Oof.
Aaron Rodgers season in New York didn’t even last a series. But the Jets won. It’s sounding like Nick Saban might be calling it quits at the end of this season. The AL West and WC is gonna come down to the last week, isn’t it? And the NL WC might do the same. The Michigan State football situation is getting more fucked up by the day. That Brenda tracy lady has always been a grifter. They should fire him with cause just for being taken in by her. And that’s it for sports.
Get a load of this fucking guy. I assume he’s either mentally retarded or he is trying to manipulate mentally retarded people. Either way, what he said is fucking retarded.
The word “deal” is doing an awful lot of work here. This is more like a giant giveaway. And not a smart one either.
Criminal?
None of these people are serious. Not the judge. Not the prosecutors. None of them. These dudes walked into an open public building, strolled around for a few minutes, then walked out. That’s it. And they have a right to do what they did as long as they’re out of uniform. Fuck these authoritarian assholes. I just hope there’s a backlash at some point.
So stunning and brave. Oh, and her husband is a pathetic cuckold, lol. What a fucking chump.
This guy deserves a medal. And he should never pay for another beer in his whole life. Sadly the people who put him in that situation will never face justice.
Poison merchants
They can suck my balls. Literally none of these have been through any form of rigorous testing. So even if there wasn’t mountains of evidence that they’re harmful, there’s really no evidence that they’re even remotely close to effective. And the government is pumping out the propaganda to get people to take this poison? Fuck all that.
Well…………..bye! I bet at least a few of you pictured that Curly Bill meme in your head. Anyway, these guys can always go somewhere else. Actions have consequences.
This is a tad strong. It’s especially rude since anybody working or living down there is already dealing with a shitty situation. Seeing the government inefficiency in action though…that made me chuckle at least.
Gonna be a bit of a redneck today. What an awesome song. And here’s another one. Can’t believe he’s still kicking. Enjoy.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
It’s sounding like Nick Sagan might be calling it quits at the end of this season
Nick Sagan is a better scientist than Mike Degrasse Tyson.
Heck, he’s a better scientist than Carl Sagan.
Stupid autocorrecting computer.
I blame the guy who took over the Houston traffic sign.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Gibson called the publicly posted videos “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.
It’s LibsOfTikTok all over again.
The government pushed via the courts to say anything you said or did across electronic media was searchable without a warrant. Reap what you sow.
I always love this line of attack.
“They re-published what I’d already published as a means to mock me! They have no right to do that!!!!!”
I just wish I could be a fly on the wall in her cuck of a husband’s law firm today.
Probably has some disappointed subscribers there. Could be awkward.
Indeed. Many thought they were getting free content.
The least we could do is not facilitate Iran going nookular.
I just wonder how much the Biden family kickback is.
I prefer to think it’s the spirit of the Iron Sheik speaking to us from the beyond.
*sigh*
Wrong spot.
Good Iranian tie-in though.
If I’m reading the article correctly, we are giving them back their money that we “froze” (stole). Now in a world that functions properly, they wouldn’t be taking hostages and we wouldn’t be grabbing other countries’ trade reserves – and pirating their ships.
Schizophrenic foreign policy
Yeah, that gave me pause when Obama was doing it too.
I just know in my gut that when Obama and Biden are pushing this so hard, it’s got to be bad news for the rest of us.
That’s the same thing we did with the Obama-era Iran deal. I’m not sure how much of their money we’ve “stolen” over the decades, but we should be getting pretty close to square by now. Also unmentioned is that multi-billion dollar judgment entered against Iran by a US court for the victims of 9/11. Which, regardless of whether you believe it was fair and proper or not, should probably take constitutional precedent when the government is distributing money it already confiscated.
We should not have taken their money. But this sets a bad precedent.
Also, silly me for trusting CNN to tell the whole story. In addition to the $6bn, we’re releasing five unnamed Iranian prisoners.
https://apnews.com/article/us-iran-prisoners-blinken-3e834df0a845ef2cc5c52af14598c66f
JFC. Yeah, this is news.
What, exactly, are we getting out of this then?!
What, exactly, are we getting out of this then?!
Maybe a famous lesbian is involved. That’s got to be worth a terrorist or two, right?
10% for the big guy? What else is foreign policy for but to enrich the friends of the regime and dear leader himself?
It’s also a way to preach the good news of wokeness to the world.
It has nothing to do with diplomacy, peace, trade, or any of those outdated concepts.
Sure they are. They are serious about throwing the book at political dissidents in order to terrify anyone who might have similar thoughts. It could not be any clearer what is going on.
The correct lesson being learned here, if I may paraphrase Machiavelli, is, “When you draw your sword against the king, throw away the scabbard.”
Had my annual wellness visit yesterday. My doc was about as anti-covid vax as he could be without losing his job.
He was subtle, but the message was clear. They dont work and new booster is a money grab.
This was in the portion of conversation where he was pushing the flu and tetanus vax. And shingles vax, but that one was done 3+ years ago.
When the last of that dying breed either retires or is finally pushed out of the profession, we are so unbelievably fucked. I’d rather go see a fucking veterinarian than an MD/OD nowadays.
*DO, whatever.
When’s the last time you saw a vet? Not any better, imo.
Independent practice family physicians can still be good. We drive nearly an hour each way, passing multiple
commie gulagspediatricians, to ours.Same with farm vets. They act more old school, even if younger. Ours keeps our dogs off the county list even though they’re required by law to report for license bullshit.
Re: Overnight, control cut in concrete. No, no control cuts. As I understand it, they don’t prevent cracking, just direct the crack. With the counter tops, you don’t want a big cut through the middle, so a control cut sort of defeats the function of a counter top. I’ve never seen any one in the concrete counter top space talk about control cuts… If the counter top cracks, I’ll just patch it and call it aesthetic character!
This was in the portion of conversation where he was pushing the flu and tetanus vax.
Hmm
What’s the downside to the tetanus vax? As someone who rarely finishes a project without shedding blood, I think taking steps to avoid lockjaw is indicated.
None that I know of. I was just pointing out he was generally pro-vaxx, but anti-covid vaxx.
Last year’s vaccine foolishness wasn’t enough so let’s try it again, fool the same people again. Some of the target audience may not be ready for Round 2.
Since he was the one banging her, not a cuckold. An exhibitionist maybe, or maybe someone who lucked out and got paid for doing something he wanted to be doing anyway.
in any case, I strongly promote having more of the good kind of whores in congress.
Did you not read what she was saying in the videos? I’d tend to take her at her word.
“I’ve had three in one day. Don’t tell him he was the third.” As he sits there with a hangdog expression on his face.
They don’t teach acting like that. Dude is a cuck.
Well, no, that’s not in the linked article. What is, is:
So we’re apparently operating under different sources of information, because in the NPT article, the husband and the stunt cock are the same.
NYP, NPT, NFT, w/e.
Ah, I saw a half dozen pieces on this last night.
Probably the Daile Mail or The Star would have more salacious coverage.
Yeah, Daily Mail article claims she was fucking everyone.
So a career in politics was a natural progression.
And really, more embarrassing than the sex on camera stuff.
I’ve been at work for a about 45 minutes and I’ve now heard my 4th Aaron Rodgers conversation.
Fortunately not an issue for me…
Home alone so I have been spared. Isn’t Aaron the guy that plays(ed) football or something?
Left the Packers in the offseason to join the Jets. Huge hype about how he was going to turn the Jets around, they got a season of a television show, nearly every sportscaster was talking about how great it was going to be. First game, he plays four snaps before going down with a season ending injury.
As a Packer fan, it was astonishing to see how people turned on him on a dime when he was found to have committed coronavirus thoughtcrime.
The spin among such people was that Rodgers brought the injury on himself by not dumping the ball off quicker.
All the Packer Backers I knew never loved the guy. They realized he was really good and he made their team better, but they didn’t love him the way they did Favre.
A-Rog was too quick to blame everyone else. Coaches, receivers, GM.
The best thing I heard him called was the LeBron of the NFL.
Ouch.
It turned into a seething rage overnight with the vaccine stuff though, mostly from the sports talk guys. They were all about cupping the balls and working the shaft, the RODGERS HAS TO GO! HE’S OVER THE HILL! HE’S A LIAR! A LIAR! LIAR! LIA! LI! LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!1!!!1!!
Did you see Olbermann’s tweet about the injury?
https://x.com/keitholbermann/status/1701395489378148703?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
I forgot how unhinged he became.
So ignore the fact that the homeowner is not real bright because he engaged with these schlubby jackboots. Imagine getting this visit yourself.
https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/status/1701382793878552959
Good Lord. After he understood the premise of the visit, he should have told them to depart and closed the door. Then warned his neighbors.
Let me guess — he knows Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass?
I think the NKVD was better the first time around.
“Do you have a warrant?”
That’s the only thing I’m saying.
No? GTFO.
“STOPRESISTING!””HANDSUP!””FREEZE!””GETONTHEGROUND!””DON’TMOVE!””STOPRESISTING!”
*BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!*
*reload*
*BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!**BLAM!*
That happens at 3:00 AM with a paramilitary team when they actually have a warrant.
Well, a warrant to search someone’s house. Doesn’t really matter whose, apparently.
shut the fuck up Friday?
The simplest thing to say at the beginning would be “give me your contact information and I’ll have my attorney set up a meeting.”
Then he can’t try to keep talking to you.
Lawyer: Hey, uh, don’t go rambling on about ANTIFA please.
This. This right here.
Apparently when you’ve aged out of the Patriot Front you get assigned to go door knocking.
lol
Wow. Not like I want to self-promote, so I’ll just power through it: I’m hitting this on RedState this morning.
“Am I being detained.”
No.
“Have a nice day.” *shuts door*
It’s the boiling frog issue. It’s very difficult to know where the line actually is when things get ratcheted up gradually, and by the time you realize what’s happening, it’s already too late.
The memorable line from one of my pre-links tunes yesterday:
Helps to redefine your sense of sin, when you’re standing by as tanks roll in
From Hungary to Tiananmen Square…
Those are some great links.
The tidbit that had the most impact for me is the prosecutor in the Virginia school board case…. she just double and triples down. This is how you know the dad is right. These people are evil. The whole thing is on tape. We all saw it.
It also makes you wonder just how often these local prosecutors and police use their power like this.
If there has ever been a legitimate prosecution and conviction of a criminal offense in any jurisdiction in this shit hole of a country in the last 60 years, it was been by mere probability/coincidence. Prosecutors are the pettiest and most tyrannical of petty tyrants. There’s a reason why Soros’ Open Society Foundations have been systematically targeted DA offices for the last decade and a half.
Well dude, you fucked up and had kids with her. You stupid fuck.
I wonder how well Chaturbate camming pays that you’d start doing that with a dual-income household comprising a lawyer and a nurse practitioner. To be honest, I envy people whose lives are so soft that they have the time and energy to devote to monetizing their sexual kinks.
If you can get paid for your kink, more power to you?
I think she’s just a whore.
I doubt it really had anything to do with money. They did it because of the thrill of being in semi-public positions while being exhibitionists.
Seriously, we have moved into some weird combination of Weimar Germany and the English aristocracy pre-WWI. And we know how both of those played out.
I read that as “ethnically non-monogamous”
Diff’rent strokes, I guess
Don’t let government peeps suck your balls, Sloopy. Those people have all kinds of diseases.
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Nice video, Holiness!
Owners need to lock that storm door.
Water is wet and the NHS is evil.
Uffda. I’m all for letting people die with dignity, but these bastards sure are determined to demonstrate why that could be a bad idea.
It’s a bad conflation. Physicians terminating the life of a patient against his wishes isn’t even tangentially related to allowing patients to gain access through a physician to the means for a peaceful death of their own choosing. Homicide is not suicide.
I agree, but crap like this is going to have a big impact on any debates on this issue.
It isn’t logical, but it is scary and that seems to be the way to win any discussion these days. Scare the shit out of the audience.
Absolutely true. And to be completely fair, the slippery slope argument is assisted (heh) by the fact that sociopathic death cultists will latch (and have latched) onto a legitimate and much more limited/reasonable cause in order to skinsuit it for their own nefarious purposes later.
Note to self: Avoid doctors
Everyone wants those suffering debilitating illness to be able to have the choice to end their own life. And that’s what people think of when they think euthanasia. In practice, though, it’s rarely someone suffering a debilitating illness and more often than not someone who is seriously depressed. If it were just sick patients, the medical community wouldn’t want to do it as it wouldn’t be profitable.
Just like 99% of abortions have nothing to do with rape, incest, or even financial difficulty.
All this is just a profession trading in what little ethics remain in their profession and passing it away for a few bucks. The mere fact that the medical community still pretends they share any ethics with the Hippocratic oath is mind boggling. Read the Hippocratic oath and try to find a doctor today that has not violated it.
For small values of “everyone.” Catholics constitute 1/6 of the population of planet earth.
To the extent we’ve medicalized and pathologized states of mind, severe depression could be thought of as a debilitating illness. Locking up the only drugs capable of inducing a peaceful death behind a physician’s prescription is the only reason the procedure requires medical intervention in the first place. Self-ownership and free commerce should allow for any suicidal person, regardless of their reasons or motivation, to obtain drugs for that purpose if they so choose, in the same they are allowed to obtain razor blades and firearms.
The FDA is also to blame for banning anti-depressants that can be used by people who aren’t depressed.
Fuck that.
Sick people facing a painful death shouldn’t have to suffer because others are worried that if they are allowed to die with dignity, others might die unnecessarily. That is the Drug War thinking. Admittedly, the consequence to the person who doesn’t really want to die is much worse.
Still isn’t worth making people suffer horribly though.
If doctors are too precious to help people in their last days, fine. Just let others help the sick people. Don’t jail them for being compassionate.
* Sorry if this seems harsh. I had to watch my mother suffer for months with cancer. It was not only bad for her, it was horrible for all of us who loved her and had to watch her suffer.
I think that the notion that there are people suffering and begging to die, but no one will accommodate them is a myth. Mercy killing has existed since the beginning of time. Suicide is a regular occurrence. I’ve never heard of someone being prosecuted for a mercy killing besides Dr. Kovorkian and he got a slap on the wrist.
Either it happens all the time and no one is being prosecuted, in which case there isn’t a problem. Or, this is rarely necessary and that’s why there isn’t a rash of people being arrested for this. It can only be one or the other
He was convicted of second degree murder, sentenced to 25 years in prison, served 8 before being released a few years prior to his death, and was forbidden from ever treating patients again. That’s one hell of a slap on the wrist, and probably plenty sufficient to scare off the next physician who contemplates offering such services to patients without euphemisms and cloak and dagger. The more likely reason few physicians getting prosecuted for it is because few physicians will risk their careers to do it out in the open. And since patients outside of the handful of states that allow physician-assisted suicide know they can’t ask for a treatment that their physician can’t legally provide, it’s difficult to estimate what the actual demand would be. In hospice care, you are likely to find physicians and nurses who will allow a terminal patient to be over-sedated and given potentially-fatal doses of morphine, and while that’s more pleasant than the alternative, it is also isn’t quite euthanasia or medical suicide. Morphine overdose isn’t even a particularly great way to off yourself, which is why it isn’t used any place where assisted suicide is legal.
“He was convicted of second degree murder, sentenced to 25 years in prison, served 8 before being released a few years prior to his death, and was forbidden from ever treating patients again.”
I mean, yes, that is a slap on the wrist. He was accused of multiple murders. Whether you agree or not, they classified his killings as murder. Usually you kill two or more people, you get more than that.
Turning suicide into “medicine” just cheapens the medical profession. That’s probably why even an ancient Greek forbade the practice at a time when people still subjected children to exposure.
And I’m sorry for being harsh, but the idea that the same medical community that terrorized people for the past four years is someone you would trust with end of life decisions seems illogical.
The same doctors who said they can stop an airborne virus by shutting down schools and churches but keeping liquor stores and weed dispensaries open are not ethical and yet still have a job. A car salesman has more ethics than a medical professional.
Everyone wants those suffering debilitating illness to be able to have the choice to end their own life. And that’s what people think of when they think euthanasia.
I don’t. I think of the government coercing old and sick people to kill themselves for some “greater good.” And I always have. It’s why they criminalize suicide on one’s own terms but legalize it so long as there is heavy involvement from state actors.
Jack Kevorkian would still get prosecuted today…unless he worked for the NHS.
The thing is, informed consent isn’t really a thing in England, and they don’t really have a health care system. They have a public health system (very different), and I have trained* more than one Brit doctor in American-style informed consent. In England, they have been pulling the plug on people without their consent for decades, based solely on one doct’or’s say-so.
*No doctors were permanently damaged, I swear.
Just because they have a habit of being evil doesn’t excuse it.
I could understand it if the NHS were to advance a rational argument for their actions: “We have limited resources. We have to prioritize how we spend money by rationing care so we can overall save the most years of lives for people in the NHS.”
But, no. They’re going with, “She’s delusional because she doesn’t believe people who want to kill her.” And a judge is accepting that bullshit, because being honest about what they are doing might provoke wrongthink.
There’s a simple solution to stop things like this from happening: start harming the people who are implementing these policies, including those in the legal system. Dump their bodies in the Thames with a note attached explaining why their bloated corpse is bobbing in the river.
Repeat until they stop.
American doctors routinely deny care to patients. We saw that with the vaccine mandate. Not denying care use to be an ethical standard.
I just don’t see how American medicine is any better. The concern for informed consent in the US seems to me to be more based in how much easier it is to sue a private entity (American hospital) over a state institution (NHS). I guess that’s one difference.
The way informed consent works is, both the doctor and the patient have to agree on a course of treatment. The doctor is just as free as the patient to say “no”. So saying doctors deny care to patients is kind of a dead end – they have every right to, just as patients have every right to decline care.
Naturally, this all got thrown out the window during COVID.
The problem here is that doctors have a monopoly on providing health care. To the point where it’s illegal for someone without a guild-issued license to provide medical care. And restriction of medication to only those who can present papers issued by a member of the guild.
As long as they enjoy a government-enforced monopoly, doctors should not be able to refuse care. Remove the insane license and prescription barriers to a true free market system, and then the right to refuse care makes sense. And then the market will decide the value, which I’d imagine ends up being based on the condition and the ability of MDs and hospital chains to prove their value when it’s not forced on the consumer as their only option.
I don’t normally chime in on these sorts of rants, but you do not get to enslave me based on your grievances with the establishment. I damn well have the right to tell you no when you want me to do something that is harmful, or even if I just disagree with it.
Do you agree that banks can then deny you service even though their very existence is propped up by the state apparatus?
It’s very telling that many libertarians struggled on whether or not a baker (who receives zero public dollars) can refuse to make a cake, but everyone is certain that a doctor (heavily funded and protected by the state) is free to deny services.
Yes, a bank should be able to deny you service if you ask the bank to do something that in their judgement is a bad idea for them or for you. If you go to a bank wanting them to engage in conduct that might open them to prosecution, they definitely have the right to tell you to go away.
The issue of state funding is a sticky one, I’ll agree, but I’d say that the recipients of state funding must abide by the restrictions placed on the state, as in they can’t use their power to abridge your freedom of speech (i.e. coerce you into a certain expression of opinion). It should not be used as a justification to mandate the enslavement of an entity or individual, as you seem to be proposing.
I fully support plumbers and electricians denying medical professionals services arbitrarily, because they don’t sustain themselves via welfare. But alas, most plumbers and electricians are too ethical to do this.
What does that say about your field?
Nothing, why?
A plumber is completely free to deny me service. I don’t get to enslave plumbers, even if they are state funded.
Ethics say that they cannot deny care. The point that I’m making is that like all white collar fields now, there are no ethics in medicine.
I work in a white collar field like most of you and I find it a little shocking that people are pushing back on the statement that there are no ethics in white collar fields. Medicine was the last one that at least pretended to have ethical standards
Bullshit. You don’t get to force me to participate in something against my will. Who the hell are you to tell me what my ethics are anyway?
Hippocratic Oath says that you cannot deny care unless you are asked to do something medically unnecessary.
That is my point. Medicine without ethics is barbarism. And I think the strenuous defense of adolescent sex change from the AMA and APA proves that true.
What’s your argument then? You’ve admitted that the doctor has the right to refuse a bad request.
The Hippocratic Oath is largely seen as a curiosity today. It is not a requirement to practice medicine and if you read it for more than a few seconds you’ll understand why. That’s why there have been numerous attempts to revise it, though without a lot of acceptance.
Yes, medicine without ethics is bad. So is plumbing without ethics, or policing, or food service, or anything else you care to name. The AMA does not speak for me or the vast majority of my colleagues that do not belong to it.
The Hippocratic Oath is seen as a curiosity, because your profession doesn’t abide by any of it.
You can deny services if it is not medically necessary. That is not what is happening. Doctors are denying services for political reasons. You can argue at the margins but that’s not what is happening. Pretending as if it is just doctors refusing to do something unethical is quickly disproven by the rabid support the medical profession has for the not medically necessary adolescent sex change.
No, the people providing it feel that it is medically necessary. I disagree strongly with them, but they sincerely believe that they are serving their patients.
I don’t see evidence of doctors denying services for political reasons on any scale. Who has been denied service, what service, and for what political reasons?
By the way, there is not rabid support for what is referred to as “gender-affirming care”. Almost every doctor I have met or heard from is deeply uneasy about it and the questions raised. Still, I’m not sure what your issue is with it since the patients are demanding the care that you seem to think should be immediately provided as long as the doctor thinks it’s a good idea.
There absolutely is widespread support, or at least dead silence when the state of Washington passed a bill allowing the state to take kids away from parents who deny the sex change. The doctors are either greedy fucks or cowards.
“Ethics say that they cannot deny care.”
Ethics may say they can’t deny care if they believe it will be beneficial and if they are qualified to provide it. There is no ethical requirement that an orthopod perform heart surgery on you. There is no ethical requirement that a CT surgeon perform heart surgery on you if he believes it will harm you, or even not help you. It’s actually unethical for them to provide non-beneficial/harmful treatments, even if the patient demands it.
Much of the “refused care” happens in end-of-life cases, where it’s not the patient who is demanding that the kitchen sink be thrown at their permanent vegetative state, it’s their family. And yes, providing full boat treatment to someone in a permanent vegetative state is non-beneficial, arguably harmful to them, and definitely harmful to the mental state of the people providing the care.
And you will look for and wide for a physician who denies care that they are qualified to provide and that they believe is good for you. At the margins, of course (and there are many in health care), they may decline to give you their services for free, of course. But good luck making the ethical argument for forcing physicians to work for nothing.
“if he believes it will harm you, or even not help you.”
That would be ethical. I’d be surprised if that were the most common denial of service. More often than not people are denied service for not being vaccinated or having the wrong politics. I’ve known people that this happened to.
If you want people to respect your field then your colleagues should act as if they are deserving of respect. How many doctors lost their licenses over that shutdown farce that had no basis in science?
Otherwise people are going to rightly see no difference between a doctor and a banker or lawyer. No ethics and centrally focused on profit. Profit is fine, but when you’re dealing with life or death you should at least pretend like you are decent.
I mean no offense here. I do not work in an ethical field either
“I’d be surprised if that were the most common denial of service.”
I’m pretty sure it is, by a mile.* Based on my personal anecdata, which is of course unimpeachable. Once you allow a physician to deny care based on his personal judgment as to its efficacy or his capability, I’m not sure what examples of unethical denial of care one can find. In thirty years of working in hospitals, where these issues would land on my desk, I never once saw a case where a physician was capable, thought the treatment was beneficial, would get paid, and then refused to provide care.
*Not counting declining to give free care. Even then, I suspect that’s in second place. Of course, not being capable of providing the care is another goodly chunk.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1076004339/heart-transplant-patient-unvaccinated
First one that came up in a Google search. I remember reading a bunch of stories like this. In addition to knowing someone that this happened to.
Your example frankly deserves discussion in a long form format, not a few brief sentences, but I will join and agree with you that the doctors that refused to see patients with covid or to provide services to those who did not get the vaccine are pieces of shit. Doesn’t change the overall point that I shouldn’t be able to force them to work against their genuinely held beliefs.
That’s where we disagree. I believe that if you are arguing that you are a man of science that you have a scientific basis for your decisions. There was no scientific basis for denying services. Frankly, the doctors who denied service are murderers. But, there were no consequences because your profession has no ethics.
I honestly cannot believe that anyone would disagree that there are no ethics in medicine. You guys laid it on pretty thick over the past four years.
I am not responsible for the actions of other physicians. We are individuals. Individuals have ethics. A profession does not.
The people who did the things you are angry at believed (and continue to believe) they have science on their side. I believe that they are wrong, but they have a slew of studies to show you if you’re interested.
Envy of the world,
They have the fewest complaints from their patients of any public health program since the glorious days of the Kampuchean People’s Optometry Program!
So they’ve arrived at death panels. Next up is the Logan’s Run solution based off your ROI to the government.
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I am shocked Pie isn’t all over this slander!
I’m going to doubt their conclusions based upon the time and region he comes from and the high probability of bias from the “researchers”
Da Fuq?
Where are you getting that counterfactual. Everything from their own records to their remains to their middens says otherwise.
Ohhhhhhhhhh. So that is why gout was a rich man’s disease. That problem is solved now.
“…the iconic horror villain popularised in Bram Stoker’s book of the same name…”
They are conducting forensic science investigations into a fictional character? Geeebus what a garbled bunch of garbage that is.
They cant have my meat and I am not going to eat bugs.
this nonsense was mentioned before in the links.
So veggie-vampire-shit has fallen out an ass already?
Sorry. I was just trying to look out for your national pride Pie.
So this is what it’s like to live somewhere outside of the east coast. Guy is remarkably more chill than I would have been. Parent proceeded to step us as well. It’s like a another country…
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16g9c1x/oc_teenager_backs_into_me_and_flees_subsequently/
Didn’t even look like that hard of a hit.
I would love to see the actuarial data that supported my being charged 15x more for car insurance than an otherwise identically situated female until I was 25.
That’s what we call a racket. FFS…
Blame consumers as much as everyone else involved.
They want all these fancy lights, sensors and electronics all over their vehicles.
I’m not sure everyone wants them, so much as you can’t get a newer car without them.
^This. We have carmakers and the government pushing for regulatory changes for “safety” which greatly increase the cost and complexity of cars. It also keeps any new carmakers from being able to enter the market (feature, not a bug). Even if you wanted a simple car, you cannot buy one new today. Even a Nissan Sentra is unholy complex.
+1
It is a combination. Everyone* wants AC in their car for those hot days, everyone wants power windows to let a little are flow, everyone wants a top tier stereo with Blue tooth, etc.
*For certain values of everyone, but mostly those people who drive off of new car lots, which are the only people who matter to the manufacturers. Sure, there are some of us who want a stick shift, roll up windows, and an AM radio, but we don’t buy new cars. At least not enough of us to justify the assembly line change to allow a different engine configuration, to still build and install manual window regulators, and to offer one more radio choice that they don’t make as much money on. Economy of scale is the rule of the day.
But those aren’t the things driving up prices and repair costs. The “safety” stuff/electronics are a big part of that. Some mandatory, some not exactly mandatory.
Or at least a large enough subset of them want those things that they eventually get installed into vehicles, and then through safety regulations and/or economies of scale, became standard features that the people who don’t want them can’t opt out of.
-1 sunroofs as standard equipment
Really good headlights was near the top of my requirement list when vehicle shopping this summer.
I don’t want to own a vehicle with shitty lighting.
I’ve got a customer truck right now where it needs a new driver’s side exterior mirror. The Chinese ones I can find online are $1,600 but don’t have the camera his has, so it looks like it’ll be a dealer only item and $3,000. The tax will cost more than the labor to install.
Auto recyclers are going to be the new, new thing.
Firmware handshakes with security keys (“To guard against hacking on the car’s connecting bus!”) akin to printer cartridges that won’t work on refill will take care of that. Thou Must Use Only Dealer Parts, Peasant!
There is already a business for people who reprogram various auto modules.
It’s ridiculous.
The feds will crack down on that as part of their increasing attention to emissions defeat shops and small businesses.
You are apparently unfamiliar with a documentary called Grease.
Happy 146th birthday to Felix Dzerzhinsky!
A noble Bolshevik, famously described by Stalin as “a devout knight of the proletariat” who headed the Cheka and OGPU from 1917 until his death in 1926.
https://twitter.com/S4R4C3N/status/1701291346844123429
Astronomers may have detected (and it’s still only “may” at this point) dimethyl sulphide on a distant planet, a molecule which on Earth is only produced by life
https://twitter.com/kayaburgess/status/1701238585142161622
That’s an interesting definition of “habitable” they’re using there.
I’m guessing ‘habitable’ means ‘carbon based life as we understand it could exist there’ and not ‘Earth 2.0’.
“May” is the functional equivalent of of “may or may not”.
Meanwhile 26 states say, “no, we’re all good”.
California lawmakers vote to end travel ban to states with anti-LGBTQ+ laws
https://news.yahoo.com/california-lawmakers-vote-end-travel-231638363.html
LOL! I hope the Alphabet crowd loudly complains about the state’s caving to Megamagas. I want to see Gov. Greaseball squirm his way out of that.
I can hardly wait until the CA lawmakers only option for their winter boondoggle is Sunny Minnesoda. I’m sure they will love their taxpayer funded trip to Minneapolis in January.
They can bask in the warmth of our trans-Sanctuary state laws.
I would love a state to say, “Well, we weren’t planning on passing any anti-LGBTQ+ laws, but if it will keep Californians away, we decided to go ahead.”
The braying of state employees for non-essential out of state travel was too much apparently. Bonus points if the real reason was for travel to CA by out of state WFH employees who live in those states.
Many heart attack, stroke patients revert to bad habits, experts say
You’d almost think quality of life was as important as lifespan or something. To say nothing of the fact that the dietary and lifestyle interventions the AHA has been pushing for 60 years don’t meaningfully affect lifetime mortality.
You’d think that ‘cardiologists and other medical professionals’ would have figured out that scolding and finger-wagging is poor behavior-modification strategy.
Generally men comply with medical regimens poorly compared to women.
#1 worst non-compliant patients by a long shot? Physicians.
If I wasn’t married, I would start smoking again in a heartbeat. Sure, quiting was hard and I am glad I did, but only for my marriage, and it got her to quit smoking pot.
AI actually makes sense in medicine, it doesn’t eliminate the need for competent doctors, however.
https://www.today.com/health/mom-chatgpt-diagnosis-pain-rcna101843
So we’re supposed to put our WAWR in the forums under Glib Lifestyle > Reading > What are we reading?
Look who is trying to humble brag about getting a new big box of crayons (with built in sharpener)!
Alas, Inappropriately Young Woman has decided to ghost me.
Or were you not euphemizing?
That’s unfortunate.
Next time, don’t untie her?
I discovered the difference between “college girl with daddy issues” and “has a fetish for Tim Allen in The Santa Clause.”
And also sometimes “demisexual” doesn’t mean “I need a deep emotional connection to have sexual desire” but rather “I don’t want you to think I’m a slut when I go Around the World on the first date.”
^those two examples are 100% true.
I was not using phrasing. I thought you just wanted to show off how good you stayed inside the lines. Or are you trying to say you are so hoity-toity you read things other than coloring books?
I’m trying to not give Hype ammo for his next bitch-fit by disobeying the WAWR submission rules.
Like that would stop him.
“‘My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,’ she said.”
I’m going to need more coffee to handle this much stunning and brave.
“‘My particular medical experiences have given me a unique insight into the intersectionality of health with economic stability, education, environmental justice, discrimination, social support systems, and more, all of which greatly impact Virginia’s policy and legislation needs,’ her website states. ”
Based on that logic, Riley Reid should be Surgeon General.
It’s not like she could really be any worse.
Which of the two professions would more leave Riley feeling like she needed a shower at the end of a work day?
Happy Birthday to H. L. Mencken!
“In the May 2021 attack, Smith’s daughter was pinned down to the floor and assaulted by the boy inside a restroom stall, with a teacher later testifying that she saw two pairs of feet but did not interfere.”
Oh bullshit.
What part of that do you not believe?
Orgasm utilizes the pain pathway: is orgasm “nonaversive pain”?
https://academic.oup.com/smr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sxmrev/qead037/7252285?login=false
Only if you’re doing it right…
“Melinda Gates and daughter Phoebe strike a pose during Michael Kors show at New York City’s Fashion Week”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12506393/Melinda-Gates-daughter-Phoebe-NYC-Fashion-Week.html
She’s just like Cindy Crawford.
I watched “book bans” happen in real time. I thought they were all hysteria. Then I opened one of the most-challenged titles.
And then? He talks to a “sex-positive educator” who makes him not want to be an icky conservative parent:
A leftist Muslim. Interesting.
Everyone in kindergarten should get a subscription to Hustler.
Isn’t that going to be too CIS?
Nothing beyond “this is how you get pregnant” and maybe “this is how to avoid VD” has educational value in a public school and I’m not even 100% sure about that.
First you have to defend the existence of public schools.
Another “I am an X, but even I….” pile of leftist bullshit propaganda calculated to demoralize society? What a tiresome argument.
How about teachers stick to RWA and let me handle my child’s social, sexual, and moral development? How about that motherfuckers?
Aren’t ‘even I’ arguments usually reserved for gun grabbers?
Lol, well he comes around in the end. “I was shocked, until I spoke to a good progressive who told me not to be shocked. I was then no longer shocked.”
“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big
BrotherOtherkin.”lol exactly
Do these people even listen to themselves?
But what if they develop the wrong morals?
I guess there’s always this: https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/after-school-satan
“n a typically belligerent speech, Putin also accused Washington of stoking anti-Russian feelings among ordinary Americans.
‘Current authorities have directed American society in an anti-Russian spirit,’ the Russian leader said.
‘They’ve done it and now somehow turning this ship in the other direction will be very difficult.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12508159/Putin-calls-legal-proceedings-against-Trump-politically-motivated-persecution-shows-rottenness-American-system.html
Accused?
I really don’t see anything incorrect in what he said.
It was in the process of happening with the farcical Russiagate and now it’s been turned up to 11.
Ok, Putin apologist.
This is set to IPO this week. It appears that the world has completely run out of good sounding name – Klaviyo
Better still this is from their about page:
Our platform unifies all customer data and channels in one place, delivers unprecedented speed and time to value, and is built to be intuitive and easy to use so that every brand—regardless of size and expertise—can connect with their valued customers to grow more profitably and sustainably on their own terms.
https://www.klaviyo.com/about
Anybody have a clue what this means? You too? I had to read the IPO article to figure out their business.
Klaviyo, Inc. is a global technology company that provides a marketing automation platform, used primarily for email marketing and SMS marketing.
Utilizing dynamic efficiencies and AI machine learning algorithms to deliver exceptional customer experiences that turn users into evangelists.
And it helps generate TPS reports, complete with new cover pages.
“customer data and channels”
Anything mentioning “customer … channels” is going to be some marketing bullshit.
Ah. Spam factory. Will probably be hugely successful.
SBF gets nearly 12000 years in jail!
Don’t be silly. SBF gave a lot of money to the right people. This guy was some foreign chump who obviously tried to keep all the loot for himself. Rookie mistake.
“Studies reporting unfavorable results [for antidepressants] are less likely to be published in psychiatric journals. Lead authors with fInancial conflicts of interest report more favorable results.”
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1701235115366425032
whod ev thunk it
When all you have is
a hammerSSRI/SNRI medications, every problem looks like anailMajor Depressive Disorder.This is my shocked face.
Is that published in The American Psychiatric Journal of No Shit?
The first is true across the board. Any study reporting unfavorable results is less likely to be published in a clinical journal.
for the second, it’s extremely rare to have an author without a financial conflict of interest (whether disclosed or not). Research is expensive and requires funding. I’m more suspicious of papers where there isn’t a financial conflict ‘t disclosed, because that usually means the connection has been intentionally hidden in some way.
“one hour for every Marine who was killed or wounded fighting in the Civil War.”
Oh fuck off…
Sean Fain might jut be a True Believer. He hasn’t left himself much wiggle room for a last minute deal. He definitely talks the talk.
“With just over a month remaining until the new season of Rick & Morty, fans are speculating that ousted co-creator/voice actor Justin Roiland will be replaced with A.I.
Roiland, 43, voiced both mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his 14-year-old grandson Morty Smith in the hit Adult Swim series, which debuted in 2013, with the new season slated to debut October 15.
The network cut ties with Roiland in January 2023, after his previously-unreported 2020 arrest for domestic battery and false imprisonment was made public, though the criminal charges against him were dropped in March 2023 due to lack of evidence, though there is no indication he is returning to the show.
Adult Swim revealed shortly after the arrest was made public that Roiland was dismissed, and the characters he voices – which also include Noob Noob, Mr. Poopybutthole and Naruto Smith – would be re-cast.
Executive producer Steven Levy revealed to fans at San Diego Comic-Con in July that there will be ‘sound alikes’ that will sound like the characters did when Roiland voiced them… though now many on Reddit are convinced Roiland will be replaced with A.I.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12506737/Rick-Morty-fans-speculate-ousted-creator-voice-actor-Justin-Roiland-replaced-accused-sexual-harassment-predatory-behavior.html
Maybe the network execs should be replaced with some sort of intelligence.
The answer is Billy West. It’s always Billy West.
https://www.windhamweaponry.com/
Was anyone here a fan? I’ve never owned any of their stuff.
No. Bushmaster/WW was dirt-shooter tier, and it’s getting harder and harder to market dirt-shooter tier hardware to an increasingly savvy consumer base.
My “permanently attached magazine” AR is WW. It’s fine.
Huh, the only David Allan Coe song I’m familiar with would get me banned from polite society for even quoting the lyrics.
On virtually every page I stopped to examine, I was confronted with detailed drawings of genitals. It felt like every page had a cartoon of a naked body.
It’s a plot by the Malthusians to make sex so boring and mechanical that kids lose all interest, and the species dies out.
A note for worldbuilders: naming places isn’t that hard
https://twitter.com/Parvenu62/status/1700991333496950847
lol at the “worldbuilder” parody
Aaron Rodgers season in New York didn’t even last a series.
A-a-ron is too old for this shit.
But the Jets won.
Too bad because I had Buffalo team defense for the office fantasy league.
A friend of mine was down over 25 points going into Monday. He had the Jets D/ST and the Bills Kicker which got him enough points to win.
Hello from GSP airport. You know that Swiss Army knife you have been tryna find? It was in my purse…
That sucks, there are few things I deal with that put me into a rage like TSA agents.
Hope they didn’t hassle you too hard.
They were fine – they offered to let me bring it to my car. Since I found the knife on the ground years ago I just let them take it.
That’s cool.
Sorry about the knife, but could have been worse.
I lost 3 Beretta 9mm magazines that I forgot I had in my gym bag once.
They said if I wasn’t active duty, I could have gotten in real trouble.
I was heated that day.
In the NYT, @powellAtlantic
notes that UC Berkeley carried out a cluster hire—eliminating 75% of faculty job applicants based on DEI statement alone. The second photo is Berkeley’s own description.
Universities around the U.S. have embraced this model.
A quick thread.
https://twitter.com/JohnDSailer/status/1701261859658064095
Go ahead and further devalue the college experience you idjits, it’s no skin off my nose ( until the bridges start falling down at least).
bridges failing down are good because they represent the dismantling of the patriarchy
Further segregating society into bubbles.
The idea of a national divorce seems to be gaining some support.
Guess: The conservative/individualist/liberty minded would be happy to sever ties and walk away peacefully. The progressive/collectivist/leftists will not be happy with that.
What I think of as ‘our side’ are people who, like me, have the outlook of ‘Yeah, whatever. Go away and let me do my thing’. The collectivists are of the mentality of ‘Our thing cant work unless everyone is on board with it whether they like it or not.’
I doubt it would be a bloodless divorce.
Oh, it won’t be. Even when the proggies get all grumbly about defying the federal government on some specific issue (immigration, abortion), the feds are still run by proggies. And proggies are totalitarians – they will never let their power diminish or a single person escape their grasp.
Untethered
Saira Rao, co-founder of Here4TheKids, a group advocating for banning guns and fossil fuels outright, praised Lujan Grisham’s actions — and wished it should be made permanent.
“It’s inhumane that we haven’t eliminated the No. 1 killer of children and teens in this country,” she said. “So I salute the governor for making that first brave step for saving our children.”
The Catholic Church also weighed in. Lujan Grisham “has been consistent in addressing gun safety through legislation and is not now attacking the Second Amendment. She knows the law,” Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester said in a statement.
Let’s have all our public policy driven by emotionalism and superstition.
Render unto Caesar and stay in your lane Bishop Retard.
Is there a bishop alive today not worthy of being stoned to death?
Ah, combine suicides with homicides to move up the rankings. Accidents are listed as the number 1 cause for every age cohort under 45. Even combined they only outnumber accidents for the 15-19 cohort. Suicides and homicides are for all causes not just firearms. I need to find the breakout.
I found summary data for larger cohorts that show about half the suicides in the 15-24 cohort are with firearms which would bring the combined homicide-suicide below accidents for the 15-19 cohort.
She’s the one that charges guilty white women $5000 to yell at them over dinner, right?
I really don’t like findommes for some reason.
Yes she is. She’s a lunatic.
Because it’s so obviously taking advantage of depressed people?
Not that this doesn’t happen in other forms of BDSM play, but findom does seem particularly exploitive.
She knows the law, and has decided that she is above it.
Pity there’s no sheriff/prosecutor team willing to get creative with the law and show up to her office with an arrest warrant and cuffs.
Some of the NM sheriffs have already said, paraphrasing, ‘The governor has made her decision, she can enforce it her own self.’
Finding a prosecutor willing to hang his neck out there though, is gonna be like finding an IDPA shooter without erectile dysfunction…
lolwut
So they are pro-child death?
The word “deal” is doing an awful lot of work here.
I guess we didn’t have any more international arms dealers lying around.
Good morning, Sloop!
Rodgers getting knocked out in three plays was flat out hilarious.
That J6 article isn’t, though. “Stormed” and “siege,” huh?
Forgive me Big Brother, for I have sinned.
The evidence for one of the recent J6 guys who just got a long sentence – basically him standing there watching Ray Epps trying to smash down a barrier.
He’ll recover in time to play the next 3 seasons as the starting quarterback for the Vikings, don’t you worry. And I still see crocks around, so those snaps are coming soon as well.
It’s gonna be another barn-burner for the Purple. What an inspired performance on Sunday.
Meanwhile, in Kelce City… We await injury status on second favorite son.
none of them has expressed sincere remorse for their crimes
Maybe because they only committed “crimes”.
The ACLU voiced objections that the governor’s actions could lead to overzealous policing and infringe on privacy.
“This kind of approach leads to the over-policing of our communities, racial profiling, and increased misery in the lives of already marginalized people,” said Lalita Moskowitz, litigation manager for the ACLU of New Mexico. “The governor should be following evidence-based solutions such as meaningful diversion and violence intervention programs and addressing the root causes of violence.”
It’s always over-policing and racism.
The state should be funneling pallets of cash to non profit advocacy groups who will promote our favorite progressive policies.
Follow me down a pointless rabbit hole:
The discussion above about AI replacements for Rick and Morty is a timely coincidence for me. Last night, my daughters and I watched the live action “The Little Mermaid”.
It was a pointless effort, as you probably expected. The middle child made it 10 minutes before grabbing her phone and checking out. The little one was antsy most of the time, but did curl up with dad some. The movie was mostly acted at an ABC after school special level. Except for Melissa McCarthy. And there begins the rabbit hole…..
I found her performance to be way out of place. She was really good. She embodied the animated character and her voice was a really good version of the original. She didn’t belong in this snoozefest of a film – she was killing her part while acting with blocks of wood. But that voice…. you could only recognize her voice a couple of times, and only for a few sounds.
So I got curious. Did they use AI to deepfake the voice? It sure sounded like they did something. It was just so different than her normal high voice. So I googled it. A bunch of different ways. And every article was about how she trained to sing the parts and how great her singing was and how she was surprised that she was able to sing so well.
Nothing about the speaking voice at all. Apparently I am the first person to suspect that they put some AI sauce on her performance. So if anyone here knows more about that topic, please fill me in below…
But let’s keep diving down that rabbit hole.
Several of the articles also mentioned her “inspiration” for her performance. See…. she really supports Drag Queen Story Time. She thinks it is great. She loves drag shows. In fact, she loves them so much that her performance was inspired by drag queens. Several articles talked about this at length… and about how she modeled the character and her performance after Divine.
Now, I get that you have to virtue signal to do anything in Hollywood… but damn.
She is doing a cover band version of the cartoon original. She is dressed and made up and CGI modified to look like the cartoon original. She sounds like the cartoon original.
In no way is that performance “inspired” by Divine and other drag queens. It is a direct copy of the original performance and the original animation. You could say that Melissa McCarthy looks like a drag queen when she performs the song – she kinda does – but claiming that this is the inspiration and her performance is homage to Roger Waters and Divine is just laughable. It is a shot for shot copy, with the same moves, same look, same inflections….
What happened to our journalists? Why would anyone write that. I get some starlet looking for street cred… but why copy it down? It is so lame.
The claim is the original performance was inspired by Divine, therefore it’s drag queens all the way down. You didn’t even get the fun conversation from the kids, my 12 yr old niece and 10 yr old nephew complaining that it should have been a real drag queen! Because these are things kids need to be thinking about, not having fun or creating childhood memories. They need to debate how well things stick to current narrative!
“Several of the articles also mentioned her “inspiration” for her performance. See…. she really supports Drag Queen Story Time”
Unsurprisingly, Melissa McCarthy has no kids. Which seems to be a common theme among drag queen story hour supporters. Show me a community with drag queen story hour and I’ll show you a dying community.
People too often “dying community” with poverty when in reality most well off communities are in a death spiral. Demographics is destiny
Speaking of decline, the likely outcome for disintegrating country isn’t peaceful separation and sorting, but others stepping into the power vacuum, either domestically or foreign.
Well, ackshually…
The original cartoon character was modeled after Divine.
Who is hilarious, BTW. I was more talking about the signalling and parroting.
“Nothing about the speaking voice at all. Apparently I am the first person to suspect that they put some AI sauce on her performance. So if anyone here knows more about that topic, please fill me in below…”
There are numerous ways, both analog and digital, to alter a persons voice, that do not use any sort of artificial intelligence.
Ahem. John Waters
Jeez.
If you knew what I was doing while typing that you’d be forgiving of my lapses.
Oh, I forgave you almost instantly. I think it’s a very humorous mistake to make 😉
Never not politicizing
For climate change deniers, it was confirmation of a long-held suspicion: Scientists cannot be trusted.
Days after publishing research that found global warming had boosted the risk of fast-growing California wildfires by 25%, scientist and lead author Patrick T. Brown announced that he’d withheld the full truth to maximize the article’s chances of being published in the journal Nature.
“The paper I just published— ‘Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California’ — focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell,” wrote Brown, co-director of the climate and energy team at the Breakthrough Institute, in Berkeley.
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While intended mostly for the insular world of academia, Brown’s comments have ignited a firestorm of controversy that has spread far beyond the confines of science journals and has exposed the researcher to both praise and condemnation. They also come at a time when public confidence in science research is declining, particularly among Republican voters.
Confidence declining? How could this possibly be? Oh, right, it’s those crazy anti-intellectual Republican troglodytes.
*Some* scientists absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it is pretty fucking obvious by now.
Try harder, The L.A. Times.
They ban Tolstoy on college campuses over the War in Ukraine. The only people dumb enough to think that shutting down small businesses, churches, and schools, but keeping liquor stores and big box stores open to stop an airborne virus were all college educated.
The fact that anyone respects universities and “scientists” is the peculiar part to me
“I really urge you to think about why it happened so you can address it and ensure it never happens again,” Reyes said.
“Go sit in the corner and think about what you’re done.”
Brown and his co-authors analyzed instances in which fires grew by more than 10,000 acres in a day, a metric that is difficult to translate into action, he said. They also looked at the impacts of climate change since the start of industrial revolution rather than focusing only on recent history. Both choices served to generate the most “eye-popping numbers” supporting the impact of climate change, he wrote.
“I just think that what comes out of that on the other end, in terms of what’s communicated to the public, is misleading in terms of how large the climate change impact is relative to everything else,” he said. “I also think that it diverts attention away from direct solutions or adaptation strategies on the ground in the here and now.”
Those could include things like installing power lines underground or performing more prescribed burning and thinning treatments to cut down on the amount of vegetation that fuels fires.
“There’s a taboo against adaptation in our community, I think, because it’s considered to be in conflict with mitigation,” Brown said. “It’s like, ‘Oh, the bad people talk about adaptation when the right solution is to focus exclusively on climate policy that reduces emissions.’”
Brown’s complaints, however, have left some researchers cold. Multiple scientists disputed his description of the climate science field as being overly focused on findings that speak to the need for emissions reductions, to the detriment of other solutions.
“I don’t understand what his issue is with his own paper,” said Neil Lareau, professor of atmospheric science at University of Nevada-Reno. “I find the whole thing really bizarre.”
Don’t muddy the waters, man. Keep the narrative clean and clear.
LOL is there a single issue where the left wants to focus on real solutions rather than pre-determined narratives that happen to align with the radical wing of the Democratic party?
The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter.
Pass. Take your vitamins.
There is a frog staring at me thru my window this morning.
Enjoy your French vacation!
It’s the chemicals in the water.
Lareau said the episode was likely to fuel climate change denial conspiracies for decades.
“I don’t think that’s Dr. Brown’s intent,” he said. “I kind of trust that he’s probably coming from a place with some level of frustration about the scientific publication process, and it’s an imperfect process. But frankly, it’s the best system that we have.”
Even one of the paper’s co-authors, Steven J. Davis, professor of earth systems science at University of California Irvine, doubted Brown’s assertion.
“I don’t think he has much evidence to support his strong claims that editors and reviewers are biased,” Davis wrote in an email. He added that he wasn’t involved in strategic decisions to exclude factors from the study, and that Brown’s comments took him by surprise.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
But your name is right there on the byline as a supposed co-author…
Gavin Newsom has a little bit of a problem on his hands if Feinstein croaks or becomes too obviously incapacitated to ignore (I crack myself up).
He has promised to appoint a black woman, but he won’t appoint Barbara Lee, who is currently running for that seat, because that would be tantamount to handing it to her on a silver patter, what with the giant advantages of incumbency and all. I guess she missed an opportunity to kiss the hem of his robe somewhere along the line.
“Gibson called the publicly posted videos “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”
You did that all on your own.
She looks like a dude.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nf0oXY4nDxE
Surprise
Washington University in St. Louis joined University of Missouri Health as the latest provider of care to transgender minors to announce it is canceling pre-existing prescriptions for puberty blockers or hormone-replacement therapy.
A new state law restricting access to gender-affirming care bars those under 18 from beginning new treatments. But in a compromise with opponents of the ban, lawmakers grandfathered in patients who had begun a medical transition before the law went into effect on Aug. 28.
But a provision of the statute allows those who received care as a minor to bring a cause of action against their doctor 15 years after treatment or their 21st birthday, whichever is later. Typically, patients in Missouri have two years to file a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Washington University cited this provision as the reason for its change in services.
I thought they were committed to strictly acting in the best interest of the patient. Does this mean they lack confidence in the long term benefits of these treatments?
It means they lack confidence that “the science” will surely turn out to their benefit down the line. The therapies have never been studied longitudinally in this population. If they are and there’s no problem, then it’s all good from their perspective, but if it turns out that they’re destroying these kids’ lives, then it’s billions of dollars in payouts down the line. Too much downside risk.
“…it’s billions of dollars in payouts down the line.”
And I cant wait until it starts. Regardless of the time limits, with that kind of money up for grabs the victims and other possible beneficiaries will get enough momentum rolling that it will be unstoppable. Isn’t that what happened with thalidomide? Someone more knowledgeable should weigh in.
Saturday morning cartoons died on this day in 1992
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/saturday-morning-cartoons-nbc-the-smurfs-alvin-and-the-chipmunks-120025433.html
That’s when NBC stopped the Saturday AM kids programming.
*points to avatar*
Wednesday night is the cartoon slot, duh.
To examine the effect of the glaze on tea catechins, the researchers brewed a green tea solution using ion-exchanged water at 80°C for three minutes. The tea leaves were separated, and the supernatant (liquid lying above solid residue) was mixed with glaze powders coated on ceramic tiles. The glaze–tea mixture was then allowed to react for six hours, followed by the removal of the glaze powder through centrifugation and filtration.
Because who doesn’t steep and drink their tea over the course of 6 hours. Science!
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-ceramic-tea-glazing-affects-health.html