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... and, as she looked back over her life, she saw that it was in the times of the heaviest of rains that the outline of God was most clearly seen 🙏🏻
I completely agree, @slashfilm: Warehouse 13 is underrated.
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I'm not surprised but I am disgusted that this is the angle the Arkansas Democrat Gazette took in this story.
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In 1992, a company called Nabisco released a green box of cookies that explained the entire era better than any government document could.
They were called SnackWell's. They were fat-free. The fat had been removed, and to make a fat-free cookie taste like anything at all, it had been replaced with sugar and refined flour, in quantities that made the cookie nutritionally worse than the cookie it was pretending to improve on.
The marketing did not mention the sugar. The marketing said: fat-free. And a public that had been trained for fifteen years to read "fat" as the single enemy understood "fat-free" to mean "free." Free of consequence. Eat as many as you like.
They did. SnackWell's outsold Oreos. The boxes held twelve cookies, framed as a sensible single serving, and were emptied in a sitting by people who genuinely believed they were being good. By 1995 the brand was selling nearly half a billion dollars a year.
It produced a phenomenon real enough to be given a name in the psychology literature. The SnackWell Effect. The tendency to overconsume a food precisely because its label has told you it is virtuous.
A nation ate itself heavier on cookies it had been told were a diet aid, and could not work out why.
The green box was not an outlier. The green box was the whole decade, condensed, on a supermarket shelf.
Not often, but I know one family that the mom is around 5'9", the dad is probably 6'2"
One daughter (middle child) is 6'1", other daughter (youngest) is about 5'11", but the son (oldest) is maybe 5'8" or 5'9"
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If I'm not responsible for washing your undies, then I shouldn't see your butt.
Call me prudish. I'm okay with that.
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"When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'”
John 8:12 NIV
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Sometimes people with endless free time say things like I’m not losing weight fast enough or I should be doing this or that, some of them even get upset that I’m Jewish, even though I’m not super religious (working on it!) and I married a Pentecostal southern belle 👸
But, I have a wife who loves me and a little man who looks like this every time we play. I’m providing for them, while doing everything else on the side.
So just to be clear, the reason I don’t engage with the haters is very simple: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
I still do this for my pre-teen daughter and would for my teenage son if he didn't have his door closed.
I used to think my dad just had a weird habit.
Every night, no matter how late it was, he’d check if I was asleep. Like actually come into my room, stand there for a second, then leave.
I remember pretending to sleep sometimes just to see how long he’d stay. Sometimes he’d fix my blanket, sometimes he’d just sigh and walk out.
As I got older, I thought it was kinda annoying. Like… why are you still doing that?
One night I finally asked him.
He just shrugged and said, “Just checking.”
Years later, my mom told me the real reason.
When I was a baby, I got really sick out of nowhere. Stopped breathing in my sleep. They barely made it to the hospital in time.
After that, he never fully trusted “quiet.”
So every night, for years… he just needed to see my chest rise at least once before he could relax. 🥹
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Everybody loves to hate Walmart.
But at the Van Buren Walmart, one of our cashiers passed away a beloved elderly lady everyone called Nana and they dedicated her register to her.
Flowers. Her photo. Her little things.
Not every Walmart is some soulless big-city mess.
Sometimes it’s still a small-town place where people remember your name… and miss you when you’re gone.
She was the lady always took my groceries to
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When my son received a life-saving surgery, the total bill was about $100,000.
We paid about $15,000.
I would’ve paid anything and was grateful that insurance paid most of it, but the charges on the bill were clearly predatory.
My husband said the cheapest part of the bill was the actual skull surgery.
They nickel-and-dimed us the other $85,000 on Motrin doses, meals, IVs, bandages, staff visits, and a few days in the hospital.
The system is built upon the assumption that everything will be overcharged but insurance will pay the bulk of it.
That creates a disaster for anyone without coverage, and it causes insurance companies to recoup the expenses with higher deductibles and co-pays.
Something has to change.
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Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is.
So I will weigh in.
I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours.
My bill? $13,500 dollars.
Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount.
For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is.
But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is.
And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers.
On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500.
We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20.
Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings.
Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this.
And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie.
People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.
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Here is what the "healthy" breakfast does to your body.
Oatmeal spikes your blood sugar to 150. Your pancreas releases insulin to bring it down. Two hours later you crash. You're hungry again. More insulin. Whole wheat toast does the same thing. Orange juice is worse than a Coca-Cola because the sugar hits your bloodstream with zero fiber to slow it down.
Three eggs with butter. Blood sugar stays at 93. Flat. Stable. No spike. No crash. No hunger for 5 hours.
Same person. Same morning. Different food.
Do the first one three times a day for 30 years. Your cells stop responding to insulin. That's insulin resistance. And the damage is not just diabetes.
The same insulin resistance that destroys your pancreas destroys your brain. De la Monte called it Type 3 diabetes. It's Alzheimer's. The same metabolic fire drives heart disease. Cancer. Obesity. Five of the top ten killers in America trace back to the same breakfast you ate this morning.
I'm so sick of the medical insurance and healthcare expenses carousel.
I was at a doctor's office for an hour and 4 minutes.
Maybe 8 minutes was with the doctor, even if I'm being generous.
The rest was waiting.
The amount charged for that office visit was $390.00.
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Trying to help doesn’t mean you skip asking.
No means no—even when your intentions are good.
I never realized how many times @NathanFillion's Castle and @ZacharyLevi's Chuck were both told to stay in the car but rarely did because ...
"It's never safe in the car!"