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Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.

Wrong:

The bed sheets need washed.

Right:

The bed sheets need washing.

the car needs washed

Is there a name/term for this abomination? I’ve only ever heard one person speak in that form (omitting “to be”), and it has haunted me ever since.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/25/the-onion-sold-global-tetrahedron

Unless you habitually carry your passport

This would be a good time to remind everyone that you can actually get a passport card that will fit in your wallet:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html

The U.S. passport card is a wallet-sized, plastic passport that has no visa pages. The card is proof of U.S. citizenship and identity, and has the same length of validity as the passport book.

It used to not be funny. It’s still not, but it used to not, too.

We’re already getting four more years of the real thing.

It is not.

https://www.cargurus.com/research/price-trends

Used car price index

Want to track used car prices over time? Select a date range and car type to see your favorite vehicles’ pricing ups and downs.

Did you see the used car prices a few years ago? They’re trending downward.

.su is literally the reason that the more stringent rules now exist. They won’t let it happen again.

The first one that comes to mind is zoom.us

Good. The rampant abuse of the ccTLDs is atrocious.

ICU level care

Acute care, understood.

referring to like, fists.

i.e. “I need Olanzapine [broad receptor affinity, highly anti-cholinergic, well-tolerated], but, like, faster.” I’m surprised that particular aspect of the side effect profile comes into play with acute usage.

I’m unsure if you don’t work inpatient psychiatry or you just work somewhere significantly classier than I do.

Ah, yes, this happens a lot. No, I don’t work in the medical field at all. I just know things, for reasons.

I do work in an inner city area that’s flush with people stuck in a cycle of drugs / homelessness

i.e. the psychosis has done so much cumulative damage at this point that you need to fall back to the typicals. That explains why the third-gens are useless.

On a different note, have you heard about Cobenfy yet?

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/27/g-s1-25089/karxt-cobenfy-schizophrenia-psychosis-fda

It obviously isn’t suited to the needs of your practice. But I’m really glad we’re making progress on alternative treatment approaches, especially novel ones like anti-muscarinics.

Hopefully the new glutamatergics can reach your setting soon.

In 2024? Why? Risperdal is such a blunt instrument with respect to its broad affinity for receptors.

It’s called dead butt syndrome. The gluteus medius atrophies from the sedentary lifestyle.

Even worse, that was done intentionally. They wanted to prevent retail stores from leaving them plugged in at all times.

de·vice

noun

a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.

Sounds like the correct word to me. You don’t just walk into the store and buy an IED.

One of the law enforcement officials with knowledge of the markings said that all three devices were sent to the terrorist explosive device analytical center in Huntsville, Ala.

There are several monospace adaptations of Comic Sans which are great for use in terminals or IDEs. I particularly like this one:

https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

I have never seen another terminal font that is so easy and fast to grok.

We originally reached out to 9Elements last year along with several other coreboot consultants, but all of their prices were so outrageous ($50k-$100K per board) that we decided to try porting our laptops ourselves. After hitting a sticking point, we reluctantly contacted them again for help debugging our code.

From the start, our interactions with Christian Walter were awful. We repeatedly stressed how important and time-sensitive this project was, but he seemed completely indifferent. In fact, he made a snide remark about us coming back after trying to do it ourselves.

We never received a quote for the actual porting, but they said the evaluation cost is typically 10% of the total cost, which would mean the porting would have cost around $33,000 for Dasharo-branded coreboot, and $66,000 for unbranded coreboot. Even their highly discounted Dasharo-branded porting comes out to around $250 to $330 an hour, and that’s if they started from scratch. We had 80%+ of the job already complete. We just needed to debug our code.

Sometimes people take their vehicle to mechanics and don’t like the quotes for the repair costs. Some of those people then choose to try to do the work at home. Sometimes one of those people will then reluctantly take the car back to the mechanic after they screw up the work.

And then they balk, because they discover that (A) the mechanic will outright refuse to work on the vehicle due to it being in a dismantled state, or (B) the mechanic will give an even higher quote since they now have to diagnose and clean up the mistakes too.

They sign up for an account as a customer, and they order something really cheap, e.g. a salt packet from McDonald’s or a sauce packet from Taco Bell.Then when a Dasher accepts the delivery offer, they call the Dasher.

DoorDash masks phone numbers on both ends by proxying through their own phone bank. So when they call the unsuspecting Dasher, the caller ID on the Dasher’s end says “DoorDash.”

Then they impersonate Dasher support. They claim to the Dasher that the order they are attempting to pick up was placed fraudulently and will need to be cancelled. They claim that the Dasher will still be paid for their trouble but that they will need to check their text messages for a link.

Then they use the link to phish the Dasher’s account credentials. And they instruct the Dasher to forward their 2FA code as well, despite the text message literally saying that nobody will ever ask for that code.

It’s been happening for years. New Dashers fall for it all the time.

It says they also fraudulently created new accounts as well. They likely turned around and “rented” those accounts out to additional victims. There is a black market for account rentals for those who, for whatever reason (e.g. background check, driving record, citizenship status) can’t be approved for one on their own.

Damn. Maybe I’m not as useless as I thought I was.

OP used the title from the article. Is that not convention?