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Re: Moderna Provides Stronger, Durable Vaccine Efficacy Over 4 Months - 6 months ago

QuoteBill in NC Given the side effects people report online I'll keep taking Pfizer boosters instead of switching to Moderna. One data-point: I barely felt the needle go in and the only side effect was that my arm felt a little warm near the site of the injection for a few days.

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Re: DeSantis: Stop WOKE Act - 6 months ago

QuoteLizabeth Name a school district that is teaching critical race theory. So far nobody has... Harvard Law School. That's where the course was created.

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Re: An Arkansas waitress served a party that tipped $4,400. It led to her getting fired. - 6 months ago

Quotegraylocks Quotemrbigstuff Patrons are oblivious to the people at the back of the house, and think that their food magically appears by the good looking wait staff. Just guess the difference in those peoples. This. I keep reading different articles to get more info. In one the owners said that tips sharing for large events is determined on a case by case basis. Wow, that's a heap of

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Re: Omicron showing a two-day doubling time? - 6 months ago

Yep. Omicron is rising rapidly in the US—3% of cases nationally, 13% in NY and NJ Currently, the US is seeing around 120,000 new COVID cases per day, a 49 percent increase over two weeks ago. The country is averaging 66,500 hospitalizations a day, which is a 22 percent increase. For now, nearly all of the cases and hospitalizations are due to delta, but that will likely change quickly wit

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Re: Paging Paul F. ... - 6 months ago

Google says no more than 10 days past the "use by" expiration. I say, if it smells a little like vinegar or you see bubbles in it, toss it.

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Re: An Arkansas waitress served a party that tipped $4,400. It led to her getting fired. - 6 months ago

Quotemattkime I don't understand why you'd take a stand against tipping the back of the house. The whole thing is odd Hmmm... If the practice is to compensate the non-servers with 7% from the food and drinks bill then the prices of food and drinks are already inflated to make up that expense. So by taking away a portion of her tip for the staff in the back, her boss opted to compensate th

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Re: ‘ Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start ‘ - 6 months ago

Quotedavemchine Sarcany, My wife's car is a GM Yukon Denali that came with remote start on the key fob. I split my time between a Toyota Solara convertible 2007 and a Toyota 4Runner 2017 both of which have aftermarket remote start on a fob. Not quite what I was going on about. Looks like you're unaffected.

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Re: noob question: Thunderbolt 3-4 cables - 6 months ago

Yes. I use certified Thunderbolt 40GB/100w cables as USB-C data-cables and charge cables every once in awhile when I need a spare. Just doesn't work the other way around.

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Re: Gavin Newsome has some sauce for the gander - 6 months ago

QuoteRacer X So the parents who bought that kid a pistol for Christmas and never locked it up get to walk in your eyes? Good to know. Where does it end? How about jailing the school admins who let the kid stay in class? How about imprisoning the legislators who failed to give the school money for counselors? How about putting you behind bars for all the times you bought something on the In

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Re: Gavin Newsome has some sauce for the gander - 6 months ago

QuoteRacer XRICO Act prosecutions for 2 or more gang members arrested together? No. Traditionally, that has been abused terribly. Cops round up neighborhood kids and illegally search them and if one is found with drugs or a weapon they arrest all of them as a "gang." They've put tens of thousands of innocent black kids (at least) behind bars on this pretext. QuoteRacer X Stop re

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Re: Weird; automatic login suddenly not working in Mojave... - 6 months ago

Stupid question: Do you have the automatic login disabled override checked in the Security & Privacy options?

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Re: Weird; automatic login suddenly not working in Mojave... - 6 months ago

Yes, it will say "safe boot" in small red text on the upper-right of the screen. ... You don't have to actually change your password, but does anything unusual occur when you click the "Change Password" button in the Users & Groups pref's? I'm wondering whether you've accidentally tied your password to your Apple ID password. You'll see a message there if you did.

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Re: Abbott Binax Now COVID-19 antigen rapid test $14 (2 count) - 6 months ago

Those are the ones I've been using. $24 at CVS, but I've had good coupons to bring the price down. FYI: Prices are dropping because insurance will cover those tests, starting in mid-January. ...Not sure how well they'll detect Omicron. Best I've got is this: Abbott has been intently monitoring the mutations of COVID-19 so we can ensure our tests can detect them. We have already cond

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Re: How to have Constant Contact link to an unadorned image - 6 months ago

QuoteMr Downtown Using Imgur outside a forum, you don't get just the image. You get an Imgur "frame" with the image in the center. You're using the wrong link. They will offer you their custom html link for an image when you upload, but you can link directly to the image instead. If I "Copy Link" then this is what I get... <blockquote class="imgur-embed-pu

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Re: U.S. COVID toll hovering near 800,000 deaths - 6 months ago

QuoteSpeedy I live in the most conservative congressional district in the state. We mask, few others do. My wife’s birthday was Friday so to celebrate that and her retirement, we dined at the nicest joint in our small city. For three of us (daughter), the bill came to $223. We were the only people to mask when not eating. The entire staff was unmasked. In contrast: When we took my mo

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Re: CA Goes Back Statewide Mask Mandate For At Least One Month. - 6 months ago

If it happens here (DC Metro area) I'll faint. Some VA cities/counties have mask mandates, but that'll end when the new governor takes over in January. The outgoing governor of VA doesn't care anymore because he's leaving and the incoming governor is a moron who slavishly does anything his right-wing managers tell him to do so he's promised that there will be no public health mandates. The

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Re: Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe votes for House to hold Trump aide Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress - 6 months ago

Quote$tevie At this point, I feel like none of this is ever going anywhere. We've been through about 8 cycles of "this is it, Trump's gonna get it now" and nada. 8 cycles? He breached the constitution the moment he took the oath of office. He did six impeachable acts before breakfast. I have no doubt that the guy is responsible for more criminal acts than any other single person i

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Re: ‘ Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start ‘ - 6 months ago

Quotedavemchine Sarcany, the remote start works very well for distances far greater than 20ft. My wife starts her car at work from about a half block away through a concrete building. Mine starts from the other side of a concrete hotel. Very useful when the weather is freezing. What year? The fobs from about 2017 onward are pretty weak.

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Re: MBP modem won't stay connected - 6 months ago

Assuming that you're experiencing this in line of sight with the router, 1st line of attack is this: Zap PRAM.

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Re: Recommendation: Home First Aid Kit - 6 months ago

I have this one. I appreciate the hard-case. Added a hemostat.

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Re: Weird; automatic login suddenly not working in Mojave... - 6 months ago

Shift key stuck down? You'll always see the login screen on a safe-boot.

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Re: ‘ Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start ‘ - 6 months ago

The key-fob trick was kinda useless to begin with, and few people even knew about it. You'd have to be standing less than 20 feet away, press the buttons with precision-timing, and as soon as you opened the car door the engine would cut off to prevent theft. Remote-start through the app is much more useful. But I'm not paying $8 bucks a month for the 3-4 times a year I might use it to warm up

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Re: Christmas TV Shows - 6 months ago

> Jack Benny Show Just leave that on a loop.

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Britain battles Omicron 'tidal wave,' as infections double every two to three days... - 6 months ago

This is us in a few weeks. ...Except that they're way ahead of us on vaccinations and they check every PCR test for variants where we cover less than 15% on a good day. ... Britain is facing a "tidal wave" of infections from the new Omicron coronavirus variant, ministers have warned, as they sound the alarm on rapid transmission rates in London and across the country. On

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Re: Mayfield, KY Candle Factory - 6 months ago

QuoteAcer One change to that paradigm is cell-phone weather alerts, though. They do not depend on you happening to hear the forecast or the storm. And it can be much more targeted than a vague radio report warning the entire county... Minimum wage workers are often not allowed to bring cell phones on the premises in factories/warehouses. Got to squeeze everything you can out of them, no distrac

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Re: Thank you - 6 months ago

Take care. Godspeed.

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Re: What do we think of those cheap $30 flying Drones - 6 months ago

Lucky if it flies twice. But it's fun if you've never flown one before so you don't know how cr@ppy it is.

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Re: Kentucky destruction - 6 months ago

QuoteSpeedy “What I don't understand is, this being Kentucky, is there any particular reason people don't have basements there?” The second clause answers the question. We have a bunch of patio homes in our neighborhood - no basements. But all of them have a storm shelter which is a tiny basement area. Several reasons. You'll find flat concrete foundations through most of the state.

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Re: Is defending women's rights the road to popularity for Harris? - 6 months ago

Quotehal Even I can see that Harris coverage is skewed at the least. I have seen so many headlines about disarray in her office, but the specifics are always just kinda dumb or equal a shrug imo... Yes. She was just attacked in the press for wearing wired earbuds when using her phone, which any responsible veep or president should do since Bluetooth is not secure in the least and both the FB

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Re: SCOTUS lets TX leg win, women lose (again) - 6 months ago

QuoteAllGold By the way, at least two of the justices, Barrett and Kavanaugh, are grossly under-qualified to be justices of the SCOTUS. Since when are talents for obeying the leader of your religious order without question and drunken date-raping not qualifiers for the SCOTUS?

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