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  1. Just got Pfizer #2. They told me not to laminate my card, which I was planning on doing, because of the booster. But I plan to start traveling very soon. So wouldn't it be better to laminate the card to avoid hassles that would arise if it were to get damaged?

    I think in six months when lots of people are getting boosters they'll just be issuing new cards or have some digital system set up.

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  2. [mention=684]Onboard 2.0[/mention] [mention=2618]David Dennison[/mention] Please stop that shit. Let's talk about how to fix things and explore if there's room to meet in the middle. 
    Saw Climate Change mentioned. Let's discuss. I believe humans have been contributing, but realistic ways to respond to it? Haven't seen that yet. 
    Dude, there's no fucking compromise anymore. Republicans saw to that decades ago. There's only obtaining and maintaining power. Whoever has it wins.
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  3. I’m a white parent and have those thoughts.  I’ve honestly considered whether I’d let my daughter go to A&M.  I’ve got plenty of friends and family that went there and turned out fine, so I know it isn’t logical.  But TexAgs is just so repulsively racist and anti intellectual I have trouble believing none of that is reflected in real life.  
    A good buddy of mine is a TXAM grad and very progressive. But he also always joked about being a 2%er, never cared about sports, school spirit, and doesn't have a clue what TexAgs is. I'm sure he'd be abhorred if he ever perused it. I visited him I'm CS once, right after the bonfire collapse in fact, and all his friends seemed to share his world view.

    So I suspect schools, even the SEC schools, have a fair amount of progressive types. But my friends are mostly white/latino liberals, so I can definitely see the concern a black parent would have for a kid who wouldn't have a natural set of friends to absorb into a school with lots of known racial hostility.
  4. 1 minute ago, Lechuza said:

    Glad this prick got what he deserved. In listening to the commentary after the verdict by some of the leaders in the black community, it would be nice if they would at least suggest that people better themselves also in addition to pleading for reform. Let’s be frank, a very high percentage of the people who have killed by police in recent times have been shitbags. Should they have been killed because of it?  No.  Can they at least plead with people not to act like fucksticks when they have interactions with police?  It’s really not that hard to do.  A lot of reform is needed and it’s not just with policing these days. 

    "Sorry he got murdered by the police, but maybe if he would have been a better person the murderous police wouldn't have been so murderous." Yeah, that's what any human would say right after this verdict. Dumb ass.  

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  5. 3 hours ago, Stringer said:

    What tracker have you been using?  Is that just eligible adults?

    I've been using the Bloomberg and it's showing right at 40%.  Happy for yours to be right, I'm just trying to find the best tracker.

     

    I've also been using Bloomberg. A few google results say we have about 209 million 18 and olders. So let's say 16 and 17 years add 10 million for a total of 220 million eligible, and Bloomberg shows 212 million doses as of today, that puts us nearer to 50 than 40 percent. But you're right, I wish trackers would include eligible 16 and up and not just full population, which while important to know, isn't fully useful until under 16s start getting vaxxed. 

  6. 16 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    LM White was (and I assume still is) a professor at UT.  His Rise of Christianity course was great. 

    I took an elective on Christianity in the early 2000's. It was held in the big auditorium in Jester East. If it's the same course you're referring to, it was indeed fascinating and the instructor was very engaging. I realized that semester how little I knew of actual Christian history.  

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  7. I regret to inform you that I am in fact a physician, and a rich one at that.
    I’m a product of our fine University system. Undergrad and Med school. 
    Cool...dude. What kind of car do you drive? A Porche? Is your wife hot and young? Can I hang out with you?
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  8. I like this one.  But might be more appropriate to show Trump opening the exit door, Congress and Biden shutting it, and then Biden opening one up a bit further down the loop on the treadmill.  Bonus points if the artist worked in the CIA. 
    Pray tell what Trump did to get the troops out of Afghanistan in four years in office.
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  9. 3 hours ago, Heme Doc said:

    My first night on call as an intern.  Third day on the job as a new doc.  Was given checkout on a patient that was on inpatient hospice and may pass that night.  We would have to go and pronounce anybody that died.  So I get called from the nurse that this patient had died as expected, and I go to the room to pronounce him.  You’re taught before starting internship to check for pulse, listen for respiration’s, listen for heart sounds, and note the time of death. 
     

    I walk in the room and a bunch of family is there, very sad/quiet with occasional sniffles.  So I introduce myself and say I’m sorry and do the whole song and dance to make sure he’s dead.  And all I really know at that point is from the movies and TV where the doc announces the time of death.  So I announce “Time of death:  11:42”.  And the family loses their shit and starts screaming and wailing.  And I just kind of slink out of the room.  My resident laughed his ass off at me for not just documenting the time of death in the chart.  

    Good job Dr. Asshole. Just kidding. That's a tough gig.  

  10. An ID is required to do a number of things - drive, open a bank account, set up utilities, buy property, travel on an airplane, etc.  I don't see the problem with needing one to vote.
    As long as the ID is free and easy for everyone to obtain, particularly the infirm, elderly, and those living in rural and isolated parts of the country. If it's not, then we're imposing, effectively, a poll tax.
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