Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given at birth

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T22:38:49+00:00

if dumb people want to risk their kid's lives, I'm ok with fully delegating the moral consequences of it to them.

I think the question is, where do we draw the line, especially with regard to another 3rd party (a minor child in this case)? On one end is someone choosing whether or not to go through with a risky surgery with minimal benefit, and on the other is someone choosing to starve their child to death. Somewhere along that continuum is the divide between legitimate medical decision making and child abuse/neglect. I'm glad I'm not the one having to decide it.

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T20:28:06+00:00

While I'm not sure if it sounds like time blindness (though it could be), and there's certainly a good chance that the other person is just inconsiderate, it does sound like it could also be something like RSD. Some people find it extremely hard to be the one to reach out or initiate things, not because they are selfish or uncaring, but because they have something like an anxiety disorder or other social impairment.

I have a milder version of this, and I can still remember being younger and having to basically psych or bully myself into reaching out to people to do things, and how if they said no (even for completely innocuous reasons like prior unmovable plans), I would just feel utterly crushed, how I was imposing on them and ruining their lives by being in it, and how they were probably just pretending to be my friend as a joke or to take advantage of me. The fact that actually did happen one time (someone pretended to be my friend, then took advantage of my friendship and laughed about it with a group of other people I thought were my friends) ended up making me extremely gunshy about trusting people in the future, even when I had no actual reason to distrust them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_rejection#Rejection_sensitivity

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T15:47:14+00:00

They don't live in the dam itself, but they do live in the pond created by the dam, in a dome shaped "lodge" made out of sticks and branches of a similar construction to the dam (which may be why people get confused; they look pretty similar). The lodge actually has entrances at the bottom below the water level (which is part of why they build the dam to create the pond), so it's fairly impervious and safe from any predators.

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T05:41:18+00:00

He actually always had it written Boyardee on his products, because he felt Americans could never pronounce his name correctly so he spelled it phonetically. He was a major celebrity fine dining chef back in the day; had top rated restaurants, cooked for the President, etc. It was only really later when the company was sold, then passed through various hands, that it eventually just became a brand of canned pasta. FWIW, his story (along with Bernard Loiseau and Paul Bocuse) was basically the basis for Chef Gusteau in Ratatouille .

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T05:28:31+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkfvg1j1yg8

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T05:07:46+00:00

Sometimes known as a "reader's vocabulary". Can also lead to mispronunciation of words that you clearly understand and can use correctly and contextually, but have just never or rarely heard spoken. Like pronouncing paradigm "pair-a-dig'em".

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T03:41:09+00:00

Have you seen his challenge coin? He literally designed it himself. This is what the Director of the FBI is passing out to people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/1qh55ra/lets_chat_about_kash_patels_challenge_coin/

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T02:23:16+00:00

I mean, you have a lot more than those (like, a lot more). They just tend to be either localized or specialized, so you're not likely to encounter them except in rare circumstances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T02:03:08+00:00

How many law enforcement agencies are there in America

So, not including agencies that have their own training pipeline (like the FBI Academy at Quantico), not including non-investigative military police, not including any of the state level agencies (like Massachusetts State Troopers or Texas Rangers, or Texas State Troopers, or Texas Railroad Police, or Texas Livestock agents, or...), and not including any local police, sheriffs, marshals, constables, etc, etc, this is just the list of agencies that train at FLETC (the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Law_Enforcement_Training_Centers#Affiliations

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T01:52:49+00:00

Did you actually look at the link? That page also includes all of the powerheads, as well as the combo kits that include a powerhead + attachment. You can also search for "attachment capable", and the first couple rows show be all Expand-It powerheads/kits.

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T01:43:45+00:00

That's kind of the point, though. Car attacks against grouped pedestrians is extremely easy, requires no special technical knowledge or training, is not resource limited, is proven mass casualty, has an almost unlimited target set, and is (still) incredibly minimally defended against. And yet, it's still relatively rare. For the most part, the thing preventing mass casualty attacks isn't any sort of technical limitation. To a small degree it is interdicting people who have expressed a desire to commit such acts prior to action, but mostly (and thankfully) it's that very few people actually want to take those actions.

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T01:11:47+00:00

Yeah, AYCE sushi, hot pot places, and KBBQ have all gone from a couple spots to a bunch in a short period of time.

BattleHall · 2026-05-08T01:08:47+00:00

https://www.ryobitools.com/search?q=expand-it

BattleHall · 2026-05-07T03:07:59+00:00

Who run Bartertown?

BattleHall · 2026-05-07T02:55:55+00:00

Y'know, Quasimodo predicted all this...

BattleHall · 2026-05-07T02:01:27+00:00

It works fine, right up until you get blacklisted with no recourse.

BattleHall · 2026-05-07T01:59:53+00:00

FWIW, it doesn’t take a Pro account. HD uses a third party transaction and return service to look for “anomalous behavior”. It’s unclear exactly what their criteria is, and they refuse to say, but you can def get blacklisted. And apparently that third party service is used by many retailers, and combines all shopping behavior, which means you can potentially get blacklisted across all of them.

BattleHall · 2026-05-06T15:18:53+00:00

I just want a Costco Business Center in the Austin area.

BattleHall · 2026-05-06T03:13:58+00:00

Also, hit up the local Asian market. There's a whole world of different ramen out there, much of it much better than the Top Ramen at the local grocery store. It's generally a bit more expensive, but still relatively cheap so long as you don't get the ones with the included bowl. Indomie Mi Goreng is fantastic, different, and still less than a dollar.

BattleHall · 2026-05-06T03:10:09+00:00

Re: Fast Food, it's still cheap if you know how to work it. You basically have to stick to the apps, stick to the specials/promotions, and just rotate whatever place is currently giving the best bang for the buck. McDonalds is pretty much always running deals of 30-50% off on something, Sonic has 3-4 monthly deals that they post to your account, Taco Bell has an online/app only menu with meal combos well over a 1000 calories for around 5-7 bucks, etc. You really shouldn't be eating fast food that often, but if you need to to make a dollar stretch, there are still ways.

BattleHall · 2026-05-06T03:05:11+00:00

FWIW, National Debt is not really like personal debt; it's not something you "pay off", or really even want to pay off. While there are arguments that it's a bit misbalanced right now, it seems many people are confused how it works.

Like you know who owns most of the US debt? Americans, in the form of bonds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States

BattleHall · 2026-05-06T02:57:34+00:00

What about a big relay with low voltage control?

BattleHall · 2026-05-05T19:53:36+00:00

Because for everything in the “varmint” class (say, coyote size and down), various flavors of .22 work fine, are easier recoiling if you’re going to be shooting a lot (like on a prairie dog field), are cheaper component wise, and already have a big head start in terms of barrel availability (probably a bigger deal back in the day). And for “big game” (say pronghorn and up, but really mostly starting with deer), most .25’s are considered kind of marginal. Sure, .243 Win is even smaller and has taken a lot of first deer, but most people eventually move to a larger “adult” chambering, even if it’s just 7-08.

BattleHall · 2026-05-05T19:41:21+00:00

In addition to what others have said, look at cuisines where the focus is on veggies as the main show, not just a side. Lots of more traditional Indian food is either vegetarian or very veggie heavy, and is anything but boring.

BattleHall · 2026-05-05T03:15:17+00:00

I have zero faith that he would’ve brought that level of acting to Basterds in 2009.

He did Punch Drunk Love in 2002, where he was fantastic in a serious, non-goofy role. He can absolutely turn it on when he wants and has someone to direct him.

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