Alue42

For real, the answer is already obvious

I don’t think I’ve ever had Office insert, or even recommend, em dashes. Or en dashes. It’s definitely inserted hyphens where they don’t belong.

True, I don’t overuse then within that amount of text.

Ugh, there are those of us that are fully aware of the proper uses for en dashes and em dashes, and I’m not going to stop properly using my em dashes just so people don’t think sending them an AI generated response.

Another comment mentioned a “giveaway” is the “there dots but as one character”. I don’t know about y’all’s keyboards, but if I type an ellipses my phone’s keyboard automatically changes it to a single character of three dots and has been doing so for years.

If you already exist in the venn diagram that enjoys this post, I’m pretty sure this is what the Internet is for

I hate velvet. Everyone says to save space in your closet you should get those slim velvet hangers. Not a chance. Over my dead body will those velvet hangers ever see the light of day in my closet. I don’t want to even think about any of my clothes touching those hangers, let alone myself. You wouldn’t believe the effort I put into finding non-velvet hangers just as slim as the velvet ones to prove to family and friends I wasn’t wasting space in my closet.

Each of those you mentioned, except Korea, included Congress approval. Vietnam was approved by Congress with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964). Iraq was approved with the Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (2002). Afghanistan was approved by the Congress Joint Resolution (2001). I suppose it’s the fine line between “military force” and “war”.

You are incorrect on each of those. Vietnam was approved by Congress with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964). Iraq was approved with the Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (2002). Afghanistan was approved by the Congress Joint Resolution (2001).

Congressional approval is required for acts of war. I know the Republicans have Congress, but are they willing to go that far??

The wealthy overlords require a multitude of cheap labor to retain their wealth. That’s why they are so concerned about falling birth rates - listen to any of them talk about it, it has nothing to do with concern for the planet like any of the rest of us (less demand on resources that we are already depleting, etc), they are concerned about maintaining the current rates of production and labor if the next generations are smaller and smaller. Sure, Vance is talking about it from a “family values” perspective, because that’s a cloak he thinks his base will listen to, but listen to Musk talk about it, or any of the “pro-natalist” movement.

My theory is that him and Adam Baldwin were both on the outskirts of these conspiracies, then when they were in a show together (Chuck) they started talking together and it spiraled and they both became crazier and their combined crazy fueled each other. If you look at the trajectory of both of their craziness, it seems to line up with the second half of the series and afterwards.

I’m making an educated guess that the 40,000 number is a complete exaggeration. That number is coming from Trump and Musk, not an actual spreadsheet or database. Look at by how much he exaggerated the square footage of his penthouse in Trump Tower, or the size of his crowd at his inauguration.

Rumor has it original translations more closely correlate “rib” to “baculum” - partially as a way to describe why other mammals have them and humans don’t (because it was removed from Adam), and also to better describe the intention of the relationship God intended for the two of them. But then as the story was translated and edited over and over again, they needed to “clean it up”

You can have your mirrors adjusted properly while still looking over your shoulder. I posted above that I was taught how to properly adjust my mirrors I I’ve never had blind spots, but I still always look over my shoulders - including opening my door as the Dutch do (open the driver door with your right hand, not the left, because this forces you to reach across yourself and thus turn to see what might be coming towards you and you might open your door into)

Yes, they do.

I was taught in driver’s ed back in the 90’s how to correctly set my mirrors, but apparently I’m the only one who paid attention, because everyone else did that “adjust the mirror so you can see the handle of the back door” thing WITHOUT the leaning all the way to both sides thing. It’s like it’s been ingrained in everyone’s heads without there ever being a reason, just like how we all got the idea to blow into Nintendo cartridges and it was a worldwide thing even though we didn’t have the Internet or anything to spread it around and I’m fact it actually might have caused issues.

I have absolutely no issues backing into parking spots like other commenters are saying, even though I’ve had my mirrors adjusted properly on every car I’ve ever had, and I don’t have blind spots. My twin got into my car (I say that to make it clear we are the same height and use the same seat adjustment) and she got so confused driving my car and noted that my mirrors were set so oddly, and I said “no, they are set properly”. I ended up digging out a old driver’s ed book from highschool at my parents’ house to show her how to set them and the page titled “the myth of blind spots”. She hasn’t changed her mirrors, she likes where hers are.

But it can dictate how federal agencies refer to geographic regions.

A private company or private citizen can do as it sees fits.

This year in particular, conservatives are not just a boomer thing. There was a surprising amount of young male voters for Trump this year, mostly led in by the podcasters/commentators favored by that demographic (Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, ya know, assholes). So it’s no surprise Trump changed his tune on the tiktok ban because he now wants to make sure these people (and people taking about these people) can still share their ridiculous thoughts and therefore become a hivemind and then all support him. Initially Trump wanted to ban tiktok, and it had nothing to do with user security or Chinese data mining, though that’s what the people around him made it into - it was because tiktok was how word was spread to embarrass him at his rallies.

All this to say - age has nothing to do with conservatism. Even back when I was in high school and college, there were always those asshole kids that cared way too much about their parents’ wealth and how it was taxed and had the views of an old white man.

Didn’t this also happen on Reddit when people were posting the alternatives? Links/posts got removed, the subreddit about alternatives got shut down

I am fully aware of the terrible things that have happened with ivermectin, the fraudulent clinical trials, the plagiarized data and papers, etc. The papers you linked to used patients that had already died, already been hospitalized, etc as data points, and various other forms of fraud and bad ethics. Does that negate the study that showed that pathway in which that medication is actually supposed to work if people had actually read it properly?

Edit to add: the paper I’m referring to didn’t claim ivermectin cured Covid. It claims ivermectin treated the already existing parasites, thus giving the immune system a better chance at fighting Covid. Whereas the papers being retracted fraudulently claimed a link between ivermectin and Covid using false data.

In the beginning of Covid, a doctor in very rural India started treating Covid patients with ivermectin and they got better. So the doctor wrote a paper about it, and this paper was touted as proof that ivermectin was the cure for Covid, and nowadays everything.

Because schools don’t stress science literacy, what people didn’t notice in the paper was that WHY ivermectin helped these patients with their Covid infections is because they ALSO had multiple parasites because they were living in a very rural area and rarely sought medical help, and therefore their immune system was already overburdened dealing with the parasites. By treating the parasites with ivermectin, their immune systems were able to focus on Covid and actually fight through it. This was all explained in the paper, people just didn’t read past the title, clearly.

Ivermectin is prescribed for humans - specifically in the cases of parasites. We need to get back to teaching science literacy and critical thinking in schools.