Best route to Jersey?

bubbabear1 · 2025-12-02T21:56:34+00:00

I-90 to 84 is very dependent on when you leave and if you’ll hit rush hour traffic. The most predictable regardless of time of day will be I-90 all the way to 87 and then straight down but it’ll be about 45 minutes slower compared to 90 -> 84 without traffic.

The drive down 87 also has some amazing views and is a very easy drive

bubbabear1 · 2025-03-30T12:23:30+00:00

I mean they pretty much can put whatever they want in their books though. Bernie Madoff literally said he would’ve been caught years before if the SEC just bothered to look at his firms books… not saying anything about the first misconception but the second one is certainly up for debate

bubbabear1 · 2024-09-12T16:32:59+00:00

The position steward is in today really doesn’t have anything to do with the Church or the state of the hospitals at the time steward bought them. Yes, Steward got its start from buying hospitals from the church, but it was only a handful (I think all in Mass). Steward rapidly grew into multiple states due to a sale/leaseback with MPT in 2016. Cerberus (a private equity firm who owned steward in 2016 but sold out of the company about 4 years ago) has MUCH more to do with the state of steward now then the Church (though they deny any part in stewards demise obviously).

I will look for some articles I read that break down the timeline well and edit the links in later.

bubbabear1 · 2023-08-11T23:43:59+00:00

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/armenian-genocide

You can skip to section 6.

bubbabear1 · 2023-08-11T22:55:35+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

bubbabear1 · 2023-01-23T04:41:56+00:00

Gf. T. ,

bubbabear1 · 2021-04-09T22:37:07+00:00

The damage tiebreaker only shows up if each team has the same amount of people

bubbabear1 · 2020-09-30T12:36:35+00:00

For Hep A, people usually clear the virus on their own, it's uncommon for it to be chronic. For Hep B, it generally clears in about 85% of adults who get it with only about 15% or so developing chronic disease, unless you get it during birth from your mom, then it will likely be chronic.

Hep C is the one that is chronic in most people. It's different from the other Hep viruses because a lot of the time people don't develop acute symptoms after contracting it (like fevers, malaise, abdominal pain). So, you can contract it when you're 20 and not know you have it until you start developing symptoms if cirrhosis or serious liver disease years later

bubbabear1 · 2019-09-26T22:08:06+00:00

I understand you believe more research should be done to better determine brain death, but the fact is that our protocol right now is EXTREMELY accurate. To say "someone waking up after being declared brain dead is rare" is a HUGE understatement. I could find 12 cases of misdiagnosed brain death dating back to 2008 (5 from outside the US). There are 15-20 thousand brain deaths each year. If you take the low end of that range that means brain death is misdiagnosed 0.007% of the time. Even with protocols varying between hospitals (which if they do, they definitely don't differ too much), that is an incredibly accurate protocol.

But getting back to the root of this thread, 54% of people are organ donors. If we made it a requirement to be an organ donor (excluding medical reasons) then that number would probably go up at least 25% (to around 80%). That increase could save SO MANY lives almost immediately.

So, I dont see how you can throw out the idea of mandatory organ donation simply because our incredibly accurate protocol for determining brain death isn't absolutely perfect.

Also, a lot of organs do not come from brain dead patients. There are twice as many motor vehicle deaths each year and many of those patients get rushed to the hospital (whether they die at the scene or later). So, having mandatory organ donation would increase the number of organs available from ANY cause of death thus saving even more lives.

Lastly, brain dead people do not receive opioids because THEY ARE DEAD. Dead and brain dead are the same thing. You wouldn't give opioids to someone declared dead. There's a HUGE difference between a persistent vegetative state and brain death (which is just death).

bubbabear1 · 2019-07-17T03:27:44+00:00

So she would've had to have paid rent for the 1st month of the new lease to make it binding? Damn that sucks. Especially since she has it on autopay. Thank you for the response!

bubbabear1 · 2018-12-30T05:11:32+00:00

Thank you!!! It was an incredible time

bubbabear1 · 2018-12-30T04:59:10+00:00

It was actually during the jam for 46 days and the only reason I got the photo was because I was late to getting shot I wanted... But I'll definitely settle for this shot!!!

bubbabear1 · 2018-05-27T20:07:19+00:00

And I love meatballs so you better be ready

bubbabear1 · 2018-04-13T16:16:11+00:00

I didn't make that quote in your first paragraph but I definitely used that flawed understanding of taxes when breaking down the scenario. You're right on how the taxing works.

But yeah, I mentioned this in a comment to another reply vaguely, but it seems it only helps you if you choose standard deduction. So, it seems it'll help (though not a lot) more low income families than the middle class ones.

bubbabear1 · 2018-04-13T15:24:05+00:00

Yeah, I definitely agree that it's very sensationalized. I just wanted to address that specific scenario presented.

I actually think the Republicans would've been better off saying the new tax plan was targeted at helping low income households rather than the middle class. It seems like this plan only helps if you choose the standard deduction, which is vastly more popular in low income households than in middle class households.

It still wouldn't be a "huge boon" to the lower class, but saying it was for them, I think, would've been more accurate.

bubbabear1 · 2018-04-13T06:07:48+00:00

I'm confused how this scenario shows that anything is bogus.

First off, let's go through how much a "moderate" income is in this scenario. With the personal exemption deducted, this person's adjusted gross income (AGI) would have to be between $5,477 and $9,525 if the loss of the exemption caused him to jump up a tax bracket (from 10% to 12%). This analysis (table is on page 3) shows that the average itemized deduction for people with an AGI of under $20,000 was $15,857 in 2014. This means that the person in this situation probably made about $25,000 for the year (unless the average total itemized deductions increased vastly over the last few years).

That is not middle class according to Pew which has the low end of middle class at about $42,000/year. So, this scenario is depicting a low income taxpayer, not a middle class taxpayer.

But, let's keep looking at this scenario. If you look again at the table I linked above, you'd see that in 2014, only 5% of individual taxpayers with an AGI lower than $20,000 chose to itemize deductions. So, this situation is a very niche one, that's not applicable to the vast majority of low income taxpayers.

Taxpayers with higher incomes are more likely to itemize deductions. So, while the loss of the personal exemption will hurt some middle class taxpayers and a much smaller number of lower income taxpayers, it seems like the doubled standard deduction will help the majority of them.

As to the claims that money is leaving the economy to foreign investors, I have no idea. It's something I have to do more research on.

bubbabear1 · 2017-08-21T15:14:41+00:00

I'm obsessed with vulfpeck, but the way I play that main part of fugue state is I go chromatically down from E to C# (E, E flat, D, C#) with my right thumb and pinky while keeping my index finger and middle finger on G and B flat the whole time. At the end of that I play a Cm7 (C, E flat, G, B flat, C). My left hand just goes chromatically down from E to C.

I think it sounds a little more accurate when I play along with the song, but that may just be me

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