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NameAlreadyInUse

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  1. You aren’t my kid, you can manage your own damn sleep schedule.
  2. Obviously you don’t often work with software if you believe that. There’s a reason why help articles often talk about workarounds, and that reason is because they ain’t fixing a bug unless it’s affecting everyone, and then they still might not fix it. And that’s for software you paid for. Expect developers to have no shits to give if you aren’t paying.
  3. good news is, it looks like soon we will be paying for his housing, clothing, and 3 meals a day. I bet he can work off some of that debt in the laundry.
  4. Normally I’d be very interested in a story about semen on a poop deck, but shriveled hillbillies and lady bugs just aren’t my fetish.
  5. Yup I'm turning 50 this year, I'll be in line for the shingles jab too. I have heard enough stories to know that shingles is a DO NOT WANT situation.
  6. Ok, I've been reading about it here, but would like to talk through the ethics of this. Husband is going to be at 6 months since his last shot in 3 weeks. I've got a month and half to go to get to 6 months. Both of us got Moderna We've been having some pretty serious discussions about getting a 6 month booster of either Moderna or Pfizer. It feels like the right answer for us at a micro level, but ethically I'm struggling with this from a macro level. I think a couple thousand people getting a 3rd shot booster that looks like a 1st shot in the stats is fine, but if bunches of people do it, does that start to give medical/political leaders a false sense of security that vaccination rates are high enough to lower restrictions, when it wouldn't be prudent to do so? How do you weigh the societal cost of public health decisions being made with bad information vs the personal benefit of the extra protection of a booster that hasn't been officially called for yet?
  7. And this is why we're going on a year and a half since I've seen my dad. My dumbass sister is one of those 72%. I am not going to accidentally give her COVID and I wouldn't be able to go up there and see my dad without also seeing her, so yeah. Fuck Midland. So Julie is on board with the idea that someone sat in a lab to create a disease that would kill her and a bunch of other people. Wouldn't logic dictate that if someone is getting ready to shoot you, that you put on the bullet proof vest people are trying to give you for free? Is this showing me unvaccinated rates of infection that is either, sever, critical or fatal by age group? If I'm going to do a vaccination risk-benefit, where in the table can I see the percentages by age group of vaccinated people? Oh, and also the incidence of myocarditis from vaccinations. All 3 of those put together I think gives you a pretty good analysis on how much risk you are taking on (myocarditis) vs. avoiding (vaccination) compared to the status quo. I would actually love a chart like that.
  8. So I'm reading that thread over here about identifying the insurrectionists, and I have seen plenty of those people identified. I'm not sure why they are saying it can't be done.
  9. Well there was only 2 choices, either they were misinformed or they were making a bad faith argument. That's the only 2 flavors they have over there.
  10. Umm, are they getting their information from the 1950's or something?
  11. Are you in some institution where you are being forced to come here and read every post or something, because you don't have to tolerate jack shit on this site. You don't have to tolerate this site at all. Say the word and we could make it so you'd never need to tolerate anything on this site ever again. GTFO with that lame ass bullshit.
  12. I don't know the area, but I do know that before COVID was a thing, a school administrator friend of mine used to rail on the dumbass anti-vaxxers in Austin because the measles vaccine gives you autism, and said on many occasions, that there were lots of problems with the valley, but getting their kids vaccinated wasn't one of them. If there's a vaccine, it's not a hard sell to the valley community to get shots in arms. This wasn't applied to COVID vaccines specifically, because COVID 19 wasn't a thing yet, so I don't know if there is some difference there, but her general statement on vaccinations in the valley has stuck with me for years now.
  13. Yeah, but don't listen to the doctors, listen to my dumbass step brother who "thinks I still have the antibodies, so I'm going to wait and see" meanwhile he got it originally back in march of 2020. Does it? For how long? While it makes sense that it confers some protection for some period of time, I've seen nothing so far that states for how long that protection might last. Until we know that, it's not very smart to rely on that as your yardstick for measuring herd immunity.
  14. Also, I'm jealous of my husband's hometown right about now. They had a huge Delta spike, it was bad enough they shut stuff down, only 1 person allowed to leave the house for an hour a day, roadblocks everywhere, etc. They got a cache of vaccines, mostly from Pfizer, and rather than act like petulant children, already 90% of the town's population has the first vaccine done, and over 50% have the second jab. They can manage these feats in southeast Asia.
  15. So those complete lockdowns I read about didn't happen?
  16. The difference being that while those countries institute policies to remove the potential hosts, we're not going to change anything, so there is likely to be a much larger and more prolonged spike than necessary here. Yay us!
  17. Not for nothing, but reading that tweet and then seeing the side eye from the woman in the background in the screenshot is pretty on point.
  18. It’s Abbott’s test, called BinaxNow. Get the box and it has 2 tests. Follow the instructions and have your answer. Whole process to results takes about 20 minutes.
  19. You can get 2 tests for $23 at the CVS man. Bring it home and give it to yourself and then you’ll know.
  20. He’s saying the people he’s talking about are small, spiteful people. I actually buy that.
  21. Lots of gays hate themselves because of long term exposure to messages that call them broken and immoral. Lots of those people turn to the institutions that push that messaging as a way to repudiate what they are feeling, hoping that pushing that messaging themselves will remove those internal thoughts and feelings. Spoiler alert, it doesn’t, but by then they are bought in and justify the act of gay sex as being altogether separate from the concept of being a gay person. In an ironic twist, since they end up living in the shadows because of their shame, they assume all gays are living in that shadowy world between the act and the persona and therefore rail against a “lifestyle” that is almost universally reserved for the people who try to separate the act from their identity. And the beauty of it is that they then use that to take the side of their tormentors against their brethren.
  22. What in the actual fuck?!?!
  23. LOL, I'd think someone who took the time to "debate" you was the dumbass.
  24. On top of that, if the virus was modified in a Wuhan lab to make it more dangerous, shouldn't he be sounding the alarm by getting on that mike and shouting "MOTHERFUCKERS WE ALL NEED TO GET VACCINATED RIGHT NOW." I'm thinking that they were fine protecting themselves while letting the rubes kill themselves off this way rather than by being terrorists. That all changed when the breakthrough case numbers started rising with the Delta variant. This isn't about their voters, or a sense of decency, or even duty to society, it's about them not wanting to be inconvenienced by still catching this thing.
  25. I'm not one to neg people, but the line gets crossed when you combine willful ignorance and overt racism. No thanks, new member.
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