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Yeah those NAV buttons drove me nuts. Such a wart on an otherwise great upgrade. Wm5 had one handed navigation and you didn't have to worry about a dead battery wiping your applications.

I had an x50v but you really wanted the x51v. Windows mobile 5 really needed the improved NVRAM or otherwise it ran very poorly.

Great devices overall. I've been tempted to pick one of these up for nostalgia purposes. Truly peak PDAs.

You make this mistake when you're young until you're laid off thebfiest time. Then you're bitter and jaded and DGAF.

If a company was smart they'll hold onto you for life because you will care and give it 110% because that loyalty used to be gaurentee good output.

Obviously none of this exists anymore and it's a damn shame.

Prior to the decision, anerican colleges were allowed to admit who ever they want so they could have a diverse student body regardless of academic standing.

It's why there was a common joke about being, " native American" as your golden ticket to the ivy leagues.

With the strike down, it refocuses admissions solely on academic performance which was what they used to be based on before the 1960s.

It was the antivax that got me mate.

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The biggest vector is going to be sexual contact and those that have rampant sexual activity between other partners in the West.

Ah Dmitry grinberg, now that's a name in the palm world that carried weight. Glad to see him still kicking.

If you're using ozempic or any other form of semiglutide , you'll want to keep and prioritize a high protein diet to reduce or eliminate the muscle wasting that the drug causes.

Nothing worse than losing weight but most of the weight loss was muscle mass.

The fact you think both is a net positive is part and parcel why we have the mess of a country we have today. Enjoy being led by people who hate you.

I'll admit, I have a fascination with Greco Roman antiquities and Hellenic /Roman astrology is one of them. To be able to enjoy the literature and culture of the era and the archetypes expressed, understanding how this all works helps a great deal.

As such, I know a fair amount of astrology from a Greco Roman perspective and by extension all the way up to medieval astrology. Yeah plz I find it fascinating.

With that said, the vast majority of western astrology is done using new age psychological nonsense that was literally made up by hippies during the 60s. It is completely divorced from the tradition that was developed and refined from the Chaldeans (aka Babylonians), Greeks, Arabs, and Europeans and as such doesn't make any sense against the system that was developed and refined over at least a thousand years.

A good astrologer won't say with precision that X is going to happen (like you will meet the love of your life or pass the test), they'll give their predictions in archetypes and give a range of outcomes that fall under those archetypes.

Take for example the meaning of the 9th house, the 9th house represents far away travel, religion, higher education, and publishing. These are all desperate subjects from one another and need to be considered in a predictoon against the backdrop of your life.

Does it work? It's a bit like the weather, I can say this range of things under this archetype will happen on X date at X time. That's pretty much it.

If you're interested in the subject, the best primer book I can recommend is the study office and fortune by Chris Brennan which can be found on Amazon in print and ebook format. It's written as a college level text with citations and will give you the historical background and practical foundations to understand the classical philosophy that underpins the basis of the tradition.

Anywho, I expect a good roasting and some down d00ts for my interest in t is subject.

Colleges prefer international students because they pay full tuition without any aid whatsoever. Eliminating student loans would then encourage colleges to seek students abroad and lobby for their entry into the country. See Canada.

Endowments are almost entirely used for dubious things like sports and football programs which have a nebulous educational value at best and a negative impact at worst. If you were aware of the industry (which you're not down d00ter) you'd know that there are efforts by the government to already start taxing sports and football programs in particular because of how much money these programs bring in.

Eliminating the non profit status allows business taxes to be collected from bloated college programs, sports, and more.

The goal is to return higher education to its pre 1960s status of being affordable from basic income and not a 4 year long resort with learning sprinkled on top.

With all due respect, no one needed these loans. The belief that you HAVE to go to college led us into this mess and now we have highly paid tradesmen making more while we have coders sitting idle.

It's time to eliminate student loans entirely, hard cap student visas, tax college endowments, and remove higher education non profit status and let the higher education industrial complex collapse in on itself.

It's become a leviathan of highly paid over credentialed demigods with dubious benefit.

Students not paying these loans only hurts the students and it's partly a debt slavery mechanism that the government will use to deny social security and maybe Medicare later on.

https://larson.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/inside-fig....

It's coming and the government knows what it did.

You want proof? Here's your proof: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?id=100058134605609&story_...

From the governor of Virginia himself. This is the tip of the iceberg. Keep telling yourself lies.

Because they're neither men nor women. I bet there are physically disabled people who want to compete in no handicap competitions not deemed by the ableist term "special" yet they are forced into that and worse have to accept the obvious that it isn't possible.

Sadly, we live in a cruel and unfair world and coming to acceptance of that is called growing up.

Exogenous testosterone doesn't help in events like track and field. Maybe sprinting but there are better tools for the job.

But your comment does touch up on something else which is the fact that men and women very much have biological differences that are complimentary to our survival as a species and trying to ignore or say they don't exist smacks the face of reality hard.

But the linked article indeed touches upon a unique edge case and it's something that these games will need to address, the 3rd option. Unfortunately by genetics these "intersex" people are not men OR women, they are aberrations and unique which I would say should preclude them from competing entirely because they aren't technically men or women.

Contrary to popular belief, you still "pay" for health insurance in the UK and Canada, it just comes out of your paycheck and numbers wise it's still the same.

The exception is you don't have copays and deductibles but those aren't ever arduous and now that I've been using HSAs, it's negligible and a great hack at investing which is really what I use it for.

The horror stories are overblown by people who are either trying to spin a lie or some other farcical story to claim "America bad".

If you have insurance, which you would because you'd have a job and not be a bum, your insurance would cover mostly everything. You have out of pocket maximum which dictate how much you are limited to pay for which is marginal at best.

The people who get $50k medical bills are lying and if they call the billing departments, they apply 80% self pay discounts which bring the fees in line with having insurance. More so, every state has low/no income programs which cover everything.

The nice thing about America is you don't need to go to a GP who will refer you. If you want to visit a urologist for a problem, you call a urologist, schedule an appointment and show up. You can be seen as early as that week of an appointment is open or most of the time as soon as the following week.

Going in network with your insurance provides the best cost/benefit ratio and of all of the insurance coverages I get, even with shit high deductible ones I still get access to research and specialty hospitals.

Consequently , nurses and doctors are better paid and have far better attitudes towards care in America. Every nurse and doctor I met in thE UK and Canada were truly miserable and over worked.

Private care in the UK is cheaper compared to the US but the US subsidizes the vast majority of medical advancements through it's over priced medical system that if it didn't exist, the advancements European countries take advantage of would disappear. Personally, I'd love to American companies get panelized tax wise in America when they are told by foreign country regulators what they can sell X drug for on their countries when the price isnt in line with the free market. They should walk or be taxed for selling at a discount but that's a different argument.

After putting up with the national health systems of Canada and the UK, I'll take America's any day of the week.

My standard of care went way up when I got private insurance in the UK as well. The only thing the public services were ever good at was emergency care.

This is an unpopular opinion and it's a shame that there isn't a panacea. Both systems have their strengths and weaknesses.

Haven't found a price difference between Costco and Sam's. They're about the same for what I buy meat, fruit, and veg

After shopping at both, the quality difference is non-existent. The variety of products at Costco is better but my staples inside bulk meats, veg, and fruits and not housewares or dry goods so its a wash.

Am I the only one that hates shopping at Costco? I'm 5 seconds away from cancelling it and joining the evil sam Walton empire because they have curbside pick up, scan and go, and store lay outs that rarely change.

Their stores are so damn frustrating and I hate spending whole afternoons shopping there.

Every day we march closer and closer to a neutered IOS walled garden on OSX and it makes me sad because I otherwise love OSX.

Thr solution is simple folks, stop using Chrome.

This makes sense since now the pixel 8 FINALLY supports video out. Whenever Google makes an about face like that it's always a strategy change.

The worst part is the shrinkflation which is the biggest insult as this occurs.

Governments cannot handle the money printers and elastic currencies are a scam.

My retirement plan is what everyone else in the rest of the world does: I plan on providing free childcare to my kids when I'm unable to work so they can work and save money.

I'll sleep on a couch and call it a day. That's the best retirement anyone can ask for.

I still set aside 10% for retirement though. Maybe I'll get lucky but even I doubt it'll amount to anything.

I can't wait for the "enhanced games" to take place and finally put to rest this nonsensical morality over performance enhancing drugs.

Every professional athlete uses PEDs already and they do so discretely. Let's dispell with the nonsense that they don't.

Take the 23 Chinese swimmers who all got caught and WADA hand waived it by saying it was doped meat. Are you kidding me?

Common complaints about PED use range from inaccurate to outright lies. Steroids can be used at appreciable levels 200-500mg when blood tests are done regularly. Damage to the cardio system only occurs when you don't do cardio and let your hematocrit get too high.

Pro athletes who do PEDs will have access to the best doctors and medical care money can buy. They are prized stallions and will be well taken care of.

So that leaves us with the final one which is, "it will encourage normies to do PEDs for the gainz!"

Trust me, every fitness magazine does that already.

The sooner the WADA, USADA , and IOC get a kick to the face when the attention to them disappears is when this pearl clutching finally ends.

Sports are entertainment, people want to be entertained, and advertisers want eyeballs. If it falls outside of that scope then it's a waste of time.

That's what yahoo was doing until it's board decided to "focus" their efforts. If I recall correctly they had an investment in something that they sold way too early and would have made a killing.