she stopped me before I mentioned the threats he made to kill people and told me that she is a mandated reporter

Your therapist will comply with her mandated reporter obligations, but does not consider herself to be in the business of tricking clients into saying things that will force her to breach confidentiality. You got close to her line, so she reminded you exactly where it was and gave you the option to either cross it and cause a report to law enforcement, or to stop short and talk about things that she can lawfully keep in confidence.

This phrasing is so weaselly you baited me into fact-checking it. Congratulations!

on track to

meaning it's crediting Biden with things that haven't happened yet? I didn't investigate how many future acres he needs to make this meme true.

more land ... first-term persident

The Pacific Remote Islands are much larger, but mostly water. Created by Dubya, expanded by Obama, both times in their respective second terms.

modern

Personally, I'd have counted Carter as modern. His Alaska Conservation Act weighed in at 157 million acres. I think that one got Congressional approval too, so maybe they're only counting land protected by executive fiat.

Search engine optimizer -- The entire industry, intentionally and with malice aforethought, exists purely to make it more difficult for search engines to provide quality output to search users.

Sometimes it means "We don't want to spend a lot of money training this guy who we won't be able to retain if he gets a better offer."

At really entry-level jobs like fast food, where training is quick and turnover is always high, it sometimes also means "This guy might be able to read the workers' rights poster on the door and explain the workers' comp program to the idiot who spilled boiling grease on his foot.

Some governments try to make their sales tax less regressive by exempting certain necessities from it.

For example, my state taxes groceries, but exempts gun safes.

What better way to honor the reverend's legacy than by bulldozing some poors.

So that's where they all went. I haven't seen those in circulation since I bought stamps from a vending machine.

I remember when the Speaker of the House, Bob Livingston, called for Clinton to resign over the Lewinski scandal. Then announced that he too had an extramarital affair, held himself to the same standards, and issued his own resignation. It was about to come out anyway. The investigative journalists at Hustler magazine thought it would be interesting for the public to know how many of the impeachment managers were unfaithful to their wives, and Livingston's name came up.

Livingston was replaced as speaker by Dennis Hastert who, so far as I know, never slept with a woman other than his wife. He did however eventually go to prison for raping little boys who were not his wife.

No. I mean, I could name a price, but it'd be unethical and borderline fraudulent to actually charge it knowing that better and more enthusiastic blowjobs can be found for so much less. I just wouldn't scam a customer like that. This attitude is why I can't work in sales.

Because it's called HIPAA, not HIPPA. The second P is the one that stands for privacy.

Fifty years ago, doctors would protect their patients by accidentally losing certain files if they didn't think the authorities had a good reason for seeing them. Under HIPAA, they're required to keep and maintain good records in case the government subpoenas them.

"Please don't be offended if I get an erection during this scene."

"Also, please don't be offended if I don't."

Interior design suppliers let you place orders like "6 feet of purple books."

I think FDA rules explicitly prohibit paying blood donors in the US. Ostensibly because if you do, the donation centers fill up with junkies who'll lie about not having hepatitis so they can get paid, or steal IDs so they can go twice a week until they die of anemia, raising the costs of safety testing and generally being injurious to public health. Of course, everyone else involved in the process gets paid, just not the donors -- quite dearly, as you'll learn if you're ever on the receiving end of a transfusion.

Plasma is paid because it falls under a different regulation and their research and industrial customers don't care that the plasma came from a crack whore.

I can get that potato at Wendy's for less than the tax on $15.

So this is the bill that until last week, the majority didn't even want to vote on, until the new AZ rep won her special election and makes them? Then it turns out they (almost) all agreed with her anyway? Amazing how things work in Congress.

Yeah, I'm just proud of myself because I fixed my house like a big boy tonight. Don't worry, there's still plenty of problems with my shitty house, but tonight I have a warm shitty house.

1. I'm old enough to legally view any form of pornography that's legal to create.

2. There is no legitimate government interest in monitoring my pornographic habits.

I was a volunteer admin on the site ~15 years ago. I think I still have privileges there, but haven't been actively editing or adminning recently due to a long series of policy changes that removed almost all of the site's appeal to users such as myself. The site split from ehow due to a founders' dispute over the value of crowdsourcing and wiki-spirited openness. Now that wikihow is doing everything that Jack Herrick hated about ehow, I think it's time to call his experiment a failure.

Most of the content is now being created by staff writers, often for advertising sponsors. Often not even a how-to topic. Many of these articles are fully protected. It's very much the sort of crap I used to delete, when I was deleting crap for them. Most non-staff articles are hidden and unsearchable.

There is no quality control. Staff have openly embraced SEO and clickbait engagement metrics, at the expense of factual accuracy. This has resulted in the mass emigration of editors like me who used to provide fact-checking services. The "expert review" is a joke. It's only there because Google thinks it makes the site credible. Google is wrong and are defrauding their searchers too.

There is no editing community anymore. Some children like the gamification aspects and use user spaces as a social media and chat site. It's not well-suited for that purpose, but they're children and don't know any better. I think one editor from my era is still active. I don't know why he's still there.

They're arguably violating the copyright of their editors by hiding the history tabs and denying CC-BY attribution. They did CYA by only using the CC licensing for external reuse, while granting wikihow broad rights to use submitted content commercially and without attribution. This policy was not as well advertised as the Creative Commons part, and no doubt some of the content creators from my era either didn't notice, or expected wikihow to not abuse it. Hiding this also adversely affects readers' ability to access an article's reliability by checking for better versions and impedes the transition from reader to editor.

Elliptical orbit is what you get when all gravity vectors point to a single source such as Earth's center of mass. If you instead make the "flat Earth" assumption that all gravity vectors are parallel, then you get a parabola. Since most of us aren't throwing things very far on a planetary scale, the parabolic approximation is frequently considered "good enough".

Can I just point out that the middleman taking a commission adds no value to this transaction. I can give a neighbor a can of beans directly and anonymously through my neighborhood little free pantry.