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1-14-21, 12:49am
Possibly look at Ikea, I've heard good things about their mattresses anyway.
I know what you mean about the shady Chinese product descriptions. ...
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1-13-21, 2:43pm
I think public health department here is at the point of just: throwing things against the wall and seeing what sticks, or running stuff up the...
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1-13-21, 11:40am
Our public health department in the middle of a coronavirus surge (although the surge *may* be improving a little) is now is telling us it's Very...
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1-12-21, 10:06pm
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of...
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1-12-21, 4:57pm
I'm interested in asceticism but not as practice for destitution. But I suppose one could go down to live in a tent in a homeless encampment for a...
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1-12-21, 4:35pm
yea that's how they explained it, I was hourly exempt or something at that job, I usually got overtime (and had to be on call) and then there were...
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1-12-21, 3:05pm
A lot of people have the ability to deprive themselves by choice (ie fasting), but then that doesn't apply if one is already starving of course. So...
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1-12-21, 1:30pm
I remember not getting overtime some days where I worked over 8 hours a day on weeks with paid holidays (say memorial day). Kind of a surprise to me...
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1-11-21, 7:29pm
The argument for inmates was never that they were essential but it has been a major population for outbreaks, like meat packing plants, and nursing...
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1-11-21, 1:54pm
I really just think my criteria has become: do I use it (but if some things are kept purely for beauty or nostalgia that's ok too and two of what you...
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1-11-21, 12:36pm
It seems to me they are playing a game of overtime where they don't have to pay overtime for it. Because if hourly and subject to overtime laws, it...
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1-10-21, 1:01pm
There's also the thing that people can come at politics through life experience as well, and people talk about just their lives here. Do I think...
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1-10-21, 12:50pm
I can see minimalism as related but not necessary, especially as by a certain point in life (by 30 let's say) we have acquired a bunch of things, it...
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1-9-21, 10:06pm
2 restaurants operating illegally (albeit outside but that's not legal at this point either), and seemingly a massage chain (!), everyone is out and...
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1-9-21, 5:25pm
I saw some relevance because policy affects personal financial decisions, the ACA (and healthcare), social security, and so on and on. I saw the...
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1-9-21, 3:18pm
The sheets I use most often are low 200 something thread count, they aren't pilly and I've had them for years, but like I said they weren't cheap, so...
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1-9-21, 2:32pm
yes, 10 months of that and well this novel coronavirus has lost all it's novelty. If it were a novel, it would be War and Peace. You get the drift.
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1-9-21, 2:20pm
I don't think one needs high thread count, in fact in a climate that is more often warm than cold it's better not to, as lower thread count sheets...
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1-9-21, 1:44pm
Less than you would think. So I save money in gas not commuting to work. But that is largely made up for in increased electricity bills for heating...
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1-9-21, 10:25am
Restaurants and bars are closed for all but take out (and who does take out from a bar), and personal services like barbers are closed, some may be...
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1-8-21, 10:12pm
I vote for no more posts about masks or other misinformation about a fricken *pandemic*.
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1-8-21, 5:35pm
I feel a bit sad for those like pinkytoe dealing with it. My bf is not a Trump supporter and not far right nor right.
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1-8-21, 5:03pm
Well it is still being given under emergency use authorization, so there is that, but apparently the bureaucracy is such that it would take a couple...
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1-8-21, 4:50pm
He could not run again. That is a real benefit. They should impeach.
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1-8-21, 4:15pm
If there was any such agenda there could not possibly be now given who they seem to be getting money from (huge entities like Amazon, Dem party...
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1-8-21, 3:41pm
BLM strikes me more as opportunists cashing in if anything. The leaders and organization, not the genuine grassroots, IOW I am not saying anything...
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1-8-21, 1:40pm
Some of the coup plotters have been pretty well shown to be Q-Anon fwiw. Some may not be, it doesn't make them any better. And that's what Q...
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1-8-21, 1:16pm
How it is: All non essential businesses are still open in California including malls and xmas shopping went on. They didn't enforce any capacity...
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1-7-21, 10:00pm
But with the amount of virus going around it is highly likely I and maybe most get covid before vaccines are available to most, at least here. I'm...
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1-7-21, 9:42pm
I'd likely get it but just it's going to be March or April at the earliest (per public health dept predictions) before this thing will be available...
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1-7-21, 8:06pm
It is quite likely that some of them are just functionally insane. Pumped up with ridiculous conspiracy theories etc. They want the end to a...
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1-7-21, 4:54pm
Good luck, get well, enjoy your retirement, even if not exactly under the circumstances at your choosing (covid).
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1-7-21, 4:34pm
I disagreed with the police response necessarily being about racism, this is not about police response. Although police infiltration with far right...
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1-7-21, 2:39pm
But many of the BLM protesters WERE white. It may have more to do with police forces being infiltrated by far right groups. But also there actually...
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1-7-21, 2:28pm
I say not this audience because I don't think there are that many hard core Trumpers although there are those on the right,one could say far right,...
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1-7-21, 2:12pm
Yes wrong audience. But also some of those things are objectively bad (whether they are what the far right cares about I do not know).
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1-7-21, 1:20pm
Considering vast numbers of the protestors being mentioned, even though they are irrelevant to the subject, were white people (portland is pretty...
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1-7-21, 1:59am
and leads the world in vaccinating too, over 16 doses per 100 people, U.S. is less than 2, but even despite having vaccinating more than others at...
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1-7-21, 12:52am
it's peaceful, just it better be as there is literally no hospital capacity, so one just endures weeks and weeks with no end soon (maybe Feb) of...
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1-6-21, 8:39pm
well they are under curfew, which was no doubt enacted to prevent riots at night, that's kind of what they are used for
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1-6-21, 5:44pm
Meanwhile the anti-democratic coup tries to set off pipe bombs. But oh yea water bottles would be a real problem.
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1-6-21, 4:01pm
it's not really racism, it's ideology, if they weren't rightwingers they would be dead
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1-5-21, 8:50pm
There's a lot of assumptions that feeling suicidal is about restrictions or economic pain etc.. Yea sure all of that is distressing and maybe it is...
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1-5-21, 7:47pm
Those who have argued it is not high risk is just because of supposedly good ventilation on planes, and anyway it's relative risk. Of course it's...
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1-5-21, 6:37pm
New Zealand had business closures in the spring, a very strict lockdown, precisely the measures yeppej opposed here with all the support for opening...
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1-5-21, 3:00pm
It was less the anti-masking that annoyed me as the open up stuff, I saw it a direct threat to peoples lives. Maybe my own and my loved ones. But...
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1-5-21, 1:51pm
You would be surprised at how much money you can make and still experience the fear, that it could all turn on a dime no matter what one does. I was...
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1-4-21, 5:04pm
But the mainstream media actually did help elect Trump in 2016, they gave him far more coverage than any other candidate. Than Hillary, than...
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1-4-21, 1:24pm
The ever growing rank of homeless aren't by and large breaking into anyone's property IME, wrong population.
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1-3-21, 1:33pm
The most ironic is if you get involved in environmental groups and it's always: there are a bunch of people without kids but noone with kids. But...
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1-3-21, 1:29pm
they just took the "freedom is the right to kill other people" (by spreading virus) one step further, eliminating the middle man as it were.
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1-3-21, 1:25pm
I don't know if the U.S. is even individualistic, depending on how one defines that (certainly not by some definitions: "showing great independence...
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12-31-20, 2:23pm
my biggest worry about taking baths was wasting water, yes I'm a terrible person wasting all this water (look of blissful ecstasy on my face), when I...
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12-31-20, 2:04pm
I have seen that first and second sofa at the thrift I swear, granted a higher end consignment store type thrift tends to carry pieces like that, too...
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12-31-20, 1:40pm
Oh yea a bath isn't even an optional feature of a dwelling. It's required, and an absolutely necessary daily mental health ritual (sometimes a few...
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12-30-20, 9:34pm
And someday we'll have a pandemic much worse than covid-19 which is not good but not the worst we could have gotten. And maybe someday soon due to a...
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12-30-20, 7:30pm
Oh I'm sure you did a lot of good in your career. Therapy (although that isn't exactly what you did) is sometimes helpful and sometimes not, I've...
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12-30-20, 7:19pm
Lots of conflation between whether a mask mandate stops covid and whether masks stop covid though. These aren't the same claim. Just because masks...
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12-30-20, 7:07pm
Depends what you mean by locked down. Malls open, allegedly with limited capacity but doesn't seem enforced. Non-essential retail open, allegedly...
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12-30-20, 4:00pm
I think in psychological practice it may make very little sense, cause uh shrinks they know people very well, a lot of situations are those where we...
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