David Nicholas
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Lab geek and hermit. Anti-vaccine and medical misinformation gets blocked. Organizing animal rescue efforts is the only reason I'm still on here. (He/Him)
Colorado, USA
Joined December 2019
The Black and Missing Foundation, Inc (BAMFI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to bring awareness to missing persons of color. @BAM_FI.
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@de4thbymj @Eudoraz5 For the people asking:. "The Portguese footballer admitted that 'it was rough', 'she didn't want to give it to him' and that he apologised after he'd finished.". Also, she "said no and stop several times". (The article is posted below).
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@solomongeorgio "No, Mr. Trump. You played the president on a TV show. You weren't actually in charge of a country. Remember how the TV ratings were always so important?".
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@keithboykin @JanGunther1 So where's the part where they hold him up with his head and chest completely unprotected so he can do a photo op in front of an American flag? It's almost like they were trying to protect Reagan's life instead of putting on a show for his campaign.
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@JoshuaPotash @popeguilty This is him laying on the ground with his hands up trying to get his patient to copy him. This is when the police officer shot him.
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@fitgirlgill @RozehnalMd Chuck Palahniuk wrote a short story that includes details about this. He has kept a tally of how many people have literally fainted and/or vomited during his readings of the story.
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@micahherskind Just to clarify, police officers who are only interested in being police officers if they have no accountability and are worshipped as heroes are resigning? And the problem is?.
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@chris_notcapn For me, the most disturbing part of this story is that she was a licensed RN who was treating patients and she believed all of this garbage that is contradicted by basic biology.
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@Kappa_Kappa I didn't know about the cat. I had to stop and confirm it. Unfortunately, horrifyingly, you're right. I could deal with Pratt maybe being a Trump supporter because he's probably a complete moron in real life. However, getting rid of his elderly cat is unforgivable.
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@septemberrbloom You wouldn't believe how often people die sitting behind the wheel of their car trying to drive themselves to the hospital. They often don't make it out of their driveway and are just found there. Actually, you probably would believe how often it happens. It's a lot.
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@eeberquist Aging. It happens to us all, if we're lucky. The human body isn't made by hollywood and tends to fall apart. (Except for the Giuliani thing. That's just some idiot who spray painted his head.).
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@_lizharvey "If I were just 80 years old. I don't believe I could undertake the duties I experienced when I was president.". "You have to be able to go from one subject to another and concentrate on each one adequately and then put them together in a comprehensive way. ".
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@Shai_Berry @todayyearsoldig I think the Buddhists are on to something and capybaras are the highest level of reincarnated enlightenment.
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@Elizacouler @_celia_bedelia_ Hi. Healthcare worker here who spent years teaching classes on bloodborne pathogens. You couldn't be more wrong. There is literally a term, "universal precautions", which means you ALWAYS assume blood or tissue (especially blood) is infectious and treat it as a biohazard.
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@ameliaelizalde @MaraWilson This is the stuff the California tourism board should be pushing. I'm not interested in celebrities or beaches. Bring on the tiny lizards.
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@AP It's literally his job to step in if one of the other branches of government goes too far (i.e. the Supreme Court or Congress). Remember that whole "checks and balances" thing? I know he's been ignoring it, but the rest of us haven't forgotten.
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@clairezagorski @DuchessSexpert I'm sure Netanyahu will follow this up with an announcement that Hamas has mastered teleportation technology.
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@MarkOosterveen @neilhimself This was posted shortly after the Club Q massacre in Colorado. I think about it a lot.
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@de4thbymj @Eudoraz5 "Ronaldo admitted rape accuser said no multiple times and he apologised after sex".
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@notlikethesoup Looking back at my interactions with the police and my interactions with Taco Bell, I would have to say that Taco Bell had a much more positive impact on my life and their employees were also better at their jobs.
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@RndmStreetMedic I'd like to add one thing to this. COVID isn't the only nasty contagious respiratory illness out there, though it is one of the worst. Even if a COVID test comes back negative, take similar precautions if you or someone you know has symptoms of being sick.
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@Tieshatalks @hermit_hwarang I could add a thread about how African slaves weren't just plantation labor but actually brought advanced agricultural techniques (and even some crops) with them to North America. However, white slavers taking credit for African agriculture might be a bit too much for today.
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I'm just going to say that if you see a conservative bashing Kris Kristofferson on here, you can be confident that their "patriotism" is entirely performative and they don't give a single shit about this country, its citizens, or its military.
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@BaddCompani @1feralkat There are actual human beings surprised by this?. This is Tulsi Gabbard. "Tulsi Gabbard’s Biggest Political Donor In 2021 Is A Putin Apologist".
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@fred_guttenberg @JustMoi32 ". he encountered a "beloved" retired Buffalo police officer working in the store as a security guard. The guard fired multiple shots that hit the suspect, but they did not impact him due to his tactical gear, Gramaglia said. The suspect then killed the guard.".
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@ohhh_mokshaa @Eudoraz5 I liked it better before social media came along and you didn't know what people were actually thinking.
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@AngryBlackLady I don't feel like most Gen Xers did at the time of the scandal. I think views about the whole situation have changed a lot in the last 25 years. When you get past a certain age, how young a 22 year old intern is becomes much more stark.
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@DannyDeraney It's worth remembering that in addition to his very impressive military credentials, his huge contributions to music (not just country), and generally being the real deal badass, Kris Kristofferson is also a good human being.
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@melarune @KatyMontgomerie This is one of those moments where I'm reminded of the gap between the US and UK. In the US, teachers are constantly (and I mean multiple times per day) harassed by the parents of their students. In person. By email. By phone. Sometimes appearing uninvited at their homes.
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@fuckyouiquit @CeeEyes People always ask "how is this legal?" It's not about legal or illegal. It's about what they can get away with. An unenforced law or one without real repercussions is meaningless. How often are major corporations given fines that are less than what they earn in a day?.
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@baddestmamajama This is everyone's daily reminder that the standard training of an MD doesn't include much, if anything, about nutrition.
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@roxana_hadadi And then there are the women who led successful action franchises and defined an entire generation of action movies 30-40 years ago.
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@ShouldHaveCat @inKittenVeritas @LouDPhillips has a story like this and it's adorable. (Yes, this is the famous actor and now author.)
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@Keionisbored @kjxoxo @jeremy94712059 @naciousss This is such an important distinction. It's possible for someone to work very hard and (with a bit of luck) become a millionaire. However, no one becomes a billionaire without seriously screwing people over. Jeff Bezos level wealth? You basically have to be a Bond villain.
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@de4thbymj @Eudoraz5 I'm expecting the usual comments that it still doesn't count as rape, so I'll be muting this.
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@allyroche To me, Cruise will always be the guy who pushed a fan to take her son off of his schizophrenia medications. After going through the Scientology "treatment" for schizophrenia, his condition seriously deteriorated. He killed his mother by stabbing her 77 times. That's on Cruise.
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@cmclymer Could you take a moment to label whether this is satire or it actually happened? I'm sorry, but it's 2023, it's Florida, and it's DeSantis. We can no longer be sure that this wasn't a real press conference.
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@souriceaux @devjpow @chick_in_kiev Anyone who thinks bisexuality, homosexuality, or non-binary gender are new things or recent ideas seriously needs to take a decent history class. There have been points in time within multiple cultures where these things were commonly accepted.
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@McClellandShane It's worth remembering that the Matthew Shepard Foundation exists and is still fighting to keep atrocities like this from happening.
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@washingtonpost Just stop with this crap. The plague was incidental to Shakespeare writing King Lear. The whole narrative of great artistic works coming out of a pandemic is garbage. Stop pushing it. What's coming out of the pandemic is a lot of tragedy and a lot of dead people. Enough already.
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@LichenCraig @MadelineAndraia Fan Fiction by the proper definition has been around a hell of a lot longer than that. The term itself is at least 75 years old (probably older). University courses analyzing fan fiction and its literary impact were being taught in the 1960s and 70s. (Note: my mother was one of.
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@EugeneLeeYang This is the introductory montage from a post-apocalyptic movie where they show the audience how we got here. We're two minutes away from roving gangs of killer bikers terrorizing survivors in a desert.
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@ToniC8 Don't forget about them blowing off the background check for now Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.
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@johnlk_80 @solomongeorgio After January 21st, I want anyone interviewing Donald Trump to keep this going. It's the fake news this country needs.
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@7777Justice @SolNataMD That would be because anti-vaxxers don't seem to know literally anything at all about how science, medicine, or healthcare systems work.
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@maplecocaine @JoeOfTheNorth If you aren't willing to risk your life to stop 19 children from being brutally murdered, you have no business as a police officer in this country. I'm very serious. An unarmed teacher died protecting those children, but the police waited for over an hour from a safe distance.
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@CBSNews @UROCKlive1 I'm shocked! Just shocked, I tell ya!. A Republican politician lying about their military record? That hasn't happened in at least two or three days.
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@JoshuaPotash ". applied to legally change her name. to reflect her gender identity. As part of the filing, she requested that her last name be changed to Wilson, her mother's last name, saying that she no longer wishes to be "related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.".1/3.
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@micahherskind I'm going to guess that the recruits who view it as a necessary service that shouldn't be glamorized (like garbage men) and prioritize the needs of the community over their own ego are still going to want to be police officers.
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@Sandrakicks1 @SuzeQKnits The scariest part isn't that the Mu variant is more dangerous. The scariest part is that new variants just keep on rolling in.
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@hellolanemoore Has it occurred to any of these people that the reason Kevin Spacey is so good at playing creepy, manipulative villains that make your skin crawl is because he isn't entirely acting?.
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@MaryKoCo From a guy's perspective, back before the ubiquity of cellphones, if you were picking up a girl for a date, it wasn't unusual to show your driver's license to one of her friends or family members. They would write down the info just in case.
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@NathanLerner @AlanTudyk There is literally a guy wandering around out there carrying a 50 cal rifle. I guess that's necessary for self-defense in case you're suddenly attacked by a tank or small aircraft.
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@roxana_hadadi Charlize Theron has been fighting this battle for many years. Milla Jovovich is literally her own genre of woman led action movies. Birds of Prey was an amazing action movie with a strong cast of leading women (and it was DC not Marvel).
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@MaryKoCo I suspect the only guys who complained or objected were ones you wouldn't want to get into a car with anyway.
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@RandomSandman Whenever I see this posted, I feel the need to share this next part of the story too.
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@MattGertz For everyone catching up, this is about Congressman Matt GAETZ, not our friend Matt GERTZ. "Breaking News: The Justice Department is said to be investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida over a possible sexual relationship he had with a 17-year-old girl.".
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@JoJoFromJerz I remember when Gingrich became Speaker of the House in 1995. For a lot of us, it was a benchmark in the GOP's shift towards becoming truly shameless. Even by 1990s Republican standards, Gingrich was scum.
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@notlayingroses It's almost as if the older generations of people who would be sharing this information mostly died off in the 1980s and 90s somehow. Where do you think they all went?.
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@IamDan250 @okaishawty It helps if you've been talking outside of social media for a while and met in person a few times.
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@JodieHMoss @davidmweissman There are Republicans who are angry at Obama for not preventing 9/11, the attack which took place 7 years before he was elected president.
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@RacquelRMorris @SawyerHackett "Qualifying married couple means a man and a woman who are legally married to each other, neither of whom have ever been divorced.". Wow. They're really going the extra mile on this one.
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@DrJenGunter I'm just tuning in for today's edition of "argue with a doctor about the basics of medicine.".
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@piper4missouri @StigmataBlues The shooter didn't do a background check on this kid. He didn't know what his grades were or if he had a criminal record. He shot this kid twice based on the only thing he knew about him, his skin color. Let's not pretend that how good of a kid Ralph Yarl is should be relevant.
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@RedTRaccoon I don't agree with the trope that anyone who served in the military in any capacity is automatically a hero. However, the fact that veterans are stepping up a second time to face this down as civilians couldn't be more relevant. 2/2.
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@menace2snacks Is this going to become a new euphemism?. "What's Christopher Plummer up to? Is he still making movies?". "I'm afraid he's been 'directed by Rian Johnson'. It happened peacefully.".
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@notcapnamerica They attempted to "reach out" to her. How exactly? By phone call, email, or burning a cross on her lawn?.
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@wkamaubell It took less than a day for the birthers to go after the mixed race candidate who was born in Oakland. Where were these questions with Ted Cruz (born in Canada)? Hell, even John McCain (born in the Panama Canal Zone) qualified for "we should at least the question" but no one did.
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@dellcam Was this policy ever really in place or enforced? It seems like targeted harassment of trans people has been pretty standard on here.
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@ddoniolvalcroze This is exactly what I would expect Nicolas Cage and his son to look like if I ran into them walking down the street.
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@butterwise For anyone offended by this comment, please remember that Limbaugh repeatedly called for the execution of all drug addicts while being one himself.
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@MLS_Dave It's not just the COVID pandemic itself. It's what it's shown and the precedents it has set. We have other respiratory diseases wrecking the country right now. People now treat disease prevention like some petty political issue "to own the libs." It's catastrophic.
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@micahherskind They probably don't like the name calling but maybe their response will be to try to raise the bar and give people a reason not to call them that. Those are the kind of people who won't resign. (I know that this is an optimistic, maybe even idealistic, take. I can hope.).
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@ArtCandee @lthompkins2646 Let me know when they start cutting off their ears and throwing them on stage as an "offering".
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@lxndrnthrtn I was significantly less suspicious of this shooting until they provided this as an actual explantation. Supposedly, the suspect shot and hit 4 times from this position and then shot himself in the neck. What the fuck?.
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@_jpayne_ @fannychoir @charlietuna I have to pull out the statistic we've all seen from the Harvard study. 62% of personal bankruptcies in the US stem from medical bills.
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