As someone who’s wanted a tesla for years, and who’s savings plan for one is blown now that I have a one year old, fuck this guy.

Jeez. At that age I was just writing crappy fan fic and doodling embarrassingly phallic space ships (to be fair I did go on to study aerospace engineering, not that I use that degree at all now...).

Is scurvy an adjective? If not, I’m using it as one now!

Yeah, I love kids (and work at a children’s hospital) but that’s just nasty. No excuse for that. Impolite, unsanitary, etc.

Yeah I need to get my ass out of North Carolina

Thanks for this. As a physician, and with 3 relatives who are OBs, it’s easy to forget what a wonderful job American and worldwide midwives do, on average. Always good to challenge one’s prejudices.

To be fair, the southpoint target in Durham is REALLY nice.

Yep, not surprising at all, unfortunately.

Finally tackling uncharted 4. With some wolfenstein thrown in.

Hope to make it to Asheville. Loved the book, and the audiobook.

I’m a physician, and I said no. I let the OBs do it. I only cared about the baby and my wife (neither of whom was doing well at the time - both are fine now).

I’m actually having that issue right now with my 1 year old son’s PT (who FWIW is super nice and our son loves her). We started because he was a bit delayed walking, but he’s doing amazing, in less than two months has gone from not walking to running, jumping, climbing, doing stairs, etc. Somehow, though, doing better…

Couldn’t agree more.

What I tell people (paraphrasing the great Tim Minchin) is that if alternative medicine worked, it would be called medicine.

My in laws are the “God has a plan” types. I told my wife that if anything ever happened to her or our son, if anyone were to tell me it was “God’s plan”, that person and I would never speak again.

This. In our children’s hospital, parents are often shocked to find out they don’t actually get to refuse lifesaving treatments for their children. Recently there was a JW family with a child who absolutely needed blood transfusion or the child would die. When the father agreed to do whatever necessary to save the…

It’s the same thing in the health care system. We aren’t graded on how healthy people are or other appropriate outcome metrics, but on how satisfied they are with their “service”, and usually that amounts to them saying it’s too expensive and they didn’t get the pain meds they wanted.

A trainer won’t kill you with his “treatment”.

How about the tornado/falling tree/flooding combo? My house last year: