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which is why so many people were concerned when the previous administration were trying to rush the approval process for the vaccines, 'stead of letting the scientists fully analyze the data. 'course after the fact is not as if big pharma is able to adjust the case, hospitalization and death rates; there has been considerable opportunity to check the actual performance o' vaccines... or is the theory that big pharma is also messing with those numbers as well, 'cause then you is getting into moon hoax level o' conspiracy, no? a conspiracy theory which involves the complicity o' a whole lotta folks in dozens o' countries makes it increasing less likely, or at least it should. we wouldn't doubt that the vaccine manufacturers did what they could with their internal testing results to make their vaccines appear as efficacious as possible, but am doubting what you are referencing is some kinda quibble over % points. instead you offer vague notions o' corporate greed, something nobody would deny is an issue, as an explanation for... what exactly? HA! Good Fun!

a scientist is gonna change advice when data changes. is zealots who is gonna keep repeating the same stoopid claims in spite of changing data is the problem. there has been good advice from the scientists which hasn't changed from day 1. mask advice, one o' the conspiracy theorist bugaboos, changed with the data and circumstances. there were almost no n95 masks available to americans 'cause we had sent what supply o' them we did have to china and 'cause the trump administration had ignored pleas from the lone US producer that a serious increase in supply was warranted. the trump administration also halted development on specialized rapid production prototypes back in 2018. US spent millions (cheap in retrospect) developing technologies to confront pandemics with increased n95 production as one means o' improving american safety, but w/o an immediate threat of a pandemic, the trump administration killed funding... which is the kinda myopia which plagued previous administrations as well. not the scientists who screwed the pooch, but politicians. and yeah, before asymptomatic spread was understood, and in the absence o' n95s which were needed for healthcare workers, scientists said there weren't much value in mask wearing back when the pandemic started. 'course once asymptomatic spread were understood, the scientists changed advice regarding even cloth masks. what is the other concerns? that new variants has resulted in new mitigation advice? such isn't 'cause scientists lied but rather 'cause most americans didn't understand realities. the neil de grasse tyson video we linked, the first one from october 2020, is particular useful in reviewing how some o' the current misconceptions 'bout scientist flip-flops is more a matter o' skeevy politicians exploiting the science ignorance o' the public as 'posed to actual changing advice from the science guys, who always qualified their advice and recognized that new variants would result in new challenges, which is why they keep telling us there is never gonna be natural herd immunity and why vaccines is so important. etc. *shrug* science don't change 'cause science is nothing but a method. scientific advice should change because if you change the data, real scientists, using the method, is gonna often end up with new advice. is the zealots of whom you need be watchful. HA! Good Fun!

having recent seen more than a few op eds and pundit handwringing regarding merrick garland's silence insofar as trump investigations, am thinking is worth taking a moment to consider that there is no fast approaching statute o' limitations on the obstruction o' justice offenses, or near any other crime people has suggested trump and his cronies could be charged. is plenty o' time and the biggest mistake would be moving too soon and before doj were certain they could make charges stick. Don’t believe the hype about the statute of limitations is no reason to afeared o' the statute o' limitations and merrick garland most definite does not need speak to the public regarding the current status o' any possible fed investigations related to the trump campaign and trump personal. have seen it mentioned previous on this board how the failure to charge given how much time has passed can be taken as evidence there will not be charges forthcoming. hogwash. merrick garland should wait until he gots multiple credible witnesses willing to testify and that is more likely to happen as the other state, fed and Congressional investigations run their course. now as to why the january 6 Congressional committee isn't motivated to move a bit quicker, am admitted baffled. regardless, if anybody reads an article which suggests the statute o' limitations on trump charges is gonna run in the immediate future, just ignore. HA! Good Fun!

best way to get low-sodium is to avoid canned altogether if possible. make-it-yourself is almost always gonna result in less sodium. 'course am recognizing is much less time consuming to get soup from a can than to prepare yourself, and most people do not have the time or inclination to make their own stock or whatever. had a close fried for whom we cooked for frequent during the last few years o' his life. his wife had passed some years previous (cancer) and the guy were not an accomplished home chef by any stretch o' the imagination. he lived alone and his heart problems necessitated a low-sodium diet. https://www.mowp.org/our-story/ these folks is fantastic, but it might surprise you to learn that in spite o' the number o' seniors who need help with low-sodium meal prep, particular men as they is more likely to suffer from chf and the like, the meals on wheels fare, and similar services, rare offer a low-sodium menu. we did teach our self how to cook low(er) sodium and learned that swiss cheese has less salt compared to other cheeses, but am not certain how long we would want to survive if we had to strict follow a serious low sodium diet. regardless, as you no doubt is already aware, canned and shelf stable is near always gonna be higher in sodium than homemade, unless you is serious heavy handed with the salt. use kosher as 'posed to traditional table salt also tends to result in the use o' less salt in a recipe. much smaller individual grains means you get more salt for volume with table salt. HA! Good Fun!

Booster effectiveness wanes after 4 months, but showed sturdy protection against hospitalization, CDC study shows “I honestly think we were unrealistic early on in conveying the idea that vaccine efficacy should be primarily characterized by protecting from infection,” Marrazzo wrote in an email. “As variants evolve and get better at infecting us, what we’ll need to focus on is mitigating the consequences.” In a second study released Friday, CDC reviewed data from two of its vaccine safety monitoring systems. It found that those 18 and older who received the same mRNA vaccine for all their shots had fewer side effects after the booster than after their second dose. ... am gonna observe we did not enjoy a couple o' days following our booster, which were near four months removed at this point, and we were moderna with all three doses. our post booster side effects were not particular terrible, and thanks to our shingles vaccination last year we got a new baseline for acceptable side effects. am literal unable to recall ~six-to-eight hours o' our life following the shingles vaccination other than a recognition o' much shivering and disorientation. so relative speaking, the covid-19 booster side effects were hardly noteworthy save to recognize they were flu-like and brief. curiously, we have had negligible injection site discomfort for any o' the covid-19 shots and that is the most common side effect. in the linked neil de grasse videos, the astrophysicist laments why computer modeling cannot be used to predict vaccine effectiveness and side effects the way computers has become so effective at predicting the interactions o' extra-solar phenomena, but am thinking the physicist fails to recognize just how many variables there is to anticipate with medicine interactions, and there is no baseline human which provides a useful model for any kinda computer modeling. gonna be stuck with human testing for a long time and will be unsurprising when two seeming similar people have very different experiences with protean diseases such as covid-19 and the medications and vaccines meant to treat such ailments. regardless, am not particular concerned with waning booster efficacy at the moment, but it is indeed an issue worth following, particular if/when a new variant emerges. HA! Good Fun!

Texas counties reject unprecedented numbers of mail ballots ahead of March 1 primary under restrictive new law In Harris County, the state’s most populous county and home to Houston, election officials said Friday that 40 percent of roughly 3,600 returned ballots so far have lacked the identification number required under Senate Bill 1, as the new law is known. In Williamson County, a populous northern suburb of Austin, the rejection rate has been about 25 percent in the first few days that ballots have come in, the top election official there said. ... y'know, this kinda thing don't make us any more pro democrat, but it does make us more firm in our rejecting the current gop. given current trends. texas going purple and then blue is not so much a question o' if but when, and on the day texas does go blue there is gonna be howling and wailing o' biblical proportions. for all the democrats who current rage over the manifest unfairness o' the electoral college and the fact a gop President may gain the Presidency with potential as little as 23% o' the popular vote, we advise patience, just a little bit o' patience. once texas does flip blue, the hated and despised electoral college, for all practical purposes, makes it impossible for a gop candidate to win the Presidency in any o' our lifetimes. recommendation: if you are democrat, do self a favour and make sure to get ahead o' the change. be strategic and offer a few public displays o' electoral college approval. when the blue shift inevitable takes place, you will be able to undermine any suggestion o' hypocrisy. smile smug and offer feigned sympathy to your gop acquaintances who will no doubt be complaining 'bout how complete unfair is the electoral college. HA! Good Fun!

aside: is not an excuse, but am gonna once again observe how we rare had admirable clients. first amendment cases happen at the margins. people rare comment 'bout just how openminded and reasonable is religious zealots and even cultists. everybody knows white supremacists is models o' intelligence, justice and decency. we dealt with the most loathsome and obtuse: strip club owners, gang leaders, teacher's unions. kidding 'bout the last one... mostly. every day needing champion the first amendment rights o' those who, if roles were reversed, woulda' happily trampled on the speech religion, press and association rights o' others, were exhausting. get a chance to respond to the smallminded and willful ignorant w/o needing be nice is refreshing. moving on... https://gregolear.substack.com/p/shame-cometh-the-jared-kushner-story During the early days of the pandemic, he set up a shadow task force to devise an appropriate response. When that task force gave him its recommendations—masks, contact tracing, federal coordination of supplies, etc.—he ignored them. The virus, he saw, was hitting the Blue States the hardest. It would help his father-in-law politically, he came to believe, if the pandemic continued to rage in those states. This way, his father-in-law could blame the governors of those states, who were all Democrats, for the escalating public health crisis, avoiding responsibility. So he decided to scuttle the plans given him by his own task force, and let the virus run amok. At the time, the states hit the hardest by covid-19 were New York, New Jersey, and California. New York: where he lived for years, where most of his friends lived. New Jersey: where he grew up, where his parents lived. California: where his brother lived. He was willing to let the populations of those states—home to his family and friends—get sick and die to help his father-in-law’s re-election prospects. Again: He was willing to let the populations of those states get sick and die to help his father-in-law’s re-election prospects. As of this writing, 904,000 Americans have died of covid-19. The unofficial number is well over a million. Most of those deaths could have been prevented, had he and his father-in-law not sabotaged the pandemic response. The grandson of Holocaust survivors allowed that mass death to happen. ... if true... HA! Good Fun!

oh, we never had any notion o' changing the minds o' those obvious obtuse and intransigent. as @Gorth notes, the paragraphs is useful to speak to those who is less immovable but nevertheless possessing similar views. is impossible to use reason to change the mind o' somebody such as sharp_one who did not come to their conclusions through reason, but that don't mean there ain't others out there who nevertheless believe unreasonable and simple are unaware o' what is the actual law regarding 4th amendment issues or why increasing vaccination rates leads to a higher % of vaccinated people dying from covid-19. etc. also, and have mentioned this previous, we would block some o' the worst offenders o' obtuse, but the board software makes such impossible. in rl we had to always polite steer people to doing what was in their own best interest, even if they were self destructively ignorant; were kinda the worst part o' the job. those who abuse authority or those previous identified shmucks immune to reason who nevertheless feel the need to announce to the world how intransigent and ignorant they wish to be in spite o' any proffer o' facts is kinda representing an attractive nuisance to us. the whole Gromnir persona, +20 years past, were invented 'cause from our pov, too many o' the regulars on the bg2 boards were toolbags who seemed to find it amusing to mock "no00bs" and spout off 'bout things they clear weren't particular knowledgeable 'bout themselves. were cathartic for us to use the Gromnir bit to chastise folks we would need other wise placate in rl. like we said, if ignore were possible, we would use, 'cause as am getting older is less amusing to, "expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of (brutal) education," but am admitted quite happy to indulge when the worst offenders offer us the chance. "gonna make more use o' ignore 'cause chances are the next time we see somebody post something monumental asinine, am gonna comment. yeah, chances are we face some kinda sisyphean trial as we attempt to explain something which should be self evident, and no doubt we will need endure the comically retributive squeaks o' rage from those who feel wronged, but am petty enough to not be overconcerned, even if am agreeing with the general sentiment that is we should be more wary o' stoopid and angry. as such, where is possible, ignore is probable our best option." -- Gromnir, 28 dec 2021 am aware is petty, but we can live with such a burden. but again, trying to contribute at least something o' value... HA! Good Fun!

am thinking you give some o' the trolls far too much credit, or too little? dunno. sure, a "made you post," kinda thing is frequent the puerile excuse, but is rare convincing. am recalling when a former mod played that card with us, then went apoplectic. i was only posting to get a rise out of you. neener-neener. is hardly convincing when the troll gets worked up and increasing bufoonish. example: there is of course more recent examples, but perhaps the wounds is too fresh, eh? @HoonDing on the other hand, is exact the kinda thing you describe, and is ez to distinguish his drive-by efforts from the gibbering types who is apparent sensitive to baiting. the one's who keep coming back for more is not just purposeful turning themselves into a punching bag 'cause they think doing so is a win. HA! Good Fun! ps we will note that removing the topic complete from covid-19 does make moderation more likely. wanna discuss posting dods and don't sans any thread relevant contribution is likely to get things shut down. to try and add something o' value... is way back from 2020. is impressive just how useful dr. paul offit insights were and that in spite o' changing data, his observations 'bout mistaken notions o' herd immunity, usefulness o' masks and the practical value o' vaccines short and long-term, and dispelling a few conspiracy theories.

hate to go all food snob again, but the ideal philly cheesesteak is gonna look like https://alikhaneats.com/johns-roast-pork-philadelphia/ you want the onions, meat and cheese to become a single uniform, gooey and inextricable mass o' ingredients. need thin cut veggies and meat to make it all come together. sadly, our most frequent complaint o' a cheesesteak is the steak; quantity is somehow meant to cover for lack o' flavour. find genuine good meat and am gonna be willing to endure other shortcomings. we got family in eastern pennsylvania and they is 'mongst the heretics who swear by two non traditional venues championed as bestest cheesesteak options. will offer for any persons planning on visiting philly anytime in the near future: 1) john's roast pork is what we got linked 'bove. holds a slight edge 'mongst our family which means #2 is likely superior. 2) donkey's place is actual in camden, nj. is why we suggest it may deserve the #1 spot, 'cause if Gromnir family is recommending a nj place as best, then it must be special. anthony bourdain did a segment on the donkey's place cheesesteak if you are curious and genuine interested enough to do a search. have enjoyed the john's sandwich and it were indeed sublime. have never been to donkey's, so am sharing based on the strength o' the recommendations. am gonna observe how both #1 and #2 use white american cheese, although when Gromnir makes we most often use provolone. s'posed white american melts superior resulting in a virtual emulsion. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-deaths-in-u-s-exceed-deltas-peak-as-covid-19-optimism-rises-in-europe-11643201653 is people who inexplicable think omicron were a nothingburger or somesuch silliness. the current surge represents the second most deadly we has experienced during the pandemic, 'cause in spite of the diminished lethality o' an individual case o' covid due to omicron compared to delta, the transmissibility o' omicron has more than made up for the difference. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ am gonna keep linking. americans, who 'cause o' aforementioned anxiety issues had worked extreme hard to convince self that +600k deaths from covid were some kinda exaggeration or the result o' government or big pharma conspiracies were looking for any excuse to marginalize covid-19, so when omicron becomes dominant and the case counts began to surge, there were a segment o' the population who once again mocked scientific guidance and they felt justified in their stoopid selfishness 'cause they read somewheres that omicron were far less lethal than delta. 'course hospitalization rates began to climb in the US, so surely at that point, which admitted woulda' been too late to ensure some kinda useful mitigation efforts, woulda' seen reasonable people adjust their thinking on the relative dangers o' omicron, yes? nope. an all too predictable, "nope." that said, is worth recognizing that 'cause o' the extreme transmissibility o' omicron, the effectiveness o' previous mitigation approaches were gonna be reduced. woulda' needed practice arguable impractical social distancing, although such were still advisable when dealing with highly vulnerable segments o' the population. 'course freaking vaccinations and boosters woulda' once again helped prevent serious outcomes from covid-19 infections and n-95 masks, seeing as how they is +95% effective at preventing spread in indoor environments, woulda' gone a long way in reducing the impact o' omicron if there were something approaching universal adoption, though such were never gonna happen in the US. is arguable that 'cause o' the intransigence o' the ill-informed and recognizing the measles equivalent transmissibility o' omicron, working to protect any save the most vulnerable were wasted effort, but such is the kinda calculus we expect from politicians instead o' scientists and doctors. regardless, am just not certain how people can look at hospitalizations and deaths attributed so far to omicron (those numbers is gonna continue to be noteworthy for at least the next week and a half as omicron has followed the same case and hospitalization trends as past surges) and convince self that somehow the dangers o' omicron were exaggerated. HA! Good Fun!

ignoring the appeal to absurdism, five quality meals a week for kids who might not be certain o' receiving one such meal a week, would seem to be a significant improvement. this ain't even a new math conundrum. five is better than zero in the present context. is also not just an obesity issue 'cause as already observed, brain development is also inextricable linked to proper nutrition. furthermore, the biden efforts, if one actual reads the linked articles, allocate funds to increase snap coverage in the hope families will be better able to feed children when those kids is not receiving meals at school. unfortunate, there is hardly a guarantee that more food money means better nutrition for many children. school lunch is the one meal per day fed, state and local governments, which have a rather vested interest in the long term physical and intellectual growth o' school age children, is able to be certain those kids have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits o' a nutritionally balanced meal, so why would one possible argue such is a bad idea? schools current get the kids exercise, which is a good thing. observe that exercise alone ain't enough? well, is not as if such is a reason for getting rid o' school exercise programs, 'cause that would be dumb, right? nobody would suggest something so utter stoopid. well, ok, how 'bout find ways to improve nutrition? one obvious solution is to make certain that meals at schools is free to all and that such meals is nutritionally beneficial. but five meals a week ain't a guarantee kids will be getting enough nutrition and school lunches is not gonna end obesity, so scrap that idea? wait? what? doing so is just as dumb as is getting rid o' school exercise. ... some things is complicated. making sure kids get decent school lunches is not particular complicated and is a whole lot cheaper than other welfare programs. is tough to frame intelligent arguments opposed to the lunch programs. instead we get fox link and absurdism? well, ok then. HA! Good Fun!

well, biden has been trying to address the problem, but there appears to be some resistance to making sure american kids get at least one decent meal every day while their bodies and brains are still developing. HA! Good Fun!

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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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!