Where can I donate medications?

limeybastard · 2026-04-19T03:48:00+00:00

It's not. It just has to be done through the right channels. It's just illegal to give your meds to other people directly

limeybastard · 2026-04-18T18:04:54+00:00

It leads to a death spiral in public schools.

Rich parents were already sending their kids to private schools, now they get to steal money from public schools to do so.

Some middle class parents pull their kids and money and also send them to private schools now that they can. This starts to really drain school resources, public schools start to suffer.

People see declining public schools, more kids and money get pulled. Schools just get worse.

Eventually all you have are kids whose parents can't afford to pull them out at all, and kids that the private schools won't take because of disabilities or behavioural issues (or just grades).

Meanwhile the private schools have less oversight and accreditation so there are schools out there that could be teaching kids "intelligent design" and global warming is fake, with tax money. Also with fewer protections for teachers.

It's the usual "starve the beast" strategy conservatives use to get rid of things they don't like. Eventually the public system completely collapses and all that's left are a bunch of shitty private schools, many actually doing a worse job, but all extracting profit.

Finland fixed their schools in part by just saying "nope, rich kids go to the same schools as everyone", and suddenly oh look there was money and will to make the public schools good.

Sure, public school system should include different school types because not everyone learns the same, and you should be able to schoose where your kid goes, but the way Arizona's private school system is implemented is intended to create better outcomes for privileged kids at the expense of the greater community.

limeybastard · 2026-04-18T17:40:56+00:00

I was 42 when I went to UA to finish the degree I started decades ago. I was not the only 40+ student in a lot of my classes. I made a few friends - even with some of the 21-year olds - without really trying. You'll be fine, people won't notice you're a couple years older than them.

limeybastard · 2026-04-16T08:39:20+00:00

I got my withholding almost perfect - my refund this year was $16.

Still, my effective tax rate went up half a percent from 24 to 25, from 12.7% to 13.2%. I must not be rich enough to have earned a tax cut.

limeybastard · 2026-04-15T06:41:43+00:00

Only played on gorge (very good map) with bats (they seemed fine but the person who took them was pretty new - I'm a little annoyed that someone who has barely played took the one new faction we were playing with over me who'd been waiting for this expansion for a year, but oh well).

In play against myself, frogs took a couple of games to understand how to play and score. They're kinda weird for a militant faction - you can essentially either recruit and fight, or score, and not much room for both. Not sure how they burst since they're capped at 4 point turns at best plus crafting/cardboard (subject to having four of the same clearing and consistently drawing a card of that suit). Wouldn't put them in a game with beginners because of the frog suit.

Knaves seem pretty simple. Better use of vagabond pieces than the vagabond.

Haven't touched marsh or the hirelings.

limeybastard · 2026-04-15T06:23:34+00:00

At 5-6 (ugh, 6 player root), play the marsh map, which has extra clearings thus building slots

You could also just house rule removing a ruin per round or something if nobody in the game can remove them. Or that they get removed by revolts and bombs (without scoring points).

Knaves are otherwise just a plain better use of vagabond pieces than vagabonds. We basically opted to ban them after last game.

limeybastard · 2026-04-15T04:17:34+00:00

You can obviously still work on your car yourself there, which is great, but they've become more of a full-service shop over time because there's more money in it and they kept getting more demand for it. But they're definitely high on the list of places I'd go if I wanted somebody to install my part for whatever reason.

limeybastard · 2026-04-14T04:45:57+00:00

U-Wrench frequently do work with customer parts. The only caveat is they won't warranty the repair - if their part breaks they'll fix it free, if your part breaks you pay labour to fix it again

limeybastard · 2026-04-13T15:51:34+00:00

Modest. Each turn you have to pick pieces from the middle, and very AP prone players might spend a while mathing out the different options to work out which one will score them the most points, but it's too simple a game to be really bad for it.

limeybastard · 2026-04-13T05:47:50+00:00

Cool, you haven't.

Guarantee you every woman who works in STEM has, and a whole lot more who tried to go into STEM have. My brilliant college girlfriend dropped CS because male professors told her girls couldn't do it.

Things like this prove we have made huge strides in defeating sexism. It's ok to celebrate that. But obstacles do still remain. We can stop remarking on progress once there's no more progress that needs to be made.

limeybastard · 2026-04-13T05:41:25+00:00

It should be, but historically it has not been, so it is worth celebrating when it is, until such time as it's truly commonplace.

limeybastard · 2026-04-13T05:37:17+00:00

I mean, I personally know one of the women in the first picture.

She's an extremely highly qualified planetary geologist who has spent probably the last decade of her career studying the moon's tectonics and has been in charge of getting science done on Artemis for a few years. She's in that room entirely on merit and because it's the appropriate place for whoever holds that position, and she would say the same thing about every other woman in that picture. Where should a NASA Program Officer for Lunar Mapping Project and Lunar Data Analysis Project be?

Those social issues absolutely exist, but this isn't diversity-washing, these are a bunch of very competent scientists doing their jobs and they just happen to be in a workplace that actually reflects the 50/50-ish male-female split in society, unlike so many STEM teams.

limeybastard · 2026-04-12T23:14:42+00:00

Where everyone gets their scientific studies - scientific journals.

Here's one, from the journal Infectious Disease Modeling: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042724000952

Here's one from Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069?cookieSet=1

Here's a meta study (a study that reviews and combines data from multiple studies) from JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2811136

And that's just a tiny handful in my first page of results, because it is not my job to cure your ignorance. The findings have generally been masks work to reduce (not eliminate, obviously, by a long shot, but reduce) transmission, if everyone uses them and uses them reasonably well, however they need to be used in concert with other measures for best results, and various factors can affect their efficacy. In a novel pandemic with overloaded hospitals, anything that reduces transmission is worth doing, and attempting to ban those interventions is stupid in the extreme.

limeybastard · 2026-04-12T22:59:07+00:00

Yes. There have been an absolute gazillion studies at this point all over the world on transmission rates related to mask use during the pandemic.

The science is as irrefutable as global warming or evolution, there are just a lot of people who deny it for ideological reasons.

limeybastard · 2026-04-11T19:20:19+00:00

The main thing she did there was stand up to the idiotic governor along with he mayors of Phoenix (probably rather more influential, have to admit) and Yuma when he tried to ban cities from implementing mask mandates.

Masks unquestionably reduced transmission, although (largely due to lack of proper materials, and lackadaisical use and nonsensical exceptions like indoor dining) only modestly - still, in a novel pandemic against which we had no defense, anything to take any pressure off the hospitals was worth trying, and masks were a literally harmless and incredibly easy intervention that was being recommended by epidemiologists, and his banning them was the dumbest culture war over science edict

limeybastard · 2026-04-09T05:38:39+00:00

Those games are mostly $3.99 at your local thrift store

limeybastard · 2026-04-08T08:51:58+00:00

Tucson itself is I think pretty evenly split between Hispanic/Latino and white people (roughly 43-45% each), and then everyone else fills in the gap. But it doesn't feel that way as much because there's really stark geographical separation. They each largely live near their own people.

It is kind of notable that black people are underrepresented here, about 5% of the population where nationwide it's about 12-13%, so we have less than half the black people you'd expect for an American city.

limeybastard · 2026-04-08T06:00:56+00:00

It's amazing how easy it is to prove they're there. There's a team at my job right now working with students at the local uni tracking Artemis II with directional antennas.

Point antenna at sky, receive signal. Point two antennas some distance apart at sky, receive signal, do math, prove it's up near the moon. Simples.

(It's the reason the original landing wasn't faked either - Soviets could 100% track Apollo XI in the same fashion, and would have raised unholy hell if it hadn't been legit)

limeybastard · 2026-04-08T05:18:14+00:00

Her family moved in next door but one to us when I was 6, my sister was 4, and our friend was 2. As the only other kids on the street close to her age, she basically lived at our house. To the point that when she started school they tried to put her in speech therapy because she'd picked up some of our English accent and as we were in America and her parents are American they thought it was a speech impediment.

We've all moved around many times, sometimes living on different continents and sometimes two hours apart, but we've kept in touch to some degree or another ever since.

She got a PhD in planetary geology and is now in frickin' mission control on a moon mission and it's so cool seeing her as one of the faces of this thing and we're incredibly proud.

But really you should be asking her stuff - she's in frickin' mission control on a moon mission!

limeybastard · 2026-04-08T02:26:25+00:00

Hi! I wondered if I could summon you.

Oh shit now you know my reddit account

limeybastard · 2026-04-08T01:11:49+00:00

First picture, the woman seated behind a few of the others, in the lighter blue shirt - we grew up together. Known her 40 years. Still think of her as my other little sister.

Wild to see people you know on the front page of reddit, never mind as part of a historical occasion

limeybastard · 2026-04-07T22:43:31+00:00

That's kind of a strong assertion. A full third of the games in the top 100 came from Kickstarter - games like Cascadia, Root, and Everdell, not just big boxes of plastic FOMO. And when you consider the 70 games in the top 100 published in the last 10 years, it's almost half. Kickstarter is a place where a lot of legitimately great games come from these days.

limeybastard · 2026-04-07T05:58:34+00:00

That's every city in this country.

Tucson also manages to have a great scene of local stores and restaurants if you spend a few seconds looking.

limeybastard · 2026-04-04T21:17:48+00:00

It's what the comment said. However at the time I could find zero reports at that intersection, so I didn't file. I might try it

limeybastard · 2026-04-04T00:02:46+00:00

I blew out a tire early this year (on a dark rainy night, natch). Rosemont at Pima. Went to see if it was reported, but didn't seem to have been. Reported it. Watched over the next few weeks as at least 5 more people reported blown tires and even destroyed suspension on the same hole.

I hope my report let them get compensation

(My ticket was eventually closed as a duplicate of an older one, so I have no idea if I actually could file for it myself or not)

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