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You say that she was born.
Did your wife have to have an abortion/D&E?

I know it’s shitty to ask but I have a friend who’s daughter stopped developing (no brain) and she needed to undergo this procedure rather than birth. It’s not an issue to get in our state but I know that other states attempt to ban abortions around the 20 week mark. I bring it up because I feel that people don’t know that the procedure can be used for nonviable pregnancies. It was very hard on my friend and her family (her husband and 2 little boys), her daughter was very much wanted but they chose the option to terminate.

I was listening to a podcast on people who go missing in National Parks and the author/survival expert they were interviewing suggested that people who have a firearm and a PLB don’t go missing because they or their bodies are found. How true is this?
I have a PLB and own a handgun (conceal carry, comfortable with it, go to a gun club) but I find it harder to take the gun with me. Sometimes it’s comfort with the area or because of state laws.
What are good alternatives? I like to take little hikes by myself but I don’t want to lose wild spaces due to lack of safety.

The first time my husband and I hiked Lost Dutchman we really wanted to go up but it was our first time in the desert and remember looking at him and saying “the guys in the helicopter will make fun of us when they have to pick our asses up”. We went back a year later on our honeymoon and hiked to the top successfully but we were more prepared (I trained more, more water etc).

I've heard stories about smaller boats wrecking when they hit a lost, partially submerged container. Have you ever lost containers at sea? Do you try to recover them or just write them off as lost?

In your post you listed the Big Dig in Boston. I moved to Massachusetts almost 10 years ago and I’ve often heard people say that the big dig was corrupt and that a lot of stuff went wrong. As someone who worked on it, how do you feel about these claims? Do you think it was a good or bad idea?
I live on the south shore and I sometimes spend some time stuck in the tunnels. As a transplant from another state I often think that Massachusetts drivers get a bad reputation.