OK buddy

Never said it was unsafe, just not recommended. WebMD has links to scientific articles that sorry support that. But you may counter that you don’t trust those sources. I’m not about to play whack a mole. If you want to exclusively drink demineralized water, go ahead, you won’t die for it. But you’ll increase your chances of developing certain diseases. Maybe that’s an acceptable tradeoff for you - I’d certainly think so if you live in Flint.

Normally I would go fetch, but there are so many search results. Just search it yourself and choose a source you cash trust. It’s a very well established topic.

Both. But distilled is at best ion poor. It’s not recommended use either exclusively for your source of water.

A good filter on tap is enough for the vast majority of houses. If that’s not your case, mineral water or regular bottled water (which is just filtered tap water from a reliable source) are your best bet.

And it’s cheaper too! Not common that you choose both healthy and cheap.

Especially shit.

FMLA is what I’ve heard is used for long term disability, and it doesn’t cover full pay and is time limited, I think. I’ve never used it either so take this with a massive grain of salt.

And you’re lucky, most workers in the USA do not get paid sick leave, because that’s not in the law.

Damn. I come from a “developing” third rate country. We’ve had paid sick leave and paid maternity leave since the 60s I think. Maternity leave was upgraded from 4 to 6 months about 10 years ago.

PS.: you need a doctor’s note the day you’re back to get sick leave, which you can get for free on universal healthcare if you can wait, or pay for private practice in a private clinic.

It’s not uncommon, even in “developing” countries. The USA really is a shithole.

Not quite. Almost. You can install GParted on your Linux Mint, I have it on mine. But to actually do changes to your disk partitions, that partition cannot be mounted (in use). So if you need to change the partition you’re currently using, that doesn’t help.

So you can download a live USB mini-distro that GParted makes that has GParted in it as well as other recovery tools. So if you need to change your disk or run into issues and need to troubleshoot, boot into that USB stick and you’re good.

For general maintenance, just the Disks utility that comes bundled. Otherwise, a live ISO of GParted that I keep in case something’s up. All GUI and intuitive.

Windows 2000 workstation if we’re restricting ourselves to the Redmond beast. QNX 6 otherwise.

Okay, that makes sense.

And why’s she calling him master?

Flamingo is making a point that immigrants are objectively scary. From my history lessons, no immigrant is scarier than Europeans. Just ask all of the remaining native Americans. But I’d still posit that being an immigrant in and of itself doesn’t make anyone intrinsically scary.

… This is the Lockpicking Lawyer and this time I have here a shapeshifting penis.

What?

Very interesting article, thank you!

The quotes really threw me for a loop.

Who said that?

Not to mention condemning people for something completely out of their control. Fascists choose to be assholes.