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I grew up in a ridiculously small town in the midwest. I graduated with 35 kids and said, "the keg is on the bean planter," way too many times, kind of rural. 🤣 My parents and sisters still live there, and while there are many great things about it, I just find it way too boring for my taste. As rural as I'm looking for these days, is a house on a lake that is within 30-45 of the city, and has tons of houses/neighborhoods. I currently live in a townhome on the edge of a medium sized city and I have become accustomed having everything close. I love that I have tons of neighbors who are always outside on the patio, fishing in the lake or jumping on 1 of the 2 running/bike trails that pass through my development. Beers on the back porch with my neighbors has created many a new friendship. A 5 min Uber to the bars/restaurants is great, as is the 5 minute drive to the grocery/hardware store. I also love that when I get home from an airline trip in the winter, my driveway is already plowed...I shoveled enough driveways in my youth to know I can do it. Maybe when I'm that old "get off my lawn" type of guy, I'll change my mind.

From what I've read the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines (the two that are approved in the US right now) should still be relatively effective against the new UK mutation. Both the OG virus and the UK mutation use the same spike protein to latch on to cells and those two vaccines use mRNA to instruct our immune systems to attack that protein rather than other potential ways to get at the virus. YMMV on the details, I'm not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. FWIW this is a good article on the expected side effects of the COVID vaccine. It was worth the time spent reading it. https://www.vox.com/22158238/covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-explained TL;DR: people should expect mild/moderate reactions to both vaccines although perhaps less so with the Pfizer one, not unlike many other vaccines. True story, I got 5x vaccines all at once before a deployment and one of them was even non-standard one (Japanese encephalitis virus). I went back to work and about 30 minutes later felt like I got hit with a tranq dart like Will Ferrell in Old School. I drove home but felt absolutely crazy and slept straight from 2pm until 9am the next morning. And that's to be expected haha, it's a lot to ask your immune system to spin up against that much shit at once! Get your vaccines people; they save lives and we can end this pandemic sooner rather than later.

That is not what "equity" means. It has nothing to do with "fair treatment". Equity means "equality of outcome".

It goes without saying that Sim would only post extremely biased, out of context, bullshit. But I went through the trouble of figuring out what was manipulated, so I might as well share it. The context that’s missing is that, immediately before this clip starts, he says “If we can not make significant progress on racial equity, this country is doomed...” He’s saying the country is doomed if the growing minority groups continue to be treated unfairly, and they need to work together if they want to fix it. If you want to check, watch the whole video. This is at ~1:14:30

Also important to be able to identify true journalism and not junk entertainment.

Hence why best to just not trust journalist, politicians, or corporate spokes people of any affiliation.

The Rock?

Is it hand cranked?

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