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It's way easier to kill yourself with opioids- accidentally or on purpose. That's why it's being treated like an epidemic.
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It's way easier to kill yourself with opioids- accidentally or on purpose. That's why it's being treated like an epidemic.
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Bean shitposts becoming popular across the entire Fediverse in just an hour is a live demonstration of how effective decentralization and federation protocols are.
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There was a post about a can of beans yesterday... literally just that. "Here's a can of beans"... since then, the beans have taken over 😅
I think the point of this shower thought is a good one though: despite not being centralized, the beans still spread in a very reddit-like fashion...
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How do poor people in the states give birth without money?
As far as I know, Hospitals are not allowed to refuse you care; no matter what your finances are, they have to help you. Many people would go to ER for non-ER reasons because it was/is the only way for them to get treatment. (Because other medical centers can refuse you.)
The hospitals will try to get the money from you however they can and they do offer payment plans based on income. Ultimately, though, due many? The debt gets discharged to a debt collection agency that harasses you incessantly for 7 years until it gets discharged from your record.
It destroys your credit (an arbitrary number that every citizen has that supposedly shows how trustworthy they are and how much they are likely to pay you if you loan them money) until it drops off after the statute of limitations (7-10 years, depending on the state).
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[feature request] block a community
Would also like the ability to block communities... my feed is nothing but low effort shitposting from 196.
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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds
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It is exactly what Unity means; they have doubled down on the clarifications. The precise point is to charge the developer for any install a user makes once they earn a (paltry) $200K.
It's not rocket science to see that this is a very bad, very abusive idea and its targeted to hurt indie developers the most (as larger studios like EA would be on the enterprise plan and therefore on the hook for only 1/20th of the same usage).
Some simple math says that you would have to uninstall and reinstall a $5 game 20 times to completely nullify the earnings from your purchase.
It's surprisingly easy to rack up installs; between multiple devices, uninstalls for bug fixing / addressing, the OS breaking it, modded installs having to be reset, making space for other games, refreshing a device... and so on. And that's not even accounting for bad actors actively trying to damage a company.
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How do poor people in the states give birth without money?
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From my post: "Many people would go to the ER for non-ER reasons because it was the only way to get treatment when you didn't have the money to pay"
Seems pretty obvious that I meant the ER...
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[discussion] What would your solution be for long haul travel with animals?
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That's fair, and something I can understand the switch to! A couple of my friends do rent larger vehicles for the longer shows. ❤️
I would love to see shows occur more locally 😞 I usually drive 4 or 5 hours minimum.
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Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?
American here that does long haul drives rather frequently for dog shows..
When I give a time, it's without breaks. "10 hours to the Fairgrounds" - 10 hours of straight driving with no problems.
I tell folks new to my methodology to anticipate around an hour of variance for every twelve hours, as I typically must stop 2x for gas at least. (My tank holds 400 miles / 12 gallons, and I try not to let it drop below 50 / 1.5 gallons.)
For the dog shows, I've got a varying number of dogs with me (8 was my max, 2-4 pretty common) and pottying them takes forever.
Edit for Clarification: I'm content to drive around 14-16 hours straight without stopping to rest. If the trip is longer than that, I do have to pull over to nap.
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[feature request] block a community
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I can assure you that I see no such option on wefwef.app. My menu containing Subscribe only has three options: Submit Post Subscribe Sidebar
I can find no evidence of a block button anywhere. Sadly.
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HP insists you must use their cloud printing service, covers USB port with sticker
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Definitely doing something wrong my dude. My cartridges last several reams of paper.
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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds
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Except that that is a back pedal on their part and their FAQ plainly says they actually have no way of tracking what is a new install versus a re-install; which is why they decided to count all installs to begin with.
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[discussion] What would your solution be for long haul travel with animals?
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Bummer! I was afraid that might be the answer. I was struggling to come up with anything on my own because none of the public transport allow dogs 😞
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[discussion] What would your solution be for long haul travel with animals?
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His solution was to stop going if I had to use a car.
This show is the shortest distance I drive.. I've done 2000 miles in one day and that's not unusual. I'm thankful this one is only a few hundred. 💯
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Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?
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None! I haven't actually watched it 😅 It does amuse me that it exists, but I spend waaaaay too much time training dogs to actually watch a movie about it.
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HermitCraft S9#15: Decked Out - Phase 2: Loot & Scoot'n
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At least the bit where they can parkour over the fence is definitely intended. Not sure about the lava room hole... but honestly, it probably wouldn't have survived this long if it bothered Tango / was truly unintentional.
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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds
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Clearly without consulting anyone with a modicum of common sense.
It's also possible its a move to deliberately piss of the customer base, so they can "back off" and implement a solution that still satisfies them, but looks like they let the "customer" (mostly) win.
For example: "We will charge $.20 for over 200K installs!" Backpedal: "We will charge $.05 for only the initial install after 500K installs!"
Pretty sure there are many documented instances of exactly this occurring, especially in the game dev industry unfortunately. (The goal was never the first offer, but rather to overshadow the real goal.)
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[discussion] What would your solution be for long haul travel with animals?
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I would like to trains be more reasonable - even if not every 2 minutes. I'd be okay with 30 minutes, if I could get on one with the dogs in tow 😞 It is not pleasant driving 5-12 hours and a train would let me rest.
We have to have a set at the Airbnb and a set at the show; it's much easier to transport extra crates than it is to break them down and haul them back and forth every morning and evening (and takes a distinct amount of time to do). Why 10 and not 8 then? I'm loaning a pair to a friend coming to the same show!
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In the spirit of Pokemon-themed creations...I crocheted this Eevee for a little boy's 6th birthday
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Awesome! Thank you so much! Usually I find that if the dimensions are off a bit, it's related to my tensioning somehow 😅
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In the spirit of Pokemon-themed creations...I crocheted this Eevee for a little boy's 6th birthday
So cute! Did you freehand this, or follow a pattern?
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How do poor people in the states give birth without money?
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Perhaps I could have included a list of other places as an example that can refuse you for financial reasons. It would have helped for people not familiar with the system..