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  1. Watching a short documentary on historical fascism in Europe. Yeah...makes you want to puke.

     

    Trump is Mussolini. Seriously, they’re fucking twins. Pure ego. “[leader] is always right” (see Trump’s inability to admit even the smallest mistake). And we can travel just up the road for an anthem motto of “our country first.” Well, “our country over all others.” Uber alles and all that. And on and on.

     

    The party of Trump is nothing more than a classic, simplistic, fascist movement. It’s not that the parallels are arguable. It’s that they’re complete and total. The path of American fascism over the past couple of years tracks the path of European fascism in its first few years. Damned near perfectly. If you support this fucking regime, you’re a supporter of idiotic fascism. That’s just a plain truth.

     

    We need more Esso stations.

     

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  2. There's some symptomatic migraine relief with Botox injections.  Not cure, but symptom relief.  Neuro exam is a good idea. 
    It seems like a "tragedy" now, but taking time off from school, delaying graduation or graduation plan changes may be beneficial in the larger plan. He is probably not able to learn well with the present fatigue so, in addition to the stress, he may not catch some things he will need later in his academic life. 
    Take some irons out of the fire...let the game slow down. 

    Yeah...this really seems like the plan. Really, it all came to a head when his academic performance just plummeted. And when confronted about it, he just broke. He had been feeling overwhelmed, was falling way behind...and it mostly tied back to him being exhausted. He couldnt stay awake or focus in school, and when he came home, he’d nap for 3-5 hours instead of homework. Which led to anxiety, depression, and despair. Really, we just need to focus on getting healthy in body and mind. Everything else will follow.

    We’re grateful that we moved to a private school this year - they know this drill, and they have a flexibility that our massive public high school doesn’t have. We’ll get it worked out. Patience is going to be tough, and keeping his state of mind right is going to require some real time and work together.

    This really just caught us all flat-footed, and because we didn’t realize it early, it has led to a lot of complicated repercussions that we’ll just have to unwind over time.
  3. There's a good chance that the mono has caused some dehydration and seriously depleted his electrolytes, potassium, and other vitamin levels over time.  The potassium levels alone could be working against him.  I would get some electrolyte replacement drinks going (vitamin water zero, pedialyte, MiO flavor enhancer that specifically has electrolytes, etc.) and also get him taking some Vitamin D, C, B12, & A supplements with meals. Also, get him to eat more foods with higher potassium contents (don't do supplements, because you don't want to do too much potassium...just try and get it through nutrition alone).
    Here's a list of high potassium, nutritious foods:  https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-rich-in-potassium#1
     
     

    Interesting. He’s been craving OJ for about 6 weeks. Seriously, not something we usually keep on hand, and he’s been pounding it.
  4. 23 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

     

    1) to which "Constitutional right" are they referring?  I'm quite curious.  Because we know it's not the 4th amendment, because...

    2)

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    Asked by Bill O’Reilly, “What was Rudy Giuliani doing in Ukraine on your behalf?” Trump denied all responsibility. “Well, you have to ask that to Rudy,” he replied. “You know, Rudy has other clients, other than me … He’s done a lot of work in Ukraine over the years.” O’Reilly followed up, “You didn’t direct him to go there on your behalf?” “No,” said Trump.

    So, Trump has affirmatively stated that there was no attorney-client relationship with respect to Rudy's Ukraine activities.  Meaning that Trump has no rights whatsoever with respect to such communications (e.g., no 4th amendment rights).

    3) obtaining something from Rudy isn't hard.  Wait a few minutes, and the dumbass will broadcast it to the world.  He probably texted copies of his phone bills to the last pizza place he had on his phone.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Trump is merely projecting. He’s actually talking about himself, not shifty Schift, and he’s right. Just trump’s own warped minds way of protecting itself. 

    "Every accusation is a confession," Exhibit number eleventy billion.

  6. 3 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

    Have you tried a food elimination diet to see if they are diet triggered? My wife had migraines for 20 years until a doctor had her do a food elimination diet.  She discovered wheat was her trigger. She eliminated wheat from her diet and hasn't had a migraine in close to 15 years.

    We'll be working on that.  He's got a neurologist appointment, and he also works on that.  My wife has been through the process -- some foods and drinks are triggers (e.g., red wines), so if she ingests those, she gets a migraine.  But she still gets them, just with less frequency than if she was drinking wine all the time.

    So, the migraines as a whole are a work in progress.  The acute spike in frequency...we're THINKING it's connected to the mono, but shit, nobody can be sure.  About the only thing we can say with confidence is that he has real-deal brutal fatigue/exhaustion, still.

  7. Congrats(?) on your 16 year old having game.
    Don't assume the migraines are related to the mono.

    Yeah, he had migraines before (family history from both sides), but we’ve seen a spike the past 6-8 weeks.

    He’s still completely exhausted. School told him to stay home this week, and we’re trying to figure out an academic path forward.
  8. 1 hour ago, DixonHur said:

    To be fair, only one of the two guys in Erasure is gay.

    Yeah, but he's like SUPERgay, so it counts as two.

    1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

    it's always been russia.

    it's that dark nra russian money, too.

    the republicans sold their soul to the devil, and the bill always comes due.

    It does.  But they'll stick "we the people" with the tab.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    which is why the US needs to be a global leader on building green infrastructure.  otherwise china is selling it everywhere and we're getting left out.  middle of east buttfucking egypt in africa isn't being electrified by a big central jiggawatt (yes axiom, i know it's spelled gigawatt, go watch a movie sometime) level nuclear power station - it's getting electrified by small diesel generators.  MW size wind turbines and storage are the green competitor to that. 

    Yep.  All of that technology is coming, and advancing every day.  And our culture is one of "fuck that shit, burn coal and oil or you're a pussy!"....meanwhile, China is the largest producer of green energy products.  We want to double down on our buggy whip industry, when everyone knows that the automobile is coming.  Just stupid.  But then, "shortsighted and stupid' is our brand.

     

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  10. 3 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    i was going to say something about him disagreeing with GRHorn but didn't want to overshoot GRHorn's position and get told i'm lying about it.  though i suspect GRHorn thinks this whole global warming thing is just a made up scam by the lefty cabal to get us into one world government communism. 

     

    dude is getting hammered in the comments.  apparently "MD" stands for Master's Degree.  what a douchecadet. 

    Yeah, his use of the 1931 floods as a baseline is pretty indefensible.  Seriously, that's just sloppy.  But the general thesis -- let's stick with what we know, as opposed to hyperbole and histrionics -- has merit.  Likewise, his suggestion that we look at the long game, and the fact that we MUST acknowledge the process of development in places like India, are both very realistic and must be part of the conversation.

    I'm absolutely a believer in climate change.  And I believe that it's a slow-moving natural disaster.  But I also believe that we have to engage in a realistic and practical conversation.  E.g., we can't just tell India "stop burning fossil fuels, sorry if that craters your economic development."  The real question is "how do we get India to a place where reduction in carbon emissions is a realistic and achievable goal?"

    But again, you and I and everyone worth a shit knows that this piece 1) won't actually be read, and 2) will just be used to argue that climate change is fake news promulgated by libtards.

  11. 17 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    he says that people need to be accurate with their facts when reporting rather than alarmist.  he says we can engineer our way around this like we do other natrual disasters.  to illustrate engineering, he claims deaths from natural disaster are down from their 1931 peak of "3.7 million " by 99.7%.  what happened in 1931?

    that seems like a pretty big range and him choosing the highest end of it kinda undercuts his point.  he's also making the statistical error of comparing 2 points on what is probably a fucking noisy chart.  sure, last year was 11,000, but one tsunami in indonesia and we're back to 20x that. 

    All-in-all, I think it's actually a pretty decent take.  Do you think that GRHorn and his Godking Trump understand that, like, at all.  Nope.  They will do what GRHorn is doing here, and exactly (oh the irony) what the author warned against in that very article -- use it to support climate change denial bullshit.

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