I’m pretty sure the Twin Cities metro is north of Toronto as well which would mean most of the population of Minnesota is north of most of the population of Canada.

Hey now…South Canada already refers to Minnesota. Y’all can get your own new nickname.

Trump has had a lot of nasty things to say about Minneapolis after BLM.

We really should just tax the ever-loving fuck out of them or evict them to Texas or something.

I came here to say this. I’m not entirely sure I would object all that much.

This is a very grim subject, but this is going to be a growing problem in many areas of the world. If your personal belief system and culture permits it, you should consider lower-impact burial options such as cremation. There are options for water-based dissolution “cremation” now in addition to the traditional incendiary variety.

This video by Caitlin Doughty (Ask A Mortician on Youtube) talks about some of the new, eco-friendly options, and this playlist has a bunch of videos about practical death questions.

I think there are some that have clauses about dying during the commission of a crime.

Many life insurance policies simply do not pay out in the case of suicide.

They’re trying SO HARD to make it look like a fringe, extremist position instead of the groundswell of righteous fury that it is.

A good legal defense will prevent them from just throwing the book at him for trumped up charges and/or sentencing guidelines. Cops commit more heinous crimes than this and get a slap on the wrist at best, and regular rich white people get cushy, minimal sentences. Without public outcry and legal defense to intervene, they probably would have tried to get him on outright terrorism charges to throw him away for life without parole. (There’s a bunch of white nationalists and Nazis that need to catch that sentence, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for Luigi)

I have seen snippets in the news saying that his family has disavowed him and cut him off so he effectively no longer comes from a rich family unless they change their minds.

Well, they’re not making it easy to find and it’s being funded by angry poor people. There’s probably not a lot of wealthy big donors on this one.

I came here to say this. We’re just getting a lot better at recognizing it earlier to try to jump on getting the kiddos into therapy to limit the impact on their life as adults.

It’s disappointing to see even Reuters dancing around the topic of the fully justified and wildly popular outrage against corporate America. They’re trying so hard to whitewash this and paint support for Luigi as “disturbing” while painstakingly tip-toeing around the actual issues. I expected better of Reuters than contributing to the bootlicking editorializing that’s going on in this article.

Thankfully, I do meet criteria for medical necessity, it’s just a matter of getting it done in the middle of medical school instead of when I’m done with everything and actually have a substantial amount of time off for full recovery.

This is why I’m accelerating my plans for a hysterectomy by a year even though it will complicate quite a few things for me.

FIP Warriors is who we went through, but it progressed too quickly because the fluid accumulation was in his lungs, not his abdomen.

That medication is quite new to the market and wasn’t available when this happened about 4 years ago, but I will mention this to our current vet so that she knows about it.

Careful with that one. Big pharma killed my cat once.

My cat came down with Feline Infectious Peritonitis which is a coronavirus that is lethal to cats when the virus mutates and becomes FIP. FIP is 100% fatal without treatment, and there is now a treatment (originally developed at UC Davis) that is now owned by a big pharma company. They shut down the feline clinical trials in 2020 because they also make Remdesivir, and there was a concern that if there were any problems with the feline drug trial, the FDA might not approve Remdesivir for COVID. You can buy the drug on the internet from China, but it’s a 12 week course of twice daily injections, and you’re gambling on whether you got a good batch every time you get a shipment.

By the time we found this out, it was too late to save our kitty, so he crossed the rainbow bridge.

Unfortunately, the swing to the right and the rise of shit like “Blue Lives Matter” has changed this in some places. When I was in the western part of Virginia for school, there was a local car dealership called “Pinkerton” and I saw their dealership license plate frames and emblem on a LOT of cars in the area. Many of those cars also had the Gadsden vanity plates and a bunch of blue lives matter, trump, etc. stickers on them.

The Biden SAVE plan actually made a massive change that makes it a lot more viable, especially if you do the PSLF program. It’s set up so that if you’re on an income-driven repayment plan, any interest not covered by your payment does not capitalize. So you might not make any progress on the principal of the loan while you’re in residency, but it won’t spiral out of control and the reduced payments count towards the 120 PSLF payments. I’m planning on doing a 3 year residency at minimum, maybe more, and probably a fellowship as well, so I’ll have 5 years of reduced payments, and then I’ll be working in non-profit community/county hospitals after that so I’ll be able to use PSLF. Running the numbers, I think the government will be eating about $275k-$300k of my loans.