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Well that’s not funny at all. How disappointing. I hope she’s okay.
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Mar 22, 2024 23:42
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this story feels like it's due a britney spears yellow clothes plot twist
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Mar 22, 2024 23:45
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I wish I was on the funnier timeline and not this one
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Mar 22, 2024 23:48
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Just fresh back from the timeline where we goonfunded enough to strangle William before he could use the Havana Syndrome gun to give Kate cancer, what did I miss?
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Mar 23, 2024 00:19
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Residency Evil posted:But it won't stop anyone from trying to read the tea leaves. Someone has read the tea leaves, my wife just got a job at The London Clinic and starts in a few weeks as they just had to let someone go rather abruptly....
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Mar 23, 2024 00:36
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Gonzo McFee posted:No Bravery is legit one of the best anti-war songs I've heard, huge respect for him. it's criminal that I'd never heard of this song before, I've always thought of James Blunt as a bit of a meme but gently caress me this song is incredible, thank you
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Mar 23, 2024 01:50
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:Someone has read the tea leaves, my wife just got a job at The London Clinic and starts in a few weeks as they just had to let someone go rather abruptly....
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Mar 23, 2024 02:43
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Mr. Apollo posted:I wonder if they released this video of Kate now because they received word that some tabloids were going to run stores based on leaks from the London Clinic. Not sure even the tabloids would have done that. Meanwhile: 
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Mar 23, 2024 02:48
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the standard right-wing projection thing where they are convinced there are roaming gangs of lefties finding Problematic things and Cancelling them to eliminate all dissent in the world because from time to time someone will point out something's a bit racist, but when they get mad at meaningless symbolic gestures it's expressing reasonable concerns about the corruption of important traditions or whatever
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Mar 23, 2024 03:03
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It's the perfect week for the media to do their job of distracting the peons. Instead of the news showing polls of the impending Tory collapse, and the country soon after, its all about football (HOW DARE THEY!), royals (in an awww way and not what did they do now way), and flag shagging (HOW DARE TEHY ARE FLEG!). Just need a WW2 reference for the gammon bingo.
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Mar 23, 2024 03:24
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happyhippy posted:It's the perfect week for the media to do their job of distracting the peons. Distract? The British public eat that poo poo up and want more. Even this thread was lapping it up. The public doesn't give a poo poo about politics.
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Mar 23, 2024 09:17
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:Someone has read the tea leaves, my wife just got a job at The London Clinic and starts in a few weeks as they just had to let someone go rather abruptly.... No surprises there. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/20/london_clinic_probes_claims_staffer/
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Mar 23, 2024 09:55
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Jedit posted:No surprises there. imagine thinking you can just peak at the royals medical records like you can for your family and mates in a normal nhs job, what a dumb idiot
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Mar 23, 2024 10:26
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fuctifino posted:I wish I was on the funnier timeline and not this one This IS the funnier timeline. 
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Mar 23, 2024 10:52
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Unrelated, but you can now get covid vaccines privately. I’d booked through pharmadoctor for April but then found a clinic in Fleet Street with appointments sooner - getting the Pfizer jab on Tuesday. I decided to splurge £95 for the deluxe mRNA vaccine, rather than £45 for the novovax protein vaccine, which the pharmadoctor pharmacy were offering. It’s been almost 3 years since my first dose, I forget when my second was, so am glad to finally be getting some protection. With kids at nursery/school I’ve been constantly getting sick.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:58
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Jel Shaker posted:imagine thinking you can just peak at the royals medical records like you can for your family and mates in a normal nhs job, what a dumb idiot Need I remind you of the medic that used her unfettered access to patient records to cyberstalk her ex's new partner. With digital systems you can have records that require explicit password entry to access so there's no excuse of "I fat fingered Kate Middleton's record when I was actually looking for Kate Morrison." Residency Evil posted:It depends on the situation. The fact that she was (reportedly) in the hospital for a long time supports that she had a fairly extensive abdominal surgery, not just a cyst torsion. Yeah this was my feeling too. The point I was trying to make was that chemo on its own isn't necessarily anything major, same with a prolonged hospital stay (poo poo happens) but that whole combination of emergency admission, prolonged post-op stay and now chemo do not add up in a very encouraging way. Charles' disease sounds much less worrisome in comparison (him being 75 notwithstanding).
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Mar 23, 2024 11:08
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Lady Gaza posted:Unrelated, but you can now get covid vaccines privately. I’d booked through pharmadoctor for April but then found a clinic in Fleet Street with appointments sooner - getting the Pfizer jab on Tuesday. It's great that not dying of covid is something you have to pay for 
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Mar 23, 2024 11:11
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Might turn me into history's greatest monster but I'm not feeling any particular sympathy for Kate. Yes, it's a pity that she's got cancer, but she's a born-to-rule toff that's married into the uppermost echelons of the British ruling class, meaning she'll be receiving the kind of medical care that her lowly subjects can only dream of. Thousands of folk in this very country suffer in far more dire circumstances on a daily basis with no recourse to the kind of care that she'll be receiving, personally I'll save my sympathy for them instead of a millionaire.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:11
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dadrips posted:Might turn me into history's greatest monster but I'm not feeling any particular sympathy for Kate. Yes, it's a pity that she's got cancer, but she's a born-to-rule toff that's married into the uppermost echelons of the British ruling class, meaning she'll be receiving the kind of medical care that her lowly subjects can only dream of. Thousands of folk in this very country suffer in far more dire circumstances on a daily basis with no recourse to the kind of care that she'll be receiving, personally I'll save my sympathy for them instead of a millionaire.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:16
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We might see a surge in cancer treatment & and research funding now that one of the Important Ones has got it. (tbf it's already pretty well funded and I reckon that's exactly because there's no cure that rich people can simply buy)
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Mar 23, 2024 11:18
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Mr. Apollo posted:I wonder if they released this video of Kate now because they received word that some tabloids were going to run stores based on leaks from the London Clinic. Maybe I'm just incredibly cynical, but it still feels like they've spun the wheel of excuses and picked the one thing (cancer) that's got so much public sympathy it would make folk forget all the weird poo poo that's happened. Who knows if she has it or not, it's not as if anyone can prove one way or another (or would dare to investigate/question it because it's cancer).
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Mar 23, 2024 11:19
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dadrips posted:Might turn me into history's greatest monster I don't think you're allowed to just become Stephen Fry, he already exists
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Mar 23, 2024 11:20
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dadrips posted:Might turn me into history's greatest monster but I'm not feeling any particular sympathy for Kate. Yes, it's a pity that she's got cancer, but she's a born-to-rule toff that's married into the uppermost echelons of the British ruling class, meaning she'll be receiving the kind of medical care that her lowly subjects can only dream of. Thousands of folk in this very country suffer in far more dire circumstances on a daily basis with no recourse to the kind of care that she'll be receiving, personally I'll save my sympathy for them instead of a millionaire. Something I'm curious on as I know we have a few medical-types who post here - for situations like this would the ultra-rich have a significantly better level of medical treatment than most people? My assumption is that it comes down to two main factors. Firstly, anything would obviously be administered by the professionals with the most possible experience which may vary a lot compared to anyone using the NHS normally. But the main difference is that royals will have constant monitoring & checkups a level beyond most people, allowing conditions like this to be found much earlier (e.g. at stage 1/2 rather than stage 4). However there isn't a bunch of secret rich-people-only cancer drugs that they can just throw millions at, and generally speaking the treatment & outcomes for anything found late would be broadly the same as for the average person. Is that accurate?
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Mar 23, 2024 11:33
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I've watched the Kate video a few times now, and something that I can't unsee is not a single plant appears to move during the entire video.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:38
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xtothez posted:Something I'm curious on as I know we have a few medical-types who post here - for situations like this would the ultra-rich have a significantly better level of medical treatment than most people? Also wait times - no "okay so we saw a lump on the X-ray and we've scheduled a biopsy next week", I presume it'll all be as quick as possible.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:39
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fuctifino posted:I've watched the Kate video a few times now, and something that I can't unsee is not a single plant appears to move during the entire video. That's kinda their whole thing
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Mar 23, 2024 11:49
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xtothez posted:Firstly, anything would obviously be administered by the professionals with the most possible experience which may vary a lot compared to anyone using the NHS normally. Remember that the vast majority of consultants working in private healthcare have a 'day' job in the NHS. I'd also expect in a situation like this that if it's something the consultant in charge isn't fully confident on, they'd just bring in whoever they thought needed to be brought in. Pay the local NHS Hospital a few thousand quid to borrow the relevant oncologist for the time they need.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:52
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Tbh private healthcare is very, very fast. But the biggest complaint is staff are not as skilled as the NHS, they offset that with better resources though. Wife says she would rather be treated for cancer by the NHS than private, I'd it didn't take so long. As for royals, I think the only difference is they're likely to explore many more treatment options that they likely wouldn't for normal, even paying customers because if Mr Smith dies, it's not the same as the King died in their care.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:57
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kingturnip posted:Remember that the vast majority of consultants working in private healthcare have a 'day' job in the NHS. nah it’s the other way round, the vast majority work primarily for the nhs with one day a week in private pretty standard for a full time 10 PA job so essentially you have a pool of nhs doctors maintaining their higher level oncology skills in the NHS, then doing the easy lumpectomy cases in the private sector (remember that ICU stays are expensive so private hospitals are going to tell anyone complex to get their surgery done elsewhere), so no need to “buy off” the nhs
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Mar 23, 2024 12:00
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dadrips posted:Might turn me into history's greatest monster but I'm not feeling any particular sympathy for Kate. Yes, it's a pity that she's got cancer, but she's a born-to-rule toff that's married into the uppermost echelons of the British ruling class, meaning she'll be receiving the kind of medical care that her lowly subjects can only dream of. Thousands of folk in this very country suffer in far more dire circumstances on a daily basis with no recourse to the kind of care that she'll be receiving, personally I'll save my sympathy for them instead of a millionaire. Cancer care is the one part of the NHS which is still largely spared from the worst of the cuts since there are various bits of actual legislation guaranteeing waiting times for care. In practice this means everything has been cut back at the expanse of maintaining these standards for cancer. Bear in mind that these aren't exceptionally high/difficult standards either. So if you have cancer being treated on the NHS is the optimal way to go since you will still have all the benefits of socialised healthcare and large multidisciplinary teams providing a good standard of care. Private settings have all the consultants working as individuals so you won't have the same degree of collective decision-making. Sucks if your health condition doesn't have the C-word though, and there are plenty enough of those who will make you'd life thoroughly unpleasant without the good grace of ending your misery like untreated cancer would.
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Mar 23, 2024 12:36
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There are also still huge disparities between what stages cancer is diagnosed - those in more deprived areas are overall diagnosed at a much later stage than less deprived areas and also a higher number of people die from cancer.
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Mar 23, 2024 12:44
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I wonder how long before the Kate video gets conspiracy theories of it being AI generated.
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Mar 23, 2024 13:14
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Cimber posted:I wonder how long before the Kate video gets conspiracy theories of it being AI generated. I would estimate -1hr or so fuctifino posted:I've watched the Kate video a few times now, and something that I can't unsee is not a single plant appears to move during the entire video.
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Mar 23, 2024 13:19
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I never said anything about AI generation. I do suspect green screen background though.
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Mar 23, 2024 13:29
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Bloody chemo posers jumping on the bandwagon  Just started chemo/radiotherapy for throat cancer two days ago. Diagnosis > pre-treatment preparations/assessments > treatment itself on the NHS has been rapid and loving outstanding  Having a RIG (radiologically inserted gastrostomy tube) fitted into your stomach in case you have difficulty swallowing solid foods now or later on is wild. Especially as you get to use/fill it yourself.
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Mar 23, 2024 13:29
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I got sliced in half and had cancer cut out last year. AMA
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Mar 23, 2024 13:41
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smellmycheese posted:I got sliced in half and had cancer cut out last year. AMA Did your farts change?
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Mar 23, 2024 13:43
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Just had my door buzzed by labour canvassers. (We have intercom thing for the flats). "We're canvassing on behalf of the Labour party" "Oh, I'm not voting Labour" Silence as she doesn't know how to deal with that (probably knows I'm a former member). Me: "I'm not voting for genocide, sorry". Ed: I decided to say that because of all the supposed reports that 'on the doorsteps, Corbyn was the reason people weren't going to vote Labour' feedback from 2019 canvas. Well they can know that Starmer is the reason this time. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Mar 23, 2024 13:52
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I have no sympathy for any royals as people. If they had any humanity they would have abdicated long ago. They deserve nothing from any of us, least of all our care or tears. I'm in two minds as to whether they're better or worse than other billionaires like Bezos/Musk/Gates. The business billionaires have at least put some amount of work into getting rich but on the other hand they have worse active impacts on the world day to day. The same thing should happen to all of them imo and the world gets a little bit better any time one of them dies or even feels a bit sad.
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Mar 23, 2024 13:57
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xtothez posted:Something I'm curious on as I know we have a few medical-types who post here - for situations like this would the ultra-rich have a significantly better level of medical treatment than most people? I suspect the big advantage for the ultra-rich is just support. No need to work, no need to shop or deal with household stuff, meals prepared to your specifications and taste (which can change a lot in chemo, speaking from experience...), just lie there and get catered to. franco posted:Bloody chemo posers jumping on the bandwagon Good luck! I'm 4 sessions into chemo, but my neutrophil count keeps dropping below optimum so I've had to have a couple delayed. Bloody annoying, I want to get this over with.
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