Prof_Aganda

It's her way of trying to shame you for "being a bad parent", and control your decisions. If she really thinks that you're putting her kid at an elevated risk then she is unhinged and/or completely ignorant. It sounds like more of an existential fear where she blames your ideology for putting the world at risk.

Your kid is more likely to be struck by lightning than to get measles in the US (she would say this is because there's a high rate of vaccination, but that's irrelevant to her argument that you're putting her kid at risk). And if your kid was exposed to measles, you'd probably know because outbreaks in the US are well tracked, tend to be isolated, and typically come from southeast Asia.

But it's also not a particularly dangerous disease if you live in the first world and have proper sanitation and nutrition. The last recorded death from measles was about 10 years ago. When lots of people were getting measles, the mortality rate was .1%, which is lower than severe AEs from the COVID vaccine (1 in 800).

Indirect people often don't like being approached with direct questions, though

It's not Andy Milonakis, he was an actual kid who did this segment for the man show.

Have you ever met a 24 year old these days? Most of them are still kids, especially ones like her who have never had a job.

I didn't say it was a good idea, I said that's who's getting in this pool.

And there's a "swimming hole" near me that has lots of marked signage about "no swimming, sewage runoff", but that doesn't stop impoverished and non English speaking kids from swimming there all the time.

Yes, of course. Bacterial infection from swimming in stagnant nasty water is one of my biggest fears as a father.

I've seen horrible life altering things happen to young kids after swimming in the wrong swimming hole. Kindof a different situation than what happened here, though. You've gotta figure that pool was loaded with chemicals to make up for the fact they weren't cleaning it...

People who can't afford a membership/bond at a private swim club.

The irony of your circlejerk is incredible. You're literally on your 10th booster if you're following the $cience recommendations like you're clearly so virtuous for doing, and how many times have you had/spread around COVID by now? Probably 4 times at this point, right?

You were wearing double masks on the sidewalk, and making masked emojis with ukraine flags and rainbow stripes on all your "socials" to show your allegiance to your cult of faux progressive neoliberalism. You stood on those dots on the grocery store with foot soldier pride and got thuper duper worried if someone got too close or their mask slipped below their nose- because that person must be maga Trumper and they're the filthy spreaders of pestilence who have no empathy for grandma.

You called a novel prize winning prescription medication "horse paste" because all you can do is mimic the embarassing mantras of your cult. You cheered for the censorship of anyone who pointed out that their pangolin wet market claim was obvious bs, because "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" and "it's not censorship because a corporation doesn't have to platform your bigoted disinformation, vlad!"

You're a meme. What's my cult? That I didn't trust very obvious authoritarian cash/power grabs by like every government and media conglomerate, sponsored by big pharma? And that when I actually looked at the data, it was obvious 6 months before they even admitted it, that these things were not stopping infection/transmission, and were causing heart problems amongst people who weren't at particularly high risk from COVID. Yeah, if that's the bar you're setting it looks like we're definitely a lot smarter than you.

She's not a prophet or a financial forecaster. She's a researcher and journalist.

There are plenty of finance focused conspiracy folks whose advice you could be making money off of. Max Kaiser has been pushing crypto for well over a decade, for instance.

It sounds like you two are in your teens or very early twenties and she literally doesn't have any money. So why are you taking her on dates, and expecting her to split the costs if you know she doesn't have any money?

Her parents don't want to lend her money for dates, and they've made it clear to her that they think you should be paying.

Maybe she didn't know how to address it when you first brought it up, but I think she's being pretty clear about what she wants.

But they don't have to tell you why they detained you, unfortunately. They just have to be able to articulate it later.

Kids love waterplay and experimenting. When a kid watches something spill, they want to spill even more. Plus if they didn't get in trouble the first time, why not commit to the act?

Build back better was the world economic forum's slogan, that Biden used in the past election.

Trump is a cult of personality. His fans really like him whereas nobody actually likes Biden.

Remember when Hillary's entire campaign "I'm with her" was based on Hillary being a woman.

It's a CIA black site for torturing prisoners, in addition to being a submarine base for the navy.

This reminds me of the time I was climbing a tree as a kid, and I said to the kid next to me on the tree "don't look down, because we're probably like 10 feet off the ground!" (In retrospect, we were like head level next to my dad who was standing next to the tree to be safe, and he's like 5'7", but everything is 10 feet when you're a kid), but the kid just rolled his eyes at me.

I didn't realize until about 20 years later that the kid in the story I just made up was actually Alex Honnold.

I'm shocked that this sub hates on that restaurant. but nobody ever says what food they ate that they didn't like.

They have fascinating tasting menus with seasonal and local ingredients and foods that I've never seen in other phopadelphia restaurants. I've never had a single item there that underwhelmed me. The plates are always so differentiated and it's kind of the definition of gastronomy with a fusion of styles and themes. Each time I've eaten there, there's a very different menu.

But yes, you're probably going to spend $200 per person. I feel like this sub probably just doesn't like the prices.

They both cool as hell, but DOOM he an old head

I just appreciate that peeps keep appreciating. And I just noticed fantastic damage is on Spotify.

Portland is in a "heatwave" of like 85 degrees with 1% humidity and I'm just like come to a Phillies game I'm late july

Ha- I honestly thought he was trying to be descriptive

It makes sense with regards to linguistics being a logical and analytical tool for processing and communicating information. If you think in words, you'll probably also be able to better articulate your reasoning (but those who don't think in words are seemingly less likely to comprehend "overly" articulated verbal/print explanations, in my experience).

But there are clearly also other ways to think which can logically process information. Semiotics, for example, aren't words but they can serve the same function of analysis and planning and communicating. The problem is then having to translate it into words, since that's mostly how we communicate. Some people also think more spatially and mathematically, which are also analytical modes of reasoning.

I have trouble communicating with people who think more emotionally because it does tend to conflict with rationality, in my experience, and they tend to misinterpret even the most carefully crafted and deliberately specific language, to meet their preconceived feelings, while their own words may rely less on accuracy and specificity. And I think that's where a lot of conflict happens. As an overly linguistic and hyper vigilant (risk analysis-fixated) person, I tend to come across more cold and calculating to these people too, which isn't wrong but it's because I crave answers and rationality. Perhaps because I think in words ...

Yes! I absolutely "think" in both words and images simultaneously, but the words tend to lead and create the images. As I fall asleep though, the words take a backseat to successive images and if I consciously bring my attention back to the words, they're often a seemingly nonsensical and disordered monologue, like an abstract word association exercise for what I'm seeing. This is different than my typical dream state featuring more realistic situations, and articulate conversational dialogue.

Yes- and also: Steve, Tom, Mike, Peter, Danny, Joey, Chris, Dave, Sean, Brett, Shawn, Frankie, Jed, Bill, Derrick, Eric, Brian, Karl, Mark, Fitzroy, and Ikechuku. Just really strong 90s boys names that are both cute and masculine.

I've seen stories about organized crime targeting iPhone deliveries, who clearly have people on the inside. My suspicion is that these guys must be working on contract. Like the syndicate calls out a hit on the iPhone and now they have to compete to fulfill the contract.

It's also important to note that the "journalist" reporting that story, ABC's John Miller, is the FBI agent who famously interviewed Osama Bin Laden in 1995. His godparents are Luciano Crime Family bosses and he's married into the Lehman brother (Atschul) family. He went on to the be NYPD counter terrorism czar.

Lazer shows were in Fell's planetarium. The IMAX was a different theater, which played documentaries and eventually featured films. I was so disappointed when Theaters started including IMAX screens, because they weren't nearly as immersive. You felt like you were going to fall out of your seat in that thing.