So I’ll say, then your best option is insulin therapy. Refused. OK, but your HBA1C of > 10% is going to destroy you much more quickly than any options there.

I’m absolutely happy to have a conversation with a patient who has concerns about these drugs and if they want to wait for a culture and sensitivity to come back before we start empiric treatment, happy to do that as well.

Sure, there literally is nothing to actually protect your image once you’re in a public space

You are in public. There is no reason to expect privacy when you are in a public place

He didn’t fail miserably. He succeeded in his PR jippo. That was what mattered.

No, not really. The money and resources he spent doing this, and the money and resources others spent to cover this won’t come back and cannot ever be used for other things, like for instance really saving children. Every minute, more than than 20 children die. Just a fraction of this extravaganza would have saved…

If he had spent the same time and resources on helping kids dying from disease, starvation and war, he would have saved a lot more children’s lives than twelve. But wouldn’t get to bask in glory. Make no mistake, this was all about Elon Musk, not about those 12.

Love to read but don’t have the team to sit down and actually read a book?

Love to read but don’t have the team to sit down and actually read a book?

They’re “fairly” common here in the reasonably well-off North-East. I’d guess that at least one out of four weddings in this area are black tie, dress and hat for the ladies, and more popular within certain immigrant/heritage groups than others.
That said, I’ve been to a beach wedding where the requested attire was…

Hey, wild and wanton. I am deeply religious. I believe in the Bible, i believe in God. But you know what i definitly do not believe in? Space aliens, big foot, lochness monster. Oh and santa clause, the easter bunny, and the tooth fairy!

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but I’ve never been to a wedding where the guests were expected to wear black tie. The dressiest weddings around here require a suit for the men, not a tux.

It’s very rare to come across an establishment where you have to be dressed up to dine at.

the only faux pas would have been if either of them were wearing socks with sandals or flip flops.

Slides are sandals without a heel strap.
Flip-flops are toe-divided sandals without a heel strap.

the only faux pas would have been if either of them were wearing socks with sandals or flip flops.

Wearing jeans, t-shirts, sandals or shorts to weddings is a big no, unless it’s explicitly listed as acceptable attire. And crocs are not acceptable even then.
If nothing else is said, I’d go with black tie, and if it says casual dinner, drop the tie and cummerbund and go with an unstarched shirt.

Also, it is the scientists like Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Dr Oberth, Dr Hynek, etc. who have been adamant in their belief in aliens. Sagan sums it up with “If human beings are alone, it would be an awful waste of space.”.

I think that’s part of the reason. I think another big part is that skeptical thinking and rejection of all supernatural beliefs is becoming more prevalent. There’s a correlation between being religious and seeing UFOs, and as we inevitably progress towards rationality instead of superstition, sightings decline.

Given that the historical data from CDC shows a higher percentage of food/hygiene violations for ethnic[*] restaurants for the decade ending in 2003, before public internet reporting and back when all food establishments were checked twice a year, people’s prejudices causing overreporting seems unlikely to be the…

Smells like an extortionary attempt playing on longstanding tropes of Asian food as “exotic,” “mysterious,” “and unclean.”