So far I just had to click a button saying we were all in the same household. That wasn't very onerous. So no I haven't yet. If that starts to happen more often than once or twice a year, I'll take my money to HBO or Hulu.

My young children went to another state to visit their sister for 4 days. They took their devices with, Netflix bugged me the whole time about password sharing. When I travel for work are they going to hassle me as well. If it gets too annoying I'll end up cancelling.

Most of them are gang related so no one cares. People only care if a white guy/kid does it so the daily grind doesn't make the news. Sad, but true.

Children are largely asymptomatic. I know that doesn't mean 0 risk. But, when my family had Covid mom and I were knocked out and the kids were running around wanting to play.

I'm from the Midwest and spent some time in CA this winter with the family. I was shocked at how dirty it was. With all of the environmental regulations in CA I expected it to be cleaner. I guess it's easier to vote for something than to take personal responsibility for where you live and keep it nice.

But, if it does occur in a small specific subset of the population this is good to know. The risk may be higher in that subset and so another vaccine might be advised.

How about capital of punishment for spoofing caller id?? One or two public executions and people might think twice!

Did they add with those 2 million hours of image processing?

I did when he made the boomer remover comment. He just joked that I was a white nationalist and I became his foil so it was pointless. When you are the only libertarian in a see of progressives it doesn't matter what you say.

At least I didn't AC the post. So there's that. If I was going to tell a lie I'd probably AC myself!

That's soo true. But, what shocked me wasn't his comments. I know that's where his proclivities in lie. What shocked me was the 6 or 7 other young people that would be happy censoring any sort of offensive speech not batting an eye at his comments!!!

My progressive co worker called covid the boomer remover and opined that he hoped it would kill enough old people to get bernie elected. Most recently he said in a work happy our call that they should not give the vaccine to anyone over 55 so that the young progressives could take over. He wants his communist utopia at any cost. None of the young people in the call seemed outraged at all. If you are progressive you can say the most vile shit without consequences.

That is the future....

It's too bad that only the western world is taking your fewer children plan to heart. Most of the rest of the world is having a population explosion as they move into wanting their industrial revolutions as well. So, I really don't think we are going to be able to stop or reduce carbon emissions. It seems to me the only real thing we can do is to focus on carbon capture, otherwise we have to start colonialism round 2 and force our will on developing nations yet again.

The model predictions may be correct, but the fear mongering I have seen over the last 30 years has always been over-hyped.

At some point when all of the doom and gloom doesn't happen you start to tune out the actual science, because you just can't live in a constant state of fear.

I was told the everglades would be gone by now, that the Seychelles Islands would be gone by now, and so many other scary hypes.

If you want people to take the science seriously and not tune out you need to quit making horrible predictions that don't come true.

It's not how I thought it would be. Most of the area that I've been in looks like a slightly less poor version of New Mexico. People don't seem to take pride in their state or their parks as there is liter everywhere. I thought maybe it was the area we were in, but we drove to Laguna Beach for a day and it also seemed dirty. You have such wonderful natural beauty, but you leave trash all over. It just doesn't leave me respecting CA or it's residents.

I expected the food to be great, but it wasn't any better than back home and in a lot of cases worse and it all cost about 50% more.

Unless other parts of CA are nicer, once this little sabbatical is over I can't see my self coming back.