The pee before hand gives you a solid head start.  Molecules of drug slowly trickle from your blood and lymph into your urine, so your pee after waiting all night will have a much higher concentration that your pee after waiting 1 hour.  Wake up, pee, drink water pee again, drink water and then go do your test.  I’m…

Doctors and hospitals try and bill you for as much as possible because they know your insurance is trying to pay them as little as possible, and NOBODY cares that you have to pay for the difference.

Unfortunately doctors and hospitals have no idea what it is going to cost either. They do an ever changing dance with your particular insurance company for how much they feel like paying for that particular procedure at that particular time for your particular condition.  In the end the insurance companies are the…

It’s heartbreaking that we are governed by such backward ideals, and that this sort of ridiculous system is necessary for people to access healthcare.  On the other hand I’m thankful that someone has put in the time to find a workaround to the theocratic laws in most red states.  Thank you for the information.

Any solution that involves putting kids in cages is wrong. Any person or group who puts kids in cages is the bad guy.

The problem is that evangelical christians in the US vote Republican, even when their representatives are putting children in cages. I’m not sure where in the Bible it says “Hate the immigrant, jail his children”. 

The ONLY way to deal with conspiracy theorists is to double down. Vaccines cause autism? I KNOW and they do it because they are made for a round earth, while ours is flat! Moon landing wasn’t real? OF COURSE it wasn’t, the moon isn’t even real!! NASA created a fake moon in the 60s and the government re-wrote…

Thanks for the article. Its hard to overstate how addictive opioids are, 1 in 5 people prescribed a 10 day supply will still be using after a year. 

For profit healthcare at its best. Demand for healthcare is pretty close to infinite, meaning to save your life you would be willing to pay all the money you have, so prices can be infinite too! For non-life threatening diseases, prices are just high enough that you are miserable... either health-wise or…

Thank you for taking the time on this ridiculous endeavor!  It’s further proof that Russia is a strange and wondrous place where making sense is not a priority.  Enjoy your meat tubes!

Here is the indication for use that the Apple Watch is cleared for by the FDA (emphasis mine):

Me and my wife both work full time, she has a side business selling her paintings, and I’m executor of an estate thats taking an extra 15h a week probably for the next year. We have a 3 year old who goes to pre-k from 8:30-2:30, grandma who lives 2 miles away takes him from 2:30-5:00 weekdays. We have a baby sitter…

People on a normal (bad for you) American diet are usually over nourished which has a different set of problems, but being undernourished as a kid is bad.

I’ve narrowed down the things that make and keep me happy to 4 main things. Health, financial stability, committed relationships with friends and family, and work that makes me proud of myself. In middle age it is really f’ing hard to get all of these going at once. In my 20's this involved studying, working,…

Grief is tough because it is more like a broken arm than hurt feelings. With a broken arm you can put on a brave face, grin and bear it, just get over it, but you still aren’t picking up a box with two hands. Same for grief, you can be tough but you are injured. You have to heal first, that takes time, and…

Also, thank people for compliments!  Everyone hates - “Oh you look great today!” “No I’m so fat and ugly”.  False modesty is dumb, just say thank you!

My Dad’s test to see whether you are ready or not to buy a (sail)boat.

I have really been struggling. I’ve realized I’m not strong enough or flexible enough in my hips and ankles to do even a bodyweight squat with good form. I’m starting from scratch with trying to have great form squatting just 3/4 and sitting on a bench, and lowering the bench each week. It’s a great exercise but…

Here’s a simple example. You hold a legal but controversial political opinion, that the US government does not share. You are arrested at a peaceful protest and the police now have your phone, which has all of your contacts, people that hold similar opinions, and all of your discussions about this opinion. Would…

Certainly it doesn’t always work, but it is a skill to be practiced, and you can improve your control.  The key idea is that you can either project responsibility for your emotions on others “they made me so mad!” or take responsibility for them “I am angry after hearing their words”.  One of them pretends that the…