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Mole

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  1. When my wife and I got our COVID breakthrough, I got a text from a friend telling me and my wife to take ivermectin. If we couldn't find a doctor to write us a script, we were told to buy the animal stuff from Amazon and they would send us dosage adjustments. This was all based on information gleaned from friends and whatever crazytown groups they were involved with. I just took some Benadryl, napped, and let the vaccine do its work instead. I kept my intestines in tact and felt better in about three days. I don't think the average ivermectin proponent makes much of a distinction between horse paste and taking medicine under the direction of a doctor. Since they generally make no distinction, calling it "horse paste" is a fair description of the treatment advocated by movement. Any attempts to legitimize it with the veneer of medical legitimacy is just perpetuating disinformation. Spreading this kind of thinking only serves to spread death and suffering. You can hide in asking questions and a motivated pedantry that distorts reality, but it's still dishonest and destructive. This is distinct from honest discussion of legitimate attempts by real doctors to find COVID treatments.
  2. Honestly, spreading deadly disease is an important part of the story of the New World. While I’d like say that murdering your neighbors is not a founding American principal, he might be right. I wish we had this kind of clear leadership 18 months ago.
  3. http://www.shaggytexas.com/board/showthread.php/92578-Awesome-Chief-Painting
  4. A tradition spanning several years.
  5. Setting aside the question of the necessity of a virgin birth, Paul claimed in 1 Cor 15 that denial of the resurrection of Christ is incompatible with the core point of the faith (And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins). Maybe you could still consider yourself a Christian, but it would definitely be something very different than the faith practiced by most Christians throughout history. Of course, this is pretty tangential to the central goal of finding proof texts to rationalize using state power to subjugate women.
  6. The last navel gazing quiz told me I had strong theocratic tendencies; this one calls me a New Liberal. I guess here’s hoping to install Mullah O’Rourke as the high bro-priest of the United State Church of the Heel Flip. It’s think it’s time to go back to Facebook for more “which Ted Lasso character are you” quizzes. And of course comparing enneagram types.
  7. Setting aside the open question as to how earnest your stated beliefs are, surely that 30-40% number is far too low. We’ve largely embraced trolling as a defining ethos.
  8. New believers should be encouraged to add 1 Cor 5:12 to their memory verse list to nip this stuff in the bud: What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? And of course the judging within the church mentioned here involved a continuing sexual relationship between man and mother-in-law, not the height of a teenager’s hemline or the amount of thigh jiggle. There’s a very strong biblical case — maybe a command — for Christians to be mindful and considerate of the struggles of fellow believers. This is inward looking though, not outward looking. I can choose to refrain from certain things if it supports the needs and struggles of my community, but I don’t see the case for how I can impose the same restrictions (aside from the don’t sleep with your mother-in-law thing) on another person. As was rightly pointed out, Jesus said to gouge your eye out, not berate the object of your lust. I’d love to do away with the earnest Christian vocal affect. Speak with your adult voice, not that of some poor Marilyn Monroe impersonator. The moment you hear that breathy voice, guard your heart and wallet.
  9. I’m sure the math checks out, but anecdotally, my social circle has had way more than 1% breakthrough in the past few months. My house is at 100% (July), I know several others within the past month, and a friend’s vaccinated dad died of it just last week. I’m guessing that I’m at the unlucky end of the bell curve, but it’s really something how your perception can be colored by what you experience — my assumption has been that breakthroughs will be pretty common.
  10. In some magical world where everyone agreed to be intellectually honest and understand and fairly represent the arguments from the other side, the abortion debate would be difficult, but ultimately productive. We could drive down abortion rates in a humane and decent way if there was any interest in such a thing. But there really isn’t such interest, because this is just another fight over an abstraction that only incidentally involves real people in crisis. The people actually involved take a back seat to the abstract moral position. But even in the context of that amoral morality battle, the specifics of this law are insane. The vigilante nature of it, how easily it can be weaponized, and the inherent cruelty is just madness. But it makes sense, since moral posturing is more important than humanity.
  11. Step one: make a post/poll setting up a false equivalency imbedded inside a strawman. Step two: deny doing so, calling it a “random thought.” Step three: explicitly make the false equivalency imbedded inside a strawman.
  12. Annual check-up in October and usually get it then. Some years it leaves me run down for a day or so and some years it’s nothing. I’m not sure why that’s the case. When I was in the Army, there was one year with messed up paperwork where I had to get it twice since the first go didn’t transfer with me properly. If the booster recommendation for COVID shots stay, I’ll be due up then as well. I’m not sure if they’d double up or not. I was a breakthrough in July, so there’ll be a discussion I’m sure.
  13. Miracle Chosuke was better than Trevino.
  14. Based on my uneducated reading of the law, you should do this in the name of a family member of his, specifically requesting that the money go towards indigent abortions, and then bring them to court to collect your 10 grand — since that would be aiding and abetting abortion. Then wash, rinse, and repeat with your new-found cash.
  15. The card is good for free donuts if you’re interested in acquiring comorbidities.
  16. I assume all sorts of competing organizations are forming today to raise funds to do just this.
  17. From stall #1, Fight!
  18. Looks like the free market to me.
  19. Since the justification for this is steeped in religion, I can’t help but think of it in those terms. I know context and all, but today I keep coming back to Matthew 23: Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. In my view, the pro-life movement has it backwards; the prevalence of abortion is a symptom of our societal sickness. If abortion is murder, then the pro-life movement is complicit in that murder, since they gleefully participate in and spread the societal sickness. No matter how harsh or strong the anti-abortion law, the pro-life movement will never absolve their moral responsibility until they are willing to upend our society and pay the costs of the burdens they create. If you think you’re advocating for the unborn but you want vulnerable young women and girls to bear the cost and burden of your advocacy, whose interests are you actually pursuing?
  20. I’ve been thinking about Biden’s speech yesterday and the human cost of the war. We are rightfully mourning and honoring the 13 who died in the terrorist attack, but more veterans than that will die today due to suicide; same with tomorrow and the next day. If we want to be pro-military, how about real concrete steps to deal with this ongoing suffering and death? It’s cool if you can do 22 push-ups to honor them, but that doesn’t really ease anyone’s suffering. It takes real action. I’d like to see real action to redirect resources to those who have borne the brunt of this war. That seems like the minimum a country should offer — not just flag waving and empty hero worship.
  21. I agree that his speech came off well. It’s the most pro service-member speech that I’ve heard by a president in a long time. Usually they just use military folks, blow some pretend patriotic smoke, and ultimately dehumanize the people bearing the brunt of the cost of our wars. Acknowledging that cost means something to me. Fox News’ website is losing its mind over Afghanistan, which tells me that the speech went ok at least.
  22. I fail to see the problem here.
  23. Shouldn’t shaving like a man be just growing a beard? I started shaving again once masks became a thing. I don’t see much value in some mythical closer shave, since the smoothness grows out by lunchtime. I just want something I can sleepily run across my face in the shower in under a minute, not get in-grown hairs, and be reasonably comfortable and presentable. The generic blades and generic shaving cream last long enough and don’t cost so much that it really seems to matter. Cutting down on the couple of bucks I spend every 6 weeks or so doesn’t seem like much of a gain to me. But if you want to slather oil on your delicate face and draw on your cuts with aluminum sticks because the manliness blog told you it would connect you with your primal masculine roots or something, that’s cool if it makes you happy. I’m all for self-actualization through engaging with our traditions.
  24. Thanks. I just tried that. Hopefully it helps. I was on Web01.
  25. Anyone else having the issue of threads being really slow to load? It’s hit and miss and there’s no real pattern to when or which threads, but it bogs down to being unusable. Then two minutes later everything is fine; then unusable, etc. It’s just started in the last week or so. Using an iPhone with Firefox.
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