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IMO, if your home automation doesn't reach out to the interwebs, you're forgoing a lot of the benefits. I want to be able to turn on my A/C 10 minutes before I get home. I want a notification if my cameras' motion detectors are triggered (along with a snippet showing me what triggered them.) I want another notification if someone rings my doorbell, or triggers motion detection with a delivery, or wandering around my yard (stealing tools?). I want a notification if I have a power interruption. I'd like to be able to check temps and humidity remotely. To unlock and relock the front door remotely if I need to let someone in. None of that happens without a connection. Edit: And most important of all, I want to know if someone has fallen and can't get up. (Most Americans will get that reference...)

Thanks for that touch of compassion. I can't explain it. My first Pfizer was fine. I was one of the first to get in the queue when they became available on the island (Galveston) My 2nd one, not so fine. I suspect it's like peanut allergies. I can eat peanuts all day and night. So could my nephew. Then one day, he blew up like a balloon after eating peanuts. Now he has to carry an epi-pen in case there's even a whiff of peanut dust where he goes. Go figure. I'm not anti-vax. But I am in favor of looking at your age, and your risk profile to make your decision. My big gripe is that it's tough to look at your risk profile if they won't publish risk data. On both sides, the vax and Covid, and especially by age group. My risk profile changed after my 2nd Pfizer, even without a fancy study. I follow the topic in case someone figures out how to undo the damage.

Could be he's moving back where he can legally pick up a job... In any case, I wish the guy well.

You forgot licking a wall socket.

Yup. Another lefty data point.

That's one opinion.

Interesting that RT is hours ahead of western media on this story. Probably because they compile info from a lot of sources instead of bogarting the "exclusives" like the MSM. Also interesting that the guy's name was released before they had a chance to wipe his social media... I'm not going to link, but it's worth a look if you're curious.

Joe Walsh was right when he named that album.

The Dems are going to claim it was an irate golfer, cheezed off that he lost his Sunday tee time when they closed the course for Trump. The Florida golf course was partially shut down for Trump as he played... https://apnews.com/article/trump-shooting-gunshots-florida-f62f8378d3a8ce7b2e99d6a8fb40aba9

3.2 million come in, 0.6 million get removed. That sounds about right. Harris-Biden are letting about 80% in. And those are the ones they encounter. Add in the millions of gotaways that they see, but don't encounter, and they're letting in about 90%. I'd characterize that as an "open border". https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters Where's your link to data?

So was the night of the long knives. Fully approved by the administration of the day.

That's the difference between us and lefties. I have a ton of lefty friends. I think they're misguided, mistaken, but I don't think they're mentally ill or evil. In my very Red neighborhood in Texas, nobody tore down Biden-Harris yard signs in 2020. But a lot of Trump signs went missing at night. People wore Biden-Harris hats and t-shirts to neighborhood picnics and nobody batted an eye. But when guys wore MAGA hats, they were verbally assaulted, and lefties stormed out until they took off their hats.

And that explains the polls. Nobody wants to end up on a watchlist, or doxxed for saying they support Trump.

Apologies, then, for my terse answer. I'll PM you with more details so as not to clog this thread.

My symptoms started the day after the shot, and over 2 years before I had Covid. I've been to the ER 3 times since then for related symptoms and had bunches of tests and scans. I didn't just guess, or make it up. I've got the reports... To be clear, that's one man's experience and YMMV. But it may explain why mRNA uptake isn't what it used to be.

Ask for it back. She may even throw it at you. If she wants to keep it, write it off and get on with your life. AFAIK, there is no "customary practice" related to engagement rings in Thailand. In either case, take the life lesson, for the next time. You'll have to work out what that life lesson is, based on your own beliefs and code. Don't live someone else's beliefs, as some on her would shame you into doing.

You can have mine, too. I still haven't recovered from my 2nd Pfizer, 3-1/2 years ago. Probably never will, according to my doctors. Or maybe I will. They just don't know... They don't have the data on long term effects. They'd have to put a gun to my head to get me to take another mRNA product of any kind.

From the AP article linked in a post above: The Palm Beach County sheriff said the entire golf course would have been lined with law enforcement if Trump were the president, but because he is not, “security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible.”

From the Hur Report: Evidence supports the inference that when Mr. Biden said in 2017 that he had "just found all the classified stuff downstairs" in Virginia, he was referring to the same marked classified documents about Afghanistan that FBI agents found in 2022 in his Delaware garage. He came clean 5 years later, under duress. I wonder if the FBI went through Dr Jill's underwear drawers?

I know I'd be putting on a fresh pair of BVDs if someone came after me with an AK47.

What's despicable is sending another 1/4 to 1/2 million Ukrainians to die for a war that's already lost, at the risk of setting off WW3 and Armageddon. Fighting for a more corrupt government, and a lower standard of living than they'd have if they laid down their arms and started rebuilding today.

How about Ukrainians get to stop dying and start rebuilding what's left? Maybe they'll have the semblance of an economy in a few years. Push Putin too far, and he'll have to take Kiev. Scorched earth style. He's been fighting with kid gloves, in hopes of having peace and some kind of relationship with Ukraine when the dust settles. Poke the bear too much, kill Russkies far into Russia, and he'll have no choice but to go full Red Army- like 1945. How did that work out for the Germans? And that doesn't even address the possibility that some idiot on one side or the other will accidentally, or negligently spark off Armageddon.

Putin faked toward Kiev to scare Zelenskyy and company into packing up and moving to one of their foreign mansions. It didn't work because Nuland et. al. convinced Zelenskyy to stay and fight.

Then it is over. Ukraine lost. Over a year ago. Look at the map from 2023 and today. Other than the idiot incursion into Kursk, what has Ukraine gained back? The death and destruction since then has been futile.

Quick question... How long do you figure Israel will last if the US military is 110% consumed in a Euro war, and there's no $$$ to bribe, cajole and threaten Israel's Muslim neighbors to play nice?