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I’m a picky eater and occasionally will be stupid and vary my regular order to try something new and I almost always regret it. If I didn’t get enough to eat, I just send it back and order something else. Assuming the dish was as described and prepared the way I ordered it, I would never expect the restaurant to give…

CNN has a good explanation of the split between Women’s March Inc and March On:

Speak for yourself! I would be super excited to get an appliance or tool for my birthday or a holiday!

Yeah, but Oprah shouldn’t run for president. She’s totally unqualified.

“Who is this person who scrapes their car off before starting the engine to warm up?”

Hey I’ve been to California a few times and don’t understand why anyone would live in a place full of Californians! So we’re even.

A rescue inhaler would run you around $80 in the US, without insurance.

Someone should compile price info on inhalers. I used to use Advair, but now I use Symbicort.

So not to take away from the problems with the healthcare system but a lot of heart problems are asymptomatic until all of a sudden they’re not. I didn’t find out I have an irregular heartbeat until I was 33 and that’s because I had a sleep study for something totally unrelated and they hooked me up to an EKG. It’s…

Mine is $225 and that’s with the insurance discount so I’ll guess the ‘retail’ price for uninsured people is around $700... so I’ll guess $750.

YEah, I mean, they didn’t even proactively announce the new policy so for a while I figured I wasn’t getting new messages because I’d just hit a ‘milestone’ birthday and was probably out of people’s age ranges now. And I’m sure a lot of people are still clueless.

If you want to know if someone messaged you you have to proactively go digging through your matches and look for people with a blue line under their photos. That blue line indicates they messaged you. Then you click on their profile and you can see the message, but you can’t write back unless you hit the ‘like’…

What the hell? Kids swipe stuff ALL THE TIME. The mom probably didn’t even notice.

Grand juries are also used in DC to issue subpoenas for evidence. If a prosecutor feels there is sufficient evidence, they can ask the grand jury to issue an indictment. Presumably, the prosecutors asked the jury to issue subpoenas for evidence, and then concluded there was insufficient evidence to ask for an…

Grand juries are also used in DC to issue subpoenas for evidence. If a prosecutor feels there is sufficient evidence, they can ask the grand jury to issue an indictment. Presumably, the prosecutors asked the jury to issue subpoenas for evidence, and then concluded there was insufficient evidence to ask for an…

Thanks for this great piece, and I just read your piece about running the marathon too. We’re exactly the same height and weight and while I’m fairly athletic, I always thought running was an impossibility for me. It’s really affirming for me to see your picture and realize that I probably look more like you than like…

If you want to remember how to fear, just read this 1946 New Yorker article. It’s a long read, but worth every second.

Yeah, that was my first thought too. Meghan’s written things about her parents that make it sound like she has a loving relationship with them, so I’m not sure quite what he meant? Having divorced parents doesn’t mean one doesn’t have a family.

There are bike racks everywhere in DC, and I’m sure most dockless bike riders leave them on or near a bike rack. But the minority who leave them wherever they want (i’ve seen them in the middle of the sidewalk, in the street, on a metro platform, on people’s lawns, on the grass at a park, in a fountain, and so on)…