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If there's nothing interesting to look at, I just continue the plot of the story I'm telling myself. Some people just enjoy a meditative silence, but I'm not one of them, either. I might look like it though.

Love an organized boycott!

Ow, that sounds awful! I'm sorry you went through that.

I think I get it now. It hasn't been tested for under 50 year olds because there's no real reason to get vaccinated if you have a healthy immune system, right? You just wouldn't get it.

I was wondering if there was some known harm caused by the dead virus vaccine, but it doesn't seem like it. Like, if you get shingles, it's because the virus is already hanging out in you, so it's not like measles where the virus is introduced for the first time to prep your system. Prepping for shingles doesn't make sense unless there's a reason to think your immune system will fail. The virus is already there.

I think it helps me get it to think of the group who gets vaccinated as entirely people who are immunocompromised. 50+ is just a category inherently part of that group. If I got vaccinated now, it would serve zero purpose.

Thanks for your answer! I hope you never have to deal with shingles ever again.

Shingles vaccines are already recommended for older adults (typically those over 50) and people with weakened immune systems.

If you fit these categories, definitely get that vaccine. Shingles sucks so bad on its own, without even taking into consideration this possible dementia link.

Does anyone know why you shouldn't get it earlier than 50 unless you're immunocompromised? Is it just because it hasn't been tested in other age groups? I tried looking up an answer, but that's all I found.

I wonder if they have any social interactions with each other, beyond mating and so on.

Mentioned this to my elderly father and he said "I could do better than that." He's a master of security compared to that.

I'm glad they got an extension but I hope there weren't any people who lost their time in the day to vote because of that.

Pisses me off and reminds me of waiting in a long line in Ohio during a presidential election - I was voting near a college where they clearly hadn't prepared for the number of voters. It took several hours to get through the line and I saw a kid come up to the line and just go "i don't have time for this" and leave. The people in line and the poll workers were all friendly, but a lot of us left that night feeling like it wasn't a coincidence a polling station near a college had so much trouble. You siphon off a few voters here and there, and it doesn't seem like a lot, but it can be enough if it's close.

Imagine being like "well now that I'm an axe, people will have to stop asking about my gender" and then they just keep asking!

I bet the dark general is much happier now working at their tavern with his like six husbands and wives

"No one will ever replace my husband," she told the crowd. "But I do see some similarities of my husband in JD— in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that's why I am so blessed to be able to introduce him tonight."

Her husband's been dead five minutes and he's married. Gross.

Personalization and identification, usually.

Conservative women are expected to give up a lot of themselves as human beings, so of course the men have to be worth it, right? You submit to him in every way because he's so good and strong (emotionally and physically) and a natural leader, right? Right?