On the flip side, I had partial nail removal on two toes each side, and haven’t had any issues in 20 years. Procedure was quick, mostly painless, and the relief was immediate. I was playing soccer 3 days later.

If you want to ask about a full removal, go for it, but be open to professional advice.

Shoes.

That…and the other 53% of Republicans have no idea who Epstein is, or they are also implicated in the Epstein files.

I mean, the point I was trying to make is that if you aren’t actively engaged in politics, you won’t know any of those things. Heck, I’m pretty engaged in my local news, taking maybe 15-30 minutes a day to read about local and state issues, and off the top of my head, I couldn’t tell you who my state level rep is, or what they’ve voted for recently. That’s why people don’t vote then out, there is an apathetic disconnect between the politicians vote, and the shitty policies that they support. Hence why people keep actively voting for politicians who undermine and harm them, the people voting can’t be bothered to connect their vote to the policies that are enacted.

Quick, without googling, tell me your state level representative, and give me a summary of their votes on key issues.

They all got bought by acer and turned into the shittiest brand-name PCs on the planet.

Devils Advocate here…

Hypothetically she is right. Making elevated levels of antibodies long after a vaccination or exposure may not be normal…

Now on the flip side, other things that aren’t normal. Air conditioning, 99% of children surviving past their first birthday, solar panels. Just because something isn’t “normal” doesn’t mean that it is bad.

It could also be that we’re being constantly exposed to COVID in 2025 since we failed to contain or eradicate it, and the population never got up to herd-immunity level vaccination rates. Which would explain why the immune system is still making spike protein antigens.

I’m also doubtful about the levels of spike protein antibodies she is claiming, I’d bet that there isn’t a peer reviewed article that supports that claim.

If you pay a University enough money, they’ll give you any title or degree you want.

Case in point, Trump has an economics degree from Wharton.

That all the shit I was told about making 60k out of college and doubling it in 4 years, how I would need college to get a cushy desk job, how without college I would never afford a house or a car, that my loans would be paid off in 10 years or forgiven in 20… All of that was a fucking lie.

Colleges will happily take 80 grand from teenagers and give them absolutely nothing for it.

First one, then the other.

Came here to say this.

She’s technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Yes, a mistake. Which just happened to wipe out the exact parts of the Constitution that the President has been ignoring.

You know what? I’m going long con on this. I think some badass Librarian deleted those sections so that we would have to acknowledge publicly that those rights are indeed guaranteed in the Constitution.

Right? They are calling on states to blatantly gerrymander their districts, which is bold-face illegal and should get them immediately removed from office.

Ideally, projects that are beneficial to everyone but unprofitable are picked up by the government. Like building highways and maintaining public lands… What we’re seeing in the US is what happens when you “run the government like a business”. It doesn’t mean efficiency, it means revenue generation for the board members. Sadly the fucking chuds in the US are too dumb to figure that out.

Part of the problem is there is no market incentive for speculators and landlords to lower the costs of their units. They use software to set pricing with goes right up to the line of “collaboration” but doesn’t quite cross it.

I like the idea of a tax or fine for empty housing that is porportional to the highest advertised lease price of the unit. Let’s say 10% for starters, so if an apartment wants to jack the prices up on their “luxury” units to 2k a month, they pay $200 every month that unit is unfilled. 100% of that fine goes to subsidizing housing for low income renters. Now we have an incentive for housing prices to go down, but still have the ability for them to go up to meet actual market demands, and we provide more money for lower income renters to afford that housing in the first place. It also gives us another “lever” to pull to manage the housing market. Increasing or decreasing that tax/fine rate to manage real estate bubbles.

Ah, fucking assholes.

I had to call my ISP because I specifically requested a modem only, no router, and they gave me one of their stupid locked-down combo units.

If you bitch enough, they will relent.

We didn’t just pay for it, we also gave up the public TV spectrum in order to make it happen. That’s why your old-school TV antennas won’t work anymore.

How are they blocking port forwarding? Just put your own router in…

I’m paying $80 a month for a gig, it only comes bundled with a phone plan, a cable TV plan, and a gaggle of ad-enabled streaming services. Most days I get 200mbps down, and about 80 up. That’s the best I could get.

No, I don’t live in bumfuck nowhere, I live in one of the 20 most populous cities in the US.

Well, at least the genocide is over and groceries are cheaper! We did it Patrick!