u/Left-Shine1920

I’m adopting a dog from the shelter. She is 8 with a history of seizures. The shelter witnessed two in about 6 months. I’ve been fostering her for 8 months with no seizures. I’m looking into vet insurance to be financially prepared in case there’s a big seizure, but I’m seeing a lot of companies don’t cover existing conditions. Thoughts of this? Would a seizure episode be considered emergency care? I’d also like to see if her meds can be covered by insurance.

I understand that in previous years, online social science PhD programs were frowned upon. I’ve seen a lot of well-regarded universities in the UK offering online PhDs recently, though, and I’m looking for thoughts on them. Specifically, I’m looking at poli sci and anthropology PhDs at the University of Birmingham, the University of York, and the University of Edinburgh.

For background, I live in the U.S, double major undergrad, Master's in Anthropology from a top 20 in the world anthropology program, and a Master's of Education from another top U.S university. I became incredibly ill in 2022 and had to step out of work for a year. I now work from home developing and managing an LMS for a billion-dollar company, but my passion is still teaching, and I can’t stand the corporate world.

I’d like to become a professor one day (yes, I know the job market is tough), and teaching high school isn’t really an option with my health, as 8 straight hours of teaching is too hard on my health, whereas I can adjust my schedule more in the university setting. I’m looking at online programs due to my health, and hoping maybe my master’s in education could offset the fact that it was online. Any thoughts would be super appreciated!

Additional background: I only went to get the M.Ed. rather than pursue the PhD after the anthropology master’s because I love coaching high school sports, but obviously, I cant do that anymore with my health!

I have 20 projects on my board right now, but don’t have the interest in any of them the last two weeks. I love the detailed comparisons (not the river one),deep research, and rubrics (not with system prompts but not much of them now. I MISS headphones too. I have another job so DA is more a side hustle, so when projects aren’t grabbing my ADHD focus I can’t pull myself to do it.

I’m in Florida with a very small front and back yard with only 3 sprinkler sections so maybe 20 sprinklers total. My community is known for low pressure. My neighbor even dug their own well to combat the issue. Two of my three zones only create puddles rather than spraying cause the pop ups don’t event “pop up”. I have a lot of 4 inch rotors but the previous owners installed a bunch of 12+ inch pop up rotors in one zone which may be causing some added pressure issues.

I’ve had an irrigation company tell me I can try to replace all my pop ups rotors to low psi rotors or add a booster to the valve box to increase the pressure. Has anyone dealt with this issue before and found one solution worked better than the other?

Edit to mention that when my sprinklers are on the pressure in my house and my neighbor’s house is bad. I also had a pressure test in the system and all zones were under 20 psi

I’m currently at another AI company as a generalist. I have two bachelors and two masters degrees in the social sciences. I’m not in a highly sought after niche field, but have excellent critical thinking, research, and writing that has allowed me access to average of $35hr with my highest pay at $50hr. I see Mercor has higher pay sometimes, but is less consistent. Just wondering if anyone sees opportunities for generalists like me to make $50+ an hour at Mercor, or is not worth it to apply?

I usually avoid RRs because the work is so horrible that it’s annoying, but mainly because I often end up going 10-15+ minutes over the timer or I feel like I’m rushing. I know we’re supposed to abandon it if we think it’ll take too long, but it’s so hard to know how much time to fix it without getting deep into the task and by then I don’t want unpaid work. Sometimes I worry I’m too nit picky, but it’s so bad. Anyone else?

My IR only gave the option of coils. But after some research, I found glue is an option too. Can anyone share there experiences of coils or glues? I’m not a big fan of the idea of the coils.