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There are many valid reasons for wearing a mask. We don't restrict people from wearing glasses or sunglasses based on the reason why they are wearing them. We should be pushing governments to pass laws that protect everyone's right to wear a mask, no matter what the reason.

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I am finding little round bandaids all over my neck and chest and wonder what the heck they were doing yesterday during my injection.

The US government's entire beef with TikTok is they believe it's spying on Americans for the sake of the Chinese government, as opposed to American social media companies who spy on Americans for the sake of local, state, and federal law enforcement and various intelligence agencies and literally anyone else who is willing to pay for that data.

Which is why they want TikTok sold to an American company willing to hand that data over to them instead of instituting actual privacy regulations.

LB: I may have done this in the early 90s, and it got away from me.

As a person who issues ID and other government identity stuff because thats somehow packaged into my job as an insurance agent....

I would just love to reiterate that Trans people are the best. You are "paperwork bs" rockstars and I wuv you.

Europeans and US-Americans getting mad at each other for not understanding that there's not just one monolith culture in each place will never not be funny to me.

Like I'll someone from the US make some negative statement about Europe, and inevitably a European will be like "that's just the Belgians, we're not just one big country like you" or whatever.

Then like turn around and make a sweeping statement about the US that really only applies to like Florida or Texas or something.

Reference to turn of the millennium curiously sexual game advertising 

Me, at 90, in a nursing home: Ah, I'll never forget the summer of 2000. That's when John Romero made me his bitch

Nursing home staff: I think it's time for your medication, gran

Me: Suck it down!

I'm pretty sure that most of the original versions of fairy tales and folk tales have gruesome endings

1993 Austin.

I did not really live in Austin until 2000, but I had been couch surfing there since 1995, and visiting since 1979.

I may not be a native Austinite, but I'm certainly an honorary Austinite. But either way, I think that means I'm allowed to grouse about how I miss Old Austin.

I mean, just the small shot of Threadgill's made my heart skip a beat. Or maybe it was all the food I ate there.

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Finally had my neck injection today, and it was rather surprising what happened.

So the last time I had an injection, it was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. Literally felt like my neck and arm were on fire for ten minutes stright. So when I knew I'd need another, I asked for sedation.

What I expected: Sedation would knock me out.
What I got: Sedation is just to calm your nerves and you're still awake.

After realizing that, I wasn't looking forward to the pain so I braced for it. But...

What I expected: Neck and arm on fire for five minutes.
What I got: Wait, you're done?

No pain. None at all. I didn't even feel the injection. My left arm was completely useless, but I didn't feel a thing. Only now, six hours later, have I gotten the feeling and control in my left arm back. AND I CAN LIFT THINGS AGAIN.

So next time, I'm going to forgo the sedation again. Wether there's pain or not, I'm going to be awake for it, so best to not bother my roomies for a drive next time.

Hopefully, I won't need to do this for a long while yet. We got the injection because a new symptom popped up, while the old symptoms hadn't. And they took care of all the old and new symptoms today. The longer between injections, the farther away the inevitable surgery.

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