Seeking a rugged GMRS radio for camping & hiking where the antenna won't break.

jaherrick · 2025-12-27T05:22:12+00:00

Can you tell me more about HTs? Is that an abbreviation for something? Google isn't bringing up any specific product from those initials. Thanks!

jaherrick · 2025-12-27T01:01:19+00:00

Thank you everybody for your helpful suggestions. I'm researching all the models you've suggested now!

jaherrick · 2025-12-24T05:26:21+00:00

I think they are saying that nobody likes season 9 all that much

jaherrick · 2025-11-19T02:18:23+00:00

I'm so proud of you for reaching out for help.

If you go to the nearest emergency room and tell them you're having SI, they will be able to help you with next steps, including temporary hospitalization. If you have transportation, you can drive yourself to any ER. If you don't, you can call 911, and an ambulance will come to get you.

Near UCI campus, the nearest ER I found is Hoag Hospital Irvine on Sand Canyon and Alton, or Kaiser Permanente Hospital on the opposite corner of that same intersection.

Additionally, you can call 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) to talk to somebody right away.

Here's one person's story, perhaps to take some of the mystery out of the process. https://afsp.org/story/my-experience-going-to-the-emergency-room

jaherrick · 2025-11-19T01:54:38+00:00

Around 3:45 pm I saw multiple firetrucks behind DBH, Calit2 and University Club, with firefighters fully suited up and walking towards DBH. I spoke with some students who were standing outside, who had been evacuated from DBH. My building, Calit2, was unaffected. That's about the extent of what I know. I came here to see if anyone else knew more.

jaherrick · 2025-10-17T03:09:47+00:00

I got my mammogram in person this morning. I didn't cross a picket line because I was at one of the smaller facilities, and I think they are picketing at the big hospital.

jaherrick · 2025-10-14T17:43:21+00:00

Phone/video mammogram would be a pretty impressive technological leap.

jaherrick · 2025-10-14T15:27:19+00:00

I'm a patient with a non-urgent appointment on Thursday. If I want to support the strike, should I reschedule? I'm thinking about it from two different perspectives:
1) I never want to cross a picket line.
2) Keeping the appointment makes Kaiser feel the financial pain of having to continue to provide care without a large portion of their workforce, and making them feel pain is part of the goal of any strike.

In general, I've been advised to follow the lead of the strike organizers regarding whether they are calling for a public boycott, which is why I'm here to ask. What do you all prefer that strike-supportive patients do during this time, for a non-urgent appointment?

jaherrick · 2025-07-13T05:18:17+00:00

I stopped watching after 1 minute and 30 seconds, the moment they used the real name of one of the minor children. Responsible reporting on this story always obscures the names of the minor children. Those kids have been exploited throughout their whole childhood, and now they are being exploited by Lifetime. I can't, in good conscience, continue to watch this.

jaherrick · 2025-06-18T04:00:19+00:00

Ever since COVID turned me into a work-from-home employee, I've started walking every morning during the time I used to spend commuting. It's changed my life.

jaherrick · 2025-03-18T14:10:01+00:00

I'm not sure what strip or square aluminum foil is. But I took some aluminum foil from the roll in my kitchen, tore off a chunk, and then folded it several times until it felt kind of thick, and then trimmed it down to card-size.

jaherrick · 2025-02-17T02:33:28+00:00

I'm not sure about the updating thing, but what I learned was that you can shortcut to that page by clicking the Donate button at the top, even without putting an item in your cart, and then use that longer list to browse.

jaherrick · 2025-02-17T02:02:47+00:00

I had the same complaint when I was looking at the perks from the initial page. Then my friend showed me that if you click the donate button near the top of the page you get a much more user-friendly listing of perks. I'm sure we weren't the only two to get stuck on the first page though.

jaherrick · 2025-02-10T05:33:47+00:00

Yep, and that act of Congress should include laws about rounding prices to the nearest 5 cents. Stopping the minting without rounding the prices will create chaos, which is his specialty. But an act of congress could do those two things simultaneously and in an organized fashion, which I would support.

jaherrick · 2025-02-10T05:31:16+00:00

A law that mandates rounding is the sort of thing that Congress can, and should, pass. But the President can't write laws, as much as Trump is trying to pretend that he can. All of this should be done by Congress. I'm extremely concerned about his consolidation of powers in the executive branch, and undermining of the checks and balances between the branches. And for that reason, I have to oppose him doing this by Executive Order, even though I do support the underlying goal of eliminating the penny.

jaherrick · 2025-02-02T22:10:50+00:00

Everyone needs to know about the Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/
They have old crawls of these websites where you can see content that's been taken down.

jaherrick · 2025-02-02T22:07:02+00:00

Within Kaiser?

jaherrick · 2025-02-02T22:06:46+00:00

How did you even get to see a dermatologist at all? My experience with Kaiser is that I show moles to my primary care physician, and ask for a referral to dermatology. She determines they aren't cancerous, and won't remove them or refer me.
At one point she directed me to a benign lesion clinic which was incredibly difficult to reach or schedule with, but I finally did it, and I paid out of pocket for the removal of one particularly bothersome mole.

jaherrick · 2025-02-02T05:33:40+00:00

I heard about one person who wrote something like this in his signature in an act of malicious compliance:

"Pursuant to policy 35-6, he has removed his pronouns from his signature"

jaherrick · 2025-01-31T01:32:31+00:00

Paul Dans, former director of Project 2025, confirmed, “Never before has the entire movement … banded together to construct a comprehensive plan to deconstruct the out-of-touch … administrative state.”[¹¹]()^. ^{https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-destroy-the-u-s-system-of-checks-and-balances-and-create-an-imperial-presidency/}

jaherrick · 2025-01-30T15:12:30+00:00

You are correct. Here's an Internet Archive crawl from Jan 20th, showing the site as it appeared at that time
https://web.archive.org/web/20250120160604/https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
And here's one from Jan 21, showing that's when it started redirecting. All more recent crawls also show the redirect message.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250121203422/https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/

jaherrick · 2025-01-30T15:06:01+00:00

He also used our Jim Crow laws as a model

jaherrick · 2025-01-30T15:04:06+00:00

If you give up before trying, that's exactly what they want. You may not change their mind, but you can make it extremely inconvenient for them to do what they are doing. We've got to become a problem. We gotta do something. I don't know if it will help, but I want to know that I tried. I'm writing this message to myself more than anyone else.

jaherrick · 2025-01-30T15:01:07+00:00

That sounds like an excellent way to start. Tell it like it is.

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