I’m glad he got out. I saw that the mayor is advising people to sit tight now because it’s too late to try to evacuate.

Seriously! Why is this even a discussion. LeVar is the clear choice.

I’m in the middle of moving too. Can confirm, this sucks.

My oldest is 19, no girl friend, and he says he doesn’t plan on having kids. If he doesn’t have any kids I’ll be sad, but I’ll respect the decision. I do.secretly hope he’ll change his mind eventually though. I honestly think having no children is a perfectly valid life choice, and I’ve told him that. He sent this video to me and his dad a couple of months andI thought it was hilarious.

Here’s what I’m seeing on Facebook…, Just because it's now FDA approved doesn't mean that they may not say, "oops!" later on, just like they did with these drugs that were approved and later pulled from the market! 👇👇👇 FDA-Approved Prescription Drugs Later Pulled from the Market Below are 35 drugs that have been recalled from the U.S. market since the 1970s, some that had been in use since the 1930s: ”lists 35 meds” report states that from January 2013 to October 2018, almost 8,000 medications were recalled by pharmaceutical companies across the United States and abroad." Source: https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/overview-of-the-fdas-drugrecall-process 8,000 RECALLS IN LESS THAN 6 YEARS I don't care that it's FDA approved, that literally means nothing to me. Where there is a risk, there MUST be informed consent and it MUST be a personal choice. Coercion and mandates do NOT equal personal choice. ✌️ #protectyourfamily I don’t think this is going to change many minds. 🙃

You’re probably right. I just can’t imagine being like that myself, so I didn’t think about it. I always feel like nurses are busy, I can pour water and fiddle with the thermostat.

Not an expert, but I have to think that it would. During hospital stays that my family has had, I’ve done all of that kind of work. It’s easier to ask mom/wife to help to the bathroom,etc. We wouldn’t want to bother nurses with that sort of stuff.

Do you have a Mariel’s nearby? Some of them have large laminators that you can use.

True! I’m just glad that most of my close family is vaxed at this point. I’ve made my peace with the high-risk,anti-vax ones, for the most part. For a long time I didn’t know anyone that had even had Covid, then only a few people, now it’s gotten very close with people canceling plans to get together (outside)because they had tested positive day before.

I don’t know anyone directly that has been hospitalized or died from Covid. Several second order people, family of friends, but no one that I know personally. I know of 1 person who *may* have died of a blood clot from J&J.

We are from right outside Little Rock but are moving to Texarkana after living in VA for a few years.

They just jump from one “reason” to another. Presented with numbers like that, many jump to thinking the numbers are made up, those are actually vaccine injured people not the unvaccinated, that the vaccine has killed as many people as Covid has (I see this one daily) , that it’s still the fault of the vaccinated because they are spreading it all over, on and on. There’s no consistency. It’s maddening.

I was a census worker last year and we did call people. I was also directed to ask people about contacts. We even asked neighbors for information on households if that address was troublesome to make contact with for whatever reason.

Then isn’t Duggar basically admitting he’s afraid of being identified? Cause now I’m thinking that he didn’t just “watch” these videos, he made some, a thought I didn’t necessarily have previously.

I think that’s the best idea. There might still be hurt feelings, but this seems like the best possible approach.

I think diversity is always the best advice.

I had forgotten about Garvin Woodland Gardens, I was stuck on the word botanical. That place is so nice at Christmas.

I think living in a very high cost of living areas skews the whole idea, honestly. Buying a house in the 7 figures on a modest income is really choosing to invest mostly in a house at the expense of other investments. If most of your assets are in the house like your ILs and you are cash poor because you couldn’t invest elsewhere you are going to have to sell the house, wether you want to or not.

I know my oldest (19) has no interest in owning a home, but he wants to own land. The dwelling isn’t important to him. A trailer in the middle of 5 or 10 acres would be fine by him.

I think this might be part of the shift now. Most people don’t want to inherit the family home anyway. So many adult children live far away and aren’t interested in moving back to live in the family home. Aging in place is also difficult with kids far away from home, most elders won’t make it through retirement without needing to sell the home anyway to move in with a child, or move to a retirement community or nursing home. I think all of that has kind of killed the concept of the family home being passed down. I would guess that more often if the elder has lived in the family home the whole time that the kids will sell it and split the money after they pass anyway. I know for me, my family moved a lot so I have no “family home”, my parents live in a house that I’ve never lived in. My husband’s parents still live in his childhood home but it’s falling apart Tom deferred maintenance and has so much junk from border line hoarding that we have no interest in inheriting it and have it set up to go entirely to the sibling who has been living there doing care giving. We wouldn’t want to live in that area anyway.

Oh my. I just don’t understand how anyone buys a $2 million home! Even my friends who make low 6 figures couldn’t afford that.

There are pockets of blue in every red state. We can be found! It takes more effort, but we exist.

Do you live in one of the crazy high property tax states? My property taxes are only a couple of thousand, so hardly anything to think about in retirement. Although renting means you are usually covering the mortgage plus property tax and insurance for the landlord, usually with some profit built in too.

If you’re willing to drive a bit. Even in backwoods Arkansas we have art museums, concerts, comedy clubs, nightclubs, a symphony, a ballet, a few different theater options, science and children’s museums, a zoo. No botanical garden that I know of though. Most things are smaller, but the trade off is that they are affordable enough to go very regularly. I can buy a year long pass to the Little Rock zoo for less than the cost of 1 visit to the zoo in Richmond. Same with the museums, 1 visit in VA equals a bit more than the cost of a years pass in AR. That’s why we’re moving back to AR.

Does anyone here have a good explanation for why we signed a peace treaty with the Taliban and circumvented the Afghani government? Saudi Arabi couldn’t come to the US and sign a treaty with the Crips or 3%ers, so how did that work? ETA: I’m not being snarky, just curious why we would go around a legitimate government.