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I read somewhere that the latest covid strain is much more prevalent in children than the earlier strains were...

I had something similar. I couldn't lift my arm above my shoulder for a long time, not 20 years but more than one. You're going to kick yourself if what I had done fixes the pain. Go to a Dr. Get a cortisone shot. The Dr should be able to determine where to do the shot from your description. My pain was gone within a couple of days and hasn't returned. No problem raising my arm any more.

Good that things are looking a bit better. Always a good sign. If they had a pic of the blockage, if it was calcium it would be a fairly bright white.

If you recall, was the stroke caused by a blood clot that broke free or a chunk of calcium broken off of the plaque on the artery walls? Blood thinners are one preventative method for blood clots caused by afib. Apparently low dose aspirin will help with the broken off plaque.

Make conspicuous videos of her every time she shows up, maybe by your current partner. She should, but probably won't, curtail her activities due to this, but at least you'll have a video record that you control which cannot be sliced and diced to show something that didn't happen.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-syria-shambles/ President Donald Trump’s October 6, 2019, decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria has thrown a previously stabilized part of the war-torn country back into chaos. This rash decision—absent any coordination with U.S. allies or Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) partners on the ground—paved the way for a long-threatened Turkish incursion into Syria. As predicted by outside experts and professionals within the U.S. government, the incursion has sparked further violence, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and forced the SDF to cut a deal with the Assad regime and its Russian backers.1 It has also shattered American credibility and set off a mad dash by all sides to fill the security vacuum left by the U.S. withdrawal. This issue brief provides background information on the American withdrawal decision and subsequent Turkish incursion, considers the risks of long-term instability caused by these events, and outlines steps the United States could take to salvage what it can from the situation and begin to reset its increasingly adversarial relationship with Turkey.

Not that it makes me think of Dolly Parton...

Ummm... The shark?

Yes, good science fiction is complex. It was all relatively simple if you were following the plot. Maybe you can find some cookie cutter crime dramas where it's all laid out with the bad guy always getting caught and the police never making mistakes.

The police obviously complained that they couldn't shake down pot users so they needed to make it a bribable offence. Consider the alternative. When Thaksin was PM in the 90s I think, it was ok to shoot suspected dealers with no repercussions.

When I lived in the Philippines, my main method of bringing money into the country was depositing a check from my account in a US bank and deposit it into my local PI US dollar account. It would take about a month to clear, but it got US dollars into the Philippines at absolutely no cost. Flash forward to trying to do the same thing here. The bank treated me like I was a criminal. When they saw I had a book of blank checks it confirmed (to them) their suspicions. They even were pointing out the blank checks to each other as if they had never seen a customer with them before. Then they told me there was a $100+ fee to deposit the check. I gave up. So the point of this rant, Thais don't use checks. The article says people. Does this mean corporations can write bad checks too without penalty?

The second season of The Lazarus Project has dropped. Since I had the first season (unwatched) on my NAS, I decided to watch a bit of it before downloading season 2. Wow, intelligent science fiction for a change, without all the CGI crap. Rated 6.5 on IMDb, but don't believe that, most there want CGI and marvel nonsense. Highly recommended. Oh, and the main antagonist is the guy from Strike, Tom Burke.

Not this stuff. Don't “nok“ it until you try it.

Too bad there's no video. I'm sure faux news won't have it. Probably CNN will, though.

I've owned lots of speakers. None of them except subwoofers required them to be plugged into the mains. You need an amplifier to take the output from your computer, up the output, and feed the speakers. Or just use headphones.

Bolivian marching powder

VPNs have a pool of IP addresses at each server from which they supply addresses to users. The service providers (BBC,banks,etc) figure out the addresses in the pool and block them all. Changing servers can sometimes alleviate this as the new IP may be in a pool that is not yet blocked. I had this issue when I signed up with torguard. When I went to cancel, they provided me a fixed IP, not in the pools, that is only mine. No blocking, and never will. This is normally an extra service with additional fees, but they waived the fees. Not bad for $60 for 3 years all in, with guaranteed renewal at the same price in 3 years. Unlike Nord, which I previously had where the renewal is at full price.

Like they are in Canada and the US at least? Check recent news about Chinese police stations there...

Sharon Stone was so hot in that...

What could go wrong? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rcmp-chinese-police-stations-1.6862336 The RCMP says it has "shut down illegal police activity in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia" connected to so-called Chinese "police stations" — but it hasn't said whether it has made any arrests. In April, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told a parliamentary committee the federal police service had taken decisive action to close down the alleged stations.

No. Banning incompetent pedestrians.

I don't have kids anywhere. Why would you want one? But that's a whole different topic, so back to this one... It's called survival of the fittest. If you're not smart enough to cross the road on your own, you shouldn't be allowed to procreate. If you did have offspring and they died like that, it's on you for not teaching them better.

Thailand: yes Philippines: yes Cambodia: yes Laos: yes Myanmar: yes Indonesia: yes Malaysia: yes It's pretty simple. You feel the symptoms coming on, then treat yourself to the current treatment. HIV is difficult for a male to catch in a heterosexual interaction. I do get myself tested every 6 months or so. I do know a few who caught it. They were sharing needles.

People that can't cross the road without lights shouldn't be allowed out in public, in Thailand at least. If you want that level of enforcement then go back to your home country.

Yes, if you're going to die tomorrow then they will proceed you quickly. But getting whatever diagnostics done to determine if you might die tomorrow can be problematic with months wait. I had a friend who eventually received a pacemaker on an emergency basis after they used a holter monitor. The problem is that he had to wait 3 months to get a holter monitor. So clearly he was in an emergency situation for a least 3 months where he could have easily died. How many others you think died waiting for diagnostics? My example, I was waiting well over a year for hernia surgery, and two weeks before the scheduled date it was cancelled. I'm fortunate in that I worked in the US long enough to qualify for Medicare. I initiated a call to a surgeon in Florida on Friday, flew in on Monday, met surgeon Tuesday, and had the operation 3 days later. I think my non-travel costs were around $250. This is how it should work, not the rationed health care you get in Canada, UK, etc socialized medicine systems. I want health care all the time, not just when if I don't get it now I will die tomorrow.