rintintin

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Wearing a coat isn’t hard lol

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Man that's quite a level of downplaying for a Southerner.

Winter is a bitch, especially if you have kids. You don't just "wear a coat" when its -10 degrees, it's like an act of congress just to get out the door.

Then you strip everyone down again or all sweat your arse off in your car. Then put it all back on when you get out the car. Then take it all off again when you made your destination.

Do all that with kids and you'll never want to leave the house in winter.

And I didn't mention the sludgy mess that you track around because of the snow.

Lol, "just wear a coat" :lol:

Flight attendants have gotten pretty good at shutting that down.

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my experience, billing from actual doctors and the work they do isn’t as surreal as you get from medical facilities.

I had surgery last year that required a hospital stay from Saturday through Wednesday.

Bill from the hospital: $178,000. Insurance negotiated this down to $35,000.

Bill from the surgeon: $2000

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For clarity, you got a a professional fee (for the physicians work) and a facility fee from the hospital. The professional fee is always gonna be much lower because you're essentially paying for the physicians time. While the facility fee is covering the myriad of other expenses and overhead the hospital incurs. Sometimes those are lumped together depending where you go so you won't see them broken up separately.

Also, the charge may have been $178k, but that is essentially a fake number. Nobody (insurance or patient) will ever pay a full hospital charge. It is a made up number and varies wildly hospital to hospital. Your insurance didn't necessarily negotiate your particular bill down, they have pre-negotiated reimbursement rates for all services they've agreed to with the hospital before you ever step foot in the door. That's what the $35k is.

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Can anyone still reading this thread and not bleeding all over it give a synopsis of current knowledge?

The main question I have is did he have the gun on his person or did he fish it out of the backpack during the scuffle?

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The best timeline of events I've seen:

1. The guy was videoed (by a passing car) being face to face with BP agents which seems to be several minutes before the scuffle.

2. The next video shows him getting involved when agents were pushing a woman to the ground. He seemed more on the defensive rather than offensive but certainly injecting himself into the situation.

3. This is when the big scuffle happens and 5-6 other agents get involved and try to subdue him. He resists, but there's no sign of a gun at this point.

4. A video shows agents possibly disarming him (from his pants) during the scuffle. Not sure if definitive but it seems that way.

5. Thereafter, an agents appears to yell "gun" around the same time shots were fired killing him. I haven't seen anything indicating that he drew his weapon or fired shots.

Based on the above, my take is that he got himself involved by intruding with agents (video 1). Agents were a bit overzealous with some sky screaming women and the guy tried to intervene (video 2). He resisted, but agents were a bit trigger happy considering the circumstances.

Of course everyone will need to pick a side and yell back and forth about who was right / wrong. But the reality is that it was a shitty and avoidable situation from both parties, that resulted in someone being killed.

She'd certainly punch me in mine if I didn't.

Prank was funny

Your response not so much

But if your kid was able to pull that off in the way you described, at that age, he's gonna be a leader somewhere.

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FFS do we need a phone app for everything?

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This shite too. I don't want to have to login with a username and password every time I want to use your product.

There's a good Always Sunny episode about this and I'm Dennis to a Tee

As a current MN resident, who moved from LA 3 years ago, I'll give you an honest assessment without all the hyperbolistic nonsense people spew on both sides.

Firstly, everything about how woke it is is absolutely correct. You'd be hard pressed to find a more blue haired, self-guilting, sky screaming population in the US outside of maybe Portland and Cali.

The wokeness wanes the further you get from the city, so like most places, the rural areas and most suburbs are generally hard working, country loving folk.

Minnesota "nice" is a sham. People are generally nice, but it's not the friendliness most southerners are used to. There's a local joke that a Minnesotan will give you directions anywhere but their house. If you're an outsider it tends to be difficult to break through.

While the crime is not as bad as LA, there are certainly pockets of dangerous shitholes with regular shootings and the usual suspects doing their normal shenanigans. Petty burglar and car theft is also a big problem near the city.

All that being said, the financial opportunities and economics of the state are eons above LA and many southern states. Cost of living isn't that much higher, yet it's much easier to make a lot of money. Whether that lasts, I don't know, but just look at the prevalence of big companies headquartered here.

Outside of the city center, there is also a high standard of living. People are well off, education is very good, and there's a lot of stuff to do. Those are the reasons it always ranks high in "best places to live" lists.

The reality is you can avoid all the blue haired nonsense you see in the headlines if you really want to. It's not something that affects most people's day to day life aside from just regularly crossing paths with people who ooze wokeness. If that bothers you then sure, it's a shitty place to live. If it doesn't, then it's not that bad.

Is everyone just forgetting how they needed a miracle TD catch to beat a miserable Penn St. team?

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There’s no way I would let a job dictate where I live.

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Someone moving in oder to better provide for their family is far more noble than staying put for the myriad of reasons people never leave their hometown.