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I used the walkthroughs and stuff before joining in 2001-ish. My first username had a space in it and was words in the made-up space language I invented because I was a tween.

I joined CE in 9th grade to make friends and because I was procrastinating on a school paper that was supposed to be about a current event. The Internet was young enough back then that I could almost get my mom to believe I was on a news feed when she questioned me.

EDIT: HM:BTN is bae.

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That sucks so bad. Sorry to hear it, TC. I'm expecting to see a lot of that BS coming up, which will make wintertime another mid-sized infection wave.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Unexpectedly insightful No_U_L7 post.

Strong agree.

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I was walking around with some people for work today going door-to-door and I spotted a four-leaf clover as I glanced down. I have a few tricks for searching for them, so I have pretty good luck at getting them when I put my mind to it, but it's more fun and much rarer to see one at random in a flash like that at normal walking speed.

Because I find them frequently, I give the clovers away when I find one with somebody. She got the bug in her eye within five minutes.

Busted-ass clover. >:(

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Weak hips and quads, hard to bounce.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Teens and twenty-somethings fomented dissent to enact massive societal change in the 1960s and 1970s = civics education in high school being disparaged

Teens and twenty-somethings fomented dissent to (sort of try to) enact tepid societal change in the 00s = college is dumb and bad. Go into the trades or certain mercantile, uncritical, cutthroat STEM fields and you'll tooooootally make loooooots of money.

The trades to have value, but this trades/STEM backlash is absolutely part of an anti-education campaign. The wealthy don't want to fix their own pipes or vents and therefore create false dichotomies of "trade" versus "humanities." For instance, lower class people are more likely to be welders, while a wealthier person is more likely to become a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in Metal Sculpture.

Also, if everyone moves into the trades, their value will decrease, obviously. There should always be a balance between trades, STEM, humanities and their differences should be less worshipped --- they all have more overlapping applicability than absolute distinction.

EDIT: For full disclosure, I have a BA and master's in linguistics and am currently getting certified in HVAC to hedge my bets in the next (or the next after that) once-in-a-lifetime recession.

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I'm short as shit. :(

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Choco posted...

is there a difference between college and uni

I asked when I was in undergrad and was told that colleges specialize and that universities are homes to several colleges. So in the US, for instance, I went to a place that had a College of Arts and Humanities and a Business School and Journalism College all at the same University. But I use "college" and "university" pretty interchangeably in casual speech.

For my answer: 8+: 1 year parallel enrollment with community college in high school, 4 undergrad, 2 grad, 1+ (ongoing) for a technical certification now.

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I want to update a lifting chart so that when I enter one date, the others will auto-populate. So when I enter, for instance June 2, on the first Wednesday, all the other dates will populate. My weights already auto populate and calculate.

Ideally, I'd be able to just enter the first Wednesday of the Monday (red) and have future duplicate Wednesdays populate (yellow) as well as filling in the blanks for the other days of that week (blue) and future dates (green).

(see below)


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Two phases. Plant and darkling beetle protein now, smoothie later.

LeadPipeCinche posted...

Nothing. Can't eat solid food for probably a month cause of radiation therapy.

Good luck. <3

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Please, call me Vanai.
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I miss karaoke so damn much.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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I'll probably wear it on airplanes and from, like, November to February most future winters.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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RIP to both

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Please, call me Vanai.
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I haven't seen Draje in a while. :O Is he still around much?

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Take comfort knowing the man is a room outside. <3

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Had to be Florida. Had to be a Hummer. Had to refuse transport against medical advice.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Corona also affects menstruation, bringing it earlier. Women are being silenced across platforms for various reasons, but from your very detailed context, I'm assuming this time it was for actual anti-vaxx misinformation.

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A whole article about a decently cute gal in short shorts and no one has mentioned that her name is 'Breedlove?' This board, I swear.

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This was literally an episode of the original "Twilight Zone."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Night_of_a_Jockey

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Please, call me Vanai.
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There was nothing specific, but I just started to be less interested around S12. I stopped watching regularly around S17 or S18 when I went to college, hadn't quit but just never bothered finding out what channel it was on, but would watch when it came.on. I stopped with everything but the Halloween episodes after the cruel and disgusting episode (also Halloween) where Homer, as The Blob, was hired to eat homeless people.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Machete posted...

wouldn't try to fight them. I would try to just be cool until they weren't pissed off and were like trying to befriend me.

That will not happen in this scenario. They are determined to harm you. There is no option to make nice with 100 duck-sized horses.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Bump because my cat is a buddy



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I laugh at Tony Danza.

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DespondentDeity posted...

I choose placement?

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dj1200 posted...

They have claws? Are they working as a team? Have they been raised outdoor?

Would I be able to fight wearing clothes? (As that would be a type of armor. Would the cats have equivalent armor?)

Yeah, I said they had their claws in their sharpest natural state and have slightly more cohesive strategizing than natural cats, but no hyper-intelligence. They are domestic cats, per the title. They are allowed in the yard when they want, but sleep inside most nights and lovingly accept scritches from their owners.

No allies. Your outfit limitations are described in #9. Cats have no armor.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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HighOnSolar posted...

can I choose a weapon and or an ally?

Your clothing has to be from your existing wardrobe and cannot include tricky things like "I happen to have a hazmat suit" or "This is my Stormtrooper LARP outfit;" your articles if clothing must include things that could be purchased at a typical clothier (jeans, denims, work boots, shirts, etc.). You may wear glasses if you need them, but no goggles. No weapons. No leather gloves or helmets.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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berlyman101 posted...

heating up my leftover burrito bowl right now. I'm pumped

I'm bitterly envious.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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The cats are determined to harm you and will not scatter if one is killed. Other than loyalty to their mission and a slightly more cohesive attack strategy than real cats, they possess no extra intelligence or abilities than a typical, regular, average house cat. The cats are neither obese nor meager; they are between ages 4 and 9 years old. They all have all their claws in the sharpest natural state possible and have all their shots.

I don't think three cats would kill me, but I do think I could be overwhelmed by them and want to quit from stinging, minor blood loss and danger to my eyes.

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Green onion is good. Shaking on dried chives is also good, if you don't have a lot of space to store of cut vegetables. Also seconding whoever said pepper flakes or hot sauce.

When I was pre-college, I would eat it with Slim Jims on the side, but Slim Jim changed their casing and it's a texture nightmare now. Also, even without that, the salt bomb lost some of its appeal after a while.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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You don't "build up" antibodies. They are there as a natural response and degrade after 60 to 90 days. You can't put them on a treadmill. And again (and again and again and again and again): It's not about your totes amaze immune system. Go live and die in a hole if you honestly don't understand why being afwaid of a needle and feeling like Rambo are less important than ending the fucking pandemic. Like we're all over here enjoying this shit while you're so brave voice for the downtrodden Free.

I talk to people who are dying every week from this shit. I wish you ill and there is no value in you continuing to take space on any state's census form.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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PaunchyTurtle53 posted...

So, I did have it? When? How do you know I didn't just have it? Or have it last week? Or last month?

If I'm asymptomatic, it's anyone's guess. Or maybe I never had it?

Which is it, you can't have both.

Which is exactly why you should be masking, distancing and getting the fucking vaccine. Because no one can know who is being an asymptomatic spreader in the absence of robust, mandatory, daily testing. And, even with that, vaccination would be the obvious next step to stop those asx spreaders.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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PaunchyTurtle53 posted...

I was hailed as a "Hero" for being an essential worker. Now suddenly I'm too stupid to be a part of society?

If COVID is no big deal to you, then you were supposed to be at work anyhow, were never a hero and shouldn't be trying to use that as a cudgel of legitimacy.

You're not "immune" to COVID after having it; you have temporary, limited resistance. You can get colds and flus multiple times and COVID, too --- it's not like chicken pox.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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What type of job is it? How long have you been there? Why are you quitting?

Bare minimum is two weeks notice and a respectful phrasing of the reason if it's anywhere you care about putting on your resume in the future.

If they're abusive, report them and just quit (though, ideally, inform some process or admin so that the other workers aren't stuck picking up your work through no fault of their own).

If it's a shit job but they're not abusive, two weeks is still a decent heads up and the mature thing to do.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Tag to see how long this one gets to stay up.

Sorry about the shenanigans.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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There's little logic on the sex stuff. I got a 3 or 10kl a few years ago for talking about having had a great date that included amazing sex, but all of my descriptions of things were about the romance and atmosphere of everything leading up to the sex. The sex was described in vague "and then we had sex and it was amaze" terms.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Shablagoo posted...

For me I just look away and I barely feel anything. Also, is it me or is needle technology really good these days? Like theyre really tiny compared to the past? I could just have a faulty memory.

I agree. I personally don't have any issues with needles; I'm not like "yeah, awesome, getting a shot!" but, you know, I'm basically find with the little prick. The first dose, I felt literally nothing. Entirely painless, fastest shot I'd ever had. Second dose, I did feel, but it was also more like a very cold poke than a piercing of skin. And then side effects about 48 hours later (day-after was totally fine, weirdly) that mimicked a mild flu or gnarly cold.

I have no proof of it either, but I also think needles are getting smaller and shorter for most things.

kingdrake2 posted...

i was one of those, that's why i opted for the J&J vaccine. rather have some protection rather than none.

Thank you for doing that! I really hope you don't have any adverse effects. They're extremely rare and all the clotting was in women 18 to 50, so you're probably safe. I'm very, very thankful you went with an option that could work for you and for public health.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Every year, I go through a phase of putting my hands on my hips while peeing. Aim doesn't change and it makes me feel like a beloved despot.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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Needle-phobics need to literally buck the fuck up. Go to a doctor, have them hold your hand, lie down while they do it and cry all you need to, but it is wholly unacceptable to fail the Trolley Problem because of an irrational fear. This is 'letting a bus go over a cliff because there was a spider in the road' levels of not-needing-to-be-accepted.

At the vax megaclinic where I volunteered, there were at least ten people who came through my line deathly afraid of needles and got it anyway because it's simple and the right thing to do. There was special med tent for them to go so they wouldn't have to cry in public and so they'd have a cot to lie down in if they passed out. There were doctors stationed at four different parts of the facility for people to ask questions to and tens of volunteers on hand whose job it was to be a moral support assistant for the phobics. But there's no excuse for every single physically/medically capable person to not get their full course of vaccines every time.

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Please, call me Vanai.
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_Sazando_ posted...

i tried to get the vaccine a few days ago, when i went there the folks started asking me general questions and because i told them that i had covid before in march of this year they decided against vaccinating me. they told me to come back mid/late june to wait until it's been 3 months since i last recovered from covid

Unless you have a preexisting condition or got monoclonal antibody treatment, it's a logistics demand, not a health one. Some places without enough vaccines are telling people to wait 60 to 90 days after having COVID because their natural antibodies will provide some temporary, limited resistance for two or three months, and the priority is to vaccinate as many people as possible who have no type of antibodies presently. So, they're passing you up for someone who may be at slightly more risk.

Not honoring a scheduled appointment is preposterous, though; it's not like they could give that already-drawn vaccine to someone else if they're taking appointments to give it to specific numbers of people.

I've also heard that sometimes people who've had COVID have a rougher time with dose one than people who haven't. Still not as bad as COVID, but depending on the thought processes of your local health department, they may also be trying to do some preemptive (irresponsible) PR damage control; my local health department is trying to figure out how to do messaging to counter people who got the shot, felt crappy afterwards, and are now telling their friends not to get it because "you'll just feel sick anyhow."

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Please, call me Vanai.
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196 to 163, but still fat for my height (short as hell, 5'3")

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electricbugs2 posted...

meltdown

Um...okay?

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Please, call me Vanai.
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tommybel89 posted...

I guess she doesn't wear the crown in her old age?

The Queen still wears the crown on the British pound. They'd know how she usually dresses better than the Canadians would. lol

electricbugs2 posted...

As someone else pointed out though no more pennies in Canada.

Okay, yeah, like so? I'm either going to dump them into a purchase that uses pennies or save them until they're rare enough to be worth something (probably circa 4550 CE, when they'll be worth 3). I'm just interested in the Queen's hat.

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard

berlyman101 posted...

a spooky cemetery along the way

TC has been killed and the murderer is toying with us.

(jk, TC. Those are nice pics and it does look like a nice day.)

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Please, call me Vanai.
CE's official linguist, War-tor-le and Charizard