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  1. Yeah I think we can go ahead and not talk about this particular topic in this thread anymore
    33 points
  2. I'm having my ileostomy* bag (do not fucking google it) removed from my very successful (so far) cancer battle. It's a shit bag (or an aggy as it were)
    26 points
  3. Oh hey a surly tangent that I'm qualified for. FWIW I have a master's in clinical research and work managing a couple federal healthcare research projects The 20th century was like the wild west for research. There was a huge surge in interest but minimal regulation. The Tuskogee syphilis study was probably the most fucked up one in the US, but some of the other biggies were the monster study (1939), project mk-ultra (1953-73; yes it's real, no they didn't invent mind control), and the infamous stanford prison experiments (1971). And none of that even comes close to the fucked-upness of the Nazi human experiments or Japanese Unit 731 during WW2. Of course, there was also a lot of good, ethical research that revolutionized medicine and broadened the scope of human knowledge. Watson and Crick famously discovered the DNA double helix structure in 1953 (shoutout Rosalind Franklin), and the field of psychology basically went from Freud's horny fever dreams to the respectable field we know today due to the focus on studying the mind during this time. Importantly, all the terrible stuff led to a ton of regulation and a focus on ethics. The Nuremberg trials led to the establishment of the Nuremberg Code in 1948. It advocated voluntary participation, informed consent, avoiding harm, and ensuring quality. You might be thinking 'no shit,' but it's a big deal. In the US, congress responded to the Tuskogee syphilis study by passing the National Research Act of 1974, which would result in the Belmont Report (1979) that still guides research ethics today. You'll notice all the stuff above happened before that point. None of it would be approved today. Hell, it takes a month for my review board to approve an eight word change to our protocol. Modern research in the US is well regulated and very conscious of its ethical concerns. It's also an important part of our power on the global stage, but that's a different conversation. Bonus fun fact: when a researcher is awarded a grant, they don't make any money from it.
    26 points
  4. Thank you. It's been 3 months with the bag (never got used to it because it was temporary). My oncologist did most of the heavy lifting on the cancer fight, I just showed up. I tried to avoid whining about it. I did think early on along with covid last year, that I was never going to see another Texas baseball game, let alone Omaha. That which does not kill you makes surlier?
    24 points
  5. Does not appear to be a sinkhole from other video footage, but who knows. Two recent collapses: Minneapolis Bridge over the Mississippi and Hard Rock Cafe in New Orleans had ongoing work at the times of their collapses. The Hard Rock collapse appears to have been partially caused by heavy point loads from a scissor lift and improper reshoring along with a not fully cured concrete placement. i don't remember exactly what happened in Minneapolis, but it was related to ongoing work. Not saying this is the case here, but there was roofing work going on. If materials or equipment were stored that was too much for the roof, it might have caused the pancaking of the first section that fell. Its hard to tell if it started in one section and then spread. The second section appeared to be leaning inward after the first section went down, probably from the undermining of lower columns and deck structure from the initial collapse. Just my initial thoughts. I am not an engineer, but I am a concrete contractor and have done multi story cast in place buildings.
    20 points
  6. bout time Augie showed up.. what took him so long...
    19 points
  7. I had one of those in 2017 for butt cancer. Had it reversed and am doing fine. Scheduled to be released from cancer surveillance in September.
    19 points
  8. This show about the rich, rich history of Mississippi State baseball and their 0 national titles is fascinating
    19 points
  9. Jesus. Jesus H. Christ. I never thought I could be more annoyed than I was with the cheese puns. I stand corrected. At least some of that was mild cheddar funny. Tuskegee syphilis study? Terrible. Take it to another board. Eyes? What fucking recruit brought that up? Valai conjecture. Who gives a shit when it comes to recruiting. Nobody is standing around wondering if a statue of Sul Ross is going to keep Jimbo Baggins from finally filling in a date on that ridiculous plaque. George Wallace? Fuck off. My God, George fucking Wallace has been SUCH a detriment to ‘Bama recruiting I mean really, who in the wide world of fuck thinks any of this has anything remotely to do with the recruiting board? With all due respect, fuck you guys.
    13 points
  10. Have you checked in safe on facebook yet?
    13 points
  11. You only want the free market to apply to where YOU want it to apply. If you believed in the free market, you would have denounced the PPP loans to business owners. If you believed in the free market, no one in the US would have a job because someone in Kuala Lumpur would do that job for 1/100 the money. If you believe in the free market, we would still have six year old working in coal mines. If you believed in the free market, business owners wouldn't rely on US patent laws to protect them. If you believed in the free market, then you wouldn't support government tax incentives for providing health insurances to employees* You believe people that receive assistance from the government are lazy worthless sacks of shit, that don't work hard, don't want to make a sacrifice, and want things handed to them. I'm sure these people exist, but it mostly a bogeyman used by the rich to shit on the poor. 44 million people use Medicare. 61 million people collect social security each month. Are these people lazy? Do these people want free handouts? Did they not work hard their entire life?
    13 points
  12. That's too bad. He could really use the practice.
    12 points
  13. As an aside ... 9/11 Truthers are the worst.
    12 points
  14. I'm no engineer so I'm not going to be able to offer anything like a real explanation of the specific structural failures, but from a quite insane number of hours wasted years ago trying to rebut 9/11 truthers I can tell you that (1) it is absolutely impossible to secretly wire up an occupied building for demolition, and (2) building collapses tend to all look basically like that because gravity pushes straight down. At a very basic level, buildings are heavy as shit and it takes a lot of strong materials working together as a system to hold them up. When part of the system fails and leads to a partial collapse (e.g. the top floor falling), the damage from that can cause the rest to fail and you'd get what you see here.
    12 points
  15. My daughter applied for Teach For America and on the question about ranking where she'd like to do the work, her reply on the application was "Place of Highest Need", thinking she'd wind up in an inner city school of somewhere like Los Angeles or Detroit. Nope, she got accepted and sent straight to the place of highest need - the Mississippi Delta. Teaching 3rd grade there, she got punched twice and stabbed once by students. Her whole class got to witness one of their classmate's dads get murdered in front of the school at pick-up by another student's father. You have to be able to pass a statewide reading exam in the 3rd grade there or you can't advance. She had a 13 year old, several 12 YOs and a bunch of 11s and 10s. I flew in directly once to visit her in the shithole tiny town she was in before her stint was over and spent half the day in the class with her kids. These people are flat out fucked for life. There's not a single redeeming thing about that state's rigged school system. "Attendance" is legitimately one of the main goals of the public system there by 6th grade, so it seems apropos for a school name. My daughter's class had 90+% of the kids pass the exam in each of her two years, and she's nuts, so she volunteered for a 3rd year mentoring stint and did the same. I couldn't fathom staying there for any stretch, much less 3 years.
    12 points
  16. Unrelated question: do people in third world countries know that they live in third world countries? Or do they rationalize things like fascist plots and bridges and buildings falling apart?
    12 points
  17. Well fuck me. Who the fuck am I? Sorry I forgot to check first with the dudes with a million posts before I got surly on a site called fucking SURLY HORNS. I read your stuff all the time, man. Through at least two websites now. You think you and the other 50 or so people who post nonstop like you don’t have jobs are the only people who read every fucking word on here? Look, I know that when nothing’s happening shit gets all mentally deficient in here. Just the way it goes. But this shit that hedges on political, and in some cases is two feet fully in political, can fuck right off. Sorry for partying.
    11 points
  18. To be clear, Crowder's not just "not thinking like [him]", he's being a fucking moron.
    11 points
  19. I'm glad that they're so likable, but we still have to crush their souls.
    10 points
  20. In 1981 the engineers didn't foresee all the extra weight Americans would be carrying in 2021.
    10 points
  21. Nope - smother him with one of his own pillows.
    9 points
  22. "Our new S&C guy knows what he's doing!" is my favorite part of coaching changes.
    9 points
  23. I say we play through. Doesn't look like the hard stuff will come down for quite awhile.
    8 points
  24. If I were president, every televised baseball game would be required to play late 80’s episodes of ‘This Week in Baseball’ during rain delays.
    8 points
  25. Yeah that's bullshit. If he wants to be in public service he either needs to convince that club to diversify or drop his membership. No one forced him to become a senator.
    8 points
  26. right then you just jump right before you hit and then walk away and say whoa that was crazy.
    8 points
  27. They did. They stopped working at restaurants for $2.13 an hour plus tips and found work elsewhere. Now restaurants are mad because other industries lured away their cheap labor, but instead of looking inward and realizing the labor market has changed, they'd rather blame the dwindling pool of poor people who would rather stay home and collect checks. Unemployment has gone down month over month for some time now. It was sitting at 5.8% last month and slowly returning to the pre-COVID level of just under 4%. Yet restaurant jobs in some areas are still running a labor deficit of 25%. The overall job market improves while the restaurant labor market remains stagnant. Bottom line is that people HAVE gone back to work. They refuse to do it for $2.13 an hour plus tips, though.
    8 points
  28. A whole lot of FAAFO
    8 points
  29. How about a little levity? All this talk of dealing with customers in the service/retail industries made me think of this video. Funniest thing I have seen in awhile. Angry IKEA guy.
    8 points
  30. I'm curious, but how does Alabama pull a racism card? Seems illogical given their history.
    8 points
  31. This is why you are so full of shit, DC. You do this all this time: "Aw gee, I'm just a dumb ol' conservative who claims to be rational but I never have to change my mind about anything even when I'm thoroughly educated on something because I can just claim it's all above my head" I do not believe you are as stupid as you act. You just don't actually want to change your mind or challenge your beliefs about anything.
    8 points
  32. And, regardless of how successful or unsuccessful the insurrection was at "toppling the government," the issue is the intention to do so. Egged on by an infantile lunatic.
    8 points
  33. Such massive overlap in the Venn diagram of the people who are bitching and complaining about why there are no service employees available and the entitled dicksmacks who made sure to yell at all the clerks/servers/cashiers about masks and vaccine policies and contributed to making shitty jobs 100000x shittier. Everyone fucking hates you and is tired of dealing with you and we all pay the price. Try being less shitty?
    7 points
  34. Wife has a friend from high school that lived on the 8th floor and is missing. We were in Miami earlier this week and were supposed to meet up with him but couldn't coordinate a meet and now wife is taking it hard we didn't meet up while we were there...
    7 points
  35. After the GOP's overperformance in the 2020 election, everyone knew Biden wasn't going to be able to pass much of his agenda. Had the Dems been the ones who overperformed and had the stars aligned, we would be seeing huge structural changes to our democracy (For the People Act, DC and PR statehood, etc. etc.). However, no one should be the least bit shocked at what is currently going on in the Senate. This was all apparent immediately after the election. Losing Maine, NC, and Iowa were big. Dems even had a puncher's chance in Montana. It sucks. Elections have consequences. 2020 was about removing the clown and building a big enough lead in the Senate to be able to ram through For the People Act and increase the number of senators. We failed at the second part. 2022 gives us another opportunity.
    7 points
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