But these boil down to "No adultery", which is clear, and I hope we all agree with, and "No sexual immorality", which is what, exactly? Not defining "sexual immorality" is the real problem here -- a moral code which says "don't be immoral" is just circular. This term, "sexual immorality" is translated from the Greek word πορνεία, which isn't used frequently in other Greek texts, so the meaning is somewhat unknown, but may mean prostitution.

Dumb question: If the primary way the virus gets into and grows inside the body is via the nose, wouldn't nose clips be more effective than masks?

There's a commandment against *adultery*, which is a bit different case. The NT has several warnings against what is often translated as "sexual immorality", and that stems from a greek word which is difficult to translate, as it isn't used much elsewhere, but may possibly mean "prostitution".

So .... Is a kilt involved?

I don't know what the high school culture is like there, but around here, even though the social activities are nominally run by the captains and seniors, the captains' moms actually do most of the work. I would find out the names of the captains, and call on their moms, even if you don't know them now, and express both your concerns, and you desire that your dd bond with the team in a safe way. Ask them if this has been done before, is there another way to do a sleepover, etc.

I am only involved with a different sport as a volunteer, yet I still need to go through the Safe Sport training. One of the many rules in Safe Sport is that a coach or responsible adult is never allowed to be alone in a car with an athlete (excepting your own kids, of course). This is something that all high school and club coaches should be vigilant and aware of in painful detail today. If this coach isn't aware of these rules, it makes me wonder what else she is ignoring.

Just curious -- are all the boys in these classes also engaged? How old are the engaged girls' fiancees?

Not to make the decisions more difficult, but covid risk, like so many other risks, is cumulative. So, it may be rational to say "I'm willing to do this one higher-risk activity once because it brings me great joy, but in exchange, I will decide NOT to do these 20 other lower-risk activities".

I'm happy to see the United Airlines is going to mandate vaccination for all their employees. I'm sure that other US airlines will follow suit.

Presumably these rules could be changed. This would be a smaller change than allowing professionals to compete.

I can't say that any sport shouldn't be in the Olympics. I do know that there are way, way too many for us to follow, especially in the Summer Olympics. I wonder if it would make sense to move one or more of the big indoor-only sports, like Swimming or Gymnastics to the Winter Olympics, to balance out the number of sports a bit more?

To me, "partner" implies a serious relationship akin to marriage, but, for whatever reason, marriage is off the table, but you've been together for some time. I'm talking about a term for an earlier phase of a relationship. (This earlier phase which I can't imagine ever being in again). A stage where you aren't living together or sharing expenses. I don't know, maybe we don't need a better term than "friend". I guess it is no one else's business the level of "friendship".

My life path has taken several surprising twists and turns, so I'm kind of the mind to "never say never". Pretty sure I'd be happy to be single for the duration, or could be happy re-married. However, at least right now, the thought of dating, is unthinkable. And, as normative as being coupled is, I struggle even with the terminology of dating at a certain age. If two people are old enough to have grandkids, can you call them "boyfriend/girlfriend"? That doesn't seem right. Partners? That sounds like a business relationship.

Ok, I have to know. Are there any Olympians who are nursing? Because I would find that ... very impressive.

I honestly don't know much about how k-5 teachers in my area are taught, but I do know the outcome, and it has a lot to do with why they aren't teaching my kids anymore. Teachers are apparently not taught anything about phonics, or effective ways to teach reading, and universally (well, here at least), think phonics means "try to sound it out, good luck". Whole language is still a thing. Math instruction is even more of a mess, and our school district seems to flip flop around math curricula every couple of years. I've been super happy with Singapore math myself, and seen the results first hand, and if I can learn to teach this, seems like any reasonable person ought to be able to. What the teachers have learned in college is no end of education jargon and buzzwords. I'm not going to back and check my copy of WTM, but I bet that nowhere in that book are the terms "Formative" or "Summative" assessment.

But none of these are from the actual school in the original post. Not one post has said, what, exactly, this school district is doing that is supposed to cause us such outrage. Scatterings of programs from all over the country are mentioned, but they are irrelevant to the original rant. WTM forums aren't exactly a hotbed of public school apologism, I don't there there's any pro public school bias here, but there needs to be something tangible other than "other people are upset".

Amen. Or maybe just, you know, start a real discussion. She has started many of these threads with "here's a link to something that will shock and offend you, but I'm not going to tell you what it is". I don't click on links without context just to be shocked or offended. I don't need to be told there is shocking and offensive stuff on the internet. Maybe instead, she could say "There is systemic racism in the US because of A, B, and C, and this is what we can do about it". Feel free to use links as evidence for you position, but the position should be in the post.

My dog has a microchip in him. And yet no magnets stick to him. Pretty sure the nuts will soon use those to facts to assert that if a magnet doesn't stick to your arm, then you do have a chip in you.

Paper bags are OK, though, right?

It is a bit of a joke, but around here, people say that a manual transmission is the most effective theft prevention device you can have on car.

Please, let's not spread fake news. The actual report was, after 6 months of trials, the vaccine still provided protection. The trials had only been running for about six months, so there was only six months' worth of data. So, all that could be said was that the vaccine provides at least six months of protection. The vaccines could completely lose all efficacy at 6 months and one day (unlikely), or they could last forever (also unlikely).

I don't think we are seeing governments coerce people to get vaccinated, under threat of jail or fines. I'm sure we will see private businesses only offer their services to people who are vaccinated. For example, you'll only be able to fly on an airplane or go on a cruise with proof of vaccination. Depending on how common this is, (e.g. if all your local grocery stores require vaccination to enter), it may be effectively forcing people to get it. And I, for one, am OK with that.

I'm not a regular reader of fox or fox business, but I'm really struck by the content of this article. It reads like it was written at a fifth grade level, with one sentence per paragraph, there's very little content or analysis, and not a single quote. There's no original reporting in the article, it was completely cribbed (with attribution) from the Bloomberg article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/toilet-paper-is-next-likely-victim-of-world-s-container-crisis which has much more details, original reporting and quotes.