Honestly, as someone who’s spent a lot of time in emergency departments, it depends a lot on the hospital and the time of day. Sometimes they’re packed and sometimes they’re almost empty. (At those times it’s very important not to invite disaster by mentioning how quiet it is.) Having an Urgent Care in the same place for Triage to divert people into helps a lot as well.

Let’s stop calling them super. “The grotesquely wealthy” is more accurate.

Play a compilation of song covers at exactly 135 BPM so I can do my treadmill without losing my center or my step.

Work the laundry machines, and set a separate timer because the app notifications are unreliable.

Text to check that my kids are alive and assure them that I and their dad are also not dead today.

Order grocery delivery.

Listen to birds and learn their names (Merlin)

Be part of the earthquake alert system (MyShake)

Wordle/ Quordle/ Waffle

Yes. If I have to wait in the ER, I try to think of it as a sign that I’m going to be okay.

Extremely fast service, or people suddenly starting to be really really nice to you, means something very bad is going on.

But since money interferes with logic in so many ways it seemed necessary to mention it.

The Onerous Bloated Billionaire Boondoggle

Time for states to freeze payments to the Trump administration. He’ll only grift them into his own pockets anyway. They can just fund their education programs directly.

Ain’t no MAGAs running to the field or up the ladders to take these hard jobs at any price.

The Onerous Bloated Billionaire Boondoggle

Agreed! I plan on using “the grotesquely wealthy” from now on, it conveys my visceral opinion of them.

That part is normal in US emergency rooms as well.

Big Billionaire Boondoggle

I own and live in a condo, and sometimes call it an apartment., because condo sounds bougie to me. Especially because I happen to know the building was built as apartments and converted later. Lots of people rent condos as well, so they have a landlord, the owner of the unit. Anyway, you can usually say apartment to give the idea it’s a multifamily dwelling.

Also notice how the long distance, chaotic distribution, and heavy aid boxes force families to self-select their strongest person, who would also be most able to put up a fight to defend their family. Then the IDF is gunning them down when they’re in the chute, leaving starving women and children that are easily disposed of.

I like the point about climate change, if you could trick the genie into agreeing that once you set up your new home you get to stay there. Then pick a spot on the cusp of frigidity. So it will gradually get into the double digits at least.

I’m not saying it was any actual kid, that’s just the only reason I could imagine being possibly justified.

Yes making jam is easy in a small amount like this, but canning it so it’s shelf-safe is a whole process.

Storebought is fine if you need jam and don’t have time or energy.

But if you aren’t up for eating all of those fresh berries in the fridge before they go bad, there’s a reason it’s called “preserves.” And you can mix different berries, even pitted cherries, or I’ve added a pouch of açai before, it’s all good, just different. If you want it smooth, use a blender or scrape it through a strainer. I’ve subbed Xylitol for the sugar and it works too.

The only situation I could imagine in which this decision could possibly be justified is if a small child got hold of a gun (because Texas) and shot her in play, and they’re trying not to ruin the kid’s life.

I had to check, because I was pretty sure there’s already no dyes in their jam and that is true.

You can make jam easily by boiling 2 cups rinsed and hulled (and cut if you like smaller bits) strawberries with the juice of a lemon and 2 cups of sugar for about 8 minutes, scraping the bottom with a silicone spatula or wooden spoon. It will be a nice bright color without any help. If you’re not proficient with doing sterile jars, store half in the fridge and half in the freezer.

Turns out the dyes are mostly in Hostess baked goods and other companies they’ve acquired.