Not where I've been but I have my doubts about some places. Get excited for hurrications though, they're super elite as long as the levees aren't caving in.

Have good friends in houston. any hurricane and i'm going on a hurrication for serious drinking.

well i'll be damned

my point still stands

12 oz diet dr pepper
32 oz diet coke
22 oz coke zero
40+ oz of water
3oz wild turkey honey


When I used to tend bar, I drank an insane amount of caffeine. A red bull when I got to work (always sugar free though), another one later in the night, unlimited diet coke in the beverage gun. Funny thing is that I used to drink a lot more water back then too.

I don't know if Circle K or Cracker Barrel (gas station not the restaurant) are across the US, but there is a Circle K on every corner where I live, which have the $.69 44oz fountain drink with 15+ flavors. Cracker Barrel has a 32oz fountain for $.59. I usually have 1-2 of these per day, because it's cheaper than a bottle of water by a large margin. When I want water I'll go buy a bottle of water, usually the cheapest price per oz, but it never crossed my mind that I can also get a 44oz water out of the fountain for $.69 until today with all this drink talk. I feel kind of stupid.

Hope you like 12 hour road trips. Can't stress enough getting out before mandatory evac is called. You being in med school might hamper your flexibility leaving though.

Ikes, I moved to Baton Rouge 9 months ago after spending my whole life in the midwest (1/2 Indiana and 1/2 Michigan). You have nothing to worry about. Wouldn't recommend Mississippi though.

Yesterday maybe 5 shots, 5 ciders, 3 long drinks and a couple waters. Then some milk before bed and now a glass of milk and a cup of tea after waking up.

take excedrin

well done euro.

Throughout the south, you typically do not want to get 45 minutes drive away from an interstate highway. I generally follow that rule.

Had similar reaction when I gave up caffeine, tobacco, and sugar at the same time. Really couldn't have that, so eventually found a kook remedy that seemed to help; 3 amino acid supplements--Taurine, Tyrosene, & Glutamine 5 x per day. It was from one of those holistic addiction clinics where they said they found this mix the most consistent helper; Taurine is supposed to calm your agitation, Tyrosine to pep you up, Glutamine to balance blood sugar levels. (Like I said, yhe source is a kook and has no scientific evidence that I could find...personally found it legit effective right away (if benefitting from the placebo effect is wrong, I don't want to be right!)). Typically the caffeine withdrawal symptoms only last 2-4 days though, well some tiredness for 30 days. Pretty sure, if you're not agitated, you get similar doses of Tyrene & glutamine from most protein powders.

Excedrin contains caffeine, btw. Not sure if that's not a joke or a trap, but it will certainly get rid of a no-caffeine headache!

Thanks, will give Khan a try. I do most of this kind of reading to pass and/or eliminate insomnia, so never quite certain if I don't like the book or I'm just tired.

People like the guy filming the video shouldn't be parents. Guy should go to jail for that IMO. He had all kinds of time to drive away and could have easily gotten an extra quarter mile to two miles away depending on the road and how long it took to start videoing. Putting children in danger to get a video is never acceptable.

I feel like we could circulate a conspiracy theory about this week that Imagine Dragons "Radioactive" has successfully predicted our impending doom.

The song title referring to what the fertilizer plant cloud looked like.

The line "It's a revolution I suppose" referring to the city that started the American Revolution being bombed.

Then the line "This is it, the apocalypse"

I wonder how many mouthbreathers would pay $5 a piece to hear more after we give them this taste test.

Re: EBT Cards and other social handouts

It does rustle my jimmies that people abuse the system because they have no pride or shame. However, I would rather the system be available to everybody who really needs it. I don't mind that the system is over-inclusive to begin and then exclude people who don't need it, rather than forcing people who really do need it to jump through hoops to get the help they need.

I don't hold a strong opinion on this specific issue, but think the opposite. If you have to jump through hoops and spend a lot of time and energy to qualify then most people who don't really need it won't waste resources and those that really do need it will still find a way to get it because it is really important to their livelihood.

Just watched fertilizer video. The girl saying "Dad please get out of here" gave me chills. How can you possibly do that with a child?

He pretty clearly wasn't aware that an explosion like that could happen. I doubt 90% of Americans or any other pop. would think they were in danger that far away from a fire like that.

Jesus, kid is heartbreaking.

That guy is absolutely a ****ing idiot who should have his kid taken away, lol @ anyone defending him. It's a mother****ing fertilizer plant, get off your ****ing cell phone and GTFO you ******.

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Did you consider that the hardship (waste of time and energy jumping through hoops) actually, you know, affects real-life people and families? FILTERING, though. In this plan, both deserving and undeserving current EBT program users lose huge amounts of utility, for what I'm hard-pressed to picture as an correspondingly enormous increase in efficiency.

Is having 8 separate threads for every NBA series really necessary?

Especially in the first round where there are like 2-3 series whose outcome is reasonably up in the air.

I don't know, but it's apparently necessary to complain about it every year in this thread. It's done this way every year and there's never any real problem with it. You have 1 MLB thread, 1 NFL draft thread, a couple soccer threads and NBA/NHL playoff threads. There's really nothing else going on at this point.

Yeah, pretty torn. On one hand, you can definitely see the criticism as results-oriented: he's a huge distance away from a not-massive fire, which he could have assumed had already combusted the combustible material. On the other hand, it's a ****ing fertilizer plant, and it's on fire. Get out of there with your kid.

iirc there's a specific cognitive bias that's "underrating the likelihood of a unique event", seems to be applicable here.

Meh, I'd rather have an East/West thread instead of elventy billion threads. Not a big deal though.