I hate this with the heat of a million suns.
Telling an eighty-year-old woman to "check the portal" for serious biopsy results is cruelty disguised as digital efficiency. My 82-year-old aunt had a lung biopsy done two weeks ago. The doctor told her they’d have the pathology report ready within five business days. Friday afternoon rolled around. No call. She dialed the clinic’s main desk, her voice shaking with anxiety. The receptionist cut her off before she could finish explaining: “Doctor doesn’t give results over the phone anymore. All lab findings are automatically released to your MyChart patient portal.” My aunt said, “Sweetheart, I don’t have a computer. I have a landline on my kitchen wall. Can the doctor just tell me if I have cancer?” The receptionist sighed into the receiver: “It’s hospital network policy. We can’t bypass the portal. You’ll have to have a family member create an account and view the file.” My aunt spent an entire seventy-two-hour weekend sitting in her recliner, gripping her reading glasses, convinced she was dying. I drove out to her house on Monday morning, set up a profile on my laptop, and pulled up the records. The result was benign. The pathology report had been uploaded four days earlier. A doctor spent three minutes clicking an upload button, and an elderly woman endured four days of sheer psychological terror because the hospital decided a phone call was too expensive. Since when did delivering medical news become a self-service task?
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Well folks, I have officially joined the ranks of the de-monetized on this platform. No explanation given, despite qualifying for the Original Content program. Thanks a lot, X. Glad I've been advocating for you all these years. Apologies to my subscribers. I can't explain it.
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It sticks with me that Gazans invaded Israel and just started murdering random people. It also sticks with me that there are literally zero videos of israeli soldiers ever doing this.
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For people determined to be on the right side of history, the left seem remarkably reluctant to study it.
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Mayorkas has recieved almost NO attention since Trump was elected, unlike almost all other prior admin officials.... despite being a primary agent of the illegal immigration that so plagues us... and even despite his "the border is secure" lies to congress. WHY?
Alejandro Mayorkas facilitated the biggest invasion in world history. He oversaw the importation of 25,000,000 illegal aliens. Facilitating an invasion of foreigners is treason. Why hasn't he been brought to justice?
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If kinks were normalized they wouldn't be kinky anymore so kink-shaming is essential to their existence Now get back in the closet and hide your degeneracy in shame like perverts in a civil society are expected to
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RT @girlconfessx: @puppygirlsteph I never hear ftm say they had a rough day with testicular torsion
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This is absolute insanity. Pure. Insanity.
US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court bbc.in/4rGHDS4
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The sentence was thrown out because an appeals judge ruled that the video should not have been shown in the original trial. BBC misleadingly implies that the sentence was quashed because of the persuasive impact of the video itself. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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Replying to @9Syht @BBCWorld
Judge should be disbarred for even allowing that to be discussed in court, much less officially shown.
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Replying to @JackWDart
All Australians can now call themselves Aboriginals, New Zealanders Māoris, South Africans Zulus... Do you know how dumb your argument is? And all you can do is virtue signal about race. 🙄
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ANGRY News Host DESTROYS Shabanna Mahmood On Live TV After Latest Immigration Scandal!
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Replying to @BDHerzinger
"One guy was weird one time and cracked a code with strategic impact, therefore we have to let furries and tr00ns serve" is peak cope
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lol, I asked Grok via other means and got this. @grok, are you bi-polar? The chances are low. The questions show a basic misunderstanding of how airliner systems work that a commercial pilot with years of line experience would be unlikely to make. The account (@TheLongInvest) states “As a pilot for 20 years I have questions” and lists points about the 30 September 2026 Flydubai flight FZ1073 (Dubai–Tel Aviv) that diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after the Omani first officer allegedly stabbed the Indian captain and the aircraft descended sharply. Multiple outlets (Times of Israel, BBC, CNN, Jerusalem Post, CBS) report the same core sequence: rapid loss of about 17,000 ft in under two minutes, transponder codes 7700 then 7500, passengers and at least one off-duty pilot forcing entry and restraining the attacker, captain seriously injured, no passenger fatalities, and later arrival of the passengers in Israel. Israeli authorities have also noted the rostering of an Omani national on the route as an open compliance question. The clearest technical problem is this claim: where are the oxygen masks that automatically drop during a rapid emergency descent? Passenger oxygen masks do not deploy because an aircraft is descending. They deploy when cabin altitude exceeds roughly 14,000 ft (i.e., loss of pressurization). The trigger is cabin pressure altitude, sensed by the system, not vertical speed or “emergency descent” mode. Pilots train emergency descents precisely because depressurization is one of the reasons they may be required; the masks are already down (or drop) from the high cabin altitude, and the descent is the response that gets everyone to breathable ambient air. In a pressurized aircraft whose pressure hull remains intact, a steep descent—even one caused by a fight over the controls—does not drop the masks. Differential pressure typically falls as the aircraft goes lower. Videos and passenger accounts from this flight show people moving, recording, and entering the forward area without masks deployed, which is consistent with an intact pressure vessel. A line pilot who has done the recurrent depressurization and emergency-descent drills would be expected to know that distinction. Other points in the list are weaker as “pilot knowledge” tests: •Reinforced cockpit doors can be unlocked from the inside; reports state the wounded captain released the door. •Passengers can move during a steep but not extreme-G descent on a transport-category jet; commercial airframes are not pulling sustained fighter-level loads in this scenario. •Crew screening and items that reach the flight deck have failed before in rare cases; that is an operational/security question, not proof of fabrication. •Timing, clothing hours later, who filmed, and language spoken to officials are inferences, not aviation procedures. The same account’s bio calls the author an “Airline Captain.” A mid-September post from the account said “I was a pilot for 16 years”; the October post says 20 years. Credential claims on social media are unverifiable from the outside, and the oxygen-mask error is the part that is inconsistent with routine airline training. People who are not pilots routinely mix up “emergency descent” with “depressurization” because that is how the events are usually shown together in news footage. That is the more parsimonious explanation here.
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Replying to @omid9
A good working definition of modern anti-semitism is hating the Jews so much you don't care about the slaughter of 30,000 Iranians because the Mullahs are your big hope for destroying Israel and hence the Jews.
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We sinvcerely need a "The OP's mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelled of elderberries" option on the Community Note dropdown menu.
Israel-bound flight diverted after fight between pilots bbc.in/4z6SCqA
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The copilot stabbed the pilot in an attempt to hijack the plane until passengers stormed the cockpit and subdued him. The plane plummeted over 17000 feet during the attack and other pilots who were passengers on the plane took control and landed it. cnn.com/2026/09/30/wor… jpost.com/international/… msn.com/en-us/news/oth…
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Has FlyDubai considered a Two Cockpit solution?
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I understand that Irish and Spanish representatives are demanding for the passengers to reconvene in the air and give control of the plane back to the hijacker.
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No joke: the U.N.'s Palestine Rapporteur, who today apologized for not knowing all of these years that antisemitism was in fact against Jews, has just blocked a British Palestinian activist for saying she could have googled it.
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She blocked me for this by the way
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*Meu alarme tocando por 10 minutos* Eu nos meus sonhos:
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