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If only college was as cheap now as it was back then.

SO had no reaction to the first dose of Pfizer except sore arm. Multiple friends have said the same but that the second dose is a bear. But expected....

So are you upset that asshat governor Abbott is not allowing local mask mandates?

Do you really think we should blame Dr Seuss for anti-chinese hatred that was fueled by Trump and already existed in California in the 1860s?????

"Banned" is the word the American Library Association uses for every book that get removed from an elementary school library as "inappropriate for...

BTW it sounds like you're a very good teacher, and I like the way you used that book as a teaching opportunity beyond the obvious rhyming and writing...

You seem to be totally missing the point. Key Phrase: "pulling a book altogether for political reasons makes her uncomfortable." I'm not...

I'm not going to argue semantics with you. I already made my position on that clear in post #27 which says: If they removed part of the book...

Well this news sucks. I’ll let you know how it affects me.

Massachusetts has flat lands in the cranberry bogs (no wild rice though), lakes, mountains, and the ocean. I see your two landscapes and raise you...

That last point is crazy. But overall your tribute to Minnesota is sweet. I like Minnesota. Being from Iowa, we always looked “up” to you. In...

Apparently Seuss enterprises already did, and they decided to stop publishing the books instead of changing the things in the books that people...

I’m not sure, judges? May we have a score please? haha

I figured it was a good thing. An older friend had no reaction. Yesterday and today not fun but I am anticipating tomorrow might be more of the same....

But our film is the most recent one. And the Texas State Fair is 24 days, Iowa is only 11. So Texas wins!

Like Steve, I used to listen to Lake Wobegone before I moved here... and then there was no need. My list of what's fun in Minnesota: - long,...

oh You DON’T want to use this fact to prove any kind of superiority of your state fair. The Best Known and best loved version of State Fair the...

I've got one word for you, just one word: PLASTICS!

I read an article that said your reaction is common and that it's actually a good thing (even though it's very unpleasant) because it proves your...

That's really almost a best case scenario, the adults may be basing their advice on what careers were hot 10, 20, 30 years ago.

I had no reaction to the first dose of Pfizer. This second dose is a beast. I have mostly slept around the clock with headache and alternating...

If they make a bad college major choice it's usually because they've been pumped full of bad advice by "helpful" adults who are often basing their...

I don't know, the truth is many people will NOT be 18 by the time they start college, depending on birthdays (and that's not even assuming they...

Do they give student loans to kids too young to sign a binding contract in California?

But the Texas State Fair has Big Tex and it has it's own Hollywood movie:

The exact age is of course ultimately arbitrary, it's like all such artificial lines that are really continuums, it doesn't really exist in reality,...

I would hope even if operating in auxiliary capacities that they would be deemed to have good judgment, which is the quality we hope for in voters....

And they're not being drafted as 18-19 year olds were in the 1960s.

Yes, but they are not eligible for duty in a combat capacity or zone.

Well, if it's a rental, that's different.

Sadly.

17 year olds can serve in the US military with parental consent and some do.

No. 16 is too young. However the dirty filthy vote-suppressing people who want to raise the voting age from 18 to 21 (where it was pre-Vietnam)...

Just got a message from boss - We use MS Teams to message (text, really) and when you're not active you get the messages as emails. I have work email...

My utility company has the right to come in and inspect my gas pipes. If I refuse they will cut off my service.

Landlords have to have a "rental license" in my very nice Chicago suburb. Part of that includes an inspection. They don't get in without you letting...

I made a fair chunk of change, and filed taxes, when I was 10, doing various small-town jobs. I would have been a voting fiend!

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...