There are a lot of people who don't know what they are doing and just ingest whatever they are handed - especially young people. I could see how a fair number of those at the concert thought they were taking Molly and didn't suspect a thing.

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I don't know if my friend did. I seem to remember him saying that usually they just tried to keep people calm and hydrated and not add anything to the person's bloodstream unless they absolutely had to.

I had a friend who was an EMT in the 90s and worked a lot of concerts in the SF Bay Area. He said stuff like this was always a problem. He said part of the problem was often the drug dealers either didn't know exactly what was in their product or they lied about it and so people took things or amounts they weren't…

It is a shitty thing all around. Initially, I toughed it out but it was so emotionally draining and upsetting for me that I decided it wasn't worth it. Now I skip any event I know this parent is attending. My family doesn't quite appreciate that it's unfair to expect me to be around someone who actually makes me…

The chart in the article shows the agreed upon expenses paid out to insurance companies which is much lower than the billed average. Anyway, you slice it though, the US is still obscenely more expensive than other countries.

As someone who decided to cut a troubled parent out of my life, I can tell you that if the toxic person's behavior hasn't caused your family members to cut ties or defend you already, your own drastic actions will do nothing to change theirs. People don't like conflict and feel a lot of obligation to people for a…

Your mom's friend's rationale makes NO sense at all. "Hmmm, my husband is cheating on me showing a total lack of respect for our marriage, my emotional and physical health, and low commitment to a shared future. I think a child really shoudl be added to this mess!"

No need to be so defensive or pissy. I read your comment as saying "My son's birth wasn't that expensive" because your out of pocket expenses were low. I was trying to clarify which sums were being compared which were the billed costs and not what the patients ended up paying in the end. I wasn't trying to say your…

Your son's birth still cost $17,000 regardless of what you paid out of pocket. The NY Times article is comparing the costs to other developed countries and the US is almost triple several European countries which have better health care according to WHO. US health insurance companies are what are driving up the costs…

Native Bay Arean here who now lives in NYC. Californians are huge whiners about weather. I've gone biking in Davis in 105 weather and it was OK - hot, but OK. I went to college in Southern California in the desert and it was 112 during the day - that's really fucking hot but it's super dry so the shade is alright. 88…

Yes! Oh man, as an adult I'm terrible if I'm hungry. I've learned not to talk to people if I haven't eaten. A coworker called it being "hangry".

Jesus! I don't think emotional manipulation is really the way to go. Mostly because it falls under "negotiating with your child" and as a teenage babysitter I felt that that was akin to negotiating with terrorists and I do NOT negotiate with terrorists. It's hard but I found that sometimes the kid just has to get…

I find that in general, all you want is a parent to acknowledge they find the behavior inappropriate either by saying or doing something immediately that upholds the social fabric.

Well, according to a lot of evangelicals/born agains reading horoscopes is practicing the occult!

Witches!

Anyone who has a ticket is allowed. But she actually said that she felt like she missed out on the UT college experience which is a big football school. It's so stupid.

If a school has an endowment then the funds for need blind admissions come from this endowment which generates money through financial investments (yes at one time a long time ago it was based on alumni donations, but my whole point is that they no longer are and haven't been for quite some time). Alumni donations…

I'm talking about the top 25 liberal arts colleges in the US - they do give out merit scholarships. The Ivies are generally not part of that ranking and I could see why an Ivy would not give out merit scholarships.

Endowments are largely tied to stock investments and have been for the last 30+ years. It's partly the reason that the economic crash in 2008 hurt a lot of schools with smaller endowments.