What’s On Your Mind?

[DT]

Side note: just saw the FDA approved the Pfizer booster for kids 12 and up, I think there's another step involving the CDC before a full rollout[?], but we'll be on deck for this ASAP.

CDC backs FDA's decision to reduce time between primary series and booster dose of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine | CNN

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday expanded the emergency use authorization for Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine boosters to children ages 12 to 15.

www.cnn.com

 

[yaxomoxay]

OOC, what was her vaccination stance? Was it slightly voluntary (as in, felt safe due to lifestyle / a little concerned over the vaxx development), due to other mitigating circumstances (couldn't do to medical issues, etc.), raging anti-vaxx (with or without insane political extremism)?

Not raging anti vax, more on the “I don’t trust them on me but if you want to do it, your problem” camp, but still leaning towards the “vax is a scam” thing.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Not raging anti vax, more on the “I don’t trust them on me but if you want to do it, your problem” camp, but still leaning towards the “vax is a scam” thing.

Mrs AFB is due to her other conditions and the reactions other people who are allergic to as many things as she is reacting badly. I have asked her to go talk to the doctors about it, but she refuses. She doesn’t trust doctors.

 

[Renzatic]

...but still leaning towards the “vax is a scam” thing.

I've seen a number of people claim such, and I'm wondering how it could be a scam. If we were paying a premium for alleged immunity, with Big Pharma stoking the fervor around it, I could understand that line of thinking.

...but they're not. It's widely available, and doesn't cost a thing out of pocket.

So who's being scammed here? The government?

 

[yaxomoxay]

I’ve got this ad on Instagram. I’d rather buy an inflatable doll.

 

[DT]

I’d rather buy another inflatable doll.

Hmm ....

 

[yaxomoxay]

Ref the above, I wonder which scenario would piss my wife off more.

a) she gets home early and she finds me “playing” with an inflatable doll
b) she picks up my phone and finds out that I am sexting with an AI app.

Either case My obvious line is “honey I can explain.”

 

[lizkat]

Ref the above, I wonder which scenario would piss my wife off more.

a) she gets home early and she finds me “playing” with an inflatable doll
b) she picks up my phone and finds out that I am sexting with an AI app.

Either case My obvious line is “honey I can explain.”

The doll might actually be a safer bet. Persuading her that the other side of dialogue with a sexting app is just a computer program making stuff up? That could be a really hard sell.

Either way, you might end up with a distinctly real crowning via nearest cast iron skillet.

 

[rdrr]

Ref the above, I wonder which scenario would piss my wife off more.

a) she gets home early and she finds me “playing” with an inflatable doll
b) she picks up my phone and finds out that I am sexting with an AI app.

Either case My obvious line is “honey I can explain.”

The conversation with the blow up doll might be more captivating.

 

[DT]

I can definitely offer some advice for scenario A ...

 

[Renzatic]

Either case My obvious line is “honey I can explain.”

That's your problem right there. You're trying to explain yourself out of an unexplainable situation, which won't end well for you. What you do in those situations is go full tilt in the opposite direction. Be so brazen that she can't think of anything to say in response.

The first thing you should do if you wife catches you with a blow up sex doll is to act like you're not doing anything weird at all, that she's the one being overly dramatic...

...then ask if she wants to join in.

 

[yaxomoxay]

That's your problem right there. You're trying to explain yourself out of an unexplainable situation, which won't end well for you. What you do in those situations is go full tilt in the opposite direction. Be so brazen that she can't think of anything to say in response.

The first thing you should do if you wife catches you with a blow up sex doll is to act like you're not doing anything weird at all, that she's the one being overly dramatic...

...then ask if she wants to join in.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom and your long experience!

 

[lizkat]

I can definitely offer some advice for scenario A ...

Considering your avatar, your experience with an inflatable doll would likely be pretty brief... jes' sayin'.

 

[SuperMatt]

Considering your avatar, your experience with an inflatable doll would likely be pretty brief... jes' sayin'.

Robots need love too

 

[lizkat]

Robots need love too

Bender's inflatable doll would need some seriously standup skin though. Tough AND flame resistant...

 

[Apple fanboy]

Ref the above, I wonder which scenario would piss my wife off more.

a) she gets home early and she finds me “playing” with an inflatable doll
b) she picks up my phone and finds out that I am sexting with an AI app.

Either case My obvious line is “honey I can explain.”

When I spoke to her she said she was more annoyed by the blow up doll she found you with than the sexting you were doing with Alexa. But I think that was because it was a sheep….

 

[yaxomoxay]

On my mind the fact that people don’t realize that “Metaverse” is just a way to get people to buy twice as much stuff (virtual clothes, virtual shoes, virtual house etc), with the exception that it’s not actually stuff.

 

[ericwn]

Ref the above, I wonder which scenario would piss my wife off more.

a) she gets home early and she finds me “playing” with an inflatable doll
b) she picks up my phone and finds out that I am sexting with an AI app.

Either case My obvious line is “honey I can explain.”

You can share a doll…

 

[lizkat]

On my mind the fact that people don’t realize that “Metaverse” is just a way to get people to buy twice as much stuff (virtual clothes, virtual shoes, virtual house etc), with the exception that it’s not actually stuff.

Well and then there's the issue of when is digital currency a currency and when is it a meta group name for "currencies" that in certain circumstances are just the equivalent of Monopoly money... or, so may stipulate some government agency or even a bank sometime, perhaps with little to zero prior notice. Also known as "Web 3.0 is bullshit" -- as a financial blogger puts it.

And then there's meta fiction: writers writing stories about writers writing stories... the construct has always been around since the days of Greeks and Romans, but now it has a groovy label and so now gets taught or at least analyzed at pricey workshops. It's possible the first meta writer was only just warming up to recover from an attack of 'the blank page' and the story was an effort to get past writer's block. Now it's a technique and a lot of it that makes it to bookshelves isn't worth the ink or the pixels. At least not compared to The Odyssey...

 

[Apple fanboy]

Miss AFB is on my mind this morning. Today is the sixth anniversary of when she went. I still miss her terribly. Some days it’s all I think about. Others not as much.
Give your kids a hug. You never know when it will be your last.