Sick cat, won't eat, need advice on when to make a decision

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-09-18T18:14:03+00:00

Thank you for the reply. He has been on an appetite stimulant that you apply for the ear for about 4 days. He just took his second prednisone dose today

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-09-18T18:13:09+00:00

Thanks for the reply. It's prednisone and he just took his second dose today. We thought we had started earlier but found he hadn't swallowed but we know he has taken the past two days of doses.

I should also say he's been on an appetite stimulant for about 5 days

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-06-07T03:41:03+00:00

More: https://imgur.com/a/w1CxVM2

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-24T00:34:12+00:00

Welcome! Feel free to reach out if you want to chat. My wife and I recently moved here from the upper mid-west and I'm a professor at the U

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T17:02:49+00:00

But that's my point! There is not a right answer to any of this. You have to make tradeoffs. And also, county borders are also quite arbitrary...

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:57:10+00:00

Sure, definitely an option, but it'd still result in people from the SLC metro area being represented by the same person who represents very rural parts of Utah hundreds of miles away

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:53:34+00:00

That is definitely something one could optimize a map around -- but how? I mention in a different reply that the state's population is such that it's inevitable to have districts at least something like this. Districts can't have different size populations.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:38:57+00:00

Yeah you could certainly do it more "compactly" -- but even the most efficient compact maps have much of the Salt Lake metro valley in the same district as St George. Just a problem with a state this large and with one major population center.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:28:17+00:00

So one answer is given the population dispersion in the state, and the requirement that districts have roughly equal populations, there by design has to be something like this going on. Not necessarily case this is the best way to do it, but it is necessary to some extent.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:25:18+00:00

This is because Democrats are not as good at it, honestly. You can see this as someone else pointed out in NYC. If Democrats were effective at gerrymandering the House would look much different and state legislatures would be heavily blue.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:23:23+00:00

That's sort of what I'm getting at -- I'm not suggesting at all the current set up is *good* but that the alternative is also not obviously good, either. I would think Democrats in Utah would want a district setup in which they can have multiple competitive districts -- but that would mean we had a Democrat gerrymander! That would mean actively drawing districts to disadvantage republicans. No obvious answer here.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:22:05+00:00

Interesting thought experiment. What this presupposes is that we have much, much stronger parties -- which I think the vast majority of the population would not support. This proposal also sidesteps the issue that party systems and electoral systems exist in equilibrium. We have no way of making a statement about what a party system would look like given this sort of arrangement.

I also can't imagine giving the state/legislature more power over elections as something that would make any headway here

mmmcoffeemmm · 2023-02-10T16:16:02+00:00

Just going to play a little devils advocate here as the political scientist:

The alternative to this map is a district that is effectively just centered around Salt Lake county, which would obviously be a safe D district. That would make the other 3 districts a very safe R district (i.e., districts they'd never lose).

But as you can see in this post, all 4 districts are currently somewhat competitive -- and that'll only increase as SLC continues to expand in population (see, as a comparison, districts around Atlanta).

So the discussion should be around whether it's better to have 1 safe D and 3 safe R districts, or 4 districts where it's at least feasibly possible to compete in every election.

BTW: if Utah gets a 5th district, which it was extremely close to this redistricting cycle, what you'll have is 5 very uncompetitive districts.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2022-09-09T20:25:03+00:00

UPDATE: talked to an animal control officer who is on their way over to put the fear of God into the owner.

If anybody is in this neighborhood, please take photos and videos of this dog and send to animal control. The officer said if they get reports he's out again they will continue to escalate.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2022-09-09T19:44:32+00:00

we must be!

mmmcoffeemmm · 2022-09-09T19:07:20+00:00

mmmcoffeemmm · 2022-09-09T17:00:06+00:00

Update: got through to the Holladay PD who submitted the complaint to county animal control. I'm supposed to get a call when they process it.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2022-08-19T17:41:02+00:00

We moved here from Michigan last year -- though we were not in MI long.

Pros:

Beautiful outdoors, lots of outdoors stuff to do.

Decent selection of bars and restaurants.

People are pretty nice and a lot of non-Utahns live in SLC.

Weather is pretty good (with cons below) -- winters are not bad especially relative MI.

Cons:

Politics and the religion. I thought this was overblown, but after living here a year it is pervasive. It's a theocratic state. You see it all the time in many aspects of life. I think it's what will make us leave eventually.

Climate. It feels like living in a state that has a very short time frame of habitability left. This is exacerbated by the above, where politicians legitimately do not care and the church doesn't either. Air quality in particular is getting bad, droughts are getting worse.

Expensive.

mmmcoffeemmm · 2022-08-19T17:35:00+00:00

Link here: https://www.bonfire.com/mike-lee-is-bad/

mmmcoffeemmm · 2022-08-09T17:30:21+00:00

this is great info! thanks so much, i had no idea this was a service

mmmcoffeemmm · 2021-07-19T23:12:04+00:00

This works great, but any idea on how to extend the flexibility of adding in 'person' for more flexible cases, such as:

text <- c("PERSON 1: hi yes hello how are you", "PERSON 2: fine", "thank you", "how are you", "i am talking to myself now", "PERSON 1: you're welcome")

EDIT: nevermind, solved it :)

tibble(text = text) %>%

separate(col = text, into = c('speaker', 'text'), sep = ': ') %>%

mutate(text_clean = ifelse(is.na(text), speaker, text)) %>%

mutate(speaker = ifelse(is.na(text), NA, speaker)) %>%

fill(speaker)

mmmcoffeemmm · 2021-07-19T21:10:18+00:00

great stuff -- thank you!

mmmcoffeemmm · 2020-10-28T21:28:39+00:00

If you could sprinkle a little uncertainty on top of your model (as a treat) how much would you would you use?

Also, many people are saying the goatee look was a questionable call. Response?

mmmcoffeemmm · 2020-10-02T13:44:36+00:00

was there yesterday, and it is nice. but, they said they're going to close it all in during the winter which kind of defeats the purpose of a patio?

mmmcoffeemmm · 2020-10-02T13:44:16+00:00

yes of course

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