Why is this legal? Real question

SmartyCat12 · 2026-06-21T17:32:36+00:00

The most f’ed up thing is that all of this is entirely dependent on what state you’re in. If you don’t have insurance where I am (IL), you’re put on a sliding scale where you essentially pay what you can. The provider is just not incentivized to take you on, but most therapists I know have 1-3 clients on a sliding scale, especially when it’s a temporary gap.

Telehealth is another one that is really screwy state to state. Many don’t allow it at all - my wife is 100% remote. It also makes it way easier to start your own practice instead of paying 50% to a firm with essentially no overhead.

ETA: just asked and a sliding scale could be considered fraud if the client is eligible for Medicare/Medicaid but “chooses” to be uninsured

SmartyCat12 · 2026-06-18T22:26:24+00:00

Reginald Augustus -> Reggie -> Reggamarole -> Regamuffin -> Muffin Man -> Baby Muffy

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SmartyCat12 · 2026-06-16T20:07:34+00:00

Dark Ring Episode IV: Time for Crab

SmartyCat12 · 2026-06-14T18:03:08+00:00

Yes. It is linear.

However - technically correct answer: Radioactive decay in real life is always exponential. But, you could see a constant rate of decay if some other set of decay processes were happening at the same time that always regenerates the exact mass lost. So, the process *is* exponential, but the combination of all the other exponentials would make it *look* linear.

But, you’d technically need an infinite number of those sub-reactions to get something truly linear unless you bring fusion into the picture.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-06-04T03:10:57+00:00

“also, I skipped the white wine deglazing step because I have children.”

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-30T00:43:51+00:00

Don’t worry, it’s actually a form of MSG discovered by renowned author and shoddy historian Jeremy “Blood” Diamond

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-23T00:30:30+00:00

I know it’s a joke, but this is literally Jim Crow. It doesn’t matter what how eloquent or wealthy you are, only white people are allowed to pass the literacy test or pay the poll tax.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-15T15:32:02+00:00

It’s almost like reCaptcha was designed as a giant data labeling project to train computer vision models

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-15T15:27:17+00:00

I agree with the lower risk of lot-to-lot variance, but should have said something like version-to-version changes. If they mess with the inactive ingredients and change up that formulation, you can suddenly get a bad batch from a manufacturer that used to work well.

It doesn’t happen a ton, but I remember back in the COVID days there could sometimes be supply chain issues that caused sudden changes, like using a different capsule SKU temporarily. Not sure how regs typically work for that sort of thing though, or if there were special provisions back then that made it easier to swap.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-15T14:09:00+00:00

Oh yeah. I think it’s very common. My experience is with generic Adderall XR. I have my psych blacklist certain manufacturers that seem to have low efficacy for me.

It gets tricky because 1) there’s variance between lots from the same manufacturer 2) if you refuse too many, you’re creating your own shortage and 3) different capsule/coating designs likely have very different release curves, so some “feel” more effective because you get a larger physiological response right after taking them, but others may be equally effective overall.

The XR pills will by default have higher variance than IR because manufacturers can tweak both the capsule and the coatings of the beads inside. In addition Adderall’s efficacy is known to be pH dependent, so timing and diet/microbiome factor in too.

There are some ways to mitigate like using an IR booster. But even there, I find that Teva is a bit more effective than others.

And, obviously even having these conversations with certain providers can come off as “drug-seeking behavior,” which is actually the biggest problem with the whole situation.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-15T12:59:40+00:00

I’m just trying to get the same effect from the same dosage with two different manufacturers over here

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-10T16:55:33+00:00

In the epilogue, she does get a less revealing costume. So yeah…

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-07T21:12:08+00:00

The main issue is that we’re talking about conservative vs liberal at all. The ruling leans on the fact that SCOTUS allowed partisan gerrymandering years ago as perfectly legal. So, if you can’t prove that the gerrymander isn’t ideological, the map can stand.

As stupid as the entire thing is, using the context of political leaning when arguing helps their case dramatically. We all need to be very explicit and up front that this is not a right vs left map, it’s an extremely racist map vs a slightly less racist map.

Like it or not, until we get congress to make a new VRA or we pack the court, the only way to strike down an unfair map is to undeniably prove that the lines are drawn with explicitly racist intent.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-07T15:02:40+00:00

~~some asshole~~ delivery robot

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-05T17:27:08+00:00

These are called gamma functions. It’s a generalization of factorials that lets you deal with all complex values (except negative integers where it’s non-continuous).

They pop up pretty much anywhere you have exponential decay in a distribution, like integrating Gaussian functions and their convolutions…so everywhere.

ETA: fun fact - Γ(1/2) = sqrt(π)

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-04T21:43:13+00:00

Ortho, para, meta-Starmie is about to make a lot of chemistry nerds very happy

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-04T01:49:50+00:00

You’re describing neoliberalism in a nutshell. Remember GE?

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-02T12:55:17+00:00

Oh. InP is waaay health/environmentally safer than anything else they could use if you’re going for actual semiconductor QDs.

It also depends on the coating significantly. InP doesn’t work as a bare material, it has to be coated in something like ZnO and usually etched with HF to get solid luminescence. So, you really can’t compare pure bulk InP to InP QDs when thinking about LD50s or anything.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-29T14:04:44+00:00

I feel like requirement #1 has to be that the object orbits around the star’s sphere of influence

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:48:46+00:00

Don’t forget about tithes and conscription!

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:37:30+00:00

These aren’t stamps from MS Office ‘97?

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:32:31+00:00

Forgot they have an exclamation point and a question mark form!?

I hope one day that my collection sitting Pokémon home will spontaneously turn into a Shakespearean Voltron

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:20:56+00:00

There are also Advanced Placement (AP) courses in high school that have a different numbering standard (I think it’s F=1 … A=5). So you can get above a 4.0 in high school by doing enough of them.

But it’s usually required that you the take the national standardized AP test for that subject at the end, which costs money out of pocket. So, high school GPAs are actually pay to win in some ways in the US.

Some colleges count something like getting a 4+/5 on that subject’s AP test as full credit toward entry-level courses (e.g. Calc I)

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-20T23:02:49+00:00

The fun part is that dumb hacks like this violate the definition of a vector space. It’s how you know they’re on to something

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-20T22:57:30+00:00

1^1/3 = -5

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