They were innocent children.

I was just saying, it makes sense to build a school where you have a lot of children. Especially girls in a society that makes it difficult for girls to travel around.

But of course the Epstein files prove Trump sees children (especially girls) as things to exploit, so that tracks.

Apparently a lot of the students were kids of the navy members

A wall had been built between the military complex and the area that had the school and clinic. It’s too bad the military didn’t do any kind of investigation into their target BEFORE they bombed it.

Unless Israel gave them bad intel

I’m just saying, despite her own public horndog scandal (and general idiocy) she’s not wrong about this one thing.

Being a horndog with other consenting adult horndogs, even in public, is a long way from raping children and/or protecting child-rapers.

Perfect! He’s got exactly the right gravitas!

So, is it fresh from the factory and someone there is corrupt?

Or, since it obviously has to be shipped to all the places it’s used, did it “fall off the back of the truck” during one of those shipments?

Or, did someone at one of the places it was being used figure a way to purloin some and cover up the loss? Maybe when an area was down for other reasons?

We have the three acts of our movie! Who you want to star?

Probably traded up from an arms dealer who needed a lot of drugs

Those are annual numbers.

TACO, so we’re looking at, what, a week?

Unfortunately, unless you have perfect aim and force, the person who can most quickly reuse the brick may be your intended victim. So just be ready for that.

The Solar System

Like what, was he watching the Spring Sing at his granddaughters’ primary school?

Completely open borders? That’s almost like…imagine there’s no countries… 🎶

(Not making fun or disagreeing with you)

Meryl Streep movie, she could save only one child from the Nazis (or they’d have killed both, the cruelty was the point) and the guilt and trauma stays with her throughout her life.

I was implying that if your mom had to give up one twin for adoption it might still be a painful thing she doesn’t want to talk about.

My solution? Oh I’m not saying the women should have stayed in Instagram! It’s one reason I never joined in the first place. If anything I was wondering if women created a No Boys Allowed WomenSpace totally separate. And still I think it would be brigaded.

I think we agree on the basic evil of societal misogyny. Although as an old woman who has lived through changes, I have seen that having more women in a workplace or field, especially as we start to fill the upper echelons, can help fade certain parts of the misogyny or at least drive it underground.

Your mom said the doctor told her the ultrasound showed “two babies” but I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks and they looked at the tiny embryonic speck and said, “there’s the baby!” In fact no babies are shown in ultrasounds, only fetuses. But my point was, they may have seen one 7-month fetus and one little shriveled thing and said “there’s two babies.”

I guess it’s also possible she brought two babies to term, made a “Sophie’s Choice” to give one up for adoption, and didn’t want you to be heartbroken or afraid of being given away too. And since other people had heard about her being pregnant with twins, she gave you a story you could accept as a child.

And another possibility is that the doctor gave her anesthesia or rohypnol or something and took the twin to put up for adoption, telling her it was absorbed. She’d know she had given birth but not remember it was twice. It’s terrible but not unheard of.

You could ask her, if you feel you’re both adult enough now to handle the emotional implications of all the possible explanations. Remember that you can still trust her love no matter what, but she might not know the whole truth and/or might be ashamed to admit it.

I am certainly not going to save Instagram, since I never joined. But if you mean it can’t be saved, that might be true as well.

If every female person left Instagram today, what would happen to the misogyny? Would it be starved of fuel or would it escalate and spiral until it explodes in (increased) physical attacks?

And if the women and girls created their own female-positive space, how long before it was brigaded? Judging by everyTwoX post that ever hit R/All, I’m putting the over/under at 6 hours.

The 2:1 ratio of course just degrades the platform further because there’s too few to challenge the misogyny. Like public officials quitting under Trump, you can hardly blame them but it makes the problem worse not better.

I’m not going to send you my personal info, but it’s no secret that anyone with US health first gets a bill with a huge number $$ that’s marked THIS IS NOT A BILL, then some weeks later we get another one from the insurance company which shows that number, and then a much smaller number “allowed” by the insurance which then shows as paid by them, then whatever “copay” we might have, usually about $30 with my insurance. Then there’s “your responsibility” which is just the copay if the doctor/hospital is in your insurance network. In that situation the provider has to accept what the insurance allows and no more. If they’re out of network, you may have to pay the difference between the original bill and what the insurance paid. Which can be a lot, so the first thing you should do is request an itemized bill. This will often be lower to start with, and gives you information to negotiate/contest items. Hospitals will also work with you to make a payment plan at that point.

In the OP case it was Swiss travel insurance not US health insurance and they finally agreed to pay the NICU bill, good work by the couple’s lawyer.

For most US medical bills the number you see and what the insurance company will actually pay (even to completely settle the bill) are entirely different numbers. Although this isn’t medical insurance per se. I bet they negotiated it down though.