I take off my shoes at home, but at my best friend’s house I leave them on because she has pets and the floors are always filthy.

More like blocking the sidewalk and spilling out into the streets right in front of the main library and city hall, so please move a couple of blocks to a parking lot.

Right. People complained about the library location blocking the sidewalk, so they were asked to move. The city in no way is against feeding the homeless.

The place this group chose to feed people was creating a nuisance and they were asked to move it elsewhere. They were given an acceptable place just a few blocks away, and refused to move. The story has been sensationalized to make it seem Houston is against helping the homeless.

Great analogy. (BTW it’s “free rein”)

Don’t cosign anything for a friend, ever. It will screw up your friendship.

Honestly I hope he keels over and Harris gets nominated.

Then your real problem is you don’t have an effective way to set and measure goals.

I was born in 1962 and I consider myself a Boomer. I have a friend born in 1961 who considers himself GenX. It’s life circumstances and attitude that determine where you fit.

Also, everybody please remember all these generational labels are made-up bullshit and vast generalizations that might be useful for some meta-analysis of trends, but they’re less than useless when it comes to understanding individual behavior.

Like I taught my kids, the minute you start thinking all people in “Group Whatever” are alike, you lose.

My Kindle Touch has a night mode with blue light inhibitor

I have a theory that part of this is due to the dying out of religion as a way to keep the masses in line.

I agree with everything you said except the idea that I was being dismissive. It’s terribly concerning, especially if the symptoms have arisen recently. Because it often takes a long time to arrive at a proper diagnosis, it’s important to start down that path at once.

Gosh why can’t the Democrats nominate somebody else? Ugh

Pick a country that’s not tearing down billions of housing units that aren’t habitable

If this feels new rather than something you’ve always dealt with, please get evaluated by a doctor right away. Nobody on Lemmy can diagnose you over the Internet.

The seditionists were likely well armed, so firing at them might have felt like suicide.

TBF we are talking about unrealized gains. Their investments are worth more on paper, but until they sell them, the actual profit or loss will fluctuate. It would be an accounting nightmare to figure tax on unsold investments every year. I do, however, think capital gains should be taxed at the same rate as wage income.

A lot of doctors get their degree in Canadian schools and then go work in the USA, so I do think if Canada compensated better they could retain more people

Canadian single-prayer healthcare doesn’t include dental; you need a private policy for that. I never visited the dentist when I lived there, but I presume since it’s for profit it’s better. Are you in a small town or something? My big city seems to have a surfeit of dentists

It was an acquaintance, but yes. Thing is, if you don’t have insurance, your price is usually deeply discounted. A few weeks ago I needed a scan of a vein for a blood clot. My copay was $300 (and who knows how much the total paid by insurance would be), but they said I could just pay cash and not go through insurance and it was only $130. That’s part of the problem with our system.