This may have worked. I once excused a student for being late because the geese were being aggressive.

Fuck Cuck Schumer

Donate harder and maybe they'll consider doing something!

Go fash, no cash.

My cat is always either telling me he wants to go outside unsupervised, or that he wants my food instead of his.

The coverage claiming he was afraid for his life blows my mind, especially after seeing this. He wasn't scared, he was mad.

His face is like, "again with this shit??"

I have a cat that gets a lot of respiratory stuff too. I bought her a cool humidifier and I set it up next to her favorite bed when she's really congested. It seems like it must help, because she'll mostly hang out next to it until her cold passes.

Do you genuinely think the government doesn't have any trace of whether or not you have changed your gender marker?

Bureaucracy is kind of their whole thing.

Maybe it's just because I'm in a red state, but I know for a fact my state keeps track of that. I'm probably going to a camp very quickly.

I had to have an incredibly painful procedure (with no pain relief or anesthesia) to determine if I had endometrial cancer. My insurance "covered" it, but I still owe over $2000 for it.

The data is coming from the CDC. They need to wait for partnered hospitals to identify positive cases and sequence them for variant tracking. We're currently waiting for our contract with them to be approved again. They're getting very limited information right now, so things are probably even worse than they look. Yay!

Edit: the last update I got from my area says about 20% of people tested for covid are positive, including close to 10% of asymptomatic people. Stay safe, everyone!

A home test won't. A PCR gives you some idea if you can get them to tell you the CT (cycle threshold) value of your test. The CT value corresponds to how many times the temperature cycled before the amplification signal of the sample became detectable. Lower CT values correspond to higher viral loads.

There's a lot of different strains going around, but it's a bunch of different subvariants of Omicron.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

This was for a lab I was teaching, so they had to be there in person. It was a 3 hour block, so I wouldn't have even asked why they were late. I only even remember 5+ years later because they came rushing in with an explanation and I thought it was hilarious.

Definitely. Plus, you can absolutely get different CT values from two different testing platforms. Some PCR tests are more hands-on than others and the result can vary based on the quality of processing and on the settings that are used in the analysis software.

This comment looked like it double posted, so I tried to delete one and it deleted both, but I feel like it's important:

The police have no constitutional duty to serve or protect you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html

Tossing a few more war crimes on the pile.

Oh, the funniest part of this to me was how certain I was it was true. I used to have to find alternate routes into the building all the time because of the geese. I think they nested in the bushes near all the doors. If it wasn't, it was a very good lie and I appreciated the effort anyway.

Calicos are always such beautiful cats. She does look done with all your picture-taking shit though.

My first cat was similar when I first got her. She'd hide under my bed all day, but creep out at night, especially when I was sleeping, to check me out and see if I was safe. She eventually became the most outgoing, friendly cat. Unfortunately, the solution to this might just be more time for her to decompress and adjust. I would try something like a feliway diffuser or calming spray to put on the places she usually hangs out.