That’s great info! On a related note: I was treated at an allergy doctor’s office for what they thought was mild asthma, but it actually turned out to be really, really bad “silent GERD” (stomach acid getting into my lungs) that asthma meds actually made worse. Never hurts to check for both!

People at my spouse’s workplace were high-fiving each other on Wednesday. This country is just a goddamn middle school.

Good news! It already has! (in very isolated cases)

I was offered $21/hr to remote work at some google outsourced company for one of their LLM projects. It was going to be grueling work, full-time, no benefits. It took about 120 applications (two responses) to even get there, and they ghosted me after a second interview. It’s awful out there and I feel for you 100%. Best of luck, genuinely.

Tradition dear boy

It’s not so much a crucifix but a lowercase letter T for his low-testosterone he’s so obsessed with

ITMFL didn’t need a narrative continuation, and as far as WKW goes, this one’s not that great. The little inside references to his other work are always fun though. If you’re a completionist, it’s a necessary watch, but its not one that I’d put on to show friends.

I vote for both bears and twinks.

There’s a lot of good advice here already, so I’ll just add the potentially expensive (depending on insurance) next step: allergen immunotherapy. I’m about as allergic to dogs as you are, and some of the advice I got was “why not make them an outside dog?” — first of all, hell no, they’re family, and second, I lived in an apartment at the time, so that was impossible.

The immunotherapy, or allergy shots, starts with the tests others mentioned. They can do skin pricks or blood draw, and to save you a lot of misery, I suggest the blood draw. Then you get vials drawn up that effectively tincture allergens over time into your body for about three-ish years, so this is a time commitment.

Some advice on allergy medications I’ve received: avoid Claritin and Benadryl due to their links to dementia in long term use, try Zyrtec and Xyzal to see which works best (Costco/sam’s has the best value for these).

A higher MERV filter in my air unit, based on what it could handle, and an air purifier helped me a lot.

Because we need merchandising uwu

I know someone in this circumstance, and it comes down to exactly one issue: abortion. The spouse is Roman Catholic and cannot support abortion, so despite disagreeing with most of the republican platform, they feel obligated to vote with the party that opposes it. I had the same thing crop up in 2008 with a roommate who was Greek Orthodox and in every way one of the most progressive people I knew, but they voted McCain purely on this one issue out of religious guilt.

A Pynchon-level conspiracy. I suspect we’ll be seeing some more dentist-on-trampoline accidents.

I watch nothing but Blue Bloods 24/7 and will pay any price for whatever number of channels gets me Blue Bloods

Put these babies in sport mode for maximum brrrrrrrt

I learned something new! Thanks for the correction.

seeking to chill Defendant Musk’s exercise of his First Amendment rights is absolutely unconstitutional coming from a government official

Oh wait but he wouldn’t have any 1st amendment protections if (let’s face it, when) he lied to get that H1-B back in the day

The interrobang is back‽

Sign an open letter, letter gets published, see who else signed that open letter, backpedal because of the associations, sign the next open letter denouncing the problematic signatories of the first one, emails go out, committees are formed, platitudes are had, repeat.

The article said nothing about intellectual disability, but it did suggest some older people contextually from their complaints. Here’s an actual citation from one of the complaints that I think sums it up perfectly:

Now, i’m an intelligent [person], at least I consider myself that to be. I am a huge fan of elon musk and tesla. I only bit into this because it did sound too good to be true.

Coincidentally also the passphrase for Mar-a-lago