If MN goes red then you can sure as hell bet the swing states went red anyways. The only way MN goes red is if we were already fucked anyways which, to be fair, is looking increasingly likely.

People keep saying this election is 2016 all over again like that means anything anymore. Newsflash, every election from here on out will be 2016 all over again because it's to the current DNCs benefit. As long as the republicans keep pushing fascists like trump and like desantis after trump croaks, the the DNC can put forward whoever they want and just keep saying "Vote for our genocidal police state endorsing corporate ass kissing old man or else you're causing facism!"

Something needs to be done about it. I don't know what but this can't keep happening. And before anyone asks if I'm voting biden, my presidential vote literally doesn't matter in my state other than for maybe sending a message. The last time MN voted for a republican president was in 1972. Maybe a low amount of votes for biden in a democrat stronghold will send a message to the DNC because MN is going blue regardless.

Yep. That looks like it. Also called a Cavy Mara so it just looks like a bad game of telephone happened with the name.

Are you able to protest a school bus stop because your neighbours have kids but you don't?

People literally do that though.

He tripped on a branch while burning brush and he has MS so the fall was the opposite of controlled or graceful.

I've leterally been sack tapped by a horse and it hurt less than that needle. Of course as soon as the anesthetic actually kicked a moment later it stopped and I was fine. So it only actually felt like my testicles had been injected with everclear via a claw hammer for a very brief moment. Maybe our docs just used a different anesthetic or something.

But, yeah I 100% agree on the recovery. I went and got a few groceries immediately after without issue.

slight pinch in my balls when they gave me the local anesthetic.

Slight pinch? Brother don't sugar coat it. It feels like getting kicked in the sack by a mule. But it's only for a moment and its still 100% worth it.

For me, my vasectomy was probably the single most miserable medical procedure I've ever had performed, but the recovery wasn't bad at all and I would still get it done in a heartbeat.

Nah, I can't even do that because every place in my area will straight up say that they will never diagnose an adult with adhd.

You joke but my dad once fell face first into a bonfire and blistered most of his face. When the skin grew back his dermatologist told him that a lot of people would kill for a skin treatment as good as what he wound up with. He was almost entirely blemish and wrinkle free when he healed.

You could probably manage the same with enough hot steam from an iron but it may take a bit longer.

Considering AC is the largest electricity consumer in almost any home that has it by a large margin, if you are running your AC off solar then you might as well run the rest of your house off solar. It would be very little extra work.

That is the dumbest thing. All of my comp sci stuff was open everything because out in the real world you would never be programming without those resources available. I don't see why IT wouldn't be the same. If they are testing your competency then you should have access to the internet just like you would in a job. If they are testing your memory then they should just use a lockdown browser or something.

Because you need to handle terrain other than a clear road. When you live somewhere that regularly gets a foot of snow overnight then having a bit of extra ground clearance is a must for navigating that. You also want a bit of extra ground clearance if you need to go off road regularly. The last thing anyone wants is to be out in the boonies and crack their oil pan on a tree stump or something.

Of course, far more people buy SUVs and trucks than actually need them. Also lite trucks would have been the better solution for most people who do actually need them if the EPA hadn't killed them with poorly written standards. With the current wheelbase based efficiency requirements we're left with the choice between sedans that drag the undercarriage on residential speedbumps or a Landbarge 9000 toddler slaughter special with worse sight lines than an abrams tank and the (lack of) fuel efficiency to match.

You're on different instances. It's probably something to do with that.

This makes it sound like it's probably just a defective detector. Swap it with one that hasn't been going off and see if that one starts going off too. If it doesn't then odds are something just failed in it.

You could also just try blowing some air through it to blow out any dust. But it shouldn't be that dusty after only a year so I'm still leaning towards defective.

Ah yes, the gender fluid.

Are you really their friend if they don't see opening your messages as a game of psychological russian roulette?

Be careful with vitamin D though. That is one of the very very few vitamins that you can actually take too much of because it's fat soluble, not water soluble, so excessive vitamin D will build up in your fat cells rather than just getting peed out. It's called vitamin D toxicity (VDT) and it can have some unpleasant neurological effects among other things.

So it's probably a good idea to get your levels checked anyways just to make sure you're taking the right amount if you need it.

Aparently he's already been shitting himself durring speeches so it wouldn't be anything new.

Find a boss who doesn't care. So far I've never had a boss that insists that I look busy all the time. As long as I'm getting my work done they don't care what I do. I spend a lot of time at my desk reading books on my phone. If your boss is being an ass about you using your downtime how you want when all of your work is done then that is not someone you want to work for.

Nuclear is on the decline for the same reason we aren't fighting climate change in other ways; it's expensive. Building new nuclear powerplants is far more expensive up front than other methods of generating power so a new power plant won't actually start seeing a return on investment for a decade at least. Shareholders now a days are allergic to anything that doesn't see a return on investment within 3 months. Nuclear power plants also take much longer to build than other power plants. Don't take this as me being antinuclear. I would have a nuclear power plant in my basement if I could; but nuclear power does have it's disadvantages.

As far as geoengineering goes it's just that our governments are already dramatically mishandling the current situation. Do we really want to risk them making it much worse in new and exciting ways when we could just be lowering our CO2 output instead?