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"The number of times I've shit flying out of or off of cars & trucks"

I'll take that very seriously in my car too - and back off if I see a badly loaded vehicle. There's not much protection from a windshield.

That makes sense assuming engineers don't need to practice this skill very often. But doctors need to do fluffy, compassionate every shift.

Nothing about the story makes sense. Doctors and nurses say these kinds of things to patients every day (I'm an EMT, I've watched them do it and I do it myself). I'm seriously wondering if the relatives were responding to the fact that the clinician was visibly reading from a piece of paper and that somehow made it more 'official'.

I have seen police arrest people under section 136 of the UK's Mental Health Act in circumstances where no expertise is needed to see that the person is a danger to themselves or others.

The police then take that person to a place of safety, usually a hospital.

A psychologist and a physicist walk into a bar...

All the rewards I've ever had were points or cashback at or below 2% of spend. These are/were all zero annual fee cards - there might be more rewards at higher tiers.

I and others have shown that such cards exist, correcting the person who I replied to, who claimed they did not.

Were there any requirements at all to get hired as a teacher before that change?

I'm in the UK and I have had (still have) rewards on MC, Visa and Amex. This was the case when we were still in the EU as well.

"when a man is tired of Swindon, he is tired of life"

Marylebone...

Mornington Crescent!

(No pronunciation trickery on that last one, it is just the name of an absurdist parlor game)

If I went 15 slower, there would have been no accident. The whole thing wasn't even my fault.

This seems contradictory. Do you mean the other driver was more at fault?

We had snow on my street for about 5 days early this year (not a main road so didn't get cleared). Didn't grind to a halt at all - just needed a bit more care to get to the main road, which was cleared. I drive an ordinary FWD car with standard tires.

I don't liken it to slavery, but most wage (or salaried) labor looks like this. Making sure your employer thinks well of you (your 'rating'), getting certifications (some employers will pay, but not all).

Vast numbers of people in the West don't own their own home either. Not really the same as living in the old East since you can choose where you live here, within your budget, but I wanted to highlight that a lot of our freedom ends when the money does.

Is the motivation to minimize the seriousness of Watergate? I just take it as a lazy way of tagging a story and I suspect many headline writers couldn't even summarise what the original Watergate scandal involved.