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They're really pushing people hard into youtube premium. I subscribed for a little while, then sort of went the other way and deleted youtube from my tvs and phone. It's only on my pc and ipad now. Valuable resource, but highly addictive for me.

@George-K Any doc can purport to be qualified to treat any condition. If the results end up being unfortunate, let him bear the consequences either in court, licensing body, or public opinion.. Yes, I have seen just that with my late father. When he and his wife moved to BC in their retirement, they connected with an MD who had numerous geriatrics as regular patients. In any case my father’s wife really liked him. My father not so much, in fact he didn’t think he was all that great and would only refer him to specialists as a last resort. To make a long story short, it all came to a head in 2003 when the MD refused to order a colonoscopy for my father after a few months of ongoing big issues down south. He concluded it was amoebic dysentery and treated it without result other than a worsening of the problem. I raised hell with him over the phone a said I would drive my father to Bellingham Washington and pay for the colonoscopy out of pocket. The doctor relented and agreed to order the procedure. Yes, there was cancer and a specialist was then engaged. Luckily it was slow growing and located convenient for surgery. Surgery was successful. After speaking with the surgeon I had yet another go around with the MD over the phone. The surgeon however was not impressed with what he discovered and went after the MD. Turns out that that the MD was not a specialist in geriatric medicine, but rather an OB/Gyn with a less than stellar record with his peers. He soon closed his practice and moved elsewhere. A bit like the surgeon you described.

@George-K said in You want a can of worms? I got an electoral can for ya.: It's an interesting legal question. IF the states (and that's a big if) can select how to apportion the electors, then there might be a basis for this movement. I'm not saying I agree, by any means. Just that it's an interesting legal argument. Because "democracy," you know. Don't want no knuckle-dragging deplorables having any say. Wonder how Mr. Faris will feel when Donald wins the popular vote this year.

@89th said in Liz Lied: I laughed at this for 4 hours then had to call my doctor Did he lie to Congress? LOCK HIM UP!

Nobody would drink with those fuckers anyway.

Absolutely. A fool's errand.

Good.

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Wow!!!

Recently here (for Eid) they were giving warnings of henna tattoos not containing henna, but instead irritants that could cause permanent scarring.

Those are great pics TG. Yours too George. I gotta thank everyone here who posts from their travels. These are all places I wanted to visit. Everything on IG seems too edited. I appreciate the real stuff.

She should probably warn the Indians about the Great Replacement and the dangers of unrestricted immigration.

https://www.nba.com/news/jontay-porter-banned-from-nba The NBA announced today that Jontay Porter, a two-way player recently under contract with the Toronto Raptors, has been banned from the NBA. A league investigation found that Porter violated league rules by disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games. The league’s investigation found that prior to the Raptors’ March 20 game, Porter disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA bettor. Another individual with whom Porter associated and knew to be an NBA bettor subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay proposition bet with an online sports book, to win $1.1 million, wagering that Porter would underperform in the March 20 game. The league’s investigation also found that Porter limited his own game participation to influence the outcome of one or more bets on his performance in at least one Raptors game. In the March 20 game, Porter played only three minutes, claiming that he felt ill. Due to the unusual betting activity and actions of the player, the $80,000 proposition bet was frozen and was not paid out. In addition, from January through March 2024, while traveling with the Raptors or Raptors 905, the Raptors’ NBA G League affiliate, Porter placed at least 13 bets on NBA games using an associate’s online betting account. These bets ranged in size from $15 to $22,000, for a total of $54,094. The total payout from these bets was $76,059, resulting in net winnings of $21,965. None of the bets involved any game in which Porter played. Three of the bets were multi-game parlay bets that included one Raptors game, in which Porter bet that the Raptors would lose. All three bets lost. I was talking to a friend who was telling me that you can now start to bet on things other than the final score - like how many scores one particular person will get, how many XX things will happen in the first period, etc. It will make the gambling problem even worse I think and a lot more pressure on players.

@George-K said in The Two Big Myths about the Middle East: Myth 2. Palestinians No state, no nation, no people. Palestine never existed, hence Palestinians never existed, do not exist. Full stop. Today at the UN https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148731?_gl=1bg71ms_gaMjA2OTM4NTgwLjE3MTM0OTE1MTQ._ga_TK9BQL5X7Z*MTcxMzQ5MTUxMy4xLjEuMTcxMzQ5MTU4Mi4wLjAuMA.. In a vote of 12 in favour to one against, with two abstentions, the Council did not adopt a draft resolution that would have recommended the General Assembly to hold a vote with the broader UN membership to allow Palestine to join as a full UN Member State. The draft resolution is among the shortest in the Council’s history: “The Security Council, having examined the application of the State of Palestine for admission to the United Nations (S/2011/592), recommends to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership in the United Nations.” For a draft resolution to pass, the Council must have at least nine members in favour and none of its permanent members – China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States – using their veto power. The US voted against it because they said that granting Palestinian full membership would be the same as acknowedging Palestine as a state. Whether or not palestine becomes a state is part of the negotiations between Isreal and Palestine. I agree with this assessment.

@Horace said in Meet the LatinX: the culture in the government was to encourage females in positions of leadership, to create a balance I agree with this. One of the things I noticed when I was in china, was that there was a greater % of females in upper level organization positions than pretty much any other country. (Side note: Dont know if they still do it, but government companies used to require upper management to spend a 1/2 day every month doing manual labor. So for example, in a oil refinery, you might see the refinery manager on a Friday afternoon sweeping up the trash, or doing touch up painting, etc. Not I bad idea I dont think.)

Yes, I would say so. She needs either a receiver/amp with a phono stage inputs or she needs to buy a separate phono stage that can be connected to the Aux inputs in an home entertainment amp that does not have phono inputs. Decent phono stages are not that expensive. Likewise there are also turntables that plug into a computer to play through either headphones or speakers as well. I would guess hers will do either. Audiotechnica make good entry and mid range turntables.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow: @Horace said in Tucker in Moscow: @Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow: Well I for one don’t think he’s ‘good people’ as you put it I'm able to understand him in non-Manichean terms, and I often appreciate his voice. I get that good vs evil perspectives are important, and my wording triggered that. I don't see any easy, coherent way to consider him to be bought and paid for. He goes off the rails sometimes, but I attribute to stupidity what others may attribute to malice. Evil’s a strong word, not sure I’d want to go that far. I don’t think he’s trustworthy in any way. His pandering to Trump whilst saying he hates the guy behind closed doors pretty much confirms that. I think Tucker probably cares more about Tucker than anything else. His texts to a confidante about Trump being a jerk were in the context of Trump claiming a bunch of election fraud, which Tucker trusted he had evidence for, and reported as if the evidence existed. The evidence never materialized, and Tucker got angry. But Tucker will still vote Trump this year.