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orangetastic1 9 points ago +9 / -0

I don't doubt this, but it true, it seems phlebotomists should be observing related issues when trying to draw blood. I wonder if anyone's asked them.

My experience is they seem to be kind of at the bottom of the medical totem pole and probably don't want to risk their careers rocking the boat. That said, i've known a few full-blown nurses who drew blood regularly and you'd think they'd be seeing issues and be speaking up.

As an aside, a skilled phlebotomist is a real joy to have draw your blood. I knew one in particular - ex-mil nurse. Not a mark or a bruise or even any pain - was like he was never there. Always admire someone skilled at their profession.

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orangetastic1 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's not historically unprecedented. There were gas wars in the late 50s/early 60s and the price kept going down with stations competing for customers.

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orangetastic1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Is Billy going to play a self-deprecating Jew this time? 'Cause that seems to be his schtick in every single movie part he plays.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

My thoughts...

  1. I'm shocked that Time is still a going concern. I thought they went under years ago

  2. "Tarika Barrett is the CEO of Girls Who Code" Not to be sexist, but other than a very few yet very notable exceptions, I haven't seen a gal in my entire IT career who could code her way out of a paper bag, so they should be worried about AI considering how low the bar is that they're setting for AI to jump over. Maybe the upcoming generations will be super-girl-boss-coders, but none of them seem to have made it into the workforce yet.

  3. Most of the rest of the article isn't worth the time to comment on. Libtard claptrap that sounds like it was written by a college sophmore in an introduction to writing class.

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orangetastic1 4 points ago +4 / -0

Sounds like preparations to head off any potential shenanigans.

Exactly the thing a competent POTUS would do.

They could be flying without transponders, but they're not...

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orangetastic1 6 points ago +6 / -0

From what I've heard of Olympic Village, so aspects will be similar.

Except the consent part...

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

Barry was the scandal.

With Hilldawg the icing on the cake.

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orangetastic1 1 point ago +1 / -0

"...recent Gallup polling found Americans are now more likely to want a nuclear power plant built near them than an AI data center."

That certainly says something about nukes, AI or both.

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orangetastic1 6 points ago +6 / -0

I've always been suspicious of sunscreen. Seems like over my lifetime we went from not needing it, to just needing it in the summer, to needing it all the time with ever-increasing levels of SPF.

I'm still unsure about the aging claims. Yeah, there are plenty of old Florida ladies that look like their face turned to worn leather. But I'm not sure that means everyone, everywhere needs to avoid the sun like a vampire.

I tan easily and burn very rarely. Living in the midwest, I look latino half the year from working outside and white the other half from being cooped up indoors.

I have a feeling sunscreen is just going to be another thing our descendents will look on and wonder how we could have been so foolish and misinformed. Makes me not judge our ancestors so harshly when we make the same crazy mistakes despite supposedly having better information and technology.

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orangetastic1 1 point ago +1 / -0

I apologize. I recall this being used in the Obama administration for her. But now I can find no references to that.

I never cared enough about her to make it up. I can't decide if it's a false memory or it's been scrubbed from the web.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Valerie Jarrett

"As construction nears completion on the long-delayed $850 million Obama Presidential Center, federal tax filings show the Obama Foundation paid CEO Valerie Jarrett $740,000 in 2024 while several former Obama White House officials collected six-figure salaries as foundation executives."

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

Here's my theory. I'm GenX, although I've been called a "boomer" 1) because I'm conservative and 2) because some dumb-as-rocks 'tards think anyone over 30 is a "boomer" because making an effort to know what a term actually means is too hard even though they are attached to a device that gives them access to a wealth of information previous generations couldn't even dream of.

But I digress.

There are knumbskulls in every generation. The thing is, stupid used to be lethal, or at least painful. Definitely in the boomer generation and to a lesser extent in GenX, idiocy had real consequences. The smarter of us survived and the rest either got smart or didn't make it. Not to mention, many boomers got eliminated in 'Nam and GenX in smaller skirmishes.

I think each successive generation loses fewer of it's morons over time as we get better at keeping the species alive and that brings the average intelligence down. And that's why the newest generations are trending stupider in comparison.

A smaller factor is those dipshits that are destined to off themselves in those recent generations haven't had a full lifetime to accomplish it yet, so there's still time and hope, on average.

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