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Gorgeous 😍

Grandma can't see the pins anymore to take them out.
She made me a lovely quilt. I'm pretty sure I'll never be done pulling pins out of it.

Treat that vest very carefully for a while. No sudden moves.

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The poop psa absolutely no one asked for

I found it really hard to talk about and seek treatment for this subject at the time, and I was quite aware of how sick I might be. Maybe this will help somebody. I've had the butt-probe three times now, and the good doctor expects me again next year. I'm totally cured. No blood no more. Let me share ...

The critical danger is polyps that grow on the lining of your intestine. They go bad and turn into cancer. Doc wants to snip them off for you. If you are 50 years old, go do that.

The home test ... If it finds any blood at all, you'll fail the test and have to do the colonoscopy. If you're approaching 50, you have polyps, they are bleeding, and its gonna find blood. You can waste your time with the home test or just go get checked.

Most folks with red blood in stool probably have internal hemorrhoids. Lots of things can cause them to flare up, including drinking alcohol, spicy greasy food, and anything else that irritates your gut. This is the best-case scenario. Internal roids are fixable with a (very uncomfortable) outpatient surgery.

The are obviously (MANY) other conditions that can go wrong there (external roids, lobsters up your butt, all sorts of stuff can happen), but these are the big things the doc says when you first talk. Roids and dangling cancer worms. Doc needs to take a look and tell you.

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And then the cure ... oh ya, got the butt probe, got the roids ... um ... "pinned". That lessened the bleeding but didn't fix anything. Turns out my problem was a gut microbe imbalance, most likely brought on by some large doses of antibiotics I had to take for dental surgeries. Some righteous kimchi straight from a backyard in Korea cured me. That and a whole lot of fiber. All the time. Real fiber. Beans. Spinach. Black rice. Gotta feed them gut bugs. Or they will eat you instead.

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The Scream Test

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My boss designed a whole decomm system with wait periods and shit built into an app.
He still tells me, "You can just shut that down and delete it".
I don't. I make that jerk use his own system. "Put in a decomm, and I'll take care of it."

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Ed Zitron announced an insider story that might blow up the AI grift

Ed does a huge amount of research creating reverse engineered financials for companies that are doing their best to hide it. As another poster said, he brings the receipts. That's his main game. Its why you read him in the first place. He backs it up.

What does he have? I'll bet its inside financial data. I think he got a cache of straight info that lets him correct many of his estimates and prove his worst predictions.