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Post by Merge on Jun 1, 2024 15:57:01 GMT
But we’re the “divisive” ones. 🙄 ![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240601/66d22912699679070fa16d23a6f80130.jpg) 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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Post by Merge on May 29, 2024 1:10:11 GMT
I went out to eat once and when the waitress brought our bill, it only had our drinks, not our meals. Brought it to the register and told them what we ate for dinner and that it wasn’t on the bill and the guy ringing me up said, “god is watching you!” Like god would be proud I was honest. I was so offended. I need god watching me to do the right thing? And in general I find the whole god was watching out or god saved us so self centered. Yeah, Ethel, god found your keys for you, meanwhile there are millions of people being raped and murdered, but you know, the free will of the murderer is central to gods plan 🙄 I always find it funny when people ask how you know right from wrong as a non-believer. IDK, babe, if it hurts or defrauds or oppresses someone else, it's wrong. Seems like you don't need a god to tell you that.
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Post by Merge on May 29, 2024 0:14:22 GMT
Look up "Marry Me Chicken." It's been around a while last night but I finally made it last night and it was great!
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Post by Merge on May 28, 2024 23:56:09 GMT
I also find it annoying when my favorite baseball players (and they almost all do it) point to the sky when they get a hit or make a good play. I get it, I’m excited too, but god doesn’t care about a baseball game. Really? I'm surprised that they almost all do it. I can honestly say that I have never in my lifetime seen a cricket player point to the sky when they hit a six or take a wicket. And the only time I've seen a football player point to the sky after a goal is if a loved one has recently died. In that scenario, it's not a nod to god, it's an acknowledgement of their recently deceased loved one. So, lots of professional baseball players in the US are either Hispanic immigrants or Black (or both). Both groups have higher rates of religious belief/affiliations than Americans as a whole. That's why. Lots have crosses tattooed on them somewhere. It's not to acknowledge a loved one who has died. The players will frequently thank god and talk about how god got them through in interviews. Perhaps I notice it more here - the majority of Houston's team are Hispanic immigrants.
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Post by Merge on May 28, 2024 17:23:52 GMT
I also find it annoying when my favorite baseball players (and they almost all do it) point to the sky when they get a hit or make a good play. I get it, I’m excited too, but god doesn’t care about a baseball game.
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Post by Merge on May 28, 2024 16:37:31 GMT
I only do Drive up and Go at Target. Though I haven't been inside my Targets in a while. So, I don't know if stuff is locked up, yet. It's really sad that we're a society that has to lock up our stores due to theft. It used to be that many/most things were behind a store counter and had to be retrieved for you by an employee. The idea that stores just leave tons of stuff unattended is a relatively new one in history. Theft will be a problem as long as poverty and greed are problems. If Target wants to lock stuff up at this point, though, I think they need to assign an employee to each department/section whose job it is to unlock stuff. They should be able to offset the cost of this with a lot less lost to theft. But I also agree with those who say to just use curbside. Or in my city, delivery is super fast from Target - usually one or two days.
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Post by Merge on May 28, 2024 14:35:15 GMT
This is one of the reasons I left the church and belief. Yes, many of them do believe that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. It's at the heart of the prosperity gospel that is so popular now. We hear every time there is a natural disaster that it is "god's judgment."
I don't want anything to do with a god who supposedly makes innocent people suffer just because he can.
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Post by Merge on May 28, 2024 14:31:59 GMT
I'd probably just make a cold buffet - chicken, crab, raw veggies and/or fruit, cheese, olives, good bread, etc.
Another option would be chicken/crab fried rice.
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Post by Merge on May 27, 2024 1:18:13 GMT
I like Aveeno mineral sunscreen for body. But truly I try to wear long sleeves (oversized linen top or rashguard) and a hat if I’m going to be out in the sun for more than 30 minutes.
For face I’ve been using Biore (the real stuff from Japan).
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Post by Merge on May 26, 2024 18:37:12 GMT
Excellent bones on that one and right in the part of Omaha I'd live in if we ever moved back there (ETA: maybe not - it's further south than I realized). Needs some updating.
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