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I get MRIs on a pretty regular basis, so here are my thoughts.

First off, the door to the MRI room automatically locks. I'm pretty sure that there's even a sign or an instruction they give that if I squeeze the emergency ball that I need help or need out, there will be a small delay to open the door. I have typically gone to large facilities and hospitals though so maybe these small "open MRI" places don't have the same rules and policies.

Second, yes it is made very very clear how you should not take in metal, on or inside you. Even if you've already done it 10 times, you're going through the questions and checklist.

And finally, even if there are no people around and all doors are unlocked, there are also signs that make it very clear that the magnet is always on.

At this point I fear that it would be the best case scenario if all the Democrats were sniveling little controlled opposition weenies.

What if a lot of them are good people with the will, the energy, the means, and the awareness that now is their time to make history, and they are not because the writing on the wall (or the approaching shit tsunami, if you will) looks that much worse from the inside where they can see the machinations of this takeover in action long before it hits the news. And maybe they’ve heard some consistent believable inside rumors about the details of certain high profile suicides.

They sure seem to be the useless variety though.

Suppose I polled the American people’s agreement with the statement “In all of human history there is one politician who is my favorite above all others, and that politician is President Donald Trump.”

We know that I would get tens of millions of people who genuinely and strongly agree with that. It would be depressingly close to, if not over, a hundred million.

Or maybe over 100M before the Epstein revolt and below after, lol.

Also Bernie is great at pointing out the bullshit but never has a plan to replace it.

Is this really the case, or is it that his plans don’t get a lot of analysis and detailed criticism because we all know the rest of the government will never pass it? And I don’t mean this as a Bernie-defending retort — I don’t follow him closely but I thought he’s proposed plenty of legislation and laid out changes in his speeches. His history in defending people that are not white dudes is pretty legit too, of course.

And given that he’s old, rich, and has his heart in the right place, I bet he would instantly jump at the chance to be exiled from washington along with all the other elderly people.

The limit on US-1 itself is 45. On rural roads chances are it's 25. And it says the driver didn't just hit the girl and send her flying, but hit her vehicle which spun it hard enough so that HER car is what hit her and sent her flying!

Fuck that driver indeed, indeed.

They have all that weight from the battery, but they can carry it very low in the body of the car. That combined with the great low-end torque of electric motors can make them feel a lot more nimble than an ICE car sandbagged to the same weight.

Yeah... This is the kind of crazy shit we American kids were told in the 80s, by parents who only ever lived during the cold war, to scare us about the communist countries on the other side of the world.

Of course it's real debt, but taking it on is involuntary. It does not have the same behavioral predictive power as debt that exists because of bad financial decisions.

It might affect your ability to pay, but less so if it is not on the credit report to begin with.

I have had trial lawyers tell me that State Farm is a pain to deal with even when claims get serious enough to involve them.

I have been using Allstate for a long time, and to their credit they have been good about approving my claims and paying fair amounts.

In the 2010s I had a totaled car one year, then another year I had two homeowners claims: a moderate one to get new siding after damage from some insane winds, then a bigass claim that ended up replacing plumbing and flooring while we ran up months of hotel bills they paid.

I’m not going to delude myself into thinking they’re a good company or give a shit, but my personal experience has been consistently decent.

Ah, nice.

I wrote that comment while trying to ignore crazy family members at a gathering, so apologies for not picking up the subtleties, lol.

Hopefully somebody will still read it and think to improve their habits!

Allow me to try to change your mind.

Accidents are by definition unpredictable. If you try to pick and choose when to prepare, you are just increasing your risk in order to feel smart or brave or in control.

If you want to make safety a priority, and you should when it comes to the most dangerous thing you do every day, then it doesn’t take much thought to get to the realization that you have to do it every time.

It’s kind of like how I never get caught with my car windows open during a rain storm. It’s not because I roll them up when there’s rain in the forecast, it’s because I roll them up every time I turn off the car.

Most importantly, regarding your desire to have fewer steps to do, you have to think of it in terms of cognitive load rather than physical movement. Putting on my seatbelt is just automatic pre-drive muscle memory that adds virtually no time and does NOT require me to think about and decide whether to wear my belt. Likewise, there is no mental check list to verify that I’m wearing my belt because my body is used to the feel of it. If the belt isn’t on, it feels like i’m not all the way seated into the car yet.

In addition to the wisdom of 100% belt use for other reasons, a crash on a 30mph road can and will fuck you up. The only time I’ve had a broken bone repaired with a metal plate was after some dickhead ran into me in a low speed collision like that on a side road. The bruised sternum from the seat belt fucking sucked for a few weeks, but I bet having a steering wheel ram my own broken arm into my rib cage would have been worse.

Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!