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dude the city inspects apartments yes, regularly, that's life. For smoke detectors for instance. Now one is given warning, and they aren't...

Your town does an annual no-search-warant invasion of your home???? OMG!

Even when they have cubicals, some people have cubicals, I'm squished in an office with others, but the few days I've gone to the office during covid...

No, I'm only early 50s. No underlying conditions aside from being overweight. Not eligible here yet. I'm group 1C. And many offices don't have...

Tradd are you vaccinated? If so maybe an employer would not require a mask at least when you are in your own cubicle?

If they are here and working legally (green card) they will be able to become citizens and to vote, and perhaps that 5 year process should be...

No. They chose to come here. I didn’t have any say in being born here.

By that logic, should foreign nationals who work and pay taxes have the right to vote here?

Exactly! This is nicely said. made sense back then, makes sense now.

On a national level, I'm quite sure the California prop would have no such effect, because there is no calculation by which the state isn't pretty...

I don't recall any handwringing at all but there may have been. When the voting age was lowered to 18 it was driven mostly by the idea that 18 year...

I've had a couple of recruiters contact me about broker positions this week. I'm at least talking to them. Boss keeps making changes to his homegrown...

I don’t have a strong opinion on this but I tend to agree with yppej. Anyone old enough to have a job and pay taxes is affected by the decisions the...

It never ends.

Was very happy to hear this on the news: Chicago FD paramedics are making house visits to vaccinate home bound seniors.

My brother grew up in CT but talks more like a Minnesotan than my Minnesotan SIL. Oh, yah!

I just got the Pfizer shot 3 hours ago, and so far so good! VT opened the availability for 65+ just on Monday, and already DH and I got our 1st...

My sister-in-law, DHS sister, was born an hour and a half north of Highway 80. They don’t talk like Minnesotans. She has lived in this Twin...

Many minors have part-time jobs and pay taxes. Our country was founded on no taxation without representation. Anyone old enough to work and pay...

I looked up pods. This is when people socialize with others outside their household maskless etc as if they lived together. There is no fixed pod...

Workmates (3-4 people a day), + DH. Grandson once/wk who comes to work at my workplace for his spec ed adult transition program. That's it. DH does...

I read that the minimum age is sixteen in places like Scotland, Austria and Ethiopia. It just seems young to me. But then I was a bit of an idiot at...

If you are old enough to go to war or get married, IMO you are old enough to vote. Age 16... not so much.

There was a proposition on the CA ballot to allow 17 year olds to vote. I voted for it. It failed. Now I have to admit I considered it one of the...

I think if you're not old enough to enlist in the military, you're not old enough to vote. But to be honest, I think it's such an awesome...

I think if you aren't old enough to buy a firearm, or enter into a legal contract, or consent to sex, well, you shouldn't be voting. Except for...

Your path was easier than mine, but my path to get a vaccine wasn’t all that difficult. Like you, I had registered with three places and then sat...

yes. yes you are.:~)

Fun in Minnesota... I think it depends on whether you were born here. People who move here find certain things much funnier than born-and-bred...

Not being snarky but books are so poorly made these days that either the first or last edition won't survive very long even if carefully stored. ...

Ha! Thirty years ago I worked at an airline, so we could fly for cheap often, and we visited Seattle often. One of my favorite cities. But we had...

It's DW and me and our DS/DSiL and the three grandchildren. We've been assured that the revolving door on their house from earlier in the pandemic...

One thing I read in connection with this is a claim that we’ve all been pronouncing Seuss wrong all this time (it should sound like “soice”). I...

Thought of one here....annual coffin races.

How about an all expenses paid trip to Iceland in a private jet with John Kerry to accept an award for fighting climate change?

https://www.voanews.com/usa/race-america/hate-crimes-targeting-asian-americans-spiked-150-major-us-cities ...

This is the offending caricature from And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street.

It's more fun to say "BANNED" though, it gets more clicks and helps fuel the culture wars.

But why? The books that go out of print are often good books (ok there are a lot of bad books out there but I don't think there is that much...

Oh for goodness sake! Craziness. The PUBLISHER took the books off the market. They were NOT Banned by anyone. That To Think That I Saw It on...

Dr Suess enterprises made this decision. I'd like to hear from people represented by the personna depicted that has led to the publication stop.

Ha! My natural tendency for procrastination paid off. Instead of doggedly clicking the vaccine finder, I waited, and today my HC provider emailed me...

Have you ever heard of the Missoula Flood? It's kinda what's formed our geography here.

oh yes we do!

JP, that’s really cool! Got my second dose yesterday at 11 and felt fine until 6 and then had a horrible headache. By 11pm I had the worst chills of...

I did several passes through my stuff that resulted in a major purge in Jan & Feb. It’s paid off. Less stress for me. Plus annual town inspection was...

It is just the two of us. DS stops by every few weeks or so for a quickie distanced masked check in. We go for a 3-5 mile walk every day and rarely...

Mom & I got our second shots today, so I am really relieved about that. After the next two weeks pass I will definitely feel safer about getting...

Contrarywise, if you continue engaging in a conversation with people who "make the jump from 'I disagree' to 'You’re a bigot'”, you'll waste a lot of...

Well, there are trees and there are trees. The trees of the PNW are privileged, entitled, coddled and smug. More like large houseplants in a giant...

Grocery shopping today so may just cheat and pick up a frozen pizza.

Well... I guess... maybe... if the price is right! :laff:

I’m sorry, but you guys especially in bae’s area have these things called… Trees. You have way too many trees.I can’t live there, how does one grow...

Thank you.

And I think it’s hysterical, a funny idea by you, an entertaining execution by LDAHL. Please lady don’t ban it! Haha.

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Catherine I think it’s fine that you both came to an agreement. You had professional advice in numbers from the realtors and that’s good enough. In...