I suspect Adams thinks his friends threw him to the wolves. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, etc.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Andy and Epstein: I'll believe it when I see it. Clearly there's a reason this hasn't happened. Blackburn of Tennessee tried to get them released, but she blames that Durbin of Illinois is stonewalling. Of course that was the previous administration and the previous congress. Searching around, Durbin's actions seem to be procedural. Let's see what happens.

@Copper spot on.

@Jolly said in Medical Rounds: COWS it is. We had Holstein painted stations. [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia4.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FxTiN0mKP2Am8PuQW0U%2Fsource.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=82a65866c5d9b9634b73b785bffdb352a7d2dadef07d00ebdcb52cb2b63f3386&ipo=images]

@Jolly said in Less than 12 hours...: @89th said in Less than 12 hours...: Not sure who she is, seems like a nice gal. Her intro made me think she is eloquent but also just taking a long way to say "we're gonna talk about news stories". Agree there is a right wing cancel culture (Trump is leading that, it seems) we should be careful of. For a better response, see Dana White (UFC president) and his statement about one of his fighters who ranted on a podcast about how Hitler was actually a pretty good guy and was trying to save his country. In short, he said the guy is dumb as shit... and a reporter asked if there would be punishments and White said basically, no it's free speech, it doesn't mean we have to like it, and if you don't like it you can watch him get his ass whooped in the UFC ring, lol. Thought you would know who Cooper was.

@Doctor-Phibes said in If the LOTR characters did commentary on the movie: ....I just forwarded the link to her by email, and due to auto-complete came horrifyingly close to sending it to a customer who shares her first name. Hate it when that happens. Glad you caught it in time.

This thread reminds me - prior to transplant I had rare NTM (non-tubercular mycobacteria) colonization, called Mycobacterium Kansasii (Gram positive and acid fast, FWIW). And another NTM called mycobacterium avium complex which is far more common. I think medicine has twice saved my life (at least), the transplant itself and the trio of antibiotics I took (for a couple of years) which kept the two NTM infections at low enough levels to survive. It never eliminated them though, they were incinerated with my old lungs. I had to conitinue the antibiotics prophylactically for a few months to prevent colonization of the new set.

@jon-nyc said in Poll on the reconciliation bill: What will be the effect, using normal budgetary rules (10 year impact on the projected deficit relative to current law) of the reconciliation bill that the GOP finally passes? A) it will raise the deficit B) It will lower the deficit Oh, I have zero expectations of lowering the deficit. Is it too early to have a drink?

I wonder how much of this is shock and awe? Just keep throwing so much small crap out there as a distraction that some of the serious stuff gets through?

https://x.com/Heminator/status/1884972555607396795

Bastard.

@kluurs said in Brexit: @Jolly said in Brexit: @taiwan_girl said in Brexit: Blame President BIden. LOL Well, he's the one that fucked up the oilfield. How so? We had more oil being produced under him than his predecessor. Yes, those Trump leases tended to bring in the goods.

Ten years down the line? Nah...

@LuFins-Dad said in Actions Have Consequences: Can we talk about the Afghan Withdrawal? Wasn't that a 24kt fuck-up?...

@jon-nyc said in Ibrahm "ex" Kendi: By the way most of that money was Jack Dorsey's, but don't worry, Elon reimbursed him and then some. Money well spent…

Specifically the Dark and Cold Humor thread.

@taiwan_girl said in Bell to bell: @jon-nyc said in Bell to bell: https://x.com/jonhaidt/status/1884950304149651939?s=46 Good for her. Could PResident Trump sign an executive order to make phones prohibited in all public grade schools? What 89 said. But I have no doubt he could issue such an EO and, the same day, issue a statement that the Feds have no role in education and propose eliminating the DoE and not blush.

Nohilly testified Wednesday as the first prosecution witness in the criminal misconduct trial of former District Attorney Jackie Johnson, coastal Glynn County's top prosecutor when Arbery was killed nearly five years ago. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr's office is prosecuting Johnson on charges that she violated her oath of office and interfered with police investigating Arbery's killing. But Johnson's defense lawyers seized on opportunities to use Nohilly and a second prosecution witness Wednesday to undercut prosecutors' arguments that Johnson abused her power to delay arrests and influence the appointment of an outside prosecutor who had decided Arbery was killed in self-defense. The former DA is being prosecuted by Georgia's attorney general https://www.yahoo.com/news/youre-going-home-police-tell-184036637.html