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reposting but i don't feel comfortable

disabling comments but not quote posts so that my dogshit takes reach the maximum number of eyes as part of my humiliation kink

Kinetic is the new Tactical.
A modifier that makes everything around it more masculine.

A lot of people look at the implacable and irrational unpersuadability of antivaxxers and kinda conclude "ah there's nothing we can do except let them win" instead of the correct conclusion that we need to force them to get their kids vaccinated against their parents' will

& Muted by "A Very British Bigotry" I am in no way antiTrans. But

Many such cases

January 2021 was the deadliest month of the pandemic. 3000 Americans died daily, 95,000 in total.

And Prasad was *mocking* people for avoiding COVID.

Shame on anyone who treated him as a good faith actor or serious thinker.

Let’s be honest about his record.

Exclusive | FDA’s Controversial Vaccines Chief Will Leave the Agency Dr. Vinay Prasad will depart in April, after a year leading the division that approves vaccines and biotech drugs.

Vinay Prasad is out (again) at FDA www.wsj.com/health/healt...

oil prices going from $65 a few months ago to $89 right now

Tweet from Jhn Mandrola That slide is even worse than the NEJM KM curves with the truncated y-axis graph inserted on the proper graph. Now show me the curves without massively truncating the y-axis Thank goodness Vinay is at FDA

A bit niche, but...
Some Medical Conservatives™️ would have us ignore soaring oil prices
After all, the Y-axis is truncated, so this is hardly credible data.

/s

Washington Post image A student's arm is seen in the rubble at the school in Minab, Iran. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA/ Reuters

It was correct of the WaPo to publish this photo of the aftermath of the attack on the girls' school in Minab.

A school girl's detached arm laying next to her dirt-covered viscera.

This is now our legacy in the world.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

“I’m usually a big glass-half-full guy, but not particularly on this one"

"The lawsuit accuses Angola workers of ignoring a wheelchair-bound inmate’s surgery requests multiple times for a procedure meant to repair a quarter-inch tear in his penis caused by a catheter"

Quarter-inch tear in his penis.

"Palantir portrayed its version of Maven as giving commanders video-game like abilities to oversee battles in a recent video"

“Satellite images show that the (girls elementary) school (directly hit by a US bomb) was separated from the base by a wall between 2013 and 2016. The (medical) clinic (also directly hit) was walled off between 2022 and 2023…it's possible American military planners had not updated their target sets”

Always check

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

The first home I ever knew was in Tehran, and my heart will always be there.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Oh, your patient is at risk for aspiration? To what? Having a better doctor?

oof

Democratic leadership amid rising authoritarianism

There are 14 active measles cases inside the facility and 112 individuals are being isolated. This is on the heels of prior COVID and tuberculosis outbreaks there. I’ve also learned the alarming news that there has been an effort to quarantine detainees with measles at our local hospitals.

German phrenologist Robert Burger-Villingen is taking measurements in order to determine the personality of his patient.

Interviewing my new lady doctor

Dear Grok, tell me about your training data, without explicitly telling me about your ingrained racism.

Based on AAMC data for recent applicants and matriculants, Asian physicians average the highest MCAT scores (508.8–514.3), followed by White (507.8–512.5). Black and Hispanic averages are lower (497.4–506.8). Studies on USMLE Step 1/2 and residency in-training exams show similar patterns, with these metrics predicting board performance and knowledge. Statistically, Asian or White demographics show the strongest objective indicators of competence on average. Always check individual credentials and outcomes.

"Asian or White demographics show the strongest objective indicators of competence"

I know it ain't cool to go to The Bad Place™️, but wow the grok advice on how to pick a doctor

But there's a YMMV disclaimer so probably fine

i feel the need to rewatch children of men. does it still hold up?

Kind of more interested in how Frank-N-Furter got this role.

After Hartford cops killed two men needing mental health help on two occasions within nine days, I am having all sorts of conversations with people about beanbags and tasers and riot shields and training. And maybe that's all good and proper. But the simpler answer is "no guns."