Yeah, I use Dawn for greasy stains all the time. I just put some on as soon as I can and leave it be. I’ll throw it into washing machine after.

Regular cats, he kept rescuing and bringing cats into his house iirc, to dismay of his wife. He also had 2 cats called Tabbie and Dixie.

I visited Lincoln’s home in IL recently and the two coolest facts I learned were this and the fact that he was a HUGE cat lover.

That sucks. Yet is it still worse than the status quo?

Thanks for your input! I’m not that familiar with the intricacies of the bill, mind elaborating a bit? What was so bad about?

Meh, I want to believe that, but I was kinda shocked to see 2 states flat out refuse to legalize it in their states during this last election (ND and AR).

Dill is great on salmon, can confirm

Amen to that

I’m not at all surprised. Something about a pastor wearing flashy jewelry and in your face branded Gucci suits rubbed me the wrong way.

All great questions. I’m a med student and a grad student in immunology, but I’ll try to answer as simply as I can. Your questions in order:

• Different vaccines have different routes of administration (they are oral vaccines for example, or many studies on intranasal vaccines), but, in general, you want local inflammation at the injection site. This inflammation recruits immune cells that eventually will lead to antibody production.

-Somewhat answered before, but there are oral vaccines. Most of them, however, would not survive the harsh environment of gastrointestinal tract.

-I still remember how this blew my mind. The immune system doesn’t “update” your OS. Your OS comes with all of the antigens pre-installed, if you wish. What the vaccine does is tell the cells that just happened to have the correct receptor to expand. How we get to a point where we effectively have cells that are able to recognize pretty much any antigen out there (while also not recognizing self) is a complicated process and involves genetic rearrangements and extensive T and B cell education.

-every part of your body is perfused with blood vessels that get progressively smaller. So if you inject into muscle, it will get picked up by the blood, it won’t typically be as fast as putting it into the vein, but it is a similar process.

-soreness/pain: the pain is not exactly the same as when you stub a toe, for example. Pain from most vaccines is mostly caused by the local inflammation that is occurring at the injection site, and is typically very helpful for the development of a good vaccine response. A classic medical way of describing this pain is “Rubor, calor, dolor and tumor”, which translates to redness, warmth, pain and swelling and is typically for indicative of an inflammatory response.

You’ve asked a bunch of good and complicated questions, let me know if you want me to elaborate in any way, I love immunology :)

That’s a crazy number, not that $800 B isn’t already crazy. Thanks for clearing this out.

$782 bn according to this at least, but I’m not an expert, I’m sure it all depends on what is included and what’s not.

Keep in mind that the Pentagon gets close to $800 b a year. Just for sense of perspective.

A real hero here! Thank you for your service!

This is how you do meta verse, Mark!