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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

mlmp08 posted:

https://www.propublica.org/article/dean-heller-pushed-va-to-use-unproven-brainwave-frequency-treatment

GOP members and Trump officials pushing VA to try experimental treatments on veterans, pay private businesses for the opportunity to do so.

We really do live in a hosed up cyberpunk future

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Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

So, is this just a fancy term for shock therapy?

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


mlmp08 posted:

https://www.propublica.org/article/dean-heller-pushed-va-to-use-unproven-brainwave-frequency-treatment

GOP members and Trump officials pushing VA to try experimental treatments on veterans, pay private businesses for the opportunity to do so.

quote:

Another of CereCare’s partners, Judi Kosterman, participated in drafting the legislation, she said in an interview. Kosterman described herself as CereCare’s expert on the procedure, and her business card identified her as “Dr.” She is not a physician and her doctorate is in education

:laffo: :smith:

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Their microwave brain treatment sounds a lot like the plot of Netflix’s Maniac.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Jesus Christ.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
please spay and neuter your vets

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
At least the VA is pushing back for now.

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
i will never go to the va

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

owns

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

Vasudus posted:

i will never go to the va

Melthir
Dec 29, 2009

I need to go scrap some money together cause my avatar is just sad.

Thalantos posted:

Once it's legal to grow here I will, but honestly I live in a lovely area with brats that I'm certain would come onto my property to steal my weed, so I'm gonna make an interior garden in a spare room in my house.

Edit: dangit, this should be in response to that Canadian Pol who says the kids will get into people's lawns and smoke a weed

Look up bubbleponics. I use it on my chilies and holy gently caress did it increase the amount I was able to put out while requiring minimal maintenance.

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

In better news

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1052582530086555649


hhahaha get hosed Paulie

Dwanyelle
Jan 13, 2008

ISRAEL DOESN'T HAVE CIVILIANS THEY'RE ALL VALID TARGETS
I'm a huge dickbag ignore me

mlmp08 posted:

https://www.propublica.org/article/dean-heller-pushed-va-to-use-unproven-brainwave-frequency-treatment

GOP members and Trump officials pushing VA to try experimental treatments on veterans, pay private businesses for the opportunity to do so.

And yet they still won't give mmj rx, lolsob.

Alternatively: I'm glad they're spending resources on this when I've been off of one of my meds or the other for TWO loving MONTHS and they can't see to get it straightened out.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Thalantos posted:

And yet they still won't give mmj rx, lolsob.

Alternatively: I'm glad they're spending resources on this when I've been off of one of my meds or the other for TWO loving MONTHS and they can't see to get it straightened out.

I think the biggest obstacle in that is the scheduling. Schedule 1 says basically "no health benefits" which is steadily being proven to be not the case. No prescriptions can be made while it's scheduled like that because it would be highly illegal for any doctor to prescribe a schedule 1 item. That's why there are recommendations.

Still sucks

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
https://twitter.com/nsagov/status/1052580198435225600?s=21

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

NSA Wizard gettin lazy there.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

MA-Horus posted:

NSA Wizard gettin lazy there.

Summed up in probably the best reaction tweet:
https://twitter.com/__WhiPP__/status/1052581881622003713

NSA WIZARD
Jan 20, 2016

WE HAD RESULTS BEFORE WE POLLED TWITTER

Jaguars!
Jul 31, 2012


Queensland legalizes abortion


Also NZ's right wing party leadership is self-destructing due to some sort of undeclared donation scandal but it's happening so fast I can't keep track. Quote "Two Chinese would be more valuable than two Indians, I have to say."

Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Oct 17, 2018

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

NSA WIZARD posted:

WE HAD RESULTS BEFORE WE POLLED TWITTER

Good luck guessing my password now dingus

edit: Guessed it idiot. Hi everyone I'm Soulex, and my password was hunter2

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

NSA WIZARD posted:

WE HAD RESULTS BEFORE WE POLLED TWITTER

This was a test to see who was trustworthy wasn't it

Flikken
Oct 23, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

NSA WIZARD posted:

WE HAD RESULTS BEFORE WE POLLED TWITTER

Like you needed our passwords anyway.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Thalantos posted:

And yet they still won't give mmj rx, lolsob.

Alternatively: I'm glad they're spending resources on this when I've been off of one of my meds or the other for TWO loving MONTHS and they can't see to get it straightened out.

The VA thus far is telling these hucksters to gently caress off.

Unless they get forced by law to do it someday.

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless

mlmp08 posted:

The VA thus far is telling these hucksters to gently caress off.

Unless they get forced by law to do it someday.

Well hey, it's not like Trump's golfing buddies are the ones deciding how to- OH JESUS loving CHRIST

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
https://twitter.com/Bro_Pair/status/1052692021276598273

this is basically me

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



https://www.vox.com/2018/10/17/17990268/pat-robertson-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-trump-crisis

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blessing_International

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/europe/turkey-saudi-khashoggi-dismember.html

Because of course there's audio recordings of the Saudi's murdering and dismembering the body.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



BigDave posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/europe/turkey-saudi-khashoggi-dismember.html

Because of course there's audio recordings of the Saudi's murdering and dismembering the body.

If you don't think embassies are bugged 6 ways to Sunday I don't know what to tell you.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

orange juche posted:

If you don't think embassies are bugged 6 ways to Sunday I don't know what to tell you.

I mean, I'm sure they are, it's just perfect timing for how they released it.

Trump: "We're not even sure he's dead, this is just like Kanavaugh!"

Turkish Military Intel: *Audio of Khasaoggi being tortured and murdered by Saudi government officials*

Trump: "Well, we just don't know what happened!"

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

I will legit take a day off work and have a party if Roger Stone gets turbo hosed by Mueller and goes to jail. That would be a day worth celebrating.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

bird food bathtub posted:

I will legit take a day off work and have a party if Roger Stone gets turbo hosed by Mueller and goes to jail. That would be a day worth celebrating.

Only thing better would be Miller

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

BigDave posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/europe/turkey-saudi-khashoggi-dismember.html

Because of course there's audio recordings of the Saudi's murdering and dismembering the body.

You have those two backwards. Apparently it took 7 minutes to die or something. Super brutal

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


And the expert dismemberer guy told the others to put on headphones to make it easier.

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/ramsincanon/status/1052612159644033024

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1052319855234437121

He's right, in that for both cases Trump is sticking up for incredibly privileged men who did terrible things to people Trump finds subhuman. So there is that similarity.

Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Casimir Radon posted:

And the expert dismemberer guy told the others to put on headphones to make it easier.

It's 50/50 whether he was listening to Slayer or like, Abba

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Radical 90s Wizard posted:

It's 50/50 whether he was listening to Slayer or like, Abba

I figured Duran Duran - Come Undone

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



PYF dismemberment theme song.

I like the barney theme.

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not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHd4f-KCaM

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