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I enjoy listening to morning edition - usually through the app. I also contribute to NPR monthly. They have to stop the on air fundraising campaigns. It really drives listeners away. At least give those that already contribute an alternative feed.

Especially if it’s a cock ring

Physician here.
Medicine is one of the few professions in which capital is tied to labor (at least of the licensed independent clinicians). Hospitals, clinics, etc., can’t run any test, provide any service, perform any surgery, without a physician (or other licenses clinicians) order.

Health systems rely on their physicians to drive clinical practice. Physicians are the experts after all. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship, but at its core, it is a partnership. This partnership certainly has it’s ups and downs. But this is what happens when the health system forgets that it is a partnership.

Security risk is the bigger concern IMHO. These devices are often a security weak point for networks. Putting them on their own wifi network and then isolating that network is critical.

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Be sure to drink your ovaltine

Here is the correct quote from Winston Churchill: “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”
Also, conservatism in Churchill’s era is absolutely NOT what conservatism is now.

Most tests had their expiration dates extended.

Deep cut! I first heard of and saw that show in college. It’s great!

You are correct. But what Austin Powers was referencing was this scene from The Prisoner. Top notch 60’s TV!

History major here. Man, this one hurts.

In order to be worthwhile, rail needs to be faster and cheaper than a car. To do so, it would need to be fairly high speed as well. The capital expenditure for something like that would be enormous and the return on investment would take decades. Not to mention all the eminent domain issues. That type of project can only really be done via public dollars.

This is great!

Right now there is a serious issue with discharging patients from the hospital environment into skilled care. Since COVID, many nursing homes don’t take admissions over the weekend, limit admissions to long term care (as opposed to transitional care which is short term - and better reimbursed), and often have wait times. This has the effect of increasing the length of time a patient is in the hospital unnecessarily, thus decreasing hospital capacity.

Yes, the nursing homes have staffing issues, but they pay for shit. Many of them pay less than $20/hour. You need to goto school to get your CNA license which isn’t free. You can get many other jobs for better pay without the investment of education.

Source: I am a hospitalist physician. I work with nursing homes a great deal and my wife used to work at one as a CNA.

Physician here. The best marker we have of covid prevalence is wastewater testing. With the availability of home kits (and no reporting) and people refusing to test when symptomatic, the old markers of positivity rates and number of positive tests aren’t as valid. Even hospitalization numbers can fluctuate for multiple reasons. Municipal wastewater testing truly gives a sense of covid in a population.

Do the police compare DNA to genealogy databases? The odds the person used one is low, but maybe a family member?

I am also waiting to see what comes of the difference in memory sizes between Cleon I and the clones. What is being edited out of their memories? Is Demerzel the caretaker of this (assuming this was Cleon I’s design). Or, is Demerzel playing the long game. I suspect she may be behind the genetic tainting of the line and perhaps even the assassination attempt.

Tellem and the Emporer are not dissimilar when it comes to the ruthless way they are enacting their vision. This is reflected in the hand gesture that Tellem Bond uses to incapacitate Salvor (not sure it actually killed her). Almost identical to how Empire gives the command to execute someone.

I agree. Fundamentally, these folks that support him now are not doing well. It’s not the same for everyone. Some are feeling disenfranchised from parts of daily life, some are experiencing undesired change, some are terribly unhappy and don’t know where to point their frustration, etc. Trump isn’t a likely cult leader. He isn’t very charismatic like we normally associate cult leaders. But he came with the right message at the right time and for a very large segment of our population, that message made sense to them. It gave them a REASON for how they were feeling, even if they didn’t understand their own feelings in the first place.

When the day comes that the spell is broken, society must be ready to re-engage with these people in a meaningful way. Otherwise we are doomed to repeat it with the next person to show up and given them another reason.

For those wondering about nuclear options, Wired did a nice write up recently.