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This. A lot of people who are relatively well off really have no idea how much things have gotten worse for the have nots. Life in this country is increasingly a lottery of birth. I think part of the problem is that there are a number of visible things that are vastly better and people incorrectly infer that therefore everything is similarly better. To wit: when I was a kid a 25 inch color TV cost 500 bucks. Today you can get a 50 inch flat-screen for half that. Vast improvement. But housing relative to income is vastly more expensive. Average income doubling means nothing if all of the aggregate increase went to 10 families at the top. And then if prices went up, the country as a whole is worse off, not better. I'm one of 6 kids raised by parents who fell almost out of the middle class when I was about 5. They cobbled together enough income from two shitty jobs each to keep the roof over our heads and we all managed to go to college. 5 of us graduated. I look at the cost of living in my town now and don't see how it would be possible for a couple to do what my parents did. And of the 6 kids, I and my younger sister are the only ones likely to be really financially stable in retirement. One will pretty much certainly be relying on me to keep her off the street, another is a cheapskate and resourceful so he'll manage, and another will probably scrape by. The other is already in a nursing home on Medicaid, and I'm terrified of what havoc is going to be wreaked on that system, because it would take me down too if her care suddenly stopped being covered.

Looks like a couple are on the New Paradise schedule now.

Anyone know if he's still around?

Perp walks should generally be banned IMO. How are they anything but prejudicial to potential jurors?

I don't think the concerns about society snapping are as far fetched as some of you think they are. I think over the last 20 years the world has become much harder for most people who are not well above average in either ability or income. The safety net is not what it was and with smaller families people who do find themselves in trouble often don't have family to turn to.

My PT uses gloves when he's doing work on my spine, doesn't wear a mask. I had one PT who didn't always but she also usually wasn't going that deep or long and she did sanitize her hands before and after.

The ine and only time I had a therapist use gloves was when my back had broken out in acne in reaction to having my back sugared. And that was understandable to me.

That would explain why the online appointments isn't working.

Would depend on what it was for. Drug possession...well frankly that's luck of the draw, wouldn't faze me. Battery/theft/rape/manslaughter would def be an issue.

Yes, I'm saying he was not the only healthcare exec there. I'd say whoever had their picture on the same web page as him might have been the victim had they shown up first.

Maybe it was a shoot the first C-suite person you see and not him specifically.

Ad now says Birmingham.

When you're hiring you call the shots. It's the guys who want it for free I take issue with.

I've kind of thought I'm not sure i have what it takes for a long-term relationship, mainly because I already have a caretaker role in my family and consequently have less to give to a partner, and would kind of prefer to be "the other guy" but am not really forward enough to seek that out explicitly. That said, I find the married guys who are totally unwilling to kiss or cuddle even the slightest bit a major turnoff. It can feel pretty dehumanizing.

Generally speaking at the Vegas spas nude is fine in the tubs and when you're sitting down in the sauna or steamroom, but just walking around naked is going to draw some attention and if you're too obviously looking to play you're gonna get kicked out.

The medication side effects have vastly diminished. In the early oughts you could identify a lot of people on the meds by the distinctive facial wasting. I knew of at least one person who found the side effects so bad he just stopped taking them and succumbed to the disease. I don't see that happening now with the people I know are HIV+. As for the not remembering, that's already happening with 9/11 and was even before the pandemic. It's a regular phenomenon.

The reason they didn't let Giuliani file was he was flouting the process, moving stuff out of his apartments into storage units where the owner wouldn't allow the creditors in, turning over the car but not the keys or title,etc.

But do they survive bankruptcy? I'd think he'd just file.

You can be pretty active in film and not making much money at all. He might be getting floated by family.

I would imagine he's burned through all his money and his future earnings prospects are dim at best, so it's probably not worth the cost of litigation for the plaintiffs to pursue.

I have a mtf trans acquaintance who moved to Canada with her wife and children last year over the climate here.

I thought I had read that when they took blood samples from the people who seroconverted in PreP studies the evidence indicated they pretty much just weren't taking it at all, not just they missed a dose here or there. Someone too undisciplined to take a pill isn't likely to consistently put on a rubber either. There are now generics for PreP that are like 30 bucks a month. The only reason there is still major money made in PreP is the ACA mandates full coverage and pharmacy benefit managers steer the formularies to the expensive brands. That's the real scam. I got a prescription and was shocked when I saw how much my employer paid.

Keep in mind this is about recreation not finding a life partner. If someone only wanted to live with someone in a narrow age range and kept trading them in for a younger model every three years, you'd have a point.

I think there was a change at some point in the typical service "level" provided and multiple people noted having that experience (not everyone). Which is his prerogative. The massage itself is still very good but I wouldn't go in expecting more.

Yes that's why if you're bitten by an animal of unknown vaccination status, they just give you the shots because they can't test you for it and by the time you're showing symptoms it's too late for treatment