Maybe this is reference to the tongue of a shoe? IDK, still odd

No, there is actually a fascial connection that runs all the way from the tongue to the big toe I think. The idea is that tension or misconfiguration at one end of this connection could affect the other end. So in this case, maybe modern narrow footwear that causes the big toe to point inward has an effect on the tongue.

If you've ever tried walking long distances with even a slightly ill-fitting shoe, or carrying something of an awkward shape, you'll know the kind of thing I'm talking about - in order to function under load for long periods without incurring damage, everything kind of has to be coordinating perfectly. Maybe over months to years, especially in early development, confining the feet to an unnaturally-shaped space could have a measurable effect on oral posture.

Idealist.org has been a job board for non profits for decades, and you can find volunteer positions there at times.

Once upon a time I even worked at idealist itself when they had grander dreams

I can tell that most of you don't live in Oregon.

When I had a gas car up until two years ago, and I mostly got gas at CostCo. I did live in Virginia for three years. And I would say getting gas at CostCo in Oregon was 80% of the time faster than waiting for Virginians to pump their own gas at CostCo.

I'd rather not pump my own gas, and will miss the service. As will most people I know here.

Same in Oregon. I've had to wait multiple times for a slot to come available while traveling.

The worst will be blackouts for NBA games for this.

I had NBA TV for one season, but because I live in the Portland area, I can not watch Portland trailblazers games. It was ridiculous, so I did not subscribe this year.

Also related and shown in the diagrams in the linked article, why are so many babies born on Friday, and less on Saturday? Doctors/nurses want their weekends too, so inducements / c-sections also go up on Fridays.

Says the dad of the child born at 4pm on a Friday...

An unfortunate side effect of the US hospital business is that you have a large number of customers and have to push people through the system as quickly as you can. That's probably why there has been such an increase in birth centers for mothers who want the time to go through labor naturally.

Nah, in completely socialized systems doctors and nurses also usually want to have weekends and evenings off, hospitals aren't staffed as well as during business hours, and people try to limit the workload on their colleagues remaining on duty.

The contrast to "the US hospital business" is not necessarily "socialized systems". A better contrast is, as the original commenter pointed out, birthing centers (or home births). A contrast to a hospital OBGYN in the US is a certified nurse midwife.

Even midwife systems often end up with a "ball of midwives" where you may not even know who you're going to get, and then they go off the clock at 6 PM and someone new steps in.

Everything is a cost/benefit/availability tradeoff, and time is just one of the many variables that are being juggled.

Of course, if you have money to throw at the problem you can reduce the other issues.

As far as I'm aware, the majority of US midwives (or CPM's) are not hospital nurse midwives. They do not go off-the-clock, though they sometimes have multiple patients due at the same time so you might still find a backup midwife is covering for your primary care provider.

I'm sure it varies from birth center to birth center - one would have the midwife scramble at any hour of the day or night to get into the room, the other we used had the ball.

I can see the advantages to the ball but the first was overall better I feel (but there are so many variables it's hard to really tell). We've technically never had the doctor/midwife "assigned" on-hand during the actual delivery for various reasons.

Kind of a circular argument to say that we are seeing an increase in birthing centers because the practice of medicine in recent years reduced the use of birthing centers.

I wonder if this is correlated at all with the fact that ERs are much busier on the weekend

There's just no position someone says "only $24 billion" in a sane way

I mean, if someone's talking about "financial ruin" because someone losing ~10% of their net worth, which would still leave them the richest person in the world, I think it's perfectly reasonable to say "it's only $24 billion"

Of course there is when they're using it in a relative comparison.

From someone that was able to raise 24 billion?

BTW, in California the acronym PG&E is for Pacific Gas and Electric

Confusingly when I moved to Oregon years ago, its PGE (without the ampersand) for Portland General Electric.

Often the gas part came before the electric and some of the companies still have names that imply that.

Short answer: written in C++ instead of C#

I also have used keepassxc for years now on mac/windows/linux/iphones

That's a very bad short answer, because end users don't (and shouldn't) care about the programming language used.

The real reason to use KeepassXC over Keepass is because it's much better! The UI is better in almost every way.

> written in C++ instead of C#

what are the advantages of that?

Before .NET Core, C# can't run natively on non-Windows. That's probably the only real advantage.

I guess mono never happened...

In fact, Keepass is actively supporting mono (they regularly have patches that improve mono support)

"natively" was the key word

I don't know as Mono is any less native than .NET, they both have to JIT the program's IL, and the .NET APIs don't really expose much of anything that's platform-specific so there isn't really a "native" platform.

Keyword for what?

Mono even had AOT compiler with capabilities that are only now landing on Native AOT, and are the underlying architecture for what made Blazor possible in first place.

Urgh.

I have an open source hobby endpoint hosted for free on heroku for many years. Used by a bunch of websites / discord bots / desktop applications as a REST backend.

Annoying to have to open a case just to continue operating.