Alternatively, maybe we should keep him to ourselves as a shield against whatever bullshit the federal government is getting up to.

Walz was all set to get feisty with the GOP when Harris, et al put a leash on him.

As a Minnesotan, I’m partial to Walz. I’m furious about how they set him up to fail in 2024 by putting him on the ticket then promptly shoving him in a corner.

I have the pixel watch 2, and waterproofing is very important to me when it comes to a smartwatch. I work in healthcare and have to wash my hands upwards of 30 times a day. If I had to take off my watch every time or gamble on a rubber flap adequately covering the charging port, it simply would not be worth the hassle.

I can’t condone this because the children don’t really get much choice in what food their parents provide them with. There is no reasonable world in which we can expect children to make good choices for themselves when their parents are the ones being absolute idiots.

I’ve been noticing more of this recently and it doesn’t encourage me to spend too much time here. There are so many posts that I don’t even open the comment section because I know it’s going to be a disaster and make me feel like I’m intruding on the boys’ online clubhouse.

The vast majority of rapists are never even convicted, let alone end up on the registry.

If it’s a conversation about 3rd spaces and a lack of opportunities for IRL social interaction in modern society, I think it’s more apt and more productive to just call it a loneliness epidemic. People who are not cis-men have the same problems of not being able to access affordable, pleasant places to socialize in their communities. Calling it the “male” loneliness epidemic just leads to animosity and division where there should be solidarity.

It’s been around for quite awhile. I use Turo more than I use regular car rental services because you actually get to choose what car you’re getting and the prices are better.

Use Turo. You can rent basic or fun/interesting cars directly from the owners.

Compared to Trump? Caligula might actually be an upgrade.

It is an actual, accredited medical school and we still take the same board exams. The subjects where the religiosity shows the most are the ethics classes, abortion, and LGBTQ+ healthcare. Otherwise, the most prominent manifestation was prayer at the start of lectures and exams.

Most people with heart problems have too big of a heart. Cardiac hypertrophy and dilated cardiomyopathy (too much overgrown muscle and stretched out floppy muscle, respectively) are common end points of poorly managed hypertension (high blood pressure).

The Hippocratic oath doesn’t cover this at all and actually explicitly forbids abortion and euthanasia. It’s really quite antiquated which is why I wrote an oath for myself that I hold to.

There’s a lot of debate about the specific meanings of the text, but there are many Christian physicians that will latch onto those passages as an excuse to apply their own beliefs to patient care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

As someone who attends a medical school attached to a religious university, I can tell you this is a mindset that exists quite commonly in the medical field. Many of these people get careers in the multitudes of Catholic hospitals that abuse religious freedom laws to deny certain kinds of healthcare and face absolutely no repercussions for their persistent bigotry.

I wish this is how it was at my medical school. My med school is attached to a deeply religious university and some of our professors said some pretty wild shit in lectures. I was almost always the one to key up on the mic in recorded lectures to fight them on it.

I’m sad to say there were a couple lectures that I was just too demoralized to fight back directly, but I did talk to my classmates to correct the record after those lectures.

I think if the Dems ran on a platform of caring about people and trying to make their lives better instead of a platform of warmongering and performative “toughness”, things would have turned out differently. I would have been much happier about my vote if they had been kinder and gentler by doing things like opposing Israel’s genocide and working to actually improve people’s lives in meaningful ways.

As a Minnesotan, I’m proud to have him as our governor because he actually works in the best interest of all of his constituents, regardless of whether or not they voted for him. I believe that he is a genuinely good person which is a severely endangered species in politics.

I am very disappointed in how the Harris/Walz campaign built its platform and conducted itself, but I don’t think any of it was Tim’s fault. If he had been the top of the ticket (with an actual primary), I think things would have turned out very differently. His genuine care for other humans was squashed and sidelined by the campaign in an astonishingly stupid strategy to try to look tough to appeal to centrists and republicans.

Some recent pictures showed pretty impressively swollen ankles (bilaterally, mind you) which really only happens with a handful of conditions, congestive heart failure being the most common one.

The doctors that only ever studied medicine and nothing else have a tendency to be impressively stupid in anything that isn’t their direct specialty.