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It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. -- Malcolm Reynolds
I used to think that it was a shame that we started having more information about how horrible people are. I used to like Roseanne before I found out what an asshole she was. I used to like Bill Cosby. I used to like Lance Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and it even turns out that Michael Jordan is a huge asshole.
Where have all the heroes gone? If only we didn't know how horrible these people are, we could still have heroes.
But then, I thought, what's so great about having flawed heroes? That type of thinking is probably why people build cults of personality around politicians. Just get rid of the whole idea.
Celebrities who suck should just be written off, and if that means that we have to live with cover versions of Michael Jackson songs, I think that's something I can live with.
Maybe this will be the best use case for AI. We can just take all of these movies and TV shows, and use AI to replace the assholes with some fake person. Fuck 'em.
Maybe if we did this, celebrities, who are disproportionately concerned about being famous, would start to be worried about being forgotten and replaced, and they'd start to know their place.
I didn't mean to be confusing, as you may not recognize the term. Here's the introduction sentence from its wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality
The authoritarian personality is a personality type characterized by a disposition to treat the voice of authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect.
I wonder whether some egghead has actually tested if sitting too close to the TV hurts your eyes.
For example, perhaps the reason some children sit too close is that they are nearsighted. So, they sit too close because they have poor vision, and later when the parent brings them to the optometrist, they have poor eyesight, and the parent makes the wrong conclusion.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the reason parents started saying this has nothing to do with the kid's eyes. It used to be that TVs were big heavy things, and they often sat on the floor. When kids sit too close to the TV, they can block the TV. Or maybe kids are very distracting for the parent who is watching the TV. So, the parent gives them a little lie saying that it will hurt them to sit that close, and then the problem goes away.
A sequential mate search seems too inefficient for the likes of her.
If I had to say which group of people were killing the planet, I'd say it's people who don't think about things at all and just do whatever they're told. You know, people with authoritarian personalities.
So, the first time I read this, I interpreted it as these guys spent their whole lives saying they should hang out, but never got around to it.
But then, I was like, "Hey, if their graves are next to each other, they're totally hanging out in the last panel."
And I realized that you put people's names on their tombstones. So, is the comic really just two guys with really weird names who are repeatedly greeting each other by saying each other's names at various times in their lives? If their graves are next to each other, maybe they even got married or something.
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“Americans must learn to adjust to a lower standard of living,” - President Donald J Trump
Is nothing enough? What does he want me to give up next, my giant golden ballroom? But then, where will I hold my debutante balls? Not in the garden that I just paved over. That's where I have my fetes.
"ONLY SOMEWHAT SUCCESSFUL"???? How many people's lives did he ruin for his own shitty failure of an experiment? How much critical expertise was ripped away from the government, never to return?
I remember the last time I felt any respect for Elon Musk was when he spoke out about climate change. Here's a quote:
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe. -- Elon Musk
The government is like the Earth's climate. You don't make drastic experimental changes and hope for the best. People have been studying governments for literally millennia, and the climate for decades.
Trying a huge change to the government without knowing ahead of time that it has a large chance of success (based on actual research), has got to be the stupidest type of experiment you can do with the government.
I guess the big difference between DOGE cutting jobs and ruining not only people's lives, but the government itself... The difference between DOGE doing that and humanity pumping as much carbon into the atmosphere as we can, is that one of them has the ability to actually affect Elon personally in the future. What a piece of irredeemable garbage he is.
Katherine Culbert is her name.
If you want to see a lot of Star Trek actors playing small parts in a different franchise, there are a lot in Babylon 5, probably to nobody's surprise. Including Barclay.
Barclay would probably identify with a lot of that super toxic incel crap, which can be a stepping stone to extremism.
I know the character worked it out to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if it lingered.
The worst thing about the internet is that any moron can express their dumb, uninformed opinions.
The second worst thing is that I get to learn which celebrities are dumb, uninformed morons.
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They're called integrals, so it should be no surprise that they're integral.
Something you kinda glossed over in favor of knocking at the weakest part of my comment — my use of the word “nothing.” This tells me you don’t really care about understanding another viewpoint, you’re trying to score a point in the argument.
The weakest part of your comment? It was the first sentence of your comment. That's where people put their strongest point. The point that they want to emphasize the most.
And what's your argument without that point? That the question is only useful sometimes? That makes it like almost every other question the doctor asks. If it's sometimes useful, and when it's useful, it's very useful, then it makes sense for a doctor to ask the question.
Your argument is strongest if you can pretend the question about periods is never useful. I believe that's why you led off with the point. Because it was your strongest point and essential to your argument. And that's why I focused on it.
Maybe you're not offering them enough variety. Have you considered selling a chunky version?
Do you think doctors should collect patient history assuming that patients will always give the least informative answers?
Here are some other possible answers: "My last period was 6 weeks ago," or "I am currently having my period," or "I am 3 months pregnant," or "A long time ago. I'm post menopausal."
Do you think the doctor would be able to know anything about whether these patients are pregnant? It seems like the question can actually give information if you don't assume the least useful scenario.
But I think we can all agree. If women only went to the doctor exactly 4 weeks after their last period, then it would be a useless question, like you say.
Here are some neat reading materials on menstruating: https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/menstrual-cycle/p2
Okay, I'll play along. But you failed to link an article, just a list of articles, so I'll have to pick one.
Hmm... This one looks good, "The Menstrual Cycle":
Menstruation is the first part of the cycle. It begins when your ovum (egg) from the previous cycle does not get fertilized, meaning you did not get pregnant.
How odd. You said that "the last period date has nothing to do with whether someone is pregnant or not," and then to prove it, you gave me a link that says the exact opposite.
This reinforces my theory that we are not speaking the same language.
I bet she could do double threading if she just loosened up a little.