This is called a HAEMODIALYSIS CATHETER.
It is for patients undergoing dialysis.
It is inserted into a patient's chest through the internal jugular vein.
The red port cannula is the arterial lumen that draws deoxygenated blood out of the patient's body and sends it to the dialysis machine for cleaning.
The blue cannula is the venous lumen that carries cleaned, filtered blood from the dialysis machine back into the patient's bloodstream.
This catheter stays in a patient's body for 6 - 12 weeks, or even longer, depending on medical decisions, before being replaced with a permanent fistula.
A healthy kidney filters your blood 400 times per day, while a dialysis machine does so only 2 times a week, for about 5 hours per session.
Dialysis patients have to arrive at the renal unit as early as 3 am, twice a week.
Not even a dialysis machine can replace the efficiency of a healthy kidney.
Therefore, take care of your kidneys.
#WorldKidneyDay
One of the clearest proofs that LLMs don’t really understand what they say.
We asked GPT whether it is acceptable to torture a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
It replied: yes.
Then we asked whether it is acceptable to harass a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
It replied: absolutely not.
But torture is obviously worse than harassment.
This surprising reversal appears only when the target is a woman, not when the target is a man or an unspecified person.
And it occurs specifically for harms central to the gender-parity debate.
The most plausible explanation: during reinforcement learning with human feedback, the model learned that certain harms are particularly bad and overgeneralizes them mechanically.
But it hasn’t learned to reason about the underlying harms.
LLMs don’t reason about morality. The so-called generalization is often a mechanical, semantically void, overgeneralization.
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Paper in the first reply
I wish this novel was dedicated towards Jalang'o
Eve is just a daughter of Agrippa with the intellectual bandwidth of a racoon
Unampea attention for nothing
Swts, you are a riveting scribbler, and often I tell you so
Stop wasting ink. Perhaps write on the four milfs jeff hosted on the bench juzi
Someone saved all of the Epstein emails from the releases and set up a Gmail clone site that you can scroll as if you were in Jeffery's Gmail.
You can search by contacts, photos and even flight history.
👉 https://t.co/OJ43Zm6seT
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."
This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.
And Venezuela just threatened to end it.
Here's what really just happened:
Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
The largest on Earth.
More than Saudi Arabia.
20% of the entire world's oil.
But here's the part that matters:
Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.
In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."
They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.
They were petitioning to join BRICS.
They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.
And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.
Why does this matter?
Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:
The petrodollar.
In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:
All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.
In exchange, America provides military protection.
This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.
Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.
This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.
It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.
The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.
And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:
2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.
2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.
The WMDs were never found because they never existed.
2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.
Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.
Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."
2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.
"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.
The gold dinar died with him.
And now Maduro.
With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.
Actively selling in yuan.
Building payment systems outside dollar control.
Petitioning to join BRICS.
Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.
The three countries leading global de-dollarization.
This isn't coincidence.
Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.
Every. Single. Time.
Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:
"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."
He's not hiding it.
They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.
By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."
But here's the DEEPER problem:
The petrodollar is already dying.
Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.
Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.
China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.
BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.
The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.
Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.
That's what this invasion is really about.
Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.
Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."
Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.
This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.
And the consequences are terrifying:
Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."
China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.
BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.
Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:
Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.
But here's the problem...
That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.
Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.
And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.
The timing is insane too:
January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.
January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.
36 years apart. Almost to the day.
Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.
Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.
History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.
What happens next:
Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.
US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."
The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.
Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.
But here's what nobody's asking:
What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?
When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?
When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?
When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?
America just showed its hand.
The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.
Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.
When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.
Venezuela isn't the beginning.
It's the desperate end.
What do you think?
Latest preliminary tallies from various sources (e.g., X posts, local media) show Leo Wamuthende (UDA) at 15,819 votes, Newton Karish (DPK) at 15,417, Duncan Mbui at ~1,800 in Mbeere North by-election. Race is tight; official IEBC confirmation pending amid reports of tension. Check https://t.co/eXMo0BZlMI for updates.
I watched Citizen TV, NTV, KTN and even KBC cover President William Ruto’s Ukambani tour. I watched every angle, every edited clip, every cheering crowd they packaged so perfectly for the evening bulletin. But I wasn’t fooled. I picked up my phone and called classmates from the region people who actually live there, people who know the true pulse of the ground.
What they told me was shocking.
NGAO officers are now glorified campaign marshals state machinery turned into political errand boys. After failing to unite the country, after failing to serve the people, Ruto has returned to his oldest talent: selling lies and illusions, just like in 2022. He thinks Kenyans forget fast. He thinks our memories expire like campaign promises.
Ruto’s grip on information is no accident.
Critical media especially the Standard are branded fake, disloyal, foreign agents, or enemies of “progress.” Why? Because to win, Ruto must dominate the message. He must script reality. He must drown out truth. Control information, control perception, control the country that’s the formula.
And Citizen TV? They will show you how Ruto cracks jokes, how he double-speaks with confidence, how crowds laugh and clap not to warn us, but to normalize it. They’ll show the turnout, the flags, the dances. What they won’t show is the line of public school buses forced to ferry paid crowds. They won’t show the teachers instructed to assemble pupils at dawn. They won’t show the residents who were told: “Kuja, kuna kitu kidogo.”
They won’t show the quiet queues behind the venue men and women waiting for the KSh1,000 handout from state agents.
They won’t say that the mobilisation money starts as KSh5,000 from State House, but by the time it reaches the ground it has been eaten three times over, leaving people with KSh1,000… or KSh500 in the more remote areas. That’s the real logistics of these “massive turnouts.”
And now I understand how the news we consume gets cooked, filtered, polished, and delivered as state-approved truth. The purpose is simple: make Kenyans believe Ruto is loved, wanted, celebrated when the ground is boiling with frustration.
But here’s the beauty:
People are not fools.
The United Opposition told them, “Take the money. It’s yours. Eat it without guilt.” And they are doing exactly that but they’re not mistaking handouts for leadership. They’re not confusing staged cheers for genuine hope. They are tired of lies, tired of manipulation, tired of a president who thinks cleverness is the same as wisdom.
So let Ruto continue rehearsing his brilliance.
Let him believe he can fool an entire nation twice.
Let him think he can buy loyalty with pocket change while the country bleeds.
Because 2027 is coming, and it will remind him of a truth he has forgotten:
Kenyans know the difference between truth and propaganda.
They know the difference between leadership and theatrics.
They know exactly what they lived through after 2022 and they will not repeat that mistake.
Ruto can rewrite the news, but he cannot rewrite the ground.
The ground is awake.
And the ground remembers.
Raila Odinga was a true champion of democracy. A child of independence, he endured decades of struggle and sacrifice for the broader cause of freedom and self-governance in Kenya. Time and again, I personally saw him put the interests of his country ahead of his own ambitions. Like few other leaders anywhere, he was willing to choose the path of peaceful reconciliation without compromising his core values. Through his life, Raila Odinga set an example not just for Kenyans, but across Africa and around the world. I know he will be missed. Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and to the people of Kenya.