You know, I completely missed that part in the wall of text, holy crap!
The antisemitism roots never disappear I guess. Including trying to use it as an insult to an irish catholic (raised, atheist now).
So how many mandarin oranges do you think they get per comment? My guess is two comments to one mandarin orange.
Edit: I'm just gonna....
make sure thats clear for anyone reading later, when their boss asks them to edit it and they got docked 1/4 of that orange.
Which is why dumb phones and feature phones aren't common anymore, and the people choosing them are specifically choosing it to avoid being available via WhatsApp/Signal/Slack/Discord/Teams/whatever else.
My FIL for example has a clamshell feature phone, because he doesn't want to be reached except by phone or SMS. He doesn't want to read email or get messages on his phone, he wants to restrict that to when he's in front of his computer.
So yes, you would not be able to use messaging clients on a dumb phone, that's the idea behind their use today.
My doctors have been incredible, at least those I've had for the past 4 years or so. Including my gastro.
They take the time to talk to me, they remember who I am, and my gastro is even a direct recommendation from my primary doctor (my gastro is his gastro).
I've been going to gastroenterologists for literally decades, the one I got a couple years ago is the first to finally find the issue, and I've been reflux free. I doubt he'd do a transnasal either - its more limited in scope (hah!), you're only getting part of what an endoscopy can do. That's why its not transnasal endoscopy, its transnasal esophagoscopy.
And that's probably why. Why they wouldn't just say that, I don't know. There are lots of places that will do transnasal esophagoscopy throughout the US, so it isn't a procedure that is just "not done here" or anything, its not as popular in general because its just not as thorough of a procedure.
I hope you find a doctor in the future that takes the time to explain things though.
Edit: Forgot to mention, the hospital system by me is a non profit. Only differentiator I am aware of, and its a great hospital system.
I agree its good you're not the principal.
And I would disagree on not being able to seize weapons, hell they can seize anything without a crime today, that's what civil asset forfeiture is. No crime even needs to be committed, no arrest needs to be made, and its legal for them to do today. Republicans would lose their collective marbles over it though - but fuck them.
But directly incarcerating (or punishing kids based on an unknown set of anonymous sources) would absolutely be a problem.
I hope your day gets better.
There was no proof it was him who made a threat - that's the point.
There are ways to take away weapons from people when a threat is credible, during the course of an investigation.
There should be more limits on access to guns regardless.
The constitution needs an update. For one, this was not the purpose of the second amendment, and two, its an amendment - just like every other aspect of the constitution, it can be changed.
There is no gun crime without guns. The idea that we need to look anywhere else is, to me, absolutely ludicrous and shameful.
Edit: Regarding the edit - the fact that there is no right to education is also a problem, albeit a different one.
The idea that the 2nd amendment exists but nothing regarding education does should not mean "Well fuck all these kids because 1 out of several hundred may have actually been a threat" is completely deranged to me. Sorry, but there is no world where you're going to convince me otherwise. The problem is the guns.
Putting up protections on a bike lane is drastically quicker, they are nowhere near the same time scale.
That's what I do, nieces and nephews. They are a bit older than my kids, and their parents are not tech savvy.
I basically have a kids library for anything under PG, and I grab common sense media ratings for a decent estimate on appropriate age, and let them go from there. Then I use tags for what we find appropriate for our kids.
Some of them still use other things I wouldn't go near (YouTube kids, ffs that place is wild and weird), but that's their decision not mine.
FWIW I run mine off an 8th gen Intel, igpu for transcoding (though mostly I don't need to transcoded), on a little lenovo tiny workstation I picked up on the cheap. Storage is on my NAS.
I absolutely agree that its a problem. The problem is there is nothing stopping companies/governments from doing that now, and I don't know if its feasible to make them actually private on Lemmy.
Right now, they aren't private, you just need a few extra steps to see it all.
.... Just watch it again.
(For that "just tape them up" energy)
And as we all know, it's always better with some lubricant, really helps the process along...
Oh that's pretty neat, haven't seen it! Thanks for the tip
They said "biggest", not "only".
Which I will admit is only partially accurate, the AIP (a paleoconservative party, far right) is the largest after the Libertarian Party (which is not even remotely libertarian in policy). Then Green (which doesn't actually do anything on any of the ideologies they claim to support), followed by another christian nationalist party, and then parties so small they are a margin of error on the national stage at best, combined.
Single-state parties have no relevance nationally.