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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Flu shots are “updated” every year for new variants. I might be wrong, but I think covid boosters so far are all just extra doses of the same old material. I don’t think anyone would get flu shots if we were expected to get 4 doses of the s
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Scrapple with a sprinkle of pepper and a drizzle of syrup is good eats. Fried up properly, it's basically a protein-filled hash brown.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Homework was several hours per night of busy work. I learned nothing from it. I spent that time teaching myself programming and things that were actually useful. For tests, simply paying attention and listening to what the teacher said was
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I didn’t go to Harvard, but I went to a decent university. I was one of those students who got perfectly scores on all my tests but couldn’t possibly be bothered to do homework in high school, so my grades were less than perfect. If it were
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I think many people would upgrade from Windows 10 to 7 if they had the choice.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> But Reddit has repeatedly said that they will not depreciate old.reddit.com. They have zero reason to, as many of their powerusers rely on it. Let’s be honest. Every company says this. Some actually try to stand by their statement. Pub
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
This depends on the school and town. I went to a northern suburban public middle school and it basically felt like college. We were encouraged to explore our interests and there were classes catering to basically everything—loads of foreig
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Not to be condescending, but because people have been saying for a year now or more now that the virus will rapidly evolve and any vaccines will become less effective over time because of it. And the virus rapidly evolved and the vaccines w
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Probably because a some churches will put a disproportionate amount of political rallying around banning something that Numbers 5:11-31 requires in some cases, but absolutely never mention marching or voting to feed the poor, help children,
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Yeah, this is one of those things that everyone seems to know about, but when you ask Japanese people, most are like, “That’s a thing? Maybe I’ve seen it but probably not.” There are… a lot of things like this, and I’m not sure why Japan is
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
It's fine, but the first few episodes absolutely will not hook you. It's very bland and generic at first.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Countries would be wise to learn from The Netherlands and start building to protect their coastlines. But most won't. We're just going to accept that the world's most populous cities will be underwater someday, some within a
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Some cars (including mine) have a seat that’s just one unified unit. No way to remove it.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> And our new forests tend to be more monocrop than the woodlands of old. This is a huge problem. When "reforesting", all too often the effort is just planting rows of evenly spaced out pine trees. Pine needles are decidedly le
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
We shouldn't. But low social mobility and further stratified wealth divisions is a sign that the effort is pointless for a growing number of people.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I mean, wars were fought over that and revolutions had. People decidedly did not like royalty, large so-wealthy-it's-hard-to-achieve groups, being so far above them. For a while, people much preferred knowing they could work hard or sm
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I mean... that doesn't detract from the problem at all. That just says there's a massive wealth divide and that moving up to the mere top 20% (the group 1 out of 5 people belong to) should be considered a ridiculous proposition un
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
You’d be surprised how many people don’t care what’s recommended for their needs, because they just want the strongest stuff imaginable. Particularly when they’re pissed off at pests. There’s a good number of people who’d happily buy flying
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
You’re really extrapolating a lot that I didn’t even come close to saying. Sufficiently large companies are required to have a certain percent of their staff be CCP members making decisions. That also comes with money tied up in the company
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Immigration is a bandaid on an internal injury. It makes you think you’ve helped the problem for now, but you’ve really done nothing. Most of the countries that act as sources of immigrants are beginning their own population decline. Very s
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
China literally does finance the companies. They’re required to have N% of their staff be CCP members once they reach a certain size. It doesn’t mean companies are free to just lose money. It means they can take risks and not just milk imme
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
>China - alleged communists - have outperformed the EU at creating a viable software industry. If anything, this could be because of the communist aspect. Companies of a certain size become entwined with the government in China. Funding
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Length of time until death doesn’t mean a virus is less lethal. Rabies effectively has a 100% death rate and it can take years for it to kick in. There are cases of people suddenly showing symptoms 5 years after initial exposure, and once
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Japan is currently implementing vaccine passports. Some towns already have registration and mine will soon.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Both should be regulated. Constant back and forth “x is worse” is why there’s been zero progress with plastics or CO2.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Neither of those were happening in that era. They’re also as irrelevant as bringing up European colonial horrors or ongoing American foreign intervention.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Last weekend I was at a Japanese history museum, and part of the exhibit was on 1600s-1800s medical technology. In the 1870s, Japan had vaccine passports and kept logs of unvaccinated people in order to track them down. It was deemed a huge
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Also a trend in making things increasingly less googleable. iTunes->Music. Searching for issues with the application formerly known as iTunes is borderline impossible now. Whoever approved that must’ve gotten an MBA from a top-ranked sch
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
And Kaiji and a few other manga/anime.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
It’s not the first time this happened. Houses lose desirability due to jobs moving out of town, crime rising, and so on. Buying an overpriced house shouldn’t guarantee you a solid return in the future. We’re at a point where we’d rather Bob

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