aramis87

Fuck spez, fuck his not-covert support of Trump, misogyny and the alt-right neo-Nazis, and fuck him blatantly trying to profit from my comments and submissions.

Well, that's a shame .... /s

This is really cool - thank you for sharing!

I do this when a company is doing something I want to encourage. I have a friend who's deaf but we go to open-captioned movies, and I always stop by customer service to thank them for doing those showings. My cousin is immunocompromised, and I stop by the customer service desk at the grocery store to thank them for continuing to provide the cart wipes.

I know that Canada and the US used to often do things very similarly (sorry about gestures broadly). I'm not sure how similar we were in measles vaccination. In the US, the vaccination recommendations are:

• If you were born in or before 1957, you're presumed to be immune.

• If you were born after 1957 and were never vaccinated, get vaccinated.

• If you were vaccinated before 1967, they strongly recommend you get a booster shot. (The original vaccine wasn't as effective as the later vaccine.)

• If you were vaccinated between 1968 and 1989, they'd like you to get a booster shot. (They originally thought that vaccine provided lifetime immunity, but that eventually wore down. A booster brings you back up to snuff.)

• If you were vaccinated after 1989, you should have gotten two shots and should be fine. If you're concerned, you can tested for immunity.

Apparently there was some school of teaching for a while, where the teachers were emphasizing getting your ideas down on paper quickly, without regard for spelling, spacing, paragraph-ing, punctuation, verb tense, etc. I ran across it when I was trying to find out why there was this generation of fanfic writers who had interesting concepts but couldn't write to any kind of standard - and who were extremely resistant to any suggestions. Some of the concepts sounded really interesting, too, but it was entirely too much work to try to parse the story.

When texting (ie, fast reading and writing), I'll occasionally do it for legibility when using exclamation points, when the sentence I'm writing ends in too many thin, upright letters. Like in a text, I think I will !

reads faster than I will!

Yes, I take the deal - but he loses his American citizenship for meddling in US elections, and can't ever get a visa here, either.

Snowflakes

Crunchy almond butter and homemade raspberry jam, open-faced on slices of a really good baguette.

I understood that reference :)

To be fair, a decent amount aren't normal "fine upstanding citizens". A bunch of them were criminals or foreigners duped into going to Russia and not given an option about fighting.