Amazing. Most speeches from the last NatCon have a few dozen views. “The Great Feminization” is now approaching 100,000. I’m truly grateful to see this important message spreading. A few additional thoughts:
The French government has criminalized the use of nicotine pouches. Users can be punished with up to 5 years in prison and a fine of almost half a million dollars.
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@G_S_Bhogal You think this nonsense is “wisdom”? Problems are often identified by people in no position to effect change, or who are unaffected but perceptive enough to note the problem. I don’t need to know how to perfectly cook a steak to tell you it has been improperly cooked.
@Support, attempting to add or edit any muted words in iOS 18 crashes the app. Also, why do you not have a simple feedback form for such problems, rather than forcing users to make public posts?
NEW: Alabama judge suspended after being accused of delaying cases so she could walk her dogs, as well as making racial remarks against a white woman.
Probate Judge Yashiba Blanchard has been smacked with a 120-page complaint accusing her of misconduct in multiple cases.
In one case, Blanchard canceled a hearing, forcing a patient to remain hospitalized for two additional weeks.
"This patient will now remain hospitalized for an additional two weeks solely due to the lack of timely access to the hearing process," an email from hospital staff read.
"This not only prevents her from being home with her family for Thanksgiving, but it also generates unnecessary hospitalization costs and creates avoidable emotional distress for the patient."
On another occasion, Blanchard allegedly made a racist comment about white chief clerk Amanda Reid.
A staffer was asked by the judge if they liked Reid. When the staffer said they did, Blanchard replied: "Oh, I forgot you all like kissing white a$$.'"
In another case, a clerk asked Blanchard if she could be reassigned to Birmingham because the commute made it hard for her to see her sister, who was dying of cancer.
Blanchard never responded, and the clerk's sister died shortly after.
@JamesSurowiecki@StillCompeting One must note the pleasant irony in the fact that his mentioning that particular film was literally a “failure to communicate.”
Most Americans have no idea what the “universal health care” system is doing to people in Canada.
Dr. James MacLean assessed 45 year-old Thomas Dillon at a Tim Horton’s in Ontario.
Dillon told MacLean that he suffered from inflammatory bowel diseases
as well as addiction and mental health issues. He was depressed that he had lost his job and was living with relatives. He was experiencing suicidal ideation. The doctor concurred with Dillon’s belief that suicide was the correct response to his problems. MacLean drove Dillon to a funeral home, killed him with a lethal injection and left the corpse with the undertaker.
Dillon’s family, who had learned of his intention to kill himself, was frantically trying to save him, but the assessment was so brief that, when Dillon’s sister reached the Tim Horton’s, the doctor had already taken her brother away. The doctor carried out the euthanasia without attempting to contact his suicidal and mentally-ill patient’s family.
After the family complained, the doctor was instructed to undergo six months of supervision where his requests to kill someone must be signed off on by another doctor before they are carried out.
About 80,000 Canadians have died by euthanasia since 2020.