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Moderna Morning 3
This will likely be my penultimate update on this. I did not do an update last night because, for the most part, everything was fine. I even went out and had an outdoor drink. This morning I feel normal, minus a dry cough. Overall, the vaccine symptoms were manageable. The day 1 headache was pretty…
Moderna Morning 2
I feel much, much better this morning. The main problem, the headache, is almost completely gone after a full night’s rest. I am still experiencing a couple of other symptoms: I feel pretty cold right now and I am definitely congested. Given I was not all that congested yesterday, I consider this a sign of…
Moderna Evening 1
Today was rough. I should have just done nothing today and rested. I do not want to scare people in being hesitant, but my headache was persistent throughout the whole day and my nausea has lingered, preventing me from eating a large meal. I spent a few hours with an ice pack pressed to my…
Moderna (2nd Dose) Morning 1
Given vaccine hesitancy, I thought I would spend this morning detailing my symptoms upon waking up this morning. All and all I am doing okay, but I hope some people would benefit from me explicitly going through all of my symptoms. I hope to give regular updates as well–at least for a couple of mornings…
A Dumpster Fire: A Party Split
A recent poll showed that 64% of GOPers would leave the GOP in favor of a MAGA Party, so I thought I would once again comment on why this would be a disaster for the American Right. (The poll can be found here: https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/537442-poll-64-percent-of-gop-voters-likely-to-join-a-trump-led-3rd). Assuming the party affiliation with normally track general election voting patterns…
Why Inaugurations Are Outside
The image above is from the restored Old Senate Chamber (From the Architect of the Capitol’s Office), but what does the Old Senate Chamber have to do with the inauguration of the U.S. President? Our story for today is about the first inauguration of James Monroe (5th President of the United States) in 1917. For…
Federal Decriminalization of Marijuana
I was not going to post on here again anytime soon due to being busy with the end of semester crunch (I’ve also been lazy about the length/detail in recent posts, so I want to start doing less frequent but more engaging posts), but today’s vote in the House of Representatives has prompted me to…
Transhumanism?
I am going to start a new line of posts now: I want to shift to technology. To begin this category of posts, I want to ask a big picture question. How far are you willing to go? How far is technology allowed to go in pursuit of making a better human? Or going beyond…
Libertarians Miss the Point
Most of the people that read this post will either love or hate what I am going to argue, so oh well in advance. What I want to argue is relatively specific today: when it comes to right-wing libertarians in a liberal democracy, they often simply miss the point with the justifications they provide for…
Come On, End It
Let me be clear: Trump’s lawsuits are a fundraising effort. It is shameful of the GOP to humor it at all, but it is not a new tactic.The Trump donation emails are explicit: any donations under $8,000 do *not* go to the Trump legal team–they go to the Trump and RNC PACs (soft money accounts).…
