nelly_man

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[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least he was brought to tears by the end of the interview when his invective didn't go unchallenged.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

FYI, it looks like that story about the paws is false.

The truth behind it is that there was a furry that somehow got severe frostbite when they fell asleep while icing their hands to deal with arthritis pain. After that, friends made a post trying to raise money for their medical bills, and they jokingly commented about getting him new paws. And that apparently spread elsewhere as "a furry amputated their hands to get paws."

https://dogpatch.press/2019/09/10/hoax-alt-right-trolls/

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

She wasn't saying that water was spontaneously boiling in this chamber. She was saying that they were in a space-equivalent chamber with a pressure such that water would spontaneously boil. If you found yourself in the environment that is being simulated here (outer space), you would be able to observe water spontaneously boiling without the vacuum pumps.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It looks like it's from June 1970 during the Trooping the Colour, which was the Queen's birthday celebration.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2014/may/28/passing-out-parade-trooping-of-the-colour-photography

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They mention Clinton because when he left office, the federal government was running at a surplus and was paying down the national debt. However, that changed after Bush came to office and passed tax cuts before starting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It doesn't sound like she's afraid of being sanctioned by Columbia. Rather, it sounds like she's disgusted by Columbia and no longer wishes to be associated with them.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They have performed a handful executions using nitrogen gas over the last few years in Mississippi and Alabama. From what I understand, the people have all shown signs of distress and oxygen hunger during the executions, and the autopsies show signs of distress.

I think the pathologist that reviewed the first such execution had said that it would likely have gone better if a sedative were administered beforehand. However, I'm pretty sure that nitrogen hypoxia executions were being used because pharmaceutical companies were unwilling to provide medications for use in lethal injections, so that would likely extend to sedatives for use during executions. But in the absence of sedatives, the process is panic inducing, which causes people to resist inhaling the nitrogen, which in turn means that they are not exhaling as much carbon dioxide and thus experience the panic associated with suffocation.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with seasoning?

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not an expert in the Bible, but I don't think it really ascribes omnipotency to God. I think it's better to understand it as God being able to do all that can be done. So He may have limitations, but they are such that no other being can do something that He is unable to do.

From that sense, He is not able to save humanity freely, but he can set forth a process through which He can achieve this goal with some cost. I.e., He can create a divine being (that is either Himself in whole, Himself in part, or a direct descendant of Himself depending on your interpretation) that is able to spread His message and display an act of extreme self-sacrifice.

I don't really understand exactly what the sacrifice did or what needed to be fixed, but I do think the stories make a lot more sense if you accept that God has some limitations. For instance, I assume that Noah's flood was his first attempt to fix the problem (by killing everybody except for the most righteous of His creation), but it failed because He can't do everything and doesn't know everything. And the story of Jesus was His next attempt to sort things out.

But that's just me thinking about them as fictional stories that really need to be edited rather than a divine and infallible truth.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's no need to be fair here. Insulin is absolutely essential for diabetics, and the head of the FDA trying to proclaim that cooking classes are a viable alternative is nonsense. For type 1 diabetics, no amount of healthy eating is going to get their body to produce insulin. For type 2 diabetics, it is possible to eventually get to a point where you can be stable without insulin, but not for everybody and not right away. Insulin treatment is the only way to survive with diabetes for an extended period of time, and the focus needs to be on ensuring that insulin is both affordable and accessible.

Yes, there are things to improve in our food supply, but don't let that distract from how egregiously insane his comments are about diabetes.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I think it started around when he married Jenny McCarthy, who has long been a very vocal anti-vaxxer.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It has already metastasized in his bones, so it's much more aggressive than most prostate cancers. After metastasizing there, three 5-year survival rate is about 33% with a median survival time of 21 months. But it's also very rare for it to have already spread elsewhere before being caught, so I'm assuming that means that this is even more aggressive than normal and that 21 months would be optimistic. But I'm not a medical professional, so I can't say how valid this assumption is.

 

The context around this is the concept of the Right of Ancient Light. Under English law, windows that have enjoyed a sufficient level of light for at least 20 years are recognized as possessing a right to ancient light.

Once conferred, the owner of the property can invoke this right to prevent the construction of a building that would obstruct the level of light that enters these windows, or they can be compensated monetarily to give up this right.

The video doesn't explain this aspect, but the barriers were presumably set up so that his windows would never acquire this right, thus allowing the neighbor to develop their property sometime in the future without concern.

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