I’ve built multiple. Yay me

My sister is a nurse. She works in the OR as a nurse anesthetist. She’s been pulled back to the ICU at her hospital because of the surge in patients. She’s recently pregnant and worried about those morons.

Jeez so true.

Dr of naturopathy is 50 hrs of school, allopathic medic doctor is 4000 some hours - Both refer to themselves as “Dr.”, chiropractors is 200- 500 hrs of school.

In Florida it is against the law to ask if a suicidal or homicidal patient (I mean any patient) if they own a gun, it’s sort of a Florida thing

Yea - it’s a party entirely based on hypocrisy now. It went from a reasonable alternative (with McCain, Romney) to literal fear mongering, conspiracy laden, animal farm caricature of a party

If that’s not illegal in Florida it soon will be, with every crazy trying to prove it so.

Well the thing is every cancer is a totally different beast .
Stage refers to spread - eg it’s in two unrelated spots - for example - your right big toe and left pinky- they’re far apart- on opposite sides - that’s a big hop. Lots of hops seem big but really aren’t - eg lung to brain - blood from the lung goes to the brain- it’s “close”. It can also travel via lymphatic and seeding in a cavity (usually abdomen)

Stage 4 says nothing about survivability- other than - sure 2 is worse than 1 and so on.

But some cancers are quite trivial to beat. Others no one beats. That’s not to diminish it necessarily- my cousin died of a childhood blood cancer nearly “everyone beats”. Some are so unlucky.

The generic term “Cancer” is much more a fundraising term than it is a medical term- see the excellent the emperor of all maladies for more on that history

Wtf did I just read

If getting a vaccine is unconstitutional then so would Be a lot of things- speed limits, traffic lights, seat belts and safety standards for air planes to name a few.

While I like the ruling in J. v. Mass (1905) personally and agree with it (see also Indiana Univeraity students and their petition to Justice Barrett (don’t know the actual citation).

Because the 1905 ruling was in the Supreme Court -Barrett claims this means it can’t be unconstitutional.

The other side of this constitutional coin however is the striking down of the individual mandate. I, without even an attempt at actual research, feel like these are contradictory, which does leave open the door to a successful SC challenge. It seems like one follows from the other.

The vaccine laws do allow exemptions on religious grounds (church of Newsmax?) and alternatives like frequent testing- which is what Barrett - a shadily nominated GOP judge ruled. The ruling is worth checking out for those in doubt as to the legal groundwork for vaccination mandates. All the challenges to vaccine mandates have been executive orders from posturing GOP politicians which carry no legal water- though the headlines and partisan media significantly muddy that detail. See - for example- basically every thing DeSantis and Midwestern Govs do.

Ohhh that Homer. I was trying to imagine how one might read this as epic poetry

“See what happens in these Democrat run hell holes? Sharknados! I’ve been saying it for years”

Yea you’d think well duh anyone can draw a clock - all you need is the numbers and hands- it turns out it’s pretty sensitive for picking up hidden brain dysfunction- the most mild people can’t get the 3,6,9,12 in the right spots - just google it

The lip licking was perfect- it’s actually a side effect of the old anti psychotics- under the umbrella of extra pyramidal symptoms. It persists even after coming off the medication. It’s interestingly a subtle hint to the jokers origin in the psych ward. Damn if I’m not drawing a blank on the exact symptom name but it’s googleable.

I hate the id, and the login, but it’s actually been pretty useful.
I have thrrr computers - desktop, laptop and work and it’s useful having documents sync across all three seamlessly. And I can’t live without styles and many of the other advanced features now- most people don’t bother to use them but they are amazing

I like to think he just finished eating everything else in there

It’s the adaptability and the migration distance that makes humans successful.

The adaptability comes from a mutation in chimp genes that keeps us in the child like state for life- e g adaptable and able to learn.

You can see it in a chimp- a baby chimp looks quite human but an adult chimp does not. The mature state of the chimp can’t learn any more - at least not easily- like most animals - the whole “can’t reach an old dog new tricks” adage.

But somewhere along the line the transition to “adult” state got screwed up and then you get proto humans.

You have to know your audience. Since all of us exist somewhere on the empathetic-autist spectrum- it’s really not fair to expect everyone to say the perfectly right thing at the right time. Look at their intent - not their words- though that in itself sort of precludes that you are closer to empath than autist.

Those that take offense at that are probably on the right hand side of that spectrum to begin with.

With both parties over there- disaster strikes.

EQ is probably a better term than empath though I hate the term. My wife for example is very empathetic but is lacking in EQ and often oblivious. I often pick up on most the all the cues but unfortunately I’m only sorta empathetic. Im in the ‘life’s a bitch and then you die camp’

Eh you know - I’m not that religious and I roll my eyes at this stuff- along with the ubiquitous “I’m praying for you” - I’m like great - keep your fingers crossed to instead of actually helping. But my wife really appreciates this and it totally changes her outlook- so I suppose it depends on viewpoints. People who want to hear that stuff tend to say that stuff and people who don’t - don’t- so I generally use that as a guide to try and say the right thing at the right time for others.

Like politicians you assume everyone is a programmer. There are vastly more technical jobs that remote work doesn’t make sense. But they congregate in Boston, SF, and RTP.

L in

Yea or this. A dyno could make sense