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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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MAJOR CONGRATS on the 20lb though!!! That's amazing. Such a great feeling and it is so crazy how much your body feels when you lose weight. The little aches and pains and stuff like that reduce or even go away. Die young and save yourself.... @yontsey |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I need to begin my climb out of the sloth well, as well. We'll see.
Also, as big a dick as Nut is, I'll feel weird if that was a permanent ban. ... |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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I mentioned donuts because those are my biggest AM vice. I cut them out almost completely. A few weeks ago we stayed with in-laws for a weekend and they had donuts. I should have had one, but I had 4! And that's why I don't want them around—at all. I allow myself other treats, but donuts are like cocaine to me. I just have to cut them out completely, or they're coming back with a vengeance. - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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"How about a dozen...years in jail, pal!" |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Yeah, I read about the newer sensors also being able to accurately guess based on O2 saturation. Seems your O2 sats drop on infection normally too in many cases.
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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When I lay off the Dr. Pepper (sugar city, huh?) my jeans and shorts feel less snug around my waist in the matter of a few weeks, and with doing nothing else. It's amazing just how laying off sodas makes a differences. But I'm also a believer in enjoyment/pleasure, and I'm not drinking any of that diet/zero/lite/free horseshit either. I'd rather just moderate the good/real stuff than try to convince myself the other versions taste as good (newsflash: they don't, and never do/will).
Diet Dr. Pepper, as those kinds of things go, isn't as awful as Diet Coke (how that got to the manufacturing stage is beyond me), but even those aren't close to the real thing. So I just have one (real) Dr. Pepper a day, or one every 2-3 days with a certain meal, at a treat/reward, and just drink water otherwise. Long gone are the days where I'd guzzle multiple ones. Nothing pudges me up faster than going bonkers on the Dr. Pepper. Being the nectar of the gods that it is, that's my only real dietary struggle I face. I'd stick an IV of it straight into my arm if I knew I could get away with it. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Same here! Huge difference. Actually, I borrowed a neighbor's awl and poked three closer/tighter holes in my existing belt. I went from the very last notch to seven over (each hole an inch apart, so...).
Yeah. When you have to poke brand new holes into your belt because your jeans or shorts are sliding down your hips, you know you're onto something. I think I'll write a book. Everyone does, right? "Uh, maybe lay off the soda a bit? The end." $21.99 |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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:: me looks around, glass of soda raised to tubby lips ::
But, but, I thought we were talking about Covid-19??!! :: stares hard at can of droid-flavored Coke Zero :: ... |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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A whole lot, sadly. Getting back to counting calories is tough, but I know it works.
HEY Who here has been vaccinated so far? ... |
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Sneaky Punk
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Not yet, my age bracket isn’t due to get vaccinated until August or September.
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Got vaccinated today as the result of a friend getting me over to a vaccination site where I was able to ask about openings - they actually had several today and we pounced.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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That’s awesome.
Both my dad and grandma are getting their first shots of the Moderna vaccine this week. I’m hopeful I’ll get it sometime by the end of summer or whenever. I signed up for notification, but have zero risk factors other than having dealt with almost 12 months of boredom due to shelter in place. |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I got my first shot last week with my wife. Next dose coming in three weeks.
I saw that Massachusetts just started allowing people who escort 75 year olds to the sites can get one too. I really hope that all fo these sites just open up to everyone quickly. We need to get this shit kicked. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I have been encouraged by former Covid-downplayers I know who have been vaccinated. I think the general public has a strong desire to get the vaccination.
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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No sooner had I posted the previous comment than I received a note from a voice artist who records for a news outlet about the resistance to vaccinations in Pakistan and the surrounding region:
"... nobody wants to vaccine. There has been bad PR spread about the ingredients being against the Muslim diet. I don't know what that would mean unless it contains alcohol. And people don't trust Western governments providing them with vaccines. It's a sad thing." Shit. ... |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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I’d get ASAP. Unfortunately I doubt I’ll get one before the summer.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I've said this all along...even if/when the ultimate, end-all/be-all vaccine is created, and it proves to be consequence-free, safe and effective for everyone (just go with me here, I'm making a point), there will be those - many in number - who'd never get it for various reasons like above, legit or otherwise (political, religious, cultural, etc.).
They're going to believe what they're going to believe, and that won't change. People are already making this their hill to die on, so why would they suddenly buy into "oh, here's the cure...everyone enjoy!" They're not. Drew's story above, in addition to all the ones we already know, doesn't surprise me one bit. We're all going to be wearing a mask (two of them, according to the latest from the CDC), and dealing with this, for the rest of our lives. Once politics and culture entered into it, it was a lock. The world changed forever last year, may as well get used to it. Buy stock in mask companies, I guess, because you ain't taking them off anytime soon, I'm betting. Unfortunate. I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. There is a difference. But, believe me, I'd love nothing more than to be proven spectacularly wrong on this one. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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If people want to die because they think their deity’s imposed some dietary/medical restriction, I guess that’s up to them. However, they’re likely going to have to accept limits and social controls as a consequence of those choices. That should include restrictions on travel/migration and access to public institutions
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Toronto
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A number of pro-life Christians have expressed concerns that some of the available vaccines have been tested on cell lines derived from live babies who were then aborted right afterward. That crosses all kinds of ethical lines and is unnecessary with today's technology. Using those ethically-questionable cell lines from the 70's is very profitable for pharma companies, but is counterproductive when you want to install confidence in a public vaccine. Go with using force if you like (it's the pro-choice way), but you should also recognize that there are enough hard-core pro-lifers in North America to prevent herd immunity in many places. |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: UK's most densely packed city. It's not London...
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To be absolutely clear here: the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are not made using any cell line at all. The adenovirus vaccine from AstraZeneca doesn’t use fetal cells for its production. So this is an absolute lie. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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I didn’t say anything about force. It ought to be abundantly clear that viruses don’t care about our politics or beliefs. Societies do, and as a result go to great lengths to protect choices. They also go to great lengths to protect health and safety and ground those protections in research and evidence. It may be paradoxical that they also protect a person’s willingness to ignore that evidence or otherwise remain ignorant of it. Freedom is not easy, for either side. It may allow someone to absorb a risk upon themselves, yet limit the ability of that person to impose those risks on others. That is nothing even remotely related to authoritarianism. That’s evidence based policy.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Toronto
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One last thing: Was the tissue really obtained after the "thing", as you put it, had died? |
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Join Date: May 2004
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This all sounds a little like an anti-science red herring.
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