Fuck rabies, man. Fortunately, a bat won't transmit via scratch. But even The smallest bite or transfer of saliva on an open wound can transmit it. If you encounter a bat and are 100% sure it didn't bite you, it's fine. But if you're only 99% sure, you're in for a world of hurt with the rabies series. That's why people who wake up with a bat in their room have to go through the series.
I was unaware of "Project 2025", interesting read! While that does contain multiple concerning ideas, this is far from a reliable manifesto. Additionally, ties have been drawn to the Trump campaign, but these are loose ties and appear primarily to be op-eds. Trump has also disavowed ties to this "publication". Lastly, that "Washington Post report" is another one of those vague articles featuring "according to sources familiar".
While this may be true, and a drone strike may be ordered on US soil, the President will not be the one controlling the drone, not directly in command of that person. The UCMJ supercedes in the case.
I'd like to try to assuage your fears regarding a protest meeting missiles or drone strikes. Yes, the President can order drone strikes with impunity. It's been that way since the first use of drones, early as the Obama era (maybe earlier, but I was a bit young then).
However, this does not apply to US soil. One of the benefits of state sovereignty is that federal armed forces can't operate on US soil. National guard gets involved, at the governor's request, but they don't have missiles or drones. Police are barbaric, but they also don't have missiles or drones.
So I don't think we'd see much of an escalation in terms of weapons of violence with regards to protests when compared to 2020.
Ranked choice voting. A system that is FAR better than our current system, but stands as a threat to our complacent two parties, and therefore will never become a realization.
That's a heck of a slippery slope I just fell down.
If responses generated from AI can be held criminally liable for their training data's crimes, we can all be held liable for all text responses from GPT, since it's being trained on reddit data and likely has access to multiple instances of brigading, swatting, man hunts, etc.
This, in addition to the other comment calling it a scammer cleared it up for me. I initially read it as "doing yogas...". Guess I'm out of touch.
That's the standard these days. BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP, ATLS are the ones I know of and all have ~8-12hr online course preceding a ~2-4hr in person course.
In addition, this article is about his "plans" to do this. Not about his actions. Every election cycle around this time the incumbent president puts out articles about his (because there's been no her yet) "plans" to reclassify or otherwise loosen marijuana restrictions, but nothing ever happens.
Oh I'm quite aware that this is a highly complex issue that has evolved over decades and blaming it single handedly on one thing is disingenuous. Nonetheless, I still blame that article single handedly. (/s because tone doesn't convey well over text)
I like how it starts out ALMOST coherent and legalese, but then quickly derails into unhinged rambling with ACCENTUATED capital WORDS like it MATTERS.
This article I single handedly blame for the obesity epidemic.
Published by Harvard (one of the many reasons I discredit them to date, including that their current patient care model is centered around making money not providing high quality care) and paid for by the sugar industry for a paltry $50k.
This spawned the era of "low fat diet" where companies cut the fat content of their products, which made it taste like shit, so dumped heaps of sugar into it.
I was wondering how in the hell they got IRB approval for a placebo of "I'll just cut on you but not do surgery". Saw it was 2002, but still was surprised. Then I saw it came from VA in Texas, and all questions were answered.
Right, I read that part. I'm not very knowledgeable on the topic, but wouldn't a top bunk have a railing?
For what it's worth, I've seen plenty of inmates who "fell from the top bunk" and they have obvious knuckle marks on their cheeks from being punched. So I'm a little suspicious of those kinds of "falls".
I'm usually one to discount news stories for being dramatic and misleading, but this one is pretty rough. Unsure how she fell in the first place, but the video of her on the floor with the pointed toes is rough to watch. That's a hard one to fake, and is a clear sign of spinal trauma.
We had TPLO on our girl. Scheduled the consultation, then in between consultation and surgery the other ligament blew. So they did both legs at the same time. The cost was about $5-6k in total. First 1-2 weeks was rough because she couldn't use half of her legs, and so would require being carried out and would balance on her front legs to pee. I'm hindsight, it was hilarious.
She's just as rambunctious now as she was before tearing her ligaments, so it was absolutely the right choice.
Much as I like to SLAM journalists for their SAD uninformed opinions, this is a complex medical subject that doctors study for years. While this journalist didn't explain it in detail, I don't fault then for being a professional on the topic. But it's not hard to find an OBGYN to consult on this.
It is treated typically in the same surgery where they visualize it. It's literally the lining of the uterus stuck to stuff in the belly. Usually it's bowls, can be liver or other stuff though. They carefully pull it off of the abdominal structures and that usually works for endometriosis.
Endometriosis is a tough one. It presents as abdominal cramping pain, which literally a million things can present as that. The only way to diagnose it is via direct visualization, AKA surgery. I'm not a surgeon, but it's a good idea to avoid surgery if at all possible. Even the most successful uncomplicated surgery can cause lifelong problems with adhesions and obstructions. A surgical complication could be as severe as death.
If we could have a diagnostic tool that is reliable and noninvasive, that would be wonderful. But it currently doesn't exist.