PediatricUrology

They say that they weight some reviews more heavily based on quality. So the 30 score got weighted less than the others.
 
Metacritic said:

" 
This overall score, or METASCORE, is a weighted average of the individual critic scores. Why a weighted average? When selecting our source publications, we noticed that some critics consistently write better (more detailed, more insightful, more articulate) reviews than others. In addition, some critics and/or publications typically have more prestige and weight in the industry than others. To reflect these factors, we have assigned weights to each publication (and, in the case of film, to individual critics as well), thus making some publications count more in the METASCORE calculations than others.  "

I was on the bus and talking to this lady. She mentioned that she was part of an advocacy group that has the goal of making sure businesses are accessible to people with handicaps. It's a good cause; there's no reason in this day and age that being in a wheelchair should keep you from riding the bus or going to the bank or getting some baller ice cream.  But their methods are..... damn.
 
Anyway,  they have these organizers whose job is to walk around and find public places that aren't accessible. They make a note of it and then start calling their members. The lady I was talking to said that she'll get a call at 10 AM that there's a restaurant in a city two hours away that has bathrooms that aren't accessible. So their caravan of "wheelchair warriors," as they call themselves, will go there at the drop of a hat and order iced tea. They'll go into the bathroom and say  "Oh hey, we can't use these. We're going to stay in these bathrooms until we can use them." So they go and martyr themselves in the bathroom.  Or they might get a call that a city has buses that aren't quite accessible enough for their leader's liking. Their response is to chain themselves to the front.
 
The lady I talked to has been arrested several times. She takes it as a badge of honor that the government has her photo and her fingerprints . Her organization is classified by the US government as a "nonviolent civil disobedience group" and is listed in a category she says is just one step below the Black Panthers.
 
That's nice, but have you ever heard of filing a complaint? "You are in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which makes it much more difficult for me to become a regularly paying customer" sounds a lot less crazy than "Oh, I cannot pee here so I'm gonna PUT THIS STALL ON LOCKDOWN UNTIL YOU INSTALL SOME DAMN RAILS." But maybe that's just me.

Stepmania. Pretty much DDR except you can customize literally everything. You can load up whatever music you want and whatever stepcharts you want and give it whatever skin you want. It's good exercise and it's a blast to play with friends of all skill levels. Holy crap it's great.

Breach baby in two minutes? I'm impressed.

"He's a genius, and he described himself as... what was it? Cock-chugging gay. Oh, and his dad has a houseboat."
 
Interestingly enough, none of those things ever really come up all that much in conversation. It's just the bullet points they feel the need to hit to capture my essence, I guess. I'm not that boring, I promise!

I think you mean what the cake.
 
I'm interested in the entire trickling filter branch of the thing. What does a trickling filter do? Are "odorous air" and "odor control" referring strictly to the smell, or is it the nasty biohazards that come with processing feces?
 
This is awesome, by the way.

Yes. He shot her. She was experiencing nothing but pain and there was no way for her to turn back from it so he shot her rather than make her suffer for half an hour.

Then again, we're hardasses with the people in the Colonias because
1. If we let people go through more than once some people won't get the blankets, food, water, or clothes they need and
2. we know that they won't keel over and die in the two weeks between the times someone comes over to bring craploads of stuff.
 
In the beginning, it's hard to turn away people who are saying "corn-FLEIKS! corn-FLEIKS!" and children shoving their way to the front and crying desperate crocodile tears. But it's important to forcefully but lovingly say "you already came here, and I'm sorry but I have to make sure your neighbors don't die even if it means you don't get 5 boxes of cereal and 3 pairs of shoes."
 
Maybe if we were more like that here then we wouldn't have this problem.