getting firearms across international lines is a little trickier than shooting dumbfuck CEO's, though. Not advocating anything; just commenting on availability and transportation of firearms.
And personally, I'd rather see billionaires sit in prison and watched their assets get nationalized than to see them die, but given the stranglehold money has on justice systems around the world, one of those is a less likely solution than the other...
You recover faster and better, because you distribute the new connections throughout the tissue, you don’t have this one rigid perforation to tear, so you don’t have to be healed up all the way before you can get back on your feet
Isn't this a function of the surface area, though?
Yes, they are entitled to and have a right to any beliefs they want. However, my whole point is that "Separation of church and state" and the lack of an official state religion are antithetical to fundamentalist Christianity, or any Christianity on some level. Christians believe that "the laws of God" supersede the "laws of man," so they won't let a pesky little thing like the Constitution get between them and legislating their beliefs.
And their right, if you start from the assumption that Christianity is true. Why wouldn't you want to spread the word of God and minimize sin? After all, that's what they are called to do in the New Testament! Why wouldn't they protect others from themselves by outlawing everything with which their religion disagrees?
To me, that is one of the central problems with tolerating discussion of Christianity and Christian values in a political space (or any religion that claims to have a monopoly on objective truth)
We live in a small town in a state that has a law that to attempt a VBAC, the hospital must have an full surgery team on site. It being such a small hospital meant they almost never had a full staff at any given point, so the second two were scheduled C-sections.
However, like your experience, my wife went into natural labor the night before the second C-section was scheduled and almost certainly could have delivered naturally, but the hospital went ahead with the C-section anyway
Glad your wife healed well; my wife had three c-sections and the first one was done by a very old-school OB in an emergency situation, so she never stood a chance. That said, even old-school c-sections are better than my wife and son dying in childbirth, so I'm still grateful for modern medicine, but it would have been nice if it was a little more "modern"
The way I explained it as a science major who went to undergrad at a very conservative Christian college is "If you start from a flawed premise, you can use valid logic to get to very flawed conclusions without making any mistakes."
Religious conservatives are starting from a flawed premise (edit: that premise being the existence of a just, omnipotent, omniscient deity) and either imposing biblical law or libertarianism is the logical outcome of that flawed premise.
As an aside, this is my biggest problem with religion in general. I'm all for "live and let live," but the logical outcome of believing that your sect has a monopoly on capital-T "Truth" is to spread that "truth" to others by any means necessary for their own good. Most religions, especially Abrahamic monotheism, do not logically allow for pluralism, and the paradox of tolerance means that if we tolerate intolerant religion, eventually that religion will control everything.
I think you actually have that backward. In general, a jagged tear heals quicker than an incision because there is more surface area in contact between the two pieces, so a larger number of cells can be working to repair the tissue. That said, I'm not a doctor and it's been 10 years since my wife and I looked into this before our first kid, so I may be misremembering.
My dad is one of those "worryingly concerned about self-defense" boomers and I got an LED/lithium ion maglite-ish flashlight last year for Christmas.
It still doubles as a bludgeon and it's rechargeable and puts out like 5k lumens, so while I didn't think I needed anything like it, it's quite handy if you live in the mountains like I do. Nothing scares off a couple coyotes or a bear like just blasting them in the retina with a high-end LED photon cannon (short of an actual shotgun with bean bag rounds like my neighbor uses)
It's a lot heavier than that! The density of steel varies as there are different alloys, but most are in the range of 7.5-9 g/cm^3
Gold has a density that's more than double most steel alloys at 19.3 g/cm^3. Of course, that's assuming we're taking about pure gold, but still, gold is way more than 10% heavier than steel
It had metal skate wheels on it. My uncle said they used to make something like that in the 40’s by nailing a skate onto a board, though it sounded more like a scooter since they usually added a handle to the front.
Bootlickers: Lots of CEO's increase claim denials!
The Hound: Lots of cunts...