Oh, this drug company is absolutely not like that at all. They are super ethical and invest every dollar of their profits into research. The dinner was to present a new treatment which has become super standard for the clinic, which involved one of our doctors presenting, I promise it was not like that at all. They are truly generous to us. There are not many treatments for this disease and this is one of the best. It was purely educational.

I worked with a doctor whose in-laws were Saudi royalty. He didn’t need to work at all he was so wealthy.

I heard about him doing an incredibly greedy thing that blew my mind one day; he showed up at a dinner that a drug company was hosting for another adjacent program he had nothing to do with and did not practice in at all. He didn’t even tell them he was coming, they had to find him a seat, and then he sat down, ordered not one but TWO whole lobsters, and when they came he asked for them to be wrapped to go, and he left. Even acknowledging drug companies have large budgets for these kinds of things, to come to an event that has nothing to do with you and do that is insanely rude when you don’t want for a thing in the world.

I know someone else who is very wealthy, and he’s pretty generous and passionate about creating things, he’s far from perfect, but truly wants to make good things and runs a business that gives him zero profit, so the contrast was pretty stark. The doctor also stiffed his professional college for a very large membership bill.

I’m glad!

I always say that if people like Peterson can’t deal with someone’s pronouns, they can misgender me if it makes them feel better, I don’t give a shit what you call me.

If there was one thing on Reddit that was educational, it was Foreign Body Friday on the radiology subreddit.

clap clap.

My nurse friend had some dude in the ER a few months ago who stuck his wedding ring on his penis and couldn’t get it off for what are obvious reasons to anybody but this guy. When this kind of thing happens the fire department has to come cut it off, so not only do you get a firefighter touching your junk and seeing the dumb thing you did, but also now your dick is a useless noodle, and you may spend the rest of your life reflecting on how easy the Internet makes acquiring safe items for such activities, and yet you chose a tiny gold band.

Mulder!

Absolutely.

As an aside, a great deal of CSAM is shared through Facebook, they’ve been asked by CSAM survivors to stop this and they said no. The advocacy survivor group Phoenix 11 submitted six formal questions in the US Congress to old Zuckface fuckface about it, as he deployed end to end encryption which makes this possible, which he dodged like the lying fuck he is. Zuck would sell it himself if it made him a whole dollar and nobody should forget that.

I loved this. Bring it back. I had a pair of shorts with this pattern.

None needed!

Yes!

The comedian Daniel Sloss does a bit on this.

Aww I’m sorry. Welcome to Lemmy!

Apples with razor blades in them and whatall.

That is…all the things.

I just didn’t happen to know about it until my aunt told me a third cousint did a family tree recently and identified a few distant relatives who are indigenous, so it was interesting for me is all. I knew I was partly Quebecois but I didn’t know about the Habitant part either.

It’s just really visible now. I looked at r/Canada a few times and I’m just horrified at what they say. I’m not saying it wasn’t present but they’re normalizing saying deport people.

And smallpox!

I am the teensiest tiniest bit Indigenous Canadian, like maybe a toenail’s worth, because some of my ancestors are Habitants from Quebec from the days of Upper and Lower Canada. The rest of me is Irish and English, so yeah. I get it. I’m sorry if that’s worth anything.

The racism is SO bad here now. It always existed, but it’s right out in the open now because of immigration numbers and also efforts at indigenous reconciliation, in that racists think we don’t need to do that. It’s honestly getting scary.