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Except that I am using a very porous knit scarf as a mask and only masking up outdoors (the opposite of proper masking).

I am convinced that I will come down with cold/flu if I breath too much cold air. When I walk in the cold, I always wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. If I don't, the cold air will give me a sore throat. That sore throat will act as a Petri dish for illness to develop and spread into my lungs or nose.

I know plenty of medical professionals and all of them tell me that that is not how it works, but I have a datum of proof. In my first year of university, I had a nasty, persistent respiratory infection during the late fall/early winter. To keep my throat warm while it was recovering, I started wearing a scarf and my illness went away quickly. After that, I started wrapping up whenever I was walking to class in the cold and never got sick again.

I am now used to wrapping my face in the cold and feel wrong without it. When I don't, it seems like I am more likely to come home with a scratchy throat. I can definitely say that many of my flus start in the throat (though it could just be that the first flu symptom I tend to notice is the sore throat).

With an ISP, you are not paying much for your bandwidth to the Internet. You are paying for connection between your house and their office. Your ISP has to maintain many miles of wire across your city. They also need to maintain equipment that can handle thousands of individual connections across many individual wires.

In comparison, a VPN provider just has a couple of very big connections going into their data center for pushing data in and out.

Plus, you likely have only a few choices of ISP (or only one choice), so your ISP can maintain a very healthy profit margin. With VPN providers, there is a ton of competition, so they have to charge you only a little above actual cost.

According to TMZ, Beverly's underage sister was caught sneaking out to go on a date with a boy. Beverly's mom called Patrick over to teach the girl a lesson and he beat her half to death.

Looks like the rotten apple rolled back to the diseased tree. I just hope that the poor girl is able to get out of the broken house without too much more physical and mental trauma.

I agree with Green. It is an insult to Angel Reese to be compared to Dray. There should be no tolerance for sexism at NBA games.

Pokemon is not a first party title, so it does not have to follow first party title rules.

Game Freak is a third party studio. Apparently their next game is going to Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows but not the Switch.

The Pokemon IP is jointly owned by Game Freak, Nintendo, and Creatures Inc. Nintendo probably has the majority vote in that arrangement, but they still need to act in the best interest of all shareholders.

The article does not explain why the NBA Europe should exist. What does this new league offer not currently provided by European leagues?

Are they going to try to have NBA level salaries, to attract NBA level players, and have high skill games? Are they going to have regular season games between NBA North America and Europe and a promise that the games will be competitive (or as competitive as a game between a Western Conference championship contender and an Eastern Conference lottery tank)?

To be fair, the East is especially mediocre this year. The 76ers are tied for 3rd despite Embiid being under heavy playtime restrictions and complaining that it is not enough time for him to get used to the flow of the game.

I agree with the outcome (that Bane deserved an ejection) but I disagree with the reasoning. It should have been a flagrant two for committing a hard foul on a defenseless, airborne player. Bane then batted the ball down and happened to hit Okongwu laying on the ground. It would probably warrant a technical foul under normal circumstances, but is a minor detail in comparison to the fact that Okongwu was lucky to have landed in a way that did not result in a serious injury.

For me, the 3DS gameplay statistics are wildly undercounted. For example, in 2016 I played 21 hours of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice. According to the Nintendo Store app, I have never played that game.

Not to mention that the app only has 3DS and Wii U stats only until February 2020.

I imagine his biggest impediment is not going to be the treatment but the recovery. Chemo is very rough on the body. Poor guy.

So are the Suns going to go into a rebuild? Their team felt like the total was less than the sum of the parts, so maybe Durant leaving will be a case of addition via subtraction (possible if they replace him with someone who is a better fit).

Sorry that I am too lazy to watch the video, but what does the doc do? Just charging or video out as well?

If it is just charging, there are off the shelf docks already and DIY guides on 3D printing sites.

A sore nerve in his glute? Sounds like a pain in the ass.

For systems that grade on a 1 to 5 scale, subtract 1 from your average grade to get your GPA (for example, if you have a 4.3 out of 5 average grade, you would have a 3.3 GPA). Not sure how to handle a grading system that goes from 1- to 5+.

The issue with South Park is that it targets a narrow audience and I am not part of it. The best episodes are going to be studied as master pieces of political humor, but when I try to watch it in season order, those episodes are sandwiched between episodes that are offensive and obscene just for shock value. I am not opposed to those episodes existing but watching them feels like a waste of time.

Something I noticed about engine builders I have tried in recent years is that they do not let you build a blatantly overpowered engine. Sure, that leads to a runaway leader, but it is the social contract of playing an engine building game. It would be like 4X games that punish you for fighting opponents (another complaint of mine is that all the new 4X games I have tried strongly discourage you from destroying opponents infrastructure…)

It could be sampling bias since I am not following all the new releases and I am not trying many games.

https://libbyapp.com/

Assuming you have a card from a participating library.

You mean the fact that ICE parodied Pokemon cards? I imagine it would fall under "fair use". Plus, a lawsuit is only useful if a court enforces it. A judge is not going to be awarding massive damages against a government agency over a joke

It seems like Massachusetts Best Buys did not get the memo. I hear all these stories about people hating Best Buy over pushy employees and have the opposite experience. The stores only have 1-2 employees on the floor and the duty of those employees seems to be to hide from customers. If I ever need help finding an item or want something from a locked display, I have to spend 15-20 minutes running around the store trying to catch a ninja.