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surabi
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"Research" which is gleaned from websites that promote disinformation and conspiracy theories is valueless.
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RFClark
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Be sure and include CNN in that group!
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I have no desire to rehash the Covid argument's, particularly on this forum.
If your keeping up with the “science” you will see the previous narrative on Covid is rapidly becoming unraveled and abandoned by many advanced
country’s around the world evaluating hard statistics.This information is not from Google searches but is largely from credible medical
professionals.
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Don Pisto
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so hey BajaBuddies I guess you see how we roll here! 
there's only two things in life but I forget what they are........
John Hiatt
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RFClark
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S,
“They print what sell” covers a lot of ground. Including writers of “research papers” who live off of grants!
All viewpoints are processed through the built in filters of those making them. Which is reasonable. It’s those added viewpoints that “make it
sell” that can be a problem.
[Edited on 1-1-2023 by RFClark]
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Quote: Originally posted by lencho  |
Hey, this is nothing personal (a lot of people do it) but I'm trying to understand why it's so common:
What is the reason you put apostrophes in those boldfaced words? 
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Many people just don’t know how to use apostrophes.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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RFClark
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Goat,
Many people don't know how to drive cars and that doesn’t stop them either.
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surabi
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by lencho |
Hey, this is nothing personal (a lot of people do it) but I'm trying to understand why it's so common:
What is the reason you put apostrophes in those boldfaced words?
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Many people just don’t know how to use apostrophes. |
In other words, they flunked 3rd grade English, when we were taught that apostrophes are used to indicate possession or to take the place of missing
letters in contractions.
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Part of the apostrophe “problem” is Apple’s spellchecker desire to try and make plural words like “arguments” into possessive words because
the spellchecker doesn’t parse the sentence for context. “country’s” being use rather than “countries” is probably just poor spelling.
I use a lot of words or phrases in quotes to indicate irony!
“Scare Quotes: Also known as air quotes, sneer quotes, or shudder quotes, scare quotes are put around a word or phrase to note atypical usage or
disapproval. Oftentimes, scare quotes are used with a negative or sarcastic tone that distances the person using the scare quotes from the person
(real or hypothetical) that they’re quoting.
Example: Calvin claims that only “real” Prince fans understand the brilliance of his earlier, less acclaimed work.”
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surabi
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| Quote: Originally posted by RFClark | Part of the apostrophe “problem” is Apple’s spellchecker desire to try and make plural words like “arguments” into possessive words because
the spellchecker doesn’t parse the sentence for context. “country’s” being use rather than “countries” is probably just poor spelling.
I use a lot of words or phrases in quotes to indicate irony!
“Scare Quotes: Also known as air quotes, sneer quotes, or shudder quotes, scare quotes are put around a word or phrase to note atypical usage or
disapproval. Oftentimes, scare quotes are used with a negative or sarcastic tone that distances the person using the scare quotes from the person
(real or hypothetical) that they’re quoting.
Example: Calvin claims that only “real” Prince fans understand the brilliance of his earlier, less acclaimed work.” |
Spell checkers, Apple or otherwise, have no idea what you are actually trying to say. They are useful only if one is uncertain how to spell a certain
word. For instance, I've always been a really good speller, but there are a couple of words I have always had some mental block about remembering the
spelling of. So I always have to check if I have spelled it correctly.
Predictive text or spelling choices are useless for those who do not know the difference between the spell checker producing something contextually
correct or incorrect. Or don't know the difference between their, there, and they're.
It's like using a calculator. It can save you a lot of time vs doing the math yourself. But if you don't really know basic math, and simply take the
number that comes up as correct, when in fact you may have punched in the wrong numbers, or accidentally hit the plus sign instead of the
multiplication sign, and can't look at the answer and think "That can't possibly be right", then using the calculator can result in as many incorrect
answers as correct ones.
Back in the old days, when store employees actually entered prices of your purchases on a cash register, rather than using bar codes and scanners, I
once was at a supermarket check-out with 4 or 5 small items that didn't cost more than a buck or two each, it rang up as $25. I told the cashier that
couldn't possibly be right, and she insisted it was, simply because that's what came up on the cash register. I told her to look at the items in front
of her, which all had price stickers -it obviously didn't add up to that. But she couldn't just mentally add it up approximately and see that she must
have punched something in wrong. When I made her void the sale and punch it in again, it came to something like $8.
[Edited on 1-1-2023 by surabi]
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5 letters explains the problem! “LAUSD”! But if I were to say “that most public eduction systems aren’t run for the benefit of the
students” that might be viewed as “political”, so I won’t go there.
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| Quote: Originally posted by RFClark | | 5 letters explains the problem! “LAUSD”! But if I were to say “that most public eduction systems aren’t run for the benefit of the
students” that might be viewed as “political”, so I won’t go there. |
gracias! no one wants to hear it anyway 
there's only two things in life but I forget what they are........
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RFClark
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Take a 10-100!
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S,
PM’s questions in the Commons has something like that. Common questions answered are given numbers and when the same or a similar question is asked
just the question and answer number is the response. Saves a lot of time.
Not sure that would be a benefit here. The most frequent commenters may not have anything else to do with the time saved.
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Went away for the holidays and came back to a very informative thread! Both on topics we inquired about and some we didn't LOL.
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surabi
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You regret not getting a chance to legally kill someone? That's pretty sick.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Don Pisto | | Quote: Originally posted by RFClark | | 5 letters explains the problem! “LAUSD”! But if I were to say “that most public eduction systems aren’t run for the benefit of the
students” that might be viewed as “political”, so I won’t go there. |
gracias! no one wants to hear it anyway |
😂😂😂 we’ll played 👍🏼
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | You silly boy, ... in defense of our country, we all should do anything we can to preserve freedom over socialism & communism.
LOL means it was a joke.
Of course, if you are a communist, I get the reason for your insane reply.[/rquote
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Wow , double down on the stupidity. You truly are brainwashed, keep waving the magot hat and doing the redneck chant .
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | .
Looking back, now at 65, I would join up for all the beneifits you guys are getting, and maybe a chance to shoot a commie or two!
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Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | Unfortunately (?) for me, President Nixon ended the draft and Vietnam war before I turned 18... and Jimmy Carter started the draft registration back
up after the Soviets/ Russians invaded Afghanistan, after I passed the age for registration. In my 20s, I did not have an interest in the military as
I had been seriously involved in irrigation work since I was 22.
Looking back, now at 65, I would join up for all the beneifits you guys are getting, and maybe a chance to shoot a commie or two! LOL
Thank you for your service! |
| Quote: Originally posted by David K | You silly boy, ... in defense
of our country, we all should do anything we can to preserve freedom over socialism & communism.
LOL means it was a joke.
Of course, if you are a communist, I get the reason for your insane reply. |
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