As a practicing family doctor:

Women whose hepatitis B status is negative should talk with their doctors about vaccination, the recommendation says.

“Your kid should should get the vaccine.” That was easy.

The panel voted 6-4, with one member abstaining, to recommend testing children’s antibody levels after each hepatitis B shot to determine whether additional shots are needed.

I’m not ordering unnecessary blood draws on an infant, that’s both asinine and mean. That’s two extra needle sticks to not change the number of vaccine sticks the kid gets at all (Hep B comes comboed with other vaccines, so they’d still get the exact same number of shots.)

Monk as well.

I grew up in the 90s and don’t know a single other man who had your experience.

classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

That makes sense, actually. There’s a sharp divide between people who find these symbols offensive and literal NAZIs.

It just wasn’t funny. It was a group of obnoxious young adults in apartments mugging for the camera while the laugh track assured us what they said was funny (it wasn’t.)

The only episode that landed for me was the boys trying to move a couch upstairs with Ross shouting “PIVOT!” Otherwise, nothing really interesting happened. The “Smelly Cat” song everyone memed about was just grating.

And I remember what was popular about it was Ross and Rachel. Which is mind-boggling, because they were both incredibly toxic and spent half their lives arguing over whether Ross cheated on her. Why would anyone root for that?

It was always a mediocre show, but was so massively popular at the time that any criticism was quickly drowned out and brushed away. But now the hype has died down and people are more openly talking about the show’s flaws.

I personally thought it sucked back when it was new and have no interest in watching it now. I watched a handful of episodes as it had a syndication spot on my local networks, but just never got into it. (For the kids: Growing up on the East Coast, the dinner hours were generally news and 8-11 pm was “prime time” when new episodes of shows would air. In between shows would air reruns in syndication. So Friends was the filler I’d sometimes watch while waiting for the new shows to air.)

Mint’s great.

My wife and I discovered some spearmint growing right by our house. So we just mow it into a patch and mulch around it: free mint and the bees love it! Fresh mojitos every summer lol.

Since ICE agents refuse to identify themselves and often operate while wearing masks, there has been a growing number of incidents in which residents and local police cannot tell if the individual they’re dealing with is a federal agent or an opportunistic criminal.

“Yes.”

The part the Republicans deemed suitable for release.

What the fuck is this stupid law? An actress can consent to film a nude scene, but if you share the scene she filmed for you to watch, you’ve somehow violated her moral rights?

It’s actually a big deal. Medicare currently does not cover any weight loss drugs, so getting even partial coverage is huge.

Zepbound and Wegovy are weight loss formulations, not diabetes formulations.

Zepbound is identical to Mounjaro, except Mounjaro is prescribed just for diabetes while Zepbound is prescribed for obesity and sleep apnea. Wegovy is the same drug as the diabetes medication Ozempic, but it has different dosing once you get over 1 mg.

If you start flossing once per day, after a week this will literally never happen again.

Have you heard the news everyone’s talking

Life is good 'cause everything’s awesome

Lost my job, there’s a new opportunity

More free time for my awesome community

I feel more awesome than an awesome possum

Dip my body in chocolate frosting

Three years later wash off the frosting

Smelling like a blossom, Everything is awesome

Stepped in mud, got new brown shoes

It’s awesome to win and it’s awesome to lose

That’s a bit like asking, “Can you point me toward a beginner friendly car that has air conditioning and a radio?” You’re going to get 100 different answers because there are a hundred different distros that do all the things. The differences between them are small and not really of interest to a new user.

So I’ll give you a general rundown of the names you’ll probably see:

• Ubuntu: The classic recommended option and the most used worldwide. Though they’re corporate run and occasionally makes weird decisions that piss off the linux community, so you won’t see it mentioned as much as it was 10 years ago.
• Kubuntu: An Ubuntu flavor with a very customizable Windows-like desktop that should feel very comfortable for new users.
• Linux Mint: Essentially decorporatized Ubuntu with their own custom Windows-like desktop. It’s often the go-to recommendation to new users now, though I’ve personally never tried it.
• Pop!_OS: Basically Ubuntu with NVIDIA drivers enabled by default, so it positions itself as a gaming distro.
• Zorin: Another Ubuntu clone that tries to look as much like Windows as possible for new users.
• Fedora: A more frequently updated distro, which is appealing to those with newer hardware. A little less straightforward for new users but still not super challenging.
• Nobara: Pop!_OS except for Fedora.
• Bazzite: An immutable Fedora distro (meaning you can’t edit the underlying filesystem,) making it behave more like a consoles. Honestly, immutable distros are a niche in linux so you should probably avoid it as a new user, but you’ll see it listed as it has some diehard fans.
• Arch: A DIY distro for enthusiasts and tinkerers with very frequent updates, so good for newer hardware.

But again, they’re all like 95% the same as each other. I’d just pick between Kubuntu or Mint, maybe Pop!_OS if you don’t feel like going into a menu and enabling NVIDIA drivers.

Nah, it’s estimated that about 90% of “sinus infections” in adults are actually viral.

Your doctor just gave up and prescribed you antibiotics because you whined or they don’t care about antibiotic stewardship.

Bonus points if they gave you azithromycin (Zpak,) which does basically nothing for bacterial sinus infections but has slight anti inflammatory properties to enhance that placebo effect for you until the viral infection naturally clears.

No, he basically carried that film.

Can I instead pitch that the human is Amy Sedaris as Kitty Farmer?

The Matrix, Office Space, American Beauty, and Fight Club all came out in 1999. They all starred white males between the ages of 30-40 who have become disillusioned with their soul sucking jobs in a consumerist society. They all have an epiphany that breaks them away from the corporate consumerist grind and rebel against it, before finally becoming a sage who can live in the world but not be destroyed by it. Except for Kevin Spacey’s character, but seriously, fuck that guy.

Cipher’s a much better example. He’s tempted not with being an office drone, but with having a steak in a fancy restaurant, so being upper middle class? Anyway, that’s enough to get him to resort to literal murder.

Anyway, 1999 was a weird year in film. It seems almost trite nowadays that having a stable job with stable housing and being able to afford Starbucks every day was the bane of human existence, when nowadays it’s living in the lap of luxury.

Oh God, raw corn though.