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I have eaten mountains of tart cherries, and buckets of the cherry juice, and cut out alcohol almost completely, and haven't had a relapse, so far.

You have my deep sympathies. I had my first (and hopefully only) attack just about a year ago, and it's not as funny as it looks in historical dramas.

Wow, IL, that is super helpful!!!!

"Leave the place better than you found it."

It would feel to me like a terrible consent violation to your visitors to not disclose the vaccination status in this sort of situation.

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 members of my "tribe" with communal larger-scale cooking...

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 be a big deal:

"Fully vaccinated people can: ......

They were 3rd cousins, and second cousins once-removed. This is not typically regarded as "incest"...

The family org chart is pretty complicated across the noble families of Europe. ...

My County, which did not have "draconian" lockdowns, has had 0 deaths per million.

My Dad just received the Social Security benefit for his husband, who passed away this Christmas day. $255 I think he said.

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, one for public. There are some well-heeled...

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.

Well, the colors I am washing together are black, dark blue, and dark green, and it hasn't presented any problems to date.

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.

If an item of clothing can’t handle this,...

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 washing machine as my dirty clothes bin, running it when...

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 "round up" program for your power bill - you...

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 rightfully theirs? Did I steal them from those...

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 arms, or working on the logistics.

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 photocopies of them tucked away in my pack
-...

That's a false narrative. Nobody is being "punished", much less "punished indefinitely".

I suspect the paper cards are a stopgap measure....

I suspect that people whining about the cards know this, and are just enjoying whining.

(God, my card seems to be made from virgin paper, so...

Well, setting aside Covid, frequent and proper handwashing really helps prevent all sorts of other Unpleasant Things. Colds, flus, melted ice cream on pants, that sort of stuff.

I don't bother with hand sanitizer in the house, I use boring old soap+water.

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 vaccine to be developed, much like a software patch,...

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 each year, and all the other mandated...