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How to Prevent Wasps After Extermination in Queens, NY
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (635+ words) This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Wasps can quickly turn a peaceful home or business into a stressful environment, especially during warmer months in areas like Queens, NY, USA. Even after a…...
DKos Staff: how do we report glitches & oddities in this bright new world?
6+ hour, 30+ min ago (186+ words) This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. I'm looking for guidance after having a bout with "content deactivation" for a comment with no curse words, no racist/homophobic/bigoted language, no personal attacks....
Preparing for Site Migration: Notifications
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (294+ words) The new Daily Kos will have two systems of notifications that are not integrated right now. Hopefully over time we can unify them, but in the meantime, it's good to know what you can find, where. Viafoura is our commenting…...
Tentative Hypothermia Protocol as Adjunct Treatment for COVID-19
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (263+ words) In the same vein as 'flattening the curve' for'the rate of new infections (so not overwhelm the healthcare system), mild hypothermia may flatten the curve of viral replication in individual patients'by making the human body less hospitable to this novel…...
Museums 501: Jails and Prisons (photo diary)
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (142+ words) The word jail came into the English language about 1300 CE and is from the Middle English jaile. In British English, the preferred spelling is goal. Some other terms used for jail and prison include: clink, jug, nick, lockup, stir, slammer,…...
Museums 501: Saddles (photo diary)
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (810+ words) We don't know when humans first domesticated horses. We do know that horses first evolved in North America and then migrated across the Bering Land Bridge into Asia. About 8, 000 years ago, the horse became extinct in North America. The domestication…...
Preparing for Site Migration: Accepting Group Invitations
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (104+ words) You have just created your first group on the new Daily Kos. If you look at your group, under the Invite tab, you can see that someone has a Pending Invite. What should they do? " "2) in the Invitations tab under…...
Preparing for Site Migration: Publishing a Story to a Group
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (371+ words) If I would like to publish'it immediately, on the middle of the sidebar, I would leave it as "Immediately. ' or, I can click on where it says "Immediately, which opens up the calendar scheduler: and choose the date and time…...
Preparing for Site Migration: How To Create A Group
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (263+ words) There are a lot of things you might want to do with the new site, and one of them is creating a group. All the existing groups from DK5 will migrate, so if you have a group already, you don't need…...
Preparing for Site Migration: Managing Group Members As A Group Administrator
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (218+ words) Group admins can change the permissions of users (promote them to admins or editors). Admins can also ban a user or remove them from a group (banning means they can't be added again). In order to modify a user's role,…...