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Post by Merge on Jun 4, 2024 16:09:21 GMT
Hard to believe. I don’t know for sure when I joined the old board but I think it was around 2005/6. A long time!
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Post by Merge on Jun 4, 2024 14:26:23 GMT
Have any of their doses needed to be adjusted? Or did they stay on the same dose? And do they get labs to check for like kidney and liver function like humans due to the meds? Both dd and ds have non epileptic seizures. Dd has absence and ds has a wide range. His is due to missing a part of his brain that didn't develope and inability to regulate body temperature. Dd was on meds and was weaned off at 13. No longer on any. We have not needed to adjust doses for ours. And yes, she gets yearly bloodwork to check kidney and liver function to be sure the meds aren’t hurting her.
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Post by Merge on Jun 4, 2024 13:07:30 GMT
Are potato chips really heavily processed? I mean the kind that are just thin slices of potato fried in oil, like kettle chips.
I'm not saying they're healthy, but unless they're coated in preservatives or other ingredients I don't see them as highly processed. You can make chips at home with nothing more than potatoes and oil if you're so inclined.
I don't think a food item has to be raw and un-cut in order to be a whole food.
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Post by Merge on Jun 4, 2024 13:03:20 GMT
Our dog Missy started having grand mal seizures when she was about 18 mos. old. After ruling out other causes, and as her seizures started to happen more frequently, our vet put her on phenobarbital. The phenobarb made her incontinent so we added Proin.
We learned that canine epilepsy generally shows up between 1 and 4 years old, so it's possible your dog is epileptic. The good news is that, with meds, Missy has had a happy and normal seizure-free dog life and is now an old lady of 12 who still enjoys romping at the dog park.
Wishing you and your pup the best.
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Post by Merge on Jun 3, 2024 19:52:03 GMT
I agree with him for my own purposes, but others should do as they please.
And I agree with whoever said above that once you learn to smash and chop an unpeeled clove in a few seconds, you probably won’t bother with jarlic again.
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Post by Merge on Jun 3, 2024 1:49:33 GMT
There are some brands of sour cream, yogurt, etc. that have a lot of extra ingredients. Think fat free sour cream or heavily sweetened “yogurt.” I don’t know what source you’re using but I wonder if they mean those types of products rather than whole dairy products like real sour cream.
To me, ultra processed foods are things like Twinkies or Spam. Things where the nutritional value of ingredients has been largely stripped away or offset by sugar and hydrogenated fats. I wouldn’t count fermented or cultured foods as “processed” in the way that they mean.
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Post by Merge on Jun 2, 2024 17:39:24 GMT
Plenty of men out there who want women to do all the childcare and housework but also think a woman who wants to stay home with the kids is a lazy gold digger. Or the man resents or gets nervous about being the only one bringing in an income. Seems women can't win.
It isn't lost on me that the tradwife influencers are, in fact, taking time away from their home and family to produce content, post photos and videos, and interact with followers. They're working from home just like so many others do. Is that really the tradwife model?
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Post by Merge on Jun 2, 2024 13:59:35 GMT
I'd rather they incorporate it in the price of the food too. But we are paying for it one way or another. I have paid these types of charges too and I've never once been surprised by them. In every case they've been disclosed on the menu, sometimes at the hostess stand. When I made my first comment I didn't even realize it was legal to not disclose fees before providing a service. My comment also came before (wonky Tapatalk) reading the OPs follow up. Her issue seems to be more about value. And honestly that's a whole different issue. I'm not thinking it was really these charges that pissed her off but the fact that overall she paid $70 for a Red Lobster dinner. Umm......no. Red Lobster did not charge the employee health fee or the credit card fee. The disclosure of what we paid was to illustrate how prices in restaurants have gone up markedly.
There is definitely a "tone" in your post so let me clear a few things up for you. Prior to Covid, we ate dinner out at least three nights a week. I also did lunch with friends a couple times a week. As I said, dining out was not an option for us for quite a long time.
Covid taught everyone a new lifestyle. While we can afford to go out to eat (and a $70 meal at Red Lobster for our anniversary was not a hardship), it is a waste of money and a risk. When I cook a meal, I know my hands were washed. I know my counters are clean. I know raw chicken does not get cut on a cutting board. I cannot be sure of any of those things when we dine in a restaurant. I can't be the only one who has seen restaurant employees outside smoking. Did they wash their hands when they came in?
Suze Ormand was quoted a month ago saying that one of the biggest ways we waste money is dining out. Other big-name financial gurus agreed.
I worked as a waitress to get thru college (in the 70s). We prepared many of the dishes tableside (Steak Diane, Cherries Jubilee, flaming Irish Coffee, etc) and were darn glad to get a 15% tip. Now you can't even get the dirty plates cleared and 15% is not enough.
My complaint is not with the $70 meal at Red Lobster. My complaint is all the extra charges, which I THOUGHT I explained when I wrote the first post. I also think these charges should be posted where the customer sees them BEFORE they sit down. In the situations we experienced, we did not know about these "line item charges" until the bill came.
And YES it was the two charges which, quote, pissed me off. I am pretty new here and some of the attitudes are enough to piss anyone off.
Welcome to the NSBR! Sometimes we have a tone and bicker with each other. It looks like you’ll be able to give as good as you get, though. It’s good for all of us to remember, though, that tone doesn’t convey very well through typing. That’s where knowing the other members well helps a lot. You’ll know eventually which people are giving tone and which ones probably aren’t. Hang around! IMO the good here far outweighs any annoyances we have with each other.
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Post by Merge on Jun 2, 2024 2:19:00 GMT
Compete in men’s professional sports is the only thing that comes to mind. Generally we don’t have the physical strength to compete with men at that level.
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Post by Merge on Jun 1, 2024 15:57:01 GMT
But we’re the “divisive” ones. 🙄 Tarrant County is Ft. Worth and a bunch of north Texas suburbs.
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Post by Merge on Jun 1, 2024 1:49:07 GMT
there are lots of businesses in the us that don't pay for employee health care.. Yes. But the ones that do are passing that cost on to the customer.
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Post by Merge on Jun 1, 2024 1:38:56 GMT
In my state, the 3% addition cannot be added for Debit Cards- only Credit cards. Restaurants can get around this by instead giving a cash discount. I wouldnt go to a restaurant that charged me for THEIR expense of Employee Health care. And tipping is insane. When restaurant prices go up, so do server's tips. We shouldnt have keep tippimg increasing percentages. I would rather tippimg went away completely. It is out of hand To be fair, every business is charging you for their employees’ health care. Most just already have it baked into the price along with their other overhead expenses.
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 18:41:45 GMT
Trust me, when these states realize that they cannot get any physicians to work in their state (which is already happening around the country in all the states that are seriously restricting women's rights), they will claim that this isn't what they wanted. Unfortunately, we haven't hit rock bottom yet. They don't care if people have access to healthcare, so what do they care if we don't have any physicians? We're going back to the days of herbal healers and lay midwives. Good times!
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 15:00:07 GMT
I find it so odd that a Jewish man would want to return to an "agreed upon hierarchy." Historically, those hierarchies weren't kind to Jewish people any more than they were to women.
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 2:28:25 GMT
How is a professor to know why a student has missed class- all a person needs a signed doctor's note which certainly won't detail the health reason. Even if a student "looked pregnant on Monday but not on Friday, it’s not the professors place to ask. After all the student could have had miscarriage. This was my thought too. How would anyone know whether someone missed class for an abortion or because they had Covid or the flu or one of a thousand other reasons why a person might be out sick? How bizarre. Yeah, it strikes me as a largely symbolic measure. But the chilling effect these measures have on women feeling safe at school, in public, etc. can't be ignored.
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 2:19:20 GMT
The Trumpers are going to go BAT SHIT CRAZY..... My Nextdoor app is going nuts. The tRump humpers in my county are falling apart. It’s awesome The Trump humpers here are making threats. I'm having fun reporting them.
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 1:07:16 GMT
These were a workout fad in the 80s. I remember one of my cousins jumping on his mom’s mini tramp, missing the landing, and cracking his head open on the big wood-cased TV. Good times, good times.
I’d be afraid to use one because that would probably happen to me, too.
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 1:04:30 GMT
Sweet boy. Hope what is there is easily addressed and you have many more years together m.
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 0:20:47 GMT
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 0:20:40 GMT
Welp, so far I’ve been threatened by two MAGAs on Twitter for simply existing as a liberal. So things are going well. Some of them are unhinged. I do worry about the judge and the jurors. In all seriousness, I do, too. We are dealing with some extra crazy out there.
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Post by Merge on May 31, 2024 0:05:58 GMT
Welp, so far I’ve been threatened by two MAGAs on Twitter for simply existing as a liberal. So things are going well.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 23:28:10 GMT
I'm so sick of this nonsense and the axe of another Trump presidency hanging over our heads. I want out of this country so bad.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 22:34:48 GMT
I am just so damn proud of the jury! They weren't swayed by the magnitude of this case. They weren't cowed by tfg's supporters. They showed up, did their job, and had a unanimous verdict. WTG!!! I hope the state of New York provides them with protection from Trump’s deranged supporters!
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 21:26:16 GMT
My guess is the owner is selling with a tenant in place and this is as much cleaning up/out as the tenant was willing to do to facilitate that process.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 21:23:24 GMT
Lovely, but the online experts say it’s unlikely he’ll see jail time. Instead, he’ll continue to campaign on how abused and mistreated he is, and his cult members will lap it up. I have real concerns that this is going to help his campaign. He will certainly make every effort to fundraise on it. Wilks and Dunn and Harlan Crow are probably getting out their checkbooks as we speak.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 21:22:28 GMT
It appears that convicted felons are not allowed to vote in Florida. Not sure if that applies if the conviction was in a different state. Would be pretty funny if Trump can’t even vote for himself.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 21:13:18 GMT
Lovely, but the online experts say it’s unlikely he’ll see jail time. Instead, he’ll continue to campaign on how abused and mistreated he is, and his cult members will lap it up.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 14:42:07 GMT
Trump’s short list for AG includes Ken Paxton, who has been auditioning for the role by weaponizing consumer protection laws to go after organizations he doesn’t like here in Texas. www.texastribune.org/2024/05/30/ken-paxton-texas-ag-political-targets-health-care-lgbtqThey like to accuse Biden of prosecuting political opponents, but as usual, every accusation is a confession. A second Trump presidency would include baseless prosecutions of any and all Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans. When they show you who they are, believe them.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2024 14:09:26 GMT
I’m sorry. Our Missy started having seizures once in a while around 18 mos. By the time she was three, they were increasing in frequency to about two per week. They checked for tumors or other causes and nothing was found. Diagnosed with canine epilepsy. We decided with our vet at that point to put her on phenobarbital. She’s been seizure free since then - and she’s happy and healthy at age 12.
It’s worth checking with your vet to rule out other causes, and then decide what to do from there.
ETA: at the time we decided to medicate, we had a real concern that our heeler, Ellie, would kill or injure Missy during a seizure if we weren’t around. Ellie was very freaked out by the seizures and would try to attack. Missy also seemed very distressed by the seizures and was not herself for a long time after each one.
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Post by Merge on May 29, 2024 1:13:52 GMT
With the chicken I would make rice paper rolls, and add some rice, julienned veggies and an Asian dressing. (Or, I would just eat it cold!) With the crab, I would make a pasta dish. I saved a recipe the other day, that was linguini with prawns and lobster, and I would use the crab instead of lobster. Or, I would make my very favourite finger food Asian Crab and Prawn Wonton Crisps. I love how the Americans are like, make tacos, and the Aussie says, rice paper rolls! Ha. Would never occur to me. We certainly have all the ingredients here for that and plenty of Asian restaurants, but it's just not the dominant thing here.
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