How do you figure?

Vacuum tubes are called triodes, pentobes, etc depending on how many whatevers it has, do those count?

I read this as alligator washers and was very confused

Holy crap, all these answers and hardly anything about how health insurance is supposed to work.

Basically, most people have health insurance. With the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) from years ago, it’s basically required but getting care is simpler (you can’t be denied a plan for a preexisting condition, for example. But it’s hella expensive. It’s also typically tied to your employer as part of your compensation package like retirement contributions, which means if you change employers there’s a good chance you need to change insurance and even doctors.

ANYWAY, say you have procedures done. Insurance companies typically have contracted amounts for stuff with each provider (a “discount” from insane prices nobody actually pays). You typically pay the first however many dollars, depending on what you’re having done and how your plan works. Eventually, you’ll reach a dollar amount that’s your maximum for the year, and from there insurance generally covers everything they normally would

Some people also have Medicare (ages 65+) and/or Medicaid (based on income or disability). Some people have private insurance on top of it. My daughter was born extremely early and stayed in the hospital for months. Her very low birth weight was a qualifying disability for Medicaid, and she was on my work health insurance. Claims would go through work insurance first, and any remaining costs (deductible) would be passed to Medicaid. If there was anything left, I’d be responsible for that. But I don’t think that ever happened

Obviously, coverage is different for different people - different employers have different plans that cover different things differently. But in theory, that’s how it should work.

I am instead charming as fuck in person. Which was my other advantage. It doesn’t show online

Honestly? I totally saw it

If you wanted to do pineapple and soy sauce together, I bet that marinating the pineapple in some soy sauce (probably the low sodium kind for this one) would work great!

Burgers and pizza (and omelettes) are the perfect “blank canvas” foods. You can be boring with few/no toppings, you can be traditional with the expected combinations, or you can flex your creativity with whatever else your heart comes up with.

Either way, it’s an ingredient with plenty of potential, but it needs to be countered somehow. Canadian bacon doesn’t do it for me, in pizza but pepperoni and jalapeno does! For burgers… I like the comment mentioning soy sauce, but if I had to think of something on my own… Hmmm, maybe grilled with grilled jalapeno, crispy onion, and some cream cheese? Basically a jalapeno popper burger with the pineapple shaking things up and the crispy onion adds some crunch?

Damn, now I’m hungry

What happened after that?

Sometimes I think about changing out my 13-year-old 1080p TV for something with 4k. Then I see crap like this and hope it never dies.

And better Call Saul. Mostly because they’re so short it’s over by the time you find the remote.

I love that they tweaked it in the Bingo episode! Especially how everyone is caught off guard when Bluey goes after Mom and Dad

Philippines was a US territory

that hasn’t been true since 1946.

I mean… It was a US territory. Well, at least it was under control of the US in some way. I think one of/the first cruel and unusual constitutional challenges was over something that originated in the Philippines.

Have you ever tried fishing?

Yeah but you basically said the same thing to someone who does the opposite so I’m just going to assume your strategy is to not wipe at all, which is weird

That’s how I do it! While still sitting down of course. I used to do it the other way standing up but find this easier and works better

An apology would be nice, but do you really need to explain to the server that you still haven’t received your food? I think they know that

How does telling someone about a problem they’re already aware of help you?

Even if it is his birth name… If it were my birth name, I’d use a nickname

If it makes you feel any better, I thought the same until I read your comment

No, if you find a flight you like and, instead of putting your credit card information right there, you drive to the airport, pay for parking, wait in line at the ticket counter, tell the agent you want to buy that itinerary you just found online, argue with them when they say they can’t/won’t so it because it’s freaking Frontier, pay for your ticket, walk 10 minutes back to your car in the parking ramp, pay for your hour of parking, and drive home.

Probably not worth it for a single person/purchase, but if it’s charged per person, per direction (I think it is but not sure) and you’re paying for your whole family it may be worth it.