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Donated most of my $1200 to local no kill shelters

Youre a rare breed. Our board is filled with experts on almost every discipline.

Lots of folks have been home schooling their kids. Now there is a daunting prospect. If I had to teach a kid everything I knew it would only remind me of how little I really know. Y'see I'm like a Leatherman multi-tool. I'm good for a lot of varied tasks but not great for anything. I know a little about a lot but everything about nothing.

am thinking hurl's best option is to never seek insights from boardies regarding history teaching. let's be honest, am suspecting every history unit from gd would look same/similar with focus 'pon oppressive governments being overthrown only to be replaced by equal or more oppressive regimes. and am not singling out gd. amentep, for example, would likely use scientific revolution unit to show witchfinder general to the class. no better would Gromnir be as by end o' renaissance, reformation, scientific revolution, every saint would have their halo shattered and all heroes would be recast as villains... with the possible exception of sir thomas moore. as a gestalt kinda approach, the boardies might offer something useful, but individually we are a nightmare. that said, as a student we wouldn't mind the anticipated amentep all-horror movie approach to history. HA! Good Food!

Security -https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/technology/zoom-security-dropbox-hackers.html We use Teams. My coworkers keep badgering me to turn my webcam on, weirdos.

... am such a nerd 'cause we immediately thought o'... HA! Good Fun!

So then the virus will be back then.... 😛

"One can't decide whether to join the Bard's College or the Thieves Guild. One will just have to weigh the prose and the cons."

"Most arson fires are started outdoors. Don't make it easy for an arsonist to start a fire or easy for an outdoor fire to spread to a building." I feel like now I'm on some watchlist for googling this.

Are you an arsonist?

It would be nice if he advocates Traumakine next, hydroxychloroquine boom already increased my stock value quite lot (about +39%) (as Finland's largest pharmaceutical company Orion is one of the largest manufactures of hydroxychloroquine in world), and Traumakine is new drug from another big Finnish pharma company Faron that is tested to help in respiratory diseases. Its value has already increased during corona crisis for 20%, but I believe that it could even double its market value if Trump gives its drug free advertisement

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 Conclusions In the midst of the global COVID-19 public-health emergency, it is reasonable to wonder why the origins of the pandemic matter. Detailed understanding of how an animal virus jumped species boundaries to infect humans so productively will help in the prevention of future zoonotic events. For example, if SARS-CoV-2 pre-adapted in another animal species, then there is the risk of future re-emergence events. In contrast, if the adaptive process occurred in humans, then even if repeated zoonotic transfers occur, they are unlikely to take off without the same series of mutations. In addition, identifying the closest viral relatives of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in animals will greatly assist studies of viral function. Indeed, the availability of the RaTG13 bat sequence helped reveal key RBD mutations and the polybasic cleavage site. The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another. Obtaining related viral sequences from animal sources would be the most definitive way of revealing viral origins. For example, a future observation of an intermediate or fully formed polybasic cleavage site in a SARS-CoV-2-like virus from animals would lend even further support to the natural-selection hypotheses. It would also be helpful to obtain more genetic and functional data about SARS-CoV-2, including animal studies. The identification of a potential intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2, as well as sequencing of the virus from very early cases, would similarly be highly informative. Irrespective of the exact mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 originated via natural selection, the ongoing surveillance of pneumonia in humans and other animals is clearly of utmost importance.

You, sir, are a good man!

I quit Sentinels of Freedom since the story has gone pure Red Scare and I can't find an inner McCarthy to embrace to enjoy it.

What are your thoughts on man in business suit levitating? 🕴️ I'm thinking of making that my go to as it seems to fit every occasion and to be on topic New York antibody study estimates 13.9% of residents have had the coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo says

File this under the growing list of practical, reasonable, and fiscally sound ideas coming from the Trump Admin: Trump adviser suggests reopening economy by putting 'everybody in a space outfit'

I have a friend who works at an OfficeDepot, says he's had to 'yell at' customers (whatever that actually means since obviously literally yelling at customers would never happen in retail) many times over the last month to respect people's personal space, including his own, and not sit on workspaces, etc. Has anyone ever seen one of those "list of insane laws that are never enforced that prohibit something suspiciously very specific"? That's because somewhere, sometime, people were dumb enough to do those suspiciously specific things, and the state didn't want any part of having to protect such idiots for such brazenly stupid behavior. I hate seeing personal liberties infringed upon, too, but there are way too many irresponsible, uncaring, unsympathetic morons that will unfortunately do brazenly stupid things that endanger the rest of us if there are no consequences. They still are even now, but there are less of them, and a few of them have had to face consequences for it. In a situation like this where such restrictions obviously chafe on *everybody*, I feel pretty comfortable saying that those restrictions will not last forever, but if that's not the case and a few years down the line this crap is still going on, you can say "I told you so" to all of us, Guard Dog. (e): For goodness' sake, I even have that friend that works at a local hospital, and even she has said that it has been nearly impossible to get her coworkers to not needlessly touch other or get up in each other's personal space. These are health professionals that work in the field, have seen footage of hospitals in other areas and seen how bad it is, who should absolutely know better, and many of them are *still* being idiots and not treating it seriously. They should be thankful that their governor pre-emptively called for a stay-at-home order before it started getting really bad, because it likely saved at least a couple of their hides (plus an insane amount of work even if not), but that's not how many of them see it. They just see it as people "overreacting" and them being infringed upon.

Knowing the US someone will take Starship Troopers as the example for how to handle national service.

Certainly worked for El Presidente

history and recent photographic evidence suggest otherwise. "i wouldn't be doing..." is irrelevant. as we noted, takes one libertarian who knows covid is a hoax in a supermarket to infect many. takes one libertarian capitalist dumping toxic waste on his own private land to poison an entire community. takes one drunk driver to cause an accident resulting in death o' a woman and her kids. assume most people is responsible is nice and swell and maybe even accurate, but it don't matter. the costs o' having a minority o' folks acting like ignoramuses is too high in too many cases. yeah, the argument that no cost is too high when human lives are at stake is also bs. like it or not, liberty does have an attendant body count. sounds callous but is unavoidable. we wouldn't have a reasonable person standard in law if people were invariable reasonable. would be no point in identifying behaviour as reckless if such recklessness never happened. a large enough sampling o' people results in a functional gurantee o' stoopid and selfish. people is predictable stoopid and selfish in enough numbers that it is irresponsible to ignore the need to protect innocent citizens from the stoopid and selfish. the costs is too high. HA! Good Fun!

Yikes Calax. It's good of you to support her in this. I hope it works out for the best.

Arsonist would be indoor, no ?

Eh, its good to vent ones spleen from time to time. Hope it all works out. 👍

"cover" is vague. deductible for an office visit could nevertheless cost considerable coinage in some locales, and the presumed tests @Azdeus would need for kidney issues might not be covered... period. is not as if all insurance is created equal. in CA, for example, we got this covered california thing. ca, which is better than many states, will go pretty far to help folks meet costs o' health insurance, but there is tiers o' coverage which is representing vast gulfs in the level o' care which is actual covered. for example, if you got bronze tier, only the first three dr. visits in a year (not necessarily tests) is encheapened to $65 per visit, after which you pay full. we got nyc EMTs who cannot afford health insurance. after the recession, businesses changed to confront new realities. post 2011 employers found ways to fill labor needs and reduce full-time employees. so your part-time nyc emt, who is an essential worker, may need make choice 'tween rent and health insurance. 'course maybe you were lucky and were a full time employee with health insurance through your employer, so when you get fired from your now non-essential job, you may maintain health insurance through cobra, which is s'posed to allow recent unemployed to maintain health insurance coverage. unfortunate, cobra marketplace is not cheap. even with the threat o' covid-19, if you gotta make a choice 'tween feeding family and paying for health insurance, food is the likely winner, and such is the reality all too many is facing today. Hundreds struggling during COVID-19 pandemic line up to receive food at distributions across South Florida am thinking us health insurance is more terrible than many make it out to be, 'cause many don't realize just how bad it is for far too many people. however, am also recognizing is not a magic wand situation which is easily fixed. pretend as if medicare-for-all is a no-brainer is also a mistake. still, situation is pretty f'ing terrible. HA! Good Fun!

I think you'll find that the people that you likely want to force to have skin in the game will be able to mostly avoid and/or mitigate any risk to them and theirs. Maybe some of their supporters will think twice but I have my doubts Also curious if either Bruce or kt have served since they seem willing to sign others up

Tomorrow ... I am hoping for a socially isolating outdoor fire to mark the weekend of the apocalypse

all too often the libertarian explanation is requiring a level o' selfish stoopid untenable by most people. is why we speak o' personal liberties when we mention our libertarian streak. smoke in a crowded restaurant and describe as the smoker's choice is false, 'cause is every other proximate customer who will also suffer, and smoking is hardly a unique example. drunk driving. worker safety. toxic waste removal. etc. say is a choice for private citizens and business owners ignores fact we do not live like jeremiah johnson alone and independent. a libertarian's stoopid choices has costs for other people and is no financial or liberty punishment which will make those others whole. dump toxic waste and a bunch o' kids get cancer? depend on market to balance is obtuse. even a fine or imprisonment is hardly balancing the scales. free speech? the cost to community is typical that individuals may need hear a message they don't wanna hear. covid-19 is hardly as ez as free speech. how much liberty is you willing to give up to save lives? how many lives? social distance as a choice is aspirational but ignores realities. got five people genuine maintaining social distancing in a supermarket and all it takes is one libertarian making a (bad) choice to result in six people becoming infected. and yeah, all laws which is written facial neutral is gonna have injustice at the margins, which is why we don't have hal 2000 dispensing justice. sure, some overzealous cop may levy a citation 'pon a citizen for an innocuous behaviour which nobody ever contemplated would be punishable. human judges is s'posed to be able to recognize the place where injustice and the law inevitably overlap and make a ruling which protects citizens from law. regardless, depend on libertarians making choices or market forces to save us from covid-19 or secondhand smoke is an auto fail. HA! Good Fun!

Damn, that sucks. Hang in there. Also, yes, it's called a CDL (Commercial Driving License) here.

Blame the Boomers they drove up the cost by making so your employer has to offer medical insurance. If you have work with a good medical then you're paying very little and get more coverage. I don't know about operations and surgery though.

The thing is that policing should be more of a community effort. Most street level crimes that a local police force deal with should be dealt with by those within the community rather than those from without. It's why police forces are local rather than nationalized. The issues arise from the fact that police forces hold themselves apart from the local community, and are incentived by politicians to show "progress" through changes in activity. There are tales from New York City where the NYPD would go into an apartment block and arrest everyone, just to have their arrest numbers up in a region to look like they're doing their jobs (the people would be released without charges the next day). In more recent years they've become increasingly militarized in an effort to "combat terrorism" and because several of the programs put in place post 9-11 (civil asset forfeiture and transfer of surplus military equipment) push the cops to find reasons to arrest you and take your stuff. Most of the forfeited goods can be sold at auction with no controls on what happens to the proceeds (so, da chief wants a margarita machine in the break room? He can have it), and the surplus military equipment can only be kept if the department can prove it needs it. So you have a small town in Ohio performing swat raids on something as simple as serving a warrant because the happened to see a dog and a busted light. Add to this an institutionalization of the Cops being a community of their own, and you have a recipe for a system that ignores or covers up the bad apples in favor of the "greater good". There are tales of cops being driven from their positions for reporting on or citing other cops, or of the department doing their best to protect "one of their own" from a damaging situation (Mohammed Nur in St Paul for example). Thus many in America feel like the police have a blank check to act as they please without repercussions, and police unions are happy to keep it that way. Any attempt at reform is quashed by a media blitz from former cops and union personalities declaring that those who are pushing the reforms want to see more bodies in the streets. National Guard and Army are used in extreme circumstances effectively to add bodies to the equation. For stuff like disaster relief and lockdowns it helps get work done, and the fact they're outsiders helps enforce otherwise difficult to swallow rules. A national guard officer will force Granny Smith to go back to her home, while Officer Johnson could be more lenient because it won't do no harm in his view.

Come to America, god knows there's enough trucking jobs you'd be able to use it.

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In SA we had a major security breach in government using Zoom recently, this was probably due to the individuals not following normal software security protocol Personally we use Microsoft Teams during the lock-down, my customers are mostly in the financial sector and they have also adopted it as far as weekly updates meetings are required . I am very happy with it and its collaborative functionality, it allows me to share files, make calls and we can have our online meetings up to 50 people

After struggling to be any good at Elite: Dangerous, I decided to give No Mans Sky another try, and I've been enjoying it. I don't remember if it was this good when I first played it, or I was just in the right mood, but it is a nice exploration game.

since the old original post i watched some interesting youtube series about what it's like for a non-gamer playing a game. i'm not saying you're not a gamer, i'm just saying the video series made me appreciate the importance of proper scaffolding of game difficulty and game concepts. However much I like Deadfire, I have to concede that it doesn't do a great job of scaffolding information. As an example that I referenced on page 1 of this ancient post, is concentration/interrupts. The game very vaguely teaches you about concentration/interrupts, and then doesn't reinforce it with any major experiences of how important they can be. So for a lot of players, concentration/interrupts are just a murky side combat element that occasionaly frustrates your own spellcasting, up until they hit Neriscyrlas where the difference between one successful interrupt and a missed interrupt is a modestly hard fight vs an extremely annoying and difficult grind. So I think it's a reasonable criticism--especially given how difficulty between base game and DLC is balanced--that the game might be overly forgiving or lax about certain combat concepts before suddenly pulling the rug out from under you. I think it's a bit less of a problem with vanilla game because vanilla game can be beat even on PotD by like level 14-16 (even earlier if pacifist). But even if BoW and SSS can/should be done in the middle of the vanilla game, they clearly were developed after the base game, because they suddenly assume that the player is much more well-versed with a bunch of combat skills.

Hey, try living on one small continent crammed with 100+ other countries, see how you fare. 'sides, it's not like we hatin' on everyone indiscriminately, just on the neighbours mostly. That's normal.

Yes, both. Don't confuse Llengrath's Safeguard with Displaced Image though. The first one stacks with Mirrored Image, leaving you with +50 to deflection and +20 to everything else. Once MI drops below 20 you will still have +20 to all defenses. Also stacks with Arcane Veil or Wizards Double.

I mean, the idea sounds n--wait a minute... What kind of monster are you?!