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Anastasis

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    Burgers

    Why did the city make them get rid of a seasoned flat top?
  2. That article is fucking nuts. "Sorry Ahmed, see there is this thing called a receiver operating characteristic plot, and well, you know...." On Oct. 22, the Israeli Air Force bombed the home of the Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq in the city of Deir al-Balah. Ahmed is a close friend and colleague of mine; four years ago, we founded a Hebrew Facebook page called “Across the Wall,” with the aim of bringing Palestinian voices from Gaza to the Israeli public. The strike on Oct. 22 collapsed blocks of concrete onto Ahmed’s entire family, killing his father, brothers, sisters, and all of their children, including babies. Only his 12-year-old niece, Malak, survived and remained in a critical condition, her body covered in burns. A few days later, Malak died. Twenty-one members of Ahmed’s family were killed in total, buried under their home. None of them were militants. The youngest was 2 years old; the oldest, his father, was 75. Ahmed, who is currently living in the UK, is now alone out of his entire family.
  3. "Lets see how Earth responds to that" Some of you people just refuse to be entertained.
  4. At least there is something still stamped with made in the USA, even if it is just the lawn mower.
  5. Twitter is a cesspool of propaganda and disinfo.
  6. I moved over to an elevated 8-10' blind for a couple sits so far, and that is like a third world country situation compared to either one of those blinds. The view is much superior though to the ground blind situation at the other spot.
  7. I mean I think it should be called, but also don't have a problem with a little contact in that situation. Just called my boy into the room (keep) and told him this is why you don't clown.
  8. Let's go through some of the specific issues that I raised. DTC advertising - I am not aware of any current legislation being proposed, but haven't really searched. Happy to discuss the legislation if there is some to consider. Durbin did something last congress (with GOP cosponsors), but it was only about publishing pricing as part of the DTC, and died in the Senate. Expanded HSA access - Variety of legislation in play: https://www.govtrack.us/search?q=HSA Pharma pricing, competitive market - S1114, intended to speed generics to market (D primary sponsor, R cosponsor); S1067, limits citizen petitions that slow generic entry (D sponsor, 3R/2D cosponsors); S113, requires FTC to report anticompetitive practices (R sponsor, 10R/9D/1I cosponsors); others here: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/subjects/prescription_drugs/6184 . None of these really get to a functional market, but fwiw. Pharma pricing, gov negotiations - IRA obviously, we get to see how that plays out and has been discussed on other threads. Not familiar with any other current relevant bills. Economic analyses as part of regulatory approval process - lol, no. If you want to discuss any particular legislative proposals, happy to engage, but we should probably move it over to one of the healthcare policy threads.
  9. Agreed. But while we are the topic of forced sodomy in the occupied territories, this may be where MisterP learned it from. Were you IDF MisterP? https://www.dci-palestine.org/jerusalem_child_threatened_with_sodomy_placed_under_house_arrest Ramallah, March 21, 2014—A boy from East Jerusalem who signed a confession after Israeli interrogators threatened him with sodomy spent over two months under house arrest. Othman S, 14, was summoned for interrogation by Israeli intelligence in the early hours of November 25, 2013 and accused of throwing stones and Molotov cocktails near the Israeli Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem. In a sworn affidavit given to DCI-Palestine, Othman says he was forced to stand face to the wall with his hands tied for about two hours and strip-searched before being interrogated. During the interrogation, an intelligence officer accused him of throwing a stone and then a Molotov cocktail at a police car and, when Othman would not confess, the officer threatened to sodomize him. “(The interrogator) then brought a broomstick, about 1.5 meters (6 feet) long, from one of the corners and threatened to shove it up my bottom,” Othman said, adding that the interrogator said to him: “You want me to shove this stick up your ass so you’ll feel pain and tell me the truth?” The interrogator also insulted Othman’s mother and sister and warned him that he would “demolish my home if I did not talk,” he said. Scared and alone, Othman confessed under duress. “I was crying. I said everything against my will. I was scared of them. I was scared they might beat me and demolish our house,” Othman told DCI-Palestine. There were at least 31 cases of child detention in East Jerusalem in 2012. Of those, 97 percent experienced physical abuse and 90 percent were subjected to intimidation and humiliation, according to DCI-Palestine statistics.
  10. Here is a poll from 2023, immediately prior to Oct. 7th. Full text behind the tags, with broader discussion and details. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/what-palestinians-really-think-hamas? What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas Before the War, Gaza’s Leaders Were Deeply Unpopular—but an Israeli Crackdown Could Change That By Amaney A. Jamal and Michael Robbins October 25, 2023
  11. Agree strongly wrt DTC advertising and I would go much further than most wrt restricting marketing activities. Agree that pharma pricing needs pressure applied. I think that the best approach is removing the various clouds and letting a competitive market shake it out, but there are certainly good arguments for leveraging government buying power in certain situations. We should also require health economic and cost effectiveness analyses as part of the approval process, in the same way the they do in UK and some european markets. It is part of a reasonable price finding process imo. Preventative care is a drop in the bucket and could/should be part of a revisioned Medicare backstop, jsut like it is with HDPs today,.
  12. Best I've seen on camera this season.
  13. Free pass, nah. Under the outline of healthcare finance reform I laid out, which is not new and I've gone into greater detail in the healthcare policy treads before, private insurance at least as it exists today becomes largely unnecessary and irrelevant. Which is just a small part of why it is a pipe dream...it would would free people from the capture of employer sponsored insurance, put real market pressure to pharma and most non-emergent healthcare service pricing, empower Americans with tax-free health savings accounts to direct as they choose, and provide reasonable safety nets to back stop catastrophic events and those without the means for even the basic level of preventative care. Basically every healthcare industry segment would hate it. Which is a fairly good indication that it is probably on the right path.
  14. Chaser: Tear apart the Bibi coalition at the same time. Translation: "Stopping the war = dissolution of the government"
  15. That's fair, and yes Medicaid expansion would have favorable impacts on payer mix for rural hospitals in particular.
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