And what is wrong with quick access to an NP who is clearly supervised by doctors? They get significant training and often have extensive experience in healthcare before they took the NP.

Because the pouring spout is to the right. Tip it, you’ll see. It works better if you are staring closely at the spout from below when you do so.

Peter Funke? The famous anal-rapist?

It also has high gravity that promotes separation by density and a hot turbulent core that messes that up. So an equilibrium of opposing forces keeps it mixed but not homogeneous.

It’s such a beautiful planet, isn’t it?

I don’t follow. Why would it ever become homogeneous?

So you admit to just making up your stance then and prioritizing your vague feeling as some sort of evidence?

What a garbage take.

Right, it’s not just the poor lobby that cares about snap. The farmers rely on it a a form of price support. Large landowners have better lobbyists than the poors.

I will die on this hill.

All chaps are assless.

If chaps had an ass, they would be pants.

Thank you for hearing me out.

A short self-satisfied chuckle, such as a duchess might emit when someone makes a really good joke about the poors.

Frankly just wearing whatever you like, but executing it really well. Let’s be real. The average church goer is a frump.

Execute any look with a bit of care and flair, occupy space proudly! Be a most excellent queer! Wear a track-suit for all it matters, just wear a well made well fitting one. Get a haircut/hairdo you like. Smell nice, not too strongly.

I think it’s very important to be queer in public these days!

I experienced it pretty profoundly when taking a plant systematics and identification course. I had always loved plants as a gardener, so the added knowledge of general plant anatomy lit a fire in my brain.

Now when I would learn a new plant, I would notice it everywhere, even out of the corner of my eye while driving at speed on a highway.

I’m still a slut for the thrill of learning a new plant.

Yes this is the source.! Very good visuals.

Yay! Isn’t it great to love your body? I have discovered a whole new side of myself with fitness. Hell, no, I am not embarrassed at liking what I see in the mirror as I finish that burpee!

There are few things in life one can say they truly earned and a fit, strong body made through dedication is one of them.

Sounds like a great opportunity to use the word ‘chortle’!

If i were choosing a duck to be the new mayor, definitely the necktie.

If I were looking for a duck with whom to party, bow-tie in the convertible all the way to the liquor store and back.

They, meaning the people behind the bans, have thought it through perfectly well. They are counting on milquetoast centrists to ‘both sides’ the issue so they can start to attack LGBTQ+ people and their concerns as being inherently indecent.

This one works if you are an inbox-zero sort of person. Write a script to send yourself an email daily. Have another utility look for your reply. If you go too long without replying, have it trigger whatever other emails/actions you would like to happen.

One year for murdering thousands of people with paperwork.

No justice, no peace.

I have an image of a certain mentally lazy older relative being confronted with anything slightly challenging. The degree of hand wringing and play acting to avoid a few minutes thought and perhaps looking ignorant was always over the top.

Since the world has many many people like that, there will probably end up being a handful of large ‘instances’ that seem ashamed of the fediverse’s ‘complexity’ (like Bluesky) and they will pretend to be their own thing, so as not to freak out the squares.

I am somewhat glad Lemmy instances get ignored in this discussion. I want to be surrounded by the better, smarter and more challenging voices such as I have found here.

Is it an information bubble? Damn right it is. Lemmy is my refuge from and group therapy for preparing to contend in vain against the daily grind of human cupidity and stupidity.

From the report, the two firms singled out for special scrutiny are:

• Apollo-Owned Lifepoint Health and Ottumwa Regional Health Center (ORHC)

“ORHC’s private equity-owned operators failed to fulfill seven promises—including legally binding ones—made to ORHC when it was first acquired by a private equity-owned operator in 2010.”

• Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) and Prospect Medical Holdings (PMH)

“Despite gross financial and operational mismanagement of its hospitals, LGP took home $424 million of the $645 million that PMH paid out in dividends and preferred stock redemption during LGP’s majority ownership—in addition to over $13 million in fees—that left PMH in severe financial distress.”

So the usual ‘commit murder but it doesn’t count because it was done by paperwork’.