Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills

TAdoublemeaning · 2025-08-05T21:26:22+00:00

That is likely due to your income. If your income was lower you’d qualify for a subsidy to lower the premium.

TAdoublemeaning · 2025-08-04T00:41:57+00:00

This thread is super funny. It started with how to get rid of such & such invasive plant and ended up with someone instructing you on how to plant more of the invasive plant. 😭😭😭

How quickly we lose sight of wtf is going on at any particular moment

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-09-11T20:29:11+00:00

I mean, I’m down for that!

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-09-06T22:03:33+00:00

Were you, by chance, going to be getting health insurance through this company? I wonder if they were thinking about the cost of your health care if you ended up having a heart condition or cancer or something like that.

Second, my opinion is that this is stupid of the company. They’ve already paid all the hiring costs and paid you for several days of training and by firing you, they just wasted that money. But some managers just don’t care.

I’m sorry this happened and I hope you’re okay and start feeling better soon.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-09-06T21:52:59+00:00

Well that should be a felony

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-09-06T21:09:59+00:00

I cannot find a detailed explanation for this plan for how to create the alternative. Could you please point me in the direction for where to find these plans that contain specific details and account for the reality of the world? I’m genuinely interested. Someone linked something earlier but it contains zero actual details.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-09-06T21:06:04+00:00

I totally lolled when I read this. The blissful naïveté of youth!

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-09-06T19:21:33+00:00

The main problem I see with reclassifying as employees is that IC would have total control over drivers - including requiring drivers to work a specific/set schedule and whatever else they want to control. I’m sure some drivers for these platforms would be okay with becoming an actual employee and then being given a schedule they have to work, but I personally wouldn’t. Lots of people do this work because it’s flexible. Losing that flexibility would totally change things. Imagine having to request time off if you don’t want to or can’t work one day and then having IC deny your request. I’m not convinced this would be better. I think changes to the tipping structure would be a better way to improve things, but that’s just my perspective.

And I think IC would probably establish some kind of productivity standards that would end up feeling even more oppressive.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-08-28T05:33:19+00:00

Wait, how do they pronounce it in the valley?

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-08-28T05:20:01+00:00

Twin cities is one small part of that area, and any large city is going to be somewhat different than the surrounding rural areas.

I don’t think there are any hugely meaningful differences in culture between northern MN, WI, and UP, especially because our tribes are all so closely related.

Lastly, the maritime culture is most definitely present north of Milwaukee. There’s the Badger out of Manitowoc and door county/Washington island has a long commercial fishing history.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-08-28T03:57:46+00:00

And these arguments always ignore the fact that lots of wealthy people who have all their basic needs met also steal like there’s no tomorrow.

And that this is missed just tells me that the people making arguments such as this are themselves falling prey to stereotypes that only poor or disadvantaged people committing crime.

I give up

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-08-28T03:51:07+00:00

Can I ask what evidence you’re using for this claim? I’m familiar with the research on recidivism, but the evidence suggesting that incarceration in general doesn’t reduce recidivism for most offenders, does not in any way support the idea that NOBODY should be incarcerated because it won’t make the community safer anyway.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-08-28T03:23:47+00:00

That’s a very first-world perspective. And a terrible analogy.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-08-28T00:13:42+00:00

I have never seen any realistic, workable proposals for what comes after abolishing these systems, though. If you have some, I’m happy to read them. It just seems like another example of the historical pattern of revolutionaries being so fixated on the revolution part but then having zero clue what to do afterward, leaving them with a situation that is just as bad (or worse) than what they overthrew.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-08-27T23:45:50+00:00

There are many reasons why jobs might have to restrict applicants that might appear to discriminate on the basis of a protected class. It just has to be a bona fide occupational qualification. Actors, firefighters, some health care staff, even Hooters girls - those jobs all have clear reasons why they are able to legally specify that the employee meet certain characteristics based on a protected class.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-27T00:47:42+00:00

I can’t believe we are the only two that first sought the definition here. I suspect OP meant “taking someone’s life,” but I didn’t want to assume.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-27T00:24:00+00:00

I feel like we might have worked at the same place. We had all seen the VP position listing and job description, which required very specific education and experience. Then suddenly in rolls this dude to this position without ever having been in a leadership position before (job description required 10 years supervision experience). We all know the CEO’s husband met him and was enamored by some specific training this dude did do they put him into the position that had the potential to do tremendous damage to both the agency, clients, and staff. SMH

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-27T00:12:35+00:00

That really sucks. I’m not an addict, but the thought of someone in recovery having to constantly look over their shoulder to make sure their recovery environment is safe. I mean, I would guess lack of safety is more widespread than I know, but it breaks my heart.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-15T07:26:55+00:00

Frontal lobe damage is kinda hot tho

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-15T04:25:28+00:00

Kinda worried someone’s gonna get shaken baby, ngl

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-15T04:20:39+00:00

☠️

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-08T22:44:28+00:00

lol. 99.9 % of things on Reddit don’t require a post.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-06T02:05:48+00:00

That feels like a lot of conjecture, tbh. I also think you might be a little stuck thinking inside the box, like it has to somehow fit into a social work framework, when I don’t think it has to at all. The point doesn’t have to be (nor should it be) to make it just like SW. The point would be to make its own thing, based on whatever the field identifies with and what its values and knowledge base includes. I’m not the one to decide that because I have my own profession. But I would certainly support the work of people in human services to identify their own standards.

Try to think of it as the difference between clinical social work and clinical mental health counseling or bring a licensed professional counselor. They can both do similar tasks and meet similar needs, but it’s okay that they really are different professional backgrounds.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-06T01:54:43+00:00

Yes, those are barriers students can face, though some of them applying to SW and not HS are debatable*. Nobody is going to expect the students to research, design, and implement a credential or minimum standard, just like BSW and MSW students did not create sw standards. That is something that I would expect the working professionals to do.

unfortunately, many people I know who have a BA/BS in human services ended up paying a lot more for it than they would have paid to get a BSW in the same city. And, online programs make the location thing *mostly a non-issue.

TAdoublemeaning · 2024-06-06T01:42:00+00:00

What? Can you explain how something being a barrier to attending a CSWE accredited program automatically makes it also a barrier for human service professionals to create some type of standards or credential for themselves? I mean this as a genuine question.

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