KSera
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Oh, it’s just awful when that happens. And it always seems to be at a terrible time. I hope you recover faster than expected.
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1 minute ago, gardenmom5 said:
It's more complex. The colorado movie theater shooter scared his psychiatrist so much, she tried to report him. The state wouldn't hold him. Despite the recognized danger, he walked free.
I'm unclear the connection. The standard for involuntary commitment is different than the standard for revoking someone's right to purchase and own firearms. Your state is actually one of the ones I mentioned that allows people to revoke their own ability to purchase a firearm if they feel they are a danger to themself or others. That one is not a complex law at all.
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26 minutes ago, Heartstrings said:
The waiting list for housing vouchers for a single person is years long. 3 years in my area. It’s nearly as long for a person with kids too.
I’m not even sure that a young able-bodied man would qualify at all. Since SS has denied him he won’t be considered disabled. On paper he is just young and poor, but most government assistance requires poor+ 1 more thing. Poor and disabled, poor and pregnant, poor and minor children, poor and elderly.True. I guess I'm considering him as young and disabled, but that's based on expecting that he has a diagnosis on paper he could submit. I don't know if he does or not. My young person with disabilities was able to get on the list without even having applied for SSI yet. The criteria varies in different places (it can easily be 8-10 years here, so I know what you're saying for sure), so it's possible there would be something available somewhere. I still think it's by far preferable for him to be near family though. There are many disabilities that would qualify someone for section 8 but not for SSI--the SSI standard is much higher as you have to show the disability prevents gainful employment, which many do not.
Actually, just doing a little looking, it does look like vouchers are available in many areas for able bodied people who meet income requirements. But nonetheless, he sounds like he would be able to apply as a disabled adult. Drug use could be a barrier for sure though, as it's not allowed in federally subsidized housing,
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56 minutes ago, Paige said:
I think he dislikes reading because of low frustration tolerance and a lot of ADHD.
2 minutes ago, Paige said:They use leveled readers and he likes to read between "K"-"P."
This might be part of it. Leveled readers are often pretty boring, especially for a bright kid who is ready for a lot more information and advanced language than those readers use. Is he being schooled by someone else (I noticed you said “they” and referred to a tutor)? I assume you have lots of high interest material above his reading level around that he can look at as much as he wants? Barring vision or decoding issues, I’d expect a bright kid who has the phonics training he does at this point to just start picking it up and getting more fluent the more he does.
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@maize Your story (and others) are examples of why I find it stunning that red flag laws are actively fought and that there are gun owners who don’t think there should be a way to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mental ill. Last I checked, there were only two states that even had laws that allowed a mentally ill person to make the decision themself to revoke their own right to purchase a firearm. Why is that law not a no brainer everywhere?
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16 minutes ago, Malam said:
I don't think a first grader is behind if they used to not know these. What grade level is it at?
Agree. All my kids have been advanced LA students, and a couple are old enough to be through college already (with the only one who took it having perfect scores on the language sections of the ACT), and we weren’t doing those things in kindergarten or first grade. You’re not behind or missing basics whatsoever.
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2 minutes ago, Heartstrings said:
I didn’t travel far but I can fully understand those that do. I might not be alive for the next one, or the one after that. But my kids will and I hope when that eclipse happens they’ll remember experiencing this one with mom and dad. That’s worth a bit of travel.
My sentence wording was awkward and I can’t tell if I was misunderstood. I wasn’t at all saying it’s too far to travel, I’m saying I think the part of the post that really did go too far was to make fun of and insult people who did travel for it.
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1 minute ago, Scarlett said:
He was denied recently for sure.
I wonder who did the appeal application and if they got his current level of functioning well documented before doing so. It would take someone putting a good deal of effort into it to do it properly, so given the situation, I can’t help but get the idea his case is likely not being well managed which is pretty much always going to result in denial.
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I’m sorry this isn’t answering the question you asked, but it’s really jumping out at me that a child as you describe doesn’t like or want to read. My experience with gifted kids who love information is that they typically read voraciously. If you haven’t already, I’d be checking in with them developmental optometrist to see if there’s something going on with his eyes that is making it physically difficult or uncomfortable for him.
I honestly can’t see anything you’re not already covering that I would add for a rising first grader. Getting him comfortable reading is the most important of all the things you mention. I have a first grader with advanced LA skills and we’re not doing half what you are. I don’t touch on things like topic sentences nearly this early.
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If he can go anywhere, an option could be to find section 8 housing that is open somewhere in the country and get him a housing voucher there. Then family would need to be willing to help him get there. I’d personally be worried about sending a struggling young person on the spectrum to live somewhere far away with no supports around, but perhaps there are some open lists nearby.
It seems unlikely they would have had time to reapply for SSI and hear back already since the last time you shared about this, so perhaps the denial was referring to the original application when he was 18? I can’t over-stress the necessity of getting a disability lawyer to file the appeal. It won’t cost anything out of pocket to do so, and will very likely be the difference between him getting approved and not.
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I just found it strange and a little funny to have such a strong opinion about seeing something you’d never even seen at the time you made the post. Like someone starting a post about how ridiculous and stupid it is for people to love beignets when the person has never actually tried a beignet. I don’t care that you don’t care about the eclipse, but I found it illogical for someone who had never even seen a total eclipse to make a post of that nature. But obviously, it’s your prerogative ( I do think it’s too far to disdain others who traveled for a natural phenomenon).
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2 hours ago, SKL said:
People say "I'm gonna kill you / they should just die." It's not nice, but it doesn't mean parents need to call the cops or put their kids in the mental hospital instead of school.
This kid’s talk went beyond this. He asked his dad to take him to a psychiatrist and was told to suck it up. He told his mom he was having hallucinations and felt like there were demons in the house and objects moving around, and she did nothing. Despite this, they bought him a gun, and then after going to the school that morning and being shown the violent picture he drew with a gun and people bleeding and a “help me” message, knowing that he had a new gun, they still sent him back to class so they could get back to work. That absolutely meets the standard of gross negligence that contributed to deaths of students to me.
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I’m sorry to hear no good progress has been made. Do you know if anyone started the processes of appealing the SSI decision with a lawyer and/or getting any other supports in place so he could move? I hope there will be a safe solution for all.
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1 hour ago, regentrude said:
How well does the battery charge holds up when the car is parked for a longer time in very cold temperatures?
The main thing is that it takes more energy to start a cold battery, so if you’re parking overnight in the cold without somewhere to plug in (which can be just a regular outlet to trickle charge from), you want to keep the battery over 20% charge when you park. In cold weather, it’s good to have cold weather features on the car—a heat pump and battery preconditioning for example, both of which are common features now. Those improve battery efficiency. Heated seats are also great for using little energy to heat the car until the battery warms up.
Fwiw, Norway, Sweden and Iceland have the most evs per capita, so cold weather is definitely not the show stopper it’s been made out to be, even though it does make an impact to be considered in driving habits—not discounting that it has an effect.
Chart: These countries have the most electric vehicles per capitaAlso might be of interest is this chart of chargers per ev or per mile by state:
https://electrek.co/2022/01/23/the-best-and-worst-us-states-for-ev-charging/
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1 hour ago, AmandaVT said:
Not enough - I would guess that was the problem. And yes, we looked into getting an electric car and having friends who can barely make it 40 miles in the winter before needing to charge again makes it a nonstarter for us right now. I love the idea, but it has to be more practical for where we live before I could do it.
I don’t want to derail by saying too much on this side topic, but just so people don’t get the idea evs aren’t usable in cold areas, they totally are. Anyone only getting 40 miles in the cold is driving an older, low range EV. Range has greatly increased in the past few years (and continues to do so). We’re glad to be in an EV when we’re in cold, snowy mountains because we can stay warm without using up a bunch of gas to do so. Takes very, very little of the battery to keep warm in an EV.
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I would’ve honestly been frustrated if I were an area of totality and anyone was doing anything to add light to the sky during an event that is special specifically because the sky gets dark.
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11 hours ago, SanDiegoMom said:
Something else to make Tesla's stock drop, lol. I have a hybrid, and I would never get a fully EV unless I was just planning on using it for around town. Long trips seem like just setting yourself up for frustration!
We do lots of fully EV road trips and are super happy with the experience, fwiw. Would never again choose a vehicle with a gas burning engine.
12 hours ago, AmandaVT said:Also, anyone driving a tesla in Vermont is having a bad day. I passed a charging station and there were over 60 teslas there waiting for 1 of 4 chargers. They will be there for HOURS.
Sounds like a lot of people didn’t plan very well (a Tesla has way more than enough range that no one should have planned to arrive in need of a charge right when they left). You also have to admit it’s a pretty unusual situation to have huge numbers of people leaving on a road trip simultaneously. That’s not typical behavior. Gas stations sometimes get backed up for hours when there’s a panic event and everyone’s trying to gas us up for it all at once. That said, yeah, obviously the charging network needs to continue to be built out, as it is and will be.
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New research published showing viral persistence after Covid. Plasma-based antigen persistence in the post-acute phase of COVID-19
Although not without limitations (appendix p 14), our data provide strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2, in some form or location, persists for up to 14 months following acute SARS-CoV-2 infection (appendix p 13). This persistence is influenced by the events of acute infection. These findings motivate an urgent research agenda regarding the clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 persistence, specifically whether it is causally related to either post-acute chronic symptoms (eg, fatigue, pain, and cognitive difficulty) or discrete incident complications (eg, cardiovascular events).
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2 minutes ago, Ausmumof3 said:
Wow! Jealous…
Same! That’s awesome you were able to do that, @Harriet Vane
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12 minutes ago, LifeLovePassion said:
Niobium hooks are what I buy after asking a professional piercer who did my kiddos piercings. I just swap them out. I got a bag of them but I can't remember where.
Your comment made me remember the website I ordered from long ago for earrings for people with jewelry sensitivity: https://www.simplywhispers.com/collections/niobium-earrings
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Is it possible your eggs aren’t cooked thoroughly? The hotel ones come already pasteurized.
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1 hour ago, Clarita said:
Typically for jewelry it's nickel that you are allergic to. I have not had too much success with stuff less than $50. I haven't tried titanium so all I really can use is gold or certain white gold (depends on composition) and platinum.
I’m the opposite—the only ones that have worked for me are the super cheap nickel free ones from places like Target. I tried a borrowed platinum pair and white gold and both were bad as well. Same with Sterling silver, which is an alloy that often has nickel in it (or copper). I haven’t tried titanium though. Theoretically that should work, but I don’t care enough to try.
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I feel all this. I'm sorry.
Also, that's SUPER frustrating and unbelievable for a paid webinar about college accomodations to be so inept in dealing with chat box questions!
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12 minutes ago, kbutton said:
How about a round of, “I found it first” where we spot problematic and probably currently true statements that will bite us in the butt later?!? This article is full of them.
I’m thinking that
“it is suspected that cow-to-cow transmission may be occurring in milking facilities.”
may eventually be incompatible with
“We do not expect a significant impact on the price of milk and other dairy products,” Prater said on the call.
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Parents of 15 yo Michigan shooter sentenced to prison terms
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Is there a reason none of these things increased his sentence or added additional charges? It seems like threatening the prosecutor in these ways would be a crime in itself.