The Kim Jung-Un fella needs to gain another 100kg to really fit the part.
Oh my mistake there then. Rockhoppers are one species that are monogamous for life.
That doesn't explain why the same couples keep coming back to each other season after season.
A BTG a day keeps the vatniks at bay.
Thanks, I guess it was the part where how this caused "malicious harm" given he didn't reveal any sort of hidden scandal or illegal acitivty but the other user explained it'll result in patients being afraid to access medical care which is beginning to make sense to me. I'm not based in the US, this is all so alien to me.
Thank for taking the time to lay that out for me. I am unable to comprehend the motives, but that at least starts to explain it. Unthinkable.
Dude forgot his hippocratic oath.
Could you spell it out for me? Genuinely drawing a blank here.
Edit: No need, some kind user came through. Horrifying.
It just says he passed it on to conversative activists, I still cannot begin to understand how this furthers a conservative agenda? The hospital wasn't doing anything illegal and now he's looking at a 10 year prison sentence. He committed a felony, threw away his entire career and he didn't even 'own the libs'.
Dolphins have been observed engaging in purely recreational sex.
Penguins are monogamous and that applies to gay penguins as well.
Here's two that built a nest together https://mashable.com/article/same-sex-penguin-couple
Animals don't think "I'm gonna go find another dude to have gay sex with," they just get the urge and act on it with whoever looks good nearby.
Several animal species are famously monogamous, penguns for example.
If the government wants more babies surely it would be more effective to invest in childcare and a mandatory reduction of working hours to something more manageable?
Elimination? He should be up on terrorism charges. Was he passing the info onto some sort of right-wong militia group?
I still don't get it though, how does having medical information do anything for his 'ideology'? Dude committed a felony.
For what possible purpose would he need medical records? It can't be money surely.
What do you mean, your employer has lots of freedom to exploit you!
Of course there were reasons to select him, he was am expert in assassinations of world leaders, after all, but those reasons should have been overridden by the clear and obvious conflict of interest.
He planned the coups in Iran, Guatemala and Cuba but those didn't involve any assassinations. Is Dulles being an assassin part of the conspiracy as well? No evidence seems to exist.
But lets grant that because even then there is more plausible explanation why LBJ selected him for the board. The public at the time had no knowledge of the Kennedy administrations involvement in the bay of pigs disaster, Johnson wanted someone on the commission to make sure no awkward questions got asked.
He may have had a grudge and there may have been people still loyal to him in the intelligence community, but it's also a question of power and ideology. The Kennedy assassination allowed the intelligence community, that Dulles spent his whole career building and strengthening, to increase its power. By demonstrating that they have the means to assassinate a president who steps out of line, they can exert control over future presidents, and no president since Kennedy has gone so directly against the wishes of the intelligence community. Furthermore, following the failure of The Bay of Pigs, Kennedy became somewhat more inclined towards deescalation and coexistence with socialist countries and his firing of Dulles was only a part of that. Dulles' whole career was directly contrary to that approach, and he had had people killed over much lower stakes than that.
And how many people were involved with this? Because it sounds like every single CIA director (and probably a few deputies) since then would have to be "in on it". And not one person has said something, or accidentally dropped a receipt or a recording or any physical evidence whatsoever? Sort of like the Moon landing conspiracy.
Had tried to defect to the Soviets. Tried and failed.
He lived in Minsk for three years working at an electronics factory. He wasn't booted out by the Soviets, he returned to the US of his own will. But why is his failure to defect important for you to dispute? Surely its completely immaterial? How would him being a communist affect the narrative?
"I am starting to reconsider my desire about staying [in the USSR]. The work is drab, the money I get has nowhere to be spent. No nightclubs or bowling alleys, no places of recreation except the trade union dances. I have had enough."
Ironically quoting something that disproves your assertion above that he hadn't defected.
Allegedly. If there had been proof of that, he wouldn't have been walking free.
The bullet was eventually linked to a gun Oswald owned and Mrs Oswald testified that he did it, but this didn't come out until later.
No. For years I fully accepted the official story and wrote off alternatives as conspiracy theories, without looking into it. I changed my mind because I became aware of actual reasons to be suspicious, such as the breach in custody of the bullet and the conflict of interest with Dulles. The evidence is extremely shaky, which is very much consistent with the idea of a cover up. Before becoming aware of that evidence, I was willing to accept the official narrative.
No investigation is perfect and the more plausible explanation is mistakes happen. In order for it not to be a mistake, it has to be part of a chain of deliberate events each with its own probability of being true and each with its own chance of going wrong. So we have to deny the possibility that a single mistake is the plausible explanation in order to allow us to believe that the very implausible event chain (ongoing apparently) of hundreds of possibilities all compounding was executed flawlessly, is true.
That's why it's stupid. I'm not trying to convince you otherwise so please don't take my points above as worthy of responding to, I just wanted to tease out where the cognitive leap was.
Steven Pinker explains the cognitive biases we all suffer from and how they can short-circuit rational thinking and lead us into believing stupid things. Skip to 12:15 to bypass the preamble.
Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.
There was no group difference in reaction times and accuracy between males and females (using contraception and not). However, within subject analyses revealed that regularly menstruating females performed better during menstruation compared to being in any other phase, with faster reaction times (10ms c.ca, p < .01), fewer errors (p < .05) and lower dispersion intra-individual variability (p < .05). In contrast they exhibited slower reaction times (10ms c.ca, p < .01) and poorer timing anticipation (p < .01) in the luteal phase, and more errors in the predicted ovulatory phase (p < .01). Self-reported mood, cognitive and physical symptoms were all worst during menstruation (p < .01), and a significant proportion of females felt that their symptoms were negatively affecting their cognitive performance during menstruation on testing day, which was incongruent with their actual performance.
New paper casts doubt on the often reported huge rise in maternal deaths in the United States over the past 20 years. They put the blame firmly on a change in the reporting method.
The UK government has introduced regulations to halt new private prescriptions of puberty blockers for under 18s.
Rushed through last minute before parliament is dissolved using emergency powers.
Should've been debated in the commons at least.
Was Roger Penrose not completely insane when he proposed his Orch OR theory of the mind? Still doesn't explain the hard problem of consciousness, but a step closer?
SUMMARY: Biology faces a grave threat from “progressive” politics that are changing the way our work is done, delimiting areas of biology that are taboo and ...
Excellent essay from Coyne and Maroja that picks apart six widespread examples of biology being corrupted by (often well-intentioned) ideology.
First minister reportedly plans to run minority administration amid dispute over decision to ditch climate change target
Were the Greens booted out before they could quit? Lorna's properly fuming calling it "an act of political cowardice".
If the opposition put forward a VONC on Humza right now, I'm not sure he'd survive it.
Well, this is unexpected, and details will be forthcoming. He was 82. I have lots of stories about Dan, and found him amiable and charitable, though sometimes he could be domineering, especially wh…
Brilliant mind. I was lucky enough to meet him at an invited lecture once and he was nice enough to sign Freedom Evolves for me.
Another horseman falls.
There is a lot of disinformation flying around about this. The original myth about Cass "dismissing 98% of all data" started because an activist on twitter read the wrong paper.
Question everything, especially if it agrees with you.
Seen the "98% of studies were ignored!" one doing the rounds on social media. The editorial in the BMJ put it in much better terms:
"One emerging criticism of the Cass review is that it set the methodological bar too high for research to be included in its analysis and discarded too many studies on the basis of quality. In fact, the reality is different: studies in gender medicine fall woefully short in terms of methodological rigour; the methodological bar for gender medicine studies was set too low, generating research findings that are therefore hard to interpret."
NHS England to review seven specialist services after staff share misgivings privately
Appendix 4 in the Cass Review revealed that 6 out of the 7 adult GDC clinics currently operating in the UK refused to collect or share their patient followup data. If you want better care for struggling LGBT kids, you need the data.
The mighty Hitch and one of his great orations. I often wonder what would he think of the world, such as it is, in 2024.