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Ozempic and its cousins: Some people are pissed off that other people are taking them for weight loss because they think they should be restricted only to those who have the prescription for original purposes like diabetes, and the shortages should affect primarily those taking it for weight loss. S...

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Biden occasionally talks about things he might do to the airlines and he should KEEP TALKING and even more so, DO THE THINGS. Suppose you like free market capitalism and tend to think govt should stay hands off where possible. Regulation of airlines should be only for safety, etc. Well, the first th...

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Is anyone playing this? As far as I can tell it seems to have halted most human activity for anyone between the ages of 10 and 40 and anyone else who likes this type of video game. There's a business ethics issue here: they probably shouldn't release a thing like this until after the school year is ...

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Does anyone have this? I want to know if novelty wears off after one try or if it's something you come back to with the same frequency of say Yahtzee? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pig+dice+game&adgrpid=58967752707&hvadid=557334886471&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9024529&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&am...

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There are different kinds of fights though. Like are they in the octagon or are they fighting in some other specific situation or way? What if it's an underwater fight? Or they're on top of a train? Probably somewhere on the internet a person has made a list of all the movies that feature fights on ...

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We'll be helping my daughter and her boyfriend move to Boulder, CO, next weekend. We'll be driving through Nebraska and near Denver on the way, so I'll be sure wave to all of you as we pass! Oh my goodness! If you're coming through during the day you should stop and say hello! We could have a lunch...

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Cleopatra on Netflix Started watching. Have no complaints so far. It's clearly made for a popular audience, designed to attract that click as you're browsing Netflix, and combines imaginary drama (which they are completely upfront about being imagined) with scholarly commentary. Some new insight has...

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I'm laying here miserable and confused and unable to function after having one of the two vaccine shots (super eager for the next one after this). Diane Feinstein actually has shingles at her age and people are pissed because they assume all old people are cognitively impaired. A few in our family d...

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Ooof. Not only am I sore from yesterday's workout and run, but I also had a doctor's appointment yesterday which involved 3 shots (tetanus booster, flu shot, and shingles vaccine) plus blood work. And the shingles vaccine is supposedly known for its side effects of headaches, nausea, fever, etc. Bo...

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Oh, I am sorry this is happening. Hoping you get some answers and accurate information.

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Counterpoint to my praise for Queen Charlotte, this writer thinks the show is guilty of colorism and reminiscent of minstral character tropes: https://www.themarysue.com/bridgerton-spinoff-repeats-a-disappointing-pattern-from-the-first-season/ I don't see it the same way because I think the show is ...

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Happy Mother's Day, on which I know that the world before reproductive freedom was a world of suffering and death for mothers. I hope people celebrate this as a happy day, but the older I get The more I hate these greeting card holidays. I had forgotten about it being mother's Day for a blessed few ...

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Oh and, update on Queen Cleopatra: because this one takes the approach of historical drama, rather than a fictionalized but illuminating reimagining of a world the way that Queen Charlotte accomplishes, It has been relentlessly attacked. Apparently on rating sites like rotten tomatoes it gets about ...

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Queen Charlotte On Netflix, the latest spinoff of Shonda Rhimes' Bridgerton series. I actually like Queen Charlotte a lot better and I think I'm about halfway through? Bridgerton is more fluff and fancy and romance and sex-approximate scenes. It has a clever "mystery identity" plot to keep...

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3/14 & 5/16, dislike both options intensely so who cares?

4, 6, 7, 8, love em both so why do this to me? Maybe have to go with Hulk and Black Panther. The others too difficult.

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Nihilism, at its core, posits that life is devoid of inherent meaning or purpose. Nihilism might mean different things, depending on who's defining it or whether they're talking about moral values or meaning or existence or whatever. But it doesn't value authenticity and personal freedom or encoura...

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Okay this is a serious answer to the original question: Trust in bigger institutions is lost when people feel a sense of mistrust in their day-to-day life as well. I think we're suffering from an epidemic of mistrust in this country that comes from so many different directions at once. And all of th...

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Post re: Biden running.

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That jackass. I have a hard time believing he'll actually do it but don't know him well enough to predict. He's a particularly loathed figure among the Democrats, and has almost nothing new or interesting to offer versus Biden or a different Democratic party candidate, so I wonder why he would bothe...

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It gives short shift to the females in the story. Non accidental. It learns about the human world based on the human texts we produced.

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Yes- this is an AI generated topic. However, it actually made some points that I hadn't thought about with Nihilism. This is probably because much of what it says above about nihilism is not true of nihilism. Or put another way: If these views were true of nihilism then it would no longer be nihili...

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The AI was handed the crack pipe! Sure. But do you think it has a point? No. It says a bunch of nonsense that's completely incompatible with any actual nihilist views. These AI text generators are not known for accuracy in situations like this - they just make stuff up and when pressed will even ma...

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Spiderman. I object to the two women being paired in the bracket but Wonder Woman, duh.

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Far right is on a steady, urgent campaign to destroy trust in all those institutions before it has to bank on the mistrust to seize power rather than win elections. It's chilling but here we are. Pandemic helped the cause; these people will insist no public health measure helped and the experts were...

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It hurts me, presenting such a boring Hauze. Still mad that guy doesn't talk to us here. Crying. Mad and crying, aaghh!

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The AI was handed the crack pipe!

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I am amazed by the distance traveled looking back to the beginning of this thread and then a year and a half later. I did not think myself capable of any warm reception of a boyfriend into this life, evarrrrrr! Yet some crucial things happen that caused me to favor the current boyfriend, and once I ...

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I would probably like most of this and will need to explore the options. Number seven is currently the go-to radio song since they play it all the time and apparently my kids hate it. It's not like I'm capable of singing any song, but this is a particularly difficult song to sing well. I'm a sucker ...

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Other people seem to have been raised mostly like this: Let's go to the quickie Mart and get a giant 39-cent pop! This is how I was raised: If we thought about spending a quarter a day on a can of soda but instead we collected that money and invested it at 5%, how much money would we have after 15 y...

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Hmmmmmmm I don't know what version we're playing but if you get to 32k/two to the 15th then the game is probably worth saving for later instead of letting die when you have to get out of the car. 32K is the minimum? Did I mention that it was sent up for me from the devil as a torment and punishment ...

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I downloaded this game where are you assemble little blocks that are labeled with numbers going up as a factor of two: 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.. I was looking for a mindless game that could be played on the phone during the 5 minutes I am constantly having to go and sit here and there in the car every day ...

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"Ready" I'm assuming an Indian movie but I have no experience with Bollywood movies to judge what variety there of it might be. I was intrigued by this promising caption: a man is going to help his friend by kidnapping a bride but ends up stealing the wrong woman! Just a normal sort of mis...

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The Diplomat on Netflix I was listening and not really watching and the script was wretched beyond belief. Just so stupid, as if normal middle-aged humans talk this way. They try to use all these witty phrases as if they think they're writing for Billions or as if it shows the main character (played...

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I really want to do this but I am in the pit with work and responsibilities at the moment. Deep in the pit from which there is no escape and no regularity. All of the cherished streaks in the puzzles were lost. The ebb is low! But the day is coming when this will work.

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Couldn't sleep last night for some reason. At the crack of dawn dogs will have to go potty regardless. One of them is like a canine rooster - every morning in the same time and place and presumably for the same reason known only to him, he makes an enormous howling bark. Perhaps his goal is to wake ...

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The Google version of the internet decided that I should understand Jerry Springer brought us this girl who said cash me outside and now she is some sort of a pop star named bhad bhaby. After the day I've had here, this is enough to make me give up on sending a large group of the other humans to Mar...

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Yes!! It's wild! I've seen some interviews with him where it's a fine line between "he gets all kinds of things the rest of us mortals don't," and "what the heck?" Honestly don't know which way to go with it. Do I believe he could be taking the fall for someone else's criminal be...

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I have never really looked into this because my only encounter with it has been as publication outlet for discredited academics and journalists who couldn't get any other outlet. But if random people can use it and share content and it's a little more content focused than the average social media, t...

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Haha yes, I have to be careful because my kid is a Spanish speaker, but I don't know whether he knows such words. Guessing yes based on the fact of knowing slang words for "butt". This video definitely, as the kids say, hits different in light of the conviction news. I think it's from a mo...

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Will be very interesting to see what happens with Tucker Carlson because the weight of the far right has become so great they seem to be toppling over that direction and leaving a chunk of other Republicans (and Fox News) behind. At some point it starts to interfere with the money and then it won't ...

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OBSESSED with thissssssssssssssss!!!!!!! https://youtu.be/05707XPzb0c I need to get a good English translation of the lyrics because I have no idea what's going on. I got some things about wanting to party and wanting to move, those seem to be repeated, and maybe drinking and partying, and there's a...

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But in the good way! If it involves a spreadsheet that's a plus. I'm glad you've worked out how much extra I'm going to have to play with for my foundation. Hopefully I can start a whole range of schools that go from Pre-K all the way through college and trade school. It will be a microcosm of the e...

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I don't know this is happening simply because people who produce media content needs something that sounds vaguely controversial to write about, or if it's actually being driven by audience concerns or widespread interest. Either way, this anti Black Cleopatra stuff keeps popping up due to new show ...

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I feel guilty because I was helping my kid with math homework and it prompted me to criticize the way the professor was teaching. I was mad because the notes were messy and very difficult to follow, and examples had been worked that did not illustrate the principles very well. But then I realized, I...

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Let's suppose you can earn 25 million a year on your initial 500 million, since even CDs are over 4% now. With the first million of that 25 in sheer surplus to play with each year, I'm moving my parents in here and buying two 8-hour shift health care providers and one part time housekeeper and chef....

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I saw this earlier! What a profound influence, and he lived so long!!

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A near miracle has occurred: I like the (plumber) boyfriend. He seems okay. This is a revelatory experience. Suddenly it seems vaguely normal to have him hanging around the kitchen. He is a pleasant individual! Meanwhile my 11 year old now informs me he has had a "girlfriend" for the last ...

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Part of the problem is the huge disparity in surplus wealth donated to the school between certain schools and districts. So one football team, for example, has all kinds of extras for practice and travel, and the parents have big fundraisers with items auctioned or raffled off for hundreds of dollar...

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The phenomenon of school fundraising continues to be a steaming pile of BS. The goal of such efforts is to transfer money from point A to account B, where A ordinarily flows from parents and immediate family members. Maximizing the sources of A relieves the financial burden on family members, in exc...

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It's really good you were able to find that out and have some answers and clarity. Perhaps in the future it will be even more important and you'll have different options.

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