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Mouselemming

@ Mouselemming @sh.itjust.works

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  • TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states

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  • Most fire stations in the US have at least one person trained as a paramedic/EMT and in many places all of them have at least some medical training. Because in a lot of places fire trucks arrive, there's people who need immediate medical help.

    So they have the basic skills to keep a newborn baby alive until they can get it to a hospital. And if it's older and healthy, they can just play with it and feed it and clean it as needed until Child Services arrives or it grows up and joins the crew.

  • U.S. women’s hockey team will not attend State of the Union after Trump invitation

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  • I agree that the MSM headline says so but even the story goes on to say they were invited to the SOTU. Every story I read comes down to the same. And I have been looking for any images or quotes of the official invitation to confirm one way or the other and haven't found it. I know he called and spoke to the men, and invited THEM to the White House. Then he said he'd be impeached if he didn't bring the women's team too. That's not exactly an invitation to them.

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  • But that's not what he did. He only joked about it.

    Editing to add: I could be wrong, maybe you can find something about a specific invitation for them to visit the White House.

  • U.S. women’s hockey team will not attend State of the Union after Trump invitation

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  • Yes as your links confirm, he invited them TO THE STATE OF THE UNION which is a speech given in the Capitol to Congress and assorted others. Such a situation would put them in audience positions, while he'll be on the podium blarghblarghblarghing.

    I don't see anything about an invitation to meet personally in the White House, which could possibly give them an opportunity to shut out Security and beat some sense into him with assorted tacky gold tchotchkes.

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  • Potus is too weak to be a pussy.

  • U.S. women’s hockey team will not attend State of the Union after Trump invitation

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  • Attending the SOTU address would not have given them (or him) that opportunity. He didn't invite them to the White House. Probably because he's afraid to be alone with them.

  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • My weather is the same but I live on the first floor on a very busy Los Angeles street, so opening the windows lets in too much unfiltered grit and smog. I do step out onto the balcony daily to care for my plants and feed the birds, so some air gets in then.

  • I made a pizza

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  • I'm loving "dow" but as a retired schoolmarm I'm obligated to tell you we spell it "dough"

    And we'd probably call it a "damp" cloth, saving "humid" to describe moist air.

    It's completely readable as is, though.

  • We're just scanning for the bear...

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  • I hope you've started scanning the dark periphery like we do. Not because you deserved anything that happened to you! And I'm not assuming you weren't already. But because I can't do anything to protect you from over here on the Internet and I don't want that to happen to you anymore. It's when we're near home that we tend to let our guard down.

  • US women's hockey team declines Trump's State of the Union invite

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  • "Quick! Book us some college and girl's teams, we'll put on a clinic!"

    (That would actually be a really nice thing)

  • I can't believe it

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  • You are 3x correct, dingdingding! Go have a treat.

  • Gunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’ and big Trump supporter

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  • He was just exercising his Second Amendment rights! And apparently the right to bear fuel as well. Maybe he just wanted to talk with his hero about the pizzagate evidence he's sure must be in those files someplace. I'm pretty sure we only have the officers' word he brandished the gun.

  • We're just scanning for the bear...

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  • As a woman, imagining situations like those: I can see the brightly lit center is empty, that's all I need to know about it. The stairs require several glances especially if I'm in heels or other unstable shoes. But those dark corners need checking and rechecking the whole time I'm walking, to be sure no tiny changes betray a lurker. Who is probably going to wait until they're at my back to make a move.

    My mental image of the guys scanning the same image: "Yeah that's where I'm going, that's obviously where I'm looking." Sure, they could get mugged but it's less likely, and physical threat isn't on their mind.

  • I can't believe it

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  • Jack didn't die on the Titanic

  • Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US

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  • I'm not going to send you my personal info, but it's no secret that anyone with US health first gets a bill with a huge number $$ that's marked THIS IS NOT A BILL, then some weeks later we get another one from the insurance company which shows that number, and then a much smaller number "allowed" by the insurance which then shows as paid by them, then whatever "copay" we might have, usually about $30 with my insurance. Then there's "your responsibility" which is just the copay if the doctor/hospital is in your insurance network. In that situation the provider has to accept what the insurance allows and no more. If they're out of network, you may have to pay the difference between the original bill and what the insurance paid. Which can be a lot, so the first thing you should do is request an itemized bill. This will often be lower to start with, and gives you information to negotiate/contest items. Hospitals will also work with you to make a payment plan at that point.

    In the OP case it was Swiss travel insurance not US health insurance and they finally agreed to pay the NICU bill, good work by the couple's lawyer.

  • Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in US

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  • For most US medical bills the number you see and what the insurance company will actually pay (even to completely settle the bill) are entirely different numbers. Although this isn't medical insurance per se. I bet they negotiated it down though.

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  • Ingestion of lead ammunition is the primary reason California Condors (obligate carrion eaters) almost became extinct, are still endangered, and aren't having the greatest success with being reintroduced.

    As for bald eagles, they're lazy smart, if they see takeout just sitting there, they're not gonna make dinner from scratch.

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  • I think next time I'm going to tell them all about bees! And I could throw in a few facts about chambered nautiluses, too although I don't know enough to center the call about them.

  • This cat knows what it's doing

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  • From the cat's point of view there's no downside!

    So entertaining!