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[George K]

@jon-nyc there are several channels on cable that talk about these medical oddities. Usually they're in impoverished countries with little/no access to healthcare.

Here, he went to a hospital in Nagpur, India in 1999. At that time the population was about 2 million. I would think that a city of that size would have access to a CT scanner, or at the very least an x-ray, so that a pre-op diagnosis could have been made.

With the possible tumor restricting Sanju’s respiration, Mehta got right to work and opened Sanju up.

That’s when things got weird. As soon as Dr. Mehta sliced into Sanju’s stomach, an unusual amount of fluid spilled out. Then he looked inside...

Yeah, that should not have been a surprise if they had taken a picture beforehand.

[taiwan_girl]

Wow! That is really weird.

[jon-nyc]

Ok so maybe in very limited contexts “pregnant people” is the right phrase lol

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

Is this the find in Israel? They found four Roman swords.

[Mik]

Oh, no, Germany. Not enough coffee yet to go beyond the pictures.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah plus this predates the Rome’s founding by a dozen centuries.

[George K]

For scale.

Looks like the handle is only about 5 cm long.

Small hands....

[jon-nyc]

Your periodic reminder that Trump hails from Germany.

[bachophile]

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

Is this the find in Israel? They found four Roman swords.

Word is that they were Roman swords stolen and hidden by judean rebels. Dated to the second revolt. That’s against Hadrian in about 135.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ancient-weapons-cache-judean-desert-scli-intl-scn/index.html

[jon-nyc]

Ok, a 1937 dollar is equivalent to $21 or so today. Still it’s remarkable.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States..."

[Copper]

And with the stroke of a pen they rewrote history.

No more colonies.

If only they remembered to mention reparations for the descendants of the colonists 250 years later.

And no more calling names like yanks and chaps.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

"Chic Lit."

LOL.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

"Chic Lit."

LOL.

Basically, blokes love to read pretentious philosophical shite, horrendous political books, or comics.

[jon-nyc]

There could also be sex differences on propensity to review books online.

It would be interesting to see this normalized by total number of reviews by genre. You’d then see a relative lead among men in most of the non-fiction segments.

[Copper]

When are you biologists going to learn?

There is no difference.

[George K]