Before spending all that money talking to another doctor, talk with a lawyer who knows healthcare related law. If your full time job has an employee assistance program, it may cover a consultation with a lawyer. A lawyer will be able to tell you what rights you have at a federal, state, and local level, and should know if there is a process to compel the hospital to restrict your records.

I’m so glad I don’t use telegram.

Agree, and I missed the fact that I didn’t make that clear. If Airbnb stayed what their initial marketing portrayed them to be (connecting people who had a spare room or mother-in-law suite that was unoccupied with people who wanted a more genuine local experience,) I’d have no problem with them.

The penalties should be higher for short term rental properties-if it’s listed on Airbnb or VRBO or similar, taxes double.

Sounds right.

Or a coalition of media companies maintaining a legal defense fund.

I had heard it was popular outside of car commuters from outside the city, have you seen reports otherwise?

My understanding is that the Israeli economy relies very heavily on US support. If Netanyahu begins to turn away from the US, he’ll have to call on European nations for support, and at least in some places those populations are more aware of and disgusted by the behavior in Gaza. If Israel can’t get other foreign investment to continue propping up their economy, all those Israeli companies that have been attractive investments for the last 4-6 decades are going to tank hard. Along with trumps idiocy, an Israeli collapse could be a complete disaster for the industrialized world.

This is a point more people need to understand. One thing I would love to see more of is journalist-owned news outlets, ideally in a co-op model (so the writers can agree to bring on, say, editors and photographers as the income warrants it). This is the only way to guard against the wealthy just buying the press and thereby dictating the narrative.

Thanks for the rundown, I got used to spotlight when I was using macOS, and the main selling point for stuff like Alfred seemed to be things spotlight already did. What you describe seems way more useful.

I’ve seen launcher apps discussed for years and I’ve never seen an answer to the basic question of “what do they do?”

The podcast Weird Little Guys just concluded a long series of episodes about the weird bullshit leading up to this.

One of the worst things we do as a culture is setting arbitrary milestones and then shaming ourselves or others for missing them.

Are you expecting to graduate? You’re better off than many who didn’t finish at all. You stumbled, you’re moving forward. You’re going to be fine.

Don’t forget ignoring literal decades of data that show adding lanes doesn’t fix traffic

I don’t know that that’s an “average Texan,” I think that’s more “average massively wealthy landholding Texan.”

I’m not running for a third term, I’ll just have a third term.

The guy who lies all the time says something? Probably lying.

I’m not a lawyer or barrister, but there are already laws against fraud, which is what you are describing. There’s a huge difference between deliberately over claiming and making a mistake, and what the article is describing is at worst honest mistakes.

I quit smoking and drinking a year or so ago and I’m no happier than I was before I quit.

Ooh, look at these fancy assholes who expect to “retire” someday!