With board, you get Rove.

@Jolly said in Constitutional Carry: @taiwan_girl said in Constitutional Carry: Federal judge rules Oregon’s tough new gun law is constitutional Big whoop. Consider the judge, consider the state, consider the law. It will be overturned by SCOTUS, at least parts of it. They may get to keep the background check and training components.

By the way, you know who hasn’t yet cleared? Mike Pence.

idiots

@Copper the second was even worse in that respect.

To your question of frogs and emotion, I think it's entirely possible they have some level of emotional expression. They definitely like being together, and they go out of their way to sit together quite often. Sometimes they'll sit nose to nose. Perhaps there are other reasons for choosing to be close to each other, such as sharing a sunny spot to get warm, yet there doesn't always appear to be a reason other than companionship. I've also noticed over the years of having pet frogs, that some are more social than others, and that a frog may go through a period of preferring solitude, then switch to wanting companionship for an extended period. When there are multiple frogs living together, they will select the same companion repeatedly during that time. That part I found very interesting. Their seeming preference for several days, even weeks, for a steady companion, sitting together in various locations, but always together. Jane Goodall should have studied frogs, too. Just sayin'.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/biden-reelection-campaign/index.html The conversations keep happening – quiet whispers on the sidelines of events, texts, emails, furtive phone calls – as top Democrats and donors reach out to those seen as possible replacement presidential candidates. Get ready, they urge, in conversations that aides to several of the people involved have described to CNN: Despite what he has said, despite the campaign that has been announced, President Joe Biden won’t actually be running for reelection. They feel like time is already running out and that the lack of the more robust campaign activity they want to see is a sign that his heart isn’t really in it. It’s a persistent sense that the inner circle of advisers to the president and several of the very few aides who have been hired for his reelection campaign dismiss as absurd. Of course, he is running, they say. Of course, they’re taking preparations very seriously. And, with the always present Biden chip on their shoulder, of course they’re being written off again by the purported wise elders of the party and pundits who still refuse to take him seriously. “They are so underestimated, and they keep getting it right,” said Jim Messina, former president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign manager, who has been one of the people privately advising Biden’s team to ramp up gradually. Anxiety, complaints and apocalyptic thinking that have often defined Democrats in the Biden years are about to get their latest Rorschach test, with the disclosure of fundraising for the first few months of his campaign – which must be filed by Saturday. Seen on Twitter: "Biden 2024 depends on him being able to hold together that long; and a year, let alone 5 years is a long time for an old man."

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I should tell my friend in Helsinki the good news.

It’s a serious issue. I’ve experienced what I have to assume what was a relatively mild but very real case.

I do think a two-tier healthcare system is the most practical. University -based hospitals and clinics training physicians and healthcare personnel, treating the indigent/Medicaid. Then hospitals and clinics for insurance, Medicare and fee-for-service patients.

@Renauda said in Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID: @taiwan_girl Curious though the mortality rate of Covid if we had the same medical practices and infrastructure as 14th century Europe. Interesting thought. I dont know the answer. I am not sure that COVID is as deadly untreated at plague is untreated. But it would have been pretty bad I think. The scale of death during 1347-1349 in UK was crazy high.

I used an induction stove in Stockholm last week. The whole stovetop was an induction field, you could place the pan anywhere on it and it would detect where it was and only induce a field there. The stovetop was hot for a while after, since there’s a metal pan on it holding boiling water.