Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse,"

So apparently you can't get pregnant when you're raped. That's great to know /s

Here's a before pic

Stardew Valley and Terraria may both fit your list, although Terraria stresses me out a bit.

For the people with no desire to click:

Votes for:

• Baxley
• Boyd
• Brodeur
• Broxson
• Burgess
• Burton
• DiCeglie
• Garcia
• Hooper
• Hutson
• Rodriguez
• Simon
• Yarborough
• Perry, VICE CHAIR
• Mayfield, CHAIR

Votes against:

• Book
• Jones
• Osgood
• Rouson
• Torres

If they even would have charged him. They took my abuser to dinner instead.

Capitalism

Can Maury reveal it as well?? I would actually watch it then!

I overheard my relatives today saying how dare they convict him of anything when our corrupt president hasn't been charged with anything.

I really wanted to remind them that before they sold their soul to Trump they wanted every politician to be arrested and tried. Suddenly a politician is tried and they have second thoughts...

Ok but can we talk about that cookies popup? Yikes

I was very surprised by this part of the article:

Trump made careful effort not to mention or criticize the jury in a press conference on Friday morning.

Jokes on you, i already wasn't getting an inheritance

You may have heard about "Obamacare" or the "Affordable Care Act". This did a lot of things which helped some but also did not do much.

For example, insurance premiums can cost hundreds of dollars per month, but if you get subsidies you can reduce that cost down to, potentially, zero. Unfortunately these subsidies are in the form of tax credits, which means if you don't work you do not get any subsidies.

Additionally, if you happen to live in a red state, then your state probably didn't expand Medicaid. Medicaid is the government insurance for poor people. If your state didn't expand it, then your state only gives Medicaid to families and disabled people (basically). So if you don't have kids, you don't qualify for it.

For me, this means that when I stopped working and got insurance through the ACA, I had to pay $500 per month in health insurance premiums (dental and vision are separate insurance plans and not typically covered in standard health insurance). Did I mention this was while I wasn't working?

With that $500 per month, I still had a $900 deductible (so I had to pay $900 before the insurance company would pay anything). After that $900, my insurance company paid different rates depending on the service (often called coinsurance). A common percentage is 80/20, which means insurance will pay 80% and you will pay 20%. So hospital bills tend to be thousands of dollars. BUT insurance plans also have what's called an "out of pocket max" which means your insurance will cover services at 100%. So any medical things you do after that magic number are basically free for you (you still have to pay the premium).

Ok, but you might have also heard that elderly folks have their own government insurance - called Medicare. Medicare is also available for disabled people like me.

Medicare is confusing AF. It has multiple parts to it - I will only talk about what's called "traditional Medicare", which basically means everything is between you and the government (There's other Medicare plans through private insurance companies, and those plans are similar to what I described above).

So with traditional Medicare there's Part A (hospital), Part B (basically outpatient services), and Part D (prescriptions). Part A is free for most people, part B currently costs about $75 per month, and part D varies but is much like the private insurance above. If you only have part A, then only hospital visits will be covered. If you only have A and B, then none of your medications will be covered! It sucks.

So remember how I said about the deductibles and coinsurance? So Medicare has their deductibles and coinsurance separate for each part! For my part A, if I go to the hospital, it comes out to about $1300 per DAY, but only for short hospital stays. Oh and that's only for room and board. Longer hospital stays have different rates. Also, if you stay in the hospital too long, it starts going against your lifetime hospital days. That's right, if you use up all your lifetime hospital days, then Medicare will just...not cover your hospitalization anymore. Ever. For the rest of your life!

And don't forget you still have to pay extra for any imaging, medications, and doctor visits you had while in the hospital because the daily rate is basically for the bed.

Part B is a straight 80/20 coinsurance. But part B also doesn't have an out of pocket maximum. So if you have a lot of outpatient procedures, then you will end up paying out the nose for it. Currently I basically just end up paying around $30 for each doctor's appointment (not including lab work or any procedures).

Part D depends on what plan you get. Mine was basically 80/20, which means I was going to have to pay outrageous amounts for medications! I'm on like 25 medications and it was going to be hundreds of dollars each month just for the prescriptions. Luckily, we have programs like GoodRx! Which is basically a coupon but for medications. Unfortunately, you can't use insurance if you use GoodRx. Also, the pharmacy won't usually automatically compare the prices to see which method would come out cheaper for the patient. Oh, also, each pharmacy has a different price for the same medication! I'm not even talking a few dollars. Some medications can be hundreds of dollars different in pricing depending on which pharmacy you go to! And it's not consistent either. So basically if you're on Medicare you get to go on GoodRx every month for each prescription and see where you can get it the cheapest at and then either ask your doc to send it there or try to get it transferred. Imagine doing that with 25 prescriptions every single month!

Luckily for me, I qualify for what's called "Extra Help." This program pays for my Part B premium ($75) as well as part of my part D premium (it was about $100 but with the help it's down to $75). They also bring all my prescription costs to $1.55 per medication per month. Unless it's a brand name medication.... 😬

If you're following, when I had private insurance I was paying $500 per month in premiums alone, plus about $50-100 per month in doctor's visits, plus about $50-100 per month in prescriptions until I met my out of pocket maximum. Then just the premium.

Nowadays, I have Medicare + Extra Help. So I pay $75 per month for my prescription premiums, plus currently about $200/month in doctor's visits, plus about $50/month in prescriptions. So it comes out cheaper currently but if I have to go to the hospital again....well, I'm fucked.

By the way, most insurance plans do not have out of network coverage...so if you go somewhere that doesn't have a contract with your insurance company then you will probably have to foot the bill. And a lot of the charity programs that hospitals and doctors have won't let you apply if you have insurance soooooooooooo....

A few years ago, I went to a treatment center for a few months. My total bill was almost $200,000. My personal portion was supposed to be around $15,000. Did I mention I wasn't working? Right. Luckily the treatment center enjoys the tax benefits they get when they write off people's bills, because they wrote mine off. I still had to file for bankruptcy though, because that wasn't my only medical bill.

PS insurance is often provided by your job here so if you lose your job you, at maximum, have until the end of the month with your insurance :) so don't quit your job at the end of the month ;) there is a thing called COBRA which is supposed to bridge the gap between jobs, but it's usually something ridiculously expensive like $700 per month for a single person's premium (yeah, you have to pay more premiums if you want your spouse and/or kids to be covered).

Tbh it doesn't even have to be boeing who did it. Boeing is important to the government (actually multiple governments) and it's not exactly a stretch to consider said governments are involved.

Also if we go with thinking boeing did do it, look at almost any organized crime related murder.

Or some combination of the two.

People have been killed for far, far less. And there are a lot of people who will hurt other people purely for revenge, regardless of any other factor.

The point is, I don't think it's as much of a stretch as you seem to think.

Yeah, the fact that this guy knows ~7 people IRL, all pedophiles, all willing to hurt a toddler, in a public place, and on camera...

It's horrifying.

A child advocacy center has specially trained staff (therapists) who do forensic interviews and provide therapy, mainly to kids enduring the aftermath of abuse and neglect. They work closely with the police and the prosecutor to get the case resolved and many also provide therapy dogs to go to court with the kids.

I haven't heard of them interviewing a kid suspected of a crime but perhaps it is their protocol for a kid this young.

Read the headline and thought they were finally going to wash them

If they're anything like the people in my town, they will just say that those advisors are all RINOs and not real Republicans

I never lost taste/smell. But, I lost everything else. I can't work anymore because of covid. It fucked me in the worst way. I'm an American and our disability system is fucked too. So I've been without pay for 2 years. I'm out of money. I don't know what to do tbh.

Wait so is he admitting that he knew about it now? The first article I read about this asserted that Alito had no idea about the flag.

Police shooting skills are both terrible and very good.

I would do an upside down S, less confusion

Just imagine how angry everyone is going to be when they can't masturbate the pain of Present Day away

Elon's daily dose. It takes a lot to get on his level.

Just kidding, but it seems like something to do with the fuel/exhaust.

I've read multiple articles and the most I've gotten is that their first launch didn't have the cleaner fuel that future launches did. I am not sure how that would cause repeated incidents... perhaps it's from metal parts in the rockets? 🤔 I could have missed something as I was reading but hopefully someone else will know the answer.

Based on some of these other site names, you probably don't actually want to know

Definitely Icy Tower

Also, not really a video game, but those desktop destroyer type games. I'm not sure what any of them were called but it was a fun waste of time in my computer class.

Well considering that one woman literally pulled another woman's skirt down (not all the way) because she felt it was too short, in front of other people, and then called 911 herself, I wouldn't put it past someone in a bathroom to do worse if they "suspected" someone was trans, whether or not they actually are

Also I'm sorry for all the commas but I already did it and I don't want to edit it lol

Wait. It was $22 for a sandwich??

Edit: is this USD?

I know more than a few not-rich people with 50k+ pickups

Last week I had to remind my parents that FBI agents are cops and pretty much always are authorized to use deadly force...

Yes. IIRC it's one reason video conferencing is so exhausting

I've been saying this for so long. Don't get me wrong, some films do make sense to have sex scenes. But there are so many that either have hardcore (for TV) sex scenes or just random full nudity that makes it nearly impossible to watch with anyone other than my partner or close friends.

Like if I recommend a film or show to someone and completely forget that it had sex or even just nudity in it, it usually wasn't important to the story. On the other hand, it may have made sense to include in the film but it was so terribly done that I promptly blocked it out.

The other issue is that it has become increasingly difficult to find any shows that either don't include sex scenes, or don't have ridiculous levels of violence, or whatever else is difficult for me to deal with when I just want something easy to watch that's not a kid's movie (although kid's movies have their own set of issues).

Streaming services don't even make it easy to find something to watch - they show you the same stuff over and over, or they pretend that everything is in English when they include so many other languages in the selections. If I am unable to pay attention to the captions then I would prefer to have something in English without trying a bunch of different shows first. I mean I guess this is partly (mainly?) my fault since I've failed to learn another language despite years of studying. But I think it just irritates me that they lie about it more than anything.

Idk I am off topic now and this has turned into a really long comment that probably doesn't say anything that hasn't already been said in this thread.

Thanks for asking.

It's actually both. I have some other health issues, so it's not just the long covid, but covid was the last straw. From covid alone, I have heart issues, lung issues, GI issues, brain fog, extreme fatigue. And because of the heart issues, i currently cannot take any adhd meds, so my concentration is shit. I also experienced medical trauma during this time, so i have a bunch of mental health issues now too.

Basically, there is no part of my body that hasn't been affected by covid. It is a terrible disease that i wouldn't wish on anyone.

And yes, i am vaccinated and boosted, which i think is the only reason i didn't die.

What the fuck.

Sometimes I wish I was a billionaire so I could 1) cover these things immediately and 2) have enough influence to change the rules

Idk how I feel about this whole thing. We had the bundle for a while and then they added another standalone Hulu subscription on top. And tried to convince us that's what we wanted/asked for.

I don't even want to pay for one subscription, let alone twice for the same one.

Found some US data. Not sure of current numbers because I didn't look that hard. Also these numbers are from memory because I'm too lazy to reopen the pages I found, so look at the sources themselves before you quote me on it.

Anyway, as of a few years ago in New Mexico they could take up to 50% of an inmate's pay to put towards restitution.

It looks like last year there was a rule proposed federally that would allow up to 75% of inmate wages to be garnished. Similar numbers for money coming from outside sources like commisary funds.

I also found a spreadsheet of inmate wages. And boy is it ugly.

Also I read somewhere that restitution orders are only good for 20 years. Not sure if that can be renewed after that or if that was the maximum time.

So basically the victims are fucked, the inmates are fucked, the state is fucked, and somehow private prisons are lucrative.

https://prospect.org/justice/2023-04-07-bureau-prisons-account-garnishment/

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/wage_policies.html

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/

Good point, I meant funny in more of a "shit people say" rather than comedy

Is that employee named Jeeves?

What did I just read

Well that's disturbing but not surprising

This is great. It's not perfect, but it's great. It feels like an impossible task but it feels more possible with a structure like this.