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I agree. I suspect pretty much all strong mouthwash does the same, but I seriously doubt its effect on transmission is more than deminimus, so why?

Stories. The Tale of Gawain morphs over the centuries. The Wikipedia entry is pretty good (my partner is a medieval scholar who read the originals so it made it fun to watch with them.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawain

I remember wanting to be in that bed!

I had very mixed feelings about The Green Knight. It was very well done, but I disliked it. It plays with the original stories very well. Free Guy told you it was bubblegum icecream and it was. Fun, and silly, and not very deep. I think The Green Knight is worth a watch for most. Free Guy, if you like summer bubblegum movies, because it is one.

Do they actually do business that isn't porn? This seems like them just deciding to go out of business....

During lockdown? Not much has happened at all during lockdown.

That may be true for you, but these forums over the years have been littered with stories about people who lost sight of this truth and lost their hearts and their money when it turned out their fantasy was just that, a fantasy. Being realistic doesn't mean being mean or bitter.

If so, I'm not sure of the point, because if the guy on the ground who supposedly is in charge abandons his job, that rather says the situation is not tenable, and was only barely so by the continuous presence of western troops.

"A US-backed President who fled the moment things began to look really bad?" If you think 20 years of failure of the Neocon plan is "fled the moment things began to look really bad", I am not sure there is a basis for discussion. This reads more like somebody with an axe to grind against Biden.

I think it is wishful thinking to imagine the exit could have gone better. It was always going to suck. Putting it off just means more bleeding before the inevitable messy exit. How many more lives and how much more money are we supposed to spend in search of something that we haven't found after 20 years on the ground?

I think it is very dangerous to lose sight of the nature of the relationship. The boys may like you, but they're doing this for the money.

Frankly, given how obviously fragile our democracy is, is it any wonder we couldn't build one in a country that has almost no tradition of it? Worse, given the state of the country and maslov's hierarchy of needs, how many Afghani's are well off enough to give a fuck what passes for government in their world? That's a luxury that rich folks like us get to think about. I think We (the west) should have gone in, brushed the Taliban aside and crushed Al Quada. We should have then left with the promise that we would keep returning if they kept up their ways. Much like Iraq, conservatives imagine we're so amazing that as soon as we arrive everyone will immediately become republicans. Surprise, when you kill more people than Saddam did by a large measure, they won't thank you. As a military intelligence officer I know said at the time, "We don't know if Saddam is the way he is because of Iraq, or if Iraq is the way it is because of Saddam". Turns out, it might have been the former. And, given what China has been up to, it is a good idea for us to step out of the cross hairs of the islamic terrorists and let state terrorists like China and they beat up on each other.

After 20 years, it is over. Stop spending lives and gold. Once the Taliban step out of the shadows to attempt to govern what they hold, they get to become targets themselves.

I made a short trip to Yangon before the pandemic, and really enjoyed it and hoped to go back. Feels like Trump has helped lead a global slide back into fascism and totalitarianism.

I thought the reason XTube was going away was because of its problems with revenge porn and the like, no? I thought I heard it let anybody post anything pornographic without any checks at all.

He is, in fact, a Monsignor, not a bishop, though that's kind of a side point. My sympathy for gay priests is limited given the church's long standing antipathy towards us. Priests have to come to terms with the fact that they are working for an organization that considers them broken, at best. You're breaking the stupid rules of your stupid organization and you can expect they will kick you back downstairs when they find out.

Getting oggled while young is an experience that pretty much every woman has had.

Governments have an annoying habit of making trusted policy out of stupid ideas and bad ideas. They can screw you, so they do... because they can't be bothered to stop.

I grew up all over, so I guess the answer is 0, since home for me is where I currently live.

Sorry to hear you and the Dentist didn't work out. I was rooting for you.

I have banked with credit unions for years. I stopped using Wells Fargo about 20 years ago when they insisted on charging me for using my debit card at non-Wells Fargo ATMs in countries they had no presence in. Their answer to my complaint, "Use a Wells Fargo ATM." My answer was to fire them. (I didn't mind paying a fee to the owner of the ATM, but Wells Fargo then tacked their own separate fee on top of that, just because they thought they could.)

I took a cruise on Pandaw down the Mekong. It was a wonderful experience.

I wish people would stop flipping over the rocks he keeps crawling under.

We care because she put her career on the line to come out and suffered for it. Comparing her to Kevin Spacey is kinda silly.

Certainly those right wing prophets of rage have done their work well. There will be no normalcy until there is a reckoning in the republican party that purges it of its worst elements. Time will tell, but I am also not hopeful for the future of our democracy at the moment.