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goodrx is the most well known one, but if i'm trying to find the cheapest price for a patient i compare it to scriptcycle, and use whichever is offering the best price. you just type in the medication (PLEASE make sure you're getting the right drug, dosage, and quantity) and your zip code and they will spit out some offers for you

some pharmacies may have their own discount card to compare to as well!

if you are getting a name brand medication, you can also look at the manufacturer's website to see if they offer any evouchers for you to use too

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

Then in 2020:

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Behold, Dorothea

He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"

William H. Marshall wrote about Trevisa in 1789, and also recorded the existence of a dialectal English epicene pronoun, singular ou: '"Ou will" expresses either he will, she will, or it will.'

Looking at the Wikipedia page for Spivak pronouns shows a bunch of attempts at gender neutral pronouns in the intervening years too, starting at 1890 (e, es, em) and moving forward.

If you've seen any pictures of "real living dinosaurs" online in the last 5 years, there's like a 90% chance it was actually one of Archesuchus's works:

Had a really good interaction at Half Price Books the other day. I was there to offload some books and movies, but I collect bookmarks and I want to give them business, so I found a cute bookmark with both cats AND dogs on it. I was telling the cashier I really liked it because not only was it cute, it wasn't limited to one pet. She said, "Yeah, I don't know where people get the idea that cats and dogs don't get along," and I told her yeah, I have two cats and a dog and they interact positively. While we were talking another customer came up and she said, "I like that it promotes interspecies friendships!" And we all three agreed it's a great bookmark. Since I was chatting with the cashier the transaction took a little longer than usual, so I thanked the other customer for her patience, and she said, "Oh no, take your time!" And it was just really nice.

The bookmark:

After that I met my aunt at Trader Joe's. She's 77 and started working there as an "encore career" after she retired, and she's been there like ten years. We were there because when she heard about my Celiac diagnosis, she told me, "We have a lot of gluten-free stuff at TJ's!" And later she told me, "I looked on our website and we have 171 gluten-free products, let me take you on a date there and I can point them out to you." So we did! (I got some amazing cookies and granola, and their gluten-free oatmeal is waaaaaay cheaper than the single brand sold at our regular grocery store.) It was just so kind of her to offer, and come to the Trader Joe's near me, instead of the one she works at. I have an amazing family. (Also, she and I are going to see the Hadestown pro shot this weekend!!)