Ah, science...
I had it twice, provided those nose tests were reliable (not...), once per winter when the tests were mandatory in my country. Now I am fat, over 60, have type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and somewhat scarred lungs from having had pneumonia twice a few decades ago.
According to "science" I should be dead, presumably, as I never took a single vaccination for covid. I had years earlier take two vaccinations for influenza, with a couple of years between them, otherwise I only have what was given to my generation as children.
Both times I got that covid diagnosis (had to take the damn test in order to get paid sick leave from work) I only had what seemed like a fairly mild cold, with some fever though.
Since I live far north I do take D3 with K2 during the winters, have for a couple of decades, and the colds I used to get about 2 to 3 times per winter have gotten much less common, I have had winters when I had none, and those times when I get one always a lot more mild than they used to be before that.
Depends. You don't have that type of dynasties where the offspring get the crown just due to being the offspring, but you have a few where power has stayed in the family due to nepotism, the ones already in power have maneuvered their children or other close relatives into positions of power more or less just due to their wish to keep the power in the family, and that power in itself seems to have been the main objective, not what they could do with it for the benefit of their country.
Both type of dynasties - royal and nepotism ones - can go good or bad or something in-between depending on the quality of those relatives, and tend to go bad more often because the main objective usually becomes just holding on to the power sooner or later.
But I don't think you should automatically avoid choosing, let's say Barron, or any other of Trump's children or grandchildren - or something like third cousins for that matter, or the child or other relative of any future president - just because they are related and you don't want a dynasty. Might result in avoiding the person who really would be the best alternative at that time. But keep a close eye on them as it can be easier to judge their true quality when they spend most of their life in the public eye.
None of them looks like the Obama VP, who presumably was still the real one because you can see similarities between that guy and the photos and videos from the preceding decades. But the resident, no version, looks like that.
Heh. Unless we assume one of them is the original in a mask, forced to wear that after he recovered from some illness that had forced the Dems to hire what was supposed to be a temporary replacement but ended up working as "Biden" so long that they no longer could get the original in place with his original face because people had gotten too used to the different face as "Biden". Which would be pretty funny, I think.
Well, I have been talking about the fact that this person doesn't look at all like the Obama VP did from the moment I first looked at his photos when he was campaigning for president. And that the difference looks bigger than any facelift or other cosmetic surgery could achieve.
I have trained myself to see every detail though because I like to draw and paint, and much prefer the "photorealistic" style (not that good myself though). Which sometimes can make me focus more on the differences and details than the whole, so I have had some doubts. Decades ago, when the second of the OT Star Wars movies came out, I thought that the actor for Luke Skywalker had been replaced until I checked that it still seemed to be Mark Hamill when the credits rolled at the end of the movie because his nose and half of his face looked kind of off kilter due to that car accident he had after filming the first movie.
Interesting color choices, red tie, purple tie, and her jacket pinkish hue with a bit of blue in it so it seems to be fuchsia or close to that, which can be counted as a hue of purple, but the collar just dark red. Heh. You could think that the colors the Bidens chose might even be a hint that they really did vote for Trump - they are in the blue camp, but both chose to wear a color that is a mix of red and blue, his stronger in the blue, hers in red.
Otherwise purple is associated, besides royalty with power in general, with magic, prestige, and wealth. And it supposedly encourages you to express your true feelings.
The whole things is stupid from the start: first, considering that the cattle we have now isn't all that much more than there used to be wild ruminants like bison before they got replaced by cows, what I found for northern America was 100 million cows today vs estimation of about 65 million bison before western expansion in the 19th century. And bison are not the only wild ruminants.
Why would changing bison mostly to cattle be such a huge problem that we now should get rid of cattle?
So if we assume cattle is worse when it comes to methane production than the bison, from the way their stomachs work -pretty similar - that could probably be fixed by changing their diet a bit.
And then, if you want to keep any prairie you will need animals that can graze there. Cattle or bison? There doesn't seem to be that big a difference when it comes to how they behave, both work for that, and the differences - like cattle liking water while bison tend to avoid it more - can be managed.
Hm. These "kill the cows!" people never say "kill the bison!" too, they rather seem to talk about how it would be good to have more of them.
You know what Elon is, for old school SF (and no, that doesn't stand for San Fransisco) fans?
He is D.D. Harriman.
And from what I have been able to find out, Elon is quite well aware who D.D. Harriman is, and was or is a fan, wants to be him, only he wants to go even bigger as he is aiming for Mars, not just the Moon.
And he wants to get to live there, not just die there. And that could be the biggest reason why he went for Trump. Because in order for private space to get really going we need to get rid of lots of red tape.
Not bad if it keeps on getting studied until we perhaps start to actually understand it.
If for no other reason than because somebody somewhere is probably going to keep doing that anyway, and there is always the risk that there might be some use for it as a terrorist weapon or to be used in war. So we'd better understand the whole thing as well as possible whether we use it or not.
But no rushing to use it on ourselves. Especially not for anything that can be dealt with in other ways, but it might be useful, one day, at least for dealing with something like those conditions that are due to defects in the DNA of the person. Marfan Syndrome, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Haemophilia...
Most of them probably are, hers, Clintons, Bidens maybe not from his side but very likely from hers, and so on. They stay married as long as it's needed, maybe some after that simply because by then they know too much of each other, because they have become co-conspirators, so they stay in the marriage even when they perhaps detest each other.
The celebs and stars who made entertainment back then may, at least a lot of them, have been dirty. But the entertainment itself was still somewhat healthy, and there was no obvious attempt to chance the whole culture into something where they could have operated openly. They still had to hide what they were.
Whether that makes those earlier eras better than our recent history, I don't know. You could say that with all that dirt being dragged into the open now we have a chance to purge at least most of it from our world. But then, they managed to sour the culture as a whole a lot by now. If something like hunting children could have beeb proven back then the hunters might have ended up dead before they even got to court, by vigilante mobs. Now... well, we'll see.
That's some Greek traditional song, isn't it?
Yep. Found it.
I'm of two minds of any kind of attacks towards that cake baker: stupid, yes, but relatively minor, and people of course should have the right to express their opinions, even stupid ones, on social media too without getting "wrecked" for it. That latter is what the woke do, we shouldn't.
But then, that IS what the woke do. Maybe it would be time for them to get a more of a taste of the same treatment.
Although that seems like the baker didn't make the cake as only a private person, but got it connected to her job, and her firm, which is of course always a strong NO-NO.
What 208-RZ seems to be talking is this: every time something people want is declared illegal and forced underground the end result seems to be the same. The alcohol prohibition eras of different countries are a good example, the use didn't go anywhere, people rebelled against it and that rebellion in itself became to be seen as something cool, criminal organizations for distributing the stuff were created, and patterns of use became worse.
In general, even if not using any drugs would be best, it can't be forced. The second best, and with least problems from them, seem to be societies where they are used, but the use is sort of ritualistic, those rules of use are taught to children at a fairly young age, and the socially accepted use is limited to certain places and times, if not connected to religion then to social functions, and their sale is legal but well monitored.
That - making them legally available - would make one revenue stream for the cartels less profitable. And if they had never been made illegal in the first place you maybe would not even have the kind of problem with those cartels as you now have.
I remember when it was a hit, got played a lot in radio in my country too. That group has some pretty catchy songs easy to dance to, but yep, pretty gay. I didn't watch MTV much but I have a vague memory of seeing a movie made with that group, back when my parents got their first VHS player and I probably rented at least half of what was available in the somewhat small rental place in our town through the years when visiting home.
Heh. No, I mostly didn't. And when I have it's both MY responsibility and MY prerogative, not the government's. They just need to make sure the facts are easy to find, and no "authority" figures or publishing try to obfuscate those facts so that you could easily get wrong impression of the product.
The government has no f*cking right to tell me something like what I can and can not eat, regardless whether it is healthy or not. They don't necessarily even know that as they rely on scientists, and scientists are quite capable of being wrong. What seems like certain today can be proven wrong tomorrow. You should not force anything on people even if you think it's for their own good (with some exceptions, like individuals who have some sort of mental issues and can't think straight due to them...).
You should just give us what you think are the facts, and let us decide. We may decide wrong. But that is also our right.
So did I. Admittedly I only did it once, and in a way that I tried to get them to talk about it and think about it, so I was mostly just talking about the fact that the vax had been gotten in production way too fast to really know if it was safe or not, and that all vaccinations for that type of virus have always been highly unreliable anyway because they mutate too fast, and so on, but since the answer mostly was that they were going to take it anyway I didn't push it. Not my job, as far as I am concerned it is personal duty to find out as much as you can before taking something like that, so if you refuse to even try it's on you. It's not as if all that information was hard to find back then.
It would certainly explain a lot, starting from the fact how different that guy looks compared to the Obama VP. And sounds too. And how indifferent Mrs Biden often seems to act towards him. Now I can't believe he, if he is an actor, would have been a WH replacement everybody, like his wife and Obummer, knew was one, but I could believe in an actor if we assume he replaced the original when that guy got too sick too late to deal with the election and Jill Biden, the DS or some other BHs hired what they thought would be a temporary placeholder, but then the original never came back. And in that situation it would also be possible that the hire was either a WH mole from the beginning, or they got to him at some later point.
Yep.
And some, who knows how many, of those posts by Q are also false information, which might also be a good thing to remember. They have to be. For that same reason. Misdirection, confusing the enemy... you can NOT show your cards, not all of them, when the game is still ongoing.