Ask for the real Sudafed. The little red ones say 4-6 hours, but one lasts me all day and minimizes side effects. They work quickly enough that you don’t need to get ahead of your symptoms, you can wait until you feel you need more.

Generic Guaifenesin syrup, ask the pharmacist. It’s OTC but sometimes it’s behind the counter

Good for MA. Hoping it doesn’t become moot because of a national ban on trans care. Bullies always start with the most vulnerable.

You’re assuming doctors will make their decisions based on the legitimate medical needs of their patients.

But hospital policies are often chosen for other reasons, such as ensuring all bills get paid in full, and no lawsuits are filed by anyone who has enough lawyers to win.

Those policies can put a doctor’s employment and/or license in jeopardy.

Doctors are already choosing to let women die rather than get in trouble for doing medically necessary abortions.

Will they cut anesthesia short and hope they can finish sewing in time? Unlikely, but not nonzero.

If it was just peeing, maybe he was trying to get home to the loo.

But add in the drunk driving, lost my sympathy.

Wait, he’d done a hit-and-run crash!?

Jail time!

He can have a nice clean pair of orange pants.

“In 2023, she made $21.9 million.” (Wikipedia)

Noticed the Connecticut exemption, must be a law there. I’ll take “laws you wouldn’t think could be necessary” for $400, Alex. Guess we better get California working on that as well.

I’d say any surgery without anesthesia is hurting more than a little bit. What are we, Gaza?

I super believe in you, Tad Cooper!

It was a great show. But Timothy Ormundson needed to recover from his stroke.

Pong.

Brine, eh? Well we do grow lots of cucumbers…

;-)

Ohh, you gave me an idea! Given that it also happens in CA, maybe we should use the excess for freshwater production from seawater.

Tried it, the first question is to confirm that the package is addressed to YOU. There’s nobody in the building who could do that.

In addition to everything else: for weeks our building has been receiving packages addressed only with a name, a number, S, and the zip. The name is someone who has never lived here and may not exist. There’s no apartment number. Our street doesn’t start with S, if anything the S is for South. It’s obviously some kind of fraud, because what’s in the packages are little metal clips to clamp the starting tape holding stuff on a pallet. Not anything for residential use. They ship from various Amazon warehouses but through USPS. We can’t get the mailman or Amazon people to return them and the Amazon return process only works if the unwanted package is addressed to you, not some random name.

But I’m now sure as hell that USPS isn’t going to let anything as trivial as an unclear address stop them from delivering the package SOMEWHERE. Anything to call it “delivered.”

If everyone who comments here emailed Joe Biden with suggestions as to how he could use his newly-expanded powers to help deserving people in America (or influenced by America) it would probably not make a difference, but there’s a non-zero possibility he’d actually do some of it.

My mom lives three large states away and has Alzheimer’s but is still able to recognize people. She’s well cared for, but I’m sole caregiver for my bedbound family member. I’m reconciled to the fact I cannot travel to visit her, but if I could go for just half an hour, even just one hug, I would.

Edit: Oh, one way only? Nvm.

My mom lives three large states away and has Alzheimer’s but is still able to recognize people. She’s well cared for, but I’m sole caregiver for my bedbound family member. I’m reconciled to the fact I cannot travel to visit her, but if I could go for just half an hour, I would.

Edit: oh, one way only? Nvm.

My mom lives three large states away and has Alzheimer’s but is still able to recognize people. She’s well cared for, but I’m sole caregiver for my bedbound family member. I’m reconciled to the fact I cannot travel to visit her, but if I could go for just half an hour, I would.

I vote we change the definition of a “Van Dyke” to this glorious snowy beardage.

GNU Terry Pratchett 😿