If you mean the washcloth then no, it’s just a normal washcloth that you would use at home. They just lay it over my eyes and I can’t see the cage so it’s easier to convince myself it’s not there.

If you end up getting another one, they say that you shouldn’t move at all during the scan and that’s not quite true. There are multiple scans and you can quickly adjust in the lul between loud dub step noises. When I’m not sleeping through the scan I’ll take those few seconds to adjust and get more comfy. Just some advice. Those spots also might be harder to hear if you listen to music just fyi, I don’t.

I mean this is hypothetical but they could have told him the general stuff without the details of what’s actually wrong. Like “something is wrong with your pancreas” instead of “your pancreas is utterly failing because of xyz”. I’ve personally experienced doctors doing this with my own medical issues (I found out later by switching doctors) and while it’s salacious to not tell a patient the entire truth, some asshole doctors don’t. Add in that patients with dementia are often viewed as incapable so aren’t informed of everything as much and yeah I could see it happening. Especially since if he has dementia then someone is likely more knowledgeable of that situation than him and likely would have been informed of the details of the MRI in full instead of him. This also isn’t far off from what was going on with Reagan.

But this is, again, a hypothetical and it’s much more likely he doesn’t remember or he is lying.

Ah yes, that’s probably the most likely. Although I could also just see him not being informed what’s going on in his body because they think he’ll just blab it out one day.

I’ve had scans for my brain and neck area and they’ve used a cage always. And the last time they did the neck they did this extra big cage just for that section. It fucking sucks. It’s possible it’s just because I’m in a red state that hasn’t had as much investment in it for medical tech so things are more outdated. Or the people hate me and want me to suffer in that cage. Probably that first one. Or they just need to because they’re scanning the whole brain maybe? I dunno. I just know that I have them put a washcloth over my eyes so I can’t see it because, like you said, nightmare fuel.

I am so jealous. I’ve been getting them for about a decade now and have always had a cage.

I feel like he would remember if it was the brain just because they click in a cage thing over your head for the duration of the scan. I get an MRI of my brain once a year for my MS and I would never forget getting one. But hey, who knows, he’s going senile. Maybe he forgot. Or maybe he has some kind of disease in a different part of his body that needs an MRI to diagnose.

I am excited to buy but nervous about that unannounced pricing. Specifically for the Frame. I want to grab that so that it takes the place of the Quest 2 that I have and hate since it’s a Meta product, but if it’s 1k then I’m much less likely to grab it.

Her platform was a fuck ton of things including but not limited to increasing the minimum wage to at least 15 bucks an hour, codifying abortion, legalizing weed, introducing a wealth tax and a unrealized gains tax and hire corporate tax, going after companies that engaged in greedflation, being anti monopoly by using the FCC to push for less consolidation, put a cap on rent increases, providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, more investment in infrastructure, providing first time home buyers down payment assistance that would have helped millions upon millions of people buy houses, and pushing for lower cost to more medications by leveraging Medicare having the ability to negotiate prices. There’s more but that’s just off the top of my head.

Did she say those things in her commencement speech? Yup. Arguing for the most lethal military was fucking weird but was likely just her trying to take away that talking point from the right as opposed to anything being mirrored in her actual platform. Still fucking weird though.

The border bill was not a slight variation from what’s currently in place unless you consider billions upon billions of dollars making ice the larger than tons of other departments, then yes those billions upon billions were a slight variation. The actual bipartisan bill included far more funding for actually working towards continuing to crack down on drug smuggling by having detection machines at ports, as opposed to just grabbing randoms off the street or at illegal crossings like the BBB.

AI also isn’t going anywhere so I don’t see why saying she wanted us to lead the field is a bad thing (especially since that would likely come with a lot of regulation under her as opposed to none under Trump and a desire for a full moratorium on passing any AI regulation for 10 year), nor with going to space which likely would have come with actually increasing NASAs budget as opposed to almost eliminating it entirely under Trump. Don’t see how either of those are both inherently pro regime change and pro corporations and monopolies.

Almost nothing you’ve said is talking about embracing Liz Cheney’s platform either, Liz is against regulation, Harris was for it. Liz is against higher taxes for the rich and corporations, Harris was for it. Liz is against abortion, Harris was for it, Liz is against the minimum wage increase, Harris was for it. They only seemed to line up on having a strong military and passing a immigration bill that wasn’t the best but was also all they could do with Republicans in control of Congress and was a compromise and likely would have been renegotiated if she had come into office with a democratic congress. That’s two things of so so many.

Also, to say that Harris was only running on not being Trump is far right propaganda and absolutely BS. She had multiple interviews about her policies, she had a whole policy page on her site, she talked incessantly about policy during the election and what she’d implement, the DNC had a policy platform that she was running on. She had a platform, it was largely positive, to say otherwise is to disregard reality.

Wouldn’t rehabilitating him mean they’re saying “actually Dick was a really good guy and did a lot of good”? Or to do what they did with W. by making him much more human by talking about his art and his friendship with Michelle Obama?

If you mean embrace as in campaign with him, that never happened. If you mean tout his endorsement as a way of showing just how crazy trump was, yeah that happened.

She did campaign with Liz Cheney which was dumb but it wasn’t as a “we agree on everything and have the same platform” it was all about how she disagreed on almost everything except how bad trump is. So they campaigned. It was dumb but to say they agreed is dumb when they literally talked about how they didn’t in the handful of campaign stops they did together.

I also don’t know what you mean by embracing his platform? Regime change? Didn’t embrace. Cutting taxes for the rich? Didn’t embrace. Pro corporations and monopolies? Didn’t embrace.

The only argument I could see is immigration and that’s a dumb campaign decision they made to say she would sign the bipartisan agreement made in the senate that Trump killed so he could campaign on the border. She also talked about pathways to citizenship which trump didn’t.

It was insane to campaign with Liz but she didn’t embrace her platform at all.

Is it rehabilitating Cheney just to basically say “look at how bad Trump is, even Dick Cheney thinks you should not vote for him and vote for us.”?

I’d imagine a lot of those people are on food stamps so that’ll hopefully impact that disapproval as well. This is pre-losing snap, it’ll be interesting to see polls after.

About 25 years late with this article. Roberts betrayed America for George W. Bush when he argued before the supreme court that Bush won despite being behind (or about to be behind as votes were still being counted and gore had the momentum, can’t remember) at the, at the time, current vote total. Bush rewarded him with the position of Chief Justice. Fuck him. He’s a large part of why we are here.

Ah I see, you’re not missing something. I was basing it off of her AMA on reddit from a long while ago now when Jan hadn’t announced her retirement yet.

Still think she deserves criticism for running in a district she doesn’t live in and for moving from texas to Illinois and within a year running for Congress there. But she at least is running for an empty seat. There are also several other candidates in the race who are just as progressive who actually live in the district.

Edit at the top: the seat she is running for is going to be empty so that’s at least one area of criticism she shouldn’t face.

She is running in a seat currently held by a Democratic congresswoman who, to be fair, has been in office for a while. It’s a primary and she’s running against her. Not an open seat unless the current congresswoman has recently announced she won’t be running which would have had to happen in the last couple weeks and I think is unlikely.

The indictment specifically accuses Abughazaleh, among others, of banging aggressively on the windows, hood and other areas of the agent’s car, pushing against it to “hinder and impede its movement” and etching the word “PIG” on the car.

This is so dumb. Oh no! The ICE agent was scared! Almost exactly like how he makes everyone else feel!

Kat is a really good voice to have and this is the dumbest thing you can throw against her. Criticize her about how she’s not running in the district she lives in, how she moved to Illinois from Texas and within a very short time decided to run for congress against a Democratic congresswoman who the community of the district genuinely likes and has been rather progressive ( I have been corrected, the congresswoman is retiring). About how she’s acting like she knows a lot about the district saying she lives right next to a bus line that is a few stops away from that district despite the fact that bus line doesn’t go to that district. Not this horseshit.

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election.

So fucking fun how this always applies to investigations into Republicans but never into Democrats. We couldn’t possibly be investigating a Republican who isn’t even on the ballot within 60 days of an election but we absolutely can send a letter to congressional Republicans about new emails being discovered in the Hilary Clinton investigation a mere 2 weeks before the election despite willfully knowing it would be leaked.

I genuinely believe that Garland, a known Republican, voted for Trump in 2020 and was upset he didn’t win and knew he was going to be the candidate again so didn’t want to put the fucker in prison. Then went and voted for Trump in 2024.

Fucker should have been fired.

So what they accused Obama of doing in 2010, got it.

Ive been on hrt since 2016, so same. I’ve been stocking up on my estrogen (also switching to injections and lowering my spiro dose, which the higher dose turned out to be needless since my lower dose keeps my T down super low) so that I can at least have that for a year or more. Then there’s DIY. Such lovely conversations to have about losing care because the government doesn’t want us to exist.

Paused my ass, he fucking froze as if his brain was broken and was very clearly trying to fake technical issues despite obviously swaying back and forth a bit. The cnn host had to cut with the claim of technical issues after Stephen refused to respond to the host saying “Stephen? Stephen are you there? Can you hear me?”

The dude realized he said Plenary authority, regretted immediately and instead of pivoting and making it seem like a mistake by correcting himself to “plenty”, his brain broke. Fuck off with this sane washing NY Times saying he “paused”. That implies he resumed after a couple seconds.