I mean it’s your choice to walk around with shit in your hat, but you do you.

Politics is not a zero sum game. You don’t vote for the good choice. You vote for the less bad choice.

Might as well just shit in your own hat for all the good that will do anyone.

Best case scenario at this point is one of them croaks before November. It’s insane to me that Biden even contemplated a second term, when the whole point of picking Kamala Harris as his VP was so she could be the young fit successor. It’s time to roll out plan B, guys.

Weekend discharges occur less frequently than discharges on weekdays, contributing to hospital congestion. Artificial intelligence algorithms have previously been derived to predict which patients are nearing discharge based upon ward round notes. In this implementation study, such an artificial intelligence algorithm was coupled with a multidisciplinary discharge facilitation team on weekend shifts. This approach was implemented in a tertiary hospital, and then compared to a historical cohort from the same time the previous year. There were 3990 patients included in the study. There was a significant increase in the proportion of inpatients who received weekend discharges in the intervention group compared to the control group (median 18%, IQR 18–20%, vs median 14%, IQR 12% to 17%, P = 0.031). There was a corresponding higher absolute number of weekend discharges during the intervention period compared to the control period (P = 0.025). The studied intervention was associated with an increase in weekend discharges and economic analyses support this approach as being cost-effective. Further studies are required to examine the generalizability of this approach to other centers.

Okay, sure, but voting on a single issue is what fucking morons do.

Incremental change is often the best we can hope for in this world.

That’s interesting, because for English-speakers, a baton is more closely associated with a delicate little conductor’s baton, though I suppose those big twirly sticks with pompoms that cheerleaders throw are also called batons.

In related news, praying to him for any of these things won’t actually do jack shit.

There should be a community for mods to shame the users they regulate. Anonymously, of course. All usernames would be obscured.

Christian conservatives will always prefer fiction over reality.

So not a city at all.

Just in time for the holiday baking and candy sales season. How convenient.

You’re not allowed to do that unless you’re already rich.

This is the new norm. Summer in the southern hemisphere = Australia burns. Summer in the north = Canada and the US burns. Give it a couple years and expect that list of countries on fire every year to expand rapidly.

I figure the only reason you don’t hear about this happening across Europe is they destroyed their forests centuries ago.

I want to be buried in a staged scene with a broken coffin lid and posed as if I’m clambering up through the dirt.

The headline is somewhat ambiguous, and seems to imply that the child was chained there to prevent a vampire buried below from rising. Knowing the child was the supposed vampire makes this a little less grim, because I was picturing some poor kid with his leg shackled to a headstone and left to die.

How about pausing it indefinitely and getting the leaders out to a warcrimes tribunal.

I always liked him as an actor. His role on West Wing is my favorite.

Can we all at least agree that it’s flaccid-dicked small men on both sides, and other old men with shriveled balls benefiting off of it from the sidelines?

Anyone who thinks that escalating this thing with more guns will solve anything hasn’t read a single paragraph of history. It can only make things worse. All Hamas did with their bombing was give the Israeli regime casus belli to commit whatever atrocities they want, and in turn Netanyahu’s fuckboys carpet bombing Gaza is just radicalizing everyone there for the next generation. It’s not too late to ramp this down before it pulls in the rest of the region, but we also have western arms manufacturers pushing every government to send our guns and bombs over. The machine of war doesn’t like being slowed down once you allow it to get moving again.

Trying to place blame for any one atrocity at this point is like pissing on a campfire when the forest behind you is on fire.