Didn’t think it was needed. I’m not the one pulling out a soapbox to lecture someone for asking a wildly legitimate question. Always fair to ask about facts.

But since you seem interested: I too pay taxes, vote, donate to multiple local charities (including my local food bank, RMHC, animal shelter, protecting women’s rights). I serve on the board for a NP focused on pediatric oncology. For a living, I spend a lot of time on health care equality - access and affordability, and connecting people to local resources.

Supposably

True. But 3m allows you to maintain a lifestyle at a certain level indefinitely as well as buy other financial products so you can pass your wealth to your children via life insurance or pay for long term care. It’s also the level at which you can start to do rich people money shenanigans.

He didn't have a background in legislating or law. He taught for a GED program. What was your point again? It's definitely not because she's a woman, right? That's not what you're implying, right? Because that is the only point you're making.

Yep. In the last thirty years, we have had one year of Democrat unified government (1993), compared to eleven years of Republican unified government (1995-2002, 2011-2013).

The governor's seat is a tossup but the general assembly (particularly the Senate) has been quite safe for Republicans.

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It's telling you didn't even try to come up with a list of stuff you do to help a single person in your community

And governments are incapable of building them? What's your angle?

Mostly the same, except instead of donating to a Women’s shelter, we sponsor a family every year for Christmas.

I’m in western PA. Our Penn Power rates have had similar increases in the last year or so. It’s all tied to the price of natural gas since we generate a lot of electricity with natural gas.

The war in Ukraine created a spike in global gas prices. That flowed through to your utility bills. Both electric and gas. Gas has cratered lately due to the relatively warm winter. Downward adjustments are coming.

Surcharges and weather normalization factors are all allowable and still regulated by the PUC. Utilities are switching to these since usage is dropping due to gains in efficiency. All of the infrastructure still needs to be paid for and charges that are based on consumption are too variable. So they switch to surcharges and normalization factors to try to stabilize revenue.

The US has some of the lowest fixed monthly customer charges in the world. Places in Europe charge $20-$30 a month or more as a base charge because of this same issue.

Nationally we are shutting down the cheapest most reliable source of generation in nuclear. That isn’t helping costs either.

Lucky! Says Napoleon Dynamite.

Will echo: Come on now. That’s a pretty thin resume to secure that high spot on the mountaintop your looking down on people from.

I look forward to the follow up on this. From the inexplicable motive on behalf of the manufacturer to it being tested in a national guard lab, this whole thing feels like drug panic.

Call your state rep and have them put in an inquiry to the Department of Labor. My partner has been trying to go through the claims process, but the portal has been a nightmare. When he goes to the link to submit his weekly info, it says, "You can't put anything here until January 15th." It's been over a month, and it still says that.

Call your state House rep and have them put in an inquiry to the Department of Labor. My partner has been trying to go through the claims process, but the portal has been a nightmare. When he goes to the link to submit his weekly info, it says, "You can put anything here until January 15th." It's been over a month, and it still says that. ely. Their suggestion was to call our state rep and do what I mentioned above. Our state rep's team also confirmed this has been a constant problem.

Ok, so yes. But thats because most can't afford "good" care, and end up in the cheapest place with a bed and a roommate.

I pay my taxes, vote, donate to my local food bank, and donate to my local women's shelter.

What are you doing?

I'm kinda sick in my stomach with the idea that his wife, who pushed him to run despite suffering from a stroke, would supplant him and take over the office despite not being elected.

I know, but its unregulated which means that you can get all sorts of other random shit in your stuff.

You do know d8 exists naturally in “real” cannabis as well, right? Its not some new laboratory concoction.

My mother worked in ICU care. She told me roughly 85% of the money spent on your healthcare in your lifetime will be in your last month of life.

I would find that highly unlikely. D8 is cheap as dirt if you buy in bulk.

Or just don’t buy your d8 from sketchy brands in gas stations and smoke shops

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I don’t want to minimize the severity of his problem or any mental health issues but It feels disrespectful to start talking about his replacement. He’s not the first senator to have a stroke or other issues and take time off.

I had a major injury and was offered an inpatient intensive mental health treatment program. It’s a little different than checking yourself in for suicidal thoughts. It’s not as common because it’s expensive and hard to get insurance to pay

Yes