GG Allin

Not today, Russia.

They’re honking expensive, though.

I downloaded it from there a while back, I have it somewhere.

tl;dr: There are little “chimes” of different lengths that produce sound when struck. The sound is higher than what humans can hear. The four buttons on the remote lift strikers and then drop them against the chimes. It’s basically a toy piano.

We had one when I was a kid, hand-me-down from grandma. We also had a dog who wore a fairly loose stainless steel choker chain. When he’d bounce around, the chain links would clink, occasionally turning the TV on/off, changing the channel, muting the volume.

*La

Spoken from a place of true privilege.

All the characters in the Neighborhood of Make Believe are just trapped in a trolley problem.

Stores will often use the cents portion of the price as an identifier for where it is on the markdown schedule. $xx.99 - that’s usually full price, the highest it will ever be. Others would be for things like “first markdown” or “don’t markdown” or “last markdown.”

A lot of the “old world European” (and probably elsewhere, too) distinctions are focused around language, especially francophone (French language) and anglophone (English language), which both still carry weight today. This goes waaaay back, and if you think about it, a common language many hundreds of years ago was inextricably part of ethnicity. Language is a cheap way to distinguish between “us” and “them.” (Shouldn’t be, but it is.)

Clearly, you have a strong ability with English. English is widely spoken in America, and the US in particular (notwithstanding current events) is a place where “Americanness” and “ethnicity” are not quite as lockstep as other places. But I imagine you would have a harder time being accepted as “American” without having strong English language skills. (Again, shouldn’t be that way, but it is. And inb4 this becomes a “bash America” thread, there are plenty of places where that effect is much worse.)

tl;dr: You’ll have the best luck identifying as “Nationality” if you also have language skills that align with the nation’s lingua franca, even if that’s something other than French.

The one I got earlier today pleaded:

My dad just lost his job and I have no money for tuition next semester. Please help me raise money so I can keep going to school! Donate anything you can to these bitcoin and litecoin addresses <3

I don’t think it’s anything more complicated than trying to scam money from people.

Break it. Replace the switch.

I sure hope it’s a soft close one you got.

The issue with mental health and medications is that different root causes can create different symptoms in different people, and different medications have different effects in different people. The understanding of what those root causes even are is very limited, let alone trying to figure out what the root causes are in a specific person.

We know that certain medications have certain effects on symptoms, generally speaking, but identifying which one, at which dose, suits that specific person with a collection of reported symptoms that look like depression or anxiety or whatever, often in combination, is trial and error.

Of course, in the US, where healthcare is “fuck you, I got mine,” cost does also play a role. Shouldn’t, but does. Another thing to take into account is what other medications you’re taking, and whether they interact poorly with one another.

Sertraline is the generic for Zoloft, and it’s been FDA-approved since 1991. That’s a good long time, and if you’re going to prescribe an SSRI, it makes sense to give more weight to something that has a long history, for the sake of both effectiveness and side effects.

I ate a ton of that cheese.

In case you missed it, he’s fine, he’s just not here.

I have it on good authority that he’s fine, he’s just not here.

Although unless all 12 vote not guilty the prosecution can potentially still run a new trial with a fresh jury.

That is still so very wrong.

Of course it isn’t. A hung jury gets you trial number three.

> Although unless all 12 vote not guilty the prosecution can potentially still run a new trial with a fresh jury.

No they cannot. That would be double jeopardy, where the prosecution can just keep charging you with the same crime until you’re found guilty.

Defense can appeal a conviction. But an appeal has to be based on something that shouldn’t have happened in the first trial, or if new evidence is uncovered that would have a material impact on the verdict. Even then, that doesn’t mean the defendant is not guilty. Now they get a new trial. With a new jury. With all the same evidence and testimony from the first trial, which we know produced a guilty verdict. Best chance for you is if the DA doesn’t want to reprosecute.

All of that last bit is the sole privilege of the defense.

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I WAS STUPID TODAY.