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27d ago
Sure. And don’t do any transitions until you can reliably tell the difference.
But at the moment, a doctor feel pressured to do the opposite.
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1mo ago
Not to mention the required reprogramming.
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2mo ago
There’s the old joke of a governor interviewing prisoners, determining why they were incarcerated. After prisoner after prisoner professed their innocence, one prisoner said he was in jail for theft. The warden quickly proclaims, release this man from jail, before he corrupts all these innocent men.
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1mo ago
You left out the 3rd clause in the Russel conjugation: https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
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1mo ago
I don’t think Andy dick has gotten away with it. A recent headline reads “comedian Andy duck arrest warrant issued after failing to register as a sex offender״
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1mo ago
I think it is important to add that he invited her to discuss a business opportunity. He wanted to offer his knowledge of online subscription to Jordan Peterson.
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6mo ago
• (Related tidbit from outside this particular hearing: Senator Bill Cassidy, Bernie Sanders’ Republican counterpart on the Senate HELP Committee, has complained that we have a shortage of trained nurses partially because many states require nursing colleges to be taught by nurses with masters degrees, who are few in number and already mostly working as practitioners. I can buy this because in my experience looking into other healthcare issues, state level regulations often do make federal laws go much less far. For example pricing transparency rules don’t really matter when states allow hospitals to be monopolies.)
• Democrats responded that the rule provides $75 million in grants to train nurse aids, and also pointed out that Democrats repeatedly have tried to boost federal spending to help with this kind of training and hiring but Republicans were opposed soooo.
So the states restrict training more than is federally required and the response is to give them more federal money so the state can get out of the problem they caused? Seems wrong.
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1mo ago
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10mo ago
What about this: Windsor police officer who donated to convoy protest will work 80 hours unpaid? That's 80 hours of unpaid work for a $50 donation, that was given by a person who was on unpaid leave, and never went through because the accounts were already frozen.
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4mo ago
What is tpot?
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6mo ago
I don’t have a twitter account, mostly for my own sanity. One of the worst new features is that if you are not logged in to twitter you cannot get a chronological feed of an account, it sorts by most popular, which is more than useless. (You can change it if you’re logged in).
Also, unless you’re logged in, you can’t click on a link to a twitter comment and read the replies. Only the actual tweet is displayed.
On the other hand, This has caused my twitter usage to go down to less than a minute a week, which is great.
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2mo ago
I have no experience in pond building, but here are two suggestions anyway. Look into natural pools. https://youtube.com/@organicpools-davidpaganbutler — this guy designs and builds them with filtration systems.
Also, what about building a second pond that gets its water pumped in from the first pond instead of the spring and runoff? With the right filtration you can keep it silt free.
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5mo ago
I think part of the reason the comment count was low was because the thread wasn’t pinned, so people didn’t see it and posted in the main thread.
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2mo ago
There are studies that show that the addition of vinegar in a carb rich meal lowers glucose and insulin response in healthy individuals, which is associated with weight loss.
My understanding is that Japanese food has a lot of vinegar in it, which may have contributed. I don’t know if it would offset 9000 calorie meals.
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8mo ago
It does not explain why Saylor Swift earns so much (it's not like she works 1000x harder or puts in 1000x more hours)
She provides more than 1000x the value. Do the same exact production, with the same exact experience, but substitute Taylor Swift with a random woman singing the same exact songs. How much of the stadium would be full? How much would each ticket go for? I would say much less than what it is now.
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5mo ago
What can be seen as more surprising, this story was revived in 2014 by Eric Raymond on his blog and reaction of libertarian both left and right tended to be positive and affirming.
Off topic, but is esr blogging anywhere? I used to read his blog, but haven’t seen anything from him since his website died.
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10mo ago
It seems to me he's just doing it to show the people clamoring for censorship that it goes both ways, and they don't really want it as much as they want opinions and voices they don't like muzzled.
But maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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10mo ago
To your Bernie Madoff example, if he'd paid back all the people who were conned, yes, he would have probably skated
Martin Shkreli made money for all his investors and was still charged and served jail time.
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2mo ago
I thought Salt was a really good action movie with a female lead. I remember seeing talk of a sequel but it never went anywhere.
I’m not sure how well the movie did in the box office.
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11mo ago
You can see it here. (It's kind of weird that the Guardian has a video which is just Gillette's video, but it has 4.4 million views, so they're probably making some money off of it)
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9mo ago
in addition to the other reasons given in this thread, Peter Parker wasn't race swapped. He was replaced with another character, Miles Morales, After Peter Parker was killed. All this happened in an alternate universe.
Also, it is very common for conservatives to be initially upset about something, but after a while they accept it. Miles Morales was introduced over a decade ago. There definitely was some complaining at the beginning.
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6mo ago
I think their point is instead of Israel saying straight out, “Arabs can’t have guns”, they prefer to make it harder for everyone to get guns.
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1yr ago
It is apparently illegal for states to secure their borders, as this fall only under federal jurisdiction. From here:
Can states enforce immigration laws?
The federal government has sole authority to enforce immigration laws. While DPS and the National Guard can’t enforce those laws, Abbott increased trespassing penalties under the disaster declaration and directed state troopers to arrest migrants on state trespassing charges when they are caught on private property.
It is very easy for the federal government to decide to let people illegally cross the border, since Washington DC is thousands of miles away from the Texas border. Why should Texas have to absorb all those people illegally coming into the country?
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10mo ago
I think a bigger cause for concern is the 6% drop in Democrat support. What's up with that? What changed with regards to gay marriage in the past year that caused Democrats to back off?
Here’s Matt Damon explaining that the death of DVD sales killed mid budget movies that took risks.
He doesn’t give quantitative analysis.
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