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4-11-21, 5:39pm
It would feel to me like a terrible consent violation to your visitors to not disclose the vaccination status in this sort of situation.
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4-11-21, 5:24pm
In my ideal living situation, I'd have a small (~1000 sq. ft. or less) cabin with basic functions, on a larger plot of land shared with other...
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4-11-21, 5:16pm
Well, if everyone else involved is vaccinated, the current CDC guidance suggests that DH (if he's in a low-risk group) being unvaccinated shouldn't...
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4-10-21, 3:06pm
They were 3rd cousins, and second cousins once-removed. This is not typically regarded as "incest"...
The family org chart is pretty complicated...
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4-9-21, 1:55am
My County, which did not have "draconian" lockdowns, has had 0 deaths per million.
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4-9-21, 1:52am
My Dad just received the Social Security benefit for his husband, who passed away this Christmas day. $255 I think he said.
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4-7-21, 5:12pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
Note that there are two tables, one for private,...
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4-7-21, 3:38pm
Princeton and several other such schools are essentially free if you can’t afford them, and don’t allow their students to graduate with debt.
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4-7-21, 2:31am
Well, the colors I am washing together are black, dark blue, and dark green, and it hasn't presented any problems to date.
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4-4-21, 2:35pm
I have no whites :-). I buy everything in basically compatible colors, wash on cold, use less detergent than the bottle says, no extra rinse cycle. ...
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4-4-21, 12:37pm
My life is too short to fold things like that.
I wear mostly easy-to-care-for clothing, and when it is just me living here, I often use the...
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4-3-21, 1:54pm
My rural electrical power cooperative, a non-profit, member-owned power company that is the only grid-source of power here, for years had a voluntary...
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4-3-21, 10:58am
I have four bedrooms in my house. I am only using two of them. There are people in my community sitting outside freezing. Are those bedrooms...
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4-2-21, 7:53pm
I don't see a lot of the people complaining about these sorts of silly things actually working on the front lines seeing patients with covid, jabbing...
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4-2-21, 4:54pm
When I travel, I:
- keep photos of all important documents on my phone
- keep photos of them online in the cloud, in case I lose my phone
- keep...
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4-2-21, 3:16pm
That's a false narrative. Nobody is being "punished", much less "punished indefinitely".
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4-2-21, 3:00pm
I suspect the paper cards are a stopgap measure....
I suspect that people whining about the cards know this, and are just enjoying whining.
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4-1-21, 10:37pm
Well, setting aside Covid, frequent and proper handwashing really helps prevent all sorts of other Unpleasant Things. Colds, flus, melted ice cream...
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4-1-21, 5:28pm
I don't bother with hand sanitizer in the house, I use boring old soap+water.
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4-1-21, 12:36pm
How many hours did Trump spend in the lab? How much mRNA research did he participate in over the past few decades, technology which allowed the...
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3-31-21, 9:44pm
It is in essence mandatory in my agency if you wish to engage in work involving contact with people and staff. Much like our flu vaccine requirement...
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3-30-21, 5:25pm
My village/community is booming now, it seems the tourist season is starting a couple of months early. Ferries packed, housing unavailable for...
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3-30-21, 1:24pm
My poor niece, I fear, will mentally turn out to be a long-hauler, as she lost the baby she'd been trying so hard to have for years to covid.
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3-29-21, 10:03pm
I suppose that all depends on what "large" is. 433 million people live in South America, 181 million in Central America, and 127 million in Mexico. ...
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3-29-21, 8:01pm
Reduced stress levels do seem to help immune system response.
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3-29-21, 7:53pm
Yeah, I'll go on vacation when *I* feel like it, and no sooner, and no later. So there!
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3-29-21, 7:52pm
When my daughter makes them, she somehow arranges to put yummy fillings inside. Sometimes she makes savory ones too.
I myself am suspicious of...
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3-29-21, 7:44pm
Yes, I suspect it was produced in one of the online sh*tposting factories to further divide and disrupt our society.
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3-29-21, 7:43pm
How do you feel about aebleskiver?
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3-29-21, 6:02pm
More ice cream is clearly needed.
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3-29-21, 2:24pm
The problem is, once the stuff has brewed in that volunteer Petri dish, it may well be able to attack the rest of us, even if we have been vaccinated.
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3-29-21, 2:08pm
Well, there's the troublesome issue that the unvaccinated population provides a great breeding ground/hothouse for developing mutant variants that...
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3-28-21, 8:45pm
I don't think members of American's dominant culture today have any real conception of real hunger, and its effects upon the human body. With...
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3-28-21, 6:36pm
I think the rationing in the Netherlands was down to ~500 calories/adult a day by the end of the war. Tens of thousands died...from famine.
This...
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3-28-21, 6:20pm
I suspect many Americans have no idea of what the conditions were like in Europe and the UK after the war, and how lucky we had it in the USA. ...
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3-28-21, 6:11pm
They had strawberries on sale at the market here today for $1/container, super-duper-ripe, so I made a lovely strawberry/chocolate sundae for lunch,...
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3-27-21, 6:46pm
I like ice cream sundaes.
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3-26-21, 8:40pm
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration
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3-26-21, 4:38pm
I know in my agency, we are required to punt any questions to our Public Information Officer.
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3-26-21, 3:52pm
Well, we just had a nice practice run with the pandemic, and indeed, some of my neighbors with "interesting" signs were the same ones not wearing...
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3-26-21, 3:37pm
I find these things handy to keep track of who to worry about during the zombie apocalypse.
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3-26-21, 1:34pm
There just seems to be a lot to unpack just in the title.
Hopefully that's just from the marketing department.
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3-26-21, 1:21pm
Interesting, thanks for the pointer.
The full title appears to be "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters", so...hmmm.
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3-26-21, 1:15pm
And the problem is "Brandolini's Law" - "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."
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3-26-21, 1:09pm
I'm looking out the window at the northern border right now, and it seems calmer than usual.
YMMV down there in the South. I have no idea what...
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3-25-21, 10:39pm
Well, I suspect the original source was engaged in a little bit of fun anti-Asian trolling. China has become the bête noire for the Know Nothing...
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3-25-21, 8:18pm
I simply didn't want to repeat your personal attack on someone by quoting it. You know this.
(And I do so many things in real life that are...
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3-25-21, 8:04pm
I see, you've picked another victim to try to drive off the forums. Ah, memories.
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3-25-21, 7:58pm
The breathless email quoted doesn't pass the back-of-the-envelope smell test. It can't possibly make sense to ship live chickens and hogs to China...
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3-23-21, 3:30pm
Everyone but T-mobile.
Pretty much no other carrier has adequate coverage on the islands here.
No judgement on quality of...
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3-23-21, 2:47pm
The standardization of street addresses, exit designation, signage that has been rolled out over the past few decades is tremendously helpful to...
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3-23-21, 2:26pm
I've been looking into moving to Norway for several years now, as I've mentioned previously.
The process of doing so, if you wish to do so...
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3-22-21, 9:53pm
- Taxing foreign owners seems a bit jingoistic. What about owners from different provinces/territories?
- Taxing homes that are unoccupied 1/2...
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3-22-21, 8:39pm
Interesting data, but, to clarify, I didn't ask about the "illegal immigration situation". Just the boring old planned-for, by-the-books, immigrants...
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3-22-21, 4:05pm
I actually don't know the details, I just recall hearing various claims one way or the other, but I presume there's data out there.
And looking at...
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3-22-21, 3:34pm
Where does the USA stand, relative to other developed nations, per capita, in:
- accepting refugees
- accepting non-refugee immigrants
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3-21-21, 11:51pm
How does the US acceptance rate of immigrants, per capita, compare with other developed nations?
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3-21-21, 3:12pm
So you are a beneficiary of multigenerational wealth built atop the backs of oppressed peoples? Cool!
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3-21-21, 1:44pm
I haven't changed my (minimal) practices.
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3-21-21, 1:41pm
I wonder who is buying them, and how they can afford them?
In my zip code, real estate prices are well beyond what most anyone working here can...
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