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@Mik said in It may take days...: Democracy certainly is in jeopardy. Only if the Democrats lose...because more people voted for the other guys. That's totes undemocratic.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1588217486973227008?s=20&t=OkrrVInH5yBJOZm3MycrXw

@LuFins-Dad said in About a 20% paycut: But you just got a reduction on Medicare premiums… Use that And, thanks to President Biden, a Social Security bump! I'm rolling in the dough!

And transphobic.

If you like free booze vote for a democrat. It has been effective in the past, I expect it will continue, blue places love it.

@Mik said in 'Shrooms: He has sufficient cause. Yeah, if ever there were an ideal use case...

Too bad they didn't offer an unobtanium package, right @Aqua-Letifer

@Doctor-Phibes said in A Healthcare Problem: @Horace said in A Healthcare Problem: @Doctor-Phibes said in A Healthcare Problem: I honestly couldn’t give a shit. If he, she or they do a good job, I really don’t care what else they do in their spare time, or for that matter what religion or race they belong to. YMMV Imagine the number of people who would agree with that regarding lgbtqx doctors, but who would refuse to see trump supporting doctor. There would be millions of Americans who would self identify as being in that group. Two dumbs don’t make a smart I'm imagining the relative sizes of the two cohorts.

I'm sure the joyous union arrangement will last for years months a while.

I assume their political debates are mostly about trying to prove the other side is the bigger existential threat.

@LuFins-Dad said in Positive again: @89th said in Positive again: @George-K said in Positive again: After 5 vaccinations. I mean, the vaccinations aren't preventing someone from getting COVID, but they have helped massively in reducing sickness and death. Honestly, I wonder if I took a test every day (as I'm sure the CDC director and others probably do), I wonder if I would've tested positive. No, they haven’t. In your age range, 12 out of every 100,000 cases resulted in death in unvaccinated people. Now what do you think happens to those numbers when you take Diabetics out? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1 Try finding the post vaccination numbers. It’s actually quite difficult. This is a deadly disease for the elderly and those with co-morbidities. Much less so for everybody else. Even with the vaccine, an elderly patient with the vaccines have much worse outcomes than unvaccinated youth. Numbers are hard to come by, aren't they? And VAERS borders on useless. I would love to see vaccine reactions/serious problems/deaths broken down by gender and age group. I'd also like to see some current hard numbers on mortality rates in the elderly of COVID+comorbidities vs. Flu+comorbidities.

Ziinnnggg!

@taiwan_girl said in Parkinson’s, 30 years on: Does Parkinson make your bones more easy to break, or is it just more falling because of balance? As far as I know, there's no correlation between the two - just falling, I assume. However, it's interesting that Fox broke bones at a relatively young age. Another thing is that Fox's movement disorder is not typical Parkinson's. Parkinson's usually manifests itself as skeletal muscle rigidity, where "getting going" is difficult. Getting out of a chair, and starting to walk can be a challenge. His movements are more characteristic of tardive dyskinesia - which is more typical as a side effect of various psychotropic drugs, though it can occur in Parkinson's. Another atypical thing is that Parkinson's patients frequently have "masked facies," - an expressionless appearance to their facial musculature. One of my neighbors has PD, and I could tell, on first meeting, that he had it. He never told me about it, and it was only after about 4 years that his wife mentioned it.

@Jolly said in Misinformation or Disinformation?: It doesn't take much of that to turn your EV into a lawn ornament. I was going to say "Redneck lawn ornament," but then I realized it's pretty unlikely for a real redneck to own an EV.

@taiwan_girl usually they do sleep while standing. Being prey animals, lying down is a sure way to let a predator get the jump on you. However, if they feel very comfortable and safe, they will lie down, or sit. https://www.petmd.com/horse/do-horses-sleep-standing However, sleeping patterns and characteristics of horses are unique. Horses are polyphasic sleepers which means they have multiple periods of sleep throughout the day, with the majority occurring at night. Sleep patterns are based on the horse’s environment, social hierarchy, age, feeding, and familiarity with surroundings. One special characteristic of horses is that they can sleep standing up! How Do Horses Sleep? Four stages of vigilance have been documented in the horse: wakefulness, drowsiness, slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In SWS, a horse’s brain waves are slow and synchronized. During this time, the brain is not functioning at an active level. SWS may occur while the horse is standing or in sternal recumbency (lying on the chest with legs folded underneath). In REM sleep, brain waves are rapid and irregular, like those of an awakened state. As the name implies, during REM sleep, a horse’s eyes move back and forth rapidly. As well as the eye movement, your horse may also twitch his ears or skin, blink, flare his nostrils, or even paddle his legs. REM sleep occurs while the horse is lying on his side in lateral recumbency. During REM sleep all the muscles completely relax and lose their tone. On average, most horses spend a combined total of 5-7 hours a day sleeping. It is generally accepted that horses spend approximately 15% of their total sleep time in REM sleep. While some horses get 2-3 hours of REM sleep per day, all horses need at least 30 minutes. There is no definitive amount of time that horses can lay in lateral recumbency, but they can’t stay there for too long. The horse’s weight alone applies pressure to areas of the body which restricts blood flow to vital organs and limbs. The lungs are also compressed, which can lead to abnormal breathing patterns. The pressure can also affect nerves, rendering the horse’s limbs temporarily paretic (muscle weakness caused by nerve damage). When horses try to get up, they have difficulty standing on all four limbs, which can lead to secondary trauma. How Long Do Horses Sleep Standing Up? Most of a horse’s sleep is done in the standing position and is considered SWS, as described above. Total sleep time is usually comprised of cycles of sleep interrupted by periods of wakefulness. A special anatomical feature of horses called the stay apparatus allows horses to sleep standing up. A stay apparatus is a group of tendons and ligaments that work together so that the horse can remain standing with little muscular effort. This is a great advantage for a prey animal, like a horse, so that in the event of an emergency they can quickly awaken and easily flee. Another protective tactic horses use while sleeping is to sleep in groups. They will rotate sentries—horses that will stay standing and alert—while the others rest. [image: 1667474829252-screenshot-2022-11-03-at-6.26.28-am-copy.jpg] What surprised me even more is that all of these horses were together in an enclosed space. It's not unusual for horses to have, um...disagreements about hierarchy. THere's a reason horses are kept in individual stalls. This just seemed dangerous to me.