Yes, it’s the standard flu that we make a flu shot for every year. It’s was just more deadly. Somewhere around a 3-6% lethality.

Viruses mutate over time. So the 1918 flu has not been circulating for over 100 years. No one under 107 has been exposed to the virus that wiped out millions aka it’s novel.

Lol, yes U.S. farmers can be highly ignorant of farming. The shit I have seen over the years. To be fair i have run into ignorant farmers all over the world. Most of the time it’s due to available technology and information. However the Midwest and Prairie Provinces are something special, the term “willful ignorance” applies more frequently.

Also Deere in some regions also have a local monopoly with no competition close due the the before mentioned cult following. The farmers in those regions are mostly ignorant of the other equipment manufacturers.

Deere has a cult following with some farmers.

Many farmers are also the definition of ignorant. They live in remote area with limited contact outside of their social group.

You also had the work/life experience by then to be better able to filter out pertinent information from the material.

Most college textbooks are written in an overly complex manner and require some skill to extract and process the information from them.

So right out of highschool you could have read the textbooks but gotten very little out of them.

When there is no possible way to hide it, misinformation and a plausible cover story is better.

Combined with a spotter/signal relay drone, those little guys are probably a nightmare for logistics/artillery/bunkers. What they really look like is a mobile antivehicle mines.

Hey now, I know a bunch of farm laborers and started out as one myself.

They are nowhere near qualified for farm labor. That requires being able to work, not just regurgitate platitudes from the most recent bullshit management fad.

I once had to sit down with a suppliers accountant because the billion dollar company I worked for couldn’t figure out why the PO and the invoices on about 50 orders were slightly off.

Reason: The supplier and billion dollar companies systems used different units of measure. So the conversion created a rounding error as the billion dollar company only went out 4 decimal places This led the the invoices being between $0.01-$0.05 off. All told the difference was $0.01.

It took us 2 hours and I had to buy the suppliers accountant lunch to get it sorted out.

Satire against a public figure has historically been ruled as free speech.

Until the corrupt billionaires pay the corrupt assholes on the supreme court enough to overturn it of course.

Depends on the state you live in.

First there is the debt collectors ability to sue to collect. This varies by state and the type of debt in the U.S.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/debt-relief/debt-relief-statute-of-limitations-debt-collection-by-state/

The delinquency is on your credit report for 7 years. After that you can request it be removed.

Federally subsidized student loans have no end date. These can not be discharged. This is the top reason that school tuition rates have skyrocketed. The lenders can loan people with no income vast sums of money little to no risk.

I had a roommate in college who married a citizen of another country. He applied and got approval for a work visa in their spouses native country. Before they left they paid off their federal student loans with credit cards. Something like $20-25K. They also had private student loans of around $10K. They then moved out of the country and went delinquent on the debt. They ended up moving back to the U.S. around 15 years later. By that time their credit report was empty.

Unfortunately most of the casualties are from undesirables and minorities in Russia.

So certain groups are more like 1:5-10 (convicts, or minorities). However in the main cities where Putin holds his power it’s like 1:5000-10,000.

My wife and I were the first ones to have kids in her family. All of her siblings got the loudest, largest, and most obnoxious toys for my kids.

Ever since then I have extracted my revenge with glee and tons of malice.

Every Christmas and birthday since, I search out the perfect toy for them.

As my kids have gotten older I have donated their old, loud, and obnoxious toys to them randomly through the year if I am in the area. I am totally the favorite uncle because of it.

My house has slowly become almost toy free.

I honestly would love to. Unfortunately my banking and accounting apps for my business won’t run on it.

Also the reason I have an iPad for two apps that are not on Android that I have to have for business.

M business laptop is W10 instead of Linux mint like my personal one for the same reason…

I am typing this on a pixel 8

Try disabling and removing the Google search bar. Can’t be done. Since Google search has gone down hill I never use it.

How about removing the the news feeds? You have to disable the Google app to get rid of it. If I want to read the news, I do a quick search. It’s not hard to do. I don’t need a news feed on my phone.

What about the stupid at a glance at the top of the home screen? It just takes up space for no benefit over the notification bar. It can’t be fully removed.

I also never us any voice assistant etc because it’s faster to type it in than repeat myself.

I currently have 19 apps on this phone disabled that I can’t uninstall… No fluff huh…

All of my apps are organized into folders and I am never more than one swipe and two taps away from opening the app I want. I don’t scroll, I don’t search, I know where everything is and have it opening in under a second.

I have used both iOS and Android for more than a decade. After every update on both systems I have to go through and delete/disable junk I don’t need/privacy issues.

The stock android pixel UI has gotten so full shit I have to use a launcher.

iOS’s UI is terrible to use with everything taking twice as long as it should. So many illogical hidden commands.

Everything has gotten randomly harder to get basic things done.

My win 10 business computer with classic shell will stop being supported the end of the year… Oh joy…

For the ongoing discussion of if Ukraines estimates of Russian casualties are more propaganda or fact?

I lean more towards factual after seeing this one. The number of times these guys hit the bullseye with the drop is unnerving.

Economy plus about 15 years ago when they first introduced it. It was nice for a little while.

Not quite, cancers are caused by any mutation that causes the regulatory proteins to stop being produced. Frameshift mutations are the most common cause. This are often caused by additions or deletions. However other mutations can deactivate the gene like a substitutionin the binding site for mRNA transcription.

Mutations, like deletions can occur all across the genome. Since we have large amounts of non-coding DNA, these mutations usually have no effect.

It’s a recessive gene on the X chromosome.

In females this means that it only expresses if both chromosome have the orange gene.

Since males only have one X chromosome it always expresses if present.

The orange males to female ratio in a population will average around 4:1.

The author was confused and that was written poorly. It is a mutation. A mutation is any change to the DNA sequence. Specifically it’s called a point mutation deletion. A point mutation is a small mutation of one nucleotide.

The recipe for proteins on DNA is stored as a 3 nucleotide code. 3 nucleotides represent 1 amino acid (A protein is a chain of amino acids). A small deletion (1 or 2 nucleotidds) in the active coding sequence messes up the entire sequence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_and_RNA_codon_tables