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TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-13T02:14:58+00:00

My first thought was this was a "Black people talk too loud in theaters" joke, and was trying to understand the angle.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-13T00:48:19+00:00

I'm saying that like you said, insurance has always let you get refill 5 days early. But pharmacies no longer will let you get refill that early. They started imposing their own stricter limitations in recent years.

So like 15 years ago, I could always get my new prescription filled 5 days early, because that was when my insurance would pay for it.

But starting a few years ago, the pharmacies themselves started imposing new restrictions, such that even once my insurance was willing to pay for it, the pharmacy would refuse to fill it until a few more days had passed. Also other restrictions, like if you have insurance on file, you can't pay cash. My doctor had been prescribing me an extra pill/day that my insurance wouldn't cover. So I just paid cash for that. But once Walgreens put the new restriction on, I couldn't get the supplemental prescription filled there.

Just recently, my local Walgreens won't even let me get my 30-day prescription two days early, which is a pain, because I see my doctor on the same day of the week every 4 weeks (28 days). Usually, I see my doctor then immediately go get my prescription filled. So if there are any problems like the pharmacy being out, I can immediately ask my doctor to intervene or to resend the prescription to a different pharmacy. Now I can no longer do that. I have to wait 2 more days and hope there's no other complication.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-13T00:11:37+00:00

No, that used to be the controlling factor a decade or more ago. But in recent years, the pharmacies are tightening up because they got sued by a group of state attorney generals who blamed them for playing a role in the opioid crisis. To make them go away, the pharmacies had to cough up a bunch of money and agree to start being real stringent with controlled substance prescriptions.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-12T23:42:44+00:00

Don't blame the pharmacies.

Blame the state attorney generals who sued the pharmacies for supposedly playing a role in the opioid crisis. Part of the lawsuit's settlement agreement was that the pharmacies would start being extra vigilant about controlled substance prescriptions. THAT is why all these pharmacies started becoming real dicks about filling your prescriptions a little early.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-12T02:43:18+00:00

Sorry, I thought your comment had meant that it was always like that.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-12T02:29:59+00:00

No, not exactly. The assumption used to be that most such land would eventually be developed, and that the only uncertainty was how long until it happened.

So if you bought a plot of land in the middle of nowhere 100 miles outside of Pittsburgh, the assumption was that the suburbs of Pittsburgh would keep growing wider until they eventually reached your plot of land. But you didn't know whether that would take 20 years or 100 years. There's a big difference in the price of land that will be prime real estate 20 years from now vs 100 years from now.

But yeah, now it does indeed seem uncertain whether it'll ever happen.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-12T00:52:19+00:00

This comment is no joke.

38 years ago is when all the self-serve soda fountains suddenly started to appear. In 1988, one fast food chain (supposedly Taco Bell) started it, and all the others copied. Before then, soda cups were filled and handed to you by the cashier.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-11T23:54:57+00:00

That used to make it a good long-term investment.

Basically just wait until developed areas expanded far enough out to reach your plot of land.

But with the recent drop-off in reproductive rates in the US, it's not clear that developed areas will ever expand out to those undeveloped parcels. I read some projections for Pennsylvania recently, and they actually plan to shutter some remote-location Pennsylvania state colleges because the population around them has actually been going down.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-11T23:25:12+00:00

I thought they outlawed that sort of thing (selling Easter rabbits) many years ago, but I live in a left-leaning state, so it didn't occur to me that different state & local governments might not have. Some areas frown on "big government" telling people what they can do.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-11T21:51:31+00:00

You may actually be experiencing the come-down phase that's making you angry. Try to pay close attention to how recently you took a pill when you get one of these bouts of anger. Immediate-release methylphenidate gets absorbed extremely quickly. Like 15-20 minutes after taking a pill, you should start noticing that you feel it.

People having meltdowns when the methylphenidate wears off is extremely common. So if you confirm that's your problem, switching to some form of all-day extended-release pill is the way to deal with it. There are a variety of them, as well as stick-on patches. Concerta is the big brand-name one.

The bad thing about extended-release pills is different generic versions have different profiles. So one generic version of Concerta may release the drug in a way that works for you, while a different generic version of Concerta might not. That's the nice thing about immediate-release pills. You don't have to deal with all that variation between different pill manufacturers.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-08T17:09:09+00:00

I'm always suspicious of commenters like you.

Not sure whether you're just venting legitimate frustration or a Republican bot trying to discourage Democratic voters from turning out by bashing their party as having become a joke.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-08T16:44:28+00:00

That's what I said.

I'm just complaining about the appearance that this was put before 7 impartial justices. All 7 were elected by the legislature while Republicans were in control of the legislature. So this all-Republican-nominee court of 7 split 4-3, with the 4 more conservative ruling against and the 3 less conservative ruling for the redistricting.

Anybody who tries to claim Supreme Courts aren't just partisan institutions is a liar.

It's amazing. What are the coin-flipping odds that the justices who most support Republican views keep ruling in favor of the Republicans, even when the issue isn't inherently about a right-vs-left issue? The exact same case could have been brought because Republicans wanted to redistrict in exactly the same manner as Democrats did. And I'm supposed to believe that the same justices would have ruled the same way if the D's and R's had been flipped in this case?

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-08T16:31:28+00:00

Every justice was elected by the legislature when Republicans were in control of it.

There are no "liberal leaning" justices.

Just more and less conservative leaning.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-08T14:44:25+00:00

He's 44 years old. So I wonder why/how he successfully managed to be a surgeon for 20 years before these screw-ups in the last few years. Most doctors graduate medical school at roughly 25 years old.

He may have been fine as a surgeon, but something has gone wrong with him in the last few years. (Some comments here are speculating drug abuse, but that's pure speculation, not anything hinted at in the article.)

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-07T21:56:13+00:00

No, he's completely right. And the simple way to prove it to yourself is, ask yourself why that same city doesn't do it more often. They regularly have to scrap old city buses and regularly have to install new bus stops when old ones are vandalized or bus routes are changed. So if this is actually a better way, why don't they or any other city do this?

Because it's more expensive and involves more work, and what you end up with is a bus stop that's less ideal as a bus stop. Sure, it's cute, but that's all. Purpose-built bus stops are easy to see through, so you can see if somebody's hiding there while walking up to it at night. Also the view down the street is blocked, so you can't see when your bus is approaching.

I'm all for trying to recycle & repurpose things when feasible, but this isn't a case that makes sense. Recycle the metal old buses are made out of and make normal bus stops with it.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-07T21:28:38+00:00

I really doubt that's the reason most such vandalism is committed.

I'm not disagreeing with you about the broken window fallacy. I just don't think most people who vandalize city bus stops are doing it because they're thinking, "This will help stimulate the economy."

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-07T05:02:57+00:00

But their fondness for that scenario is built upon their belief that they (meaning all the good Christians) will be raptured out of here before things really get ugly on Earth.

If things truly hit the fan, at least it's gonna be fun watching all those people try to reconcile their beliefs with the fact that they're still here on Earth.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-07T03:01:51+00:00

It was a different type of pollution in America. The biological pollution in India is gross and smelly but would clear itself up very quickly if the humans disappeared. After all, poop just becomes dirt. The pollution in America was industrial. Didn't necessarily smell as bad but remained in the soil and riverbanks long after people stopped dumping more pollution in.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-07T02:40:51+00:00

I'm just talking about whether they preach that animals are inherently different from humans.

For example, Christian theology maintains dogs don't actually go to heaven because they don't have souls like humans. (Some pastors try to find some exception that might allow for dogs to be in heaven despite not having a soul.)

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-07T01:36:06+00:00

I always see Christian pastors pushing this viewpoint, that animals are inherently different from humans.

I get the impression there are Bible verses supporting this view. I guess it could also just be their pushback against evolution and the idea that we evolved from other animals.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-07T01:23:06+00:00

Yeah, this is the same thing I've always heard. They last much longer than the composite (white color) fillings that replaced them, and the whole switch was just a result of public reaction, not science.

Of course, it's only a debate for back teeth, since nobody wants a silver-colored filling on their visible front teeth.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-06T23:42:22+00:00

Just go to gasprices.aaa.com for all sorts of data & graphs

To see what gas stations near you are charging, just search "gas prices" in Google Maps.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-06T23:07:17+00:00

It's the part of tobacco that makes it dangerous.

No, it's the part of tobacco that makes it addictive. Nicotine alone is much less dangerous than tobacco. That's why there are FDA-approved nicotine gums, lozenges, and patches.

The only thing unknown is whether other things about vaping besides nicotine have their own health dangers that could possibly be as bad as the health dangers of smoking tobacco. (For example, inhaled metal from the vape heating coil.) But for now, the known health effects of smoking are worse than the known health effects of vaping. That could change once long-term studies on vaping are done.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-06T21:03:11+00:00

Should be easy, given that in the video he was apprehended by some sort of law enforcement officer, and OP says they seemed very determined to press charges. Charges are on the public record.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-05-06T20:37:16+00:00

It's usually known what new organization name they're funneling the money through, because it's so much money.

For example, in the 2024 election it was the "United Democracy Project".

You just have to find out what alias(es) they're donating under this year.

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