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medgremlin ,

They're referring to the title of the post. I was confused about that one too.

medgremlin ,

Adoption is not the silver bullet people seem to think it is. If the baby isn't white, or has health problems, there's a much higher chance they'll end up in the foster care system.

Separately, carrying a pregnancy and giving birth are extremely dangerous. Depending on which state you look at, American women face the highest maternal death rate in the developed world. Also, the leading cause of death of pregnant women in America is intimate partner homicide, and intimate partner violence frequently escalates during pregnancy. How does adoption fix those problems?

medgremlin ,

Then you and the people that agree with you on what constitutes the beginning of human life need to be fighting tooth and nail for social services and social welfare programs to support people before, during, and after pregnancy/birth. "Life begins at conception" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" are fundamentally opposing ideals unless they are only backed by cruelty, cognitive dissonance, and hate.

If you truly believe that all life is sacred, and that life begins with conception, you need to be turning around and fighting the people beside you on the importance of supporting the humans that are outside the womb.

medgremlin ,

Sometimes, there are no good options.

medgremlin ,

As a medical student that gets nonsense like this as question stems on exams: "confused and horrified screaming"

medgremlin ,

While working in the ER I've seen some impressive ingestions, both intentional and unintentional. I can guarantee that if he survives, it ain't gonna be a fun time. Off the top of my head, I think he'd be getting Narcan, Amiodarone, Flumazenil, cardiovascular and respiratory support, and probably hemodialysis. If he doesn't die from the cocktail, the hospital bill might get him.

medgremlin ,

Sounds like some damn good reasons to go to the locally-owned restaurant and try to ensure that they get to stay in business. It always sucks when the mom-and-pop/family-owned local places go out of business because people just go to the chains all the time.

medgremlin ,

That's good to hear. I always like seeing local folks doing well in their own communities more than any chain.

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    medgremlin ,

    One of his legal losses. This doesn't include the E. Jean Carroll rulings.

    medgremlin ,

    No, this is just the fraud ruling and the associated interest. The E. Jean Carroll trials aren't included in the amount on the page.

    medgremlin , (edited )

    If you write something in Word or an equivalent program, there will be metadata of the save files that shows creation and edit timestamps. If they use something like Google Docs, there's a very similar mechanism via the version history. I actually had the metadata from a Word document be useful in a legal case.

    medgremlin ,

    The edit history would show things like copy/pasting large blocks of text versus normally typed edits.

    medgremlin ,

    Lt. Riza Hawkeye (Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

    Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell - the 80's movie and the anime series. Live action one needs to die in a fire)

    Jo Lupo (Eureka)

    Domino (Deadpool 2)

    Go-go Tamago (Big Hero 6)

    Mako Mori (Pacific Rim)

    Golden Sparrow (Forbidden Kingdom)

    Gamora and Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy)

    Evie (V for Vendetta)

    Hela (Thor: Ragnarok)

    Valkyrie (Thor: Ragnarok)

    Molotov Girl/Millie (Free Guy)

    Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel)

    Cherri Bomb (Hazbin Hotel)

    Carmilla Carmine (Hazbin Hotel)

    Sypha Belnades (Castlevania)

    Lisa Tepes (Castlevania)

    Princess Mononoke

    Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle)

    Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Storm, Jean Grey (X-men)

    I could keep going all day. These are just the ones that come to mind without having to dig around my watched media for ideas.

    medgremlin ,

    Donna Noble is the best Dr. Who companion and I will not be entertaining any arguments that say otherwise.

    medgremlin ,

    In Second Gig (the second season of the anime) they do go over her past more and it reveals that she was a little girl that survived a plane crash (?) and was one of the first children to have a fully cybernetic body. That season explores a lot about her relationship with her past and present identities, motivations, and principles. It is one of my favorite pieces of media.

    medgremlin ,

    Tampons are useless for wounds as they typically hold less than 30mL/1oz of fluid. If you have a large wound that is bleeding despite applying pressure, use a tourniquet (which you can make out of any sufficiently strong fabric and a stick)

    medgremlin ,

    I'm a second year medical student, and those boomer doctors are what I will avoid being at any cost. I currently spend a fair amount of time and effort challenging some of my professors and classmates on their attitudes and assumptions regarding health needs and healthcare discrepancies for racial minorities, low SES patients, and LGBTQ+ patients.

    medgremlin ,

    The failure of the programmers to account for this kind of situation just speaks to their complete obliviousness and lack of understanding of other people. It's not terribly different from the problem of voice recognition software working best with male voices in a west-coat American accent because that is the entire sample set of people used to train it in the beginning.

    medgremlin ,

    That would be extremely dangerous for someone with an overactive sense of empathy and limited impulse control.

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    medgremlin ,

    Recent animal and human tissue studies have shown that vaping is just as likely to cause lung cancer as smoking does, it just has a predilection for a different type of lung cancer.

    medgremlin ,

    Nicotine is terrible for your brain and vaping is likely to have the same risk for lung cancer that smoking does, it just tends to cause a different kind of cancer. Anxiety, and any mental illness for that matter, is a hell of a burden to bear, but adding chemical dependence, health complications, and financial burden on top of it is not going to make anything better.

    medgremlin ,

    That might be the higher-than-is-really-safe concentration of fumes doing the stunning...

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