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Meanwhile, the behind the scene image this brings up of a southwest resident needlepoint master …

No, you don’t get it, besides which “alibi” is used incorrectly. A board member posts points of view that other members disagree with and that other members have the prerogative to refute. Frankly, I don’t follow all the themes related to the discourse among this particular board member and others here because polarized views are part and parcel of social media and often go on at length without resolution. Partisan positions are often articulated clearly and eloquently in the face of opposing perspective and mutually potentially expand thinking among the readership. However, I witness that a board member with his index finger crazy-glued to the downvote key puts forward the strategy that a concrete punitive measure outside the chatroom boundaries be levied against the first aforementioned member, be operated in coordinated fashion by the board membership. We don’t do that here. Such lobbying is nothing short of a temper tantrum. Subsequent to this, the board member whose livelihood is threatened simply indicates that undermining his activities is essentially an own goal due to the negative cascade effect that could ensue. He adds that the sabotaging proposition mirrors the approach taken by the entities the strategy is intended to suffocate. What you just did is assert that that he implied that whatever might be salutary about his businesses justifies his points of view in a separate arena, that they somehow exist in a zero sum equation. This is a fallacy of logic, as if he buys into the notion, for example, that Hitler’s fondness for dogs and babies offsets the egregious. He made no such type of connection whatsoever. He did not suggest that one corollary of his employment structure and activities was the privilege of an opinion. He simply intelligently opposed the shenanigans of another board member whose obvious antipathy and overzealous and usually misapplied cancel-culture bent led to idiotic scheming and a salvo that, as it turns out apart from having no legitimate place here, would lack intended impact.

You just gave away your top missionary position and might consider changing it up. I wouldn’t peg you as a blindfolded bottom.

Qué quoi what now?

It seems to have sprung from a locally well known fromage tour operator a bit west of Montreal. When Trappist monks sell the farm there’s no telling what will evolve including its relation to the smell test and to variety on the in-flight cheese course trolley .

WTAF?! Plotting to sabotage livelihood, egging on other members to do so, is but a shaky and odious proposition. That’s a hard no from me.

With more skilled photoshop aspects than those of a future queen?

Batik Air. Double the travel time double the loyalty points.

Erm, wrong, wannabe coroner & aspiring armchair forensics analyst. About half of hanging suicides are not suspended and death by asphyxiation occurs while standing, kneeling, or sitting, with ligature sometimes fixed below head level. In this case the suicidally determined chap was not using his phone flashlight to find a homicidal mafioso hit person lurking in a roadside grove.

My fingerprints were taken upon arrival and biometrically linked to my passport. I think that if I were somehow discovered dead with my water bottle and phone the authorities could figure out my identity. Of course it’s considerate to be conscientiously facilitative but I suppose offing oneself often precludes optimal organization. Anyway, it turns out the deceased was identified fairly quickly somehow through CCTV footage leads. His planned stay had been set at 3 months and he had 5-6 weeks remaining Incidentally just days before in the area the police intervened with a Russian male planning to leap to his death from a building. At first I thought that he was maybe eventually free to go and take a better stab at it.

East of Saskatchewan, except for PEI, Canadians not on government welfare/disability benefits pay out-of-pocket towards PrEP. All 3 northern territories follow suit with western Canada. The financial incentive of protected sex is an interesting idea. Newly HIV-diagnosed Canadians, east of Saskatchewan anyway, are usually taken aback by the reality of antiretroviral medication costs they incur if not privately insured through employment. Stunned even, as young people don’t usually think about budgeting thousands of dollars for health care while grappling with the crisis of a chronic disease. ——- My paternal ancestors arrived in 1641 in what is now Quebec. I have in my possession the generation tree. I pay out of pocket for my primary care physician and urologist; in Quebec the rates for practitioners opted out of the insurance system and often being the ones you can access without incredible hassle, are unregulated. My medical costs including PrEP are equivalent to at least one trip abroad annually. I’m not in a solid position for grousing because I have more than adequate means to pay and I can take that additional trip if desired anyway.

In the running for La most multicultural post of the week.

I’m not American but apparently Truvada for PrEP was authorized by FDA in 2012. I cannot speak authoritatively about ease of access and historical trajectory of less expensive generic options. Not authorized in Canada until 2016, but in Canada also approved several years back for on-demand 2-1-1 use. I think there is unevenness across provinces in public health system coverage. For example, in Quebec I receive generic PrEP but an arbitrary mandatory annual drug plan cost of about $700 on my provincial income tax bill (the maximum for anyone irrespective of high income) and one-third of PrEP cost (or any drug cost) to a maximum of $1,200 annually that applies to all medications and is broken down monthly so that recipients aren’t burdened by it in one go if med costs are high. In Ontario the government coverage is geared to income, sliding scale, and none of my PrEP costs or costs of any prescription drugs would be covered until it or my total medication costs exceeded far more than the max $1,900 co-pay in Quebec described above because the Ontario deductible would be high owing to my income. However, my total income tax is about 5% higher in La Belle Province.

Sildenafil/Nitrates combo special. Every Urgent Care team’s chemsex triage favourite since 1998. More maturity at a children’s playground.

HIV PrEP access was established as a human health right under the public health insurance system for Colombian nationals as of Dec 2021 and does not require epidemiological high risk group affiliation. Similar policy position as Brazil that established access for ‘high risk’ in 2018 and finally removed in 2022 the requirement of self-identifying with potentially stigmatized risk group membership.

Sorry I missed it. I see you can hop on the Gold Line going north from Krung Thon Buri BTS station. Yaowarat Road in Chinatown is fun but might be too intense. I was tipped off to it watching Netflix 1st season of Somebody Feed Phil though of course it’s mentioned in all guides. It’s only a few Metro stops northwest of Si Lom station, then short walk south, so it would be easy to backtrack to Patpong if not to the guests’ liking.

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Sorry to break it to you but Michelin Tire Man is deflating your tired comment several pressure points as I had a delicious lunch at a decent French restaurant conveniently located where my sightseeing took me that day, not multi tasting course mid-evening meal at a South Asia themed restaurant. Nothing personal.

I’m in the habit of setting Netflix at 1.5X speed, except for savouring Jacqueline Novak’s stand-up.

Yes I did by the way, immediately when it debuted. That was a good series. I pretty much keep up with most well reviewed offerings on Apple, Netflix, Prime, and Disney, even CBC Gem for Harlots and Great British Baking. Have yet to return to finish later Peaky Blinders seasons, though. He is starring with Ruth Wilson in the series The Woman in the Wall but I am not about to subscribe to Paramount, yet anyway. Maybe when there is a bigger payload to make it worth it.

I finally texted my contact working there a long time with a binary question: re-opened or not. Very cryptic response sent Sunday afternoon. Just that there is a problem now.

It was down permanently months before I visited when I researched all the venues, the link broken or expired. Not uncommon, as many places simply keep a Facebook or other social media account that does not require a webmaster or URL hosting platform. I used to pay $hundreds a year for a business site that had no content updates but the host wouid make alterations if desired.

Time for an upgrade?😉

Cute.