I work on side projects for people with woodwork.
My day job that makes up the majority of my income is in software.
I wouldn’t call myself a woodworker over a software engineer.
You are calling yourself a content creator instead of a prostitute when that’s your primary profession. Nothing wrong with either profession, but that context is relevant.
It is not that I don’t want her in the White House. It’s that I know in the current electoral college, she is unelectable.
Principles, morals, and virtue are great. You have to fucking win to govern.
Jeff Jackson is a much better choice IMO as about the furthest left young actually electable official you can tap in 3 years.
That’s the whole point of gas masks, yes.
Sad, cause it was a great scene by him
I need you to stop doing that.
Answering more than was asked.
You can in fact, simply give up US citizenship.
If own the lottery tomorrow, and needed a “no capital gains taxes” state to be a citizen of, this would be sorta tempting.
Also noteworthy, the IRS doesn’t come after international citizens. Sure they can go after you domestically, but if your accounts are not American accounts and your assets are in other nations, you can just live your life not filing taxes without going back to the US as a citizen.
I don’t want to type for ages here, but as someone who has been a sufferer and then medical patient for chronic daily migraines for decades; it actually is pretty nuanced.
For people like me, their chronic migraines are triggered as a secondary effect from the primary source. My headaches are called cervicogenic headaches, and migraine abortives like Obrelvy or Triptans are often used to arrest the storm. However, they are caused in origin from the occipital nerve, of which there are 3 branches in the neck.
An occipital nerve block is one commonly used tool, but it is often down blind without ultrasound. It is effective as hell at stopping migraine pain, and headache pain from what is the irritation or entrapment of occipital nerves. It has been common practice for several neuro and pain clinics I have seen for the last 2 decades. Problematically, they are not often offered in the emergency room setting because they are rather specialized procedures that usually are done by a neurology or trained pain physician. So that makes the emergency department a place that you go when the pain has overwhelmed all your other medications and resources, only to be met by not being able to get the one procedure that offers guaranteed relief for up to 2 weeks if given the block with steroids as well as local anesthetic. Frustrating to say the least, since you can plan on when you will get a massive headache, but you have to schedule to procedure weeks to months out with specialists.
Other migraine or occipital neuralgia triggering migraine treatments include other more invasive procedures to the nerves called ablations. Because cutting he nerve or surgically modifying them would result in scar tissue that would cause more problems or block regrowth, occipital ablations involve a needle slowly guided into the nerve under ultrasound imaging, and then they push electrical current into the needle while it is moved around by the provider. These can’t be numbed because you have to give feedback on where the currents are flowing in order to get it properly placed. Hurts like medieval torture. Then once placed they turn in ultrasonic pulses that heat the tip of the needle inside the nerve. This gets the tip hot enough to denature the nerve cells and kill them without harming the nerve sheath and allowing regrowth without nerve pain. It’s torture though and must be scheduled every 6-12 months. It doesn’t treat acute attacks, and can’t help with all types of headaches.
So offerings in the medical community pushed from specialized scheduled care to the responsive emergency providers as accepted medical interventions can be a massive improvement in accessibility to a treatment that can offer relief when no other physical interventions are reasonably possible for rapid abortive relief.
8 people now have more than 53% of the world combined.
Octopi if the base word was Latin. It’s Greek, so octopodes for plural. Technically.
Because English is a bastard if a language octopuses and octopi are fine too.
Has anyone here read the article?
The foundation donated, not the man. The foundation’s finances are not exactly simple with thousands of organizations getting funds from them at any given time.
Where money is distributed is not a decision specific to Gates. It’s based on the leadership decisions in the foundation to issue grants. The direction of the granting process is at a high level guided by the board of the foundation, that includes Gates, but those directions are at the “focus on medical research grants into Malaria, AIDS, and TB”, not at the individual dispersal level.
The delegation of authority rules would likely place a 3.5 million dollar decision on a VP level in the foundation to approve.
Sorry what do for work helps progress clinical trials for vaccines that eradicate malaria.
What do you do?
My own experience was that we took our boots off and helmets off when entering homes to meet with village elders. We did not talk to nor break customs around interactions with their women. I built wells to give communities water, ensured they had cooking and fuel oil, repaired infrastructure, and I placed my body over a family to shield them when the house I was in was getting shot at.
There were 237 casualties on my battalion, but by the end of our tour the place that was mired in firefights every day became peaceful enough that the press could walk about with officers and not even wear body armor.
We played soccer with kids, gave out food, ran electricity to homes, and made the best of what we could.
I have done humanitarian aid for NGOs in the years since and worked on mission trips. Neither experience has come close to the magnitude of elevating community needs as my time in the military did for those we were trying to help.
Just my own personal experience, but felt it was worth sharing.