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  • Yeah isn't this the part of the movie where he gets recruited from jail by James Bond or something? That's literally a plot point in at least one Mission Impossible movie, isn't it? Lol

  • You're not changing what racist uncle is doing or thinking no matter what you do. I deal with racist uncle too, you know. I'm busy radicalizing the kiddos ¯(ツ)_/¯

  • Why do you care what racist uncle thinks though? Is it going to affect anyone in the world other than him?

  • I went to great lengths to get my family group chat migrated from FB Messenger over to WhatsApp, and then Meta bought WhatsApp. I'm doomed. I'll never get these Americans to transition to something like Signal

  • Yeah I never expected a nice day in December to bring such existential dread.

  • Practical Engineering - in depth presentations of civil engineering feats, concepts, problems, solutions

    Joe Scott - just simple, entertaining discussions of interesting topics

    Philosophy Tube - longer format, intensely well-cited presentations on philosophy related to current events (with theatrical costumes!)

    Ryan Hall - who knew that a weather forecast could be so fun? Regularly updated weather forecasts for the entire United States with detailed coverage and livestreams of events like tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, and large snowstorms. With charity drives to provide supplies to people on the ground

    PBS Spacetime, PBS Eons, all the PBS channels really

    Plainly Difficult - consistent quality, often hilarious presentations of various disasters. I particularly like his entire series on radiological accidents, often involving lost radioactive sources that random members of the public stumble onto, which is terrifying.

  • This kind of passive bigotry is necessary for genocides to occur. It is the foundation on which the mechanisms of genocide are built.

    It's not just no good; it's terrifying.

  • My friend, ongoing ignorance IS malice. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but your family are just plain old racist.

    (I say that as a person from a family full of very friendly, very racist people.)

  • Medical science is clear on when a fetus is viable and when higher brain function occurs. You speak as if you believe the myth that "life" begins at conception, which is not congruent with medical science. Elective abortions should be safe, legal, and RARE.

    Did you know that the rates of abortion are increasing now that these bans have gone into affect? Bans do not work. Sex education, birth control, these are the things proven time and again to reduce abortion rates.

  • This is the exact problem with these bans. The medical procedure in question (dilation and curretage) can be and is used in cases with a fetus in any condition. The same procedure can be used for an elective abortion, a medically necessary abortion, or even to complete a miscarriage that is already underway.

    The "abortion" procedure would have saved Savita Halapanavar's life. I personally know three women who were in similar circumstances, losing a lot of blood during miscarriages that weren't completing on their own.

    You can't ban medical procedures that have valid use cases. These things are most properly regulated by medical professionals themselves.

  • Hmm, "current went missing" isn't a phrase I'm used to hearing. I wonder if the cardiogram was indicating some level of heart block (often not a dangerous condition, just something to monitor).

    With the high fibrinogen, they're probably concerned about clotting. I wonder, did they check a blood test called d-dimer by chance?

    I'm glad you'll be seeing a doctor soon. We have a lot of good treatments for cardiac conditions these days.

  • May I ask you about the nature of your heart problems exactly?

    Because a "heart attack" is not actually a medical thing. What people usually mean when they say "heart attack" is what we call a myocardial infarction (lack of blood flow to the heart muscle caused by a blockage or constriction in a coronary artery.) And less commonly people use the term "heart attack" to refer to cardiac arrest where the heart just stops beating for some reason. (Myocardial infarction can turn into cardiac arrest, but cardiac arrest can happen because of any number of other things as well.)

    So do you have a confirmed occlusion of a coronary artery? Or do you have a diagnosed cardiac arrhythmia of some kind? What are they planning to do to treat you? Because "don't get excited" isn't a long term management strategy. It's usually just to get you through until you find a successful treatment.

    (I'm a cardiac critical care nurse. AMA)

  • Says the person who clearly doesn't have to see specialists in the US very often. We already have to wait months to see specialists.

  • This was very much my experience with the trans girl I grew up with 35 years ago. From the instant she was able to express preferences (I'm talking like age 18 months to 2 years), it was all princesses and dolls and makeup and trying on mom's high heels. We all just assumed she was a gay boy because we had never heard of a transgender person before.

    We encouraged her to just keep that behavior at home because she was bullied mercilessly for appearing to be an effeminate boy. But nothing would stop her; she was completely irrepressible.

    When in high school, she told us she was really a girl, it was like the most face-palmingly obvious thing. Of COURSE that's what we'd been seeing her entire life. It just made sense. That's just who she is.

  • LITERAL blasphemy. Like actual, textbook blasphemy. And his sycophants lap it up.

  • Oh fuck off. You know damn well that 90% of society would raise an eyebrow at a 3 year old boy trudging around in high heels and getting into mom's lipstick.

    NO ONE TOLD HER SHE WAS TRANS. SHE SAID THAT.

    What part of this was self-determined is hard for you to understand? Transition was 100% initiated and driven BY HER. It's what she wanted because it's what she understood herself to be inside her own mind.

  • Final Destination, Expanse style? That sounds... unpleasant lol

  • Nice username, fam! I've not found an Expanse community around here yet, but I see lots of fans