Yeah, I always glove up when I clean out the p-traps under the sinks. The smell is the worst part.

All of it, like alopecia? Or male pattern baldness? Or none my damn bidness?

That one is my backup if the one I got doesn't work! Thanks for the recommendation.

It takes different forms, but one horrifying example is smuggling people in from poverty-stricken countries and forcing them to be sex slaves. People with no resources that have very little chance of rescue.

Didn't Nestle want to do this with water?

Became an atheist and quit going to church. After decades of being very involved in church. My experience wasn't nearly as difficult or traumatic as it is for many who go through this. But it still sucked. I pissed off some friends and family members. And some folks I really liked froze me out, which is not fun. Atheist friends were supportive, which was a big help.

They should give lite.cnn.com a try.

No, because his popularity with the cult of fools is primarily based on two things: 1. talking at a third grade level and 2. fear mongering about black and brown people.

I suppose you could add "appearing to be rich and successful" and some other ingredients in there. But I think the 2 mentioned are his biggest power sources by far.

A skeptic will seek more information. A cynic will just shit on it first and maybe (probably not) ask questions later.

One possibility:

https://lemmy.world/c/showerthoughts

I posted this in a different thread a while back. Here are some primary news sources:

• New York Times (NYT)
• Reuters
• Associated Press (AP)
• BBC News
• The Guardian
• Al Jazeera
• Bloomberg
• The Washington Post
• CNN
• Deutsche Welle (DW)

Focus on the lost revenue for small businesses owners. That's all these shitfuck Republicans care about.

I prefer lemmys to lemmings, but I think we got out voted.

But did you know, that when it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen?

Sorry, couldn't resist. I like him, too.

Never liked this guy. And Oracle DB has always kinda sucked.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Sorry to hear this.

An internet forum like Lemmy is not the best place for medical advice. Most diseases can vary significantly from person to person. Lupus comes in multiple forms. The musician Seal has a form of lupus, and he's 61. Autoimmune disorders are very complicated, because the immune system is very complicated.

Your doctor should be able to give you guidance and "what to expect" type information. If there is a patient portal or email you can use, be proactive and reach out to your doctor with your questions. If you're in the USA, patients very much have to actively navigate this stuff, and advocate for themselves. Your doctor might give you a pamphlet or booklet. Read it.

Modern normie: "I'm a real badass, because I have tattoos."

Oudinot's ghost: "You people are simply adorable."

I've never put much stock in the "we are living in a simulation" but stories like this make me wonder if one of the sim developer's kids is in here doing stuff.

"I want a DQ Blizzard!"

"We have ice cream at home."

"But home is a bunch of shipping containers welded together."

"Correct. And it's wonderful."

Let us know if you ever find a good solution. Stuff in my pants pockets annoys me, too.

Too many variables. There's two types of test, antigen and PCR. The chemical reactions in both can be impacted by ambient temperature and humidity, light exposure, air pressure (altitude), air quality (contaminants) and so on. At-home testing is far from lab conditions. False positives and false negatives are possible. I wouldn't put any stock in the timing.

What the heck. This rewrites a chunk of my childhood.

One of my friends wears a lightweight (mostly mesh) cargo vest thing that looks good on him. But he's one of those assholes who looks good in anything. I would look like a doofus wearing it. Anyway, it has multiple pockets on the front.

No one will suspect a spiral staircase under the manhole cover!

Primary news sources. Here are some others.

• Reuters
• Associated Press (AP)
• BBC News
• The Guardian
• Al Jazeera
• Bloomberg
• The Washington Post
• CNN
• Deutsche Welle (DW)

In an ideal situation you want both assets and income in your retirement. 401k is one type of asset. Pension is one type of income. It's certainly possible to plan for retirement with just assets or just income, but having both is better.

I need to do this to my office. I wonder if that wall over there is load bearing. Hmmmm.

I'm guessing the content offering algorithms are looking at your IP, browser profile, etc. and throwing stuff at you that it assumes you and "people in your area" want to see. Even with brand new accounts, they always try to figure this stuff out. It often gets it wrong, but that never stops them from trying.

I haven't seen the numbers. I have read that they do this for a few evil reasons.

• It makes their business look like it's thriving.
• They can gather intel on who's job hunting.
• They can use job application tasks to get free work out of candidates.

There are thousands of possible reasons and many of them won't have anything to do with you. There are fake job postings. There are many jobs where the hiring manager already has someone in mind for the job (but they have to check the required boxes and pretend to open the position to any candidate). Another candidate may have gone to the same school or been in a frat with the hiring manager. The list goes on and on.

I have so little faith in polls anymore. I know Silver and others try to patch over the shortcomings by analyzing multiple polls and running weighted probability equations on them and so on. But I always think of GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.

And of course, probabilities are just that: probabilities. So if they say candidate X has a 75% chance to beat candidate Y, that means candidate Y still wins 25% of the time. Which is much higher than we intuit when we just look at the 75%. Anybody who's rolled a 1d4 in D&D knows that 1 will come up more than we'd like.

Allan Lichtman's analysis is more interesting to me. He's been right 9 out of 10 times. Which certainly doesn't mean he'll be right this time. But I think it's cool that he ignores polls. I wonder if his methodology, while very clever, may not be up to date for 2024 with all the weird shit going on with judges, electors, etc. The "meta issues", if you will, around his "Keys to the White House."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House

I hope you're right!

The Demiurge. Not that I like the Demiurge itself. But explaining the human condition as being a product of bad design appeals to me. I don't believe the myth and I'm not religious. But as far as myths go, that one is my fave.

I'm not an expert by any means, but my understanding is there is a "tax accounting lobby" that works hard to prevent any measures to simplify it, because they would go out of business. Intuit and others.

Interesting that they are laying off managers while "moving towards more automation". I'm guessing they mean draconian employee-monitoring hardware and software installed in the vehicles, warehouses, repair facilities, etc.

Love the meme but JFC I wish they would just send us a simple invoice (or refund) every year. You know, the way adult nations do things.

A lot of people made fun of those theories and sarcastically pretended to believe in them. Maybe that's what you remember. Our human memories are not very reliable.

That's a clever and funny way of putting it. It's just one stupid moral panic after the other, and racism is frequently featured.

Maybe not exactly what you asked for, but I think these two might be close contenders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy