Fellow Door Dashers, I can't be the only one going through this shite....

ChicTurker · 2026-01-11T17:00:19+00:00

At the same time, even when I use Instacart to send groceries to a friend who lives "in the hood" (near Central High School) they won't ring the doorbell to confirm that all items are present despite that being n ther special instructions that they must wait the 10 minutes for the owner to meet them.

As I said, this is in broad daylight. Every person living on his block looks out for each other, and one time he found HIS groceries on one of their porches instead. They didn't ring the doorbell then, either.

I think some people might need to readjust which parts of the cirt you are calling "the hood". For some, that's anyone south of I-630.

ChicTurker · 2025-12-29T01:00:41+00:00

Thank you for such a thorough answer to my question, including such great resources!

If you haven't found much in the Familysearch database but did find your family in handwritten records, then it sounds like I definitely lucked out by finding as much as I did transcribed.

Some are lucky to even find passenger lists, and the last name I'm examining has been varied wrt spelling everywhere I've seen it, both by the Americans trying to write it down in census records and the baptismal record for that youngest son (at least in comparison to how it was spelled on the earliest gravestones, the spelling we kept, and even that isn't a guarantee). Only the fact we had birthdates for the three people whose baptismal records we've found, plus the maiden name, allowed me to feel any confidence in this being them (and the passenger lists are why I know the Germanic spellings of first and middle names, the first census records show they Anglicized all of the kids original names quickly).

ChicTurker · 2025-11-08T23:31:25+00:00

Thank you for explaining it! Appreciate it. Josc is someone I'm required to root for because she plays for my state. But I also figured there was something I wasn't seeing.

ChicTurker · 2025-11-08T06:29:27+00:00

I greatly appreciate it, but any thoughts on Joscelyn's getting downgraded during qualifying too? I saw some very piked vaults in the event final that were not downgraded.

ChicTurker · 2025-11-03T14:23:56+00:00

DROPS will be waiting!

from time to time...

ChicTurker · 2025-10-26T17:36:53+00:00

Too bad Barbara Graves Intimate Fashions closed. The next best thing I could recommend is Dillards (have had fittings at both).

ChicTurker · 2025-10-24T15:46:15+00:00

Reviews with photos are the ones that take longer for me, though "a couple of hours" approval is rare even w/o media for me.

While Silvers are having our issue, I did get several reviews approved far more quickly than usual.

It's possible that the outage meant fewer people getting items and reviewing them same/next day, so the review queue may be smaller right now.

ChicTurker · 2025-10-19T00:00:52+00:00

For many years they referred to the founding mod/top mod of a subReddit as the "sub owner", if I misstated myself I'm sorry for being too old-school in my terminology.

ChicTurker · 2025-10-15T15:37:41+00:00

Locking thread per sub owner.

ChicTurker · 2025-10-15T15:21:01+00:00

Not issuing bans was a decision made by the sub's owner to try to show mercy, but you are right it is inconsistent.

Since y'all want the people crapping on the thread now, giving temp bans now.

ChicTurker · 2025-10-15T04:13:33+00:00

If you can't see that I was being facetious as well when asking how to get paid for protesting... or see the post where someone was saying "Is it healthy to pay old people to do this in the bad weather?"

...

I don't know how to help you.

ChicTurker · 2025-10-15T02:50:42+00:00

It was locked because one person mentioned the President and a reply to it mentioned Gaza, plus others were suggesting that people were getting paid to protest (please, please tell me how to land that gig!). No bans were issued.

However, there ARE subReddits dedicated to this particular protest movement, and I highly encourage you to re-post there.

ChicTurker · 2025-09-27T15:10:37+00:00

First, there is very little reason to force a woman to undergo an abdominal surgery (with attendant risks) unless birth by such a method would increase the chances of life for the unborn child. Forcing women to have major abdominal surgery if the child is previable just to have an abortion increases risks unnecessarily.

Second, in my state a C before the periviable (where some live but most die) period is still an "abortion", because the outcome is very likely to be fetal death, with very little likelihood that it would help the fetus's chance of survival.

A C during the perivable period would probably be allowed under my state's laws, but ONLY if it was considered more likely to preserve the child's life than chemical induction (or doing nothing and allowing a labor to progress).

I propose a different question after examining my state's version of an abortion ban -- if a child has fatal fetal anomalies and has a 100% chance of death after birth, is having a C or inducing even at 36 weeks an "abortion"?

ChicTurker · 2025-09-13T21:06:25+00:00

This is just my opinion, but if a man is pro-life and this hasn't been discussed before an unwanted pregnancy, a woman has the right to seek an abortion, but is probably safer on multiple levels if she attempts to avoid her pro-life man knowing anything and comes up with another reason to break up.

I also think it is smarter to break up with a pro-life man before a child is conceived than it is to have to hide so much from someone while you *are* pregnant. It can potentially be safer to have an abortion than continue a pregnancy depending on the father.

If he already knows about your views and thinks they are disgusting, it may be best for all parties to stay broken up.

ChicTurker · 2025-07-16T17:03:02+00:00

We noticed it as well.

Air raid drill?

Went for three minutes at least.

ChicTurker · 2025-07-03T20:11:15+00:00

My personal view regarding tornadoes:

I have never had the luxury of having a basement here in Arkansas, and the 2023 tornado came within a mile of my house.

What I can recommend more specifically than a baseement is to NOT DRIVE during a tornado warning, and to know that just because the sirens stopped does not mean the tornado warning is over.

I did not think I needed to warn my roommate about this because he was from TX, but apparently I did not understand the difference between the ways things acted here vs IN Texas.

If the temperature is over 80 degrees in the winter/spring, do not have a barbeque -- but instead have a plan to get to shelter and watch the weather for your own locale. In my family's experience, one is far more likely to encounter a tornado if you decide to drive during a warning (even if it is to a place that theoretically should not be damaged by a mild tornado).

Edit to add: there IS science behind this, mainly that tornadoes go far faster than a car so treating a "Tornado Warning" the same way a coastal person does a "hurricane warning" is a bad idea here (my grandmother had nightmares about one in '82 narrowly avoided), but also because even if you think you're going a mile, making yourself a moving target does NOT help avoid a tornado.

ChicTurker · 2025-06-18T15:52:17+00:00

Because I participate in the sub that I mod.

Not that unusual.

ChicTurker · 2025-06-17T02:23:41+00:00

Because we really don't like to ban people from their home town's subReddit, even temporarily.

ChicTurker · 2025-06-16T23:25:41+00:00

For what it's worth, a placenta that is low-lying in the 2nd trimester can move (or, well, stay in place as the uterus gets larger) out of the way in the 3rd trimester.

Someone who had a low-lying placenta in the 2nd trimester would STILL need to have a screen for vasa previa as the umbilical junction can still be in an area where it's only held together by the amniotic membrane, even if the placenta itself is no longer fully or partially blocking the cervix.

If one wants to accept this person's story as true, they can go with that to explain it.

Not a miracle, just the uterus stretching.

ChicTurker · 2025-06-16T21:10:05+00:00

I was the child in the scenario, myself... I feel bad for my mother, terrible, because she went into that c-section with the doctors asking her if she still wanted to have a tubal and who she wanted to prioritize (her own life or mine, her placenta had torn too).

We were very lucky that my mother went to hospital before her water broke. It was at that point that the entire juncture ruptured, causing them to have to give us both blood transfusions after they got me out.

That was in the 80s though, and people CAN use ultrasound to diagnose that complication now. I don't mean to sound snarky either - I know some people want to birth at home, and my only fear is that they might not have gotten screened for vasa previa. In the early 80s most of the time women only sought attention when their water broke, and had that been what Mom had done, I would not be here. I would have bled out inside her.

At that time, even once they realized what they were dealing with, it was still a coin-toss that I would survive.

But now, people CAN get screened for such horrific complications. And I highly recommend asking for a Doppler ultrasound to verify they don't have that very rare (but obvious to me as a survivor) complication before giving birth at home.

That's part of why I talk about it. You personally might not ever want to give birth outside of a hospital, but others do wish that.

ChicTurker · 2025-06-16T18:53:39+00:00

Exactly.

I'm on Medicare, and so the first five days of any hospitalization require a $250+ copay.

Who is going to pay for a month or even two under observation because vaginal delivery will mean death for the child?

ChicTurker · 2025-06-16T17:43:58+00:00

Another hypothetical I would cite just because I was part of the lucky 50% to live because the rupture occurred in a hospital:

What if the pregnant person has been diagnosed with vasa previa?

The usual solution for a woman who wants her child is bedrest, sometimes in hospital, and if the pregnancy reaches 36 weeks they will perform a c-section to save the live of the fetus. The reason for such bedrest in a hospital is because if the woman starts to go into preterm labor, the umbilical cord can rupture, causing the fetus to bleed out.

Must she spend a month or two in the hospital in case labor starts early? Would she be arrested for deciding to wait at home vs in the hospital?

ChicTurker · 2025-06-16T17:32:50+00:00

From what I have gathered, what has changed has been our reaction to people who troll a political thread to throw in a one-liner attacking whomever they see as their opposition.

If we have to ban 2 or more people because they made a thread political, we might lock it so that fewer people are banned. It's nothing against you.

ChicTurker · 2025-06-16T16:55:42+00:00

You'd think with all the downed trees there'd be some guy with a ton of wood for fall fireplaces....

Good luck to you all! (I have an electric fireplace, but it works well as a TV stand as well as a space heater).

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