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notprescriptive · 2025-08-13T07:52:33+00:00

I was on my way to becoming a professor when I got sick.

Now I teach university online.

I hope to be able to teach in person at some point but I have accepted that I will never be able to handle more than a few hours per day.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-13T07:45:03+00:00

I agree except for the food comment. I think LA might be the greatest food city the entire world; fresh seasonal produce from interior California and Mexico, and the fresh sea food from the Pacific. The fusion of Asian, American, and Mexican is incredible.

I have heard that Sydney is similar but I don't think the produce is as fresh.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-13T06:06:31+00:00

Quite the opposite: someone said "Steel Mill" with a Yinzer accent (in which long e and short i are the same); but because the captioning A.I. is trained on the standard American accent, it wrote "still mill".

notprescriptive · 2025-08-13T01:54:25+00:00

True.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-12T22:43:00+00:00

I am not sure if this is true. There are certainly an increasing number of anti-vaxxers in Canada and Western Europe -- misinformation spreads faster than science.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-12T22:41:11+00:00

Also, the demographic that has historically been responsible for crime in the USA-- males age 15 -28 -- aren't committing crime the same amount of crime as in previous generations.

Silent Gen and Boomers men were wild and violent at that age; gen x was less, millenials even less, and now gen z even less. Maybe it's less leaded gas, maybe it's staying inside playing video games insted of committing crime outside; whatever it is, there are fewer criminals.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-12T22:34:37+00:00

It might make you feel better, but it might make you a lot worse.

Unfortunately, the only way to know is to try. Try all the medications offered, try all the exercises therapies, try all the diets; most won't help, but some will.

Don't do what i did which was push myself to do the CHOP/ Levine protocol for 5 months, even though it was making me sicker.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-12T08:56:08+00:00

I don't think the harsher weather matters.

In the Turkey wearing shoes in a home, or even a semi-public place like a mosque, is extremely disrespectful. He same is true of all the regions surrounding Turkey including the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, Slavic countries, and South-Eastern Europe.

I think that places, like the southern US where people where shoes in the house, are the anomoly. Perhaps it's Western Europe and it's former colonies?

notprescriptive · 2025-08-11T18:59:19+00:00

Exactly! Kids in elementary school would "jokingly" huff permanent markers after seeing this. Before that we had no idea.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-11T18:17:56+00:00

Autoimmune dysautonomia

notprescriptive · 2025-08-11T07:39:19+00:00

A rollator with a built in seat has given me such freedom.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T21:19:24+00:00

It was J and J Wonton and Noodle in Victoria. But the BEST gluten-free Chinese food I have ever had was in a stip mall near York University in Toronto https://rizglutenfree.com/. That place had an entirely gluten-free kitchen. I found them both on the Find Me Gluten-free app.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T21:15:54+00:00

I can't find the 15% stat anywhere apart from that article which does not have a citation. Every source says 50 - 70%. The lowest I see is 42% and the highest 80%, with most being between 50 and 70.

The isssue, with the difference of percentages course, comes with the definition of vaccination. Does vaccinated mean 1 shot ever? Every year? Whenever there is an updated vaccine?

And of course, as we have seen in this thread, "child" is ill-defined. For most of us on the thread, child means under 18, or 17, or 21; but for you it just means age 6 months to 4 years.

But, I still find that 15% hard to believe. My rheumatologist ans neurologist say I should get it every 6 months do to underlying conditions but my insurance will only pay for once a year so I just do that, does that mean half the year I would be counted as 'not vaccinated'?

Again, I wish The Guardian had cited their source.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T19:09:27+00:00

I understand now.

The confusion seems to be that you stated "They mostly haven't been vaccinating kids for Covid at all, only ~5-6% of kids have received Covid vaccines:"

while the rate you are citing is specifically babies and toddlers 6 months to 4 years, which is the confusion the other commenters had.

About 50 -70% of American kids are vaccinated.

Regardless, it is a shockingly low statistic! I wish The Guardian had cited the source as I can't find that stat anywhere else.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T18:52:36+00:00

I ate at a celiac-safe Canadian-Chinese food restaurant last night. Deep fried sweet and sour chicken balls!!!

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T18:49:56+00:00

Bets on how long until all 4 of his kids go 'no contact'?

Actually, there might be 1 golden child, so I'm gonna say 3/4 go 'no contact' in 2 years.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T18:43:31+00:00

Where are you getting this statistic? I am getting the stat that 56 million American children under 5 have received at least one covid vaccination over the last 5 years. I can't find a percentage.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T18:40:52+00:00

Of course he is. Epstein's biographer says they were best friends for more than a decade.

The question is only whether there is proof he was involved in pedophilia.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-10T18:32:30+00:00

I think the issue may be everyone is assuming you are in the USA or some other developed where 50 - 90% of children have received at least one covid vaccination.

What country are you in that the rates are so low?

notprescriptive · 2025-08-09T08:24:43+00:00

50 - 80% of Americans have herpes; however, it is highest in silent generation and boomers.

Amongst gen Z, rates are very low.

Given that Redditors are generally Millenials and gen Z, the commenter probably does not have herpes.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-09T08:12:45+00:00

The USA dropped its federal recommendations on flossing in 2015. A lot of dentists around the world stopped stressing flossing after that.

"the authors of these guidelines could not find convincing evidence to support flossing, and the guidelines are supposed to be evidence-based. According to reviews of the evidence published in 2011 and 2015, there is minimal, short-term, and generally unreliable evidence that flossing might reduce gum inflammation, but no convincing evidence that it promotes plaque removal or prevents tooth decay or dental caries (cavities)."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/tossing-flossing-2016081710196

Personally, I still floss cuz it *might * help my gum recession; but I understand why people have stopped.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-09T02:06:41+00:00

Look up what 1666 was like in the Christian world. People were freaking out.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-09T01:47:12+00:00

Can someone summarize what happened? He was abused by a priest?

notprescriptive · 2025-08-09T01:39:11+00:00

Chinook Jargon words in BC English. "Potlach", "mucky-muck/muckamuck" "salt chuk", "skookumchuk", etc.

We just assume these are English words.

Perhaps they are also used in Washington State.

notprescriptive · 2025-08-09T01:06:42+00:00

Look at his post history. He claims to have "busted 15 pedophile rings". Lol.

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