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sometimes it bothers us that we do like bill murray 'cause is more than a few hollywood stories 'bout how he is a complete %$# &^%$#$# *&^$#@... &^%$# %$##@. perhaps he has mellowed as he has aged? maybe he does less drugs and drinks less alcohol today? would be nice if we could convince self he is no longer the guy he has so often been described. HA! Good Fun!

have never had a decent caesar outta a bottle, so is worth a shot. real caesar, done in the classic style, is kinda quirky to get right and unless you are a person such as Gromnir, there is a fair chance you do not have enough quality canned anchovies on hand if you have a sudden hankering for the dressing (although the brand we use actual comes in a jar.) our personal recipe is also a a fair bit lighter on the oil, but we will add more parmesan as a thickening agent if necessary. as an aside, is kinda a trick you may use in lieu o' the classic boil-your-egg-for-60-90-seconds step, and is a timesaver to boot. blenders get hot. ordinarily you avoid using a blender for stuff such as caeser salad precise 'cause is egg and 'cause o' the heat, but we find by mixing in a hot blender, the egg firms perfect w/o the pin-hole boiling. may take a bit o' practice. am admitting recent have been going extreme simple with salad dressing. we didn't get much use outta costco until the pandemic hit and then we started shopping for neighbors who all had costco lists, but one o' the positives o' needing suffer costsco is am a convert regarding at least two dressing related ingredients: extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. color us shocked, but the "kirkland" olive oil is excellent and the balsamic is amongst the best we has ever used, regardless o' price. we add a little salt, pepper and a really good stone ground mustard to our balsamic and olive oil for a sooper ez dressing we use multiple times a week. we do not suffer raw onions in a salad, but we will throw in fine chopped carnalized leaks, and in lieu o' croutons we do a quick toasting o' panko bread crumbs in butter/olive oil and along with a clove (or more) o' minced garlic... not too fine a mince or the garlic becomes over toasty and tasteless. toss in a bit o' salt with the panko and whatever aromatic herbs we speak to us for a kinda crunchy and garlicky crouton substitute. seriously though, the kirkland balsamic is incredible for the price. HA! Good Fun!

amusing is the recognition that anxiety is one o' the common attributes o' conspiratorial thinking. http://faculty.washington.edu/srad/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Is-Belief-in-Conspiracy-Theories-Pathological-Final.pdf One likely cause of belief is people’s psychological state at the time of measurement, which can affect how they assimilate and interpret information. For example, insecurity causes people to believe that forces outside of their control are shaping events. The loss of control triggers a need to compensate by imagining that they have a grasp on an otherwise complex situation, allowing them to reassert control. Anxiety need not be dispositional, but may be primed through short-term triggers, as several laboratory and survey experiments have shown. If anxiety leads to a desire to restore control, then respondents who experience anxiety should be more receptive to conspiratorial logics. the conspiratorial thinker's sense o' powerlessness and impotence is what creates such rich fodder for wingnut theories. thus if you are looking for wet pants in a crowd o' adults, start spouting qanon or pandemic conspiracies and see who agrees most quick and vociferous. back when the pandemic started we had the antivaxxers and pandemic marginalization crowd suggesting The Government were inflating the death numbers... you folks know who you are. the early prognostications that there could be as many as 250k deaths attributed to coronavirus were dismissed as a scare tactic. 900k dead later (at least) and those same folks has not bothered to reassess. heck, some o' these folks sneering at potential seriousness o' covid-19 were the ones at the front o' the line hoarding eggs and toilet paper, which were hardly the most convincing display o' intestinal fortitude, eh? the inability to change one's position in spite o' changing data is an attribute common to both the science ignorant and the conspiracy theorist. blame yet again on anxiety? the person who embraces the conspiracy theory does so out o' a sense o' powerlessness 'ccording to those bs receptivity studies, and admitting wrongness 'bout the seriousness o' covid-19 would be a display o' weakness. can't help but feel a bit o' sympathy for these poor folks and their fears which lead 'em to squint their eyes and take a two wise monkey approach... not three 'cause they is most assured willing to speak. HA! Good Fun!

can't help but notice a weird alignment o' opinions 'bout corporal punishment and crt (recognizing once again that crt is most certainly not actual being taught to public school kids 'less they has reached at least university, but am not gonna fight that battle at the moment.) please note how more than a few o' those who is thinking crt is too divisive for the kids to learn is nevertheless okie dokie with actual physical punishment o' same kids. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/09/ronald-reagan-dad-taught-me-about-holocaust/ am personal not having an opinion on corporal punishment other than to observe the big brains who s'posed study such is current in agreement that there is a correlative link 'tween antisocial and aggressive behaviour increases when at least moderate corporal punishment is indulged with any kinda frequency, and that w/o grounding warmth in the relationship o' the spanker and spankee, chances o' negative outcomes increase. will frequent see it argued how this is something best left to parents. am thinking is unfortunate parents is stuck with the generational reinforcement problem wherein if they experienced corporal punishment as a child, then they is more likely to do unto their progeny regardless o' anything the smarty psychiatrists and sciencey know-it-alls might have to say 'bout the subject. is particular unfortunate for those who were genuine abused as children 'cause having suffered abuse does not in any way reduce the likelihood o' such abuse being practiced on the next generation. opposite. for practical reasons we cannot and likely shouldn't remove parents from being arbiters on corporal punishment up to the fuzzy line where corporal punishment becomes recognizable as abuse. however, such a recognition does not mean many/most parents is correct, 'cause most parents is a product o' their parents and their parents before them and so on. all too often generational wisdom is a conveniently self-replicating myth. my daddy gave me whoppins and if he hadn't, i wouldn't have turned into the upstanding man i am today. am certain this kinda thinking is widespread, but is not at all logical and given the current science on the matter it appears increasing unreasonable. whatever. regardless, am amused by the opinions that crt is dangerous and wrong to be subjecting to young minds but actual physical punishment is all too often deemed okie dokie by the same folks who want maus removed from school bookshelves 'cause is too graphic and is offended 'cause the kite runner is too adult and divisive. the alignment o' opinion on what is dangerous for developing children is kinda weird from our pov. HA! Good Fun!

so, a bit o' the hardcore spankings is the appropriate way to describe the scene. good to know. pullo's punishment were extreme light considering drunkards and brawlers got the lashings and one expects striking a superior officer woulda' ranked somewhere 'tween thievery and desertion. aside, we initial did an internet search for the "pullo punishment scene." ... this did not go as we anticipated as the search were populated with pr0n, so perhaps the @Gorth supplied meme is more accurate than we had imagined. odd aside, remove "scene" from search exorcised the pr0n. strange algorithm. HA! Good Fun! ps we originally observed how "pullo got off extreme easy," and realized only after the fact how such read in the context o' the pr0n stuff.

the prime video folks built up considerable goodwill with us after our viewing o' fleabag. admitted were a co-production with bbc, but is unlikely we woulda' seen w/o amazon contribution. the law were so bad in goliath that it were distracting for us in spite o' excellent performances. ordinary we ignore terrible law in tv shows, but were too much for us with goliath, which is a shame, 'cause again, the show offered noteworthy performances from competent actors. the boys and jack ryan were decent. man in the high castle started well and then rushed to a terrible ending, but that don't change the quality episodes there were initial. we lost interest in the expanse by the time it hit amazon-- the more the show focused on alien bs, the more we became bored. regardless, is more than a couple amazon shows we do not regret viewing, though recent has seen a dry spell. we have also enjoyed a few amazon original movies. prime video is also where am most likely to be able to see danny kaye, cary grant and spencer tracy movies.... though is rare we get any o' the good burt lancaster films, which is curious. am not sure we would keep prime video w/o the shipping benefits, but we do not regret the money spent. HA! Good Fun!

But, Gershoff also cautions that her findings do not imply that all children who experience corporal punishment turn out to be aggressive or delinquent. A variety of situational factors, such as the parent/child relationship, can moderate the effects of corporal punishment. Furthermore, studying the true effects of corporal punishment requires drawing a boundary line between punishment and abuse. This is a difficult thing to do, especially when relying on parents' self-reports of their discipline tactics and interpretations of normative punishment. ... In a reply to Gershoff, researchers Diana Baumrind, PhD (Univ. of CA at Berkeley), Robert E. Larzelere, PhD (Nebraska Medical Center), and Philip Cowan, PhD (Univ.of CA at Berkeley), write that because the original studies in Gershoff's meta-analysis included episodes of extreme and excessive physical punishment, her finding is not an evaluation of normative corporal punishment as such am not sure the study your link references says what you believe it says, even with your qualifying edit. in an extreme brief and shallow internet search which we do not suggest is dispositive o' any kinda consensus, a more recent paper specific addresses at least one o' the concerns voiced by the aforementioned critics-- that "being able to distinguish between reasonable corporal punishment and maltreatment—whether this is formally denominated abuse or neglect—is critical for the relevant actors: parents who use corporal punishment as a disciplinary tool." however, take heart 'cause the paper linked does go a bit meta with research as o' 2010 and suggests corporal punishment, particular as delivered by a non parent, could be harmful even if is not injurious or abusive. "This evidence has contributed to an understanding that even apparently moderate forms of corporal punishment like SBS—moderate in the sense that a severe physical injury is not apparent to the average layperson—can have harmful effects that merit intervention, and to a more-comprehensive sense of the consequences of severe corporal punishment. These effects are stronger if the child is young, if the parent–child relationship lacks a grounding in warmth, and if the corporal punishment is repeated across time. Rather than discovering a cut-off level below which corporal punishment has no ill effects, scientists interpret the research findings as indicating that corporal punishment experiences have a cumulative effect that grows proportionately with the amount and severity of punishment." now keep in mid this meta use o' other studies is not suggesting that corporal punishment has zero beneficial outcomes, but rather there do not appear to be studies which show any consistent findings o' benefit. also, "A review of eighty-eight empirical studies involving 36,309 children has shown that children who have been subjected to moderate corporal punishment display, on average, more-immediate compliance with parental directives but also higher levels of aggressive, delinquent, and antisocial behavior than do children who have not been corporally punished. The causal direction of this association has been called into question because antisocial children might well elicit more corporal punishment or because the same genes that make parents use aggression toward their children may be responsible for their child’s aggression, apart from any causal link between the parenting and the child’s behavior." but, "Nuances complicate this picture, however: First, mild corporal punishments do not have a uniform impact on child outcomes across all contexts and circumstances. The parent’s behavior per se is less significant than the meaning of the behavior as interpreted by the child. This meaning is determined by the family context, including chronicity of the act, the contingency of the act on the child’s misbehavior, mitigating factors such as temporary stress and the child’s instigation of the act, and exacerbating factors such as parents’ taunting and psychological abuse. Thus, empirical studies demonstrate that corporal punishment can be helpful, unimportant, or harmful to the child’s development, depending on the meaning ascribed by the child. A limit on this conclusion is that, beyond a certain level of severity of corporal punishment, harmful outcomes are likely to accrue to the child no matter what context surrounds the act or how it is interpreted by the child. This level is not always clear but may be a defining characteristic of physical abuse." regardless, it would appear that corporal punishment is a bit more complicated than a simple good v. bad, but regardless, if is a child and the punishment is not being administered in a loving relationship (a relationship with a "grounding in warmth") and the punishments is other than mild and o' limited frequency, then the possibility o' long-term harm to the child's development does not appear to be a matter o' much dispute 'mongst those who have expertise on this issue. assuming that many teacher-student will lack the requisite warmth to limit harmful outcomes from corporal punishment, and recognizing that the benefits o' such punishments is difficult to gauge, the arguments in favour o' teachers and administrators delivering corporal punishments does not appear strong to say the least. etc. am not gonna suggest this single paper more focused on the law side o' the issue is dispositive, but it does go a bit meta with the consensus findings on the topic o' corporal punishments and such findings as presented by the authors do not support the general use o' corporal punishment in a school setting. 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anniversary o' one o' the few good moments to come outta the pandemic. HA! Good Fun!

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there is a couple crossbows which provide serious aoe damage even w/o cleaving shot, but add a few mythics and the numbers get kinda silly. a crossbow sohei/demonslayer mounted on a dog and taking advantage o' snapshot is one o' those eyeroll builds am likely never to use for reals, but it sure tests powerful. HA! Good Fun!

one o' our "moderators" has a very large cat to be making use o' an n95 that large. pet cougar perhaps? moving on... edit: the original gazpacho police. HA! Good Fun!

'cause what were the chances they would limit their ignorant lunacy to crt? the they you need worry 'bout is the people. 1920s-1940s nativism in the US, the culmination o' a civil war era trend, were the result o' many factors not least o' which were historic income disparity. backlash against immigration and modernism perhaps ironic fed by the "science" o' US eugenics movement eventual spread to europe and became a cornerstone o' numerous post ww1 and post spanish flu regimes. is a whole lotta bad history being taught in the US 'cause too few people realize just how divisive were the politics o' the twenties, thirties and early forties in the US. too few is recognizing the similarities and the causes o' early 20th century nativism. is not some kinda illuminati scheme bringing 'bout the maga stoopidity o' the past decade but is a regrettable familiar repeat o' economic and social forces, although we personal didn't see voluntary US embrace o' a demagogue w/o a war or cataclysmic economic upheaval. shame on us. is not 1920, but in the US we got same/similar fear o' immigrants, same/similar income disparity and same/similar resistance to the all-too-quick changing modern world. is a conceit that we has somehow evolve as a society. the human animal does not evolve near as fast as does technology. we ain't fundamental different today than *insert here whatever is your personal worst case o' human greed, ignorance and violence.* if social and economic conditions replicate, then there is a disturbing high chance we repeat the stoopid o' the past. is 2022 and folks in tennessee is burning books and railing 'gainst teachers for making their kids feel guilty 'bout being white... or somesuch nonsense. so it goes. HA! Good Fun!

mcconnell is a naked opportunist who would sell out his own mother if it benefited his political fortunes. "hypocrite" is almost meaningless when applied to mitch 'cause is utter inadequate to describe the degree o' his willingness to contradict what he claimed were bedrock principles only minutes past if he believes he can get away with such w/o consequences. so why has mitch sudden decided to defend cheney and kinzinger? why did mitch embrace the "insurrection" descriptor which has curious been verboten for members o' the gop? mitch is incapable o' a come to jesus moment; would require a soul. when tucker carlson berated ted cruz for using the terrorist label for january 6 protesters, something the senator had done multiple times previous, ted went to tucker and did his embarrassing genuflection on national tv. do not expect such from mitch regardless o' torches and pitchforks. mitch always calculates the angles. mitch isn't always right, but he always has a reason and his ultimate goal is benefitting mitch. perhaps mitch knows something most in the rnc does not regarding the viability o' trumpism going forward? maybe is something else? regardless, mitch knew exactly what he were doing when he described the events at the Capitol on january 6, 2021 as a "violent insurrection," waiting one year after the event to do so and seeming in response to a rnc censure action designed to appeal to trump and the trump base. HA! Good Fun! ps is ez to gauge what the trump base feels on an issue. read comments regarding the story as covered by fox https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-rnc-censure-resolution

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many times over the past decades we have been able to make money w/o having a job. am knowing the money is from a job when a large % o' what we had thought we earned disappears immediate and goes to the government. HA! Good Fun!

have mentioned previous how much o' a concern the shadow docket proliferation is: (from a may 2021 post) however, our biggest concern regarding the current Court has gone complete under the radar: the shadow docket. To get on the shadow docket, any litigant can apply to a single justice, who decides whether to forward the dispute to the full court. Five votes among the nine justices are needed to grant a request. No oral arguments are made but opposing attorneys can file briefs in opposition. To be granted, the request must meet certain criteria, including that the applicants would suffer “irreparable harm” if it is not granted. The public generally sees the court as sorting out matters of national importance through extensive briefing, oral arguments and lengthy rulings that explain the law. But the number of substantive shadow docket decisions rose dramatically during the Trump administration. In those four years, the government filed shadow docket applications at 20 times the rate of each of the two previous eight-year administrations. The high court granted the government’s requests in a majority of cases. https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-court-shadow-video/the-shadow-docket-how-the-u-s-supreme-court-quietly-dispatches-key-rulings-idUSKBN2BF16Q with acb's arrival those shadow docket cases is occurring at an increased rate and a majority is being decided 5-4 or 6-3, with no written explanation as to why the Court barred State action, granted relief or even executed a human being for all practical purposes. rulings just kinda happen and most don't know what is taking place or accept meekly the new norm the majority is establishing. ... am personal a textualist who +90% o' the time were in agreement with J. Scalia, but this Court is... is no real majority decision here precise 'cause is shadow docket, but Kavanaugh, in a footnote no less, recognized that either side might win if fully argued, which should put the burden on AL and as such complete undermines the granting o' a freaking stay. most liberals is gonna be enraged 'cause it looks like the Court is trampling voting rights, but this were inevitable as soon as the majority swung right. we tried to warn you all that the Courts which were rejecting trump campaign election lawsuits were gonna be supporting State efforts to marginalize minority voters using many o' the same arguments, so am not the least bit surprised save to note that J. Roberts, who has been 'bout as adversarial towards individual voting rights and fed limits on State efforts to undermine minority voters, is joining the more liberal Justices in dissent. you got no idea how extreme the infractions has gotta be for Roberts to join with Sotomayor on a voting rights case. even so, IF this case had gone through the normal process o' argument the offer o' a written opinion, we would woulda' predicted an AL win. saw this coming. however, and more concerning, this is yet another shadow docket case which diminishes the Constitutional Rights o' Americans w/o even the offer o' a majority opinion and even Gromnir who were early to raise alarms on this issue is surprised by how common is the occurrence o' what were once considered exceptional. this case is gonna get national attention, but media is gonna focus on the voting rights aspect. Americans got no idea how much o' a paradigm shift is the current exploitive use o' the shadow docket, and is no reason they should be concerned with the issue getting so little attention save from a handful o' con law honks. the freaking Court is arguable going rogue and they is able to do so in plain sight with hardly anybody noticing? am admitted surprised and inching towards genuine alarm.

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am a bit confused. level seven is when dogs become large and thus rideable for a medium sized character such as sosiel. if is sosiel's dog via animal domain, the critter should be rideable and at level 9. if the goal is to get sosiel and the dog into combat, then don't make sosiel bigger 'cause the dog is much faster than a large sosiel. when you go into combat mounted on the dog, you will be stuck with sosiel's initiative, but the dog and sosiel will get their respective attacks, including the dog's trip. however, there is lingering issues with tb mounted combat and reach weapons. sometimes your reach weapon character will be too far away for your mount to attack. is not an issue most times, but it still happens even after four months post release. if you are making sosiel bigger to squeeze every possible point outta strength for intimidation, then perhaps avoid mounted combat. even so, am not 100% clear on the issues you are having with sosiel and the dog. HA! Good Fun! ps other than a few lingering and annoying bugs related to tb mounted combat, our most significant obstacle when dealing with mounts, particular at lower and mid levels, is the sucktastic will saves o' animal companions. until you reach higher levels you will necessarily be constrained by your limited spell repertoire and the effort to insulate your animal companions from predictable will save failure is a noteworthy spell and feat cost drain.

multiple times, on this board and elsewhere. 'course, the liberty loving folks who sneer at mask or vaccine mandates justify by simultaneous diminishing the seriousness o' the pandemic. the government is exaggerating the severity o' the pandemic... unless you are in russia. and even if you do get covid is not as if you are gonna die 'cause the people who are dying o' covid is really dying o' heart disease and diabetes and auto-immune disorders, and so is a bunch o' hoopla and QQing over another fatty dying or some old person who were gonna expire in a year or two... or so the callousness goes until the somebody dying is not a stranger and then sudden the liberty loving mockers o' pandemic severity is offering their heartfelt best wishes that your grandma or immunocompromised child gets better asap, 'cause is not as if they is monsters, right? don't even get 'em started on how taking unproven vaccines, vaccines which enrich big pharma and the clinton cabal o' pedophile sex traffickers, is functional making self into a guinea pig which is double stoopid 'cause as already stated the pandemic is a big nothingburger that only the timid and overweight should be concerned regarding. etc. losers believe conspiracy theories. we has linked those bs receptivity studies more than once and one o' the frequent common factors 'mongst the people who believe conspiracy theories which validate their selfishness is loser status-- denotative as 'posed to connotative. democrats were far more likely to believe 9/11 conspiracy theories at the time, 'cause republicans were in power. in spite o' the fact republicans were in power during the trump administration, the qanon folks here in the US is tending to be the white and working class group who feels as if they has been getting a raw deal for multiple decades. if you see self as having received the fuzzy end o' the lollipop, then bs receptivity increases significant. is no different in other nations. the persons who is railing 'gainst mask mandates and vaccines is not championing their right to infect and kill others, 'cause the pandemic is not real and/or is being much exaggerated. you sheeple can go ahead and wear your masks and get vaccinated and get boosted, but QQing over masks and vaccinations is just proof o' your weakness and ignorance... +900k US dead and near six million worldwide is exaggeration and/or nothingburger. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, but ordinarily the issue is addressed via an implausible or too convenient hand-wave. X was on the lease when their grandma died, and the lease were rent-controlled back to prehistoric days. kate bishop is an heiress. mabel mora in only murders in the building is renovating her aunt's apartment. etc. or the issue is inverted reminded us a smidge o' elwood blues' apartment, though that is chicago... and carrie fisher is also in blues bothers which is no doubt why we were reminded. technical is a hotel room. jessica jones weren't too bad, with her office/kitchen/bedroom setup nowhere near reaching sitcom levels o' spacious. 'course matt murdock got the massive space, but were explained with the billboard across the street, as if that woulda made enough o' a difference to keep people away who could afford blackout curtains for nighttime. is only a few shows which get it even close to realistic, but am suspecting is tough to get right nowadays if for no other reason than that is hardly room for cameras and crew to squeeze into realistic apartments along with cast and do scenes which is anything other than filming people from waist up 'cause the camera need be near adjacent to the person being filmed. HA! Good Fun!

until recent we wondered if guys such as chip roy believed the conspiracy lunacy they were spreading or if they mere exploiting a weakness in the base. answer: am thinking it don't matter. cruz is smart even if he does dumb things. ron johnson may be as dumb as he seems. paul gosar may genuine believe his conspiracy crazy. is the differences 'tween the three meaningful if they is all speaking to and encouraging the same elements o' the base? Congress, particular the House, has always had its fair share o' idiots, nuts and skeevy hypocrites willing to exploit their constituencies. what is peculiar today is that the republican party has mainstreamed nativism, grievance and conspiratorial nonsense, which was a problem for the party back in the early 20th century. in 2010 we didn't expect such a resurgence o' early 20th century evils w/o a war. even the fallout franchise required what amounted to apocalypse to bring about similar kinda stoopid. ... what is embarrassing is this political and social regression happened so easy and in plain view. HA! Good Fun!

why? hospitalizations and case numbers has seen a sharp decrease in the past week or two. the omicron spike appears to be over. if nj takes a reasonable approach and reduces mask restrictions for certain groups, that would appear justified, if the science backs up such a move. current, n95s is the best option for those congregating indoors and unable to social distance, but keeping n95s on crumb snatchers is likely an impossible task under the best o' circumstances. fight a losing battle for nothing when actual infection circumstances has changed? yankee common sense as 'posed to obdurate and ignorant? not a hard choice. if six months from now we see reports o' a new variant and advice from cdc and elsewhere changes, am expecting the same 100ns will be talking 'bout yankee flip-flops or simillar nonsense... 'cause the past couple years o' this kinda stoopid has just not managed to change the minds o' anybody who dug in their heels and decided n95s is only for cleaning up the cat box. *eye roll* HA! Good Fun!

agreed. the thing is, we got folks in this thread seeing amazon's jack reacher and jack ryan as clones. am thinking jack reacher would work better if it were animated, then you could go full archer or venture brothers level with the silliness and audiences would recognize jack reacher is having more in common with brock sampson than dr. ryan. HA! Good Fun!

possibly went unnoticed, but at level seven, a dog gets embiggened. the pooch should now (assuming you is 10th level or so based on your lich status) be large and rideable unless you also enlarge your sosiel. HA! Good Fun!

wonderful indeed. mask wearing, vaccination, common sense social distancing, etc. all such stuff explains why wonderful deeply red county southerners has died at rates disproportionate to those know-it-all yankees and hippies on the left coast. so, congrats that you folks is over covid, but we, collective and national, recent had one o' the worst covid spikes since the pandemic began, and if southerners had a bit o' yankee common sense like folks in new hampshire, the rest o' us coulda' been enjoying a return to normal far sooner rather than just ignoring reality and pretending as if +1000 deaths per day is no biggie. HA! Good Fun!