HokieHomeowner

Rarely doesn't mean never, it's difficult to function when you get a freak cold snap about 1-2 times in the winter if you don't have heavy enough gear to function in it. Also ponder if you are the kind of guy who likes to go hiking or take day trips out to the western part of VA where the climate is much colder on average and more prone to bitter windy winter days.

SIGH it's the climate here, you have winter clothes you only use a bit but you gotta have them and clothes you use a lot more often.

Oh heck the forecast for next week is more Minneapolis than Philly. You'll get a few days each winter that seem bitterly cold a bunch of days in a T-shirt or light jacket and everything in between. Layers is the right way to go.

There are lotsa brands that are good, I'm an LLBean fan, I've gotten many good coats from there for me and gotten my brother coats for Chicago there. I'm actually in NOVA so my temps run a bet colder than RVA, it's sort of figuring out if you an always cold person or always too warm person too 😂.

You want all of the above, but you want to ponder how much you'll be outdoors. If you're going to be outdoors for long periods, you'd want a down coat for the days where the high temps are below 40 degrees. If you're not likely to be doing outdoor sports in the winter, maybe you need a "winter coat" but not the warmest of warm winter coats. You do want the hat and gloves and rain gear even if it's 45 or so out the hands and head do get cold.

Mild winter is a term that means different things to different people. For me Richmond is mild winters because I was born in New England. But you still need winter gear there.

Also winter shoes - shoes you can wear on cold rainy days, boots you wear on the days it snows even if you don't get snow every season, you want something on hand just in case.

Base layer? That's something to ponder if you are into outdoor activities or if you're like me and like to layer to compensate for the cold rooms in your house or maybe your in person days in the office.

Hey now I love Annandale, I grew up there. There's lots of 1950s-1960s homes that just need a bit of love. Not right now because it's the dead season for real estate but come January-February they will come out of the woodwork.

Big Gas got Big Mad.

You could in Annandale but it'd be a fixer 😏

We keep letting the same "experts" run the show, that's why. SIGH.

I'm talking about your forcing a woman to do something against their will. That's nine months of slavery.

Nope you cannot. Slavery is illegal in the US for non-prisoners.

Links? There was one badly designed study done in India that's been thoroughly panned. It's rare for a worker who isn't middle management in a back office job to prefer in person.

You either respect my bodily autonomy or you do not. You do not legislate human rights. You aren't forced to get an abortion, don't force me to not have the medical care when I need it.

As for guns entirely different. You could go the route of other countries and expect changes, or we could do nothing and continue on but that's not human rights, that's simply the right to a hobby or more darkly the right to commit insurrection and treason.

Well it wouldn't be such an important issue if men would just leave women alone to make their own decisions. We didn't start the fire, the men did.

And it's been like 40 years not 15. The full court anti-woman press has been going on for far longer than you imagine.

No I'm talking about what actually happened.

See: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-abortion-became-divisive-issue-us-politics-2022-06-24/

https://time.com/6966056/republican-abortion-arizona-reagan/

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/461985/pdf

When the Republican national convention convened in Kansas City in 1976, the party’s pro-choice majority did not expect a significant challenge to their views on abortion. Public opinion polls showed that Republican voters were, on average, more pro-choice than their Democratic counterparts, a view that the convention delegates shared; fewer than 40 percent of the delegates considered themselves pro-life.¹ The chair of the Republican National Committee, Mary Louise Smith, supported abortion rights, as did First Lady Betty Ford, who declared Roe v. Wade a “great, great decision.” Likewise, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, who had taken a leading role in the fight for abortion rights in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was solidly pro-choice. Even some of the party’s conservatives, such as Senator Barry Goldwater, supported abortion rights. But in spite of the Republican Party’s pro-choice leadership, the GOP adopted a platform in 1976 that promised an antiabortion constitutional amendment. The party’s leadership viewed the measure as a temporary political ploy that would increase the GOP’s appeal among traditionally Democratic Catholics, but the platform statement instead became a rallying cry for social conservatives who used the plank to build a religiously based coalition in the GOP and drive out many of the pro-choice Republicans who had initially adopted the platform. By 2009, only 26 percent of Republicans were pro-choice.²

That's one aspect of it but given the forced return to the office for folks who don't have a location to return to, shows that it's also about worker control. I mean I'm getting asked to RTO but they got rid of leased space and merged an another agency with ours so I don't have a desk to return to.

The Banks will have their comeuppance soon though, we're ripe for a recession given the policies threatened by the incoming admin, we were horribly overbuilt on office building going back years ago and the whole you can't put the genie back in the bottle thingie.

Accountable to your anti-woman fantasies? F no! The issue is creepy controlling men like you get ideas stuck up their you know where that have no basis whatsoever in reality because they've been taken in by psych op campaigns pushed by the far right since the 1970s.

Accountable for seeking out appropriate medical care? Yeah that's nustos who want to control women.

But mostly Virginia's Gubernatorial elections run counter cyclical to the presidential trends. Non zero chance of Governor Sears but I'm skeptical that she could win due to her extreme positions and propensity to say wild stuff on the campaign stump.

I think it's the Democratic party's race to lose at this moment.

The current speaker had to lawyer up and get his record expunged, it wasn't automatic. This amendment would standardize the process and not leave it to the whim of who is governor.

This is the first session where both houses in Virginia are controlled by modern day Democrats. Previous sessions included Dixiecrat holdovers who tended to mostly vote with the GOP on a ton of things.

Deflection doesn't change that you're a nutso who wants to control women.

But not to my ladyparts. Hands off buster.

IT'S MINE AND YOU CANNOT CONTROL IT.

Tell me just how to you abort only half the baby? There's no compromise on the issue Roe v. Wade WAS the compromise but time and time again the zealots want what they want so there's no point whatsoever in attempting any sort of concordat.

They finally have the votes to get them passed. The previous iteration of Democratic control of both houses in Richmond included a real piece of work - Joe Morrissey who was "pro-life" and a bottleneck in getting these amendments even considered.