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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Novocaine works by blocking the sodium and calcium ion channels in nerve cells.

These "ion pumps" are how nerve impulses travel down axons. (That part I knew.)

My dentist is very willing to answer my technical questions while he works. He sometimes simply narrates while he works.

He (as do most people) likes it when people are interested in his work.

I have always had a keen interest in medicine. I probably would have been a doctor, if not an engineer.

For example, I had him set up the table so I could watch, and had the surgeon narrate the procedure, as he performed my vasectomy.

Fascinating stuff.

Too bad I felt like somebody kicked me in the nuts for two days...
Disappointing theists since 1968!
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
I have learned that being a generally shitty human being, devoid of conscience, and empathy, a person who is relentlessly mendacious, bigoted and misogynistic, who advocates violence against those who dare disagree with him, can achieve the status of a hero, simply by someone failing to assassinate him. 

What a wonderful time to be alive...

That last part was irony, though I imagine he might genuinely feel this now. I wonder if we can  expect a softening of the rhetoric on violence from him? If so I shall return with something new that I have learned.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(July 19, 2024 at 1:50 pm)Jackalope Wrote:
(July 17, 2024 at 7:57 pm)brewer Wrote: That's a good ratio, better than mine.

Do you eat a lot of red meat?

My doc isn't really concerned, he said he could put me on a statin but he pegged my one year heart attack risk at 5%, so for now I declined.

Be cautious of using statins.  Everyone I have talked with has had trouble with them, me included.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(July 19, 2024 at 3:51 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: Novocaine works by blocking the sodium and calcium ion channels in nerve cells.

These "ion pumps" are how nerve impulses travel down axons.  (That part I knew.)

My dentist is very willing to answer my technical questions while he works.  He sometimes simply narrates while he works.

He (as do most people) likes it when people are interested in his work.

I have always had a keen interest in medicine.  I probably would have been a doctor, if not an engineer.

For example, I had him set up the table so I could watch, and had the surgeon narrate the procedure, as he performed my vasectomy.

Fascinating stuff.  

Too bad I felt like somebody kicked me in the nuts for two days...

Your dentist performed your vasectomy?  That's a little creepy.   Angel
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
^Makes you wonder who did his colonoscopy.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(July 20, 2024 at 12:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^Makes you wonder who did his colonoscopy.

Boru

Please say it was not the dentist.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(July 20, 2024 at 12:17 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(July 20, 2024 at 12:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^Makes you wonder who did his colonoscopy.

Boru

Please say it was not the dentist.

Podiatrist, both ends meeting in the middle.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on its embrace of gayness

Quote:House Speaker Mike Johnson, a devout Christian, once blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on "homosexual behavior."

"Some credit to the fall of Rome to not only the deprivation of the society and the loss of morals, but also to the rampant homosexual behavior that was condoned by the society," Johnson said in a radio interview in 2008, as CNN first reported.

https://www.businessinsider.com/speaker-...or-2023-11
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
That there was/is a rank of Grand Titan in KKK. [Can be found in God, Guns, and Sedition. Far-Right Terrorism in America by Hoffman and Ware]. Hardly useful but it shows how grotesque organization it is.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
There were/are Grand Wizards and Grand Dragons among the KKK near where we used to live.
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