It's more that the full-body inflammation peaks in the morning and I'm a later diagnosis, for a few reasons. Disclaimer that I haven't talked this part over with a doc yet. R/rheumatoid has more and better resources, if that's what she has.

What I'm assuming is happening is that as my stomach works through what I ate the night before, and then when the inflammation sets in in the early morning, it combines with my stomach acid to irritate the lining enough that I need to get rid of some of it. I always throw up a little bit, once or twice, and then immediately feel better. Once my stomach has settled enough to eat, I'm basically fine -- I just have a whiny bitch of a stomach, so it takes a while.

No disrespect to your wife, but this isn't my first chronic pain condition and it's honestly a relief after shoveling through my mental shit. This, at least, has a possible lab diagnostic and straightforward, if uncomfortable, treatment options. The real champ is my mom who pulled off full time teaching as well as 90% of the housework while diagnosed and unmedicated. We've got some things to work out, but that is an objectively difficult achievement.

I have to make an appointment, but I have to get through stuff like taxes first. This happens maybe once a month, I'm just extra salty about it today.

Rheumatoid arthritis for me. I woke up at 530 this morning to throw up bile and am just now eating yogurt.

Not a cancer patient, but weed is likely the reason I'm eating anything at all this morning.

He must be pretty hard up for cash at this point, he's getting closer and closer to the Ed Edd and Eddy Jawbreaker pricing strategy.

A lot of the fucked up water practices in the American West are because of legacy frontier water rights. Oregon doesn't allow collection of rainwater because of concern that it would fuck up how the watershed shakes out. Iirc, in California's Central Valley, where a staggering amount of produce is grown, water rights are attached to the land and are first come, first served -- the oldest parcel of land waters their shit, and then the second oldest, and so on until everything runs out.

I do recall correctly that in multiple years over the last 2 decades, landowners have made more money selling their water than they would have using that water to farm their land, and that without this legacy system, almonds would be such a water-expensive crop that they wouldn't be profitable. So. You know. Something something market value California almonds!

We already crowdfund retirement, guys. It's called Social Security.

The answer is fascism! It's real easy to raise money when a) your citizenry and their families are punished for disobeying and b) you're targeting an established ethnic group for systematic extermination and can steal and/or sell off all of their accumulated wealth. See Japanese-Americans on the west coast circa WW2 for greater detail on the second point.

Fascism as a political ideology is inherently based in fear and hate. Economic fear is very easy to motivate into ethnic hate with a little application of job-stealing propoganda -- in fact, it's the popular choice for totalitarians everywhere, including Putin. Also, money isn't real, in the sense that money is an approximation we've all agreed to value. Germany still had mines, schools, factories, and a lot of hungry people willing to be soldiers in order to be sure their family could eat, alongside the true believers and opportunistic Nazis.

Probably either historic buildings or something similar to the Sedona AZ McDonald's turquoise M: https://www.rd.com/article/mcdonalds-turquoise-arches/

I mean, every list I've seen of the causes of WW2 has included economic instability worsened by punitive reparations for WW1. Ukraine needs to be compensated, but bleeding Russia dry to do it will probably only bring round 2 in thirty years as a new generation tries to secure resources.

Ideally, there would be effective corporate tax rates to balance out the amount of revenue they're vacuuming out of circulation without the need to pay human workers. But I really think most people would be artists or gardeners or craftspeople, given the chance, so we'd return to more of a pre-industrialization saturation of small businesses. UBI would allow people to comfortably take up professions like cobbling and woodworking and shut-in poet laureate without the economy trying to chase them into more financially weighty careers.

We end up with better artists that way, as well. It's easier to practice when you're not worried about starving or freezing or getting medication, but also, people who are good at one difficult skill are usually good at another difficult skill. Mathematicians are frequently also musicians of notable skill -- but math pays exponentially better, so they almost invariably choose math, even when it's not the kind of math they want to do. And I really, really do not blame them.

So if we're following the Thomas Jefferson path of war -> math and science -> arts? We're nearly there, lads.