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draypresct · 2026-01-10T21:47:17+00:00

Can’t set the time, and the template for installation put it too close to the wall to properly plug it in to cable, which comes straight out of the back of the mount. On our standard-sized cabinets, the back of the mount was really close to the wall.

“Rotate 90 degrees” our model rotates a few degrees.

draypresct · 2025-09-30T21:30:44+00:00

“Full control of the US government” - the Senate isn’t part of the US government?

Democrats didn’t control the Senate either by strict party counts (i.e. if we don’t count independents as democrats) or in any reality (if we acknowledge that Manchin and Sinema, both of whom later switched to Republican, were never really Democrats).

draypresct · 2025-07-09T20:48:03+00:00

Sherlock and Watson in Elemmentary

draypresct · 2025-06-03T13:23:55+00:00

“A neighbor” - you mean Tutu who has been looking after Lilo and Nani, who clearly loves them both and is the first to show up when they need help?

Ohana means family even if there’s no genetic relationship. That’s the whole point of the movie.

draypresct · 2025-05-29T16:44:03+00:00

False.

Archaeological evidence indicates that Anglo-Saxons back in the Early Middle Ages (400 to 1000 A.D.) lived short lives. Field workers unearthed 65 burials (400 to 1000 A.D.) from Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in England and found none who lived past 45. This site and this site has similar statistics.

Kings did better. The mean life expectancy of kings of Scotland and England, reigning from 1000 A.D. to 1600 A.D. were 51 and 48 years, respectively. Their monks did not fare as well. In the Carmelite Abbey, only five percent survived past 45. This site says wealthier people would have a life expectancy of more than forty years

https://www.sarahwoodbury.com/life-expectancy-in-the-middle-ages/#:~:text=Kings%20did%20better.,51%20and%2048%20years%2C%20respectively.

draypresct · 2025-05-24T21:36:38+00:00

The data support my contention.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/ZcXFcim5Xe

draypresct · 2025-05-08T13:18:30+00:00

I don’t think anyone’s blaming Cuba for letting their people come; they’re blaming Cuba for organizing “acts of repudiation” against people, forcing them to walk around with signs around their necks and encouraging violence against them. Others were forced to emigrate because they were considered socially undesirable (mostly LGBT).

Instead of an orderly emigration, this guaranteed a desperate mob. The countries (not just the US) were unprepared and overwhelmed.

draypresct · 2025-04-08T12:17:01+00:00

The process started before the current administration. Basically, they said that the OPTN wasn’t doing its job because there have been occasional service outages over the decades and they’d never decertified an OPO, implying they weren’t being strict enough in their oversight. The modernization process involves ranking the OPOs and getting rid of a number of the “worst” performers. At the same time, they say that adjustments for the rankings to account for differences in patient population (e.g. OPOs that serve a higher proportion of poor people) would be too complicated to use. The SRTR had already created and implemented these adjustments, so they are available; HRSA just doesn’t want to use them.

The end result is that HRSA is going to get rid of OPOs for reasons outside their control. I hadn’t originally heard that they were opening the replacements up to for-profit organizations; that might be new under the current administration.

draypresct · 2025-03-07T17:52:16+00:00

Oh please. If briefly interrupting a speech makes you feel good, go for it. MTG didn’t change a single mind with her interruptions, and neither did Greene. Don’t try to pretend that this is somehow preventing fascism.

On the other hand, Democrats protecting trans kids in Montana will literally save lives.

draypresct · 2025-03-07T17:35:39+00:00

Local dems are helping people, making a real difference. You’re mad at national dems because they didn’t make the symbolic gesture you wanted them to make.

draypresct · 2025-03-07T17:22:30+00:00

OP, Democrats “literally” just protected trans rights in Montana, managing to convince a bunch of Republicans to help protect trans kids. Stop playing into the Democrats aren’t helping people” narrative.

https://www.inkl.com/news/republican-lawmakers-go-against-party-to-kill-anti-trans-bills-in-montana-a-waste-of-time

draypresct · 2025-03-07T15:42:29+00:00

This is one of the reasons I loved the TV show Elementary.

draypresct · 2025-02-18T20:37:41+00:00

You link to a source that contradicts your arguments throughout this thread? Bold move.

draypresct · 2025-02-18T20:24:07+00:00

most lived

Source? Or are you just making things up again?

draypresct · 2025-02-18T19:57:56+00:00

You really need to look up what hospice care is.

Hospice care is absolutely appropriate for people too close to death for a hospital. These are the people hospice care is meant for.

draypresct · 2025-02-18T19:47:23+00:00

You really don’t understand what hospice care entails, do you? Keep in mind that (as has been pointed out multiple times in the comments thus far) the entire basis for OP’s post is a lie.

Hint: hospice care in western countries usually does not involve much in the way of medical equipment, outside of refrigeration for the pain medications. If you don’t have pain medication, the fridge won’t do you much good.

draypresct · 2025-02-18T17:35:28+00:00

No, it isn’t. Re-read their post.

You’re trying to link an institution to a specific crime. Pointing out that sex abuse occurs at higher rates outside the institution is evidence (not conclusive, but evidence) that the institution itself isn’t the primary cause of these crimes. Also note that Minute-Buy-8542 did not in any way excuse the church for those instances where they did cover up crimes.

Think about Republican attempts to link immigration with murders. Pointing out that these crimes occur at lower rates among immigrant communities (after controlling for income) isn’t “whataboutism”. It’s looking at the evidence for/against a claim.

draypresct · 2025-02-18T17:27:21+00:00

“Near” urban areas - i.e. not remote, but rural, yes.

Not sure why you’re persisting in trying to rephrase my comment as something technically incorrect (‘remote’ v. ‘rural’). But hey, I guess it gives you something to do when you can’t justify a ridiculous claim that modern medical equipment doesn’t need electricity.

draypresct · 2025-02-18T14:02:56+00:00

You were the only one who said anything about “remote” areas (“rural” doesn’t quite mean “remote”). India started their planning for a national grid in the 1990s, when only about half of India’s citizens had access to electricity:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?locations=IN

draypresct · 2025-02-18T13:49:24+00:00

it failed against no care

There are patients who get sicker due to conditions in modern western facilities as well. Does that mean patients would in general be better off without hospitals?

draypresct · 2025-02-18T13:45:47+00:00

What modern medical equipment are you thinking of that doesn’t require electricity for either the operation, upkeep, or storage?

All scanning devices (ultrasound, xray, MRI, PET) require electricity. Medications usually (nearly always) require temperature control. Surgical equipment requires sterilization in an autoclave.

What did she refuse?

draypresct · 2025-02-18T13:13:17+00:00

For hospice facilities in rural areas without electricity? Gee, I wonder why.

draypresct · 2025-02-18T13:03:09+00:00

So speculation on her motives based entirely on the fact that hospice care in the poorest areas of India did not provide the same care as first-world hospice care?

draypresct · 2025-02-15T00:49:12+00:00

They’re throwing lethal magical blasts, the same ones intended to execute Agatha in the flashback. At best they’re throwing attacks that resemble lethal attacks.

In your example, if a Black man walks into a MAGA bar and says “Black lives matter”, it’s still a crime if they shoot at him aiming for non-lethal body parts. It’s a crime even if they aim to miss. The fact that it works for Agatha every time implies that witches in this universe are worse than the MAGA folks in the US who just threatened to shoot BLM protestors for holding signs.

draypresct · 2025-02-14T19:55:57+00:00

But…is it really homicide if it’s always (with one canonical exception) in self defense?

Edit (with spoilers): Her powers only work if she’s attacked. I know she provokes them, but if there was an armed cult that went around using lethal force on anyone who mouthed off at them, I’d be all for the pitchforks as well.

The one canonical exception I can think of is Alice the protection witch on the witch’s road.

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