My employer offers a legal insurance policy. I’ve been picking it up for years I know I need legal services, but how do I know if it is worth the cost to just carry it for unexpected things?

I work for a larger company. We are required to report our working zipcode on our timesheets. I understand it not only has implications for taxes but also whether or not I’m eligible for certain insurance selections through corporate benefits.

My county would have counted yellow for a period in August. Also hardly any tests were reported that week. Data is useful and also tricky.

Social media, one of several groups that profits monetarily or in power by you feeling like garbage. See also all for-profit news and increasingly non-profit news, politicians,... I’m probably toxically positive, but I’ve been toxically negative and I now refuse to let other people profit off my self-loathing.

We’ve been on all virtual since school started a week and a half ago. Our state spent who knows how much on virtual software. Tuesday of last week they told the middle school parents that “most students” have not been turning in assignments. On Friday we received notification that the great numbers in our county had…

I got decent at catching them when I was a teenager sitting with my grandpa on his porch.  Another tip that helped me: Don’t look at the fly.  Do it with your peripheral vision.

Consulting peer reviewed science, consulting a consensus of experts, consulting a panel of experts specifically tasked to either be authoritative on the topic or research the topic. Articles with the opinion of one expert are driving all the conspiratorial nonsense on social media.

“says expert” Can we stop doing this? I probably have two dozen “says expert” posts in my facebook feed this last hour. Half of them will be articles about how my children will have to be home for years much less this school year, the other half are definitively saying that a worldwide plague was made up as a scheme…

Honestly, I volunteer for an organization that has been supplying some foreign aid, and the real root fears behind the conspiracies aren’t that far fetched. I can point to several places that have been using the pandemic lockdown to ramp up either petty corruption or to suppress dissent. I’ve done some gentle…

If I shop around how do I know I’m not going to be trading garbage service for reducing my spending. We’ve been with state farm for years. Every claim I’ve had to file was one contact and then they took care of everything no hassle. I’d sure love to pay less but I don’t want to pay less and then surprise I need my new…

Going camping with my Dad we always did like homemade spaghetti and stuff.  I didn’t realize there was a pot attachment.  That will probably do exactly what I need.

I love the concept of my mini-mo but not being able to actually cook in the pot makes me want to find a replacement.

What is a reasonable plan for special education? We have a dyslexic and our district hasn’t been able to find a better plan for any special needs other than physically show up for support and they’ll try to keep them healthy. According to the plan for remote learning he could be facing as much as 12/hrs a day of…

As somebody who has spent an inordinate amount of time restricting breathing in others and having his own breathing restricted in grappling arts. Yes, it is totally normal feeling freaked out by even minor “breathing restriction.” No, you aren’t dying. Your brain overreacts because breath is vital and immediate. It…

Good call.  I’d forgotten that. My wife took her’s to DisneyWorld in case she drove on the way or the way home. She left them in the car all week and the anti-glare coat had gone all wavy.  She couldn’t see through them.

My guess is it is evaporating through the lids. I eventually ended up wrapping the cap of the one I keep in my vehicle with electrical tape and the level didn’t seem to reduce from just being in the vehicle. Now I just take it in and out.

Add to the list of things that you should have in your car but not keep in your car:

Most of these make sense. I’m concerned with the ban on chokeholds. A ban on chokeholds was a contributing factor to Rodney King’s beating. We need to make sure that if we insist on a ban on chokeholds they aren’t replaced with “less-lethal” methods that are more likely to kill someone than chokeholds.

A friend of mine runs a translation service company, she told me this weekend she’s had to tell 12 of her employees she doesn’t have a way to pay them. The available loans aren’t flexible enough to meet her business’s cashflow needs. She said her company won’t survive more than a month of this. I know quite a few…

This wasn’t really a thread about that set of people.  No point in discussing the parts of the article that are undeniably correct...