Yes. It’s amazing and I’m not letting myself look up a livestream (they have the be livestreaming it) because I wouldn’t sleep, waiting to see the next bit.
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To be honest, I think I am currently more familiar with Italian music than Top 40 here in the US right now. 
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Also sometimes there are specific genre radio shows also, like for sure there is one where they only play disco. Italian disco. It’s awesome.
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If my tv gets channels then there are at least two channels to quasi watch. Have you seen Quebecois game shows or talk shows? It’s a different kind of bizarre from Japanese, but full on crazy.
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Haha, no, but I don’t speak French only Italian. . 
That sounds like an awesome thing to watch even distracted! We get broadcast Spanish shows, but I avoid them, because I took Spanish in high school, and if I listen to it too much it starts to mess with my Italian!
(Oh - I mentioned the Netflix shows having French because I happened to notice that a few weeks ago, that almost of the Netflix original shows have English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian (and occasionally Portuguese) dubs! I just told my sister about it last week and she is thrilled because she speaks German but there are literally no German subs of anything here unless you get actual physical DVDs.)
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I can’t do Spanish. It all turns Spanglish and francish. But Italian was nice when I tried it for Italy. And radio Italia sounds nicer than doing homework
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It is!!!
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This might be below your level but there are a number of “Slow news” podcasts in various languages where they discuss the days headlines in that language with very clear pronunciations and a slow speaking cadence. Just look for “Slow News [language]” and it should come up.
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Not worried, IMO. Look at the numbers. Far more people die every year from regular old influenza but we don’t freak out because it’s around every year.
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But we have a vaccine for that. And new things are scary.
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As far as protecting yourself from illness, you’ll be good with standard precautions. The actual mortality rate is similar to other respiratory illnesses and affects the same populations.
I totally agree with you, though, that it’s unnerving from an epidemiological standpoint that we’ve never seen gene sequencing like this before. Hopefully this strain gives researchers a lot of info as to how viruses become able to jump to different species and remain virulent.
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@Elle I like to watch movies with the French dub + subtitles turned on. I was having the same problems as you finding things to listen to in French. So now while I work I turn on Harry Potter or another movie in my library with the French dub and French subtitles. I’m usually not watching the screen but just listening. The subtitles help me pick up on what they’re saying if I don’t catch it fully and then I can read it without cheating in English.
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There are a bunch of shows and movies on Netflix in other languages. Not podcasts or news, but I like to jump in with unhelpful suggestions. <3
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For Android, is there such a thing as a … setting? app? something? that would have the following rule for my phone: Silence means silence unless these [spouse/child’s school phone numbers] call.
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Excellent, thank you!
Subject: Prickly Pear
The backstory: I got a case of them a few months back. The glochids were supposedly burned off, but alas, they were not. Both of my hands were filled with them by the time I was done cleaning (even heavy leather welding gloves didn’t block them). It hurt more than I would have expected.
The question: I froze the fruit I scooped out of the little bastards. But not I’m worried that some of the spines/glochids might have somehow made it into the fruit. is this a real concern?
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Depending on the version of Android the menus may be different but usually there’s a way to do it 
I’ve never had that problem despite also having hands full of prickly pear spines post-peeling.
I think if you were careful peeling/scooping, you’re probably okay. But if you’re at all worried, I personally would take a bit of the fruit, unfreeze it, plop it in water and see what comes out. If spines – no eats. If no spines – touch. No spines? Then I would eat.
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