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Lifer
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Not sure if you saw that article where a black person is more likely to die under the care of a white doctor because they have no training to detect the subtle skin color changes due to the darker pigmentation.

Found this about babies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kpvkvr

I gather that came out in the pandemic, that those finger oxymeter things don't work very well on anyone with darker skin. Just one example of what seems to be a general problem. I mean, it's only relatively recently that medicine even attempted to be 'scientific', and it's still clearly got a long way to go (not as much as economics and psychology, though - those disciplines appear to be almost entirely driven by ideology).
 
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hal2kilo

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I gather that came out in the pandemic, that those finger oxymeter things don't work very well on anyone with darker skin. Just one example of what seems to be a general problem. I mean, it's only relatively recently that medicine even attempted to be 'scientific', and it's still clearly got a long way to go (not as much as economics and psychology, though - those disciplines appear to be almost entirely driven by ideology).
Don't you know Doctors. are artists, let them practice their art.
 

Moonbeam

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I gather that came out in the pandemic, that those finger oxymeter things don't work very well on anyone with darker skin. Just one example of what seems to be a general problem. I mean, it's only relatively recently that medicine even attempted to be 'scientific', and it's still clearly got a long way to go (not as much as economics and psychology, though - those disciplines appear to be almost entirely driven by ideology).
In what way would your opinions expressed in this post be any different?

Did you arrive at his opinion via direct transmission from an all knowing god or did you acquire it via your lived experience? You are surely a aware that the psychology you claim to be full of ideology, and I am not saying it isn’t, also espouses the notion that humans engage in unconscious behavior often the result of repressed painful memories, but at a minimum based on past learned experiences. Do you really imagine you are aware of every factor in your past that went into the unique nature of how you see the world. What is an ideology but an opinion about how the wold and especially how people work?

I am of the opinion, bases of what I believe are proper memories garnered from older posts I’ve read of yours that you were rather badly diagnosed by psychology and it left you bitter that field. I experienced psychoanalysis with a man who could read me like a book but showed to me in my estimation of his level of inner state, a man genuinely representative of his claim that via his own experience of psychoanalysis he hat 100 % healed.

Different experiences, different ideologies, no? I fully understand and appreciate the conclusions you have drawn from the life you have lived. My past tells me that the opinions I hold are accidental and mean nothing.

When I first became aware of this I experienced what I would call a moment of enlightenment. I suddenly ceased to identity with the me I currently was imagining myself to be and experience my self as the blank blackboard on which my the story of my so-called self was writing my story. The same empty board. Ejvery5hjing is created from nothing. Are you the words or what the words are written on.,
 

nakedfrog

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Not sure if you saw that article where a black person is more likely to die under the care of a white doctor because they have no training to detect the subtle skin color changes due to the darker pigmentation.

Found this about babies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kpvkvr
Systemic racism? In my white country?
Next you're going to tell me doctors often treat the symptoms of all women patients with less regard!
 

Indus

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They are literally killing Americans at this point because they don't want to pay them benefits they've earned!

Once enough of them are dead.. billionaires will just import a new foreign work force that they don't have to pay as much as Americans.

MAGA don't seem to get it.. they're expendable!


Expendable youth fighting for possession
Having control, our principle obsession
Rivalry and retribution
Death the only solution

 
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DZero

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They are literally killing Americans at this point because they don't want to pay them benefits they've earned!

Once enough of them are dead.. billionaires will just import a new foreign work force that they don't have to pay as much as Americans.

MAGA don't seem to get it.. they're expendable!


Expendable youth fighting for possession
Having control, our principle obsession
Rivalry and retribution
Death the only solution

Nope... with the robotics and automatization is clear the way: they want to replace with 24/7 working machines with AI. That is far worse than the current theory.
 
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Indus

Lifer
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Is it just me or you're all starting to feel you can't trust the news anymore.. this is a make believe administration with totally made up bullshit of numbers and stuff.

I'm not even sure I believe the cops anymore.

When Biden was POTUS they would not respond for days.

Yesterday I had someone block my driveway.. I did a 311 and they responded in 3 minutes.

Today someone was playing loud music on the block.. one of the spanish stations.. and 6 cop cars showed up. :-O
 

cytg111

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Is it just me or you're all starting to feel you can't trust the news anymore.. this is a make believe administration with totally made up bullshit of numbers and stuff.

I'm not even sure I believe the cops anymore.

When Biden was POTUS they would not respond for days.

Yesterday I had someone block my driveway.. I did a 311 and they responded in 3 minutes.

Today someone was playing loud music on the block.. one of the spanish stations.. and 6 cop cars showed up. :-O

Are you usually on some sort of meds? :)
 
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Indus

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Are you usually on some sort of meds? :)

Actually off everything!

Surprised NYC cops are doing stuff right after they haven't for years..

Last year in front of my house there was a car accident.. I called 911 and cops didn't respond till the next day.. the next day!

Like they really wanted Biden to lose and wanted everyone super pissed off..
 

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Lifer
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Actually off everything!

Surprised NYC cops are doing stuff right after they haven't for years..

Last year in front of my house there was a car accident.. I called 911 and cops didn't respond till the next day.. the next day!

Like they really wanted Biden to lose and wanted everyone super pissed off..

I think that absolutely comes under the distinction between anecdote and data. Most likely just random variation for very contingent reasons.

Would be interesting though to see if there was any larger scale data that was in accord with that anecdote-based impression. Even if there is, I doubt it's a deliberate policy to 'make Biden lose', but it's just about possible there's been at least a local change in cop behaviour - maybe they are feeling more energised at the exciting prospect of getting to be part of a police state?
 
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BoomerD

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I’m seeing rumor type stories that say Melania Trump has been seen at Walter Reed Hospital today…. Could we get so lucky?
 
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mikeymikec

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I spent a good portion of the last few days hoping that he had died and the announcement was going to be yesterday afternoon.

Also:
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KMFJD

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His tailor should be fired, unless those are off the rack sport jackets from the TJ Max collection.
he's never been well fitted

as i was saying earlier, here's the 'casus belli'


 
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