only wall plug in the city? How much in advance did this person know about this business meeting? I don't like the "this is just bad luck" vibe of the OP. This could have been avoided.

Mind, I think the owners are overreacting and need full strength chill pills, asap.

If you really need your fix, might I suggest Understanding Tree Law: A Handbook for Practioners. Its basically the Kama Sutra of Tree Law.

> people get thrown in jail for unpaid fines/fees and other minor violations in 13 states,

So is this a space where we can discuss the excellent book The New Jim Crow because it seems highly relevant.

According to this article there are, worldwide in all of recorded medical history, 13 survivors after showing symptoms, while ~65,000 are killed each year.

65,000 / 7,632,819,325 is ~0.0000085159% of the population.

Using the sum of the world population from 1951, multiplied by the death rate, ~2,850,459 people have died of rabies since 1951.

13 survivors/2,850,459 dead is 0.0000045607 meaning rabies is 99.999544% fatal.

4-5 of every million cases might survive. Still closer to your argument, but the exaggeration still shows the point that it a patient is extremely unlikely to survive once presenting symptoms.

Some notes:

• The death rate will not be constant over the last 67 years due to obvious factors
• Neither will the survivor rate for those same reasons.
• All but 1 of the 13 cases was after 2010
• All 13 cases received treatment other than or in addition to the vaccine.
• All of the survivors have reported severe detrimental effects following the disease.
• My math is correctish but my methodology may not be because I'm not a statistician and its 6am on a Saturday.

Most importantly: Surviving the disease after presenting symptoms without treatment is completely unheard of, meanwhile the PEP - Post Exposure Prophylaxis - rabies treatment is 100% successful if administered promptly.

And yes, we are still arguing semantics.

These, and small cameras alike, have given me near existential anxiety ever since they hit the market a while ago.

How many screws have I encountered over the years were actually cameras? Is my life some Truman Show shit?

I recognize the device from his description as one I used years ago to prank some of my co-workers. That said, my co-workers and I were in the habit of screwing with each others computers, and part of the challenge was figuring out how we had been screwed with and how to fix it. We were all technically inclined, and it was part of our job to diagnose and fix weird problems.

But using it on someone who isn't technically sophisticated is asking for trouble, especially as that kind of device can be easily mistaken as a keylogger, which can be used for illegal activities (e.g. stealing passwords and personal information). Even just saying the device is something he bought online is not going to be a good defense, as anyone could just take the cover from the online prank device and wrap it around an actual keylogger. It would take someone with actual digital forensic skills to determine the difference, and in the meantime LAOP may be in for a legal shitstorm.

Now I know what to give if we ever have BoLA secret santa.

Yo LAOP if you find yourself over here. You need to get those weapons secured ASAP. Even a steel gun locker can be installed in a house with pier and beam foundations. It wont give you the fire protection of a full safe but its better than leaving them out or in travel cases.

Something like this is better than nothing.

https://www.amazon.com/Stack-GCB-910-Compact-Security-Cabinet/dp/B002TOKR3A/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=gun+locker&qid=1577733908&sr=8-4

I suspect he's one of those guys that doesn't think he needs a hunting license since he owns 30 acres.

Joke's gonna be on him when someone on the neighboring lot hears him shooting his shotgun in say August, and then finds a wounded deer on his property.

Also he should have fun figuring out which are the edible plants and which are the look alikes.

I eagerly await his preparations for winter in Wisconsin.

If I were him I'd find a copy of this at his local Goodwill.

I highly recommend these. They fit easily over your shoe or boot and give you added traction on snow and ice.

Helped me to tape a post-it in my mailbox with something like
“please only insert mail for:
Mr. First Last
Mrs. First Last Ms. First Maidenname”.

That worked for a while but I’m guessing we have a new mail person. I also alternate between the vague “not at this address” and “First Last not at this address.” Also have a Grumpy Cat stamp that says “NO” so I’ll sometimes write “..T AT THIS ADDRESS” after it in overly large sharpie - that one stopped a few credit offers.

Good luck!

These also work with no changes to get in trouble over.

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Lock-Security-Adjustable-White/dp/B0002YUX8I/ref=asc_df_B0002YUX8I/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198057875972&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16582281375278193604&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&amp...

>but i have a spinal fusion and can’t do a lot of physical activities without risking ruining the rods in my back

Those are titanium rods, not pretzel rods.

Nanny cams frequently have LEDs, but hidden cameras of the creeper landlord variety frequently don't because the whole point is to be discreet. Someone who lives there is gonna notice it even if it has a window over the LED.

Fun fact: that Amazon listing in the link used to have an example picture of someone installing the thing in a public bathroom.

everyone's worst nightmare: you show up for the big interview and THEN YOUR PANTS BLUESCREEN OH NOOOOOOOOO

(alas that i could only quickly google to find a shirt)

Just FYI, you can buy Arlo systems straight from Amazon (and I'm assuming other places) without going through a cellular provider or contracts.

My parents have this system for their home and it works well for what it is.

Probably best solution is to get a container with a lock on it.

Hopefully troublesome roommate doesn't develop "night safe cracking disorder".

Quick note for readers who live in states where they cannot buy Plan B under 18: Amazon sells it as a Prime offering. There are also generic versions that are cheaper, but may not ship as quickly. https://www.amazon.com/Plan-B-One-Step-1-tablet/dp/B00H2D6WUA/ref=sr_1_3_a_it

A friend of mine actually pulled a sword on a guy who came after him with a baseball bat after a minor fender-bender, but he was on his way to the renfair at the time and it was just part of his costume.

It did the trick anyway. The guy backed off, no cops were called, and now it's just a fun story. This comment should in no way be construed to suggest that carrying a sword in your car is a good idea.

If you want to carry a weapon in your car, make it a six D-cell Maglite, like my cop friend recommended. I call mine 'Big Red'.

I have taken a class over it and we used this book I have a copy of the code now of course, and it is normal book size- like magazine size, and a few inches thick. Also to not the code changes about every 3 years so few people are likely to have read the whole of any particular one

Now we covered mostly some of the key sections of design- occupancy types (so business, residential, whatever), fire rating types, fire escape/ general pathways, stairs and elevators, bathrooms, parking lot size, and designing for disabled users and ADA compliance.

We don't read the code end to end, but we try to have the knowledge base to know when to check the code. I work for a small firm, and have basically learned how to work out when I can confidently work out a code issue and when we need to consult our code expert, who is a retired code enforcer, and can sort things out much more thoroughly than I could ever hope to.

Probably way too much answer lol

Christ, I'm looking at what is most likely the camera used, and it's scary genius. Wifi and everything. It's a creep's wet dream.

I knew cameras were small and everything, but then you forget you can throw in wifi, memory, and a battery into a tiny package as well.

Looks like I'll be examining any chargers I find in bathrooms from now on, and I'm not even female.

iPhones, Galaxy Note 7s, Dell laptops, hoverboards, and so on. Every device with a lithium battery is a fire hazard.

Charging them on a solid surface away from curtains and pillows is probably good enough for usual electronics. If you are building drones or RC models or other stuff with massive batteries, then you can get fire- and explosion-resistant bags designed for battery charging.

I've experienced so much of this as a young woman with chronic illness and pain and it's awful. I'm reading a book called Doing Harm and it's so interesting - about how medicine and tests and everything were based on men, especially white men, and that so much of what we know is just based on the male body because not enough was ever done with women. It's infuriating but fascinating and i think it's a must-read.

Maternal mortality is not the only marker of a healthy pregnancy. Risk of hypertension, preeclampsia, pre term delivery, low birth weight, and post partum depression are all increased for teen mothers. Source: https://www.webmd.com/baby/teen-pregnancy-medical-risks-and-realities (the article is well sourced)

I understand your point and agree largely but even if you buy into the premise of a purely Evo psych perspective (I certainly don't) attraction to teen girls as an adult just doesn't make sense for producing heathy, successful offspring. I wrote a paper about it in college which is why I get a little frustrated with people who can't be bothered to Google. And of course this all ignores the very relevant issues you mentioned like emotional well being and stuff.

I’ve traveled to several countries since 2016 and it’s never been a problem. Some people have asked me my thoughts on Trump, and when I tell them I think he’s a giant fucking moron and an embarrassment to our country, they’re cool. I even sometimes wear this shirt when abroad and get some laughs....and as I sit here in the airport waiting to board my flight to Taipei, I realize I forgot to pack it. Damn.

Shortly before the 2016 election, I was with some friends in a comedy club in London - it was kind of an improv thing, and when I blurted out a suggestion and they heard my accent, one of the comedians said “Are you voting for Trump? Oh wait, of course not, you have a passport!” Which, to a certain extent, is true. A lot of the inbred yokels that still support him probably haven’t been outside their state, much less their country.

What about trial by jury? There's a lot of potential jurors.

Someone is going to need to start on the logistics of this pretty fast.

> if website owners are responsible for all of the content that users post, then it effectively kills any possibility of running a website -- of almost any kind -- at scale.

Frame the problem that way presupposes that "owners running a website" is the only category of solution and thus misses the deeper issue.

The real problem here is the concept of providing these services at scale with a single website and a single owner (i.e., a single point of control) to begin with. Instead, these things need to be built as federated, open protocols instead of proprietary, centralized platforms. It is way too dangerous to have one corporate owner with autocratic control and the ability to censor anything on the platform at whim.

Folks -- especially newer and/or non-technical ones -- have a weird "when all you have is a browser, everything looks like a website" mentality and forget that the Internet was built to facilitate decentralized, and even peer-to-peer, communication. There exist all sorts of protocols, such as USENET, IRC, and bittorrent, that represent a more ethically sound design than handing huge amounts of control to e.g. Facebook or Google and hoping for the best. There are even federated social media protocols now, such as Diaspora to replace Facebook.

I don't think I've ever seen a full, articulated skeleton on Amazon. There is at least one seller that offers individual bones. They've gone up a bit in price since last time I looked.

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Human-Rib-Natural-Bone/dp/B00N1XLZB6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1548450812&sr=8-3&keywords=human+rib+bone

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No, this is not true.

Bully culture is rampant in school aged kids because of peer orientation. 'Peer orientation' is a term coined by psychologist Dr Neufeld to describe the loss of attachment from children and their caregivers, and the new attachment formed when kids are deposited into the school system at an early age. The new attachment is transferred to their peers who are now the ones from whom we learn morals, values, ethics, and what is socially important. Hold On To Your Kids.

Recommendation here for Stephanie Calmenson's excellent book May I Pet Your Dog?:The How-to Guide for Kids Meeting Dogs (and Dogs Meeting Kids). It's a great little picture-book style book by an established author that really lays out the protocol in a way kids and dog-naive parents can understand.

off topic from the scenario itself, but on the topic of tinnitus... just wanted to spread the Good News of MyNoise.net for anyone who hasn't come across it yet. it has a billion noise generators with a ton of settings. a lot of the natural soundscapes are able to be calibrated to be more of a 'white noise,' which can be more pleasant than listening to straight up white noise (though that's there, too!) and there is a generator specifically made with the hope of helping with tinnitus. of course, everyone's mileage will vary lol and it is a pretty weird sound which some people can't stand, but it could be worth a shot to read the instructions in the description and the reviews (which have additional tips and you can see what settings those people used) and see if it makes any difference.

(of course, MyNoise is also great news for anyone who needs to block out noise at work, or needs sound to concentrate, or has anxiety, or just wants to listen to cool soundscapes, too!)

Anyone else remembers this book as a kid?

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https://www.amazon.com/King-Bidgoods-Bathtub-Audrey-Wood/dp/0152054359

The types of child marriage might not be equal, but I’m not sure I’d say it’s illegal in the USA:

>Twenty-five states do not set a minimum age at which a person can get married, and eight more set it at an age lower than 16. Alaska and North Carolina, for example, set the age at 14. In New Hampshire it's 13 for girls, 14 for boys.

>In all of these states, minors who are below a certain age — it varies from state to state — must still get a judge's approval to marry.

>[T]his is hardly a robust protection against the exploitation of children...few states require that the child be appointed his or her own counsel.

>Only two state laws specify that a judge cannot approve a marriage solely because the child's parents have consented. And nine states expressly permit pregnancy as a reason to lower the minimum marriage age...

>What's more, even in states that do officially set the age of marriage at 16 or higher, judges are generally allowed to overrule the limit and let a child marriage go forward.

Source

Ew.

> I learned that the original "patient zero" (the origin of the term!) was exonerated of the label when we found out that HIV had been active in the US since at least the 1960's, and it's estimated that the disease jumped from chimps to humans as early as the 1910's.

You should read The Origins of AIDS, by Dr. Jacques Pepin. It is generally believed that there may have been instances of HIV/AIDS in the US in the mid 1960's, but the vast majority of (and only traceable) infections are likely the result of one individual who got HIV in Haiti and brought it to the US around 1969. There is a case from Norway from 1966, and some well documented cases in the Congo as early as 1959. Genetic studies seem to indicate that the "ancestor" of HIV could date as far back as 1910 though, as you said.

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates!

> “It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all. . . .”

The other shameful part is that those of us who aren't normally like that often get shamed into being more 'manly' - i.e. acting like dicks - around other men. I've always preferred hanging out socially with women because of this.

Just look at any list of demographics by denomination. There are four Lutheran denominations in the US (two big ones). Most countries have one or two. That’s actually decreased recently through mergers. We Lutherans are also in full communion (in other words we can interchange clergy and sacraments) with six other large Protestant groups, so surveys aren’t 100% reliable at depicting the actual separation.

There is one big Catholic Church and a dozen or so splinter groups like SSPV. The goal of both groups is to reunify after discussions. Similarly, the Orthodox Church is a number of autocephalous churches that all consider themselves one big church, so Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox aren’t two denominations.

Meanwhile, in Baptist world, there is roughly one IFB denomination per IFB congregation because they’re so incredibly fissile. Even where more than one cooperates, they wouldn’t even consider their gatherings a denomination, and the higher levels often have no authority over individual churches. It took a century for the Southern Baptist Convention to even call themselves a denomination. Baptists consider this to be a bonus trait called “local autonomy”, but it elevates the denomination count in the US by tens of thousands.

(Edit to add: I have no idea why this is controversial. It is manifestly true.)

(Edit to add 2: Surveys also can't take into account things like Mark Driscoll's former church, which was a single "multi-site church" with simulcast sermons - but the rest of the service run separately - to 15 separate locations in five states. Is that a denomination? WHO KNOWS)

(Edit to add 3: Here's a book about it for Christians.)

The high seas? Are you one of those deviants that are into sea law?

If so...I've got just the thing for you: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: and Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI

Honestly, it kinda makes sense. Nerd social circles tend to be a grab bag of various types of folks who don't really mesh with "normal" people, for all kinds of different reasons. So you get people in the nerd bucket for being shy and awkward getting preyed on by people in the nerd bucket for not understanding empathy, the purpose of social norms, and why wearing weird NSFW anime shirts in public is a bad idea.

In particular, the magical intersection of nerdiness and toxic masculinity leads to guys who couldn't get laid in high school being all hung up on that and unable to move past that stage. They chase after teenage girls not just because that's the only group they can fool into dating them, but in some weird attempt to retroactively correct their shameful virginity.

This is totally different. Flood insurance in the US is not offered privately. It is available through the National Flood Insurance Program. Flood is generally excluded from HO-3 policies, and for fairly good reasons. You can listen to a quick history of it on a recent Planet Money episode.

The people you talked to never had nor were they ever represented that they had flood insurance on their properties, unless they had a policy through the NFIP.

LAOP, conversely, has emails stating that hail and wind damage are covered when they are not. This is significantly different than flooding damage alone. His flooding damage will still have to be covered by the NFIP (or FEMA).

I mean, I read your source but I don't see Angry Feminists here. Rather a lack of resources due to gender biases which prioritize women victims over men victims which led to financial ruin, depression and suicide.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/earl-silverman-suicide/315761/

On a happier note for his legacy, more shelters are opening.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/15/537381161/more-domestic-violence-shelters-for-men-opening

It's possible they have, and LAOP doesn't know it. The problem with client communications is that if you waste your client's time with unnecessary communication, you're not doing other things, but then sometimes if you don't tell them everything, they panic and assume you're not doing anything.

The solution? The Client Mind Reader 3000! The CMR3000 attaches to your client's skull and reads their thoughts about the case directly! Then it sends you an alert to let you know that you need to soothe your client's fears about the case!

Can I recommend to you the book Taking Charge of Adult ADHD? Whenever I have any relief from severe depression, this book is my bible. I can scan in a few important pages for you tomorrow if you want, but honestly if you have any bookstores or libraries nearby with a seating area, definitely seek it out and read as much as you can to see if you can read it comfortably (while medicated).

This thing should be given free of charge to every new parent. It saved our sanity once kiddo #1 started crawling. Kiddo #2 should be crawling soon and it will once again be a lifesaver.

A black woman was recently <em>committed</em> because she was driving a BMW and told the cops it was hers. They thought she must be crazy because clearly no black woman could own a BMW and they had her committed for eight days. So... yeah, a black person driving/owning an expensive car is pretty much a crime apparently.

> Ah yes because drug dogs ~~in training~~ are known for their complete accuracy.

FTFY (link for anyone who's curious)

So I was curious and checked...

Google Credit has reimbursement of $100 (credit) + $69 (deductible removed from credit) = $169.

Check has reimbursement of $59 + $69 = $128

(Amazon has a certified refurb Nexus 5x for $189)[https://www.amazon.com/LG-LG-H791-Factory-Unlocked-Smartphone/dp/B076KTGJPG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1511984235&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Nexus+5].

So they're in the ballpark, generally, though I'm not sure if they're close enough to avoid any potential troubles, were someone to try to take them to court.

The scummier thing is that Google themselves only officially sell the Pixel ($549) and the Pixel 2 ($649), so that $100 credit gets you basically nowhere towards anything useful from Google. That Fi has a very exclusive list of phones that it supports, and the Nexus 5x is both the cheapest and defective out the gate (apparently) doesn't do them any services either.

You can get pricier ones that will heat the water. Like this one, will heat the water, has a seat warmer and and warm air dryer. So basically you could be in a tundra, but your ass will be in a warm tropical oasis.

The cheaper models will just connect to your regular water line (either both the hot and cold line or just the cold) so you'd be SOL. But wouldn't a spray of freezing water up your ol' bumhole be just the pick me up you need to get you going in the morning?

My question then is about reuseable bags. Couldn't it technically be concealment if you use one of these to put your items in before purchase? Or these where it's not apparent what is inside it.

There was I book I read as a child called "if everybody did." Made a huge impact on my world view even when I was young. Should be required reading IMO.

https://www.amazon.com/If-Everybody-Did-Ann-Stover/dp/0890844879/ref=asc_df_0890844879/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=312087669297&amp;hvpos=1o1&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=11627249860805060059&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=...

i'm the worst for tl;dr's and it's been awhile since i read it anyway so i'd be wary to try to summarize haha, but the book is The Gift of Fear, i think it's like ~~$10~~ $6.39, apparently! as an ebook on amazon, though i'm sure it can be found easily on libgen for free as well. Gavin de Becker is a security consultant, came up with the protocol to evaluate threats to Supreme Court Justices and whatnot, so figuring out who's actually dangerous and how to de-escalate a situation is really his Thing. book was very interesting IMO and worth reading :) the stuff about firing a potentially dangerous person is towards the end of the book as far as i remember.

Here’s a well rated one on Amazon for $55. I rigged a cup holder onto my mother-in-law’s.

Edit: here - Healthcare Direct 100RA Steel Rollator Walker with 350 lb. Weight Capacity, Burgundy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KA92SJ6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_6dx1AbF6YFHGP

Thanks

We have some of these little hinge locks that we use for childproofing. They won't stop a criminal trying to get in, but they'd stop apartment tourists fairly easily.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001LR1YA6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_ZAX84PASNV71EGZ4AFDQ

You can also get hummingbird feeders that wasps/bugs cannot feed from. We used to have problems with wasps chasing away the birds until we switched to these.

If it wasn't locked I would have pointed out that the satanic temple is a BAD idea for precisely this reason.

Also, can people stop calling them Satanists or calling them Church of Satan? It's getting annoying, as they're neither: https://steemit.com/religion/@garethnelsonuk/the-devil-you-say-a-real-satanist-commenting-on-the-satanic-temple

Is it just a onsie though? I feel like they might allow someone wearing a onsie through.

For some reason I am imagining thisinstead of this (but adult size)

Someone recently did this with a couple thousand counterfeit Yeti Rambler Tumblers. The reviews are rife with evidence of fake products.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073WJX9ZV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ZG6hCbGMJ59HH

Hey, I'm not the one who named it. They had to change their name because Reddit doesn't allow 3rd party apps to use Reddit in their name.

How to catch small game (cats, squirrels, raccoons)

How to catch moles alive

Most of what she has is probably scavenged roadkill.

Here's hoping the best case scenario is that she has an interest in taxidermy, and her parents sign her up for classes.

well the easy fix would be to offer to put something like this in the living room. LL can get updates to the humidity level and see it's fine.

https://www.amazon.com/pp-Code-Temperature-Humidity-monitor-party-detect/dp/B01MV415MP/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_421_tr_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=Y04H35Z549VJ6BC5944B

I noticed LAOP focused on airflow and not overall humidity. High humidity can still damage a house even if you have a breeze. I suspect it's humid as fuck as LAOP didn't even try to argue that.

These days hidden cameras are small enough and cheap enough to be in anything. It's crazy how you can get what would have been NSA-grade twenty years ago from the internet for $45 today.

Hell, here's an audio bug hidden in the USB cable itself: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Audio-Listening-Micro-Charge/dp/B074CDV28H

You explained fine, you just dont read, because you just repeated the same point I already addressed.

> provides nothing additional of value to the land or building itself,

Irrelevant. A service is provided by allowing you ..the renter to stay there. That's the service.. that's what you are paying for.

• Doesnt matter how the landlord got the land.
• Doesnt matter if payment provides benefit to the land or building
• Doesnt matter how much the landlord ultimately gets from the transaction.

You get to the live there, for money. Thats a service.

>service

>noun ​

> business activity that involves doing things for customers rather than producing goods, or a single act of doing something for a customer

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/service

Restraints in nearly all cases are inhumane and unnecessary with proper precautions. A sealed room without a balcony for an unrestrained patient is perfectly safe for everyone involved. If you’re curious about this issue, there’s been an entire book written about the issue of restraints and forced treatment.

Good for you turning it around with your kid.

My parents weren't young parents. I never got pregnant or have had kids (now 33). But they did some how give me a book about Getting your parents off your back and on your side.

Because the B average student (me- if not obvious) who never touched drugs or partied really needed that. Meanwhile my siblings were A+ students and partied hard. One started drinking at the age of 12, which was blamed on me when they found the empty alcohol bottles (to add that specific sibling isn't an alcoholic).

I just in general was the black sheep/scapegoat of the family. I still have no idea why.

https://smile.amazon.com/DuPont-Disposable-Protective-Coverall-Respirator-Fit/dp/B00821JGDQ/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=tyvek+hazmat+suit&amp;qid=1561233928&amp;s=gateway&amp;sa-no-redirect=1&amp;sr=8-3

Put him in one of these, every single day, with a respirator.

Heres a story about pot. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marijuana-dui_n_4520129 They are probably going as much off a failed field sobriety test backed up with proof of drugs in her system as anything. Doctors generally dont get to decide what level of intoxication is too much to drive when handing out meds especially after she willingly failed the sobriety test and I'm not reading that thing again to figure out what state shes in.

Cheaper in the US! U-S-A! U-S-A!

Though you should really go big or go home.

It was in a locked container only the owner had access to. The OP said they took a case they thought contained the firearm, they never actually explicitly said they saw the handgun, since it was in a locked container they couldn't access. I think it's probably a safe assumption that they tried to open it and verify the contents, but couldn't, so just took the case. The post never mentions ammunition, so we don't know if it was stored in a separate case the OP didn't take, or if the locked hard shell case was large enough to contain it.

Nobody is going to have a proper gun safe in a college campus room, mate. We don't know what the contract says is an acceptable safe for storage, but if something like this would suffice, then a locked hard shell case isn't too far from it.

>Years ago I met a woman online. We became friends. I developed feelings for her over time. We started an online and long distance relationship. We never met face to face. Our relationship was however real. She helped me through university by giving me money, helping me pay my bills and buying me what I needed. She was a very generous and helpful woman. We skyped and exchanged photos, I know what she looks like. We wanted to get married in about a year after meeting. Recently, I learned that she lied to me about many aspects of her life. She is married, and doesn't live where she told me she lived. She lied about her job. She invented a life she never had. Problems she never had. Travels that never happened. Please note that I never gave her money or bought anything to her. She gave me money and bought me gifts on Amazon and had them delivered to my house. Two friends of hers pretended to be someone they're not as well to help my ex-girlfriend lie. I also lied to her about some aspects of my life, I dated girls while being with her. I demanded for money I didn't need. But she lied to me about a lot more. What legal actions can I take against her?

There's still a chance he's a troll. But I'd like to pretend he's not.

Edit: Archive as of a few moments after I posted this.

Nom nom nom

> who likes getting casts as though they’d broken a bone and then parading around in them for attention.

I think you're talking about Munchausen Syndrome. And yes those people are "fucked up", it's a mental illness. What's worse is Munchausen Syndrom by Proxy, which is where a person will take someone who is dependent on them and is constantly sure that person is sick, they will even sometimes take steps to make that person sick so that they can get them treatment and get the sympathy and all that goes along with it.

I suppose a judgemental response which emphasised the serious legal implications would frighten this "friend" off from seeking help.

Unfortuantely the (justified) strong emotional reaction to paedophilia, and the threat of serious consequences (legal, societal, and possible vigilante) can prevent people from seeking help before they start acting on their fantasies. They might even be worried that admitting paedophilic fantasies to a therapist might mean the therapist tells the police.

Sometimes fantasies are just fantasies, and understanding them and talking it through with a specialist can help strip away the power of the fantasies. Sometimes it's OCD: Intrusive thoughts can include paedophilic thoughts as well as violent thoughts, which a person would never act on. Or it may be a way to deal with insecurities surrounding sex.

Even that "loli" fetish (See: animé pics of very young looking girls in teeny skirts) is based on the fear of being judged as sexually unsatisfying, or the fear of ending up with a tired old woman who's sick of your shit, and so on. Addressing these issues in therapy can help. If anyone reading has any sort of sexual fantasies they're embarassed or afraid of, I'd recommend you read the book Arousal by Michael Bader.

If it pops us again, you can do the maneuvers yourself. First you have to figure out which ear. Lie on the bed with a pillow under your shoulders. Turn your head first to the right then the left. Wait 1 minute each time. The side where the dizziness sticks is the one affected. After that:

https://www.webmd.com/brain/home-remedies-vertigo

I love a Boswell Spot Bot. They are great!

Edit: I just went on Amazon and typed “car cleaner interior stain” and this came up. It has a lot of purchases and good reviews.

I really think you should take this guy to small claims court.

That’s a fun idea! I’ve seen coasters that are like slices of a CT, and stacked they make the full image, ( these! ), that would be a fun thing to do if you could get your hands on those images! (They’re yours after all, you deserve to have them!)

Maybe I’m biased because I’m a nurse, but showing staff a cool xray or scan or whatever could be used as a teaching tool (still could be a HIPAA violation if they’re not directly involved in that patient’s care), but showing them to people just to show them, I’d still want to see but I recognize how illegal and not cool it is.

I believe it can be useful in the context of measuring arousal for studies for researchers looking into human sexuality. See also: the vaginal photoplethysmograph. But the researchers take the results with a grain of salt because they know that physical arousal and how aroused/interested a person actually feels are not always correlated.

For a highly entertaining and yet very informative look at the world of sex research I recommend Bonk by Mary Roach.

You have no idea how true that is. A couple years back, our friends gave kiddo #1 this for christmas. We call it the concussionator, because if you're sleepy, distracted, or otherwise not paying attention, he has a tendency to pick it up and crack you in the skull with it. It hurts like a mofo, too.

EDIT: The amazon reviews on that thing are hilarious.

> You are basically giving your child a miniature of Thor's hammer. Not a hollow plastic hammer, mind you. No, no. This is a toddler weapon the great god of thunder would approve of. Two solid wooden pieces held together very well. The head of the hammer is sculpted to allow attacks from many interesting angles. Great for the toy. Not so great if your little one might decide to go "a-viking" during a playgroup, family get-together, or school function.

> Like the mighty Mjolner, this hammer throws well, flies fast and far, and can kill the mightiest of trolls. Or televisions. Or PC's. Or Grandma.

> So . . . the only reason I take a star off is because of the deadly weapon that comes with this awesome toy. Maybe it should have been fastened by a cable to the toy, Melissa & Doug? It's not cool that parents have to do this thinking for you. But we love Grandma. Having our toddler turned Thor send her to the hospital is not our idea of fun.

> If your child is meek and kind and dependably non-violent, go for it. GREAT TOY! If your little one may just be a conqueror of lands reincarnated into this tiny body, please beware the hammer!

Depends on what you refer to pellet guns. I refer to pellet guns as guns that are just a step above BB guns. I call guns that shoot pellets at the speeds you're referring to as air rifles. There are plenty of different style pellet guns. Air rifles are the ones going that fast. For example this style could kill a dog with the right shot.

Then you have this style, which shoots both pellet and BBs, which depends are where you're from is referred to as a pellet gun.

The reason why I assumed he was referring to the second kind (the pump kind) is because from the people I've heard about shooting dogs that are in their yard, are using those air pump pellet guns that do not reach fast speeds at all.

One of the ten jails at Rikers is a women's facility, the Rose M Singer Center. It should not shock anyone to learn the conditions are horrible: https://theintercept.com/2015/05/29/death-rikers-womens-jail/

Commentary where three very funny guys make fun of TERRIBLE movies (usually terrible, anyway).

There are some available on Amazon Prime right now -

Samurai Cop is fucking amazing

There's a bunch more too - "Stone Cold" is on prime and great. Cyber Tracker, R.O.T.O.R., Abraxas, etc. are great.

These aren't free w/ Prime, but The Guy from Harlem is hilarious, and Future Force is prime David Carradine schlock.

i see. is there ever a time when they are both out of the house at the same time? if so, he can leave then. he is a grown man and unless they are physically imprisoning him, he can leave. he could call a taxi. you could call a taxi for him long distance.

What about the jobcorps idea? Do you think it would work for him? It can be a really, really good situation. I'm not kidding - you live for free, you are given a small income, you are trained, it is literally all included down to the food you eat. You pay nothing for it.

One other thing - I am slowly getting the impression that the barrier of the medication is one of finances only. Is that the case? When you say his mother is financially supporting his medication - does this mean just that she has insurance and he is on the insurance? or is this like a situation where he could get the medication if he went in to an urgent care clinic? (that someone would write him a prescription?) so for example, if you were financially independent, and he were living with you (not advocating this just asking), would you guys be able to obtain his medication? (or is it a situation where, you need to see a specialist to get a diagnosis, etc., in order to even get the medication)

One other thing is - has he checked out ACA plans? I will be honest I am on one right now and I get a very nice subsidy, as I was going through a time of unemployment. It is incredible insurance and I pay almost nothing. However i know those are implemented differently based on which state and it might be a lot different in your state. It is open enrollment right now which is good https://www.healthcare.gov/ OP what state is your SO in - there might be some particular strategies based on that. Because again it seems the main problem here, that he perceives, is lack of access to medication. But there could be simple ways to resolve this based on what state he is in.

> she has the ability to see everything he browses without touching his computer

This is mostly false now, fortunately, depending on what you mean by "everything."

She would be able to tell most domains he accesses, but not more (i.e. not about specific). So she'd be able to tell he was going to pornhub or whatever, but not what subreddits he goes to, what images are being loaded on imgur, etc.

This is, of course, thanks to https and the push to use it everywhere. If you get the HTTPS Everywhere, that'll reduce even further the chance for a mistake.

Have you ever tried this style? cos I can't wear normal ear buds either - they're all too big and very painful - but these ones barely go down the ear at all and they work just fine, on the smallest tips.

are you kidding?

https://sids.org/what-is-sidssuid/sids-accidental-suffocation/
> In most cases of sleep-related infant death, it is impossible to make a definitive classification of SIDS vs. accidental suffocation. Autopsy findings are similar and death scenes often reveal possible asphyxiating conditions, such as prone sleep or co-bedding, without clear evidence of airway obstruction.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sudden-infant-death-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20352800

Birth defect, infection, low weight, cosleeping, stomach sleeping, overheating....

> I don't need to know genetics to know that their whole process is full of shit. They did sample tests with relatively known lineages, and that's their base. Then they compare you to those, and similar traits/genetic markers are then associated with "regions".

Well, I don't know what can be said for each of the companies out there, but with 23andMe their data analysis is done based on DNA segments, assigning each one to a particular population group, with associated certainties; their SVM has a high precision and recall rate for most of the regions used. For my own data, it has been spot on in every instance that I've been able to compare using a conventional genealogical paper trail.

The thing is that they aren't just looking at (1) a few particular markers or (2) markers in isolation. They're looking at SNPs in particular which have a minimum 1% variance. Currently they sample 630,132 SNPs in the autosome. So that small variance quickly adds up to a unique and identifiable fingerprint when you sample a few hundred. It is unique enough that can be associated with a given ethnic profile according to the SVM's training.

As with anything, this is not perfect, but the results which it does give are not "full of shit". There are caveats, but it can be both highly accurate and very useful as a guide.

I found this on amazon...those must be big pickles. There are also kosher pickles which are way cheaper.

The Apollo rockets used kerosene and liquid oxygen for their first (and largest) stage. The later stages used hydrogen and oxygen, instead.

Collecting and compressing large amounts of hydrogen is unbelievably dangerous, and liquid oxygen isn't far behind - but neither is exactly rare. Kerosene is an article of commerce, and while you'd want to control purity fairly carefully for rocket fuel, which costs, it's more that you need a staggering amount of it than that the fuel itself is unusually expensive.

Interestingly, one of the best books ever written on this subject, Ignition!, is back in print. I highly recommend it if you have any interest in rocketry whatsoever: it covers fuel development, spanning most of the period from the late 19th century all the way up to the Cold War. Clark's style is also eminently quotable:

> [Chlorine trifluoride] is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

On the topic of the government taking legal action against animals, I submit the story of Pep. The black lab sentenced to prison for (allegedly) killing a Governor's cat.

My guess is this group that NPR highlighted a few years back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apostolic_Reformation

https://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare

Something like this would work at the gym and be snug enough to perform complex exercises without falling off.

Here is the book I read that finally made me resign myself to the evolution of 'literally': Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)

Edited to add: And a related article I was trying to find the link to!

But there is choking and CHOKING. Usually if the guy is couching, somewhat strongly, the best course of action is to cough it out. Unless he was seriously struggling to breath (not just coughing and gagging) this very well may overstep the mark. https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-choking/basics/art-20056637

For example, if I'm sleeping on a bench and someone sees me I may look like a junkie passed out, but would be pissed if they woke me up by injecting me with Narcan without trying to wake me, the "Squeeze my hands",sternum rub, etc.

For $25 I'd be using one of these.

Just sits under the door handle and braces against the floor, preventing the door being opened. Totally non-destructive.

Tell the landlord I'm barring the door because their realtors keep walking in without knocking. And that their realtors have been showing up at all sorts of hours so I will only be answering the door during the window they provide me notice for. That I'm sorry but I work from home and have to schedule meetings around these visits and can't have random people barging in at random times as it's interfering with my work. (True? Who cares. It's defensible in a hearing.)

Then just... leave the door bar in place whenever I'm home and only answer knocks during the timeframe they've provided notice for.

Someone will probably figure it out pretty quick, but it's no longer my problem.

We use a combination of this one for doggie bed wetting and this one for dust mites, with a regular sheet over top. I was surprised, but the bed wetting sheet doesn't sound like plastic.