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Plain butter typically costs more than peanut butter, unless you meant to say margarine which is cheaper. (Regular butter, store brand, on sale 1lb ~$2.50; PB on sale, store brand, 1lb ~$2.00; Margarine, giant tub >1.5 lb of just about any ~$3)

Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct." This is not limited to verbal words. Article 89 is Disrespect towards Superior Commissioned Officers. This makes sense, in a business you can get in trouble because you upset people or piss off customers, in the military your insubordination/contempt can cost lives.

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Additional "freebies" (because they are paid for by tuition and/or taxes) at libraries beyond free internet- magazine subscriptions (take that consumer reports!), newspaper subscriptions, standard books/audiobooks obviously but also digital books (and magazines) and digital audiobooks, movies, music, software (games/educational, not like Windows or Adobe Suites) research (get help from a reference librarian - they can provide you specific information or a bibliography to peruse at your convenience relevant to the question/topic, great prices at booksales, some libraries have oddities (tools/toys/framed art, etc.) for lending, inter-library loan can lend you just about any book from anywhere outside your system for a couple bucks including textbooks, Pre-K through Adult reading/writing/interest specific events and activities.
I know there's more, but people really under utilize their libraries. You can join for minimal $ a nearby but not your local library too!

Re: How did you not pay?
Some libraries offer free use to their members, College/University libraries more than public libraries but some public ones do offer.

Any spiders would be bad, but brown recluse can cause necrosis and grow to a wound size of ten inches of gangrenous horror. Seeing hundreds of daddy long legs or garden orb spiders would be horrible but hundreds of these would be like watching death swarm.

Usually (i.e. the cheaper way) is to add the braille via PermaBraille sheets (available through APH - American Printing House for the Blind [and other locations but with the federal quota funds available for legally blind students in the US teachers order a lot of these for labeling items because they're 'free to them' via allocations]) with the braille for colors, or more often textures (feel n peel carousel of textures) to differentiate. The rubix cube pictured may be a prototype, photoshopped, or pre-color, but usually the items will have visual differentiation to make them more inclusive. (Even the flip-over concept books by APH have colors as well as textures/parts of a whole/line paths) (If you're wondering why things are so relatively pricey at APH it's because it has to be durable enough to stand up to pretty intense handling and wear. Allocation has been slowly reducing over the years, it's under $300 per registered legally blind student/year these days, APH are good people.)

In a lot of places it's not a choice. If you want a house in any sort of quasi-new development (last 20+years have them, new ones definitely have them) you are stuck with an HOA.

Watch "The Cutting Edge" <3 Oh D.B. Sweeney and Moira Kelly how I loved you and "Toe Pick" when I was little.

Because she knows him, and when she takes up Mjolnir she transforms from sickly, dying, cancer patient Jane Foster into the Valkerie-esqe Thor you see above. She chooses to take it on as a title.

Not vaccinating is more than stupid (*except for those rare cases where the kid's immune system is too compromised to handle the vaccine yet/at that point (age/illness - also people who are post chemo and not able to redo their vaccines yet), or if they are allergic to an element of the vaccine and there is no egg/whatever free option), it is dangerous. This is not said to be any sort of "-ist" but the state health services in the US are seeing resurgences and high rates of easily prevented, dangerous illnesses that HAVE VACCINES in the large immigrant areas. If someone gets sick with a (vaccinat...able?) preventable virus it can mutate in their bodies and then spread to those without. The more people unvaccinated the more chances that mutation can happen.

Rita is correct. Costco/Kirklands is a separate warehouse, Sams Club is the Walmart version.

sm19, No, Canadian Personal Income Taxes are like the US Personal Income Taxes on Tips and Gratuities.
"Line 104 - Employment income not reported on a T4 slip. Income such as tips, gratuities, or occasional earnings may or may not be shown on your T4 slips. If they are not included on your T4 slips, report them on this line. It is your responsibility to keep track of the earnings you receive through your employment."
I would assume that just like in the US many/most do not report cash tips (or do not report the real amount) and hope not to get caught, but they are required to pay taxes on them.

They are guaranteed Federal/State (if higher) minimum wage if the reduced hourly rate plus the tips don't add up to that amount. Some servers earn great money, some do not. If they want to be guaranteed more than the Federal/State minimum wage then they should improve themselves through work and education and get a different job.

Jerk move on the thief/friend's part, but to your comment servers are guaranteed minimum wage, whether or not that is a living wage is it's own debate, but while they are officially paid ~ $2-4/hr ($6.80 on federal contracts) + tips, if that money does not bring them up to minimum wage rates for the entirety of their shift (Federal $7.25/hr, some States vary to larger amounts) the employer must pay the difference to them. Some people, bartenders, pricier restaurants, popular restaurants in the best shifts walk away daily with very good money. If you look at the cash tips that many do not report, so it's tax free earnings, it's even better money.

They do this all the time in my kid's daycare - it's really prominent from the 3's and older kids (who don't need help zipping/buttoning up coats), so yes, it's a teachers to kids thing.

It is a big bulk item store, but their food court and their bakery are fantastic (taste/quality & price). The cake in this picture is puny next to a (now $19) Costco cake (half sheet, vanilla or chocolate but used to have more options, two pounds of cheesecake or chocolate mousse filling between two layers of cake, tons of icing, half sheet of cake, does not taste like a box mix). In most cases it will feed your entire (birthday/work/holiday) party good sized pieces of cake and have some left over. The cakes are not always the prettiest, some basic designs which aren't terrible, but you can always plus up the decoration or ask them to just frost it as a blank slate and do your thing. They have good prices on organic things, and a couple great loss leaders ($5 for an at least 3lb of meat rotisserie chicken, $1.50 for a soda and 1/4lb hot dog, etc.).

Then go with the logical thinking to ease some of the feels. There is a large percentage of miscarriages, it's not a rare occurrence. Most of these happen before the woman knows she's pregnant. For the later term miscarriages, and for stillbirths, yes it is very sad, for those who are trying to conceive and lose the pregnancy, again sad, but it's not a thing talked about often so many don't realize just how common it is.

People survived and people died, that's life - you don't get everything you want, you don't always get everything you need. Because companies make money on the drugs they sell and procedures they do more are developed. People look at insurance and go "Oh this will be great and pay for my medical expenses" they don't think "Hey, this is a company making a gamble that you will die before they have to pay more than you spent." Insurance isn't in it for the good of humanity, they're in it to make money.
I would far rather have had my tax money going to pay for "Free for any US Citizen or non-citizen taxpayer" clinics (like the minute clinics, or expansion of the VAs) in every state that provide free basic/general practitioner services (basic physical, basic prescription writing (no narcotics)- birth control, antibiotics, etc, immunizations, stitching of wounds, small mole removal, basic dental checkup and fluoride, referrals to specialists)

Drugs don't develop, test, get approved/rejected, manufactured, and distributed by themselves. So very very much money is spent on developing drugs that don't end up making it to market, the money to attempt them doesn't magically appear out of nowhere. Costs do go down once the patent on the drug runs down and a generic can be made - admittedly the original developers do often make small changes to dosage/ingredients so they can renew their patents but it costs many fortunes to get any drug lucky enough to make it - to market. Tax write offs only go so far, they don't give you money they just let you keep a bit more of what you had earned at the end of the day. If they can't make money we won't have breakthroughs.

Astronomical healthcare costs are a combination of
idiots who sue for things they should not be able to (my doctor made me upset and I think he didn't do the best he could so now that I am alive but not 100% whole because of a terrible illness it's his fault - malpractice insurance and legal fees for the hospital);
the people who do pay have to make up for those without insurance who ride the ER for what would easily be a 10% or less bill through a clinic or standard PCP (ER-you're not walking out without paying at least a grand after insurance, if you use an ambulance it's ~$500) the hospitals have to have the staff, equipment, rooms, rushed tests, etc. it adds up;
and in order to afford good doctors/nurses who just spent years of their lives and hundreds of thousands on education, in order to have those multi million dollar MRI, hundred thousand dollar XRay machine, varying costs of lab diagnostics, maintenance of those machines and research into drugs/procedures.
It's not free.

He was the only medical professional, it's not an uncomplicated procedure, the person taking the picture is probably helping most by staying away and helping to avoid distracting the man who has to feel and find (and is probably holding a mirror to help the Dr see) the offending organ and remove it. If I had to perform surgery on myself without any pain relief I'd want people to stay the f' away too!

If you heat cow's milk it will form a thin film, usually called a skin. Quick wiki for an official definition: Milk skin or lactoderm refers to a sticky film of protein that forms on top of milk and milk-containing liquids (such as hot chocolate and some soups). It is caused by the denaturation of proteins such as beta-lactoglobulin (whey protein).

Some of it is luck though - click a corner with a three, or one of the main area with a 7 or 8 then you have to guess. Easy and medium, yes, mostly super easy the larger it is it throws a lot of math plus just un/lucky guesses.