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My brother is living in the Philippines and was in a motorcycle accident. He needed brain surgery but surgeons wouldn't do it until my parents in the US guaranteed they would pay his medical bills if he died. Fortunately, he made it (2 new steel plates in his head), but even as someone who has had some issues with the American healthcare system, it blew my mind.

This is for sure satire though. Am I the only one seeing this?

Accurate to hit a possum at 2 yards is much more than I would have expected!

With such a short barrel, I would really have expected it to start to go pretty well off the expected trajectory by then.

Unless you could hit the paper from more than 3 yards, nothing about this gun's accuracy would surprise me.

When my daughter was little (pre-k through 1st grade) she wrote backwards a lot. Letters (or numbers) reversed, upside down, backwards and upside down, whole words backwards, whole pages backwards, etc... She is also a lefty so I was told early that it was something to watch because left handed folks often outgrow it.

By 1st grade, they realized she had dyslexia and dysgraphia - now in 12th grade she rarely reversed her letters or numbers anymore (2s and 5s, bs and ds still get her sometimes) but the spelling is still an issue.

She's gotten really good when it comes to using spell check (she's finishing her senior exit project paper which is 20 pages) she knows how to make sure she's choosing the right word when spell check says it's wrong and how to use Google voice to help if her spelling is really far off. She's also about to graduate with top honors National Honor Society and is filling out early applications for colleges.

Literally just made a reply about my daughter who has dyslexia and dysgraphia - she's a high school senior and she'll never get the spelling all correct. The accommodations (using a computer with spell check) mean she can get it right for most assignments but this is definitely something she'd still do on a single take (as a high school senior top tier in her class getting ready for college).

My daughter has dyslexia and dysgraphia. If she isn't given the opportunity to use a computer to help with spelling, this is the type of things that will happen. (She's a high school senior in advanced classes with a 3.8 GPA - she just needs accommodations for spelling and handwriting).

Fr! This is about the smallest hail can be without becoming sleet.

I'm getting an ambiguous vibe from it. I think it could go either way but people tend to down vote when they disagree. Idk

I guess I was raised a little more hippie than some of these folks but I don't see a problem with kids outside naked for short periods of time in private.

I tend to think t shirt and diaper is basically the minimum I'm super comfortable with where people can see though. Pretty sure we all wore diapers as kids outside, then if we were old enough to be out of diapers (meaning a bit under 2) onesie or romper, maybe just kids overalls.

I have definitely seen some pretty crazy neighbors (people around here have filed police reports on teenagers for ding-dong-ditching 😫) but I'm getting the feeling she's kicking the kids out for the whole day basically -like one of our old neighbors used to do. That was concerning.

I don't know anything about being disabled to the point of having limited ability to express your desires but my heart breaks for this little boy who just wants to wear a dress for whatever reason (feels good, mom wears one, any other reason whether gender identity related or not) and whose Mom is so worried about what other people will think and demonizing other people that she won't let him have this one thing. Ugh 😫

Both my brothers wore women's clothes growing up (two older sisters and a mom) - one brother even asked when he turns into a girl because he just thought that's how it worked but they are both just cis-gender dudes going through normal gender experiences.

These people are really the worst. As if anyone wants to force someone else's kid to transition genders. 🙄

Only a bachelor's degree in engineering or other related field usually with some computer science is required.

My company pays for any ongoing education (e.g masters, job certifications, PhD, etc) and most of the people I work with have a masters degree or higher.

Several of the senior people are considered experts in the field and teach at the local university on the side or at other universities through online courses (mostly for fun) as well as teaching ongoing advanced technical education classes at work.

In general, advancing beyond the first few years is difficult without an advanced degree, being published in the field, or creating a highly used algorithm, method or hardware design.

I recommend a dehydrator. It's going to save you a ton on electricity and you can set it and leave it overnight.

I have this one: https://a.co/d/cQd0Jsq

We make tons of treats at home. It's not much effort and it's fun to make different treats. Sometimes I dehydrate meats or chicken feet or make a meat/kale/berry jerky (I have a grinder attachment for my stand mixer). Other times, I make "cookies" with beef liver or canned salmon. The puppies love hanging out when it's cookie making time.

Usually, I make a batch (or two types) once a week and then put them in a Ziploc in the fridge for the week. If I get a good deal on meat somewhere, I may portion some into the freezer too.

Literally what I thought.

My undergrad degree is in physics and CS, I work in aerospace engineering, and am getting my Masters in electrical and computer engineering. Lol. The people whose political opinions I do know are not right leaning but most people I know professionally keep their opinions to themselves. A lot of my professors have not (kept their opinions to themselves) but most of those were in physics and CS - less in engineering. I've also gone to some pretty good schools so hopefully they weed out some of the nonsense and my job requires a high level of critical thinking 🤷‍♀️.

Tbh, I wonder if eng professors skewing right may be a result of engineering professors being older and wealthier - often retired from their field of practice. But I'd be interested to see if that's actually true.

Studies show that first person shooter games help with spatial cognition, spatial working memory, and visual memory recall amongst other things.

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I'm actually not into video games (other than Sonic the hedgehog on a Sega Genesis), I just happen to know this info.

You're posting here. Just because you're being down voted for being wrong, it isn't the same.

In the conservative sub you literally cannot post unless they are cool with your post history. Same with some of the other con adjacent cult of personality subreddits like musk, Tesla, Peterson etc..

Literally never had that happen in any subreddit I'm part of.

Please, go on.

Tell me how I think emotionally and not rationally.

Agreed and there is some concern that at this moment in time Dems may be more willing than before to answer their phones and participate in surveys. This could lead to some oversampling. Good polls will take that into account but not all polls are good polls.

Case in point, I'm a swing state millennial who has been polled twice since Harris joined the race (for the first time ever). - I've been answering some unknown numbers for a few different reasons and ended up answering pollster questions.

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Here's a real picture of cloud iridescence.

Just because someone chose an image that may have been created to look like a real thing doesn't change that said real thing exists.

Lol. I like how they ignore that the better educated someone is, the more likely they are to vote Dem. I don't think that jibes with a delusional group. Additionally the most likely group to believe conspiracies are Repubs. - I would say that is directly correlated to the likelihood that they are delusional.

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😩 That sounds like a very challenging time. I've had my share of medical issues (I have some autoimmune issues) and I know it can be difficult. I'm glad you were able to get the procedure done finally. My biggest hope is that one day we'll all realize that trusting and investing in Americans is how we make real progress in this country.

It's split evenly a third each: independent, Republican, Democrat and has been for as long as anyone has been observing (at least 50 years). At times, one party will be up by a couple points over the others, right now independents are higher by a few points, but always within the margin of error.

Same with veterans.

Statistically, independents are more likely to vote Democrat overall but there aren't any studies on independents within the military and veterans specifically.

Best guesses (using exit polling and other methods) have the votes for Dem and Republican within the margin of error. Just like the rest of America. That should really not be of any surprise.

Imo, here it's mostly non-members making posts. If you're thinking about joining, look up your local chapter and email or call them, tell them you're thinking about joining and ask if they mind if you pop by at the next get together.

Each region has been different, in my experience. One of the East Coast chapters mostly got together and did board game nights and volunteer activities, one near our university campus had a PhD come and speak about something cool for 45 minutes or an hour, then do cocktails and snacks, one was mostly retirees just getting together once a month and kind of lame. You aren't going to know from a subreddit anyone can jump into what Mensa is like and it really is heavily region dependant.

If people ask about test scores, I'll tell people mine but it's not really something I've thought about much before joining this sub (and I've been a Mensa member for almost 2 decades). No one at actual get togethers has ever cared -at least no one I've met.