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Benevolentdictator 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks.

So is Reform the rebranded UKIP party that Sargon ran for?

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

I watched the segment but I lacked context without knowledge of Bong politics.

What's the ELI5 on the Reform Party?

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Benevolentdictator 10 points ago +10 / -0

I've had a few people show me their natural gas bills triple suddenly this month with breakdowns very similar to yours.

Less than 30 dollars worth of actual gas used, gross totals suddenly around 250 bucks.

Something fucky seems to have happened between the upcoming carbon tax increase and wonky spikes in annualized algos to smooth out monthly billing.

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Benevolentdictator 1 point ago +1 / -0

This isn't believable considering it doesn't mention POC, trannies, alphabet people or illegal aliens once.

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Benevolentdictator 6 points ago +8 / -2

Was this the "Conservative" influencer who was criticized last year for baking with her jugs strategically positioned in every frame?

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Benevolentdictator 5 points ago +5 / -0

Thanks.

I commented before listing to Dr. Bhattacharya's podcast segment with her.

She does or did head the Concerned Ontario Doctor splinter group (not sure what their COVID beliefs are, they are more a dissident group against universal healthcare funding shenanigans).

She did file a defamation suit but in response was hit with a 1.2 million penalty award anti-SLAPP judgment from the judge before the case was even heard.

Apparently it got appealed down to 300k but owes the sum total by the end of the month which will essentially bankrupt her and her family medicine/pediatrics practise.

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Benevolentdictator 7 points ago +7 / -0

She was head of the splinter group Concerned Doctors Ontario? established pre-pandemic to oppose the very cozy relationship the main (and mandatory) advocacy group, the Ontario Medical Association has with the provincial government that sets fee schedules and funding cuts.

She's been pretty good on COVID for a long time on Twitter.

IIRC, she also filed a defamation lawsuit in Ontario against some of the government shill Twitter docs that smeared her, buf unfortunately had a decision against her and was penalized something like a million dollars in her opponents' legal costs.

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

Weird, I can't see your reply in the thread, only my inbox.

TBH, I don't really care that much if Benjamin is a stepfather or not.

I simply thought it was an interesting line of ad hominem criticism.

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Benevolentdictator 6 points ago +6 / -0

I'm willing to give some of them the benefit of the doubt, guys like Sargon of Akkad for example.

The YT comment section on the recent Lotus Eaters segment on the "Good Morning texts" girl breakup video kept pointing out that Carl was giving dad energy advice to constantly validate women's need for attention with random acts of kindness while caring for stepchildren himself. Which is pretty much the most beta thing a man can do - raise another man's children.

I couldn't confirm it though.

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Benevolentdictator 2 points ago +2 / -0

There was that guy who used to post updates years ago on Reddit KIA or KIA2 about his never-releasing Airplay doc.

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Benevolentdictator 5 points ago +5 / -0

It was a nice day so I walked to the grocery store with a backpack.

At the exit, there wasn't a designated spot for cart returns and no cart boys.

All the carts are organized at the front entrance and there's a narrow corridor with a guard rail in between the two which I presume is some sort of cart chute.

I returned my shopping cart to the chute so it wasn't blocking the exit.

I immediately turn around and there's some jogger on crutches staring at me and blocking my exit. I ask him if he would like my cart and he mutters something unintelligible.

I then work out that he wants to walk down the cart chute and my cart is blocking his path.

I move the cart and leave it so it's haphazardly in the vestibule.

He starts limping along the cart chute and doesn't say thank you.

I watch him traverse the length of the chute and immediately exit out the entrance of the store.

He had me move the cart when he literally could've traveled two feet to his right and walk along the outside of the store to his destination.

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Benevolentdictator 12 points ago +12 / -0

Jeremy never covers any of the Kiwifarms censorship drama or the lengths that the alphabet mafia go to deny them access to the Internet and their constant DDoS attacks.

I've seen Null mention in discussions about crowdfunding that Hambly is a lot wealthier than he pretends to be on screen and values protecting his revenue streams over getting down in the mud to help out the fights that need fighting.

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Benevolentdictator 3 points ago +3 / -0

TBH I really can't flesh it out more. It's simply a dark humor healthcare meme.

It's through experience.

I would say it's mostly women that declare this to you in practice.

But someone who authoritatively declares "I have a high pain threshold" will inevitably down the road be one of those "I know my body types" who wouldn't listen to reason and inevitably will be demanding opioids and inappropriate treatments down the road.

Edit: r/medicine are all insufferable COVIDian traitors to the profession, but here's an old thread discussing the phenomenon

Edit2: Giving it a little more thought, I think it's patients self-identifying as "terminally unique". "I'm not like the other girls, doc". It's a disclosure that they have an inflated sense of self and hence expectations that they are better than the average bear.

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Benevolentdictator 9 points ago +9 / -0

The 10-point Pain rating scale is complete pseudoscience nonsense and has led to terrible outcomes. It was essentially created by Big Pharma to push opioid sales for chronic pain.

Those who work in healthcare will tell you that anyone who declares "I have a high pain tolerance" immediately has red flagged themselves as a nightmare patient with a personality disorder (not including OP, mostly neurotic and BPD women).

The only way to evaluate pain tolerance is to experience it, such as OP's experience with a femur fracture.

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Benevolentdictator 5 points ago +5 / -0

I am like a bizarro yank in that I drive for hours to cross the border to buy $0.99 OTC drugs in America.

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Benevolentdictator 4 points ago +4 / -0

The RCMP released a report this week labeling anyone 35 & under a potential extremist because they've figured out the system is rigged and they'll never own a home.

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Benevolentdictator 4 points ago +5 / -1

Being a former sports fan carries the same shame and cringe as being a former leftist.

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