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Only if they have a breakthrough infection - and that is very rare.

That is low for an off-road vehicle where civilisation could be quite far away. My Suzuki and Chevy off-road vehicles are calibrated the same. My Buick thinks low is 24 miles of ra…

No - on a local level, people of goodwill from both parties can do meaningful good for all our citizens. This doesn't have to be a R vs D issue.

Locally, I live in a very diverse area, and the typical customer has skewed much less 'good-old-boy' in the last two years. The 'good-old-boys' are generally very happy with this a…

AbiWord is opensource and is a good alternative to as MS Word 97: Uncluttered, quick, and easy to figure out. https://www.abisource.com/ EDIT: Sorry, they've dropped Windows suppor…

That's an interesting point - if indeed Facebook is providing a service, then using that logic they can't discriminate on providing that service for a protected class engaging in s…

The federal fuel economy standards have a weird calculation that incentives vehicles with a large footprint. It's the ratio of footprint to MPG that's important to the feds.

I'm very pro covid-19 vaccine - it probably saved my life. I am however uncomfortable with the idea that the state can compell an individual with incentives or the implied threat o…

My view as an American: I trust my sketchy neighbor with a gun much more than I trust the government with a gun.

Perhaps it's the same trend. Citizens having control over arms is a classical liberal idea.

My kids did the same thing - turns out it let them understand what normal behaviour looks like. When someone offered one of them something weird and dangerous, they recognized that…

Can confirm - some of the poorest palaces where I live had the most fun with fireworks. It takes a particular cruelty to take the fun away of those that don't have much.

For me, there's a difference between boycotting a powerful corporation by not buying their products or services and starting an angry Twitter mob to badger someone so much that the…

There's an economic problem with well made smaller homes - they have all the detail of a larger home without the square footage. Hence the cost per square foot is much larger than …

It's good business to keep your customers alive.

For me, I stopped watching TV twenty years ago - but then transfered my neurotic novelty seeking behavior to the internet. But because I quit once, it made it easier to reign in my…

Keeping me and my family from a horrible death is good enough motivation for me to keep working. And that's ok. When I work, I also provide value for others and they give me valuab…

I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss what seems to be a reasonable discussion as simply “TERF talking points” and then reframe what your opponents are saying in an un-sympathetic way…

Yes. Private school do have 'propaganda' - but that's perfectly ok if it aligns with the parent's wishes. As the parents, we have the right to chose how our children are raised.

Agreed. Whistle-blowers are a needed if we want to be able to correct the course of our society.

If the weird offspring are really bitter, stop eating them! You probably won’t die but you’ll be quite miserable. Apparently, once a gourd starts not breeding true, it can revert t…

That's....not your fault. There should have been a label on the computer near the keyboard jack written by the people who knew about the problem. If you didnt make a label afterwar…

I'm glad it worked! As I understand it, marking your check "paid in full" combined with the cover letter is what potentially worked for you. Simply writing "paid in full" on the ch…

You may not be interested in the culture wars, but the culture wars are interested in you. -Lean Trotsky (paraphrased)

I was left unsatisfied, but also grateful that the author is capable of being vulnerable by being forthright in their introspection. May I have that courage if needed.