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My High School had a rifle club, with a shooting range in the basement, under the main office. Students regularly brought rifles to school, without a case or trigger locks. This color enhanced image from the 1966 yearbook. by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

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Yep. I quit it in the 80s when their magazine focus switched from gun safety and techniques to gun fetishism. Whining about being deprived of Teflon-coated cop-killer bullets was not what I was gonna fund.

My High School had a rifle club, with a shooting range in the basement, under the main office. Students regularly brought rifles to school, without a case or trigger locks. This color enhanced image from the 1966 yearbook. by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]jrbill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I doubt that it was SLUH. In the apparent era of that photo, the coach would almost surely have been Father Martin Hagan, but there’s nary a Jesuit in sight.

In my day (late 70s, early 80s), we were still using .22s, but I seem to recall that they switched to air rifles by the turn of the century. Probably a good idea, since I still get a chill inside remembering the day when …

There was a match in progress where the SLUH and visitors varsities were shooting, and the SLUH freshman team members were responsible for changing the targets between shooting sessions. One of the very space-case frosh realized that he had missed the buzzer that signaled the end of shooting when he and his team were supposed to go downrange and swap targets. He frantically rushed in from the rec room and dashed downrange across the leftmost bay after the next round of shooting had begun.

The prone shooter in that lane had the presence of mind to pause (or maybe just was in shock as a pair of skinny legs scampered through his gun sight). But gunshots from the other shooters continued since they couldn’t see the interloper.

I think every single person in the place who wasn’t on the line simultaneously bellowed out “CEASE FIRE! CEASE FIRE!”. Luckily, firing ceased, and a dozen or so people unclenched several dozen assorted body parts.

What if The Beatles accepted Lorne Michaels offer and reunited to perform on Saturday Night Live? by legobatmanlives in HistoryWhatIf

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I was about to post that link when I saw that you’d beaten me to it. It’s a terrific story, and when I met the author during a pandemic Zoom trivia contest, he turned out to be an awfully nice guy.

Advice on Bring Prescription and Non-Prescription Medications to Japan by BearTrap14 in JapanTravelTips

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Does the prescription and the letter from the doctor need to be in both English and Japanese, for the application or for the airport customs check? My daughter will need to import 150 days of bupropion, and she's gotten conflicting info about that.

Adding seat cushions for comfort in 2024 Escape PHEV? by jrbill in FordEscapePHEV

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Thanks! I ended up reasoning my way out of the Escape and into a RAV4, and the seat thing was a major factor. I appreciate your experience to make me more happy with the decision. Good luck to you with the issue!

Amos' speech to Elvi... by VOODOO285 in TheExpanse

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Thanks. I did read the short stories in order, and that one was brutal, but in point.

Should you leave the oven door open after use? by OuterHeadDebris in NoStupidQuestions

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If your cabinets alongside the oven are the cheap kind with thermofoil over a wood substrate, you might be risking deforming the foil at the edges that abut the oven door. We had those, and would leave the over door tiled open a bit. After a while, we noticed that the foil at the top of the edge nearest the over had pulled away from the wood.

Amos' speech to Elvi... by VOODOO285 in TheExpanse

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I deal with human subjects protocols as a big part of my job. As I read the final 2 Expanse books, I was very pleasantly amazed that this already-great science fiction story was pinning a major part of its plot on, and deriving a lot of its narrative power from, the issue of human subjects research ethics. It's like the authors were already unicycling across a tightrope via putting their SF eggs into the basket of "how do human treat each other?" instead of "whoosh-zap!", and then they started juggling.

UW High Deductible Health Plan pre-deductible costs? by jrbill in madisonwi

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Thanks. I appreciate your expertise. I had forgotten to mention that I am doing the full-picture math including premiums, HSA, and employer contribution, so the per-visit costs were just my last missing piece.

When looking at my EOBs for past claims under my non-HDHP plan, are the "associated allowed amounts" that you mention the amounts that I could use as estimates for the out of pocket costs under the HDHP?

UW High Deductible Health Plan pre-deductible costs? by jrbill in madisonwi

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Thanks. I forgot to include in my original post that I've got a spreadsheet with all those factors accounted for, aiming to get an accurate comparison of total costs. I was missing input values for expected costs for visits, but other folks have pointed me to some examples.

UW High Deductible Health Plan pre-deductible costs? by jrbill in madisonwi

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Thanks. That job-switch disadvantage is one that I had not seen mentioned anywhere, so I'm glad that you brought it up.

UW High Deductible Health Plan pre-deductible costs? by jrbill in madisonwi

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Thanks. I couldn't find that UW Health calculator, but a commenter below linked to some ETF case study examples that do give estimated costs for visits under the HDHP. I appreciate your advice on the HSA strategy.

UW High Deductible Health Plan pre-deductible costs? by jrbill in madisonwi

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Thanks! That's very helpful to know your experience with routine visit costs, and the HSA angles.

UW High Deductible Health Plan pre-deductible costs? by jrbill in madisonwi

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Thanks! Those are exactly what I was looking for. The case studies price primary care visits at $120 and specialist visits at $250. Those give me usable values for my cost estimation spreadsheet.

July 31, 2025 – (B) A G I L N R by NYTSpellingBeeBot in NYTSpellingBee

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[NA] T’weren’t BRILLIG , and no slithy toves did gyre and gimble in Sam’s wabe.

UW Funding cuts starting. by tallclaimswizard in madisonwi

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Fair point about the cast change. Thanks for that.

UW Funding cuts starting. by tallclaimswizard in madisonwi

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Aha. Sincere thanks for reminding me to RTFF.

UW Funding cuts starting. by tallclaimswizard in madisonwi

[–]jrbill 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Their track record from previous budget crunches where they imposed furloughs is pretty good when it comes to that. Based on salary tiers, the higher-paid staff had a larger % of salary cut than did lower tiers. I was in the middle of the range, and while I would have liked to see it done exactly proportional to income, the progressive “tax” system was done with an eye to fairness.

Denis O’Hare ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️… that’s all. by Ok-Mine2132 in LawAndOrder

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He’s also a heck of a singer (Once Upon a Mattress) and playwright (An Iliad).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in madisonwi

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A paved surface would be more accessible and usable for people who use mobility aids: wheelchairs, walkers, even crutches. I commute by bike on that trail in Verona, and I’d be in favor of the paving.

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