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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.

@ Guest - the child support is designed to (as the name implies) support the child, not support the mother. The child had as much choice in its conception and birth as the victim (or you could say other victim). by requiring the child support it is not intending to punish the victim even though it is a detriment to them, it is intended to keep the child fed/clothed/alive.
(Note: I am zero percent in support of the woman involved and hope that she was labeled as the criminal that she is and the child was put with someone who would give them a better life.)

Agreed. It's not like you can't continue doing what you love in a non-primary income manner. It's called hobbies/entertainment outside of work hours.

A yeast doughnut like these ones smush down to nothing (easy to bite through), two whole bagels as a bun would make this impossible (or nearly impossible) to bite through.

Not only overseas, there needs to be significant reform in the H1B visa program.

There was an article recently where a teacher did this for her whole class in elementary/middle school, the devices have no resistance so, properly maintained, they are silent. She applied to grants and whatnot to try and purchase them. I believe the teacher also allows yoga balls or fidget balls as seats. There are additional things like Bouncy Bands which are like rubber bands with special things to keep them up, and obviously heavy duty, that you can bounce your feet on without making noise so kids can get their wiggles out. Lots of attempts to help kids with lots of energy who have PE/Recess cut down time and time again to allow for standardized testing preparation and test taking.

Good god no! Yes the two primary candidates are terrible, even the little contenders still in the race aren't great, but if it's a vote for anything it's a vote for new options, not a third term of current. Term limits were put in place for a good reason, even people who would have easily won had they an option for a third term, were not granted additional time in power. The founding fathers did not want a monarch, they wanted an elected leader, it's bad enough that there are lifelong politicians, no granting twelve years of any individual as the leader of our country.

Yes it's still about the election - the two main parties are the terrible cakes, and the minor third parties (Green, Libertarian) are the mini cupcakes.
Empty calories - they say what they want to get votes but it's all fluff and no substance said to win those votes and appeal to the donors.
Etc.
Though I'm pretty sure a couple of the comments are really about cake, not politicians.

Do you honestly think people who drive like that even consider slowing down? You give them too much credit. Even, unlikely even, if they did the trucks would just slow down, the caption says very long, slow traffic jam - so it's more likely it took the hour and a half to go a couple miles and he was stuck in there.

Apparently he cleared the railing and fell the ~15 feet into the enclosure. If you've ever been around a four year old you would know they have almost no fear, are very fast, and very creative in how to get what they want.