My employer insists that only Windows is acceptable, which makes my life in software engineering very difficult. No Mac, no Linux, only WIndows. I had to fight tooth and nail to get anything else and now they are still trying to get me to go back to using Windows because "we don't support" anything else.

Then same was true of forums and IRC

When IRC was entirely people on command line clients that existed on *nix. But that has changed with the ease of use of clients for Windows, and then eventually web clients.

One where 30% of the eligible voters actually vote?

If you are looking for hiking shoes with a zero drop, Altra makes them. Their trail runners and hiking shoes are all zero drop. They also have very wide toe boxes that accommodate wide forefoot. The Superior model are probably the lowest-price offering on that menu.

Altra also uses sex specific lasts (the forms that the shoes are built from) which are differently shaped for male and female feet, and waterproof as well as non-waterproof options, as opposed to many hiking boots which are only available in waterproof varieties.

As if a sovcidiot would get a license in the first place.

Reasonable? That should've been immediate arrest.

Watching some woman lose her mind at Costco because the attendant refused to let her drive the wrong way through the pumps and made her go get in line properly while I was pumping my gas was so wonderful.

I've had difficulties with responding or commenting on posts on federated servers. Comments work just fine if I'm on this instance, but threads on others it just never posts.

And "condescending" is also available to describe this behavior.

Have we, the taxpayers, not already paid billions upon billions to these telcos to do exactly this already?

I don't hate gas stations, but I do hate people who don't know how to pull up to a fucking gas pump without completely cocking it up for everyone else!

Mine pays $9.00 per day. Employers are not required to pay for jury duty leave, only to allow you the leave without firing you.

People are dense. You straight out said this man needs more complete care to ensure that he can be helped because his condition could be more serious than if he were female, and they read "more thorough treatment" as "no treatment" like morons.

CVS MinuteClinic is for super minor stuff. Doctors are for more serious things.

There are different regulations regarding treatment dispensed directly by a pharmacist than those dispensed by a physician. Under 16 would generally have to be seen by an a doctor, often a pediatrician.

I think there is a valid point to be made that there is only so much risk reduction that can be done, and people will then either accept the risk level of the action or not. The thing that is important though is that people know what risk they are accepting.

When I learned to ride a motorcycle the instructor flat out said that motorcycling is not a safe activity. It is inherently risky, and the stakes are very high. Injuries are severe, and you're far more likely to die. You can somewhat lower that risk by wearing proper safety gear and practicing safe riding, but riding a motorcycle is not and will never be safe.

The velocity of a catastrophic implosion like that would exceed Mach 2 (686 m/s). Nerve conduction is about 50-60 m/s. Dead before they knew anything was going wrong.

There is also an out of pocket maximum with regards to that "co pay" or "co insurance". My annual out of pocket maximum for co-pay and co-insurance is $2500.

We call that a "deductible". Mine is $1200. So it's more than yours, but it's not quite the same as having to pay for everything out of pocket.

If I take an unregistered, uncertified, uninsured vehicle to a place that has no roads and I get myself in a huge pickle out there, you can bet your ass I will be billed for the rescue. And probably fined on top of it for fuckin up the environment in the process.

Also as a hiker, I have a satellite comms device in case my ass needs rescued. And I have SAR insurance, because my ass cannot afford the bill.

Every time I would post something on Reddit and get all excited like someone has replied! Someone out there liked this! ... Nope. Automoderator just replying with the rules again.