Most of the people I know that signed up for the military did so because they didn't have any other options out of high school. Their grades weren't good enough for college, their families were too poor to keep supporting them, and the job market (especially when I graduated high school in 2009) was so shit that the military was the only viable option for a lot of people. We have slim to none in the way of social safety nets in this country, and for the people who want to try to get some semblance of stability and self-sufficiency after high school, the military is often the best and/or only option.
Your stance here is woefully narrow-minded and completely ignores the reality faced by many young Americans who are just trying to make their way in the world. It's hideous and abhorrent that our systems are set up like this to the point that the military is a lifeline for many young adults, but I'm not going to blame them for believing the ubiquitous propaganda or making a calculated choice to try to survive in this capitalist hellscape.
The issue is that the title of the story implies that it was entirely due to the organism that the Irish people suffered so many deaths. Context matters and they framed this in the worst way possible.
The Irish people were growing tons of crops besides potatoes, but the British landlords took everything besides the potatoes as cash crops/taxes, leaving them only the potatoes to actually eat. There was more than enough food to prevent those deaths, but the Irish people weren't allowed to eat it.
He's doing what he can in Minnesota. He's done a hell of a lot more than just talk here and has made meaningful changes for the better for Minnesotans.
This is correct. Amlodipine is very effective as a blood pressure medication, but it doesn't get through the blood-brain barrier which is one of the biggest hurdles for any psychiatric or neurologic medication. There's an entire special sub-type of brain cells that control what actually makes it out of the blood and to the neurons and getting things past that barrier is quite difficult.
*Raise taxes on poor people. The billionaires can easily just fly to Europe for a shopping spree attached to their regular weekend jaunt and bring everything home in their luggage (if they cared about the prices of anything to begin with, that is).
But when they're really young you can do things like convince them that trees walk and that's why trees in cities are in those little cages or pens. (They do actually use their roots to pull themselves around a bit, but it takes a very long time for the amount of movement to be noticeable.)
The age group of children that gets put on leashes doesn't have the brain development to feel shame or humiliation. Their brains have literally not developed the cortex that does that yet.
From the age of about 2 to 4, my Dad made a harness out of climbing webbing for me and clipped the leash to a carabineer on his belt when we were out and about. We were constantly going to places like Haight St in San Francisco and hiking on the sea cliffs in Santa Cruz. I 100% would have gotten myself killed without that leash because I was very curious about the fishies in the ocean at the bottom of that 50-100ft high cliff, and my Dad was wrangling me and my sibling by himself while Mom was at work.
I'm pretty sure there's a picture somewhere of me leaning over a cliff being held back by the leash because I was a rambunctious little gremlin that was about 20 years off from having a fully developed frontal lobe. And I want to find that picture and share it with my friends because I think it's hilarious.
That's why the trailer has me so hyped for this game. It looks like the game is going to be different because Ciri is the protagonist. Her experience, reactions, and approach to saving a young woman from being sacrificed are totally different than what Geralt's would be. I hate it when games like Mass Effect are like "Oh! You can play as FemShep! That totally counts as representation!" even though it changes literally nothing about the story.
I want more games that actually address the real and significant differences in the experiences and perspectives of different characters. I'm always disappointed when there's a "female" option that's just a re-skin of the male character with no changes in how the character interacts with the world and the story. (This happens a lot in non-video game media too.)
It's entirely possible that it just wasn't diagnosed until very recently. Prostate cancer screening is not a standard recommendation at his age, and there are a lot of cancers that are very insidious. A lot of times, if there wasn't a screening test done for it, cancer is caught because of the symptoms of metastasis meaning that unless we're screening for cancer, we don't catch it until it's already progressed.
Some people are more attuned to their bodies and might notice the smaller, earlier symptoms, but for prostate cancer, they can be pretty easy to miss and the primary metastasis symptom is usually back pain from the cancer spreading into the lumbar vertebrae. A lot of people will just write that off as regular back pain and not go to the doctor for it.
From the emergency medicine perspective on that last bit....we don't care if you have a DNR somewhere on file. If you show up in cardiac arrest and someone isn't shoving an official POLST into our hands, we're running the code. We'd rather someone try (and fail) to sue for malpractice for saving them than accidentally let someone die that didn't want to.
These companies investing in nuclear is the only good thing about it. Nuclear power is our best, cleanest option to supplement renewables like solar and wind, and it has the ability to pick up the slack when the variable power generation doesn't meet the variable demand. If we can trick those mega-companies into lobbying the government to allow nuclear fuel recycling, we'll be all set to ditch fossil fuels fairly quickly. (provided they also lobby to streamline the permitting process and reverse the DOGE gutting of the government agency that provides all of the startup loans used for nuclear power plants.)
I'm already in a US medical school, and the thing the ads don't address is the complexity of Canadian medical licensing on top of the immigration system there.
medgremlin @ medgremlin @midwest.social Posts 7Comments 477Joined 2 yr. ago
Most of the people I know that signed up for the military did so because they didn't have any other options out of high school. Their grades weren't good enough for college, their families were too poor to keep supporting them, and the job market (especially when I graduated high school in 2009) was so shit that the military was the only viable option for a lot of people. We have slim to none in the way of social safety nets in this country, and for the people who want to try to get some semblance of stability and self-sufficiency after high school, the military is often the best and/or only option.
Your stance here is woefully narrow-minded and completely ignores the reality faced by many young Americans who are just trying to make their way in the world. It's hideous and abhorrent that our systems are set up like this to the point that the military is a lifeline for many young adults, but I'm not going to blame them for believing the ubiquitous propaganda or making a calculated choice to try to survive in this capitalist hellscape.