tshile

The ridiculous irony is that there is soooooooo much room to come up with alternative solutions to all of the problems that we have. soooooo much room yet they decide to fold their arms and say the problem doesn’t exist. this gop candidate for va governor is a ****ing clown. He’s literally trying to win on just cutting taxes, with no plan on what to do with the revenue shortfall, or how to solve the issues Virginia has. The gop just ****s on everything they touch. Wish more people would figure it out. the Democrats have a lot of wiggle room on a lot of things if you simply acknowledge the problem exists and be honest in offering a solution.

yeah. I mean, it’s the number one thing that attracts me to them. A bunch of people with different ideas that are willing to try to hash out compromises in an honest effort to address real problems. i may not like my progressive friends’ solutions, but I appreciate them willing to discuss it. the other party? They’re basically an anarchist/anti-government party. well basically anti-authority in general. Law (sovereign citizens/Bundy/et al), science (um, everything?), decency (racism/sexism), education (um, everything?) and when you actually look at how they conduct themselves as adults, they might not realize it, but they’ve reached a point of being anti-Christian as well (and did a ways back.) they may cling to Christianity as some sort of identify - but they don’t follow a damn thing about it. hell many of them basically worshiped trump as a god and called him such - which is literally one of the ****ing commandments. they’re just scum at this point. A roadblock to doing anything productive. I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to identify as them. Independent, moderate, whatever. But as a Republican? You might as well just say you identify with categorically being stupid and childish.

The only good thing about trumpism is it injected steroids into the long-standing tradition of conservatives eating their own if they step out of line. in an odd way it comes as almost a natural balancing act for the two parties, as the Dems have long had an issue of being a big tent party and the gop has been in lockstep. Making it easier for a slight majority R to get what they want, and a minority R to stop the Dems from getting what the Dems want if I were to bet I’d bet one one of the two things to follow: - the gop brand fractures and ultimately helps balance things this way for longer - the gop shrinks and coalesces around trumpism and the gop loses its power in that regard long term I don’t see the gop coalescing around trumpism leading to increased gop influence w/o serious election rigging. That’s long term though. 22 looks rough for the Dems at the moment. I watched a segment that made a solid argument McConnell has lost control of the party. I don’t think that’s a good thing for gop coffers. I don’t know where all that money will go, but I would think it’s a problem for them.

Yeah I mean I’m the same. but I feel like understanding the basics of the Shia Sunni divide, that Afghanistan is technically in SW Asia, that Iran is Shia, al qaeda is Sunni, that wahhabists exist, etc is all kind of a super basic prerequisite for forming opinions on the Middle East issue. While I’ve read a lot I struggle to retain a list of it in any useable form because I have a very hard time keeping track of names. The names themselves are difficult for me to pronounce which makes it hard to create long term memories of what I read. I also lack the understanding of how their names are formed - many are after a geographical area, or whatever, that their family comes from. for example - read a lot about the haqqani’s. But if you made me match which haqqani was responsible for what part of the evolution of the haqqani network… well I wouldn’t even try. I can’t keep the father and the sons names straight. Which is a little frustrating cause it makes 70% of what you read difficult to retain. I read the 9/11 commission report. I can recall that one guy recruited another, that one guy was responsible for this or that. Ask me to match names to specific parts… no chance. I mean what percentage of people do you think know that the biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan is actually Pashtun? do they even know what Pashtun is?

Or - why did we invade Afghanistan the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia! they think wahabist is a person that makes wasabi paste for your sushi

A sizable portion of people think Muslim = terrorist Even if many of them won’t vocalize it. It’s clear, if you listen to them, that’s how they think. distinguishing between isis and taliban? Hah. these are the same group of people that a few years ago were perpetuating this theory that Iran and al qaeda had teamed up to conduct some huge military-terrorist operation against us. It was under the Trump admin. It was part of when they were pushing the Iran fear mongering (which in any normal time would have been a top story for months but the endless trump scandals and ****upery made it a think easy to forget) the idea that there’s a fundamental problem with believing that a Shia-based government would team up with a Sunni-based organization to work together to conduct a massive attack was completely lost on these people. expecting them to understand 7th century changes, the great schism within Islam, etc is just asking for too much. I bet most of them aren’t sure what year range “7th century” is without looking it up….

Funny you ask the main storyline from this is “white population shrinks” but when listening to npr discuss it, that’s not really what seems to have happened What shrank was the number of people selecting “white” only what grew incredibly was the number of people selecting white, as well as selecting something additional also what grew incredibly was the number of people choosing to not answer that question. Which, is what we did. so I think the answer is many are choosing more than one option, or choosing to decline to answer.

Yeah just make sure you have a cloud backup of them or multiple copies or something. don’t by godaddy’s o365 plan. It’s stupid. Buy directly from Microsoft Microsoft offers an official archiving solution but it’s an add on. what you could do is create a shared mailbox (no license required) for all the important ones you get exported, and import those pst files. Then she can just access them via outlook any time. Then you wouldn’t need cloud backup or something (pst copy on usb drive, and you have the shared mailbox copy)

https://kb.intermedia.net/Article/2328 contact them and get all the mailboxes exported to pst for the entire company. As if there are pubic folders, shared mailboxes or any other email-organization data to export. Download the files. Store them in multiple places - or use a cloud backup - or whatever. It’s your only copies of it. set up an account with a domain registrar (I used godaddy. There are much cheaper options. Just what I use) get all your current dns records. Add them to your new account as a staged domain. Initiate a transfer. Click the links in the emails. go set up an office 365 subscription for like 6$/month, add your aliases to your one email user, call it a day.

What’s the provider? how many email addresses? Should have a way to export them. what does she want to go to?

Yeah we’re definitely have a childish version of the conversation. It’s frustrating. the obvious political gamesmanship is… I don’t even know the right word.

https://practical365.com/another-exchange-vulnerability-revealed-with-attempted-exploits-seen-in-the-wild/ lol wow

Jesus I’m dumb. Sorry. Yes before 495. Don’t know the rest. Sorry.

Not a fan of the “steamable” vegetable bags. I don’t care what you say they don’t taste right.

We were talking about the guy running for senate (dem) that wrote an op Ed about it all. https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article253641358.html sorry I forgot to specific which person we were talking about in the poses you quoted. I also discussed crozer but that’s not what petermp and I were going back and forth about

I’m a strange bird I just don’t have it in me to figure out what all that meant

Also. Side note. There’s lots of discussion about Afghanistan in terms of deaths. But theres untold numbers of service members harmed either physically or mentally. And you can find estimates on every category but I personally know more than one person that was mentally affected and they don’t show up in any statistics. Cause it was never officially recognized/diagnosed/documented anywhere. And the predominant reason seems to be the stigma associated (at least a while ago) on things like PTSD. Or what it would mean for their career. Whatever numbers you find, they are an underestimate at best. in terms of deaths you cannot find a better batting average than <5k deaths over 20 years. You just can’t. The Spanish war in 18whatever had less but was only 1 year long. but there’s more to it

@Jumbo i think what did the most damage to me, is that before the bombing I had wrapped Afghanistan up in a nice box, and tucked it away. Not forgotten. Not diminished. Just boxed up like you do with anything you’re done with. And within a week I had to drag it back up, open it, and put more things in it. it felt like I had closure. Then I realized I didn’t. And to boot - when I saw the presser that the last planes were exiting Afghanistan airspace, I allowed myself to put the box away again…. I don’t know man.

What the military culture around objecting to higher command’s way of doing business vs the duty to do so when you know they’re doing wrong the guy was an officer (I think) in the marines and says our government lied to us about Afghanistan. his point is that he shares in fault for not doing something about that. my point was, sure, but I don’t think that’s the way the military works in reality, even if they technically have rules and a process for doing such a thing. (Not that it makes it right - just what reality is what it ideally would be)

Sorry. I literally only read that sentence and called it a day. I thought what ivermectin was, was news worthy. Cause until then, I only knew it as a horse dewormer that stupid people were taking. that’s literally it. @CousinsCowgirl84 yeah it was dept of education https://www.wlbt.com/2021/08/30/state-mask-bans-face-federal-civil-rights-inquiries/ which, side note, had no idea they had an office of civil rights to do such things.

I thought the same thing. Im not exactly a civil rights guru… but it seems like overreach to push an agenda. And feel like overreach to push and agenda in this case gives credit to arguments like: well the doe (I thought it was the department of education that put 5 states on notice not doj?!?) shouldn’t have the ability to enforce civil rights matters, as they clearly abuse it and so, yeah, I kind of think it’s a mistake. And I don’t like it. but I’m open to someone who actually understands the objective/mission statement of a DOE department for investigating civil rights, explaining to me why this is actually a great example (that actually relates to civil rights, not just forcing the mask agenda (which I agree with)) all that said 90% of me is A-OK with doing whatever it takes to protect our children from dip**** politicians doing things like banning mask mandates. if I were king such lack of regard for children would be a stone-able offense. Doesn’t really seem like it. See: recent pages in thread.

The rest of your post is either already answered (to the extent I can answer it, without doing more digging, which I’m not really interested in because a) none of you seem to care and b) I’d want more traction than random doctor in Texas first before putting more of my time into it), or a continuation of this part. but I don’t know what to tell you dude. i started the entire conversation with this: “ Ok. I have a question. At the risk of looking really silly. have any of you looked into ivermectin? Or are you, like I was until earlier today, only really up to speed on on the “lol it’s horse de-wormer” tweet version of things?” the rest of my posts were sharing some of the info I found, saying I don’t like that the media covered it the way it did (from what I saw), and that I think we (the non-crazy, not-antivaxxer group) should want to do better on a subject than we (myself included) did here. I don’t know how to be anymore sincere and genuine than admitting maybe I’m the only one that didn’t get it, and lumping myself into the group of people who didn’t get it. Which, I lumped myself into that group repeatedly in multiple posts. and while I originally thought I might get laughed at for being late to the party, there are plenty of posts/responses that show im not the only one. In fact, I’ve only seen 1 poster in both threads post something that indicated (s)he did know this stuff. One. I can only type what I think. I can only try to be sincere and genuine. I can’t help it if I you choose to instead interpret all that as me being arrogant or something.

I agree. I also had a problem with how this new info came out. And said as much at the time. The whitehouse should be advocating what the cdc and nih advise Governors should be advocating that, along with what their state health departments advise, as well. not the other way around.

To this specifically: my understanding is vaccination, social distancing, and masking are the known, effective, ways to mitigate this. And that presently nothing else is even close, much less better. but, none of those help after you’re infected. And while treatment for covid has progress leaps and bounds over the last 18 months (and my understanding is it was the USA medical community that contributed to much, if not all, of that progress), I also know that 18 months is not a super long time and that there are likely things we will know 5 years from now we didnt know now, that help. So I try to keep an open mind. Things like rolling patients over regularly is supposed to increase the odds of success with treatment. I imagine there’s a number of other tactics, and drug’s out there that will help that we just haven’t figured out yet. I also imagine that when we have a firm grip on this whole thing there’s going to be a list of things that we’re tried, or through to be effective, that we discover weren’t effective at all. Not that I want to hear a dead horse (see what I did there) but just quickly: I don’t think you’re factoring in the negative effects of someone discovering the information about ivermectin, only to have the rest of us completely discount (mostly because none of us even know anything about ivermectin) in the most mocking way possible. you’re destroying your own credibility when you do that. It’s clear you don’t know what you’re talking about. And sure you could say they don’t trust us anyways so whatever - but then how exactly does it make sense that the way we handled this is right? You either care about your influence and credibility or you don’t. Dismissing this, the way we have, isn’t showing you care about your influence and credibility.