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4-13-21, 1:24pm
I think the birth control risk is straightforward when one factors in that woman (still) die in pregnancy and at higher rate than from birth control....
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4-13-21, 12:54pm
well to be truthful much of the whining about the dangers of vaccine is probably coming from men who have probably given 1 seconds thought to birth...
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4-12-21, 12:55pm
I don't mind crunchy granola really, I like counter-cultural. And hippies seeking status is an oxymoron. It's people trying to climb the corporate...
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4-12-21, 1:22am
it's not at all, I'd go for it, but sharing an actual home with anyone is problematic of course.
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4-11-21, 1:21pm
right, and if he takes any medicines there are risks, and if he smokes tobacco my eyes are rolling out of my head and down the sidewalk, because...
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4-10-21, 1:12pm
Good luck, since you already worked there it's probably very good odds.
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4-10-21, 2:39am
My last 2 cars died in accidents (not serious ones for anyone other than the car. Only one did I have fault in and it was because I needed new...
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4-9-21, 4:59pm
it's humor but there is probably a lot to that (well except the people who live with people that are stressful - their life was no fun)
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4-9-21, 2:26pm
Is competing with China even a helpful way to look at things? If say roads or bridges need repair isn't it enough to repair them because they need...
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4-9-21, 1:23pm
these are examples of zero-covid policy though right? I'm not sure when all is said and done they are going to conclude that lockdowns that do not...
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4-9-21, 12:11pm
not density per se but overcrowding almost certainly played a roll. When you have 20 people or more living in a single family home or a single...
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4-9-21, 1:54am
this seems fallacious,maybe no true scottsman. So the counter argument would be "mask mandates and limiting indoor gathering (to the extent done in...
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4-8-21, 4:22pm
In order of increasing deaths:
San Francisco county - 588 deaths per million (per capital income 139-140k)
King county Washington - 657 deaths per...
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4-8-21, 4:09pm
Los Angeles county, 2,334 deaths per million. Wow does that surpass Maimi dade? Of course it does. MASSIVE FAIL.
But team red and team blue...
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4-8-21, 2:47pm
The "draconian" lockdowns seldom were. They no more exist than the Easter bunny. I sat here in California appalled at the continuing opening of...
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4-7-21, 12:09pm
I don't know if any of this is really the answer to anything. Community college is ALREADY FREE here. States can do this if they want to. But it's...
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4-6-21, 3:47pm
buying cars for cash is why I have a pretty mediocre credit rating though. I look at my credit rating: "Meh. Oh, never financed anything beyond a...
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4-4-21, 2:08pm
I find it hard to imagine anyone with an actual clutter problem being helped by being made to fold underwear. But maybe it taps into some of the...
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4-3-21, 12:30pm
I don't own a coat haha, for obvious reasons. Though really I don't even own a jacket and that's a bit much.
Most people on the left like most...
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4-1-21, 1:10pm
He signed the Cares Act (so would have Biden or Hillary Clinton), which gave operation warp speed 10 billion in government money and then the Trump...
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4-1-21, 11:32am
people who actually cut grass etc. do not use vehicles like that, trucks sure, but that stuff is strictly for pretense, they aren't actual work...
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3-30-21, 9:02pm
The maximum sustainable population of the U.S. is almost certainly less than we have, but the good news is birth rates are dropping, so absent...
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3-30-21, 1:48pm
Remember it is quite likely Trump only survived BECAUSE he had treatment that was not available to everyone else. The rest of us would have a hard...
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3-30-21, 12:26pm
truthfully I suspect this is how public health authorities see it too, I suspect they care far less about the perfect fairness of the categories than...
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3-29-21, 8:01pm
I agree. Per Wikepedia these are the only countries in the world that don't have mandatory paid vacation time.
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
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3-29-21, 7:51pm
no they are tiny fat fluffy pancakes :P
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3-29-21, 7:49pm
It's great, my Danish, mother in law*, makes it, made it just for mentioning it at one point during the endless pandemic with homemade berry jam.
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3-29-21, 6:47pm
This is EXTREMELY unlikely to be true. Insurance plans (or Medicare/Medicaid) have to pay the administration fee as per the CARES act. There are a...
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3-29-21, 2:30pm
Well much of the world is likely to provide a petri dish regardless of whether everyone in the U.S. got vaccinated or not, it may be years until many...
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3-28-21, 4:25pm
I'm having lamb chops, you can now proceed to food envy (well if your not vegetarian) and I don't know salad or veggies or something TBD. I don't...
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3-28-21, 3:49pm
their education probably told them it was the only 100% effective birth control, even if their education was a planned parenthood flyer.
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3-28-21, 2:35pm
one can't really though as irreversible permanent changes take place before then anyway, aka puberty. It's not like sexuality, if you try out a...
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3-28-21, 1:28pm
Oh I have compassion for them, I never once said immigrants are bad people, never would, but hey I'm not Donald Trump.
But I think we should look...
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3-26-21, 1:34pm
In some sense in a patriarchal society what female does not wish they were male sometimes? It would frankly be absurd not to. But that has nothing...
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3-26-21, 11:43am
you share honestly that you wear your mask inside out.
Anyway as for cheating are the states/cities that are offering the vaccine to everyone 16...
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3-25-21, 12:05pm
Truthfully this vaccine does not seem to have been distributed evenly on the basis of population at all (have to give more vaccines to large...
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3-24-21, 8:53pm
I thought this stuff was supposed to be distributed on a state level, I guess it's which country bribes someone.
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3-24-21, 1:41pm
The usual route is via a refund, but if you pay electronically from a bank account and owe, I imagine they could have it from that too, but I'm not...
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3-23-21, 4:51pm
turns out people don't actually avoid a plague all that much though.
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3-23-21, 1:03pm
Considering that the large quantity of illegal immigrants, minimal attempts to make them legal (short of rare one time amnesties like under Reagan)...
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3-23-21, 11:45am
I think it's how pessimists operate. Why are you always assuming the worst will happen? Beats uncertainty!
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3-22-21, 11:08pm
I guess section 8 is the gold standard in that if you are poor it is good to get one.
But not only will many landlords not accept them, but...
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3-22-21, 6:23pm
The thing I worry most about isn't race, religion or national orgin either, it's we can't allow unlimited immigration (open borders), when we don't...
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3-22-21, 4:16pm
So it's addictive but in a way that probably has little effect on anyone's life because 1) it's often not particularly harmful to begin with although...
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3-22-21, 3:12pm
may, it's amazing we can't get good information on this isn't it? Of course if you have no good information then GIGO. My gut tells me glass has to...
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3-22-21, 3:06pm
It may produce withdrawal effects, but that too likely entirely depends on how much you were consuming. From a cup of black tea a day I have never...
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3-22-21, 12:35am
Trout and colcannon (the colcannon was really planned for st patricks day, but I got too lazy so didn't make it then, so I made it now, it's really...
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3-21-21, 1:41pm
Here and there but mostly NO. It's too difficult. There are NO recycle bins for apartments here. There is NO LOCAL recycling place to take...
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3-21-21, 1:37am
However much they "failed" has to be small in comparison to having a massive homeless population, which is what some government construction is...
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3-20-21, 4:43pm
Here I can totally see malls becoming housing, there isn't all the surplus land in the world. Expensive condos is their most likely fate unless...
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3-20-21, 3:55pm
I say if you have disposable income (play money) and want to try to stock pick, go for it. Just don't confuse it with an emergency fund or...
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3-20-21, 2:28pm
Yea build housing, condos or apartments (but good luck trying to get even market rate apartments built when all anyone seems to want to cater to is...
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3-19-21, 5:02pm
It's probably correct enough, I mean there were those straight trying to live a maximum lifespan, such as Roy Walford with calorie restriction, what...
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3-19-21, 4:36pm
Of course there is Ebay, though it doesn't seem like the fastest or most convenient.
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3-19-21, 1:56pm
so I don't know, but if carbon is tied up in plastic isn't it carbon that is at least not presently in the atmosphere? I mean if we are going to...
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3-19-21, 1:39pm
Yes usually a slow process to get hired.
well technically if they pay you for your overtime, as per law, I suspect not (but I'm not a lawyer)....
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3-19-21, 12:07pm
because they are probably impacting other species less than an ever growing human population is, but sure it's a matter of debate I suppose.
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3-19-21, 12:00pm
Why isn't anything done?
Well why can't we deal with climate change? Because it's the same reasons it seems to me.
However it is more...
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3-18-21, 11:43pm
Is this the mask grumbling? The science we have indicate masks reduce transmission, it it turns out that was all wrong and masks have no effect on...
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3-18-21, 11:36pm
and then politics will just tend to make it "bad old China" when the U.S. has been involved in gain of function research as well, in Wuhan at one...
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