In order for the tides to rise significantly in the Baltic or Mediterranean, you’d need that much extra water to flow through the narrow opening in the straits of Gibraltar/Denmark.

The Baltic sea also probably is less affected because it’s so far north, and the tides are based on the Moon’s (not-quite-equatorial, but not THAT inclined) orbit.

This definitely seems like the more likely explanation. There certainly is a mental/emotional hell you go through in academia, but with this y-axis being specifically about psychiatric medication… all I’m seeing is that grad students like/need Adderall.

The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.

The word itself comes from from the Italian word for “nephew”, because of a trend of “nephews” of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes’ illegitimate sons).

YUUUUUUUUUP YUPYUPYUPYUPYUP

I’m not a lawyer, but a piece of legal advice I’ve seen repeated many times is “Never threaten to sue. Just sue.”

As soon as you threaten to sue, you’ll never be able to talk to anybody except the legal team, and they’ll do nothing to help your case.

Can someone let me into the top floor of a wall street office building so I can become finance-class?

Most of those are just based on the same real-world animal.

How DARE you also put a wolf in your game!

My wife broke her ankle and insurance denied the entire claim for being “not medically necessary”. The “medical professional” (not doctor) who denied the claim had experience in OBGYN, not orthopedics.

100% going to win the appeal because like, we have x-rays of the shattered bones in her leg, but seriously wtf. People seriously believe this is the ideal medical system?

Kakuna wearing a tux?

You’re the outlier of outliers, then. General practice is booked weeks to months in advance for me.

A lot of people interviewed for the article are acting all surprised. “Oh wow, this is really surprising that he said this, given his policy stance on the drug”

Only one person really hit home with their response. Douglas Brinkley from Rice University:

“It reinforces Nixon as a Machiavellian political operative,” Mr. Brinkley said, adding that the former president “dehumanized drug users because it was in his political interest to do so.”

They also were in their car outside the gate to the property. TECHNICALLY that gate may be inside the property line, but that’s still totally egregious.

This works for some things, but it’s like the parable of the boiled toad: you need to push on the edges of truth, not come out guns blazing with “post-birth abortions”, “Immigrants eating family pets”, and “Democrats wanted Roe v Wade overturned also”

The root of the thing is that Islamic teachings require practitioners to dress modestly.

Interpretations of this range from “cover your sex bits” to “don’t show an inch of skin to anybody except your husband”.

The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. ~~Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever. ~~ eh, that last but might not be accurate but there is some kind of enzyme in their stomach that keeps you alive? Whatever.

Residents of the suburbs be like:

Yes

The FBI recently came into some hard evidence about Russia’s interference actions.

I’m all for it, but this does still require patches of soil in the cities that are rapidly getting paved over.

“Pele who can’t defend themselves physically”

Like Elon, who pulled out of a fight he tried to start with Zuck because he’d get his ass kicked?