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I remember reading about how Bush 2 was kind of paranoid about a pandemic and had plans made while in office. And that during the handover to Obama it was one of the things Bush told Obama to not ignore for the safety of the country. The admin after Obama ignored everything.

[Insert Archer gif of “do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants.” Bonus if “ants” marked out for “pandemic”]

Anyway, I think about this a lot. Especially with the CDC gutted and measles outbreaks popping up. And now the Andes hantavirus strain.

Dumb question… how are they burning them? I thought controlling lithium battery fires was difficult?

I’m not from the UK or living there. So grain of salt and all… But I read this not so much as a punishment, but closing a loophole so he can never ever be in a position of royal power or benefits. And it would hold even if he wins in court.

If we in the US had closed some loopholes 2021-24, we would be at least 50% less fucked.

And maybe 90% less if we’d done it after Nixon.

It’s not enough. But it’s not nothing.

Very shaky, every time? Not an emergency room visit, but you need to see a doctor to rule out possible health issues. People have already brought up some serious possibilities that can become major problems if ignored.

Are you on any medications that could be causing it if you take it on an empty stomach?

It could be something you can just manage by keeping some bite sized Snickers available. (Literal suggestion from my doctor 30 years ago when I had something similar I was working through lunch and getting angry)

But my doc ruled out other issues with bloodwork. The miniature candy bars were to even out my blood sugars until I could eat properly.

I had to learn to manage it better so I didn’t snap and get fired.

For people who don’t know: Snickers candy is peanuts, caramel, and nougat covered in chocolate.

Ugh. This reminds me of a relative asking me ‘aren’t you afraid of how you’ll be treated if minorities become the majority?’

I think my mouth literally fell open. Not religious ideologies that hate women, mind you. They meant racial minorities in a predominantly white area.

People who ask questions like that know in every cell of their body that the system that they thrive in treats others horribly and justify it by believing that anyone in power would do the same.

So no, I’m not afraid of a race or nationality of people. I’m afraid of people with inhumane ideologies.

Are you talking about a certain guy who openly talks about what he does beyond the gym & diet to have the build he has? If so, I watch because he’s really good at explaining technique. Even though I’m not trying to be a bodybuilder. I just want to be strong and not get hurt.

When he sends everyone home, they just aren’t doing committees and votes?

Can’t they stay and still do things that help their districts or prep for when they are back in session? They can still work. They are still getting paid.

I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.

For instance, Get Out wouldn’t have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.

Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it’s Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)

Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?

The follow-up question becomes: is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers or is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?

Some perts from the link:

On Jan. 26, 2025, the FDA approved once every four weeks maintenance dosing of lecanemab for early Alzheimer’s disease. On August 29, the FDA approved weekly subcutaneous maintenance dosing of lecaneamb for early Alzheimer’s disease. The hope is that at-home administration of the treatment will be less burdensome…

The treatment will allow people to have more time to participate in daily life and live independently.

Your health care provider will also do a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan before starting treatment with lecanemab

https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/treatments/lecanemab-leqembi

This is actually really cool. Thank you for answering

Speed Extended Release? That would be a wild treatment for certain things.

Adrenochrome would be ironically hilarious since it’s a big part of the Q conspiracy towards Hillary and stuff.

I always thought it was a fictional drug plot device in Fear and Loathing

A dementia treatment?

The reasons are not irrelevant to the question being asked though. Vegan for health reasons? Sure the question is irrelevant if you get sick from any animal products. You aren’t going to eat them. Same way celiac avoids gluten.

Vegan for ethical reasons? Then the question is very relevant. Is it ethical to have a pet cat? They are carnivores and will suffer and die on the wrong food. No pets at all would be most ethical. Are you concerned about mass farming of vegetables? If machinery is used, field mice and such are getting killed to harvest your vegan diet. Are you concerned about human trafficking of migrant workers or just farmed animals? If a bear kills a deer in your yard in Montana, eats half and fucks off, is it ethical for you to eat the rest? You had no hand in it’s death and suffering. You’ll have to do something with the carcass or you’ll have more predators in your yard. Are you only eating locally grown, in season fruits and vegetables, hand harvested by fairly paid workers?

If ethics is the reason, it’s fully legitimate to debate and figure out where your personal line is drawn. We live in an imperfect world and there’s no perfect solution.

You made me literally laugh out loud. Thank you

Yeah, for sure. My husband and I are both like this. Waving my arm often works for getting his attention.

But a frustrated parent could definitely blame it on headphones or think the kid is going deaf. Especially if they are not the kind of person that immerses like that.

Unless the parent can hear the headphone music themselves from a few feet away. In which case, they have a point that it might be too loud.

The issue is probably more that you don’t hear her when you are focused.

My husband is like that. Especially if he’s listening to something with headphones.

It’s not the volume (he’s not got them loud) it’s that he’s locked in. I’m the same way, except if you say my name and pause a beat, I snap out quicker.

I have to say his a couple times. Just starting to talk without a cue and the focus makes us miss the beginning, if not all.

Also happens with reading, programming, writing Which are immersive. quiet activities

They’ll release it in two weeks.

Or at least, that’s what they started promising in 2016.

https://www.si.com/nfl/how-much-do-super-bowl-halftime-performers-pay-or-get-paid-to-perform

Union scale and exposure if you don’t want to read. The article only hypes up the successful exposure, not the trainwrecks.

Was she actually qualified for the job? Since she was appointed a month ago, I assumed she was a Project 2025 hire