What is this, non credible defense? If you believe that, then nothing matters and all options are on the table including preemptive action, because you either assume that MAD is enough to stave off that stupidity or you dont. But…this is all bullshit propaganda and saber rattling so who really cares.
They’ve been held at bay for over a year by a smaller army with at best 20+ year old “B stock” conventional munitions often Jerry rigged to give half the capabilities they have when used as intended. Russia is a paper tiger who would get the Iraq revolutionary guards treatment inside 3 weeks if they start shit against the finns. And nobody outside Putin himself is suicidal enough to start throwing nukes.
I think you’re misunderstanding what most of them keep practicing. It’s not the kooky cranial/cervical manipulation(you can make an argument that them having to learn that stuff in the first place is BS and a waste of time), but most do pick up a few muscle pressure point tricks and stretches that are essentially the same as what PT instructs patients on how to do. Is it bullshit? No more so than most medicine that’s practiced(the data behind the vast majority of what your average physician does is at best all over the place, the truly “settled” clinical questions are few and far between). In my book though, anything that keeps you from having to prescribe a scheduled drug (read as:narcotic or muscle relaxer) to get someone functional from something like severe trapezius tightness or piriformus syndrome is a heck of a tool to have at your disposal in a primary care or urgent care setting.
So, DO’s in many of not most states in the US have the same licensure and practice limitations as MDs and charge/are reimbursed similarly. I’m many cases they actually attend the same residency programs as allopathic/MDs. Most I’ve worked with drop 99% of the Osteopathic manipulation stuff soon as they graduate. Naturopaths on the other hand…
The LA Democrat party leadership has been a lethal mix of inept and corrupt for a while now. I would argue John bel Edwards won in spite of rather than due to their assistance. There is a rumor floating around (not confirmed) that they hosted a fairly large fundraiser for Shawn Wilson (ostensibly to funnel whatever they raised into his ongoing gov campaign) and then just pocketed the money. Given that the former dem party chair Karen Carter Peterson just got sentenced to 22 months in fed prison (on the day of the primary no less) for helping herself to campaign money, that seems more plausible a story than it might otherwise. Seriously, who is going to throw their hat in the ring for ANY statewide office if that’s the kind of support you can expect for your flagship candidate? And then you get to get your veto overridden by a repub supermajority ? Nah, way less stress to just stay in a lobbying job somewhere. Say what you want about Karl Rove and co, but the state level elections were where he and his cohort of repub strategists focused quite a bit of effort grooming candidates since the late 90s and it has continued to pay dividends for them.
I own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, “Tally ho lads” the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
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Me too. And add the botanical gardens to your list if they weren’t already on it. It wasn’t on mine initially but we spent half a day there and only left because we had reservations for the JW whiskey tasting.
Give the west end brasserie a shot too if you’re still in town. Literally across the street from the Johnnie Walker experience (the experience/tasting isn’t worth the price in my opinion, but the bar is cool). Maybe my favorite city ever.
Chipolo tags delayed and no update from the company since July 27. Very close to requesting a refund at this point.
I really think you’re going to find some titles (especially those built with unity from what I’ve found) are so poorly optimized from a cpu side you’re going to see more of a gap than what is shown there in real life experience when you startt pushing your settings. If not now, then it’s absolutely going to show it’s age in the next couple of years. I’ve always been a fan of shaving money on the GPU because I can always just upgrade just the card given their pace of release, but especially going with an end of life platform you would be completely rebuying(and rebuilding) the whole machine. More just personal preference of pain now vs pain later, but if your budget can only handle so much or if you can see yourself building a new setup in the next couple of years then go ahead. The x3d is an absolute beast if you do decide to spring for it though. I love mine.
If you’re going to build a PC on an end of life mobo platform, why not max out the CPU though? 3800x3d is right at $300 right now and that extra speed and more importantly the extra cache is going to give you some more overhead before your build starts feeling dated.
Noscript works but it also strips a lot of other functionality. FB interprets it as you having a severely throttled Internet connection so it keeps suggesting trying “Facebook light”. But if all you want is your “feed” it will likely work for you.
Is that the loch ness monster asking for $3.50 I see in the background?
Any chance you have an Indian grocery near you? The ones I’ve gone to often have pg tips for way cheaper than that.