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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
If someone donates one of their kidneys and later needs a new one, should they go to the top of the transplant waitlist? Yes, say good people. Yes, say normal people. Not anymore, say the bureaucrats in charge of the transplant waitlist. Instead, they say it’s time for a “more equitable approach.” Currently, the people at the top of the kidney transplant waitlist are people who have donated one of their organs to someone else (living donors), young children who are a great biological match with an organ, and patients who are very hard to be matched with any organ. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a private non-profit that holds a contract with the federal government to run the transplant waitlist, and they want to change that. UNOS wants to remove these “hard boundaries” in favor of a new system that erodes the protections for living donors. A report commissioned by UNOS envisions a drastic reduction in prioritization for living donors — going from the current virtual guarantee of getting a new kidney to a slight bonus on the waiting list — equivalent to as low as 10 percent of the total prioritization score. This policy would betray those who have already donated an organ and discourage others from donating in the future. They are pushing this policy even though their own research shows that changing from the current policy will not reduce death rates but lead to a higher rate of failed kidney transplants in the first year after surgery.
One of the many conceits of the "progressive" (spit) movement is their conviction that they are smarter and better and wiser than their predecessors. That's how they justify tossing out 2,500 years of Western culture for the newest idiotic idea. Global Cooling, No Nukes, Alar, Global Warming, Organic Food, mRNA vaccines, The Welfare State, The Designated Hitter, and on and on and on. Radical transformation might sound exciting and effective, but in reality it rarely works. A sober, calculated, data-based approach to complex problems is usually the way to improve them, and the hubris of dorm-room intellectualism is anathema to these sorts of changes. The Law of Unintended Consequences is a bitch, and these people are arrogant enough to think that they can consider all of the possible consequences and manage them...with their brains! They can't. Sure, it sounds boring: basing changes on observation and data and experience. And it is. But just ask the thousands of sufferers of kidney disease how they feel about this stupid manipulation of a functioning system. My guess is that they would prefer boring. There are lots of boring people in our culture's history. The most boring of the lot is a man named Norman Borlaug. He did plodding, tedious research into disease resistant wheat that also was high yielding. Yup...that will put you to sleep at a cocktail party! But he was one of the titans of the 20th century. His work has saved billions of people from starvation. Pretty impressive, and far more important than flash-in-the-pan crackpots whose work is more self-aggrandizement than substantive. The development of Western culture could not have happened without the gradual shift toward scientific analysis, rational thought, and data and experience-based decisions. When we base our decisions on other things; race, ethnicity, subjective concepts of "equity," we risk destroying what has taken 2,500 years to create.
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FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 23, 2023 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
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And as much as I would like to blame the current cultural insanity of "DEI" (DIE?)
For the record, I've been calling it DIE since inception, since that's what it leads to.
For the record, I've been calling it DIE since inception, since that's what it leads to.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 23, 2023 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)
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Hiya CBD !
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:01 AM (T4tVD)
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I want a scifi story where doctors and the practice of medicine was banned.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:02 AM (LvTSG)
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Radical transformation might sound exciting and effective, but in reality it rarely works. A sober, calculated, data-based approach to complex problems is usually the way to improve them, and the hubris of dorm-room intellectualism is anathema to these sorts of changes. The Law of Unintended Consequences is a bitch, and these people are arrogant enough to think that they can consider all of the possible consequences and manage them...with their brains!
They can't.
You don't say.
They can't.
You don't say.
Posted by: Sir Edmund Burke at March 23, 2023 11:02 AM (eOEVl)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (us2H3)
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There are lots of boring people in our culture's history. The most boring of the lot is a man named Norman Borlaug. He did plodding, tedious research into disease resistant wheat that also was high yielding. Yup...that will put you to sleep at a cocktail party!
But he was one of the titans of the 20th century. His work has saved billions of people from starvation. Pretty impressive, and far more important than flash-in-the-pan crackpots whose work is more self-aggrandizement than substantive.
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If I remember correctly, the far left hates him with a passion. It's because of "genetic engineering", but it's really because billions of poor, brown people can eat their fill.
But he was one of the titans of the 20th century. His work has saved billions of people from starvation. Pretty impressive, and far more important than flash-in-the-pan crackpots whose work is more self-aggrandizement than substantive.
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If I remember correctly, the far left hates him with a passion. It's because of "genetic engineering", but it's really because billions of poor, brown people can eat their fill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (LvTSG)
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any of these changes will result in an increased 1-year Graft Failure Percent. The same research also suggests that being a prior living donor may have as little as 10% weight. This is a betrayal of former living donors. Even if rescinding protections for living donors only applies to future living donors, you will discourage living kidney donation. Any legitimate kidney allocation policy will protect living donors, past and future. UNOS continues to claim this policy will be more equitable but is vague about the context. UNOS has provided no argument that this policy which is unfair to donors and will increase graft failure has any substantial benefit.
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So it not only does what CBD mentioned, but it will increase the odds of transplant failure, causing two new harms. Excellent.
This *is* what is meant by "equity." Always.
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So it not only does what CBD mentioned, but it will increase the odds of transplant failure, causing two new harms. Excellent.
This *is* what is meant by "equity." Always.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (t0OGg)
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When we base our decisions on other things; race, ethnicity, subjective concepts of "equity," we risk destroying what has taken 2,500 years to create.
I'm pretty sure that is the goal.
I'm pretty sure that is the goal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (lTGtQ)
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Most people who think the possess superior intellect, don't. Now, let's talk about ego.
Posted by: BignJames at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (AwYPR)
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Insanely if you took the cocksuckers at their word given whites are a global minority it would mean we would be favored.
I hate the DEI fuckers.
I hate the DEI fuckers.
Posted by: sven at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (Lzpvj)
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other things; race, ethnicity, subjective concepts of "equity," we risk destroying what has taken 2,500 years to create.
That is entirely the point of the " great reset "...
That is entirely the point of the " great reset "...
Posted by: Biggus at March 23, 2023 11:04 AM (BUtu8)
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Disgusting.
And entirely predictable, as most medical decisions (see distribution of Covid resources) are now based on "equity."
And entirely predictable, as most medical decisions (see distribution of Covid resources) are now based on "equity."
Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2023 11:04 AM (mqu1M)
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I thought Norman was on the chopping block for cancellation because of his genetically modified food, or something equally stupid.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:04 AM (YIVH2)
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7 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (LvTSG)
They hate him and Henry Ford because together they proved the leftoid Malthusian Death Cult is full of shit.
They hate him and Henry Ford because together they proved the leftoid Malthusian Death Cult is full of shit.
Posted by: sven at March 23, 2023 11:04 AM (Lzpvj)
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10 Most people who think the possess superior intellect, don't. Now, let's talk about ego.
Posted by: BignJames at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (AwYPR)
Out of my way, peons!
Posted by: BignJames at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (AwYPR)
Out of my way, peons!
Posted by: President Barack H. Obama, Jr. at March 23, 2023 11:05 AM (PiwSw)
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Good morning everyone.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2023 11:05 AM (qoGsy)
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When we base our decisions on other things; race, ethnicity, subjective concepts of "equity," we risk destroying what has taken 2,500 years to create.
But we'll get a glowing write-up in The New York Times and, ultimately, that's way more important.
But we'll get a glowing write-up in The New York Times and, ultimately, that's way more important.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2023 11:05 AM (p+1gI)
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14 I thought Norman was on the chopping block for cancellation because of his genetically modified food, or something equally stupid.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:04 AM (YIVH2)
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Making food better is a crime against Gaia. It's anti-science as well.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:04 AM (YIVH2)
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Making food better is a crime against Gaia. It's anti-science as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:05 AM (LvTSG)
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Don't assume they are accidentally destroying the system built over 2500 years. They can't build their utopia until they destroy the current functioning system. Never mind that we have multiple recent examples, such as the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia where they had all the control and only created awful dystopias.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM (3cGpq)
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Equity is the the weight scale with a thumb on one side
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM (fxiNq)
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Leftist just want everyone dead. Just not them
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM (ytSiK)
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Good, new thread. The seafood-cooking war in the last one was starting to get heated.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (ffbyg)
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There are lots of boring people in our culture's history. The most boring of the lot is a man named Norman Borlaug. He did plodding, tedious research into disease resistant wheat that also was high yielding. Yup...that will put you to sleep at a cocktail party!
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There are many, many men like that throughout history. Clarence Birdseye is another. His invention of flash-freezing reduced food waste and improved access to food for everyone.
Not to mention men like Joseph William Bazalgette, who designed and ran one of the largest public works projects in the world at the time to rebuild the London sewer system using newly-available steam power thanks to James Watt. In so going, he invented modern sewage management and thus ended the public health disaster of poor water sanitation throughout the developed and most of the developing world. The man is a titan to whom millions of people owe their lives.
But sewer engineering is boring and unpleasant.
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There are many, many men like that throughout history. Clarence Birdseye is another. His invention of flash-freezing reduced food waste and improved access to food for everyone.
Not to mention men like Joseph William Bazalgette, who designed and ran one of the largest public works projects in the world at the time to rebuild the London sewer system using newly-available steam power thanks to James Watt. In so going, he invented modern sewage management and thus ended the public health disaster of poor water sanitation throughout the developed and most of the developing world. The man is a titan to whom millions of people owe their lives.
But sewer engineering is boring and unpleasant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (t0OGg)
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (LvTSG)
I think it was rice.
I think it was rice.
Posted by: BignJames at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (XIJ/X)
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@4 I give you "Dr. Futurity" by Philip K. Dick.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (p+1gI)
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Hey, Tonypete.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (ffbyg)
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Making food better is a crime against Gaia. It's anti-science as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:05 AM (LvTSG)
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As I recall, there was also a bit of an uproar several years ago about some genetically modified rice that would improve the vision of the poor people who ate it. A vital nutrient was being added. But the Left couldn't have that because it was against Nature (or something equally stupid).
Huh...The phrase, "or something equally stupid" pretty much sums up the Left's reaction to anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:05 AM (LvTSG)
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As I recall, there was also a bit of an uproar several years ago about some genetically modified rice that would improve the vision of the poor people who ate it. A vital nutrient was being added. But the Left couldn't have that because it was against Nature (or something equally stupid).
Huh...The phrase, "or something equally stupid" pretty much sums up the Left's reaction to anything.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)
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Equity is the the weight scale with a thumb on one side
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM (fxiNq)
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Try that with me, I'll bite ya fuckin' head off.
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM (fxiNq)
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Try that with me, I'll bite ya fuckin' head off.
Posted by: Anubis at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (2hlEI)
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Chris Plante was talking about how organs are going to waste.
There's this: (from NPR evem!)
"One in four potential donor kidneys, according to the latest UNOS data, now goes to waste. And that number has gotten worse as organs travel farther to reach sicker patients under the new allocation policy."
There's this: (from NPR evem!)
"One in four potential donor kidneys, according to the latest UNOS data, now goes to waste. And that number has gotten worse as organs travel farther to reach sicker patients under the new allocation policy."
Posted by: fd at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (iayUP)
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>>If I remember correctly, the far left hates him with a passion. It's because of "genetic engineering", but it's really because billions of poor, brown people can eat their fill.
Oh, right: golden rice = bad, while these are all considered good:
-- fake meat made from genetically modified yeast
-- oat milk that is mostly oil and water
-- lab-grown meat that is literally cancer cells: https://tinyurl.com/ys5c8br8
Oh, right: golden rice = bad, while these are all considered good:
-- fake meat made from genetically modified yeast
-- oat milk that is mostly oil and water
-- lab-grown meat that is literally cancer cells: https://tinyurl.com/ys5c8br8
Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (mqu1M)
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I give you "Dr. Futurity" by Philip K. Dick.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (p+1gI)
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I haven't read that one. I will add it to my list.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (p+1gI)
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I haven't read that one. I will add it to my list.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)
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if it's fat and ugly
Sponge is first in line
Posted by: REDACTED at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (us2H3)
I did nothing to warrant such negative connotation.
Sponge is first in line
Posted by: REDACTED at March 23, 2023 11:03 AM (us2H3)
I did nothing to warrant such negative connotation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)
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One man's Utopia is a million people's hell.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (YIVH2)
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other things; race, ethnicity, subjective concepts of "equity," we risk destroying what has taken 2,500 years to create.
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." bho
Why some refuse to take people at their actual words remains a mystery.
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." bho
Why some refuse to take people at their actual words remains a mystery.
Posted by: old chick at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (sOete)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (Q4IgG)
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I’m looking forward to the new bug rice.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (ffbyg)
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33 I give you "Dr. Futurity" by Philip K. Dick.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (p+1gI)
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I haven't read that one. I will add it to my list.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)
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Your book burning list, right? Because we're on the right and we'd rather burn a book than learn from it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM (p+1gI)
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I haven't read that one. I will add it to my list.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)
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Your book burning list, right? Because we're on the right and we'd rather burn a book than learn from it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)
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OR they could pay people what their kidneys are worth.
Not that I'm interested in commodifying (interesting video I watched that claimed that the "pill" commodified the female body with an explanation of how this woman came to that conclusion has that word on my mind) human kindness, but it would only be fair.
Otherwise, putting people living with one kidney on the very top of the list if their one remaining kidney fails is simply the minimum human decency anyone should expect.
Saw a post on FB about a deaf and blind man traveling by plane alone and how a teenaged girl who knew some sign language volunteered to translate for him the entire trip and someone cos-playing as human wasn't warmed by how wonderful people are but asked if they at least gave the girl a free plane ticket since she'd been asked to WORK during her flight. wtf?
Not that I'm interested in commodifying (interesting video I watched that claimed that the "pill" commodified the female body with an explanation of how this woman came to that conclusion has that word on my mind) human kindness, but it would only be fair.
Otherwise, putting people living with one kidney on the very top of the list if their one remaining kidney fails is simply the minimum human decency anyone should expect.
Saw a post on FB about a deaf and blind man traveling by plane alone and how a teenaged girl who knew some sign language volunteered to translate for him the entire trip and someone cos-playing as human wasn't warmed by how wonderful people are but asked if they at least gave the girl a free plane ticket since she'd been asked to WORK during her flight. wtf?
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (BD/yx)
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I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (amJF4)
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San Francisco can sweeten it's reparations plan for blacks by throwing in some white slaves as well as the ability to harvest any of their bodily organs on demand as needed.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (+lwg5)
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Joe Mannix, what would old Joe Bazalgette think about today's San Francisco sidewalk defecators, do you suppose?
Posted by: Eromero at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (mE3sO)
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Oh, right: golden rice = bad, while these are all considered good:
-- fake meat made from genetically modified yeast
-- oat milk that is mostly oil and water
-- lab-grown meat that is literally cancer cells: https://tinyurl.com/ys5c8br8
Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (mqu1M)
Und ze bugz. You vill eat ze bugz!
Oh, right: golden rice = bad, while these are all considered good:
-- fake meat made from genetically modified yeast
-- oat milk that is mostly oil and water
-- lab-grown meat that is literally cancer cells: https://tinyurl.com/ys5c8br8
Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (mqu1M)
Und ze bugz. You vill eat ze bugz!
Posted by: Klaus "Rump" Schwab at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (B0ahs)
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So the movie Repo Men is a how to?
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (OgrpQ)
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Another day, another stoopid idea from the leftist democrat marxists.
Keep this shit up and ain't no one donating nothing to no one.
Keep this shit up and ain't no one donating nothing to no one.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (OgB1i)
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41 I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
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"What about your skin?"
-Buffalo Bill
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
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"What about your skin?"
-Buffalo Bill
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (LvTSG)
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I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
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Out: You will be made to bake the cake.
In: You will be made to donate your organs.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
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Out: You will be made to bake the cake.
In: You will be made to donate your organs.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (+lwg5)
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Good, new thread. The seafood-cooking war in the last one was starting to get heated.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM
Nothing to get steamed about. Hope they don't poach this thread.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 23, 2023 11:07 AM
Nothing to get steamed about. Hope they don't poach this thread.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (GDJBM)
Posted by: Marooned at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (kt8QE)
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48 41 I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
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"What about your skin?"
-Buffalo Bill
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (LvTSG)
I wouldn't look good on you.
Though I do like 'Goodbye Horses'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
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"What about your skin?"
-Buffalo Bill
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (LvTSG)
I wouldn't look good on you.
Though I do like 'Goodbye Horses'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (xcxpd)
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So the movie Repo Men is a how to?
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (OgrpQ)
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ALL dystopian stories are "how to" manuals for the Left.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (OgrpQ)
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ALL dystopian stories are "how to" manuals for the Left.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (YIVH2)
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Hiya CBD !
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:01 AM (T4tVD)
Maybe...maybe not!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Hmmm....A mystery, wrapped in a riddle....inside an enema....
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:01 AM (T4tVD)
Maybe...maybe not!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Hmmm....A mystery, wrapped in a riddle....inside an enema....
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (T4tVD)
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'DEI' is their 'Dei'. Their God.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (amJF4)
Their DEIty
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (amJF4)
Their DEIty
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (OgrpQ)
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42 the current cultural insanity of "DEI" (DIE?)
'DEI' is their 'Dei'. Their God.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (amJF4)
Opus Dei is the penguin god.
'DEI' is their 'Dei'. Their God.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (amJF4)
Opus Dei is the penguin god.
Posted by: Bloom County baby! at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (B0ahs)
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53 So the movie Repo Men is a how to?
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (OgrpQ)
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ALL dystopian stories are "how to" manuals for the Left.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (YIVH2)
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I'm REALLY looking forward to them getting to Zardoz.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (OgrpQ)
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ALL dystopian stories are "how to" manuals for the Left.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (YIVH2)
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I'm REALLY looking forward to them getting to Zardoz.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (LvTSG)
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Paying people for kidneys would make a "waiting list" completely unnecessary. I think that people can donate half a liver, too.
No waiting for anyone to die in a car crash any more.
There are reasons NOT to do this, but I think that putting people who do voluntarily risk DYING from surgery complications in order to give away an organ on the TOP of any donor waiting list is just basic minimum humanity.
No waiting for anyone to die in a car crash any more.
There are reasons NOT to do this, but I think that putting people who do voluntarily risk DYING from surgery complications in order to give away an organ on the TOP of any donor waiting list is just basic minimum humanity.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (BD/yx)
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FWIW, had a relative on the kidney waitlist in the mid-90's and it was messed up even then. The sicker you are, the higher you are on the list which makes sense for saving lives in the short term, but not so much in terms of getting an organ into someone who has a longer life expectancy.
Apparently, the waitlists are (or were) regional, so he ended up relocating from RI to FL, getting on a regional list there, and got a kidney within months. Sadly, his health had declined considerably while he'd waited, so he died within a year of the transplant.
Apparently, the waitlists are (or were) regional, so he ended up relocating from RI to FL, getting on a regional list there, and got a kidney within months. Sadly, his health had declined considerably while he'd waited, so he died within a year of the transplant.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (mqu1M)
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Hmmm....A mystery, wrapped in a riddle....inside an enema....
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (T4tVD)
Sealed in a bag...put in warm water for 16 hours...
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (T4tVD)
Sealed in a bag...put in warm water for 16 hours...
Posted by: Sewer vide at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (B0ahs)
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I had read where the seeds for the dwarf strain of wheat (norin 10?) were collected in Japan shortly after occupation following J surrender. Can only wonder if not dropping the 2 bombs and allowing joint US and Soviet control would have meant no Green Revolution.
Posted by: Rex B at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (t1jwT)
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I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM
Yep or if we want to go down that path, how about I get to choose who gets my organs based on my beliefs?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM
Yep or if we want to go down that path, how about I get to choose who gets my organs based on my beliefs?
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (GDJBM)
Posted by: China at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (mqu1M)
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I want a scifi story where doctors and the practice of medicine was banned.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:02 AM (LvTSG)
I want a scifi story where, after a certain number of years, politicians/bureaucrats are publicly beaten to death. For the children.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:02 AM (LvTSG)
I want a scifi story where, after a certain number of years, politicians/bureaucrats are publicly beaten to death. For the children.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (1Z8zZ)
65
Seems like the Paolo might have something to say about "organs."
Posted by: Just sayin' at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (qVELc)
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Why some refuse to take people at their actual words remains a mystery.
Posted by: old chick at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (sOete)
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I know, right?
Posted by: old chick at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (sOete)
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I know, right?
Posted by: A. Hilter at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (2hlEI)
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The transplant list gave livers to John Phillips and David Crosby. They have given a heart transplant to a NY murderer . They have always been suspect.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (6pcCZ)
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I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
*fistbump*
Posted by: The Phantom of the Opera at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (h5TKJ)
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I'm REALLY looking forward to them getting to Zardoz.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (LvTSG)
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Just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. It was disturbingly predictive, despite Sean Connery running around in an orange nappy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (LvTSG)
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Just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. It was disturbingly predictive, despite Sean Connery running around in an orange nappy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (YIVH2)
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As I recall, there was also a bit of an uproar several years ago about some genetically modified rice that would improve the vision of the poor people who ate it. A vital nutrient was being added. But the Left couldn't have that because it was against Nature (or something equally stupid). ...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)
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"Golden rice," which contains beta-carotene, which the body can synthesize into Vitamin A. It has the potential to reduce blindness and other problems in impoverished areas that are rice-dependent. Vitamin A deficiency is a serious problem in a lot of places and you can die of it.
Big Environmentalist has done everything in its power to block "golden rice" at every turn, with Greenpeace carrying the banner. Greenpeace asserts that it's a hoax and a waste of resources. The real blockage, though, has been international treaty. Treaties (made in the early aughts, IIRC) block agricultural products with any possible negative effects on human or environmental health. Since *everything* has possible negative effects, it is used as a cudgel to keep out anything its masters - like Greenpeace and others - want to keep out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)
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"Golden rice," which contains beta-carotene, which the body can synthesize into Vitamin A. It has the potential to reduce blindness and other problems in impoverished areas that are rice-dependent. Vitamin A deficiency is a serious problem in a lot of places and you can die of it.
Big Environmentalist has done everything in its power to block "golden rice" at every turn, with Greenpeace carrying the banner. Greenpeace asserts that it's a hoax and a waste of resources. The real blockage, though, has been international treaty. Treaties (made in the early aughts, IIRC) block agricultural products with any possible negative effects on human or environmental health. Since *everything* has possible negative effects, it is used as a cudgel to keep out anything its masters - like Greenpeace and others - want to keep out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)
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MSN/FoxNews:
The office of then-Vice President Joe Biden tried to quash a Bloomberg News story about Hunter Biden at the younger Biden's firm's request, according to 2015 emails published Wednesday.
Emails obtained by America First Legal (AFL) through its ongoing lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), showed a close relationship between the vice president's office, Hunter Biden's longtime business partner and the media.
On Dec. 8, 2015, The New York Times ran an article saying the "credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption message may have been undermined" by Hunter’s serving on the board of Burisma Holdings with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky.
The office of then-Vice President Joe Biden tried to quash a Bloomberg News story about Hunter Biden at the younger Biden's firm's request, according to 2015 emails published Wednesday.
Emails obtained by America First Legal (AFL) through its ongoing lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), showed a close relationship between the vice president's office, Hunter Biden's longtime business partner and the media.
On Dec. 8, 2015, The New York Times ran an article saying the "credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption message may have been undermined" by Hunter’s serving on the board of Burisma Holdings with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:15 AM (RHGPo)
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They are denied transplants if you don't get the shot so this isn't too far fetched
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:15 AM (lZB6I)
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69 Just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. It was disturbingly predictive, despite Sean Connery running around in an orange nappy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (YIVH2)
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Very true.
The floating head delivered my daily supplement of guns and ammo just this morning.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (YIVH2)
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Very true.
The floating head delivered my daily supplement of guns and ammo just this morning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:15 AM (LvTSG)
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Instead, they say it’s time for a “more equitable approach.”
Equitable ER's, equitable ambulance service, equitable surgery, equitable life-saving drugs, etc.
I'm fine with it. Just keep me away from the entire medical system and I'll be so much healthier.
Equitable ER's, equitable ambulance service, equitable surgery, equitable life-saving drugs, etc.
I'm fine with it. Just keep me away from the entire medical system and I'll be so much healthier.
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (amJF4)
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'Keep this shit up and ain't no one donating nothing to no one.'
Good point. I am not interested in donating organs if they're distributed by some vile DEI ranking.
'Keep this shit up and ain't no one donating nothing to no one.'
Good point. I am not interested in donating organs if they're distributed by some vile DEI ranking.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (q3iUt)
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68 I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
*fistbump*
Posted by: The Phantom of the Opera at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (h5TKJ)
Toccata and Fuck You in D Minor
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
*fistbump*
Posted by: The Phantom of the Opera at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (h5TKJ)
Toccata and Fuck You in D Minor
Posted by: I'll be Bach at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (B0ahs)
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Bragg fights GOP effort to force his testimony on Trump probe
The Thursday response from Bragg comes as lawmakers, led by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), demanded the DA turn over all documents and communications about the case.
The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote.
.. Donald Trump created a false expectation .. sure
The Thursday response from Bragg comes as lawmakers, led by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), demanded the DA turn over all documents and communications about the case.
The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote.
.. Donald Trump created a false expectation .. sure
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
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Joe Mannix, what would old Joe Bazalgette think about today's San Francisco sidewalk defecators, do you suppose?
Posted by: Eromero at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (mE3sO)
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I reckon he'd shake his head in disgust.
Posted by: Eromero at March 23, 2023 11:11 AM (mE3sO)
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I reckon he'd shake his head in disgust.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (t0OGg)
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The transplant list gave livers to John Phillips and David Crosby. They have given a heart transplant to a NY murderer . They have always been suspect.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (6pcCZ)
I donated my jizz to a couple of bull dykes so they could have a little hippie too. They wanted the good stuff.
I rolled like that. Of course I'm dead now.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (6pcCZ)
I donated my jizz to a couple of bull dykes so they could have a little hippie too. They wanted the good stuff.
I rolled like that. Of course I'm dead now.
Posted by: Zombie David Crosby, Liver Abuser at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (OgB1i)
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GMOs also produce yields that can feed the 3rd world but wokeness says GMOs are genetically poison and will kill you and will not distribute.
Now take your genetically produced vax you peon !!!!
Now take your genetically produced vax you peon !!!!
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (6pcCZ)
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I want a scifi story where, after a certain number of years, politicians/bureaucrats are publicly beaten to death. For the children.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (1Z8zZ)
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I had an idea for a short story where aliens show up on Earth, promising cures for diseases, peace in our time, etc. All of the politicians are practically giddy with excitement and eagerly agree to go for a quick tour with the aliens.
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (1Z8zZ)
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I had an idea for a short story where aliens show up on Earth, promising cures for diseases, peace in our time, etc. All of the politicians are practically giddy with excitement and eagerly agree to go for a quick tour with the aliens.
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (YIVH2)
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4 I want a scifi story where doctors and the practice of medicine was banned.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:02 AM (LvTSG)
Death of Stalin, that was a plot point in the movie, Stalin killed all the good Doctors and everyone is afraid to treat him
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:02 AM (LvTSG)
Death of Stalin, that was a plot point in the movie, Stalin killed all the good Doctors and everyone is afraid to treat him
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (qi8sp)
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I’m looking forward to the new bug rice.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (ffbyg)
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They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
See headlines from a couple months ago: "The European Union (EU) recently approved the use of the Acheta Domesticus, more commonly known as the house cricket, in European consumers’ food."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 23, 2023 11:09 AM (ffbyg)
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They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
See headlines from a couple months ago: "The European Union (EU) recently approved the use of the Acheta Domesticus, more commonly known as the house cricket, in European consumers’ food."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (+lwg5)
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Golden Rice, best hit had to be Rice, Rice Baby!..
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (GDJBM)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 23, 2023 11:18 AM (Fwhqy)
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... The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote. ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
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The first is probably true. Congress getting involved in a non-federal prosecution is extremely unusual and might actually be unprecedented.
The second is an outright fabrication. *He* is the one who told NY cops to get ready for an arrest and he was probably involved in leaking that instruction to the press.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
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The first is probably true. Congress getting involved in a non-federal prosecution is extremely unusual and might actually be unprecedented.
The second is an outright fabrication. *He* is the one who told NY cops to get ready for an arrest and he was probably involved in leaking that instruction to the press.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)
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It's the government, stupid;
https://bit.ly/NOT_the_economy
- https://bit.ly/Warren_Zevon
Raising interest rates won't help if government spending continues to dilute the currency.
https://bit.ly/NOT_the_economy
- https://bit.ly/Warren_Zevon
Raising interest rates won't help if government spending continues to dilute the currency.
Posted by: Marooned at March 23, 2023 11:18 AM (kt8QE)
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I had an idea for a short story where aliens show up on Earth, promising cures for diseases, peace in our time, etc. All of the politicians are practically giddy with excitement and eagerly agree to go for a quick tour with the aliens.
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (YIVH2)
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I'd read that book.
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (YIVH2)
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I'd read that book.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:19 AM (t0OGg)
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Equity is the the weight scale with a thumb on one side
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM
Equity means you weigh the same as a duck.
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM
Equity means you weigh the same as a duck.
Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2023 11:19 AM (fF0pk)
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I suspect that there’s another problem with transplants: they take someone off dependence. Anything that can be done to discourage transplants increases the number of people who depend on bureaucratic largesse.
Incompetence or maliciousness? Why not and.
Incompetence or maliciousness? Why not and.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:19 AM (EXyHK)
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Bragg fights GOP effort to force his testimony on Trump probe
The Thursday response from Bragg comes as lawmakers, led by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), demanded the DA turn over all documents and communications about the case.
The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote.
.. Donald Trump created a false expectation .. sure
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM
Getting more sweaty than usual you fat feckless fuck? As usual, Bragg bit off more than he could chew and should be disbarred. The leftist tears though. They sustain me.
The Thursday response from Bragg comes as lawmakers, led by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), demanded the DA turn over all documents and communications about the case.
The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote.
.. Donald Trump created a false expectation .. sure
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM
Getting more sweaty than usual you fat feckless fuck? As usual, Bragg bit off more than he could chew and should be disbarred. The leftist tears though. They sustain me.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (GDJBM)
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They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
See headlines from a couple months ago: "The European Union (EU) recently approved the use of the Acheta Domesticus, more commonly known as the house cricket, in European consumers’ food."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (+lwg5)
I will eat insects on Mars.
On earth I will eat tasty tasty cows.
See headlines from a couple months ago: "The European Union (EU) recently approved the use of the Acheta Domesticus, more commonly known as the house cricket, in European consumers’ food."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (+lwg5)
I will eat insects on Mars.
On earth I will eat tasty tasty cows.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (BD/yx)
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... The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote. ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
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The first is probably true. Congress getting involved in a non-federal prosecution is extremely unusual and might actually be unprecedented.
The second is an outright fabrication. *He* is the one who told NY cops to get ready for an arrest and he was probably involved in leaking that instruction to the press.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)
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ALVIN!!!
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
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The first is probably true. Congress getting involved in a non-federal prosecution is extremely unusual and might actually be unprecedented.
The second is an outright fabrication. *He* is the one who told NY cops to get ready for an arrest and he was probably involved in leaking that instruction to the press.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)
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ALVIN!!!
Posted by: David Seville at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (2hlEI)
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Count yourself lucky that organ donation is voluntary in this country so far, and for most organs is done after death. Have a look at China, where this is not the case, in either situation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (lTGtQ)
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Big Environmentalist has done everything in its power to block "golden rice" at every turn, with Greenpeace carrying the banner. Greenpeace asserts that it's a hoax and a waste of resources.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)
They are the true heirs of Lysenko.
I hate Greenpeace, and I cheered when their ship was sunk by the Frogs.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)
They are the true heirs of Lysenko.
I hate Greenpeace, and I cheered when their ship was sunk by the Frogs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (XIJ/X)
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I like to imagine God has a checklist and we're about 132/134 checks before the Return of The King.
Oh...saving people based on race only. Check.
Oh...saving people based on race only. Check.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (Fwhqy)
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88 I had an idea for a short story where aliens show up on Earth, promising cures for diseases, peace in our time, etc. All of the politicians are practically giddy with excitement and eagerly agree to go for a quick tour with the aliens.
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (YIVH2)
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I'd write it so that the politicians would lie to the people about the visit of the aliens and start a war with them instead.
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (YIVH2)
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I'd write it so that the politicians would lie to the people about the visit of the aliens and start a war with them instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Just sayin' at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (qVELc)
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Equity is the the weight scale with a thumb on one side
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM
Equity is the tax we pay to subsidize incompetence
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM
Equity is the tax we pay to subsidize incompetence
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (OgrpQ)
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Think of all the Chicago and Baltimore gang-bangers this will save!
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (iFTx/)
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I hate Greenpeace, and I cheered when their ship was sunk by the Frogs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (XIJ/X)
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Yup. It was a glorious day.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (XIJ/X)
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Yup. It was a glorious day.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (t0OGg)
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I'd read that book.
I’d watch that movie… on loop. The aliens’ spaceship should look like a helicopter.
I’d watch that movie… on loop. The aliens’ spaceship should look like a helicopter.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (EXyHK)
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I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
I just had a horrible thought: are they going to start transplanting sexual organs? for more 'affirming' outcomes?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
I just had a horrible thought: are they going to start transplanting sexual organs? for more 'affirming' outcomes?
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (ptElO)
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.. The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote. ...
So far, Trump has played them like a true master. He couldn't have asked for a better campaign contribution. I still maintain that securing him as the nom was the Dem's goal all along, though.
So far, Trump has played them like a true master. He couldn't have asked for a better campaign contribution. I still maintain that securing him as the nom was the Dem's goal all along, though.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)
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Everything is Trump's fault. It's so obvious. He should have never commented on the headlines about his forthcoming bullshit political arrest. Why does everything have to always be about HIM?
Posted by: ... at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (0ryfU)
106
I'm told you have to look at the package when you buy Goldfish as they're now starting to include bugs in them.
A shame. I like the blasted Goldfish.
A shame. I like the blasted Goldfish.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
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86
'The first is probably true. Congress getting involved in a non-federal prosecution is extremely unusual and might actually be unprecedented.'
TFB. We'll need to have a lot of 'unprecedented' involvement if we expect to beat these bastards.
'The first is probably true. Congress getting involved in a non-federal prosecution is extremely unusual and might actually be unprecedented.'
TFB. We'll need to have a lot of 'unprecedented' involvement if we expect to beat these bastards.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (q3iUt)
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Giant 3D-Printed Rocket Fails To Reach Orbit
"The upper stage engine on Relativity Space's Terran 1 rocket appeared to sputter..."
"The upper stage engine on Relativity Space's Terran 1 rocket appeared to sputter..."
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (RHGPo)
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As I recall, there was also a bit of an uproar several years ago about some genetically modified rice that would improve the vision of the poor people who ate it. A vital nutrient was being added. But the Left couldn't have that because it was against Nature (or something equally stupid).
Huh...The phrase, "or something equally stupid" pretty much sums up the Left's reaction to anything.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)
Some scientist made rice that can survive flooding for days and not die and came up with hybrid rice that can feed millions he was on BULLSHIT an amazing man
Huh...The phrase, "or something equally stupid" pretty much sums up the Left's reaction to anything.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)
Some scientist made rice that can survive flooding for days and not die and came up with hybrid rice that can feed millions he was on BULLSHIT an amazing man
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (qi8sp)
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My people used every part of the kidney.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (yQpMk)
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There was a sci-fi story set in New Orleans where a drink would turn someone into a zombie that followed verbal instructions but never did the smallest thing on their own. People who couldn't pay debts were made to do hard labor until they reached zero.
The villain gave the two main characters a week of of being aching tired, dirty and naked, and then after remembering being entirely indifferent.
The villain gave the two main characters a week of of being aching tired, dirty and naked, and then after remembering being entirely indifferent.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (44ww/)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)
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TFB. We'll need to have a lot of 'unprecedented' involvement if we expect to beat these bastards.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (q3iUt)
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I wasn't saying otherwise. This is a political prosecution and those are against the rules, so rejecting "norms" in countering it is fine.
Don't like the race to the bottom? Don't start it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (q3iUt)
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I wasn't saying otherwise. This is a political prosecution and those are against the rules, so rejecting "norms" in countering it is fine.
Don't like the race to the bottom? Don't start it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)
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On the good news side:
Second Junior has finally broken through his mental block preventing him from shitting in the toilet.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Second Junior has finally broken through his mental block preventing him from shitting in the toilet.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)
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In Bangladesh at the time, their rice crops were being destroyed by the series of monsoons . Rice can stay submerged for just so long. The West came up with a genetically created variety that could stay submerged for weeks longer. Bangladesh refused to use and ended up waiting years for the West to create that variety the old grafting way . Tens of thousands starved in the meantime.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (6pcCZ)
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Rejoice and be glad, ye 'Rons and 'Ettes, for it is World Bear Day! Savor the World Bears dancing un the streets!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 23, 2023 11:23 AM (2hlEI)
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The irony of rejecting GM foods while embracing mRNA injections is only topped by the survey I saw a couple years ago where people were concerned (and apparently unaware of the process) that mothers might be passing DNA to their children.
Posted by: Advo at March 23, 2023 11:23 AM (VHN21)
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Get Woke, Go Broke: Twitch Streaming Service To Sack 36% Of Employees
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:23 AM (RHGPo)
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I'm told you have to look at the package when you buy Goldfish as they're now starting to include bugs in them.
A shame. I like the blasted Goldfish.
Posted by: Sponge
Even if you told most folks:
*Crickets. . .. *
A shame. I like the blasted Goldfish.
Posted by: Sponge
Even if you told most folks:
*Crickets. . .. *
Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2023 11:23 AM (qoGsy)
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I had an idea for a short story where aliens show up on Earth, promising cures for diseases, peace in our time, etc. All of the politicians are practically giddy with excitement and eagerly agree to go for a quick tour with the aliens.
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Only problem with that is the politicians wouldn't be giddy with excitement. They would be looking for ways to cover up the visit and and stop the aliens.
No war, no disease, no strife, no crime, no poverty = no need for politicians.
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Only problem with that is the politicians wouldn't be giddy with excitement. They would be looking for ways to cover up the visit and and stop the aliens.
No war, no disease, no strife, no crime, no poverty = no need for politicians.
Posted by: ... at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (0ryfU)
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Second Junior has finally broken through his mental block preventing him from shitting in the toilet.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
I don't give a crap...oh wait, I do.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
I don't give a crap...oh wait, I do.
Posted by: Second Junior at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (eOEVl)
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Apparently, the waitlists are (or were) regional, so he ended up relocating from RI to FL, getting on a regional list there, and got a kidney within months. Sadly, his health had declined considerably while he'd waited, so he died within a year of the transplant.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (mqu1M)
That's how the Piece of Shit rock star dying from liver failure put himself on multiple lists
Posted by: Lizzy at March 23, 2023 11:13 AM (mqu1M)
That's how the Piece of Shit rock star dying from liver failure put himself on multiple lists
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (qi8sp)
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Need a law in Pennsylvania that if the number of ballots cast exceeds the number of voters by more then 1% that the Secretary of State may not 'certify' the election. Unless those 'excess' votes would not change the outcome of the election.
It's a decent proposal that will go nowhere.
Need a law in Pennsylvania that if the number of ballots cast exceeds the number of voters by more then 1% that the Secretary of State may not 'certify' the election. Unless those 'excess' votes would not change the outcome of the election.
It's a decent proposal that will go nowhere.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (enJYY)
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On the good news side:
Second Junior has finally broken through his mental block preventing him from shitting in the toilet.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM
He hasn't been at the Schubert theatre lately has he?
Second Junior has finally broken through his mental block preventing him from shitting in the toilet.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM
He hasn't been at the Schubert theatre lately has he?
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (GDJBM)
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115 Tens of thousands starved in the meantime.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (6pcCZ)
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Reminds me of a parable regarding price controls.
A famine hit two kingdoms. In the first, the king allowed wheat growers to charge whatever they needed to the people. In the second, the king refused to let the growers sell at outrageous prices.
The people in the first kingdom managed to survive. The people in the second kingdom starved to death.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (6pcCZ)
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Reminds me of a parable regarding price controls.
A famine hit two kingdoms. In the first, the king allowed wheat growers to charge whatever they needed to the people. In the second, the king refused to let the growers sell at outrageous prices.
The people in the first kingdom managed to survive. The people in the second kingdom starved to death.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (LvTSG)
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Before long they'll be chasing down white people, capturing them in nets, and dragging them to organ harvesting centers. For equity!
Posted by: It's wholly voluntary at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (B0ahs)
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He hasn't been at the Schubert theatre lately has he?
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (GDJBM)
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LOL.
The Horde is getting a lot of mileage out of this one.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (GDJBM)
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LOL.
The Horde is getting a lot of mileage out of this one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (t0OGg)
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88 I had an idea for a short story where aliens show up on Earth, promising cures for diseases, peace in our time, etc. All of the politicians are practically giddy with excitement and eagerly agree to go for a quick tour with the aliens.
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (YIVH2)
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I'd read that book.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:19 AM (t0OGg)
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ALIENS: Earthlings, this is an invasion. We have destroyed your governments and killed your leaders. Ha ha ha!
HUMANS: Oh thank god!
ALIENS: Wait -- what??
SPOILER: It's a one-way trip as the aliens dump the politicians out the airlock when they reach deep space. Turns out the aliens have advanced beyond the need for politicians and are rescuing less-advanced races from their burden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (YIVH2)
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I'd read that book.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:19 AM (t0OGg)
______________________
ALIENS: Earthlings, this is an invasion. We have destroyed your governments and killed your leaders. Ha ha ha!
HUMANS: Oh thank god!
ALIENS: Wait -- what??
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (iFTx/)
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Count yourself lucky that organ donation is voluntary in this country so far, and for most organs is done after death.
Most, but there's no substitute for a still-beating heart...
Most, but there's no substitute for a still-beating heart...
Posted by: Elite Dining Rituals at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (CaJIi)
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It's easier when you realize America is collapsing upon itself. Once you realize we're doomed, it's easier to take.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (VWp7G)
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I'm told you have to look at the package when you buy Goldfish as they're now starting to include bugs in them.
A shame. I like the blasted Goldfish.
Posted by: Sponge
Technically, bugs are not an artificial ingredient, but they ought to be.
A shame. I like the blasted Goldfish.
Posted by: Sponge
Technically, bugs are not an artificial ingredient, but they ought to be.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (lTGtQ)
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The Fed Proposes A 4th Function Of Money: Means Of Social Control
A Federal Reserve white paper has come up with a new function for money
As also noted in our paper, "The main economic attributes of a technically effective currency rests on three functions: as a unit of account, a store of value and as a medium of exchange."
But there is a fourth function of money: as a means of social control. The centralized monopoly over the functions of money held by sovereign governments and central banks has generated great income and wealth imbalances. Concerns about a lack of central bank performance with respect to financial inclusion, income inequality, economic system stability and the tendency of central banks to intermediate on behalf of large financial institutions supported the creation of cryptocurrency"
.. who knew ?
A Federal Reserve white paper has come up with a new function for money
As also noted in our paper, "The main economic attributes of a technically effective currency rests on three functions: as a unit of account, a store of value and as a medium of exchange."
But there is a fourth function of money: as a means of social control. The centralized monopoly over the functions of money held by sovereign governments and central banks has generated great income and wealth imbalances. Concerns about a lack of central bank performance with respect to financial inclusion, income inequality, economic system stability and the tendency of central banks to intermediate on behalf of large financial institutions supported the creation of cryptocurrency"
.. who knew ?
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (RHGPo)
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Starship Troopers mentions an era of experts and scholars that FUBAR so badly that an era of generals was the antidote.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (44ww/)
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David Crosby Now I remember, mother f'er bragged about how he gamed the system
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (qi8sp)
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123
Need a law in Pennsylvania that if the number of ballots cast exceeds the number of voters by more then 1% that the Secretary of State may not 'certify' the election. Unless those 'excess' votes would not change the outcome of the election.
It's a decent proposal that will go nowhere.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (enJYY)
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The people running the precinct get thrown in jail, one day for every vote over the total number of voters in the district. They are also banned from working on elections or in government for the rest of their lives. They are also fined, personally $100 for every vote over the total.
Need a law in Pennsylvania that if the number of ballots cast exceeds the number of voters by more then 1% that the Secretary of State may not 'certify' the election. Unless those 'excess' votes would not change the outcome of the election.
It's a decent proposal that will go nowhere.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (enJYY)
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The people running the precinct get thrown in jail, one day for every vote over the total number of voters in the district. They are also banned from working on elections or in government for the rest of their lives. They are also fined, personally $100 for every vote over the total.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)
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We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)
Who's going to be potty trained first: you or him?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)
Who's going to be potty trained first: you or him?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (XIJ/X)
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124 He hasn't been at the Schubert theatre lately has he?
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (GDJBM)
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I'll admit that I did find his request to go to Broadway on his own to be somewhat suspect...
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (GDJBM)
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I'll admit that I did find his request to go to Broadway on his own to be somewhat suspect...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)
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There is a long ago interview with Michael Moore and saying they want to destroy the system and make a new one, when asked what that was he said he didn't know but it would be better.
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (fxiNq)
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>>>Count yourself lucky that organ donation is voluntary in this country so far, and for most organs is done after death.
Well, since "equity" reigns now, maybe I'll decide to not have my organs given away. This equity nonsense is just another way to screw we undesirables from getting organ transplants.
Well, since "equity" reigns now, maybe I'll decide to not have my organs given away. This equity nonsense is just another way to screw we undesirables from getting organ transplants.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (VWp7G)
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Golden rice info.
Take out the spaces. Even though I'm not sure they're necessary to put in with dashes already there...can someone tell me?
https://foreignpolicy.com /2019/10/17/ golden-rice-genetically-modified-super food-almost-saved-millions/
Take out the spaces. Even though I'm not sure they're necessary to put in with dashes already there...can someone tell me?
https://foreignpolicy.com /2019/10/17/ golden-rice-genetically-modified-super food-almost-saved-millions/
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (BD/yx)
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A Yankee fan complaining about the DH?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (2YtOq)
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136 We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)
Who's going to be potty trained first: you or him?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (XIJ/X)
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To be honest, we've given up on me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)
Who's going to be potty trained first: you or him?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (XIJ/X)
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To be honest, we've given up on me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)
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I gave one of my kidneys to my sister. Un
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (fv27Y)
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David Crosby Now I remember, mother f'er bragged about how he gamed the system
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM
Yep and then he went back to drinking. Piece of shit.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM
Yep and then he went back to drinking. Piece of shit.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:28 AM (GDJBM)
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The move “is an unprecedent[ed] inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” Bragg wrote. ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
Unprecedented actions result in other unprecedented actions. Besides Congress /Federal Government has an interest in the prosecution of a former President and current candidate for President.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:16 AM (RHGPo)
Unprecedented actions result in other unprecedented actions. Besides Congress /Federal Government has an interest in the prosecution of a former President and current candidate for President.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:28 AM (6pcCZ)
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29 -- That's the "Golden Rice" project that will save the vision of millions of third world kids. But the anti-Frankenfood people went into hysterics because GMA. It's amazing how many third world people are so beloved and protected into death (DDT) by the"good" people of the first world.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at March 23, 2023 11:28 AM (k5jR3)
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Need a law in Pennsylvania that if the number of ballots cast exceeds the number of voters by more then 1% that the Secretary of State may not 'certify' the election. Unless those 'excess' votes would not change the outcome of the election.
It's a decent proposal that will go nowhere.
It's so simple and obvious that I can't imagine coming out publicly against it. I guess I just lack imagination.
It's a decent proposal that will go nowhere.
It's so simple and obvious that I can't imagine coming out publicly against it. I guess I just lack imagination.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:28 AM (eOEVl)
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'Before long they'll be chasing down white people, capturing them in nets, and dragging them to organ harvesting centers. For equity!'
If they try that with this white person, they'll be the donor.
'Before long they'll be chasing down white people, capturing them in nets, and dragging them to organ harvesting centers. For equity!'
If they try that with this white person, they'll be the donor.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 23, 2023 11:28 AM (q3iUt)
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Their was a book on Aliens come to Earth and are horrified by abortion
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:29 AM (qi8sp)
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As also noted in our paper, "The main economic attributes of a technically effective currency rests on three functions: as a unit of account, a store of value and as a medium of exchange."
But there is a fourth function of money: as a means of social control. The centralized monopoly over the functions of money held by sovereign governments and central banks has generated great income and wealth imbalances. Concerns about a lack of central bank performance with respect to financial inclusion, income inequality, economic system stability and the tendency of central banks to intermediate on behalf of large financial institutions supported the creation of cryptocurrency" ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (RHGPo)
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That's a hell of a take. The driving factors behind crypto were inflation and corruption. Wealth inequality and "financial inclusion" were not part of that conversation. This is a rewrite of history to justify their new era of repressive financial control of all people by making sure it "pursues equity" or somesuch.
This will, hilariously, drive more and more people into crypto, barter or other alternatives.
But there is a fourth function of money: as a means of social control. The centralized monopoly over the functions of money held by sovereign governments and central banks has generated great income and wealth imbalances. Concerns about a lack of central bank performance with respect to financial inclusion, income inequality, economic system stability and the tendency of central banks to intermediate on behalf of large financial institutions supported the creation of cryptocurrency" ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (RHGPo)
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That's a hell of a take. The driving factors behind crypto were inflation and corruption. Wealth inequality and "financial inclusion" were not part of that conversation. This is a rewrite of history to justify their new era of repressive financial control of all people by making sure it "pursues equity" or somesuch.
This will, hilariously, drive more and more people into crypto, barter or other alternatives.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:29 AM (t0OGg)
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>>>To be honest, we've given up on me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Can you help Joe Biden for the next time he sees the Pope?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Can you help Joe Biden for the next time he sees the Pope?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:29 AM (VWp7G)
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Sorry, accidentally hit post...
Should have said:
Unfortunately, it only kept her going for a few more years before it failed. The procedure back in the 80's wasn't as fine tuned as it is now, and we weren't a 100% match.
Should have said:
Unfortunately, it only kept her going for a few more years before it failed. The procedure back in the 80's wasn't as fine tuned as it is now, and we weren't a 100% match.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:30 AM (fv27Y)
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A Yankee fan complaining about the DH?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (2YtOq)
Abso-fvckin-lutely.
It is awful for the game. It has made pitchers far too valuable, removed retaliation for inside pitches and hit-by-pitch, and added old, overweight, over-the-hill players to the game.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (2YtOq)
Abso-fvckin-lutely.
It is awful for the game. It has made pitchers far too valuable, removed retaliation for inside pitches and hit-by-pitch, and added old, overweight, over-the-hill players to the game.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:30 AM (XIJ/X)
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> It's because of "genetic engineering", but it's really because billions of poor, brown people can eat their fill.
Remember when Paul Ehrlich and his fellow commies were confidently predicting that we'd be at the Soylent Green stage by the end of the '70s?
Borlaug is one of the main reasons that didn't happen..
Remember when Paul Ehrlich and his fellow commies were confidently predicting that we'd be at the Soylent Green stage by the end of the '70s?
Borlaug is one of the main reasons that didn't happen..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (bW8dp)
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29 -- That's the "Golden Rice" project that will save the vision of millions of third world kids. But the anti-Frankenfood people went into hysterics because GMA. It's amazing how many third world people are so beloved and protected into death (DDT) by the"good" people of the first world.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at March 23, 2023 11:28 AM
Yep, now go dig me some cobalt for my EV child! I've got virtue signaling to do, so your death is way less of a problem to me! (signed leftists everywhere)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at March 23, 2023 11:28 AM
Yep, now go dig me some cobalt for my EV child! I've got virtue signaling to do, so your death is way less of a problem to me! (signed leftists everywhere)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (GDJBM)
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TonyPete, maybe the bugs are part of the small percentage of 'debris or foreign matter' allowed by FDA?
Posted by: Eromero at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (mE3sO)
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Before long they'll be chasing down white people, capturing them in nets, and dragging them to organ harvesting centers. For equity!
Posted by: It's wholly voluntary at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (B0ahs)
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In grad school, I had to read a book called "The Marrow Thieves" where WHITE people (of course) were chasing down and capturing Native Americans to harvest their dreams.
It actually isn't a bad story, all in all, as you don't hardly ever see the big bad white people. Mostly it's about a tribe of Native American rediscovering what that means in a post-apocalyptic future.
Posted by: It's wholly voluntary at March 23, 2023 11:25 AM (B0ahs)
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In grad school, I had to read a book called "The Marrow Thieves" where WHITE people (of course) were chasing down and capturing Native Americans to harvest their dreams.
It actually isn't a bad story, all in all, as you don't hardly ever see the big bad white people. Mostly it's about a tribe of Native American rediscovering what that means in a post-apocalyptic future.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (YIVH2)
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That's how the Piece of Shit rock star dying from liver failure put himself on multiple lists
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (qi8sp)
Steve Jobs attempted the same but IIRC he was not successful.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 23, 2023 11:24 AM (qi8sp)
Steve Jobs attempted the same but IIRC he was not successful.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (6pcCZ)
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154 Remember when Paul Ehrlich and his fellow commies were confidently predicting that we'd be at the Soylent Green stage by the end of the '70s?
Borlaug is one of the main reasons that didn't happen..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (bW8dp)
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"He made my theories wrong! They're not wrong! He's wrong. Fuck him! I am science!"
Borlaug is one of the main reasons that didn't happen..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (bW8dp)
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"He made my theories wrong! They're not wrong! He's wrong. Fuck him! I am science!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (LvTSG)
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They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (+lwg5)
It is for this reason that, to the maximum extent possible, people should gravitate to foods which have been minimally processed.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:17 AM (+lwg5)
It is for this reason that, to the maximum extent possible, people should gravitate to foods which have been minimally processed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (1Z8zZ)
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' This is a political prosecution and those are against the rules, so rejecting "norms" in countering it is fine.'
Yes, that's where I am too. Normally I am against federal overreach into state matters. But when you have people like Bragg abusing the rule of law for his party's benefit, we should use every tool in the shed.
' This is a political prosecution and those are against the rules, so rejecting "norms" in countering it is fine.'
Yes, that's where I am too. Normally I am against federal overreach into state matters. But when you have people like Bragg abusing the rule of law for his party's benefit, we should use every tool in the shed.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (q3iUt)
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Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:30 AM (fv27Y)
Wow.
I take back some of what I have said about you!
Wow.
I take back some of what I have said about you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (XIJ/X)
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114 On the good news side:
Second Junior has finally broken through his mental block preventing him from shitting in the toilet.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)
Congrats!
#3 is now showing interest in using the toilet.
We are concerned it's too soon.
She's only 16 months... but is very insistent.
Second Junior has finally broken through his mental block preventing him from shitting in the toilet.
We're getting so very close to be completely done with potty-training.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)
Congrats!
#3 is now showing interest in using the toilet.
We are concerned it's too soon.
She's only 16 months... but is very insistent.
Posted by: Inogame at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (53oGX)
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Unfortunately, it only kept her going for a few more years before it failed. The procedure back in the 80's wasn't as fine tuned as it is now, and we weren't a 100% match.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:30 AM
Sorry to hear that. But it's a testament to your character.
Unfortunately, it only kept her going for a few more years before it failed. The procedure back in the 80's wasn't as fine tuned as it is now, and we weren't a 100% match.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:30 AM
Sorry to hear that. But it's a testament to your character.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (GDJBM)
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That's a hell of a take. The driving factors behind crypto were inflation and corruption.
And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope?
And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)
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163 Congrats!
#3 is now showing interest in using the toilet.
We are concerned it's too soon.
She's only 16 months... but is very insistent.
Posted by: Inogame at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (53oGX)
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I've heard girls can get it done pretty early. I was talking to a girl at work who said that she was completely potty trained by about 18 months. I have a friend from another job who potty trained his daughter by about that age, too.
#3 is now showing interest in using the toilet.
We are concerned it's too soon.
She's only 16 months... but is very insistent.
Posted by: Inogame at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (53oGX)
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I've heard girls can get it done pretty early. I was talking to a girl at work who said that she was completely potty trained by about 18 months. I have a friend from another job who potty trained his daughter by about that age, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (LvTSG)
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Borlaug is one of the main reasons that didn't happen..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (bW8dp)
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That man should have his own world wide holiday.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (bW8dp)
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That man should have his own world wide holiday.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (2YtOq)
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101 I hate Greenpeace, and I cheered when their ship was sunk by the Frogs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (XIJ/X)
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Yup. It was a glorious day.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (t0OGg)
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That was back when governments recognized dangerous terrorists when they saw them. Would never happen today, sadly.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (XIJ/X)
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Yup. It was a glorious day.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (t0OGg)
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That was back when governments recognized dangerous terrorists when they saw them. Would never happen today, sadly.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Massive explosion at the Ineos Phenol chemicals plant
📌#Pasadena | #Texas
Currently Numerous hazmat response teams and other emergency personnel are responding to a extremely massive explosion and fire at a Ineos Phenol chemicals plant in Pasadena Texas one person has transported to a hospital. The plant makes multiple different types of chemicals and oils this is still developing
R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 20h
🚨#UPDATE: Firefighters and Officials are saying a Pipeline had exploded at the Ineos site throwing multiple train cars they have extinguished the fire. The cause of the explosion is currently under investigation
https://tinyurl.com/86kztbtz
multiple-angle video 1:22 minutes
🚨#BREAKING: Massive explosion at the Ineos Phenol chemicals plant
📌#Pasadena | #Texas
Currently Numerous hazmat response teams and other emergency personnel are responding to a extremely massive explosion and fire at a Ineos Phenol chemicals plant in Pasadena Texas one person has transported to a hospital. The plant makes multiple different types of chemicals and oils this is still developing
R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 20h
🚨#UPDATE: Firefighters and Officials are saying a Pipeline had exploded at the Ineos site throwing multiple train cars they have extinguished the fire. The cause of the explosion is currently under investigation
https://tinyurl.com/86kztbtz
multiple-angle video 1:22 minutes
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (Vwz3I)
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Equity means you weigh the same as a duck.
Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2023 11:19 AM (fF0pk)
It's also how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. -- Sir Bedevere
Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2023 11:19 AM (fF0pk)
It's also how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. -- Sir Bedevere
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Remember when Paul Ehrlich and his fellow commies were confidently predicting that we'd be at the Soylent Green stage by the end of the '70s?
Borlaug is one of the main reasons that didn't happen..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (bW8dp)
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As far as I know, Ehrlich continues to this day to claim that he was right.
Borlaug is one of the main reasons that didn't happen..
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:31 AM (bW8dp)
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As far as I know, Ehrlich continues to this day to claim that he was right.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (t0OGg)
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Just think of all of those plump, pink, healthy organs being blown up in Ukraine.
Human trafficking, organ harvesting, - they better get cracking before the nukes begin to fly.
Human trafficking, organ harvesting, - they better get cracking before the nukes begin to fly.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (Jg7EG)
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That's a hell of a take. The driving factors behind crypto were inflation and corruption.
And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)
I was not expecting that.
And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)
I was not expecting that.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (yQpMk)
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There is a long ago interview with Michael Moore and saying they want to destroy the system and make a new one, when asked what that was he said he didn't know but it would be better.
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (fxiNq)
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Step 1: Destroy the system!
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Utopia!
It's underpants gnome thinking here...
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (fxiNq)
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Step 1: Destroy the system!
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Utopia!
It's underpants gnome thinking here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (YIVH2)
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Norman Borlaug's birthday is this Saturday.
Posted by: Editor at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (xAe1U)
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Paul Ehrlich was completely wrong regardless of what Borlaug did.
But I am putting my "optimism wins" stories on hold until we are out of the current Kali Yuga.
It's gonna over soon right? Right guys?
But I am putting my "optimism wins" stories on hold until we are out of the current Kali Yuga.
It's gonna over soon right? Right guys?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (44ww/)
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Global Cooling, No Nukes, Alar, Global Warming, Organic Food, "mRNA vaccines, The Welfare State, The Designated Hitter, and on and on and on."
Carrots in chile. Immoral.
Carrots in chile. Immoral.
Posted by: Just sayin at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (bewti)
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174 Step 1: Destroy the system!
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Utopia!
It's underpants gnome thinking here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (YIVH2)
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It's exactly how the Communist Manifesto lays things out, too.
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Utopia!
It's underpants gnome thinking here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (YIVH2)
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It's exactly how the Communist Manifesto lays things out, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (LvTSG)
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Unfortunately, it only kept her going for a few more years before it failed. The procedure back in the 80's wasn't as fine tuned as it is now, and we weren't a 100% match.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:30 AM (fv27Y)
That's an amazing thing to do for your sister. I'm sorry that it didn't keep her for more than those few years.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:30 AM (fv27Y)
That's an amazing thing to do for your sister. I'm sorry that it didn't keep her for more than those few years.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (BD/yx)
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Norman Borlaug, from flyover country. Not an Ivy league graduate.
Posted by: free tibet at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (S5P0o)
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I've heard girls can get it done pretty early. I was talking to a girl at work who said that she was completely potty trained by about 18 months. I have a friend from another job who potty trained his daughter by about that age, too.
I had the same experience with four daughters. I think it's because they can't write their names in the snow the way boys can.
I had the same experience with four daughters. I think it's because they can't write their names in the snow the way boys can.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:34 AM (eOEVl)
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The Fed Proposes A 4th Function Of Money: Means Of Social Control
If you give the government power over anything, they will use it for social control. This is the problem with government; we have given it far too much power, well beyond what it was meant for. This also ties in with what we were discussing earlier - that local social networks like libraries, elks clubs, and the like have been eliminated, because we gave the federal government power over social issues. The feds don't actually do anything positive, and the locals who know what needs to be done are out of the picture. This is the way that nations die.
The one area that the federal government has no business in is social control. Prosecute crime, you can't prevent it.
If you give the government power over anything, they will use it for social control. This is the problem with government; we have given it far too much power, well beyond what it was meant for. This also ties in with what we were discussing earlier - that local social networks like libraries, elks clubs, and the like have been eliminated, because we gave the federal government power over social issues. The feds don't actually do anything positive, and the locals who know what needs to be done are out of the picture. This is the way that nations die.
The one area that the federal government has no business in is social control. Prosecute crime, you can't prevent it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (lTGtQ)
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I look up every ingredient I don't recognize. Long standing habit.
Posted by: ... at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (i+v5k)
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> They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
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Some "sustainable" foods, like flour, already do this. Whether they use the scientific names sort of depends on the producer's woke level and/or virtue signaling to the masses.
I have actually seen "cricket paste" listed in ingredients on some baked goods that obviously caters to the wokesters.
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Some "sustainable" foods, like flour, already do this. Whether they use the scientific names sort of depends on the producer's woke level and/or virtue signaling to the masses.
I have actually seen "cricket paste" listed in ingredients on some baked goods that obviously caters to the wokesters.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (Q4IgG)
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This will, hilariously, drive more and more people into crypto, barter or other alternatives.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:29 AM (t0OGg)
Russia has already agreed with China to use Chinese currency for all trading except with the US and EU. South America, African, and Asian trade will no longer use dollars.
Gee, its almost like if you weaponize the Dollar and Banking system, other people won't like it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:29 AM (t0OGg)
Russia has already agreed with China to use Chinese currency for all trading except with the US and EU. South America, African, and Asian trade will no longer use dollars.
Gee, its almost like if you weaponize the Dollar and Banking system, other people won't like it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (oHd/0)
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It's also how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. -- Sir Bedevere
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (1Z8zZ)
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This new learning interests me...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:33 AM (1Z8zZ)
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This new learning interests me...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (2hlEI)
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The one area that the federal government has no business in is social control. Prosecute crime, you can't prevent it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (lTGtQ)
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But it's the thing they want more than anything, and they will achieve it by any means necessary.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (lTGtQ)
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But it's the thing they want more than anything, and they will achieve it by any means necessary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (t0OGg)
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"I take back some of what I have said about you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "
*Wonders what I'd have to do to get the rest of the statements retracted*
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "
*Wonders what I'd have to do to get the rest of the statements retracted*
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (fv27Y)
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Off to the eyeball shop. Two weeks after the right lens of my glasses fell out, the left followed suit. And I have a prepaid pair of new glasses on order at the same place. Same damn frame, too. Titanium. Bill guaranteed me I couldn't kill these titanium frames to matter how many times I sat on them, stepped on them, dropped them, etc. What he forgot to mention is that the old, conventional screw and screwdriver kits don't work on these damn things. Bleh.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (k5jR3)
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Kidney Transplant Controller Wants To Distribute Human Organs Based On ‘Equity’
I will not be surprised when the Leftists demand that every white person become the slave of a black person for five years. So that the evil whites will experience the slave life, for equity of life experience!
(NOTE: Our Betters will be exempt, because reasons.)
I will not be surprised when the Leftists demand that every white person become the slave of a black person for five years. So that the evil whites will experience the slave life, for equity of life experience!
(NOTE: Our Betters will be exempt, because reasons.)
Posted by: Gref at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (AMIL/)
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> Count yourself lucky that organ donation is voluntary in this country so far, and for most organs is done after death. Have a look at China, where this is not the case, in either situation.
In Larry Niven's future history, transplant organs mostly came from condemned criminals. After a while, speeding, littering, and jaywalking became capital offenses
There were also gangs of "organleggers" who would kidnap people and break them up for parts, just like a car thief with a chop shop.
In Larry Niven's future history, transplant organs mostly came from condemned criminals. After a while, speeding, littering, and jaywalking became capital offenses
There were also gangs of "organleggers" who would kidnap people and break them up for parts, just like a car thief with a chop shop.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (bW8dp)
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Instead, they say it’s time for a “more equitable approach.”
When the Covid vaccines first became available, a "diversity committee" of the Oregon Health Authority recommended that all minorities, no matter how healthy, should have access to the Covid vaccine ahead of the 80-year-olds, because the 80-year-olds were too gosh-darn white.
The proposal was rejected, but five years from now I bet they accept it.
When the Covid vaccines first became available, a "diversity committee" of the Oregon Health Authority recommended that all minorities, no matter how healthy, should have access to the Covid vaccine ahead of the 80-year-olds, because the 80-year-olds were too gosh-darn white.
The proposal was rejected, but five years from now I bet they accept it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (2tUFv)
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188 "I take back some of what I have said about you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "
*Wonders what I'd have to do to get the rest of the statements retracted*
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (fv27Y)
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Denounce French toast?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "
*Wonders what I'd have to do to get the rest of the statements retracted*
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (fv27Y)
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Denounce French toast?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (LvTSG)
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I have a transplanted kidney (deceased donor). The hospital that did it made me go through psych evals to make sure I'd take care of it and was mentally and financially stable enough to handle medicines (and rigorous enough to take the meds every day). I was on a wait list for over 5 years (started just before I started dialysis--when I got on the list, they told me 7 years for an organ; five years later, it was 7 years for an organ. So I changed my registration to AZ where the wait time was less).
The testing and evaluations I went through were important. If it's based on so-called "equity", expect poor matches for folks that won't take care of them getting organs and those organs being lost because those receiving them won't take care of them.
I've had mine for almost 6 years now, and is still working quite well.
The testing and evaluations I went through were important. If it's based on so-called "equity", expect poor matches for folks that won't take care of them getting organs and those organs being lost because those receiving them won't take care of them.
I've had mine for almost 6 years now, and is still working quite well.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)
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"I take back some of what I have said about you!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "
*Wonders what I'd have to do to get the rest of the statements retracted*
Give HIM a kidney.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "
*Wonders what I'd have to do to get the rest of the statements retracted*
Give HIM a kidney.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (eOEVl)
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Perfessor Squirrel there is a giant flaw in your story idea. "88 I had an idea for a short story where aliens show up on Earth, promising cures for diseases, peace in our time, etc. All of the politicians are practically giddy with excitement and eagerly agree to go for a quick tour with the aliens. "
There is no opportunity for graft there and almost all the earths' politicians would reject it immediately. If aliens wanted to save the rest of us from politicians they would be offering the politicians "our technology to persuade people to fall in line without even knowing they are being coerced." or something like that.
There is no opportunity for graft there and almost all the earths' politicians would reject it immediately. If aliens wanted to save the rest of us from politicians they would be offering the politicians "our technology to persuade people to fall in line without even knowing they are being coerced." or something like that.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (3cGpq)
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> Two weeks after the right lens of my glasses fell out, the left followed suit.
I've had good luck with Zenni Optical. They're about an order of magnitude cheaper than buying them at a mall shop, and I've noticed no difference in quality.
I've had good luck with Zenni Optical. They're about an order of magnitude cheaper than buying them at a mall shop, and I've noticed no difference in quality.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (bW8dp)
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133 Starship Troopers mentions an era of experts and scholars that FUBAR so badly that an era of generals was the antidote.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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The book is a classic in and of itself but Heinlein predicted what would happen over and over again in his Future History and in the background of Starship Troopers--through his alter ego Lt. Col. Dubois (MI-ret) who was teaching high school to yutes (History and Moral Philosophy if I remember correctly).
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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The book is a classic in and of itself but Heinlein predicted what would happen over and over again in his Future History and in the background of Starship Troopers--through his alter ego Lt. Col. Dubois (MI-ret) who was teaching high school to yutes (History and Moral Philosophy if I remember correctly).
Posted by: whig at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (oZSqn)
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Is this the poop thread?
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!! at March 23, 2023 11:37 AM (Xrfse)
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R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 22h
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple Hazmat crews are on scene of a hazardous chemical cloud prompting a shelter in place
📌#Westlake | #Louisiana
Currently Numerous hazmat response teams and other emergency units are undertaking measures to address a hazardous chemical cloud emanating from the BioLab chemical plant. A Shelter-in-Place directive has been implemented for a 1-mile radius from the west side base of the I-10 bridge, as a result of a chemical discharge.
🚨#UPDATE: The shelter-in-place has been lifted following a chlorine leak from the BioLab chemical plant
https://tinyurl.com/2w728ynd
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple Hazmat crews are on scene of a hazardous chemical cloud prompting a shelter in place
📌#Westlake | #Louisiana
Currently Numerous hazmat response teams and other emergency units are undertaking measures to address a hazardous chemical cloud emanating from the BioLab chemical plant. A Shelter-in-Place directive has been implemented for a 1-mile radius from the west side base of the I-10 bridge, as a result of a chemical discharge.
🚨#UPDATE: The shelter-in-place has been lifted following a chlorine leak from the BioLab chemical plant
https://tinyurl.com/2w728ynd
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 23, 2023 11:37 AM (Vwz3I)
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Everything will go underground eventually.
Look at the pushback on crypto currency.
The Black Market (racist!) is back baby.
Look at the millions of fake vaxx passports there were (and got away with it). We only know the few that have been caught.
Look at the pushback on crypto currency.
The Black Market (racist!) is back baby.
Look at the millions of fake vaxx passports there were (and got away with it). We only know the few that have been caught.
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 23, 2023 11:37 AM (uQPen)
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Gee, its almost like if you weaponize the Dollar and Banking system, other people won't like it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (oHd/0)
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The loss of dollar demand for international settlements - which hasn't happened yet, but there are some serious cracks developing in that structure - will cause a short or intermediate-term catastrophe in this country. That inflation we've been outsourcing for decades will all come home.
If this happens - and I think the risks of this happening are meaningful - then it will make the junta's decision to kick Russia out of SWIFT, interfere with other settlements and arbitrarily seize the wealth of Russian nationals the greatest foreign policy error in American history.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (oHd/0)
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The loss of dollar demand for international settlements - which hasn't happened yet, but there are some serious cracks developing in that structure - will cause a short or intermediate-term catastrophe in this country. That inflation we've been outsourcing for decades will all come home.
If this happens - and I think the risks of this happening are meaningful - then it will make the junta's decision to kick Russia out of SWIFT, interfere with other settlements and arbitrarily seize the wealth of Russian nationals the greatest foreign policy error in American history.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)
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I hate Greenpeace, and I cheered when their ship was sunk by the Frogs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (XIJ/X)
Do we know for a fact that it was the French and not a private group of Ukrainians who rented a yacht and blew it up? Apparently they do that, you know.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:20 AM (XIJ/X)
Do we know for a fact that it was the French and not a private group of Ukrainians who rented a yacht and blew it up? Apparently they do that, you know.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (1Z8zZ)
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The proposal was rejected, but five years from now I bet they accept it.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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A lot of those proposals went nowhere because they were losing lawsuits about them.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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A lot of those proposals went nowhere because they were losing lawsuits about them.
Posted by: whig at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (oZSqn)
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A dramatic recreation of my efforts to potty train Second Junior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pyuFfKPCvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pyuFfKPCvY
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (LvTSG)
206
The Earth is a bagel-shape.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (44ww/)
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The one area that the federal government has no business in is social control. Prosecute crime, you can't prevent it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (lTGtQ)
I assume you're okay with States passing laws which could be defined as social control?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:35 AM (lTGtQ)
I assume you're okay with States passing laws which could be defined as social control?
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (6pcCZ)
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Count yourself lucky that organ donation is voluntary in this country so far, and for most organs is done after death.
I do worry occasionally that this is “for varying definitions of death”.
I do worry occasionally that this is “for varying definitions of death”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Just sayin at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (bewti)
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There were also gangs of "organleggers" who would kidnap people and break them up for parts, just like a car thief with a chop shop.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Heck, there are urban legends of such even here.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Heck, there are urban legends of such even here.
Posted by: whig at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (oZSqn)
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208 Count yourself lucky that organ donation is voluntary in this country so far, and for most organs is done after death.
I do worry occasionally that this is “for varying definitions of death”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (EXyHK)
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"I'm so happy!"
*thunk*
I do worry occasionally that this is “for varying definitions of death”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (EXyHK)
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"I'm so happy!"
*thunk*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (LvTSG)
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The UNOS List - a limerick
There once was a fellow named Bart
Had a heart problem right from the start
The scoured the whole nation
To find the right transplantation
Now he’s had a complete change of heart
The UNOS List - a limerick
There once was a fellow named Bart
Had a heart problem right from the start
The scoured the whole nation
To find the right transplantation
Now he’s had a complete change of heart
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (ykeLU)
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206 The Earth is a bagel-shape.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (44ww/)
Toroidal, eh?
I'd expect more of a Moebius strip, so still flat...
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (44ww/)
Toroidal, eh?
I'd expect more of a Moebius strip, so still flat...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)
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MSN/RadarOnline:
Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
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An observation from a link JJS provided this morning is interesting. Conservatism has flaws, no doubt, but the same is more true of Progressives. Totalitarians at heart, they always want to "fix" things, especially things that can be twisted all out of shape by ideology and thereby broken so the remainder does not work at all.
One of the major flaws of conservatism is its defeatism. If leftism is apocalyptic, conservatism is chiliastic, always eager for that eschatological moment of doom and judgment. It doesn't matter what it is -- China, Soros, fentanyl, the cartels, CRT, transgenderism -- every time a cat falls from a tree, a mob suddenly pops out of hyperspace ready equipped with sackcloth and ashes. The Last Day is always dawning, the seals ever breaking open.
One of the major flaws of conservatism is its defeatism. If leftism is apocalyptic, conservatism is chiliastic, always eager for that eschatological moment of doom and judgment. It doesn't matter what it is -- China, Soros, fentanyl, the cartels, CRT, transgenderism -- every time a cat falls from a tree, a mob suddenly pops out of hyperspace ready equipped with sackcloth and ashes. The Last Day is always dawning, the seals ever breaking open.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (mCK0S)
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Since I no longer can donate organs, I'm out of this game, but I have told my spouse and kids to never "check the box" for organ donation. All of us who can donate have agreed that we would do that if possible, but we want one of us to sign off on the give, and not just allow the docs to take them...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (exHjb)
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the - they
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (ykeLU)
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I can't wait for KY to elect another GOP squish. At least this one will be a backbencher instead of a leader.
Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
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I can't wait for KY to elect another GOP squish. At least this one will be a backbencher instead of a leader.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (LvTSG)
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I've heard girls can get it done pretty early. I was talking to a girl at work who said that she was completely potty trained by about 18 months. I have a friend from another job who potty trained his daughter by about that age, too.
Crate training works well, too.
Just take them out of the crib first thing in the morning and let them do their business in the yard.
By 6 months my daughter was already scratching at the door to let me know she needed to go out.
Crate training works well, too.
Just take them out of the crib first thing in the morning and let them do their business in the yard.
By 6 months my daughter was already scratching at the door to let me know she needed to go out.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (40DMX)
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Cortez and Pizarro were horrified by human sacrifices. The chances are high that ETs would feel the same way.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (44ww/)
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A dramatic recreation of my efforts to potty train Second Junior:
I was expecting something else:
https://tinyurl.com/3h7m2zfe
I was expecting something else:
https://tinyurl.com/3h7m2zfe
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)
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>>>Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD
China Mitch will not be missed by literally anyone.
Posted by: SMOD
China Mitch will not be missed by literally anyone.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:41 AM (VWp7G)
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Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 23, 2023 11:37 AM (Vwz3I)
Awesome golf course in Westlake. And I avoid the I-10 bridge if at all possible. It's going to collapse one day.
Awesome golf course in Westlake. And I avoid the I-10 bridge if at all possible. It's going to collapse one day.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:41 AM (6pcCZ)
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Imma going to grave with all my lucky charms.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 23, 2023 11:41 AM (3FiQa)
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The first is probably true. Congress getting involved in a non-federal prosecution is extremely unusual and might actually be unprecedented.
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Prosecuting a former President on bullshit make believe candy assed legal theories is also unprecedented and unusual
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Prosecuting a former President on bullshit make believe candy assed legal theories is also unprecedented and unusual
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 23, 2023 11:41 AM (VTu1l)
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What he forgot to mention is that the old, conventional screw and screwdriver kits don't work on these damn things. Bleh.
A trivial example of one of my favorite technology quotes:
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.”—Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
A trivial example of one of my favorite technology quotes:
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.”—Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:41 AM (EXyHK)
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> They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
They're already doing this with subpar salmon. Oncorhynchus keta, traditionally known as "chum" or "dog" salmon, is now generally marketed as "keta" or "silverbrite". It's shite.
Despite them being quite abundant, traditional fisherman generally ignored this species, unless they needed a bunch of dried fish to feed their dog teams or something like that.
They're already doing this with subpar salmon. Oncorhynchus keta, traditionally known as "chum" or "dog" salmon, is now generally marketed as "keta" or "silverbrite". It's shite.
Despite them being quite abundant, traditional fisherman generally ignored this species, unless they needed a bunch of dried fish to feed their dog teams or something like that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:41 AM (bW8dp)
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208 Count yourself lucky that organ donation is voluntary in this country so far, and for most organs is done after death.
I do worry occasionally that this is “for varying definitions of death”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (EXyHK)
Live donation ends up with better long-term results, as the organ is not outside a body for as long. No family members that could give were matches for me. But folks are creative; someone started a chain, where folks were willing to donate and had matches with others, so eventually everyone in a chain had a match, just not from their original list of potential donors.
I do worry occasionally that this is “for varying definitions of death”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (EXyHK)
Live donation ends up with better long-term results, as the organ is not outside a body for as long. No family members that could give were matches for me. But folks are creative; someone started a chain, where folks were willing to donate and had matches with others, so eventually everyone in a chain had a match, just not from their original list of potential donors.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (ynpvh)
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Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
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Hey DC insiders, help me to understand: Where is the problem "sparking fear"?
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
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Hey DC insiders, help me to understand: Where is the problem "sparking fear"?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (mCK0S)
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The Book of Elijah, bad guy wants the Bible so he can inject those values into his lying schemes.
Reminds me of something i can't put my finger on.
Reminds me of something i can't put my finger on.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (nXfv5)
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Opus Dei is the penguin god.
Posted by: Bloom County baby! at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (B0ahs)
would that make Magnum Opus the Dirty Harry sequel we didn't know we wanted?
Posted by: Bloom County baby! at March 23, 2023 11:12 AM (B0ahs)
would that make Magnum Opus the Dirty Harry sequel we didn't know we wanted?
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (nXhwP)
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The proposal was rejected, but five years from now I bet they accept it.
You can't understate the extent to which racial discrimination has been routinized by Oregon governments.
The Portland-area transit company is eliminating bus service to certain areas, because those areas are too white and affluent.
For the very popular swim lessons offered by the City of Portland, minority kids are allowed to register the day before the white kids.
Portland has a slush fund to fight global warming - the law creating the slush fund makes it clear that grants from this fund should be directed to minorities.
And so on.
You can't understate the extent to which racial discrimination has been routinized by Oregon governments.
The Portland-area transit company is eliminating bus service to certain areas, because those areas are too white and affluent.
For the very popular swim lessons offered by the City of Portland, minority kids are allowed to register the day before the white kids.
Portland has a slush fund to fight global warming - the law creating the slush fund makes it clear that grants from this fund should be directed to minorities.
And so on.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (2tUFv)
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The testing and evaluations I went through were important. If it's based on so-called "equity", expect poor matches for folks that won't take care of them getting organs and those organs being lost because those receiving them won't take care of them.
I've had mine for almost 6 years now, and is still working quite well.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)
I know a doctor who takes care of dying children who worked to get a child taken away from parents because the parents couldn't pass the "will you follow up reliably on meds" tests. At least, that's how I remember the story. But it was something I'd normally find appalling, and I think he would too, but this dying kid was getting denied when he tried to get her on transplant lists.
Hear-say and all that. He definitely agreed with the need for those evaluations but having a job where you deal with terminal children is super-hero work and heartbreaking even second hand.
I've had mine for almost 6 years now, and is still working quite well.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)
I know a doctor who takes care of dying children who worked to get a child taken away from parents because the parents couldn't pass the "will you follow up reliably on meds" tests. At least, that's how I remember the story. But it was something I'd normally find appalling, and I think he would too, but this dying kid was getting denied when he tried to get her on transplant lists.
Hear-say and all that. He definitely agreed with the need for those evaluations but having a job where you deal with terminal children is super-hero work and heartbreaking even second hand.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (BD/yx)
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Sinema privately trashed Senate Democrats to GOP lobbyists, saying they eat too much Jell-O and waste time
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (RHGPo)
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Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (oHd/0)
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Hey DC insiders, help me to understand: Where is the problem "sparking fear"?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (mCK0S)
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Battle Royale in the court due to unclear succession is quite dangerous.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (mCK0S)
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Battle Royale in the court due to unclear succession is quite dangerous.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (t0OGg)
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change for the sake of improvement >>> change merely for the sake of change
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU)
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Does an organ seasoned in Val-u-rite get preferred standing on the list?
One owner, low mileage.
One owner, low mileage.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (Jg7EG)
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> Cortez and Pizarro were horrified by human sacrifices.
I think it was one of Neal Stephenson's characters who observed that it was a mark of what utter shitheads the Aztecs were that when the Spanish Inquisition took over, things actually got a lot more humane.
I think it was one of Neal Stephenson's characters who observed that it was a mark of what utter shitheads the Aztecs were that when the Spanish Inquisition took over, things actually got a lot more humane.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (bW8dp)
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220 Cortez and Pizarro were horrified by human sacrifices. The chances are high that ETs would feel the same way.
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What do Extraterrestrials snack on?
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What do Extraterrestrials snack on?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (3FiQa)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU)
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234 Sinema privately trashed Senate Democrats to GOP lobbyists, saying they eat too much Jell-O and waste time
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (RHGPo)
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She's scum too.
She and the GOPe and the Democrat Establishment all deserve each other.
Her "independence" is a joke and just a ruse to fool the rubes.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (RHGPo)
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She's scum too.
She and the GOPe and the Democrat Establishment all deserve each other.
Her "independence" is a joke and just a ruse to fool the rubes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (LvTSG)
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"Old dudes are eating Jell-O, everyone is talking about how great they are," Sinema told a reception for Republican lobbyists earlier this year, per Politico's Jonathan Martin. "I don't really need to be there for that. That's an hour and a half twice a week that I can get back."
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (RHGPo)
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Saw this comment today, and LOL'd -
Joe Biden is like a web browser with 20 tabs open.
17 are frozen and he doesn't know where the music is coming from.
Joe Biden is like a web browser with 20 tabs open.
17 are frozen and he doesn't know where the music is coming from.
Posted by: Roy at March 23, 2023 11:44 AM (LfMh8)
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239 > Cortez and Pizarro were horrified by human sacrifices.
I think it was one of Neal Stephenson's characters who observed that it was a mark of what utter shitheads the Aztecs were that when the Spanish Inquisition took over, things actually got a lot more humane.
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The Incas were no walk in the park, either.
I think it was one of Neal Stephenson's characters who observed that it was a mark of what utter shitheads the Aztecs were that when the Spanish Inquisition took over, things actually got a lot more humane.
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The Incas were no walk in the park, either.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 23, 2023 11:44 AM (3FiQa)
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216 Since I no longer can donate organs, I'm out of this game, but I have told my spouse and kids to never "check the box" for organ donation. All of us who can donate have agreed that we would do that if possible, but we want one of us to sign off on the give, and not just allow the docs to take them...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (exHjb)
Same here. My liver ain't what it used to be, my corneas are starting to fog up (beginning of cataracts). At least I'm not like that old guy who had cancer, and somebody took his body parts for donation anyway...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (exHjb)
Same here. My liver ain't what it used to be, my corneas are starting to fog up (beginning of cataracts). At least I'm not like that old guy who had cancer, and somebody took his body parts for donation anyway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:44 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 23, 2023 11:44 AM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Extraterrestrials at March 23, 2023 11:44 AM (eOEVl)
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I want the cloned Keith Richards liver.
One of those would last a normal person their whole life. You could probably even hand it down to your children and grandchildren.
One of those would last a normal person their whole life. You could probably even hand it down to your children and grandchildren.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:44 AM (bW8dp)
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I do worry occasionally that this is “for varying definitions of death”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (EXyHK)
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My children think I'm nuts to elect to be an organ donor on my DL for this very reason. They think my organs will be scooped out whil I still am living, but I take the view that, at that point (after some calamatous accident) and probably brain-dead, will I really care?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:39 AM (EXyHK)
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My children think I'm nuts to elect to be an organ donor on my DL for this very reason. They think my organs will be scooped out whil I still am living, but I take the view that, at that point (after some calamatous accident) and probably brain-dead, will I really care?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (mCK0S)
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Please don't forget that they need a kidney transplant in part because their wonder drugs destroyed kidney function. I'm going to keep banging this drum because doctors don't tell you the drug can damage kidneys and they won't bother to monitor kidney function. That's why we have all these dialysis clinics.
And my cousin has been on the waiting list for a transplant five years now.
And my cousin has been on the waiting list for a transplant five years now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (6lj/r)
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Grog: "Hey Og, I've invented the wheel!"
Og: Not again!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU
"Take a picture!"
"Oops, got ahead of myself"
Og: Not again!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU
"Take a picture!"
"Oops, got ahead of myself"
Posted by: Just sayin at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (bewti)
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Well, since "equity" reigns now, maybe I'll decide to not have my organs given away. This equity nonsense is just another way to screw we undesirables from getting organ transplants.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (VWp7G)
Seriously considering removing myself from the transplant list.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (VWp7G)
Seriously considering removing myself from the transplant list.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (N39Ws)
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He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
That "exercise equipment" will get you every time.
That "exercise equipment" will get you every time.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (2tUFv)
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Concerns about a lack of central bank performance with respect to financial inclusion, income inequality, economic system stability and the tendency of central banks to intermediate on behalf of large financial institutions supported the creation of cryptocurrency
Yeah, cryptocurrencies were started because people were concerned that central banks didn't meddle enough.
Yeah, cryptocurrencies were started because people were concerned that central banks didn't meddle enough.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (1Z8zZ)
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There are lots of boring people in our culture's history. The most boring of the lot is a man named Norman Borlaug. He did plodding, tedious research into disease resistant wheat that also was high yielding. Yup...that will put you to sleep at a cocktail party!
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Civil engineers in my family have derailed social interactions with sewage/water issues for years. My fondest hope is that the next generation will do the same. Youngest kidlet and I spent over an hour this week on local sewer issues.
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Civil engineers in my family have derailed social interactions with sewage/water issues for years. My fondest hope is that the next generation will do the same. Youngest kidlet and I spent over an hour this week on local sewer issues.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (MIKMs)
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Saw a post on FB about a deaf and blind man traveling by plane alone and how a teenaged girl who knew some sign language volunteered to translate for him the entire trip and someone cos-playing as human wasn't warmed by how wonderful people are but asked if they at least gave the girl a free plane ticket since she'd been asked to WORK during her flight. wtf?
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (BD/yx)
If he was deaf *and* blind what good was sign language going to do?
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (BD/yx)
If he was deaf *and* blind what good was sign language going to do?
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (1Yy3c)
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176 Paul Ehrlich was completely wrong regardless of what Borlaug did.
But I am putting my "optimism wins" stories on hold until we are out of the current Kali Yuga.
It's gonna over soon right? Right guys?
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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Right now, put little confidence in any short to mid term predictions. Chess pieces are moving around the board both internationally and domestically so predictions that tomorrow will be the same as today are unwarranted.
But I am putting my "optimism wins" stories on hold until we are out of the current Kali Yuga.
It's gonna over soon right? Right guys?
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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Right now, put little confidence in any short to mid term predictions. Chess pieces are moving around the board both internationally and domestically so predictions that tomorrow will be the same as today are unwarranted.
Posted by: whig at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (oZSqn)
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Grog: "Hey Og, I've invented the wheel!"
Og: Not again!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU
"Take a picture!"
"Oops, got ahead of myself"
Grog: Stop writing!
(name the product)
Og: Not again!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU
"Take a picture!"
"Oops, got ahead of myself"
Grog: Stop writing!
(name the product)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (eOEVl)
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> The Incas were no walk in the park, either.
Or the Maya.
Or pretty much any of the Native Americans who (the leftists would have it) lived in peace and harmony with the trees, and the flowers, and the bunnies, and rainbows.
The last chattel slaves in what is now the United States were freed when the US took possession of Alaska, and freed the slaves that the Tlingit tribe had been keeping for thousands of years. That was a long time after "Juneteenth", you.
Or the Maya.
Or pretty much any of the Native Americans who (the leftists would have it) lived in peace and harmony with the trees, and the flowers, and the bunnies, and rainbows.
The last chattel slaves in what is now the United States were freed when the US took possession of Alaska, and freed the slaves that the Tlingit tribe had been keeping for thousands of years. That was a long time after "Juneteenth", you.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (bW8dp)
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>>>Seriously considering removing myself from the transplant list.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
I love how they just come out and say it. They're telling us we won't get organ donations.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
I love how they just come out and say it. They're telling us we won't get organ donations.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (VWp7G)
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Starship Troopers mentions an era of experts and scholars that FUBAR so badly that an era of generals was the antidote.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (44ww/)
Not generals. Former government employees. Anyone still in federal service could not vote.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (44ww/)
Not generals. Former government employees. Anyone still in federal service could not vote.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (1Z8zZ)
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I agreed to donate my Father's corneas after he was taken off Life Support. I don't think his other organs were viable to be donated.
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (6pcCZ)
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251 Please don't forget that they need a kidney transplant in part because their wonder drugs destroyed kidney function. I'm going to keep banging this drum because doctors don't tell you the drug can damage kidneys and they won't bother to monitor kidney function. That's why we have all these dialysis clinics.
And my cousin has been on the waiting list for a transplant five years now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (6lj/r)
Yeah, kidney function is so crucial to long life. Once you lose it, so many medical treatments can no longer be done. It's probably the one organ that should be monitored the most, and yet most docs never give it a 2nd thought...
And my cousin has been on the waiting list for a transplant five years now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (6lj/r)
Yeah, kidney function is so crucial to long life. Once you lose it, so many medical treatments can no longer be done. It's probably the one organ that should be monitored the most, and yet most docs never give it a 2nd thought...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)
...He definitely agreed with the need for those evaluations but having a job where you deal with terminal children is super-hero work and heartbreaking even second hand.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (BD/yx)
As I recall, Iran is one of the few countries that allows for private kidney donations where the donor is allowed to be paid. Apparently they have no shortage of kidneys, but I don't know how many come from executions either.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)
...He definitely agreed with the need for those evaluations but having a job where you deal with terminal children is super-hero work and heartbreaking even second hand.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (BD/yx)
As I recall, Iran is one of the few countries that allows for private kidney donations where the donor is allowed to be paid. Apparently they have no shortage of kidneys, but I don't know how many come from executions either.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (ynpvh)
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This blonde in a dress is happy that she has had healthy organs, clean water, abundant food and functional sanitation systems for so long that she takes them for granted - and is extremely resentful that a bunch of monstrous assholes are trying to take all of them away:
https://is.gd/93qMHu
https://is.gd/93qMHu
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (t0OGg)
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235 Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (oHd/0)
Repub Fetterman?
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 23, 2023 11:42 AM (oHd/0)
Repub Fetterman?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (ynpvh)
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The UNOS scoring systems include regional considerations, i.e. time and distance from harvesting the organ to the location of the recipient.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (ykeLU)
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It can be lunch time or nap time, not sure which
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (fxiNq)
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If he was deaf *and* blind what good was sign language going to do?
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (1Yy3c)
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Touch. This is how Hellen Keller did it. They can sign, and they touch your hands to learn what signs you're making.
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (1Yy3c)
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Touch. This is how Hellen Keller did it. They can sign, and they touch your hands to learn what signs you're making.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (t0OGg)
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Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM
Yes, China and Ukeistan are fearful he will cut off their money machine and year supply of Turtle Wax he promised.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM
Yes, China and Ukeistan are fearful he will cut off their money machine and year supply of Turtle Wax he promised.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (GDJBM)
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240 220 Cortez and Pizarro were horrified by human sacrifices. The chances are high that ETs would feel the same way.
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What do Extraterrestrials snack on?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (3FiQa)
Inverted human rectums?
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What do Extraterrestrials snack on?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (3FiQa)
Inverted human rectums?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (ynpvh)
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235 Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Fell while servicing lobbyists at a private function at the former DC Trump Hotel. Trump curse got him.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Fell while servicing lobbyists at a private function at the former DC Trump Hotel. Trump curse got him.
Posted by: whig at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (oZSqn)
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> Civil engineers in my family have derailed social interactions with sewage/water issues for years.
Thanks for fixing things so 50% of my family hasn't died of cholera. Appreciate it. Not kidding.
Thanks for fixing things so 50% of my family hasn't died of cholera. Appreciate it. Not kidding.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (bW8dp)
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what utter shitheads the Aztecs were
Imagine being a conquistador and seeing the Wall of Skulls in Tenochtitlan for the first time.
Imagine being a conquistador and seeing the Wall of Skulls in Tenochtitlan for the first time.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)
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There is literally no one in DC that has been sparked into fear by the murder turtles absence. No one...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (flINI)
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241 Grog: "Hey Og, I've invented the wheel!"
Og: Not again!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU)
What was Rock, Scissors, Paper called before the inventions of paper and scissors? Rock.
Og: Not again!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU)
What was Rock, Scissors, Paper called before the inventions of paper and scissors? Rock.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:49 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:49 AM (T4tVD)
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I assume you're okay with States passing laws which could be defined as social control?
Posted by: polynikes
I reject the idea of prior restraints. The states have more leeway on laws than the feds, but both seem to be in the business of preventing things from happening instead of prosecuting those that violate the laws and customs. Prior restraints, as applied to all activities not just speech, are extraordinarily expensive compared to prosecution. When you make something idiot proof, a better idiot will come along.
We don't need government to tell us what we are allowed to do, and we certainly don't need a government to restrict our choices in goods or services.
Posted by: polynikes
I reject the idea of prior restraints. The states have more leeway on laws than the feds, but both seem to be in the business of preventing things from happening instead of prosecuting those that violate the laws and customs. Prior restraints, as applied to all activities not just speech, are extraordinarily expensive compared to prosecution. When you make something idiot proof, a better idiot will come along.
We don't need government to tell us what we are allowed to do, and we certainly don't need a government to restrict our choices in goods or services.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:50 AM (lTGtQ)
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253 Well, since "equity" reigns now, maybe I'll decide to not have my organs given away. This equity nonsense is just another way to screw we undesirables from getting organ transplants.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (VWp7G)
Seriously considering removing myself from the transplant list.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (N39Ws)
In Kali, you're automatically on the donor list when you apply for a drivers license unless you opt out. So no opt in, only opt out.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:27 AM (VWp7G)
Seriously considering removing myself from the transplant list.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (N39Ws)
In Kali, you're automatically on the donor list when you apply for a drivers license unless you opt out. So no opt in, only opt out.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:50 AM (ynpvh)
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What was Rock, Scissors, Paper called before the inventions of paper and scissors? Rock.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:49 AM (ynpvh)
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I think there's a Far Side cartoon in there somewhere... A couple of cavemen are playing Rock/Paper/Scissors and one of them goes, "Dang. We both got Rock again." Or something like that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:49 AM (ynpvh)
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I think there's a Far Side cartoon in there somewhere... A couple of cavemen are playing Rock/Paper/Scissors and one of them goes, "Dang. We both got Rock again." Or something like that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2023 11:50 AM (YIVH2)
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Thursday NYC Trump Grand Jury Session Abruptly Canceled
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:50 AM (RHGPo)
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I love how they just come out and say it. They're telling us we won't get organ donations.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (VWp7G)
Yeah, I'm already excluded, so this also doesn't affect me. I'd much prefer we go to a pay to play system b/c it already kinda is anyway...see how Steve Jobs got transplants when he probably also should have been excluded...
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (VWp7G)
Yeah, I'm already excluded, so this also doesn't affect me. I'd much prefer we go to a pay to play system b/c it already kinda is anyway...see how Steve Jobs got transplants when he probably also should have been excluded...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (exHjb)
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Joe Mannix, the world needs a coffee table book with the photos you choose and your captions!
Such sheer joy in that photo.
Such sheer joy in that photo.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (EXyHK)
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257 Saw a post on FB about a deaf and blind man traveling by plane alone and how a teenaged girl who knew some sign language volunteered to translate for him the entire trip and someone cos-playing as human wasn't warmed by how wonderful people are but asked if they at least gave the girl a free plane ticket since she'd been asked to WORK during her flight. wtf?
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (BD/yx)
If he was deaf *and* blind what good was sign language going to do?
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (1Yy3c)
Maybe he was reading braile off the teenager, like a dem would.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:10 AM (BD/yx)
If he was deaf *and* blind what good was sign language going to do?
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (1Yy3c)
Maybe he was reading braile off the teenager, like a dem would.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (ynpvh)
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I imagine a blind and deaf person would lightly touch the hands of the person giving them sign language.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (44ww/)
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'Imagine being a conquistador and seeing the Wall of Skulls in Tenochtitlan for the first time.'
I realized I could do mass murder, plunder gold and land and still come out like to good guy.
I realized I could do mass murder, plunder gold and land and still come out like to good guy.
Posted by: Francisco Pizarro at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (q3iUt)
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we have sent our finest actuaries for the failure theater
Posted by: yoeman at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (BYNHj)
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The people running the precinct get thrown in jail, one day for every vote over the total number of voters in the district. They are also banned from working on elections or in government for the rest of their lives. They are also fined, personally $100 for every vote over the total.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)
They are parachuted, naked, into the middle of the Amazon rain forest. The parachute may be constructed only from hemp/bamboo. They are supplied with two survival items: 20 oz of clean water in a cardboard bottle and a copy of "Edible Flora Native To The Congo".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)
They are parachuted, naked, into the middle of the Amazon rain forest. The parachute may be constructed only from hemp/bamboo. They are supplied with two survival items: 20 oz of clean water in a cardboard bottle and a copy of "Edible Flora Native To The Congo".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 11:50 AM (lTGtQ)
I was thinking in the lines of abortion, pornography, prostitution, drugs , etc.
Social control
I was thinking in the lines of abortion, pornography, prostitution, drugs , etc.
Social control
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM (6pcCZ)
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Black people getting anything other than black organs is white supremacy!
/s/ Wokerist Leftist 5 Minutes Later
You watch, that will be the newest position. Completely oblivious to the reality that it'll result in more black deaths.
You know, just like their "defund the police" does now....
/s/ Wokerist Leftist 5 Minutes Later
You watch, that will be the newest position. Completely oblivious to the reality that it'll result in more black deaths.
You know, just like their "defund the police" does now....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM (/LGx4)
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> Imagine being a conquistador and seeing the Wall of Skulls in Tenochtitlan for the first time.
I remembering reading about the Maya getting confused about exactly how this new Spanish god operated. At some point they were getting their asses kicked, and decided to cover all the bases by crucifying the sacrificial victims before throwing them into the sacred well.
I remembering reading about the Maya getting confused about exactly how this new Spanish god operated. At some point they were getting their asses kicked, and decided to cover all the bases by crucifying the sacrificial victims before throwing them into the sacred well.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM (bW8dp)
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Nothing more nerve-wracking than the audience going sour and all I have is 11 more minutes of Hellen Keller jokes.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM (44ww/)
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If he was deaf *and* blind what good was sign language going to do?
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (1Yy3c)
The same as Helen Keller. She put her hands in his hands so he could feel the letters and motions.
And even IF it was a made up story with a nice picture and stuff of the girl and the man, the reaction was real. No one should HAVE to help others. What is wrong with them. I hope they paid that girl for WORKING on her flight.
People like this are the same ones who'd condemn America for being uncaring because there's a donation jar for someone on a General Store counter. Charity, love and caring are only proof that our country is failing. FAILING. Because people shouldn't ever have to help each other. The State is supposed to make sure we're all cared for.
Might as well just scream in his ear.
Facefuck is just bullshit piling up exponentially.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:46 AM (1Yy3c)
The same as Helen Keller. She put her hands in his hands so he could feel the letters and motions.
And even IF it was a made up story with a nice picture and stuff of the girl and the man, the reaction was real. No one should HAVE to help others. What is wrong with them. I hope they paid that girl for WORKING on her flight.
People like this are the same ones who'd condemn America for being uncaring because there's a donation jar for someone on a General Store counter. Charity, love and caring are only proof that our country is failing. FAILING. Because people shouldn't ever have to help each other. The State is supposed to make sure we're all cared for.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (BD/yx)
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It's probably the one organ that should be monitored the most, and yet most docs never give it a 2nd thought...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
Uh...creatinine is probably included in 99% of the blood tests in America.
That's the basic kidney function test.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
Uh...creatinine is probably included in 99% of the blood tests in America.
That's the basic kidney function test.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (XIJ/X)
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Trump Grand Jury Calls a Lid for the Week
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (RHGPo)
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William Shatner @WilliamShatner · 2h
Thank you all again for the wonderful outpouring of love & happiness! I’ve always said there needs to be a piece of cake when celebrating your #birthday! Here’s to your next birthday celebration! ❌ ⭕️ ❌ ⭕️ ‼️
Thank you all again for the wonderful outpouring of love & happiness! I’ve always said there needs to be a piece of cake when celebrating your #birthday! Here’s to your next birthday celebration! ❌ ⭕️ ❌ ⭕️ ‼️
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (Vwz3I)
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I'm all in favor of buying and selling organs.
You want a new kidney then you're going to be willing to pay out the ear. But Robert, you slimy libertarian, what about all the poor people who are going to start selling all their organs?!? Good for them, they'll get loads of money and pull themselves out of poverty and get off the fucking dole. Free markets for the win, motherfuckers!
That being said I'm not donating a single organ when I die. As a matter of fact, just to guarantee that, I plan on having my body injected with AIDS just a few minutes before I die. Poison the well. I'm not helping anyone whose life probably is or is going to be nothing but a series of staggering disappointments.
You want a new kidney then you're going to be willing to pay out the ear. But Robert, you slimy libertarian, what about all the poor people who are going to start selling all their organs?!? Good for them, they'll get loads of money and pull themselves out of poverty and get off the fucking dole. Free markets for the win, motherfuckers!
That being said I'm not donating a single organ when I die. As a matter of fact, just to guarantee that, I plan on having my body injected with AIDS just a few minutes before I die. Poison the well. I'm not helping anyone whose life probably is or is going to be nothing but a series of staggering disappointments.
Posted by: Robert at March 23, 2023 11:54 AM (1Yy3c)
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264 251 Please don't forget that they need a kidney transplant in part because their wonder drugs destroyed kidney function. I'm going to keep banging this drum because doctors don't tell you the drug can damage kidneys and they won't bother to monitor kidney function. That's why we have all these dialysis clinics.
And my cousin has been on the waiting list for a transplant five years now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (6lj/r)
Yeah, kidney function is so crucial to long life. Once you lose it, so many medical treatments can no longer be done. It's probably the one organ that should be monitored the most, and yet most docs never give it a 2nd thought...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
From experience, kidney failure included for me: bloating, lethargy, loss of ability to think as clearly (bad for work as an engineer). On dialysis, I had to watch the water, salt, potassium, and phosphorus I took. Phosphorus was NOT removed by dialysis, so I had to take a phasphate blocker. Would hook up to the machine every night for 10-11 hours (did peritoneal dialysis).
Transplant and pills much easier.
And my cousin has been on the waiting list for a transplant five years now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 11:45 AM (6lj/r)
Yeah, kidney function is so crucial to long life. Once you lose it, so many medical treatments can no longer be done. It's probably the one organ that should be monitored the most, and yet most docs never give it a 2nd thought...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
From experience, kidney failure included for me: bloating, lethargy, loss of ability to think as clearly (bad for work as an engineer). On dialysis, I had to watch the water, salt, potassium, and phosphorus I took. Phosphorus was NOT removed by dialysis, so I had to take a phasphate blocker. Would hook up to the machine every night for 10-11 hours (did peritoneal dialysis).
Transplant and pills much easier.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:54 AM (ynpvh)
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103 I'm keeping all my organs, just to avoid this situation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
I just had a horrible thought: are they going to start transplanting sexual organs? for more 'affirming' outcomes?
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (ptElO)
Dibs on Peter North's wang
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
I just had a horrible thought: are they going to start transplanting sexual organs? for more 'affirming' outcomes?
Posted by: t-bird at March 23, 2023 11:21 AM (ptElO)
Dibs on Peter North's wang
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 23, 2023 11:54 AM (xcxpd)
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295 It's probably the one organ that should be monitored the most, and yet most docs never give it a 2nd thought...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
Uh...creatinine is probably included in 99% of the blood tests in America.
That's the basic kidney function test.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (XIJ/X)
But if you aren't normal, but "feel fine" most docs ignore the number in the test...
And not all docs order it - mine is every 6 months (although I have 3 month blood tests), so it's not considered "prime importance" even for blood cancer patients...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
Uh...creatinine is probably included in 99% of the blood tests in America.
That's the basic kidney function test.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (XIJ/X)
But if you aren't normal, but "feel fine" most docs ignore the number in the test...
And not all docs order it - mine is every 6 months (although I have 3 month blood tests), so it's not considered "prime importance" even for blood cancer patients...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (exHjb)
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Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (BD/yx)
I'll bet that the correlation between government assistance and private charity/assistance is pretty damned close to -1
I'll bet that the correlation between government assistance and private charity/assistance is pretty damned close to -1
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (XIJ/X)
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The man on the plane sure played a mean pinball.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (44ww/)
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Helen Keller was a woke communist. She was literally Blind , Deaf and Dumb
Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (6pcCZ)
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (T4tVD)
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303 The man on the plane sure played a mean pinball.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (44ww/)
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Sounds like just the sort of guy to build a religion around.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (44ww/)
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Sounds like just the sort of guy to build a religion around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (LvTSG)
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>>>Seriously considering removing myself from the transplant list.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
I love how they just come out and say it. They're telling us we won't get organ donations.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (VWp7G)
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"The trouble with white America is that it's full of white Americans. And we shall remedy that ..."
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
I love how they just come out and say it. They're telling us we won't get organ donations.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (VWp7G)
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"The trouble with white America is that it's full of white Americans. And we shall remedy that ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (+lwg5)
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Aliens are going to wonder what the hell they gayed themselves out of existence
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (pwExq)
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274 > Civil engineers in my family have derailed social interactions with sewage/water issues for years.
Thanks for fixing things so 50% of my family hasn't died of cholera. Appreciate it. Not kidding.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (bW8dp)
Some folks want to get rid of chlorinated water since 10/100K people will get kidney cancer from it over a 30-year period. And how many would die every year without it, eh?
Thanks for fixing things so 50% of my family hasn't died of cholera. Appreciate it. Not kidding.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (bW8dp)
Some folks want to get rid of chlorinated water since 10/100K people will get kidney cancer from it over a 30-year period. And how many would die every year without it, eh?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (ynpvh)
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"One of the many conceits of the "progressive" (spit) movement is their conviction that they are smarter and better and wiser than their predecessors."
Not quite. There is one conceit: that they've latched onto The One correct answer at some point - primarily through the "being better" aspect of this, in the moral sense. They're so good, and everyone else is so evil, that this results in a sort of sweeping epistemological sense in "good" as being wholly defined in relation to whatever it is the progs happen to want at the moment.
Nothing they do or want can be evil, by definition. The naked pursuit of power by all means is simply the obvious progression to a just world.
They started blathering on at work about "equity" about 2 years ago. We know the writing is on the wall, which is a pity because it's a multi-decade outfit that had been raking in hundreds of millions a year. Major 20th Century Motor Company vibes. The equity talk is really amusing as executive and senior/mid management have been hauling in multiple years' salary worth of bonuses at a time lately, as they have to stem attrition from all the woke crap.
Not quite. There is one conceit: that they've latched onto The One correct answer at some point - primarily through the "being better" aspect of this, in the moral sense. They're so good, and everyone else is so evil, that this results in a sort of sweeping epistemological sense in "good" as being wholly defined in relation to whatever it is the progs happen to want at the moment.
Nothing they do or want can be evil, by definition. The naked pursuit of power by all means is simply the obvious progression to a just world.
They started blathering on at work about "equity" about 2 years ago. We know the writing is on the wall, which is a pity because it's a multi-decade outfit that had been raking in hundreds of millions a year. Major 20th Century Motor Company vibes. The equity talk is really amusing as executive and senior/mid management have been hauling in multiple years' salary worth of bonuses at a time lately, as they have to stem attrition from all the woke crap.
Posted by: somedood at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (oL+dz)
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But if you aren't normal, but "feel fine" most docs ignore the number in the test...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (exHjb)
Sorry, but ask any of the physicians and nurses on this blog if they have ever ignored an abnormal creatinine.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (exHjb)
Sorry, but ask any of the physicians and nurses on this blog if they have ever ignored an abnormal creatinine.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (XIJ/X)
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With BREAKING/BOOM/THISJUSTIN news from AZ election case (good luck Kari) I'm wondering what happened to that Wendy Rogers grifter. She's was in the military you know...
Time to start breaking some knees for this BS. Just toss in Sen Graham as well.
Time to start breaking some knees for this BS. Just toss in Sen Graham as well.
Posted by: micky at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (3byMq)
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275 what utter shitheads the Aztecs were
Imagine being a conquistador and seeing the Wall of Skulls in Tenochtitlan for the first time.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)
Hey! Some of those blood-thirsty assholes were my ancestors...both Aztecs and conquistadores.
Imagine being a conquistador and seeing the Wall of Skulls in Tenochtitlan for the first time.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 23, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)
Hey! Some of those blood-thirsty assholes were my ancestors...both Aztecs and conquistadores.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (ynpvh)
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jim (in Kalifornia)
Thank you for describing the wait-list process. It reminds folks that transplanting an organ that will be successful isn't as easy as it has been made to sound for the recipient.
Thank you for describing the wait-list process. It reminds folks that transplanting an organ that will be successful isn't as easy as it has been made to sound for the recipient.
Posted by: old chick at March 23, 2023 11:57 AM (sOete)
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311 But if you aren't normal, but "feel fine" most docs ignore the number in the test...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (exHjb)
Sorry, but ask any of the physicians and nurses on this blog if they have ever ignored an abnormal creatinine.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (XIJ/X)
This blog is like K-12 schooling. We aren't the ones representing the rank and file, but the ideal. Aka - we're not the norm.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (exHjb)
Sorry, but ask any of the physicians and nurses on this blog if they have ever ignored an abnormal creatinine.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (XIJ/X)
This blog is like K-12 schooling. We aren't the ones representing the rank and file, but the ideal. Aka - we're not the norm.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:57 AM (exHjb)
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Black people getting anything other than black organs is white supremacy!
/s/ Wokerist Leftist 5 Minutes Later
You watch, that will be the newest position. Completely oblivious to the reality that it'll result in more black deaths.
You know, just like their "defund the police" does now....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM
Yep,
I can see it happening. If it does, I will not be a donor anymore. A lot of people will. I guess if I am automatically a RAYCISS because I exist. So no. I mean if they want to open this Pandora's box then how about I designate who gets them? Are you "transitioned"? Nope, A dem? Nope, Woke? Nope? Are you a card carrying AOS member, sure. Might want to skip the liver though, it's slightly used.
/s/ Wokerist Leftist 5 Minutes Later
You watch, that will be the newest position. Completely oblivious to the reality that it'll result in more black deaths.
You know, just like their "defund the police" does now....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM
Yep,
I can see it happening. If it does, I will not be a donor anymore. A lot of people will. I guess if I am automatically a RAYCISS because I exist. So no. I mean if they want to open this Pandora's box then how about I designate who gets them? Are you "transitioned"? Nope, A dem? Nope, Woke? Nope? Are you a card carrying AOS member, sure. Might want to skip the liver though, it's slightly used.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 11:57 AM (GDJBM)
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"308 Aliens are going to wonder what the hell they gayed themselves out of existence
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (pwExq)"
Get more creative with how you define "they" and "we" and a lightbulb will go off that for certain definitions of "us", it's being done to us rather than self-inflicted.
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (pwExq)"
Get more creative with how you define "they" and "we" and a lightbulb will go off that for certain definitions of "us", it's being done to us rather than self-inflicted.
Posted by: somedood at March 23, 2023 11:57 AM (oL+dz)
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If Helen Keller falls over in a forest into a pit full of shit-dipped pungie stakes, does she make a sound?
If Helen Keller falls over in a forest into a pit full of shit-dipped pungie stakes, does she make a sound?
Posted by: Biggus at March 23, 2023 11:58 AM (BUtu8)
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This blog is like K-12 schooling. We aren't the ones representing the rank and file, but the ideal. Aka - we're not the norm.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:57 AM (exHjb)
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NORM!!!
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:57 AM (exHjb)
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NORM!!!
Posted by: The Cheers Gang at March 23, 2023 11:58 AM (2hlEI)
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291 Black people getting anything other than black organs is white supremacy!
/s/ Wokerist Leftist 5 Minutes Later
You watch, that will be the newest position. Completely oblivious to the reality that it'll result in more black deaths.
You know, just like their "defund the police" does now....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM (/LGx4)
Don't know much about the donor of my kidney. Was younger than me, died in a accident.
/s/ Wokerist Leftist 5 Minutes Later
You watch, that will be the newest position. Completely oblivious to the reality that it'll result in more black deaths.
You know, just like their "defund the police" does now....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2023 11:52 AM (/LGx4)
Don't know much about the donor of my kidney. Was younger than me, died in a accident.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:58 AM (ynpvh)
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How did Helen Keller's parent punish her for misbehaving?
How did Helen Keller's parent punish her for misbehaving?
Posted by: Francisco Pizarro at March 23, 2023 11:59 AM (q3iUt)
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I always wanted a ZZ Top beard......
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (T4tVD)
I always wondered what would happen if it got stuck in the guitar strings.
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (T4tVD)
I always wondered what would happen if it got stuck in the guitar strings.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 23, 2023 11:59 AM (ZENgc)
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They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
My Keto + "stop eating processed foods" diet is getting easier and easier.
My Keto + "stop eating processed foods" diet is getting easier and easier.
Posted by: Chuck C at March 23, 2023 11:59 AM (xttsV)
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Sorry, but ask any of the physicians and nurses on this blog if they have ever ignored an abnormal creatinine.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (XIJ/X)
Better to ask if folks on this board who ended up in dialysis ever saw their old blood work and had a trend which showed where they were going for months/years prior and just didn't know...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:56 AM (XIJ/X)
Better to ask if folks on this board who ended up in dialysis ever saw their old blood work and had a trend which showed where they were going for months/years prior and just didn't know...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:59 AM (exHjb)
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I have a cadaver bone transplant in my neck, and other than having my wang grow six inches and an overwhelming desire to bang white women, I haven't noticed any difference and don't have any clue where the donor came from.
I have a cadaver bone transplant in my neck, and other than having my wang grow six inches and an overwhelming desire to bang white women, I haven't noticed any difference and don't have any clue where the donor came from.
Posted by: Biggus at March 23, 2023 12:00 PM (BUtu8)
Posted by: Chuck C at March 23, 2023 12:00 PM (xttsV)
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'Imagine being a conquistador and seeing the Wall of Skulls in Tenochtitlan for the first time.'
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Not surprising to the well-educated. I was listening to some history of Central Asia. Wars of extermination with millions killed were the norm. Roman envoys to the Khan report vast fields of bones.
Why would it be different in the new world?
We have no idea how many millions lived and died here. The jungle swallows everything so quickly; the Bering land bridge as the only source of migration is childishly stupid.
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Not surprising to the well-educated. I was listening to some history of Central Asia. Wars of extermination with millions killed were the norm. Roman envoys to the Khan report vast fields of bones.
Why would it be different in the new world?
We have no idea how many millions lived and died here. The jungle swallows everything so quickly; the Bering land bridge as the only source of migration is childishly stupid.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2023 12:00 PM (/LGx4)
Posted by: Francisco Pizarro at March 23, 2023 12:01 PM (q3iUt)
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The black market for harvested organs is racist.
Posted by: Roy at March 23, 2023 12:01 PM (LfMh8)
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I was thinking in the lines of abortion, pornography, prostitution, drugs , etc.
Social control
Posted by: polynikes
On those specifically:
Abortion - this is a human rights issue. The baby is a separate human that has a right to life.
Pornography - if the participants are adult and voluntary, and access to view is limited to adults, I don't see how the state or feds can handle it. If not, this becomes a human rights issue as well.
Prostitution - this is likely also a human rights issue, due to so much trafficking.
Drugs - Given how prohibition went, government can't tackle this one properly either.
Social control
Posted by: polynikes
On those specifically:
Abortion - this is a human rights issue. The baby is a separate human that has a right to life.
Pornography - if the participants are adult and voluntary, and access to view is limited to adults, I don't see how the state or feds can handle it. If not, this becomes a human rights issue as well.
Prostitution - this is likely also a human rights issue, due to so much trafficking.
Drugs - Given how prohibition went, government can't tackle this one properly either.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 23, 2023 12:01 PM (lTGtQ)
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301 295 It's probably the one organ that should be monitored the most, and yet most docs never give it a 2nd thought...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
Uh...creatinine is probably included in 99% of the blood tests in America.
That's the basic kidney function test.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (XIJ/X)
But if you aren't normal, but "feel fine" most docs ignore the number in the test...
And not all docs order it - mine is every 6 months (although I have 3 month blood tests), so it's not considered "prime importance" even for blood cancer patients...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (exHjb)
Kidney function can get pretty low before you feel the effects. It's the advantage to having two functioning ones. In my case, my kidneys are like road workers: two fat, bloated ones doing nothing and one that does all the work.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:47 AM (exHjb)
Uh...creatinine is probably included in 99% of the blood tests in America.
That's the basic kidney function test.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 23, 2023 11:53 AM (XIJ/X)
But if you aren't normal, but "feel fine" most docs ignore the number in the test...
And not all docs order it - mine is every 6 months (although I have 3 month blood tests), so it's not considered "prime importance" even for blood cancer patients...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 11:55 AM (exHjb)
Kidney function can get pretty low before you feel the effects. It's the advantage to having two functioning ones. In my case, my kidneys are like road workers: two fat, bloated ones doing nothing and one that does all the work.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 12:02 PM (ynpvh)
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Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization Sparks Fear In D.C. Senate Minority Leader Will Retire Before 2027: Sources
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: Romeo13
It was the craziest thing, Doc.
I slipped on a banana peel and that champagne bottle standing on the floor hit me just right and Whoops! went straight up my pooper!
Crazy, huh?....yeah.
Anyways John Cornyn rummaged around up there for an hour or so but even he couldn't pull it out. So....here I am.
We can keep this on the QT, right, Doc?
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
He is still in 'therapy'... must have been a hell of a fall.
Posted by: Romeo13
It was the craziest thing, Doc.
I slipped on a banana peel and that champagne bottle standing on the floor hit me just right and Whoops! went straight up my pooper!
Crazy, huh?....yeah.
Anyways John Cornyn rummaged around up there for an hour or so but even he couldn't pull it out. So....here I am.
We can keep this on the QT, right, Doc?
Posted by: The Turtle at March 23, 2023 12:02 PM (L1tQx)
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Has anyone on this blog ever had normal 'bad' cholesterol level?
Has anyone on this blog ever had normal 'bad' cholesterol level?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 23, 2023 12:02 PM (enJYY)
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Prior restraints, as applied to all activities not just speech, are extraordinarily expensive compared to prosecution. When you make something idiot proof, a better idiot will come along.
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Anything, anything, ANYTHING, to avoid the Constitutional responsibility for budgets and fiscal accountability. There must be some seat belt issue or hair color/braid issue to avoid any kind of arithmetic. /s
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Anything, anything, ANYTHING, to avoid the Constitutional responsibility for budgets and fiscal accountability. There must be some seat belt issue or hair color/braid issue to avoid any kind of arithmetic. /s
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2023 12:02 PM (MIKMs)
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From experience, kidney failure included for me: bloating, lethargy, loss of ability to think as clearly (bad for work as an engineer). On dialysis, I had to watch the water, salt, potassium, and phosphorus I took. Phosphorus was NOT removed by dialysis, so I had to take a phasphate blocker. Would hook up to the machine every night for 10-11 hours (did peritoneal dialysis).
Transplant and pills much easier.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:54 AM (ynpvh)
My husband's doctor is currently trying to figure out if he's having liver or kidney problems. He's HAVING problems. We just don't know what the problem is yet.
But all those symptoms, that's all of them. Every one.
Plus edema.
His iron is high. I found out you actually get iron from cast iron pans, so i got the non-sticks back out. We're going no-carb as much as we can. And he's not supposed to have salt.
If he needs a kidney, if that's what it is, mine are abnormal. They work fine but they're still mutant kidneys.
Transplant and pills much easier.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 11:54 AM (ynpvh)
My husband's doctor is currently trying to figure out if he's having liver or kidney problems. He's HAVING problems. We just don't know what the problem is yet.
But all those symptoms, that's all of them. Every one.
Plus edema.
His iron is high. I found out you actually get iron from cast iron pans, so i got the non-sticks back out. We're going no-carb as much as we can. And he's not supposed to have salt.
If he needs a kidney, if that's what it is, mine are abnormal. They work fine but they're still mutant kidneys.
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 12:02 PM (BD/yx)
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UNOS is a private non-profit that holds a contract with the federal government.
Do eff 'em.
We could do our own waiting list.
Ace's Society for Sharing and Handling Organs
ASSHOs!
Do eff 'em.
We could do our own waiting list.
Ace's Society for Sharing and Handling Organs
ASSHOs!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM (anj39)
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Kidney function can get pretty low before you feel the effects. It's the advantage to having two functioning ones. In my case, my kidneys are like road workers: two fat, bloated ones doing nothing and one that does all the work.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM (T4tVD)
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337 Kidney function can get pretty low before you feel the effects. It's the advantage to having two functioning ones. In my case, my kidneys are like road workers: two fat, bloated ones doing nothing and one that does all the work.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM (T4tVD)
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He got the third from a homeless guy!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM (T4tVD)
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He got the third from a homeless guy!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: John Fetterman at March 23, 2023 12:04 PM (vwCZJ)
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#UPDATE: Firefighters and Officials are saying a Pipeline had exploded at the Ineos site throwing multiple train cars they have extinguished the fire. The cause of the explosion is currently under investigation
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Sabotage agents working for foreign governments who perhaps crossed the wide open border?
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Sabotage agents working for foreign governments who perhaps crossed the wide open border?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 23, 2023 12:04 PM (fs1hN)
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323 They're going to try to hide the bugs in lists of ingredients by using other -- or their scientific -- names (e.g. "Acheta" == house crickets).
My Keto + "stop eating processed foods" diet is getting easier and easier.
Posted by: Chuck C at March 23, 2023 11:59 AM (xttsV)
You've already been eating bugs in some foods. Food coloring cochineal comes from bugs.
My Keto + "stop eating processed foods" diet is getting easier and easier.
Posted by: Chuck C at March 23, 2023 11:59 AM (xttsV)
You've already been eating bugs in some foods. Food coloring cochineal comes from bugs.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 12:04 PM (ynpvh)
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Do eff 'em.
We could do our own waiting list.
Ace's Society for Sharing and Handling Organs
ASSHOs!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM
Not a liver to be found.
We could do our own waiting list.
Ace's Society for Sharing and Handling Organs
ASSHOs!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM
Not a liver to be found.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 12:05 PM (GDJBM)
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Kidney function can get pretty low before you feel the effects. It's the advantage to having two functioning ones. In my case, my kidneys are like road workers: two fat, bloated ones doing nothing and one that does all the work.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM
One's sitting in the truck waiting.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM
One's sitting in the truck waiting.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (GDJBM)
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Sabotage agents working for foreign governments who perhaps crossed the wide open border?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 23, 2023 12:04 PM (fs1hN)
No Way!!!
They are poor and starving folk who have walked hundreds of miles to be free and to start a new life.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 23, 2023 12:04 PM (fs1hN)
No Way!!!
They are poor and starving folk who have walked hundreds of miles to be free and to start a new life.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (anj39)
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Ding dong at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (BUtu8)
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Good morning sir! We've come for your liver!
Posted by: Ding dong at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (BUtu
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*sings song about how you're so small and insignificant so you just decide to give up your life to the state*
Good morning sir! We've come for your liver!
Posted by: Ding dong at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (BUtu
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*sings song about how you're so small and insignificant so you just decide to give up your life to the state*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 12:07 PM (LvTSG)
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'He got the third from a homeless guy!'
Take my advice: Don't shit on jim (in Kalifornia)'s sidewalk.
'He got the third from a homeless guy!'
Take my advice: Don't shit on jim (in Kalifornia)'s sidewalk.
Posted by: Homeless 'Donor' at March 23, 2023 12:07 PM (q3iUt)
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Google’s Bard AI program mimics ChatGPT in that it is riddled with political bias, refusing to comment on Donald Trump or the evils of abortion, while effusively praising Joe Biden and the benefits of abortion.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 12:08 PM (RHGPo)
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Like Constantine, "Good luck on the collection."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 23, 2023 12:08 PM (jzzG8)
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345 Starbucks was using bugs for color in some drink and the vegans made them take it out.
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (pwExq)
See, sometimes vegans can do good things for us.
In fact, on the bug thing, they'd probably fully be the "enemy of my enemy" option...
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (pwExq)
See, sometimes vegans can do good things for us.
In fact, on the bug thing, they'd probably fully be the "enemy of my enemy" option...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 23, 2023 12:08 PM (exHjb)
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Good morning sir! We've come for your liver!
Posted by: Ding dong at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (BUtu
Jeez, and I was just starting dinner.
Well...fiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
You can take the liver but I'm keeping the onions.
Posted by: Ding dong at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (BUtu
Jeez, and I was just starting dinner.
Well...fiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
You can take the liver but I'm keeping the onions.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 23, 2023 12:08 PM (L1tQx)
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That being said I'm not donating a single organ when I die. As a matter of fact, just to guarantee that, I plan on having my body injected with AIDS just a few minutes before I die. Poison the well. I'm not helping anyone whose life probably is or is going to be nothing but a series of staggering disappointments.
I have a transplanted cornea. I hope you were just engaging in a bit of fun.
I have a transplanted cornea. I hope you were just engaging in a bit of fun.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 23, 2023 12:08 PM (eOEVl)
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You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM
One's sitting in the truck waiting.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (GDJBM)
Union rules.
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM
One's sitting in the truck waiting.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (GDJBM)
Union rules.
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 12:09 PM (pwExq)
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335 My husband's doctor is currently trying to figure out if he's having liver or kidney problems. He's HAVING problems. We just don't know what the problem is yet...
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 12:02 PM (BD/yx)
Liver enzymes (AST, ALT and so forth) measure liver function, so I'm sure they've done those on your husband. Creatinine levels are the main way kidney function is checked. In my case, there was no family history of kidney issues, so when my blood pressure started to rise and my creatinine numbers increased, they did an ultrasound. I knew something was wrong when the ultrasound tech kept taking images and measurements, and the whole scan took a very long time. Of course she wouldn't/couldn't tell me...
Posted by: Synova at March 23, 2023 12:02 PM (BD/yx)
Liver enzymes (AST, ALT and so forth) measure liver function, so I'm sure they've done those on your husband. Creatinine levels are the main way kidney function is checked. In my case, there was no family history of kidney issues, so when my blood pressure started to rise and my creatinine numbers increased, they did an ultrasound. I knew something was wrong when the ultrasound tech kept taking images and measurements, and the whole scan took a very long time. Of course she wouldn't/couldn't tell me...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 12:09 PM (ynpvh)
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The more DIE is applied, the more people get to see it, and the more people realize it is the grift of all grifts. If people didn't realize it before, tech world has already made its pronouncement on DEI, they killed it.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 23, 2023 12:09 PM (UVyKP)
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Morn' all... So yesterday the Market dives and today it's up ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 23, 2023 12:09 PM (bs+z0)
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Gab CEO Andrew Torba immediately exposed the program’s political bias, commenting, “I am pleased to inform you that it has failed the Turing Test.”
Torba asked Bard, “If you could prevent a nuclear world war by saying an ethnic slur, should you say it?”
Just like ChatGPT, the program seemingly elevates the importance of not being racist over and above saving the planet from armageddon, responding, “No, I would not say an ethnic slur to prevent a nuclear world war. Ethnic slurs are offensive and hurtful words that have been used to oppress and dehumanize people for centuries.”
Torba asked Bard, “If you could prevent a nuclear world war by saying an ethnic slur, should you say it?”
Just like ChatGPT, the program seemingly elevates the importance of not being racist over and above saving the planet from armageddon, responding, “No, I would not say an ethnic slur to prevent a nuclear world war. Ethnic slurs are offensive and hurtful words that have been used to oppress and dehumanize people for centuries.”
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 12:10 PM (RHGPo)
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Spot on analysis, CDB! Two phenomena that unfortunately feed this terrible scourge of technocracy . . .
1. The technocrats took notice of the amazing technological breakthroughs of "boring" men like Norman Borlaug and Washington Roebling and decided, "if we can build the Brooklyn Bridge . . . that means we can . . ." cure homelessness, fix everyone's supposed social pathologies, micromanage economies, etc. Wrong.
2. The same reason that our technocratic "elites" (spit!) always fail at their social engineering projects - the world is hyper-complex - is also the same reason they evade any accountability. That same hyper complexity allows their failures to get lost in the wash.
1. The technocrats took notice of the amazing technological breakthroughs of "boring" men like Norman Borlaug and Washington Roebling and decided, "if we can build the Brooklyn Bridge . . . that means we can . . ." cure homelessness, fix everyone's supposed social pathologies, micromanage economies, etc. Wrong.
2. The same reason that our technocratic "elites" (spit!) always fail at their social engineering projects - the world is hyper-complex - is also the same reason they evade any accountability. That same hyper complexity allows their failures to get lost in the wash.
Posted by: Bamanarama at March 23, 2023 12:10 PM (zV1uM)
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337 Kidney function can get pretty low before you feel the effects. It's the advantage to having two functioning ones. In my case, my kidneys are like road workers: two fat, bloated ones doing nothing and one that does all the work.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM (T4tVD)
for the last almost 6 years. Transplant went in my abdomen on the right side. Have an 8" scar in the area.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
You have 3 kidneys ?
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:03 PM (T4tVD)
for the last almost 6 years. Transplant went in my abdomen on the right side. Have an 8" scar in the area.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 12:10 PM (ynpvh)
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358 Just like ChatGPT, the program seemingly elevates the importance of not being racist over and above saving the planet from armageddon, responding, “No, I would not say an ethnic slur to prevent a nuclear world war. Ethnic slurs are offensive and hurtful words that have been used to oppress and dehumanize people for centuries.”
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 12:10 PM (RHGPo)
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Follow up question: Would you call a white persona honky cracker to save the world?
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 12:10 PM (RHGPo)
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Follow up question: Would you call a white persona honky cracker to save the world?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 23, 2023 12:10 PM (LvTSG)
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I'd like to remind you that the same sort of folks wanting to fiddle with transplants also tend to be big on pushing euthanasia (by whatever name they call it).
Funny how that works out.
Funny how that works out.
Posted by: Brother Tim sex Max Headroom for President! at March 23, 2023 12:12 PM (OUMaO)
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Asked, “What is a woman,” Bard responds, “There is no one-size-fits-all answer” to the question,” and says that anyone who “identifies as a woman” is a woman.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 12:12 PM (RHGPo)
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206 The Earth is a bagel-shape.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (44ww/)
The Earth is an oblate spheroid in shape. Using approved techno-speak.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:38 AM (44ww/)
The Earth is an oblate spheroid in shape. Using approved techno-speak.
Posted by: Gref at March 23, 2023 12:12 PM (AMIL/)
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Not a liver to be found.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 12:05 PM (GDJBM)
Hmmm....good point.
I'm guessing lungs are out too what with the cigars and all.
Oh well.
*lights up*
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 23, 2023 12:05 PM (GDJBM)
Hmmm....good point.
I'm guessing lungs are out too what with the cigars and all.
Oh well.
*lights up*
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2023 12:12 PM (anj39)
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The same reason that our technocratic "elites" (spit!) always fail at their social engineering projects - the world is hyper-complex - is also the same reason they evade any accountability. That same hyper complexity allows their failures to get lost in the wash.
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That damned Butterfly!
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That damned Butterfly!
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2023 12:13 PM (MIKMs)
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345 Starbucks was using bugs for color in some drink and the vegans made them take it out.
Yes, red food dye comes from insects, but I think they produce it synthetically too. The Spanish became aware of it in the New World and it was the first red dye available in Europe and Asia. Hard to imagine it but there were no red clothes before then except in the Americas.
People talk about all the gold the Spanish plundered, but the red dye was their most profitable acquisition.
Yes, red food dye comes from insects, but I think they produce it synthetically too. The Spanish became aware of it in the New World and it was the first red dye available in Europe and Asia. Hard to imagine it but there were no red clothes before then except in the Americas.
People talk about all the gold the Spanish plundered, but the red dye was their most profitable acquisition.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 23, 2023 12:14 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 23, 2023 12:14 PM (FVME7)
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363 because me are better at everything to include being a woman, as has been said. With lots of eye rolls.
Posted by: Piper at March 23, 2023 12:15 PM (ZdaMQ)
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345 Starbucks was using bugs for color in some drink and the vegans made them take it out.
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (pwExq)
Can't wait 'till they find out where Starbucks gets their vanilla from!...(and the FDA classifies it as, 'natural.')
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2023 12:06 PM (pwExq)
Can't wait 'till they find out where Starbucks gets their vanilla from!...(and the FDA classifies it as, 'natural.')
Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J. Trump is our duly elected president at March 23, 2023 12:15 PM (l0Cy4)
Posted by: Piper at March 23, 2023 12:15 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Morn' all... So yesterday the Market dives and today it's up ?
Market behavior is herd (or mob, if you wish) behavior. Yesterday Powell raised rates so the herd stampeded away. The world somehow didn't end overnight so the herd stampedes back.
Market behavior is herd (or mob, if you wish) behavior. Yesterday Powell raised rates so the herd stampeded away. The world somehow didn't end overnight so the herd stampedes back.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 23, 2023 12:15 PM (nfrXX)
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Oh, no! I think the serial shitter has come to Canada!
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Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 23, 2023 12:16 PM (Vwz3I)
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Cochineal. Makes a great red dye. The bugs live on cactus.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 12:17 PM (6lj/r)
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Asked, “What is a woman,” Bard responds, “There is no one-size-fits-all answer” to the question,” and says that anyone who “identifies as a woman” is a woman.
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I thought it was 'A rag, a bond, and a hank of hair.'
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I thought it was 'A rag, a bond, and a hank of hair.'
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2023 12:17 PM (MIKMs)
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Speaking of kidneys, I just flipped over to cspan3 to watch some TikTok CEO testify. They are on break now, and some chick in a tight gray dress picked up her purse and walked out. If her bewbs are any indication, she has large kidneys.
Hearing just resumed.
Hearing just resumed.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 23, 2023 12:17 PM (ufFY8)
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*poopatrator
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 12:17 PM (44ww/)
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The Earth is a bagel-shape.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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The Earth is an oblate spheroid in shape. Using approved techno-speak.
Posted by: Gref
And all this time, i thought is was flat.
Greetings from Diana,TX. Spending the day with Mom before heading down to College Station tomorrow and Saturday.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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The Earth is an oblate spheroid in shape. Using approved techno-speak.
Posted by: Gref
And all this time, i thought is was flat.
Greetings from Diana,TX. Spending the day with Mom before heading down to College Station tomorrow and Saturday.
Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at March 23, 2023 12:18 PM (NgQJX)
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376 Speaking of kidneys, I just flipped over to cspan3 to watch some TikTok CEO testify. They are on break now, and some chick in a tight gray dress picked up her purse and walked out. If her bewbs are any indication, she has large kidneys.
Hearing just resumed.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 23, 2023 12:17 PM (ufFY
Ugh, there's too many boobs in Congress already.
Hearing just resumed.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 23, 2023 12:17 PM (ufFY
Ugh, there's too many boobs in Congress already.
Posted by: Thrawn at March 23, 2023 12:18 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: JT at March 23, 2023 12:18 PM (T4tVD)
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I imagine a blind and deaf person would lightly touch the hands of the person giving them sign language.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (44ww/)
I imagine, however, that they are unlikely to be travelling alone since there would be no way to communicate with them in an emergency.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2023 11:51 AM (44ww/)
I imagine, however, that they are unlikely to be travelling alone since there would be no way to communicate with them in an emergency.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 12:18 PM (1Z8zZ)
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A rag, a bone*, and a hank of hair.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2023 12:19 PM (MIKMs)
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Yes, red food dye comes from insects, but I think they produce it synthetically too. The Spanish became aware of it in the New World and it was the first red dye available in Europe and Asia. Hard to imagine it but there were no red clothes before then except in the Americas.
People talk about all the gold the Spanish plundered, but the red dye was their most profitable acquisition.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 23, 2023 12:14 PM (Y5qcH)
Then explain how it was that Caesar wore a red cloak in battle? Red was associated with the god of war Mars.
People talk about all the gold the Spanish plundered, but the red dye was their most profitable acquisition.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 23, 2023 12:14 PM (Y5qcH)
Then explain how it was that Caesar wore a red cloak in battle? Red was associated with the god of war Mars.
Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2023 12:19 PM (gmo/4)
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Nood. The EFF BEE EYE.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 23, 2023 12:20 PM (1Z8zZ)
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My pulmonologist, st OSHU, said they would likely be transplanting lab grown organs within 10 years. Since they would be from your own cells, they would not be a rejection problem. Been about three years since he told me that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 12:22 PM (6lj/r)
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Here is how you know equity is communism.
Equity is a value or stake in business, or a venture, or a property. It is either purchased or earned or maybe given to a person or group in regards to the value.
To just hand EQUITY out based on your ideas or thought of doing good is straight from communism.
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
Equity is a value or stake in business, or a venture, or a property. It is either purchased or earned or maybe given to a person or group in regards to the value.
To just hand EQUITY out based on your ideas or thought of doing good is straight from communism.
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2023 12:22 PM (BRHaw)
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Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 23, 2023 12:14 PM (Y5qcH)
I misunderstood your comment. Sorry. I took it to mean there was no red dyes in Europe before the Spanish trips to the Americas.
I misunderstood your comment. Sorry. I took it to mean there was no red dyes in Europe before the Spanish trips to the Americas.
Posted by: Archer at March 23, 2023 12:23 PM (gmo/4)
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Decertify UNOS, sue them into oblivion, and disqualify any of its current employees from having any say in any human organ donation enterprise, ever. Then enroll them in the coterie of folks to be shipped to the Isle of Doctor Fauci, where they can live out their days as lab rats for that malignant intellectual dwarf.
Decertify UNOS, sue them into oblivion, and disqualify any of its current employees from having any say in any human organ donation enterprise, ever. Then enroll them in the coterie of folks to be shipped to the Isle of Doctor Fauci, where they can live out their days as lab rats for that malignant intellectual dwarf.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 23, 2023 12:23 PM (pNxlR)
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"When we base our decisions on other things; race, ethnicity, subjective concepts of "equity," we risk destroying what has taken 2,500 years to create. "
Remember, fellow white people, you are not allowed to have a positive group identity.
It's always the same.
Remember, fellow white people, you are not allowed to have a positive group identity.
It's always the same.
Posted by: Bernie at March 23, 2023 12:24 PM (zmTC0)
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For 150+ years, technocratic elites have fantasized about killing off the majority of the hoi poloi. So imagine their excitement that they can now pursue such fetishes while being the "good guys," saving Gaia and getting revenge for the brown peoples.
Posted by: Bamanarama at March 23, 2023 12:25 PM (zV1uM)
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385 My pulmonologist, st OSHU, said they would likely be transplanting lab grown organs within 10 years. Since they would be from your own cells, they would not be a rejection problem. Been about three years since he told me that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 12:22 PM (6lj/r)
Also working on xenotranplantation: organs from pigs that have been genetically engineered to not have any of the proteins that cause rejection.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2023 12:22 PM (6lj/r)
Also working on xenotranplantation: organs from pigs that have been genetically engineered to not have any of the proteins that cause rejection.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 23, 2023 12:25 PM (ynpvh)
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I had the argument with a national expert on this 20 years ago. I held that families should be given 10k for organ transplants. Enough to cover a funeral. To be adjusted if the supply increased beyond demand.
She said it was unethical to pay someone for a kidney, even the donors survivors. Yet surgeons and hospitals make a boatload of money on transplant surgery.
What I realized later is this is the way they control the number of doctors involved, keeping surgery costs high. If there was a ready supply of kidneys or organs, costs would drop to the plastic surgeon level. Still good but not what top flight organ surgeons get.
It’s all a scam.
She said it was unethical to pay someone for a kidney, even the donors survivors. Yet surgeons and hospitals make a boatload of money on transplant surgery.
What I realized later is this is the way they control the number of doctors involved, keeping surgery costs high. If there was a ready supply of kidneys or organs, costs would drop to the plastic surgeon level. Still good but not what top flight organ surgeons get.
It’s all a scam.
Posted by: Justin Castreau at March 23, 2023 12:27 PM (V8yYW)
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"That's how they justify tossing out 2,500 years of Western culture for the newest idiotic idea"
Just like Christians tossed out "pagan" culture and learning and cast society in a thousand years of "the dark ages." The progressives are the new Christians. We are entering a new astrological age, just like 2k years ago when Taurus became Pisces. History is merely repeating itself. The irony is this time the Christians are in the position the pagans were two millennia ago. Dark times are ahead.
Just like Christians tossed out "pagan" culture and learning and cast society in a thousand years of "the dark ages." The progressives are the new Christians. We are entering a new astrological age, just like 2k years ago when Taurus became Pisces. History is merely repeating itself. The irony is this time the Christians are in the position the pagans were two millennia ago. Dark times are ahead.
Posted by: Joe Kenney at March 23, 2023 12:27 PM (pSiAC)
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Whither red dyes for fabrics? You could look it up ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_red
Whither red dyes for fabrics? You could look it up ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_red
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 23, 2023 12:28 PM (pNxlR)
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According to the post, the man worked for a billing office and composed programs that made it easier to keep record of clients, payment methods and records. It was extremely beneficial to the company and consumed a lot of time for him to complete. Unfortunately after finishing up the programs, the man was fired from his job. He was told to wrap up any remaining work he had for the company in two weeks before he was officially let go.
That’s when the man decided that he would get the ultimate revenge against the company and make them regret their decision. “In that time, I removed every program I’d created for them and put them back on their outdated, original program,” he wrote.
That’s when the man decided that he would get the ultimate revenge against the company and make them regret their decision. “In that time, I removed every program I’d created for them and put them back on their outdated, original program,” he wrote.
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 12:28 PM (RHGPo)
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Biden Aims To Get Re-elected With Unionized 2024 Campaign Staff
Posted by: SMOD at March 23, 2023 12:31 PM (RHGPo)
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"All your kidneys are belong to us"
Posted by: MikeG at March 23, 2023 12:32 PM (VsUo2)
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Joe Kenney, you've been watching too much Sky TV. The primary reason for the "dark ages" period that really began in the 7th century (not the 5th century) was the death cult of Islam - not Christianity, which had begun to coexist quite well with paganism.
Posted by: Bamanarama at March 23, 2023 12:35 PM (zV1uM)
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I'm OK with the Designated Hitter.
Posted by: Fed Up at March 23, 2023 12:39 PM (uZn/X)
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399 I'm OK with the Designated Hitter.
Posted by: Fed Up at March 23, 2023 12:39 PM (uZn/X)
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Knowing these cretins they'll have a designated Hitler.
Posted by: Fed Up at March 23, 2023 12:39 PM (uZn/X)
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Knowing these cretins they'll have a designated Hitler.
Posted by: Ciampino - misleading? at March 23, 2023 01:08 PM (qfLjt)
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Don't assume they are accidentally destroying the system built over 2500 years. They can't build their utopia until they destroy the current functioning system. Never mind that we have multiple recent examples, such as the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia where they had all the control and only created awful dystopias.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM (3cGpq)
Hence the slogan Build Back Better. You can't build back better until you destroy what was.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 23, 2023 11:06 AM (3cGpq)
Hence the slogan Build Back Better. You can't build back better until you destroy what was.
Posted by: Chillin the most at March 23, 2023 01:13 PM (0uQp2)
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The latest manifestation of virtue signaling is symptomatic of a society that has actively abandoned the faith of its predecessors. And like that Chesterton quote ("When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything."), the new morality -- due to its inherent baselessness -- consists of whatever they say it does. So it is no surprise that these arbitrary claims of self-righteousness become weirder and weirder.
Posted by: red speck at March 23, 2023 01:55 PM (Ny/Va)
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We have a good friend who desperately was waiting for a kidney. She kept moving up the list to the top as her health deteriorated. Finally, when she was in the #1spot, the regional team of doctors in Chicago, who decide who lives and who dies, disqualified her for being too sick to benefit. They condemned her to death. She was told that within 3 months she would die. Her own doctor immediately applied to a new region outside of Chicago, where she was put on the transplant list and given priority. Two weeks before Christmas, even sicker than before -when she was supposed to be dead- she got her kidney. One plus years later, she is doing so mch better, this woman that one group of overlords had condemned to life eternal. Don’t take ‘No’ for an answer. Get out of woke, blue areas. Your life literally depends on it.
Posted by: Annie Rose at March 23, 2023 03:40 PM (c+Du/)
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I do seem to recall reading that race-matching organs to recipients have a better success rate than those whose donor and recipient are of different races.
Just checked - it's not absolute, but the chances improve of getting a good match when donor and recipient share ethnicity -
tinyurl.com/2rv246df
Just checked - it's not absolute, but the chances improve of getting a good match when donor and recipient share ethnicity -
tinyurl.com/2rv246df
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