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  • The FB Algo

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  • The Atlantic Explains Another Threat to Democracy

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  • Tony Soprano - he lived!

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  • "Show's Over"

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    MikM
    He mentioned this sort of thing in an interview. “I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,” he says. “My shows are not really concerts anymore. They’re performances, and there’s a difference between a performance and a concert. Look, I’m not for everyone anymore. I’m just not. And if you want to come and scream and yell and get drunk, don’t come to my show.” Having seen him, I'd agree. His band is one fine outfit, his shows are long and impressive. They leave it all on the stage.
  • Circus observations

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  • School covering up rapes thread 213

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    @LuFins-Dad said in School covering up rapes thread 213: What are the penalties for failure to report? For medical personnel? Loss of license at a perhaps. Edit: Any physician who willfully fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect shall be referred to the Illinois State Medical Disciplinary Board for action in accordance with the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Any dentist or dental hygienist who willfully fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect shall be referred to the Department of Professional Regulation for action in accordance with the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Any mandatory reporter who willfully fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor for a first violation and a class 4 felony for a second or subsequent violation. Any person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor for a first violation and a class 4 felony for a second or subsequent violation. If the person acted as part of a plan or scheme with the object of preventing discovery of an abused or neglected child by lawful authorities for the purpose of protecting or insulating any person or entity from arrest or prosecution, the person is guilty of a class 4 felony for a first offense and a class 3 felony for a second or subsequent offense (regardless of whether the second or subsequent offense involves any of the same facts or persons as the first or other prior offense).
  • War on Cats

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    RenaudaR
    @Mik That has been my fear as well.
  • Miracle Material: Graphene?

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Apparently it was isolated/discovered in my old physics department in Manchester. They always used to tell us the best people were too busy doing actual work to turn up to lectures.
  • SCOTUS: Idaho Transgender Treatment Ban upheld.

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    Yes. Why they might be called for is important and I would imagine is covered in the legislation. If not it’s poorly crafted.
  • SCOTUS to review obstructing official proceedings application

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    JollyJ
    Hope they chunk it. Bad use of a law originally meant for Enron. It's been sorely abused.
  • Hay Cats! Your "Cute elephant" post of the day.

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  • Close your eyes 75%

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  • Putin’s Self Obsessed Psychology

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    RenaudaR
    I remember the first day of my first Soviet history course in University. The prof, a former officer in the British Army, I touched himself to the class and then said “in this course you will come away with the understanding that the Soviet Union is characterised by a national inferiority complex mindset and a people who sleep with a history book under their pillow”.
  • Getting married older.

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    @Copper said in Getting married older.: Not as many husbands on campus, they have to go look elsewhere for them. No, but Lisa just had a phallopasty, soo…
  • Today's Med Mal Cast - Tardive Dyskinesia

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    [image: 1713217574996-image.jpeg] MedMalReviewer Analysis: The plaintiff did not make a very compelling case that the patient’s alleged tardive dyskinesia was caused by Seroquel. I reviewed this case with a consultation-liaison psychiatrist who noted several points: a) Seroquel does not have significant D2 antagonism at the low doses used for sleep, and the patient was only on it for about a year. Higher doses of antipsychotics for longer periods of time have a much stronger association with tardive dyskinesia. b) Limping would be a very unusual presentation of tardive dyskinesia. Abnormal movements of the face and tongue are much more common, and it doesn’t seem that the patient had these. c) Use of Seroquel for sleep is very common and well within the standard of care. It's always reassuring to see a jury reject highly questionable accusations of negligence and decide in favor of a physician. In general, juries are very favorable to physicians and decide in our favor in the large majority of cases that go to trial.
  • Hey Horace!!

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    @89th said in Hey Horace!!: Cool monitor! All the better to read my posts with. I'm actually putting off reading your posts until I get an even better monitor, maybe in several years or more. The riches that await me are untold! The way I see it, good conservative Trump voters like you and me are givens. I try to keep tabs on the "other side", as it were.
  • This is a world war, not several local ones.

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    @Axtremus said in This is a world war, not several local ones.: @Mik said in This is a world war, not several local ones.: A lot to agree with here. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/looking-at-today-s-wars-as-local-issues-is-a-huge-mistake-there-is-one-war-and-it-is-global/ar-BB1lDT9Q?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=74207030bcb74698b6b118aaf4666de9&ei=12 The author doesn’t seem to say where Israel/Palestine fit in this “world war” construct. Last time I checked, Israel was and remains a democracy while Hamas controlled Gaza was an authoritarian terror state led by religious fanatics through armament support from other the Islamic terror states and secular autocrats. That is where that war fits in to the bigger world war scenario.
  • So, I went "over there."

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    One of my charities had a website for a while. We found that bots and spammers were the only ones trying to get anything from it. Shut it down.
  • Guardrails?

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    taiwan_girlT
    I have never been a social media person and it is weird to me that so many people put faith in someone who really doesn't know anything about what they are talking about. If @jolly talked to me about life skills and DIY skills, I would listen because of his experience and knowledge. If he started talking to me about some lady skin cream he recommends for no other reason other than he is getting paid by the skin cream company, then......... maybe not so much listen. But I guess that is advertising. Has been going on probably since there have been adverts.
  • Marital Rape

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    India still hasn’t managed to eradicate the practice of sati, the ritual burning of widows on their deceased husband’s funeral pyre, nor enforce its prohibition under the country’s criminal code under a 1987 law. In 19 century British came close to ending the practice as described by Governor Charles Napier when Hindu priests met with him to complain about the British prohibition of the practice: Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs! Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)