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I'll keep that in mind. I live at a high enough altitude that I'm literally in the clouds pretty often (e.g., when it's overcast everywhere else, I'm in pea-soup fog), so cedar is one of the prime choices for anything that's going to be outside, just to keep it from rotting.

Sadly: no attic. I need try making an attractive bat roost for them. I wonder how bats feel about cedar, since cedar is rot resistant?

Unless either candidate OVERWHELMINGLY wins, there's not going to be anything tonight, and probably not tomorrow. The last of the swing states won't close polls until 8p (Mountain time, I think). Trump is almost certainly going to declare that he is the winner "by a lot". Best case, we'll know tomorrow morning.

So take a couple alprazolam, drink a couple shots, and black out until tomorrow.

If I remember correctly, Republicans in Georgia have consolidated voting locations in Atlanta--which is heavily Democratic--despite there being long line and hours of waiting in 2020. Is it intentional? 100%. In the rural parts of Georgia--and I'm pretty rural--you're in and out in only slightly longer than it takes to read the ballot.

About 45 minutes, as I recall, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I think that was the year that marriage equality (e.g., gay marriage) was on the ballot in Michigan. (I just looked it up; it was a vote to amend the state constitution to ban civil unions and marriage equality.) That was in 2004. Since then, I don't remember ever having to wait more than 10 minutes when voting in person.

I love seeing the bats coming out at night in the summer; I can see them in the front clearing, swooping around after moths. I've got a bat house, but I think that it's been vacant for years; I need to find a better way to attract them to my home.

In the US, you would need to start off by determining that the care was below standard before you can sue for malpractice. In the case of the dentist, it sounds like the dentist did what he was capable of doing; unless there were oral surgeons that were on-call, what would you reasonable expect? In the US, that wouldn't be an emergency, because it's not going to kill you to wait--in pain, admittedly--for 12 hours for an oral surgeon. I suspect you'd have a hard time winning a malpractice claim under US law. (Malpractice usually has to be pretty egregious to win.)

Sure, you can sue. But my guess is that most attorneys are going to look at that, and charge you, rather than working on contingency. That means that you pay up-front, rather than them taking a percentage of winnings. That's what usually happens when they don't think they'll win.

The police also broke my rights and abused me, and the supreme court sided with me.

That would be quite rare in the US. The overwhelming majority of police abuse cases are decided in favor of the police, and when they aren't, someone is usually dead or permanently crippled. The financial payout is usually going to the survivors. Wrongful arrest? That's usually met with a shrug. People regularly die in police custody in the US, and the police investigate and find themselves innocent.

Is it bullshit? Of course. Police should be trustworthy. Doctors should be trying to offer the highest standard of care at all time. Wealth and power shouldn't play into any of that, and it's despicable that it usually does. Is what Finland has still better than what the US has, and is likely to have (esp. if Trump ends up winning)? Absolutely. Would I emigrate to Finland if I had a job that was in-demand and thought there was any possibility I could learn Suomi fluently, even if it meant conscription? Absolutely, without hesitation.

I'm very surprised that you haven't heard of Ghost of Tsushima; it has been a highly successful game.

But maybe I am mistaken? I would swear that I had to accept EA terms and conditions to play, but it's by Sony and Sucker Punch. I dunno.

Currently I recommend bupropion and atomoxetine, but once I get an appointment with a psychiatrist, I'll probably recommend lisdexamphetamine.

Modafanil is pretty great too.

In re: medical -

I'm uninsured because the only insurance I had available to me at the time was about $11,000 annually if anything happened where I needed insurance (that's between the premiums, the annual deductible, and the out of pocket maximum). I have a torn rotator cuff. It was >80% torn when I got an MRI in late August. It might be fully torn now, because it doesn't hurt very much anymore. I tore it in May of this year, and yeah, it took me a few months to be able to get an MRI, and then a few weeks for them to deliver the results (even though that should have been under a week). I need surgery. I got a quote for $16,300 and managed to pony up the cash from long term savings. Then surgery was cancelled by the clinic. I rescheduled and it was sent to a hospital instead of a clinic; the new quote was $49,000. That was three weeks ago. I have another consult next week.

It's been about six months since I tore my rotator cuff. I should have been able to get in to see a doctor and get an MRI immediately, but I couldn't have afforded and ER visit on top of all of the rest of this. I don't even know if it's repairable at this point.

Complaining about long waits, given the alternative, seems really, I dunno, privileged?

In my experience--and I'm very solidly middle aged, so take that with a double handful of salt--the young women in the deep south trend fairly centrist/liberal, while the young men trend hard right. The women that tend to be Trump supporters appear to be middle aged and older, and usually don't have any significant college education.

Eh, I dunno, I'm currently really enjoying Ghosts of Tsushima, although strictly in off-line mode. And I enjoyed the first Jedi: Fallen Order, again, solely off-line.