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adjl posted...

Ever try blowing out a candle with a mask on?

Put your glasses on. Blow your nose. Did droplets get on your glasses?

We're not talking about blowing out candles. We're talking about aerosol droplets escaping through the open sides, as well as directly through the weave of cloth and paper masks. Who wears fitted respirator masks? Masks are symbolic, not magical.

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Well, since masks, unless they actually seal around nose and mouth, are just symbolic.

And calories, in practical terms, are a measure of how good things taste.

I say go for it!

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blu posted...

They just dont want younger folk to have it.

Old people being old people.

If I interpret your acronyms correctly as Universal Basic Income (rather than the more common United Bank of India in the news) and Universal Health Care (rather than the insurance company United Healthcare).

I paid into Social Security for 50 years to qualify for my pitiful stipend. I can't afford to buy Medicare (no, it's not free), I 'd rather have car insurance since I can't afford both.

And I'm still paying into Social Security, I don't make enough to pay income tax, but Self-Employment tax still takes 15% of my little gig income.

I don't worry about what younger people qualify for or don't. But you certainly have some strange and false ideas about Social Security and Medicare. Where are you from?

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captpackrat posted...

Never even heard of it until now. I've seen most of the Supermarionation stuff: Fireball XL-5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and Joe 90. Supercar and the New Captain Scarlet are on my Prime watchlist. I don't think I've seen any of Gerry Anderson's live action stuff.

Yep, have DVD collections of most of those. I do like the live action combination of the imaginative miniature work with live actors. His entire body of work is very creative.


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captpackrat posted...

I've been watching Stingray on and off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45NtEXv7DZs

Have you seen Space Precinct?

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Rewatching the old Gerry Anderson "UFO" series.

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Yes and no. Figured them in January, refigured them last night and completed the forms, wrote a check, will mail it today. Saved a little money by recalculating business use of home. I don't see much sense in paying early.

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Sahuagin posted...

not posting this to be a douche, it's just funny and fits as an explanation

That's cute, but it would be a much better analogy if the pants were so sheer and loose-fitting that the urine bandit can spray through and around them.

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SonyMichel posted...

it depends on where you live.

and just like tons of states refused to test when the outbreak first happened, states are refusing to report deaths now.

your president is literally telling them not to test and not to report deaths. So I dont know how you can agree with the president yet still agree with the numbers as well

Total deaths in the US, from all causes, are down.

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And the death rate continues to decrease.

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Huh? Looked at a French newspaper, Le Parisien, front page US protests, second page covirus in Californie.

With that kind of coverage, showing what affects a few thousand people out of 330 million, it's not surprising that people have a false impression of the US. I wish we could go back to when news was reported rather than manufactured.

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Even though I know the mask is only symbolic and doesn't actually protect from anything, I wear one just to be sociable.

For a mask to even be 3% protective, it needs to seal well around mouth and nose. Common masks don't. Wearing for longer than a few minutes, moistened from breath, downgraded to zero protection.

Bandanas, scarves, cloth masks, totally symbolic. I am scheduled to take my blind neighbor to her doctor's appointment tomorrow. I'll see if the clinic lets me in wearing my (totally symbolic) cloth mask, or asks me to switch to a (mostly symbolic) paper mask.

Isn't science fun! Don't you wish pundits actually read the research?

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Coca-Cola: brown soda pop
Pepsi-Cola: brown soda pop
Pepper, Pibb, RC, generic cola: brown soda pop
Root Beer: different brown soda pop


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If you do, please plant some trees. I always resented North Dakota for not doing more to block the wind blowing from the Polar icecap. Eww, chilly!

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Assuming you mean North America of the two American continents, and possibly even specifically the United States among the 23 countries comprising North America, a good place to live, not particularly recognizible from the unrealistic portrayal by corrupt sensationalistic news media.


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It seems to me that learning has been deemphasized. "You don't need to be a rocket scientist to ...." falls flat with me, in the 1950s we all aspired to be rocket scientists.

What's the value of a liberal education? You can understand the jokes in Monty Python.

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Auto Racing
Golf

More fun to do than to watch, but okay to watch.

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

Do you want to move?

Not really, but if White Privilege isn't a myth, maybe I should try to find someplace that it exists.

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

There is no "White" Privilege. Majority Privilege perhaps.

So, when you live in a Black majority city, with Black mayor, city council, police, etc., that means....

As an Irish-American woman, should I move?

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Maybe steam frankfurters or brats in it?

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Of course I keep them on, taking them off would defeat every purpose they serve.

Really? Indoor flooring won't keep your feet clean and dry better than sweaty smelly shoes?


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darkknight109 posted...

No, it's not, we're not barbarians. I've literally never been in a house anywhere in Canada where shoes were left on. America is pretty much the only place that does this in the developed world.

I thought Canada was in America. Huh?

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My shoes are often contaminated with oil, transmission fluid, greasy dirt, from working on cars. I take my shoes off rather than track up my own or others' carpet.

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Had an Apple II, IIc, IIe. Tried out a MacIntosh 30 years ago, called Apple Help, asked, " How do I get to the CLI? ". Apple Help: " Mac has no CLI, it's all GUI". Returned the Mac, haven't touched an Apple since.

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Real vs. Virtual?

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Dragooncancer_ posted...

They've only been going up...what's this mean for the fall when people's immune systems typically go down?

The only reason they are going up is that all deaths are being reported as covirus, even tested negative. CDC wants it that way, hospitals want to suck up covirus funding. The actual death rate in the US is down.

Do a simple internet search.

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Chinese or Indian. Not often, because I really can't eat enough at one time to justify the price. Much smarter to order off the menu, pay for a meal, and take what I don't eat home in a takeaway bag.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

No, I secretly arm myself and go on a one man crime spree, taking down the entire Mob one man at a time, and quipping one-liners with every kill.

Ah! The Jack Reacher Option! Or the Mike Hammer Option, if you're a traditionalist.

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The news media for spreading panic, the CDC for spreading misinformation.

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Irish pale, with blue veins. I tan in the summer, but you can still see the blood vessels under the skin.

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Cheapest generic store brand

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Alan Dean Foster is really variable in quality, so probably not, especially with that cover.

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2500+ hours on Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, still some Training School missions not completed, still working on Treasure Hunt records.

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60 years of affirmative action, preference in hiring and college admissions, no child left behind, school bussing, Black Mayors, City Councils and Police Chiefs, and we end up with what?.

Huh?

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Craft beer mostly, usually Boulevard or Leinenkugel. Sometimes Guinness, Corona, Modelo. Rarely Kirin Ichiban, Sapporo, Singha, Tsing Tao. Lately with 90F weather and working outdoors, cheap ice cold Bud Light. I think the best beer I've had is Tartan Scotch Ale.

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Far-Queue posted...

You served during the first one, right?

A grandfather served in the first one, my father and uncles served in the second one.

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Revelation34 posted...

There was no war in Afghanistan before America declared war on it.

The reference was to the World Wars.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Like they did at the start of world wars lol

Others started them, we finished them.

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That wouldn't work, since they are counting all non-trauma deaths as Covirus, even if they test negative. Total death rate, all causes, in USA are down, but covirus deaths keep increasing, that's mad science for you!

Gotta love the CDC, they have a purpose now, other than touting ineffective flu vaccines.

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Monopoman posted...

You think Biden is an anarchist? Wow that is fucking hilarious. I can't think of a more moderate democrat if i tried.

Have you bothered to read the news lately?

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I didn't vote for him last time, wasted my vote on Independent. Couldn't stomach him or Hil/Billy. But with the current craziness, I'll definitely vote for him this time.

A ridiculous reality-TV "star", or stone-crazy anarchists? Where's the choice here?

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Absolutely! The more I can save on things I need, the more is left for things I want.

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If I want a story, I'll read a book or watch a movie. It's really annoying to have a lame plot tacked on to a game to illogically justify the gameplay.

Final Fantasy is the worst, Need For Speed is equally bad.

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I remember the slogan from the 1970s: 186,000 miles per second, it's not just a good idea, it's the law!

Also, the Universe welcomes careful drivers.

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5'1, just right.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

10-15% seems extremely low. I'd expect most people to be just mediocre. Maybe 20% are very good which leaves 80% as not.

Most people are average? Yes, the bell curve would suggest that.

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ChaosAzeroth posted...

Only a sith deals in absolutes.

Please overlook the fact that's an absolute.

Seriously though, life has lots of shades of grey. Not everything is clear cut and dry.

Okay, I'll deal in probabilities and avoid mobs.

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