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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If you have ever looked at a painting and said, "My kid could do that", or listened to opera and said, "It's just a lady screaming in a foreign language", or said, "That poem doesn't even rhyme" I pity you and your disconnect with our entire cultural expressions.
I totally agree. Every day I am without pain is a good day.
There are so many people who never have anything good to say about anything. Are these people really that miserable?
Finding someone whose weirdness matches your weirdness is key...just ask my wife.
I am prepared. I told my wife just the other day that I have done everything I've wanted to do with the lifespan that was given me. I don't want to die, but I'm ready. But if I had any wish it would be to see what university my grandson would attend and to know his major so I could tell him how proud I was no matter what it was.
I feel cheated. Had your and my name been on that list I assure you we would have been prosecuted, but our president does nothing.
The same type of people who charge hundreds of dollars for a ten-dollar hit of insulin will soon control how much you pay for rent. Sleep tight.
This is an email I received from my #1 Advisor
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Question you asked: to boost or not to boost?
Answer: Depends on your age and whether you are immunocompromised.
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I came across this in the British Medical Journal this morning:
https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449
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From the abstract:
Booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm: per COVID-19 hospitalization prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5–4.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalization). We also anticipate 1430–4626 cases of grade ≥3 reactogenicity interfering with daily activities (although typically not requiring hospitalization). University booster mandates are unethical because they: (1) are not based on an updated (Omicron era) stratified risk-benefit assessment for this age group; (2) may result in a net harm to healthy young adults; (3) are not proportionate: expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission; (4) violate the reciprocity principle because serious vaccine-related harms are not reliably compensated due to gaps in vaccine injury schemes; and (5) may result in wider social harms.
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I, for one, always disagreed with the vaccine mandates simply because they did not stop transmission (thus only benefiting the vaccinated person and not the broader public) and meanwhile come with health risks (such that some people should definitely not get it).
Not sure whether we’ll boost our son again or not given this new data. Regardless, you should not be advocating covid vaccines for everyone. Tell them to talk to their doctor and not to take advice from you. Meanwhile, don’t ridicule those who don’t get the vaccine. Unlike the polio or measles vaccines, them not taking the covid booster doesn’t affect you in the least, and it might be the best thing for their own health.
People tell me “do what makes you happy” and then complain when I’m stoned at breakfast.
I could survive 3 months in the wilderness with the contents of my wife’s purse and a pocket knife.
FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY
Detroit.
I'm not falling for that again!
Are You A Robot?
How I Picture My Anti-Science Commenters
Sleep well, you magnificent bastard...
Why does non-alcoholic beer exist? Do people who manufacture it think we drink beer because of its taste?? We drink beer to message our ex at 2 am and tell her that we still miss her.
When I was young I really thought that people in their 70s were really old and now that I’m in my 70s I realize I was right.
OBJECTS OF INTEREST
For someone who really doesn't like motorcycles, many of them are beautiful.
I weep for the future.
That came without explanation. Do any of you know what it is?
When I see photographs like that, I automatically think the photographer placed the lizard and snail in those positions.
All things duck...
Those motherfucker needs therapy.
It's crazy how many people don’t know they’re in a polyamorous relationship.
*All things Henry.
Ha! If I’m supposed to be at work right now then how come my ancestors are calling me towards this really bright light because I ate some clams I found in Denny’s parking lot?
THE HUMAN MENAGERIE
But look at the pavement. It looks like it was made for traffic.
I'm not sure it's supposed to bend like that.
"This is done so they can hollow out the inside before putting it in the kiln."
*But I always did it from the bottom.
The only redeeming factor of snow
That Ranger training finally came in handy.
Her casting in My Cousin Vinny was perfect.
Mixed Sparring
It is a dump of used Russian shells & rockets which fell on the city of Kharkiv.
For context, pre-invasion it had a population of 1.4 million people. If it was in the US, it would be the 9th largest city, larger than Dallas.
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Dancing At The Front
Keeps the spirits up and keeps you warm. Slava Ukraini!
“Struggling with insomnia” sounds like you’re just trying to help insomnia put on its coat and it won’t stop waving its arms around.
I don’t understand why people climb mountains. I literally pay someone else to carry my groceries.
ABODES
My friend Coy the plumber had an old flatbed 2½ ton truck like that (sans camper). His number one problem was parking.
Even with scenery like that, I think that if you grew up there you would become inured and barely give it a glance.
Why wouldn't they hang the hammock on a porch with a view?
There was a man who lived many years ago who looked at that shear cliff one day and said, "Hey, I've got an idea."
Indeed.
No, they just rename it miracles.
Find the odd part.
12 comments:
A1: Yeah, but we admire that fine american “cultural expression” of twerking.
A11: You sound like “Flip Flop Fauci". “new data” my ass. Many of the dangerous side effects of the covid vaccines have been repressed by people just like you.
C4:
It is a folding table. Like this one:
https://mebshop.kiev.ua/uk/mebel/20814/stol-transformer_knizhka_miks_mebel/sale/yes/
Traditional European house normally contains a table for 6-10 persons to have dinner with guests. But such a big table is a luxury, because it occupies too much living area while it is rarely used, only when you invite guests for dinner.
So folding tables became very popular in eastern block during the Soviet times because of mass construction of small social houses.
Such tables would stay folded or semi-folded most of the time, but people would infold them completely for big holidays, when they invite friends for dinner. The biggest holiday in atheistic socialist countries was the New Year. The way such table unfolds, indeed, resembles a bird spreading its wings.
When I rented apartments in Amsterdam, I always made sure that it has a proper wooden table (like my grandparents had in their house in Ukrainian country side), so that I could invite 7 people and treat them with some borscht that I cooked.
Cheers,
Borys
<> Many people really are that miserable, but my suspicion is that fear is at the root of most of it.
^^A11^^ A couple months ago you asked readers to send in links to actual data on all the covid stuff. I recommend this book: "Breathless, the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus", by David Quammen. He is a respected science writer who's been writing about existing and threatened pandemics for many years. This book reads like a Ken Follett thriller, with a step-by-step, hour-by-hour recounting of the first month of the emergence of Covid-19, and the people around the world trying to figure out what the fuck was going on, and what to do about it. That's the first chapter. Then he goes back 10 and 20 years ago to talk about all the people who've been talking about viral and bacterial pandemic threats in general (SARS, MERS, Ebola, Marburg, a long list of them) and a couple people who were talking about corona viruses even that long ago. What doesn't kill you mutates and tries again.
B1, although probably an apt description of Detroit, is actually from Edmonton, Alberta and was put up after they finished the bypass which seemed to take forever
A4: echo
B8: I’ll put my Bachelor of Science degree up against your “I know which paint brush to use” any day.
A8: That’s right. None of them, on both sides of the isle.
Find the odd part : No path to anyone but Superman.
D3: It is absolutely 100% supposed to articulate like that.
^^A11^^
She's right. Despite your rantings and ravings the vaccine did not stop transmission so the benefit was only to the vaccinated.
^^C3^^
But you're the guy that always says spelling/grammer doesn't matter as long as we understand the message.
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