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Yeah, I could, but it's a perfectly valid line of conversation to critique a post's title.

I don't think laziness is a valid line of criticism. I also find it strange to critique a title separate from its intended context.

we have the saying, "Always judge a book by its cover, and judge a response by it's grammar"

I don't think that's a very common idiom. It seems to imply that pedantry is more important than substance.

Depends, but most of the time with NDA they don't prohibit you from talking about how an accident happened. They just don't allow you to assign liability/responsibility to the company.

The victim and the family of the victim kinda fell over themselves to make it clear that they don't blame the company, despite the fact that they were so negligent.

To be fair, they may have signed an NDA as part of their workers comp agreement. The prosthetics he has are pretty rare to see on people, as most private and socialized insurances won't cover microprocessing knee units.

The vast majority of the time when you see a high end powered knee unit on a guy that young, it's because they had a workers comp case, or they got them at the Walter Reed veterans hospital.

The knee looks like a Genium x3, which alone can bill for around 100k. His prosthetic feet bill for around 10k a piece, and then there's probably another 50k for custom sockets.

Even if he did harbor a grudge against the employer, in his position it would be difficult to rock the boat and potentially be on the hook for his acquired medical cost.

It's unfortunate, but I've definitely had a patient who was successfully sued for losing their leg at work. Word to the wise, don't get hurt on the job in Kansas.

You could always read the article......

K2 is just running on a big diesel engine, so it's not going to be as maintenance prone as the turbine on the Abrams.

They've already kinda been doing that, just indirectly. Western partners have been giving their old stock of 155 to Ukraine and then resupplying with Korean made 155s.

I think a real game changer would be if they actually decided to give them access to the K2 tank. It would be interesting to see what an actual modern tank could do in Ukraine, especially considering they have layers of protection against drones and atgm. Plus they can crank them off the production line faster than any other nation.

Eh, for a country that's not in Europe, let alone NATO, they've done more than most. South Korea's main goal is to counter North Korea's geopolitical agenda. They've had laws on the books that prevent them from openly giving lethal aid to countries for decades now.

They are allowed to, and have circumvented this rule when N Korea gets involved, but they've done it in a tit for that manor. Sending shells through third parties to vicariously give lethal aid when N Korea "secretly" supplies Russia with rockets and shells.

This escalation from Russia and North Korea will likely be met by an escalation in a similar tit for tat manor. I don't think they'll send actual troops to Ukraine, but it wouldn't surprise me if they ramp up shell production, as well as making the K2 tank factory go brrrr.

This post, at this time, is very obviously pointed at influencing the US election.

Criticizing a genocide doesn't automatically mean someone's trying to influence an election, especially considering that it been constantly criticized for over a year.

trump and his people have literally talked out loud about how great the "beachfront property" will be for Israel once they annihilate Gaza and the Palestinian people.

If both political parties geopolitical goals align with Israel, what exactly leads you to believe this is meant to influence the election? It's not telling you to vote for stien, or trump.

Maybe if people didn't go out of their ways to shield any level of criticism of their representatives we might have a more functional democracy, and maybe there would be less kids dying in Gaza.

And you are all actively sinking in that faulty boat, about to die in the middle of the ocean...

And who does this represent in your scenario?

I think now that we've successfully prosecuted the Jan. 6th domestic terrorists, we can put this notion to rest.

Except that the feds had their kiddy gloves on for sentencing..... Out of the thousands of people there only a small percentage have caught charges that drastically change their lives, and even then not to the point of treason nor terrorism charges.

We absolutely can and should go after these nutjobs threatening federal workers.

I agree, but I don't see it happening any time soon. Not when the person who led them is still considered appropriate for the highest position in the land to half of the electorate.

Islamic fundamental extremism didn't really find its way into Afghanistan until the 80's. It was transplanted by the Saudi government who were in part supported by the United States as a way to counter the Soviet invasion.

If you actually ever get the chance to meet an actual Afghan family, I think you would be surprised of how kind they generally are, hospitality is a cornerstone of their culture.

I think it's important to realize that the cultural identity of the Taliban to America isn't actually based off of Afghan culture, it's based off of the Saudi, and that the Afghan people are the real victims of this .

Mainly because after the pr disasters of ruby ridge and then Waco, right winged militia's grew in numbers, basically using the events as marketing materials.

Right winged grifters love it when they are confronted, it fulfills all their fantasies about the underdog standing up to authority, and proves in their minds that they were correct the whole time.

Since the American fascist movements have legitimized news organizations that will echo their claims, it's extremely hard to actually crack down on them without turning them into Martyrs.

The end result has been the federal government putting right winged extremists on the back burner for the last 30 years, allowing them to fester into the infection we know and hate today.

Yeah, that can be an issue with some of the more advanced knee units and upper limb devices if they are being done by a private clinic and being purchased by a private insurance or a workers comp case.

Luckily Medicare and most Medicaid programs dictate that the clinic that fabricates the limb also maintains the limb until the patient qualifies for a new one.

don't think Batman makes Nolan any less prestigious.

I don't either, but the critics that love art house movies prob do.

saw an open source project for 3d printing prosthetic limbs with a focus on making affordable prosthetics for kids since they grow so quickly they need new fittings quickly as well.

Unfortunately 3d printing has mainly been a bit of a gimmick in the field of prosthetics, especially the more diy projects. Most people think that prosthetics is an engineering field with a side of medicine, when in reality it's more of a medical field with a side of engineering.

The project you were referring to never really took off because it ended up being detrimental to the patient's long-term health. With how quickly children adapt to their conditions, if you don't provide them with a prosthetic that provides more utility than their residual limb, they end up adapting to never wearing any prosthetic. Which in turn can vastly lower their mobility and ability to interact with their environments.

The fact that much of our prosthetics technology isn't that different from what they had in the Civil War is sad.

I wouldn't say it's quite that bad. I mean I did carve a wooden socket in school, but haven't ever seen one in a clinic setting. Prosthetic tech really advanced in the 90s with the introduction of materials like carbon fiber, titanium, new thermoplastics, and advanced mechanical knee units. With the amount of repetitive ground force reaction a human body can produce in motions, our field is pretty limited by the advancement of material science.

The reception of it appears to be, but prob only because Coppola is seen as more prestigious by critics because he never made a batman movie.

and she's definitely not touching herself for any other reason.

How dare you, the ancients weren't tainted with the same levels of sexual proclivities found in modern society. They weren't just grooming those boys because they just wanted to fuck them, they were engaging in pedagogy, not pedophilia! It's why all my twink TA's are underclassmen, someone must teach the youth. - every male art history teacher

The professional reviews are hilariously mixed, I'm pretty sure Coppola unwittingly made a movie that also serves as a litmus test to see how pretentious and up your own ass you are.

The honest reviews are basically, this made no sense, I don't know what he was thinking. The positive reviews can be boiled down to "if you have to ask, you're not sophisticated enough to understand".

Yeah, plus the "cutting edge" prosthetic tech we currently have is mostly overhyped marketing.

There are about a dozen powered prosthetics I always see on social media that always look really cool and the "patients" always go on and on about how useful it is......What people don't realize is those "patients" are being paid by the manufacturer, and usually part of the deal is that they get the limb for free.

They don't tell you about having to wear a heavy battery pack that only lasts for a couple hours. They don't tell you that you have to pre-program routines like tying your shoe laces. That you have to purposely concentrate on flexing residual muscle groups in your limb to activate those routines. Nor do they tell you that the majority of patients who own those devices usually revert back to a manual prosthetic for functional tasks, or just choose not to wear a prosthetic at all because they can achieve more function with their stumps.

While prosthetics have started looking more futuristic and functional, unfortunately we haven't really advanced any technology that actually improves function and utility since the late 90's. And I highly doubt we'll ever make a prosthetic that provides more utility than the limb it's replacing, not in our lifetime at least.

Right now Brent Crude is just 71.28. Oil prices are going down.

Yes, and as soon as it gets cold oil the price of oil will rise once again. It's not like countries are divesting from fossil fuels any time soon.

Additionally Russia does not have the technical ability to fix all of the refineries that Ukraine has been blowing up nor do they have the ability to fix all of the upstream production problems being created.

Russia isn't a technologically deprived nation, and they have one of the largest oil producing and refining operations in the world. They may not be able to repair the damages with imported parts as they would have 5 years ago, but refining tech isn't exactly a new science, or particularly complicated.

Productions of raw products is dropping fast](https://ycharts.com/indicators/russia_crude_oil_production)and those declines are going to both continue and accelerate.

If you examine that chart for the year it seems bad, but if you just click on the scale of 5 years, it's pretty much just average. The important thing to look at is exports, which have been rapidly increasing.

O&G is not going to be propping up Russia's economy for much longer.

I think that's a bit optimistic given that the West is hesitant to actually enforce the embargo, and are equally hesitant to divest from the fossil fuel sector.

We just don't have the spine to actually give an ultimatum of "you can do business with the US, or you can do business with Russia" to countries like India or China. That would be putting the interest of the nation and democracy in general, before the interest of private profit.