You can make some from local tomatoes, and freeze or can any extra for later. It's a pretty simple recipe, you just cook down some tomatoes and add spices and vinegar.
The first vaccine from 57-67 wasn't as effective and needs boosters. The second vaccine from 67-~78 was one shot and should've been 2. So there's 20 years of people just finding out how they need boosters.
He went through his last term with a whole bunch of 'acting' officials without them being approved by the Senate; he's going to rely on that precedent here.
She's already gutted the Constitution. She helped evolve the argument that (and then voted that) he's immune to anything he can claim as an "official act", and now everything will be an "official act". She helped him get back into office, now he can ignore the courts, including the Supreme Court - we already know no one is going to stop him. She had the chance to stop this and she failed.
They shouldn't share anything with us. He did it last time, and he was already seen bringing boxes of stuff to MaL, where people are paying $5,000,000 to have private meetings with him. There are absolutely people asking for info he has access to, and he will absolutely give it to them.
Not being stupid here, but: do you need to? I completely understand and support the anger, but what in-app purchases are you making and can't you stop making them? You can switch to the free iCloud account (so they don't get money) and download/delete your content so they don't have access to it.
I think your data being used is the big one, but it leads down a big privacy hole; you'll have to decide how far you want you take that.
I'm just wondering if you'll end up giving more money to them by buying a new phone, Rather than sticking with your current phone, stopping in-app purchases, deleting iCloud, and installing privacy protection.
The thing is, do you want to talk to people, or understand the answers? Because learning a few phrases is great but if you can't understand the answers :shrug:
My standard basic phrases are Please; Thank you; Excuse me; I'm sorry; Where's the bathroom?; and I'm a vegetarian. It's not elegant, but it covers my most basic needs.
For places I want to go, I have a list in the local language that I can point to, and I learn the basics of written language so I can navigate (maps, store signs, menus, etc). I also watch TV in whatever the language is before I leave, preferably with English subtitles (sometimes that's a local program, othertimes it's a US or UK show dubbed into the local language).
They have options to add in like birdsong and wind chimes to your personalized mix. The idea isn't necessarily to drown out the noise you're hearing, it's too make the noise more acceptable.
Like loud diesel trucks drive me nuts. But I toss on a thunderstorm, maybe a bit of purring cat, and I can ignore them.
Have you tried a white noise generator for your sleeping issues? There are several early available, I happen to use TMSoft's White Noise. It has a lot of options for sound. I use a mix of pink noise for overall masking, heavy rain to make the pink noise more palatable than a plain hum, and an extreme thunderstorm - adding the extra thunder helps me sleep through bass sounds like vacuum cleaners and garbage trucks.
Putin holds the US responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wants to see the US collapse. How would you collapse the US? You'd divide the country against each other so neither side (red/blue, both politicians and civilians] trusted the other. You'd alienate all their allies. You'd make the people distrustful of experts, of science, of news media. You'd sow distrust of the government, then make the government unstable. You'd destabilize the financial market. It should take a lot of subtle effort at the start, but once there's momentum it gets a lot easier.
If you look at things from the point of view that Trump is a Russian asset, it makes a lot more sense.
They'll just double down, saying that the Representative is actually just an elite or got corrupted, and they need to elect a "real" Republican. The ironic thing about that situation is the purity tests, where neither side believes the other are "real" Republicans: the Representative says his constituents are traveling Democratic shills and the constituents will say that he's a corrupt elite outsider.
Internationally, the wars continue. The US military stockpile is structured so that if there's a full US commitment to a war, the stockpile will last a couple of years while the US transitions to a wartime footing, building and renovating munitions factories to continue the war effort. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US and the EU started sending their stockpiles to Ukraine, and they ramped up munitions production - but neither power pivoted ro full wartime production. Hell, the European NATO countries were still debating whether to dedicate 2% of their GDP to defence.
With Trump fully in Putin's pocket, the US is going to drastically scale back the supply of arms to Ukraine, and the EU isn't in a position to make up the entire shortfall. Even now, they're talking about giving money and supplying some arms, but I'm not seeing any reports of building new factories or scaling up production at existing ones (it takes a couple years to fully scale up production, so extra arms available now needed to be started 2 years ago, and extra production now won't make a noticable difference until two years from now). So Ukraine is going to be struggling for arms.
The good news for Ukraine is that Russia has also been struggling with both manpower and munitions. Putin is relying on literal cannon fodder from other countries and his own prisoners to make the war palatable to his people. But I think it's possible he may decide to push harder, annex a bunch of Ukraine, then declare that the war is over and spend some time consolidating his gains.
In the meantime, I'd expect the US to be increasingly focused on the war in Israel, both as a distraction from Ukraine and because Trump really wants 'wins' there - in this case, he likely wants to build some hotels, and he'd really like to be able to proclaim that he "brought peace to the Middle East" [the genocide of the Palestinian people being a mere technicality to Trump].
With the US being increasingly unreliable, Europe will focus more on their own affairs (including Russia and Ukraine). The US will go their own way on things, increasingly alone and alienated. It will never be fully trusted again (nor should it be), so accomplishing foreign policy goals is going to be increasingly hard, and accomplishing domestic goals isn't going to be much easier.
The US economy will eventually collapse and the weight of the national debt will come crashing down. That's going to affect other countries as well, though I don't know enough to be able to predict how badly. The US will end up the big loser and Russia can probably chalk up some wins in Ukraine. The Arabic countries will make noises about Israel, but I don't think full-scale war will happen there, just long-simmering tensions with both sides encouraging terrorism.
I think China and India are poised to be the big winners: they're both staying publicly out of things, biding their time, waiting for America to fall and Europe to be more internally-focused. And at some point, human civilization collapses, because we couldn't agree that maybe we should just buy less stuff and all the infrastructure and farmland is swallowed by rising sea levels, extreme drought, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and whatever else is waiting for us.
Unfortunately, I suspect we're in the incubation phase of a likely superspreader event (the contagious kid who spent time in crowded college areas, two weeks before (a) symptoms appear and (b) one of those colleges goes on spring break).
I'm betting that, of the hundreds of people exposed and the couple dozen people who probably caught it, at least some of them will go on spring break, and infect other spring breakers who will then bring it home to their colleges. It'll have a couple months to spread there, then some of them will bring it home for the summer.
It sure would've been nice if we'd had politicians who were actually both sane and foresightful .... :(
You can make some from local tomatoes, and freeze or can any extra for later. It's a pretty simple recipe, you just cook down some tomatoes and add spices and vinegar.