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by ksenzee 4y ago
"Constantly present but at manageable levels" is the definition of endemic. The question is whether the levels are manageable. I would argue they're not. Most people seem to think they are.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
not everyone here is a straight man, welcome to the future
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by ksenzee 4y ago
It was certainly not all deep fried. Gross. I'd have been sick the whole time.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
I lost 60 pounds of pregnancy weight that year, so it's hard to tell, but I didn't notice any particular change in my weight loss rate during the potato diet.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
I spent a few weeks eating only potatoes and vegetable oil, several years ago. It wasn't for weight loss, it was because I was breastfeeding, and my baby had some kind of protein sensitivity we couldn't nail down. Potatoes turned
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by ksenzee 4y ago
This is an epic. I can't believe I've never even heard of it before.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
Er, how often do you visit? We've had widespread chip-reading terminals in the US for almost a decade.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
Omicron does a better job of getting around vaccine-induced immunity than the previous variants did, but vaccinated people still have a lot of protection against infection compared to unvaccinated people.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
No, I'm used to correcting for that. I was judging it by whether someone like my brother or the guys on my team would know it. I assumed they all would. Oops.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
That's like saying "no I don't shop for 'electronics' whatever that means, I buy phones and TVs and computers." The umbrella term is what it is, whether you know it or not.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
Yeah I stand corrected on espadrilles, and I was married to a gay guy for years so I should totally have known that one.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
My gay BFF ex-husband knows his fabrics better than I do. YMMV.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
Hm. I don't think it's a rich people thing, really. Most of these words are describing the way the fabric is made, not the material it's made out of. A lot of guys own a chambray shirt, and if you google "damask tableclo
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by ksenzee 5y ago
I'm less into that stuff than the average woman. I mean, I write software for a living, I read speculative fiction, I wear hoodies to work with no makeup. But when my husband and I finally had money for our first real post-futon couch,
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by ksenzee 5y ago
I had no idea they made espadrilles for men! (eta: or that they called men's shoes like that espadrilles.)
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by ksenzee 5y ago
I'm a woman software engineer, and I recognize every one of those as a word, which I think was the criterion being measured. (There are a few on each side I can't define but have definitely seen.) I'm mostly floored by how ma
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by ksenzee 5y ago
This isn't quite correct. Antigen tests will show covid at approximately the same viral load as is needed to be contagious. Essentially, it's a test of whether you can spread covid today.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
The point is relevant whether that actual sponge on a stick came from a toilet or not. The contempt implicit in the giving is not at all clear if you don't know what a sponge on a stick was usually for.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
English is my first language, I also speak French, and I often avoid saying French phrases out loud in English, for fear of pronouncing them "wrong" and sounding pretentious.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
The article lists several reasons: culturally they feel closer to WV, they want to be able to do things like fracking that MD has outlawed, they don't feel heard by the MD government on issues like gun rights and taxes. Essentially the
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by ksenzee 5y ago
I believe it's meant to be "Even _I_ don't have..."
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by ksenzee 5y ago
Same experience as winning Windows Solitaire on a Pentium for the first time and watching the cards instantly fall to the bottom. I was considerably older than 7 at the time and I still laughed.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
Mainly because of liver toxicity. You can damage your liver to the point of needing a transplant with 4000 mg of acetaminophen in a day. There's an offhand mention of it here: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/
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by ksenzee 5y ago
As a woman I appreciate it. I get so tired of things we order around being named after women.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
I do not have the pen/pin merger (raised in the Seattle area), and I do not pronounce "enter" and "inter" the same, but I do pronounce English as if it were Inglish. I think that word is an exception.
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by ksenzee 5y ago
I'm looking at the table you cite, and it's listing side effects such as headache, fatigue, and chills. "Severe reactions" makes it sounds like they had serious adverse events. If 2% of kids get severe headache, fatigue,
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by ksenzee 6y ago
Pivoted to copier repair and opened a storefront copy/print shop. He somehow also knew how to operate an offset press (? I have no idea where he learned all this stuff) so he bought a secondhand offset press and moved it into the garag
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by ksenzee 6y ago
Typewriter repair was our family business too. My dad opened a repair shop in our garage in about 1980, and at its peak he had a handful of employees, repairing mostly IBM Selectrics for offices and schools in the Seattle metro area. I woul
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by ksenzee 6y ago
Browser debuggers are amazing. I've been using them since Venkman. There's no substitute for setting a breakpoint, via the UI or a `debugger` statement, and watching your code execute a line at a time, in context. But that doesn&#
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by ksenzee 6y ago
It varies by state. There's a list at https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/bankruptcy-exemption... . Basically you can keep stuff like the house you live in, your not-flashy car, household goods, tools of your t

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