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chemoelectric, 22 days ago

That said, my passport expired while I was sick with COVID. I have yet to renew it.

Right now I have to stay out of sunlight as much as possible, due to hives. So getting photos can wait a bit.

chemoelectric, 22 days ago

But me and mine would not be accepted for immigration, due to economic burden. My stepdaughter is a ward of the state.

chemoelectric, 24 days ago

@davidaugust @w7voa

Presumably there is some reference to international law. Merely conducting military operations is not in itself against international law. But this all began as an illegal attempt at mass deportation, I think. Now it is heck knows.

Taking hostages OTOH is one of the classic violations, for which war criminals often were executed. So that one was never in doubt. How anyone can protest one thing but not at the same time protest the other is beyond me, unless they hate Jews.

chemoelectric, 24 days ago

@davidaugust @w7voa

But the situation is much bigger than this "World Court". So it is really kind of them being childish, when they issue this ultimatum. IMO.

chemoelectric, 25 days ago

@thepoliticalcat These associations are generally so tenuous that it hardly is worth making a big deal. They are people getting through college by running statistical software.

Now, for instance, low dose aspirin regimen is associated with increased stroke risk, so they say DO NOT do it. But all this was just statistical studies in the first place! No one, but no one, actually knows ahead of time what is good for YOU.

chemoelectric, 25 days ago

@thepoliticalcat Some supplements are awfully safe to take, though. Synthetic vitamin C is unlikely to do more than give you the runs.

I OTOH have had niacin poisoning. You do not want niacin poisoning. It is like being the victim of slow arsenic poisoning in a mystery novel. And I even had a doctor's orders—he paid too little attention. It is not safe to take niacin supplements unless you know what you are doing.

chemoelectric, 25 days ago

@thepoliticalcat Be sure to take enteric coated. Not using the enteric coated might be what killed my MiL. She died of a cancerous stomach ulcer.

chemoelectric, 25 days ago

@thepoliticalcat She was on the regimen because of a past stroke.

chemoelectric, 25 days ago

@thepoliticalcat I take D. I'm olive skinned so probably don't generate D as efficiently as a lighter skinned person, but probably well enough. However, sunlight gives me hives. And I am broken out now. :((((((( So I am taking histamine opposite-of-supplements.

chemoelectric, 25 days ago

@thepoliticalcat Sure. It's the shock.

chemoelectric, 26 days ago

@bitmaker This reminds me of Neil Armstrong getting a photo of Buzz Aldrin using only light reflected from the Moon's surface. (This being notable because conspiracy theorists claim it should be impossible to see Buzz in the shadow of the Lunar Module.)

chemoelectric, 26 days ago

@lauren The cat mitzvot include "You shall slay the dog."

chemoelectric, 27 days ago

@VirginiaMurr But I say the theory should match the end goal, not the other way around.

IOW the journo professors are the ones who are scamming us. They teach by example the detachment from reality that epitomizes journalist-public relations.

BTW when I saw Jay Rosen with an account on Mastodon during the early migrations, I blocked it on sight. He's got one of the worst scams going IMO. He is as open to contrary opinions as a brick wall, for instance, and thus teaches this attitude by example

chemoelectric, 27 days ago

@VirginiaMurr Trump should get whatever sentence anyone else would get., of course. He's just a citizen.

chemoelectric, 27 days ago

@VirginiaMurr I studied electrical engineering, and you would think that was fine, but in fact it is now deeply infected by "quantum physics", which is the worst pathological pseudoscience in the history of the sciences.

When I was studying EE, the rot had not yet set in. It was barely starting to and I had had no exposure to the contaminated aspects. But now it is everywhere.

chemoelectric, 27 days ago

@VirginiaMurr I think my father's mother had a master's degree in philosophy. In any case, it was her copy of Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" that I read. She died when I was about ten, and I hadn't seen her often, because we lived in New Jersey and she in Oklahoma.

chemoelectric, 26 days ago

@VirginiaMurr My grandmother also got a second master's. Probably in teaching. In any case I think the second degree was from Southwest State in Oklahoma where my grandfather was a professor at the pharmacy school.

He took the job without even looking at the place, just to get out of his job in D.C. in Veterans Administration management. :)

(But another reason I seldom saw my grandmother is my paternal grandfather could be unbearable. Not a pleasant person towards family. I think he had OCD.)

chemoelectric, 26 days ago

@VirginiaMurr (I have very bad OCD, but it is under treatment. And, anyway, I am too delicate to be that overbearing. Instead my problem is I make myself a burden.)

chemoelectric, 27 days ago

@IzzyChambers @jciv

A media outlet that does otherwise is called "Out of Business".

chemoelectric, 26 days ago

@jciv

Well, I myself don't watch any cable news channel or subscribe to any news of the major news outlets, but have no particular aversion to being advertised to.

Advertisers just have to inform me where I DO go.

Advertisements are informational, when they aren't packed with lies (which they aren't nearly as much as they were when I was a kid). I consider them more useful than MSNBC. :)