mOdQuArK t1_j1jwxd4 wrote on December 24, 2022 at 11:22 PM

Reply to comment by sonic_tower in At least 9 dead as massive winter storm leaves more than a million without power and bitter cold across much of US | CNN by bobybobobo

> A real prepper would have traded their guns for blankets, firewood, and potatoes.

And lots of hard liquor - better than gold in an apocalyptic situation :-)

mOdQuArK t1_izoogck wrote on December 10, 2022 at 6:13 PM

Reply to comment by thrillho333 in The mRNA vaccine technology successfully used for COVID has been adapted to fight malaria, a disease that killed over 625,000 people in 2020. In a research study on mice, two mRNA vaccines were highly effective in reducing infection in the host and in the mosquito vector. by grab-n-g0

> unequivocally know that this “different way of causing the same effect” is comparably safe but infinitely more effective

I am far more willing to believe in the opinions of the many experts who have studied the subject in cooperation with each other for years, than I am the half-assed opinions of fear-mongering willful-ignorants whose closest view of a test tube was from mad scientist horror flicks.

mOdQuArK t1_iu8zj4r wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:19 PM

Reply to comment by BirdEquivalent158 in Parenthood in a pic by MovingMoluccas98

I have a distinct memory of my mother giving me one strong warning to not touch the glowing burners on the electric stove, then watching while I did so anyway. Then reinforcing the lesson with "what did we learn?" while running cold water on the burn.

This kid seems a little too young to get the right lesson, but sometimes kids are just little assholes who won't really learn boundaries until they experience severe enough negative consequences. It's the parents' job to make sure those negative consequences aren't severe enough to cause permanent trauma.