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Do you really expect us to accept "science" when there are random people on the internet who say that it's bad for you???

No, I understood what you meant exactly. You asked people of certain skin color not to show empathy or share experiences even when there are some similarities. That is a sad world where people of a certain race is excluded from the conversation simply based on their race. I thought we are progressing away from exclusion by race ???

I am sorry, but this is your state of mind and your personality. Which is fine since nobody should force you to live where you are not comfortable. Plus, the benefit of living in the US is we still have choices to decide where we want to live. Heck, you are free to live as homeless bum if you choose to do so. I have lived in place with so much racial tension where a person from a minority group cannot look anyone from the majority group wrongly when they are sitting in the same bus, less a fight would break. Living in the midwest with so many friendly people who mostly leave me alone is paradise compare to where I lived in the past. And so what if they look at you with curiosity, I too would look with curious eyes at something I do not see everyday. Just nod and smile. So many things can be smooth out with just a smile. That is the one thing lost with all of the mask mandates but I digress. This is not in any way, shape, or form an attempt to invalidate your feelings and thoughts. I just want to present a different take on living in the midwest.

Make it a serial and post a new part every Friday evening. "Honey, I gotta log into Brickpicker. This guy is dropping part 6 of his story in a couple minutes and I want to read it before it gets spoiled for me on Twitter."

Someone demanded a refund because I shipped their order to the wrong address. I shipped to the address on order details but apparently that was an "old address" and I never "contacted them about providing another address"... I am sorry I didn't preemptively ask you if the address you confirmed during checkout was in fact an old one. 🙃

Anyone who is white living in America should probably STFU when it comes to saying they know anything about what it’s like to be non-white. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Halloween Owl? If so would be a short run.

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If you imagined it would be basically no different than your life now, in a large majority of places, you would be correct. As much as some would like you to believe, you have to actually search out racist rednecks in the midwest.

Part 2 of Modular-Mils. Building this set reminded me that some of the pieces have faded (no sand green ones) and I have a note to buy replacement pieces after Covid. That was a LOOOOONG time ago The rest of the minis are sleeping in the hotel, per my toddler. Yay LEGO!

I agree with being able to “relate” but please note I did not say “relate” relate is a “softer version of what I said, as a scientist I did try to choose my words very very carefully, and I specifically said “ know what it’s like” as in know what it’s like to be, which to me means that a person knows what it is like to be a person of that or in that situation. I suppose there is some open to interpretation but I believe most would agree that “relating” and “knowing what it’s like to be” are not equivalent. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Someone who is white does not know what it’s like to not be white, it’s pretty simple, how could they, it’s like saying a person who has never been incarcerated knows what it’s like to spend time in prison. Yes it’s my judgement call that in this time in our history it does not help those who identify as non-white to be told by white people what their experience is. If a person wants to provide support or empathy for anyone of any race by all means that should be seen as a good thing. Perhaps my words are not being read carefully enough. I said white people should not say they “know what it’s like to be non-white” I did not say white people have no right to make comments on race in America which is how it seems my words are being interpreted. I would also say that non-white people shouldn’t say they know what it’s like to be white, if that helps make things more equitable. I also think it disingenuous to say I am somehow bringing exclusion to a thread by what I said, maybe if I was a mod deleting posts I didn’t like then there is something there, or if I’m a mod deleting my own insensitive posts making fun of someone for their looks based on a medical condition they were born with, that could be seen as pretty uncool, these things have happened recently but not by me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Quick google search: According to the media about 16-21k cases could have been prevented if there would have been no demonstrations, but as usual I dont know how reliable the data is, but the study has been done by a german university so it could be on point.

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That is not what we know so far about the virus. Also, you can be asymptomatic and still spread it to others. There is an unknown number of asymptomatic cases in this event. Unless you have data that proves otherwise, based on what we know so far that rally did contribute to the spread.

I doubt that it takes two weeks for covid to incubate in the vast majority of cases. The rise in covid cases was across the board in October. No state involved with the Sturgis rally stands out significantly to point the blame. With all that being said Sturgis 2020 definitely was not the super spreader event that the MSM wanted it to be.

I have Italian and Irish heritage in my background. Today, those people are considered white. But there was a time in the recent past, when they most certainly were not. So yeah, I agree.

Just to show I was not the one bringing exclusion of a specific race to this thread

TFA literally contrasts the two events but please go off and ignore all the facts on the ground for your version of reality. BLM rallies happened in June and didn't result in spikes - not a lot of people travelled across states to those protests. I'm unclear about what makes you think you're so much smarter than literally everyone else in the world that you get to ignore them and say whatever.

especially a vacation from this thread!

I remember when Sturgis 2020 happened and it single-handedly started the second wave last August/Sept. across the midwest. You can literally watch the spikes in cases across Wisconsin/Minnesota/Dakotas/Wyoming - prior to that event the virus was largely contained to urban areas. Sturgis 2020 certainly helped spread the virus far and wide. And then they did it AGAIN, all while we knew delta-variant was surging. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/17/sturgis-rally-spread/

We live in a world nay a universe that is basically a game of Russian roulette, a person can always find a few examples of extreme things happening. I personally met a person who survived a skydiving accident where both chutes failed, there is a finite but tiny chance a person could walk through a brick wall if going fast enough, like an electron can. But what matters in any statistical distribution is where the bulk of the probability occurs not what happens in the far off tails. If you believe in tails then by all means jump out that plane with no chute and David Copperfield through that wall. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Then said person has the life experience to comment on what it’s like to be white living in another country but absolutely not what it’s like to be non-white living in America, they are obviously two different situations involving two very different countries. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That was my initial thoughts as well. However, there is only a portion of population who belong to either 1 of the 2 big parties. The majority of population is/was? largely apolitical. This majority is getting sucked into the same division and it seems like the division accelerated even faster in the past 2 years. I would think the politicians type would want some division among the die-hards so to support any laws they enact to shape the rest of the country. Division within the majority of population should not be ideal for these politicians. It is easier to just have the D and R fight amongst themselves in their smaller subset of population. The result of these "fights" are then used to create laws that steer the rest of the sheep / population. It would make it harder for the politician class to have control over issues when the majority of population are divided strongly for or against those issues. This is why I do not think the answer is that simple.

I think the "winner" in this group of "Zavvi Birthday" sale items is the Ocean Explorer at $119. It's super popular amongst the kiddos; it's also LEGO's largest floating vessel to date (That hull will be highly valued piece out). I could see it on Santa's List for years to come. [also "retiring" this year allegedly so it's also a relatively short run and was soldout much of its life...prob the best quick flip last Christmas at x1.5-ish]

Still sticking to the covers with a cover for one of the most covered tunes no one knows from whence it came.

Telling people you are from California in my home state is close to fighting words. At this point I think most here would rather have Afghan refuges here than more Californians : )

I felt some anxiety when I left SoCal in 2005, its where I was born and raised. We moved north of Dallas and once we got here we never looked back. It really is pretty good out here. Now going back to SoCal give me anxiety because of all the crowds and people.

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I just Googled, because I had a different opinion.. But Cleveland??? What's your definition of diversity?

I like science cause it gets results and thus gets things done correctly and gets us paid, though I hear voodoo can be lucrative too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The electromagnetic radiation that phones and wifi use is what we call non ionizing, it’s much lower energy than even infrared(your toaster) and visible light, it is incapable of ionizing atoms in DNA as it is far smaller than the energy differences between electron orbitals, and much much smaller than ionization energy. This is pretty worked out science at this point. Marginally people have been walking around with cell phones now for decades, I think we would have seen something by now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's not the same. You're comparing apples and oranges. The United States is a melting pot. Read the words on the Statue of Liberty. Asian countries are not the same as the US.

Sorry, I should also have mentioned the odds of getting long-Covid complications occuring in 10-30% of people, and is dramatically lower for those who have received the vaccine. Unfortunately nothing. 😔 I do agree with your general sentiment that these shouldn't be required. Not because they aren't effective, but because the social pushback on it may not be worth it. For me it appears to be a double edged sword.

Glad that it didn't impact you that bad. A couple of my friends had it too and they experienced what you did. Sadly, some family members and friends of BP'ers here weren't as lucky.

I work at a hospital that is doing research on the vaccines, and they recently did a video explaining how they work, what the potential side-effects are, and some general numbers. 1) The rate at which individuals experience initial side-effects is something around 10-15%, but this is often just a minor fever and passes within a few days. This is why they have you wait for around 15 minutes prior to leaving after getting the vaccine. 2)The rates of serious reaction (not death) to the vaccine is 7 in 1,000,000, so if you aren't worried about Covid because the survival rate is 99.7%, you shouldn't be worried about this either. Also, anyone worried about it should just research how mRNA works. The tech going into these vaccines is actually remarkable, and will ultimately change the way we do future vaccines. This vaccine is actually arguably safer than a flu shot, as the risk for an allergic reaction is basically none.

I figured that out about 5 years ago. Then the question became who benefited from a divided USA. My advice is not to go down that rabbit hole

These guys always covered their nose in the pool.

you seem to think that any barrier that is not 100% effective is a waste of time. I have seen these shields used by swim instructors in the pool as they teach young kids. FYI; kids that are learning to swim will often cough or sneeze without covering their mouth (also goes both ways as the instructor may need to cough or sneeze while holding a child in the water)...so without the shield that's basically a direct cough or sneeze into their faces. So you tell me...is the shield a waste or actually helpful?

Harder to do in CA.

for me, bigger (home, yard, pool, etc) just means more maintenance...I don't want to deal with. I would be absolutely miserable if you doubled my home square foot or yard size. I am already suffering one of the worse decisions ever (having a pool). Also having grown up in Cali, having 4 seasons suck (THAT novelty gets real old)...ofcourse having a wildfire season every year also sux the "dream" is all about extra time and stress reduction. more quality Time w family and friends and hobbies.

This scene always reminds me of this Legend.

Wow over a year later ha! Our basement has been very slow progress. Finished up the drywall & mud/taping. Before and after pic of the Doorway and Barn door. The 2 pics of the sills are before I finished the tape/mudding. Still dreading the wall cleaning/painting, but that won’t take too long. The barn door will keep all the systems and storage on one side and leaves us with 750sqft of finished space. Next up will be finding wood for the sills, about 35 ft of length. Thinking about going with a live edge look but still undecided.

2013 - blink - 2021 🥲😕

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Moving more things to storage for the big move. This is my collection of displays. Not sure why I get them but we all have our different things we collect in this hobby....

At the end of the day, this legislation wouldn't really harm small business sellers much at all. It would simply lead to Amazon spinning the operation of its sales platform off from its retail business so the two were operated separately. In essence, Amazon, Inc. would become the largest third-party seller on the platform operated by Amazon Platform Services, LLC (or whatever name they came up with). They would all fall under the same corporate umbrella, but we be operated and managed separately. It would be a complete nightmare from the perspective of those responsible for running Amazon, but wouldn't impact third-party sellers all that much...except maybe Amazon would start to see how useless seller support is.