He would not be liable if he simply administered a pregnancy test as part of her care (which is fairly routine for a variety of procedures), and if she refuses guess what she has to do?  Sign a fucking waiver to hold the doctor harmless.  

Phew, I though Canada didn’t have any draconian practices like America.  Good to know you guys fuck up sometimes too....cuz ya know, if I can sign a piece of paper before LASIK surgery that if something goes way sideways, I don’t want to be resuscitated and everyone’s in the clear if I die, then fuck additional proof…

YUP!  Same with Iowa, if you look at sales number of the more popular ranch (HV), blue cheese vanishes from this map.

These sales numbers are skewed too by Kraft having (at best) the #2 mega mass produced ranch on the market after Hidden Valley, so Iowa is wrong due to that for example.  The frankly upsetting relationship between Iowa and ranch dressing is renowned.

“It’s an affront on par with people assuming vodka is the default spirit for a Martini.” Thank you for fully encapsulating two of the greatest restaurant/bar wrongs around in one sentence. Ranch for wings is garbage, and a martini has gin...a vodka martini has vodka.

My bad, 100% with you on regular surface streets being 60 or under. It would be nice if we had tougher licensing standards and some periodic mandatory refreshers so American drivers could possibly handle full autobahn style freeways...but alas

As in a 60mph limit on highways/freeways?  Realistically we should just enforce speed limits better, but they mostly should be raised at least slightly on non-residential roads.  60mph isn’t a problem, but there are numerous highways and freeways that are higher and should be higher than 60...agreed on stop light…

Until cyclists all follow the rules of the road, car drivers can’t just automatically be at fault.  Just like your mythical “you’re always at fault when you rear-end someone” nonsense where “always” or “never” just traps you into being technically (in this case meaningfully) wrong.

I’m not sure if you’re American or not, but if not, in America driving pretty much functions as a right as our country is built in a way to make cars necessary for most adults to function.  Of course, in certain pockets (not even entire cities) of cities public trans and proximity of housing to amenities/employment…

Or also not too much, because studies show that our speed limits are already slower than they should be for maximum efficiency without reducing safety.

Uh statistically, pre-cellphone days saw a much higher ratio of pay to expected work output/hours. Now that we see workers constantly squeezed more and more every year to produce more for less, we have to get creative. We also didn’t have tools (laptops, uh, cellphones) to work from the car so that was just dead/lost…

Yeah but he can’t withhold the passports when the kids have dual citizenship with a foreign parent.  He’s the one that will look like the aggressor and problematic parent because he’s the only one (publicly at least) actively restricting the kids residence and travel>

That little word “effectively” is really the key here as on a national scale (pres, congress) your vote is meaningless.

I don’t think Michael Oher blaming a movie that came out 7 months after the draft for hurting his draft stock belongs in a argument *defending* the intelligence of football players.

That’s just the pedo stache...he’s 33 which, I mean, when not sporting tragic facial hair is how old I’d say he looks.

The PS5 edge controller has variable trigger depth among its customizable features.  I game a lot but nothing remotely hardcore or meaningfully competitive and that Edge controller is fantastic.

This is a good tip/suggestion. My DualSense Edge never gives me close to the 5-10 hours it is supposed to, maybe 3-4 hours on the high end which is brutal. But I use a shitty wall charger almost exclusively for charging so I’ll have to switch it up to charge off the console and see if I notice a difference.

Overall very few things jump out as crazy rankings here: Dumb at 24 is nonsense, it’s much better than...half-ish of the songs ahead of it.  Rape Me is 100% a top 30 song probably top 20 at worst.  Come As You Are is way to high.

Rape Me is absolutely a top 30 Nirvana song, from actual sound/musical composition to awesome and extremely on brand messaging.

Yeah, but Cherry Coke is not only the same price as original (as mentioned elsewhere), but regular old Coke is a mess of chemicals and “flavorings”, so a reasonable consumer shouldn’t really assume Coca-Cola threw some real fucking cherries in there. Additionally, you have a MUCH higher likelihood of having…