Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who said anything about replacing clinical MCI exams with invasive scans? (I'm terrible; I didn't read the article. I wouldn't agree with replacing exams with invasive scans.) We just need better MCI exams. The ones we have now are flawed. They are not catching people who are clearly already symptomatic, and who therefore should be started on one of the existing options for small molecule drugs.

Also all of our current research uses the existing MCI exams for assessment and often endpoint, which deeply complicates things if the exams don't even catch what they were intended to catch.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Same. My Sennheiser Momentum 2s over ears are god damn workhorses and I'm very abusive. And the sound is fantastic.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This person is just a dumb troll, I've seen and reported them on other posts. Everyone ignore please.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much, I was equally as confused lol

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Marijuana stays in people's systems for weeks. I don't think that never smoking pot should be a requirement of employment.

I don't smoke pot. I care about people's liberty. And you're being a prick.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anecdotally can confirm: half of the critical care unit I work is currently either Covid or flu. We're back to reserving isolation rooms again.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Memantine, donepezil, etc. should be started much earlier in this population. We need better MCI tests. My grandmother who watched both of her parents die of Alzheimer's was passing her clinical MCI long after we had taken her keys because she was repeating questions over and over, and her house was covered in post-it notes to remind her about her post-it notes.

Our current clinical assessments for MCI are really bad.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not relevant to pre-employment testing being literally useless for the vast majority of jobs

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Post accident is fine because the question there is "were you actively impaired while working" which is a valid concern. What is pre-employment testing supposed to show that's relevant to the vast majority of jobs though? "Sometimes this person uses recreational drugs." Ok, and what? Are they coming to work impaired? If not, then outside of the medical field and airline pilots, who cares?

Why on earth should a corporation be allowed to require a privacy violating urine test as a condition for employment for a desk job? And even for safety critical jobs like medical or pilots, a pre-employment urine test isn't going to catch abuse of the one drug that is the biggest red flag in the entire collection: alcohol.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Which is a problem that pre-employment drug testing does not correct in any way, shape or form.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What makes a state a state is being ratified in Congress. I'm not sure you understand how this works. You don't just get to make a new state because people vote for it.

"Is West Virginia Constitutional?

On the creation of new states, the Constitution is pretty clear. Article IV, Section 3, reads that “no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State … without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/08/is-west-virginia-constitutional/

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before the Tea Party movement in the Republican party, yes I definitely could have been convinced to vote for a Republican candidate. I was actually intending to vote for John McCain for president because at that time in history, both parties really did still have their crazy branches, but the relatively rational adults who knew how to compromise for the good of the country still ran the show, and I was genuinely concerned that Obama didn't have enough political experience to be president.

Then McCain nominated Sarah Palin for his Vice President. That was such a pandering, cowardly, caving to the will of the utterly ignorant, insane extremists in the Republican party move that I voted for Obama. And then the entire Republican party got so mad that a black guy was president that they collectively lost their whole fucking minds.

Republicans no longer want to govern. They want to break things and stay in power and that's it. That's their entire platform. There's nothing to debate because they literally aren't even trying to DO anything useful. Their entire political position right now is "do the opposite of what Democrats want." They have nothing to vote FOR. People who vote Republican right now are doing so only because they're voting against the bogeymen in their own heads.

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