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by aestra 13y ago
I didn't suggest the signs didn't exist at all, or that there wasn't anti-irish sentiment. I suggested they weren't particularly common in America. Not as much as widely believed.
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by aestra 13y ago
>More than half the kids who go to the elementary school qualify for free lunches Fancy school to me. :) 100% of the children in my elementary school got free lunch. We didn't have recess or a playground because we couldn't aff
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by aestra 13y ago
Stupid idea. This works for YOU but not other parents. My husband is still living in the stoneage and doesn't use email. He actually has an email address, but doesn't check it, ever, not once in the last several years. He does
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by aestra 13y ago
>My problem was not that developed in a month or two but was there from a long time Yes, and this is called chronic sinusitis, which is what I posted about. >It wasn't that one day I woke up and found that I am cured Real medicin
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by aestra 13y ago
The amount of failures eclipses the amount of successes by a lot. I didn't say we shouldn't still study them, but the idea they are "pretty good usually" is false.
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by aestra 13y ago
Can they? I tried to order something online with a prepaid debit card once and it was rejected. I then put in my CC and it worked fine. Disclaimer: My experiences don't necessarily reflect others.
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by aestra 13y ago
> (Irish for one) was pretty heavy with signs (e.g. "No Irish Allowed"). It is a myth that such signs were ever common. http://historymyths.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/myth-82-signs-s... http:&#x2F
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by aestra 13y ago
In the history of my last name: We found records of the origins of my family in the US. Their name was not changed at first, except 10 years later the first letter "I" got inexplicably changed to a "J." Considering how c
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by aestra 13y ago
The first day in Spanish class in middle school we had to pick a "Spanish name" for ourselves. We were called by that name the entire year by our teacher, and she insisted we call each other by our Spanish name. In the Northeast U
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by aestra 13y ago
No, but I'd rather not have my credit cards have that option in them. Basically, I do not like the fact someone can tap my card and then get money from it. I just am not a fan of that type of payment, because it is too easy. I don&#x27
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by aestra 13y ago
>It's my understanding that it's explicitly against the merchant agreement with the big CC players to have different prices for different payment methods. It was. Then there was a class action lawsuit against Visa and Mastercar
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by aestra 13y ago
>Because as a consumer, I've never had a complaint about my CC, ever. With the NFC chips built into all new CCs (at least here in Canada) I tap my card and leave. I don't want to tap my card and leave. I wish I could turn off t
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by aestra 13y ago
Guess what? 10 million American households are unbanked or underbanked. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked
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by aestra 13y ago
>And allopathy is a major money earner for a lot of corporations and they go to every effort to tell the people that any other medicine system be it unani, ayurveda, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, etc are false and bad. Incorrect
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by aestra 13y ago
> chinese medicine usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials as well. You gotta be kidding me! Do you really believe that? Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on an incorrect understanding of the body and an incorrect d
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by aestra 13y ago
A lot of communication is non-verbal, body language, tone of voice, etc. It is incredibly easy to misinterpret when you are only given a small part of the communication. :)
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by aestra 13y ago
First of all, I accidentally omitted the word "generally" which was meant to be there. What I meant to say was "Please note, the types of things homeopathy is prescribed for are GENERALLY self limiting. Your body will heal
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by aestra 13y ago
Salicylic acid is natural! It comes from the bark of the willow tree. It has been known since ancient times, presumably they used to consume willow bark. We then figured out the active ingredient in willow bark. However, asprin is acetylsal
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by aestra 13y ago
> I do have a problem with the bullshit mechanisms that acupuncture suggests. Correct. No arguments from me on that. However, as noted in the Wikipedia article, few modern day acupuncture therapist actually incorporate the original conce
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by aestra 13y ago
The article doesn't say directly, but it could have been accidental, just like the discovery of penicillin. >produced during fermentation That's what it says, that seems to imply to me that it was accidental.
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by aestra 13y ago
>I do love the supplement/nutrition industry Why? It is almost entirely unregulated and unsupervised. They have been known to contain unlisted ingredients, none of the ingredients they say, and dosages that differ wildly from what t
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by aestra 13y ago
Yes, I actually did read it, but I seemed to have a brain fart and didn't actually notice it mentioned Zicam. Or I most likely just didn't retain the information. I must be getting old.
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by aestra 13y ago
Not the first time this has happened. Zicam was marketed as homeopathy, but recalled because it had real active ingredients in it. (slightly diluted zinc acetate and zinc gluconate) They caused some people to lose their sense of smell. htt
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by aestra 13y ago
Yeah, I'm sure puncturing the skin can cause a release of endorphins which relieves pain. No doubts there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics
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by aestra 13y ago
>I have no idea on how they do those clinical studies which say that there is no difference between a placebo and actual homeopathic medicines. So read up on them. Here's a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by aestra 13y ago
>apart from their stupidity That's harsh. The average consumer doesn't have the time/expertise to go through scientific research on homeopathic medicine. Someone tells them "this is going to work" and they believ
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by aestra 13y ago
>since they can have no effects, they can have no side effects Completely and totally incorrect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo In medicine, a nocebo (Latin for "I shall harm") is a harmless substance
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by aestra 13y ago
>It's unreasonable to demand that someone change their mind about something (and would you believe it if he claimed he had?) It can happen. Take New York Senator Mark Grisanti as an example. He ran on the campaign against gay marr
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by aestra 13y ago
>traditional idea of marriage Ok, I have a question. What exactly do these people think a traditional marriage is? Marriage is always and has always evolved with the times, culture, and societal norms and thinking. It wasn't until r
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by aestra 13y ago
> I still wonder is when coops work and when they don't I haven't read it yet, but this might be of use. http://www.geo.coop/story/why-some-worker-co-ops-succeed-whi...

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