MedicsOfAnarchy

@MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
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Screw that, he's elected now. Just do it.

Separate tickets, dudes.

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The true shocker is the beginning of the headline. "Trump paid me"...

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I'm such an underachiever. Here is "Sleepy Joe Biden", a doddering fool who even tries to sit where there is no chair, yet who also is the criminal mastermind behind an entire crime family and who easily controls all government and media for his own diabolical schemes. I mean, pick a lane, Republicans!

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I hope they've alerted their groundskeepers that all trees, shrubs, bushes, and flowers must be mowed over, because pollen and flowers are Nature's pole-dancers and sluts. Not sure if they can have grass.

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Hate speech is all the same. Fill-in-the-blank, then spout.

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Rally at a megaCHURCH? I was under the impression that if they accepted payment for space rental, that breaks their tax-exempt status. If they simply allowed a political rally, same problem. Hmmm....

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Seems to be a lot of projection here, as usual. I give him two months before he's outed as a boner smoking drag queen^TM^

Edit: Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Yeah, Assistant blows much of the time:

"Hey Google. What's two plus two?"

"Sorry, I don't understand. But I found something similar. Would you like to know what two plus two is?"

"Yes, dammit!"

"On the website Add A Couple of Numbers for the Hell of It, they say, two plus two is four. Would you like a little more context?"

"No!!!"

"Alright. I'm here to help."

Arrgh.

Screw waiting for an election. If the SC states that a sitting President is immune from law, the current President should simply point this out to everybody (so we're clear here) and cancel the upcoming election. Leave plenty of time for the SC to backpedal so the elections actually do happen, but then Trump can be prosecuted.

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I find the covenant contract very interesting. " sign a binding contract agreeing that they would divorce only in the case of abuse, abandonment, imprisonment of a spouse, or lengthy separation. A covenant couple, no matter how miserable, cannot simply decide to divorce."

No mention of infidelity?

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Everyone's first question: "How do I disable this?"

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It is always projection with these guys. Every. Time.

More like Brawndo. It's what constituents crave.

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Rather long, once posted this on ... another forum. Sorry for the length but it's fairly complete.

When my daughter was around 2 years old we moved to a (new to us) 4-bedroom house, built in the 1950s. We may have even bought it from the original owners, I'm not certain. Anyway, master bedroom was for my wife and me, the other, smaller bedroom was to be our daughter's room.

Soon after moving in we noticed that after putting her to bed for the night, we'd hear her talking and laughing long after she should have been asleep. Peeking in after about the third night of this we found her standing at the end of her crib, chattering away, seeming to be talking with the closet door about 5 feet away. Typical new parents, we'd tell her to lie down and go to sleep. Probably a shadow on the door or something like that.

This continued for many nights, and then we noticed she was actually holding conversations - talk a little, listen some, answer "yes" or "no" or "I don't know".

When we asked her about it, she said she was talking to "the lady in the green dress". When we asked what she talked about, she either said "stuff", or "School" (daycare) or "I don't know.". This continued sporadically over the space of about a year, and eventually died down to where if she was continuing the conversations, we weren't catching them.

Her little brother was born, and after the initial months of the baby-in-the-parent's room phase, we moved them together into the room. At about age 1 or so, when he could stand on his own, pulling himself up on things, the same thing happened. We'd hear him babbling, and peek in to see him doing the same thing his sister did - stand at the end of the crib, talking to the closet. On each occasion we peeked in to find him doing this, his sister lay fast asleep in her bed. His pattern followed hers exactly, sounding exactly like we were eavesdropping on one side of a conversation. We even got the same answers when asking about them: talking about "stuff", or "school".

Again, this behavior continues sporadically, slows, stops.

Almost three years go by. Everyone's two years apart. Two boys now, so Big Sister gets her own room and the two boys share The Room. Around age 1-ish the youngest gets to where he's able to pull himself up to stand, there he is in the crib, babbling to the closet.

We have no way of knowing if they discussed this among themselves, but each described a "lady in a green dress". In asking them separately, our daughter might mention "she has long hair". Youngest son might say "She has black hair". If asked if it's long or short, curly or straight, he'd say "It's long". And so on in many details. When we requested a new detail from one, and gave a multiple choice for that detail to the other, they'd always agree - belt or no belt, color, shoes, white lady/black lady/Indian lady, whatever. At this point though, we're thinking they could all be remembering the same picture from a story book or something, so no conclusions here.

Again, the conversations slowed, then stopped. Then the weird stuff starts happening.

Now, the wife and I were both smokers, and the rule was one could smoke outside, or in the bathroom upstairs (which had a ceiling exhaust fan) but nowhere else in the house. One fine cold evening, too cold to go outside for just a smoke, I used this rule. My wife was out of the house until later, and I'd put the youngest to bed. The two older children were downstairs watching a movie.

Suddenly I hear the two oldest running through the house, yelling the youngest child's name.

This makes more sense if you know the downstairs came up into the kitchen; cross the kitchen to the right and you're in the dining room; cross the dining room and turn right, you're in the hallway; follow the hallway to the right and you're in the living room; pass through the living room which connects back to the kitchen. Just a big circle really, through several rooms.

The older two kids were running this circle and yelling the youngest's name in an exasperated way.

So I stub out my smoke and exit the bathroom just as the older two were making the circuit again.

"What's going on you guys?" "We're chasing (youngest). He's supposed to be in bed!" I peek into the bedroom. "Yes, he is in bed." "No he's not. He just went into the kitchen again. We heard him on the stairs and just saw him run up. He's not supposed to be awake watching movies now so we tried to tell him but he kept going around the corner so we ran after him."

So, basically, they'd each heard and then glimpsed someone on the steps and chased the figure. Every time they turned a corner in this circuit, they caught just a glimpse of the figure turning the next corner, and continued the chase. My youngest was truly asleep. This sort of game might have repeated once or twice more over the next 12 months or so, then ended.

Turned bedroom #4 into a study. It was downstairs. One day I'm home in my study, wife at work, kids at school. Someone is pacing the floor above me. A slow walk from one end of the living room directly above me, then back again. Since I know no-one is home I guess it's my sister-in-law, who has a key and a penchant for dropping by from time to time unannounced. I wait a while for her to announce herself, but all she does is pace back and forth. And she sounds... heavy. Finally I go upstairs, doors are all locked, nobody there. Could be street traffic? But it was exactly the sound of someone walking above, that one squeaky floorboard and everything.

That evening I mention this to my wife. "Oh, you heard The Walking Man. When I stayed home sick that day last month I heard it all the time. Someone walking back and forth in the living room, but nobody ever there when I checked." Why did she call it the Walking "Man" then, I asked. "Heavy-sounding steps, more like a man's."

Okay, so we got that going for us, which is nice. I'm wondering how to enlist this character to push a vacuum cleaner while he's at it. I mean, if he's bending floorboards he has mass, and could push a vacuum...

No more Green Lady chats; no more phantom kids running around the house. The Walking Man is heard from time to time but I've learned to ignore him. He doesn't answer to questions or anything like that. We've left out pen and paper, nada, okay, we're cool, he's cool, whatever.

We're moving - just need a bigger house. The realtor [with a sideways roll of the eyes] assures us we don't have to mention the other residents to prospective buyers, so that's nice. She thinks we're nuts. Most of the stuff is packed up, moved into storage so the house "shows" well. Someone buys it and we start packing the last of everything so we can move later in the week. With the "shows well" it just looked... roomy. Now it actually looks like a place someone is leaving.

My oldest son is now 12, and still in the second upstairs room, the Green Lady bedroom, where he shares bunk beds with his younger brother. He gets up in the night to use the bathroom.

In the living room, clearly visible down the hall, is a tall man standing and staring at the wall, his back to my son. My son said he knew instantly it wasn't me. This tall figure begins to turn slowly towards my son. My son changes his mind about using the bathroom and runs back into his own room, where there's a woman wearing a green dress, sitting on the floor. In her lap is a small child. They're both looking at my son, who at this point is screaming his head off and running into our room/bed/covers.

So we check, and there's nobody else in the house of course. His brother was asleep in the same room as the lady/kid, and didn't hear anything until my son yelled. He didn't see anything on waking.

We now had a video camera, though! For the next couple of nights, just because, we set up the video camera in the corner of the living room that would give the most coverage: Living room, hallway, kitchen on the left. We don't have motion sensors, and the tape runs 8 hours or so on lowest quality, but in the two or three nights we taped after bedtime nothing happened, at least nothing caught on tape.

And we moved, and that's it.

Except -

We never really noticed until the move, but when you walk into a house and there's nobody home, you somehow feel that. "I'm home, and I'm the first one home, and I'm the only one home". We realized that we had never felt that since 1988, only in the new house. My wife also said it felt "lonely" being the first one to come home to the new house. So at some level, maybe we all sensed something.

I don't know.

This is great! This'll lower prices for everyone else.

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"The unauthorized practice of medicine is a criminal offense in all states. Criminal offenses range from misdemeanors to felonies. Civil penalties range from education to the revocation of a medical license".

How does this not apply to legislatures who are, in effect, attempting to direct actual doctors?

Wait a minute, can this be considered a confession? "Yes, I did it, BUT..." ?

This is quite true, with one exception: It would be very wrong for any medic or EMT to tell a receiving nurse "that you can wait". I am a paramedic in Virgina, USA, and that's not how we do things. We deliver the patient to the ER, tell the nurse the patient's chief complaint, our findings, and any other pertinent information. We do not presume to diagnose the patient or suggest treatment modalities or strategies. The nurse passes our information and any new findings to the doctor. It is ALWAYS the doctor who tells the nurse to find a staff member to wheel a non-emergent patient out of the emergency room. very often, as you point out.

Sure, they're cute now, but when they get bigger people don't want them around anymore, and suddenly you've got a Sewer Bison problem.

You know what would really cement his election? A USO-style tour of the front lines! The drones troops love that!

This headline makes it seem as though Trump requested permission to give $400K to the NYT. Suck headline.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before. Make sure future statues are in pentagrams, and put a little side blurb that "maiming, disfiguring, or destroying this statue will complete the act of sacrifice to the deity". Basically, anyone who defaces the display is, in effect, performing the "ritual of display destruction" - which pleases TST.

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The man, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the robot’s sensor operations>

Well, guess which robot gets a big, fat, "F" on his sensor grade?

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Global warming may be nature's way of trying to submerge Florida. I say let nature win one.

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OR, and hear me out, throw nails in neighbor's face. Offer to drive neighbor to the ED, then say, "Aw, I can't. I'm blocked in." Edit: Forgot /s.

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I don't understand why the name of the company is redacted. They chose to send this letter, let 'em own it.

Cloth, probably not. But look into homemade paper - you might be able to turn vacuum lint into something like construction paper, but ew.

Edit: Found this - instructions on turning dryer lint into paper

Lemme guess, they're calling it the "Every Vote Counts!" bill, yes?

OR, Ukraine could go all Kelly's Heroes on them. "You know what's behind you? All of RUSSIA. And all you have to do to get an equal share is turn that tank around..."

No ManBearPig mentions yet? Half man, half bear, half pig?

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Introduce radio to the Romans. They had the metallurgy to create coils. Even a simple Morse code system would easily keep their empire going. Probably end up like that Star Trek TOS where Centurions are carrying sub-machine guns, though. If want to read what a great SF writer did with this (guy from 1938 ends up in 535AD), read "Lest Darkness Fall"

I really don't want the Russians to win in Ukraine, but if they were to outfit all their troops with windows instead of bullets... just sayin'.

I think you mixed your memes. "Palestine uses Piss Off Every Nation! It's super effective!", or "Try this one weird trick to become radioactive. Hamas loves it!"

Biden: If the Supreme Court agrees, take the shot.

I hope someone can ELI5. I mean, we're told that sunlight/etc we see is 8 minutes old - it took 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth. The radiation, light, etc all travel at the speed of light, neither slower nor faster.

If we can see anything on the sun, it happened 8 minutes ago. It's not like we're looking out over a Kansas field and see a tornado coming.

Further, there's this from a quick Google (while attempting to answer this question myself), from Oct 13 2023:

"How much warning do we have for solar storms? So it should come as no surprise that a team at NASA has been busily applying AI models to solar storm data to develop an early warning system that they think could give the planet about 30 minutes' notice before a potentially devastating solar storm hits a particular area."

So how are we getting a notice one or two days in advance here? Is the sun currently ejecting matter into space, intersecting the place in our orbit we'll occupy tomorrow (or the next day)? Or is this like predicting a volcanic eruption, basing it on other observable behavior?

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This seems tailor-made for Garfield minus Garfield

Damn, I am stealing this. Too many good uses:

"She lives in a hopium den"

"Hopium addict"

"Hopium of the masses"

Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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Fine! The moment they rule this, Biden should step up and take the position. See how quickly they backpedal.