All the links from the White House website are gone, but the Affordable Care Act is still in effect, and you can sign up for health insurance until January 31.
Trump and his cronies may want to kill it, but that takes time (especially now that key players are waffling and the insurance industry have noticed that it will rain chaos down upon them). So sign yourself up. Get in a free checkup, a round of antibiotics, a birth control implant, while you have the chance.
If anyone needs help applying, ping me.
Todavía puede inscribirle en Obamacare. Si necesita auyuda, pídame.
Would you all mind boosting this? I don’t usually ask, but Obamacare is a big deal for me. I haven’t had to dose anyone with veterinary antibiotics in years, and I really want to keep it that way.
Honestly in all of these stories these poetic white men who somehow end up immortal get so bored and miserable because they just sit in their mansion all day doing whatever it is they need to do in order to sustain their immortality and then they just throw lavish parties and organize orgies or whatever and then they’re like “why am I sad I eat three course meals and have at least one orgy daily what MORE could I POSSIBLY need??”
Like???? Damn go for a walk. Do you even KNOW your neighbors? Get a dog and take it to the park. Set up an elaborate fish tank. Go skiing like you’ve been alive for 200 years and you’ve spent 180 of it in your house looking at paintings and drinking wine with other rich assholes no wonder ur life sucks my man.
I went back in the day when Main Hall still had dorms in it, I think they switched it out when they got tired enough of hearing about the ghosts. I remember learning about that little place name trick while going there but I can never remember the word for it.
Everyone keeps saying Eurus’ mind control powers were supernatural. They weren’t. She used two techniques, Mirroring (here’s a second link too) and the Zeigarnik effect.
In the interview with the Governor, probably with Dr. Taylor as well, she used the Zeigarnik effect by maintaining direct eye contact and using a physical tic to punctuate or interrupt what she’s saying, even when she seems to be speaking in nonsense poetry. This is a technique for tricking the subconscious that specific actions, words, or ideas are unfinished and therefore important and should be dwelt on. It creates “ear worms”.
A musical example of this this is the song Gangnam style. I’m not a musician, so have patience with my attempt to explain, essentially the meter of the song is 4/4, the musical notes tend to bunch in beats of three. This gives your brain the constant sense the song is unfinished and it sticks. You can also see it in songs like Toxic, Uptown Funk, The Power of Love, and many others where there is a sudden burst of music or sound different than the rest of the song as a sort of repetitive punctuation. It’s also why you’ll get a specific sound or single line stuck in your head over and over.
Mirroring is a subconscious tendency to speak, behave, and dress like those in your ‘family group.’ It’s a way to identify those you interact with the most and to identify those who aren’t part of the group. There are lots of reasons why I won’t get into because I burnt myself out a bit with the whole musical thing. Also, for the last half hour I’ve been looking up the specific word for when a geographical community deliberately changes the pronunciation of their town in order to identify outsiders and Google is just getting increasingly confused about what I want. Poor thing.
If you know about mirroring you can trick someone else subconsciously into listening to you and being open to you on a subconscious level. Euros does it when she mirrors Moriarty’s head movements and his sensual body language until the mirror image of her face interposes over his. She also does this with Sherlock when its shown he’s moving forward based on her body language as well as lifting his hand in time with hers.
This episode had a lot of room for improvement, but it was frustrating me that everyone seems to be saying its magic. So these are the techniques she used.
Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf – it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” – meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.
Another good post to read for those writing small human characters.
I only ask this because even though I wrote about the Holmes parents before the show showed us Mummy and Daddy Holmes I received a metric ton of feedback about how WD!Parent Holmes didn’t match with the show. I get where people are coming from, I just don’t find the feedback useful I guess? If fanfic writers went back to edit their work to ensure it was constantly series compliant nothing would get done.
SO. Since we have a bit of time until the main chapter it would effect comes out, would Narrow Line readers prefer I specifically integrate series 4 into The Narrow Line or just continue in the Wee Doctor universe?
And he’s pretty good at it, so he’s a diamond-level guest at all the harrahs casinos, meaning they always comp his room and meals. My mom has a second job with her friend’s modeling company, and they were working a banquet in Vegas. My moms main job is as a flight attendant though, so we fly free. So my dad just took off to Vegas the night of my moms job, and when they were done, he took her and all her model friends (7 of them) to a fancy-ass restaurant. He’s friends with one of the waiters there just from visiting so often, but they don’t know much about my dads life/job/whatever. So when my dad shows up with a bunch of models, the waiter comes up and he’s like “ok dude spill. what do you do? what’s your job?” And my dads like “it’s a mystery” because he’s a mailman
(talk about a story not going where you expected it…)
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