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My options are:

• Paul Mitchell in North Haven
• Shear Brilliance in West Haven
• BeautyUp in Milford
• Branford Academy in Bridgeport
• Connecticut Nail School in Wallingford

If anyone has experience being a student in the nail tech program at any of these schools, I'd love to DM you to learn more, as I'm trying to choose between these right now.

Stupid game is on Apple TV+ tonight so I can‘t get it. I‘m new to the area so I don’t really know where the best vibes are. If there’s a place in New Haven (or the surrounding area) with decent food, where the game will be on and people there will be really into it, I’d love to go. If not I’ll probably just stay home and sail the high seas.

BIG IF TRUE, FOLKS

BIG IF TRUE

I'm new to Connecticut and this whole speed camera thing. The way people talk about them on here, I've been under the impression that I could open my mail any day to a speeding ticket for some time a month ago when I went 3 MPH over the speed limit for half a second. But I'm seeing some places online say it only flags you if you go 10 MPH or more over the speed limit?

I had a friend who was doing 30 minute sessions with me once a week for free, but he’s moving away. Which gym in the New Haven county area would have the most affordable personal training packages if I’m just doing it like once a week?

Is he good?

I'm doing a 2-day road trip on a budget with my dog and Shreveport is our midway point where we will likely stay the night. I'm totally fine staying in a cheap, low-end, potentially sketchy place like a Motel 6 or Super 8, especially because they're usually pet friendly. But I've never been to Shreveport, and I've heard it's a pretty dangerous city. Are there any decent locations in or around Shreveport where my car wouldn't be likely to get broken into overnight or something like that?

I saw some cheap places by the Bossier mall and by the airport.

I'm a PhD student and I just got a response back on my first ever first-author article from a pretty solid journal. The title of the email was "Major revision requested". At first I thought this was a bad thing, like maybe they're willing to consider it if I overhaul a bunch of things and rewrite large portions of the paper. But reading their comments, it seems like most of what they want is just some added discussion to the lit review and a couple more figures.

Is "major revision" the default response for any revision that involves more than correcting a couple grammar errors? Does it usually lead to eventual acceptance if the feedback is implemented? Or does it usually mean something like "we're on the fence about this article, we're not really sure if it's good enough but if you really wow us with a resubmission, we might consider it"?

Ideally places that have food and not just alcohol.

I’m new to the podcast so I’m sorry if this is old news. but those are AI, right? Will Fleming doesn’t actually send them a voice recording about who he would hand ketchup packets to?

Recently moved to CT from Texas. We currently rent in New Haven, but would like to eventually buy somewhere in NH county and have a kid or two.

Something I keep hearing about New England is that it has way better schools than Texas. But surprisingly, most of the schools I look at in CT have similar if not lower ratings (on GreatSchools and Niche) than the ones in the Texas suburb we're moving from. Now I know that Bridgeport schools, for example, are not known for being the nicest. But honestly, the only highly rated school districts I'm seeing in NH county are places like Milford, Orange, Cheshire, and North Haven, which are very expensive places to live compared to Hamden, West Haven, Naugatuck, Ansonia, and so forth. Most of our schools in suburban Texas rank higher than those towns' schools on sites like GreatSchools and Niche.

Now, as I understand it, sites like GreatSchools and Niche make their rankings relative to the state in which the school is already in. So it may not be an apples to apples comparison to say "School ABC in Texas gets a 7/10 on GreatSchools, while School XYZ in Hamden only gets a 4/10" - since Connecticut is generally known for having better public schools than Texas. But honestly, I have no idea how I would even really begin to compare a school from the south and a school in Connecticut.

So I guess what I'm interested in is - are there any folks on here with children who moved from a southern state to Connecticut, and how have you felt the public schools compare?

I started packing up my place to move out a couple weeks ago. I called to cancel my internet before the next billing cycle, and of course they pulled out every move in the book to keep me. They said they would give me a month free if I didn't cancel. I figured what the heck, I'm still packing things for the next 10 days or so, might not hurt to have internet even though I'm off of work (between jobs actually). So I kept it, and then a week later, called and actually cancelled.

I'm now getting a bill for my last month, even though I was supposed to get it for free. I asked when I returned the equipment to the store, but they had no idea. I called and asked and the call agent said they had no record of me being offered that promo. The bill will start incurring late fees tomorrow. And yes, I checked the billing dates. I'm getting charged specifically for the last 8 days I had service, which is the window I was supposed to get for free.

Do I just pay it and move on? Is it worth paying and then doing a chargeback for services not provided? Filing with the BBB/FCC? I'm done trying to call and wait on hold. It's only $40, it's annoying but not the end of the world. Just more out of principle cause I basically paid $40 to use internet like 3 times on my phone while I was packing, and that's pretty dumb.

One other thing I found sketchy: When I called the second time to actually cancel, I got verbal confirmation from the agent that I would be disconnected, but never got any actual email confirmation or anything. When I went to return the equipment, they had no idea that I had submitted a cancellation request. They were able to process it for me anyways, but is it possible I got screwed $40 because a call agent didn't actually process my cancellation in order to help his metrics?

Ugh, I just hate this whole process. So ridiculous. Just let me click a button to cancel online.

>Be the Yankees

>Acquire a young starting pitcher with a lot of promise named Sonny Gray

>Try to change him and make him throw pitches he’s not used to making

>Have to trade him because he’s no longer viable

>Watch him bounce around and have multiple all star seasons with other teams

>See him join your biggest rival and talk about how trash your organization’s pitching development is

>Face him at Fenway Park in prime time

>Get no hit for 7 innings

>Give him his 2000th career strikeout 

>Fall to a 4 game sweep against an incredibly beatable team

Get fucked Brian Cashman. Sonion Gray is him and you guys failed him.

I have a friend who is married to a great woman. They make decent money and the two of them would make awesome parents. They aren’t climate change alarmists, but they are atheist and have adopted somewhat of an existential mindset to life. He and I were talking about the subject and I quickly realized that the things that motivated me to have children (creating an eternal family, raising a large younger generation to support the aging generation, sustaining the growth of civilization, etc) just don’t apply to him.

His line of thinking is essentially - since he doesn’t believe in God or any kind of pre existence, any life that they choose to create is a person that would not have otherwise had to deal with the pain and suffering of mortal existence. Therefore, no matter how necessary it is economically or for the sustained good of human civilization, it wouldn’t be morally correct to force the existence of another being into a world where they would be subject to pain and suffering.

I know I’m probably naive, but as a religious person myself, I just didn’t know how to tackle the natalism argument from this perspective. I’m looking for some input on how to approach it (or recommendations for books/materials that tackle it). I searched this subreddit, but honestly the few times this idea has been brought up, it looks like the posts got deleted due to expressing anti-natalist sentiment.