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@Mik said in New Women’s Weightlifting Record!: @blondie said in New Women’s Weightlifting Record!: I’m waiting for the day the gender fluids, the intersexed, etc. raise issues of their discrimination, inclusivity, etc. This will happen eventually. They've been doing so for several years down here. I think Blondie is referring to the genuinely transgendered/intersexed. That very small group that do have both sets of genitalia.

Very early in my training, when I was on call on a Saturday morning, we had an emergency case to do. Seems that some kid (19?) got involved in a bar fight. He insulted another guy, who just happened to be the Illinois State High School wrestling champ. Champ wasn't pleased, and knocked the kid to the floor. Then, he grabbed a cue ball, shoved it, or attempted to shove it into the kid's mouth - with a cue stick. Massive, massive facial trauma. Kid transported to local hospital where an oral surgeon on call did an emergency trach (probably saved the kid's life), and then he was brought to our place for definitive treatment. His injures were impressive. He had a lacerated globe, multiple facial bone fractures and multiple dental injures, including one tooth that he had aspirated. The opthamologists spent about two hours trying to repair the globe - I don't think that he ever recovered full vision in that eye. The oral surgeons spent about three hours fixing his Le Forte fractures (look it up) with plates and screws. Finally, the chest cutter came and tried to retrieve the tooth. This was in the dark ages of bronchoscopy, and the only tools available were the scope and flexible forceps. The tooth had entered the kid's bronchus, occlusive surface down, so the roots were visible to the chest cutter. Every time he tried to grab the root, the tooth would slip out from the forceps, going farther and farther out into the lung. He gave up after about an hour and a half of trying, and we ended the case about 6 hours later. The kid ended up getting a pneumonia (duh) and needed to have his chest cracked to retrieve the tooth several days later. I wasn't involved with that, however. Impressive. Today, the chest guy would put a balloon-tipped catheter past the tooth, inflate the balloon, and retrieve it that way - easy peasy. [image: 1680611304360-lefort109m.jpg] [image: 1680611304344-screenshot-2023-04-04-at-7.26.36-am.png] [image: 1680611304313-screenshot-2023-04-04-at-7.26.42-am.png] [image: 1680611304280-screenshot-2023-04-04-at-7.26.49-am.png]

Asa couldn't carry Arkansas.

All things that should be even more important to aspiring barristers.

I watched about two seconds's worth, and . . . I guess I'd go see it. But you know those trailers can present a lot more promising than the actual movie, what with the Ee! Ee! Ee! music and all.

Bad idea. Certain to make a bad situation worse.

OK, who shouted 'Donald dropped the soap?'

@Copper said in Mitt Romney calls new bike lanes 'the height of stupidity' as bicyclists press Congress to make roads safer and e-bikes cheaper: @Aqua-Letifer said in Mitt Romney calls new bike lanes 'the height of stupidity' as bicyclists press Congress to make roads safer and e-bikes cheaper: The vast majority of cyclists are also car owners. When they are driving the car not while riding the bike. Car drivers get roads because they pay for them. Bike riders think they should get roads because they whine. Stellar argument.

@Jolly said in Five F'in Paragraphs: But c'mon, man! Five paragaphs on something the woman had nothing to do with? Not to mention DOCTOR (they addressed her as such x3 during the cutaways on ABC) had Billie Jean King as her special guest. Messaging, much? Well, yeah. Those who can most effectively stimulate the lizard part of our brains win the Clickbait Games. Those who don't lay off their staff. Woke stories drive the feels, positive and negative. Those five paragraphs you hate so much paid for the rest of the coverage. It's disgusting and it's the way of the world.

Nothing to see here. Move along...

@LuFins-Dad said in More gender surgery for minors: @George-K said in More gender surgery for minors: @Mik it would stand to reason (but, I'm kidding here, right?) that this type of stuff needs parental/guardian approval. You have to wonder how much whack-a-doodle parenting is going on to permit/encourage this. Would you prefer a dead daughter to a living son? Let me think on that one...You know, I'd prefer a son who was mildly unhappy, but would probably outgrow it, than a daughter fairly likely to be miserable and possibly commit suicide.

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1642972661201645574?s=20 The article: https://public.substack.com/p/why-renee-diresta-leads-the-censorship

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Srsly, do not expect ChatGPT to always get the facts right. It's not built to give you "factually correct answers," just "human-like responses."

Hmmm, I was told yesterday that this guy was going to be one of the 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim Navy Seal, served in Iraq with distinction. Silver Star for rescuing injured Iraqi soldiers in the face of enemy fire. Went on to get his BA In Mathematics and graduated Harvard Medical School before joining NASA.