How? I said hysterectomy is named from the disease hysteria. You linked etymologies saying hysteria is from early 19th century and hysterectomy is from late 19th century. That seems to be the same order I said.

Maybe you’re wired different. I skimmed the whole thing twice, specifically looking for the directions section, knowing how it should look. I missed it the first time…I thought the joke was that there weren’t any directions, or they were hidden on a page 2.

Maybe my ADHD mind?

I definitely get what OP is saying tho. Having an unknown and changing number of warnings, before the directions, in the same typeface as the directions, could make it more dangerous.

Ideally there would be a color-coded label system for different types/severities of warnings, and the direction clearly printed above/near the top. Having all the warnings first didn’t make me read them, just the bolded parts, looking for the directions. Directions are the most looked-for thing, they should be in an obvious place.

This is like the drug companies following supermarket logic, putting the milk in the back corner of the store hoping you impulse a bunch of stuff on the way. But instead tricking the customer into learning something, the customer says “all this science shit is boring and scary sounding” and they go get the raw milk from the farm stand because that doesn’t “need” warnings.

That’s where the word “Hysterectomy” came from.

Even though the word comes from the old Greek root “hyster” for womb, we don’t call the organ itself by that name, we use “uterus” (from Latin). The name origins from being the primary treatment for hysteria.

Hysteria, itself, was an official diagnosis until 1980, and while there are medically valid reasons for a hysterectomy, the term itself is rooted in misogyny, and some people want to rename the procedure as a result.

Yes…she can yell and scream at them and tell the doctors that she’s sane and you’re lying to control her, that you’re abusive, that you time-traveled back from a post-apocolyptic future to prevent the machines from starting a nuclear war, etc.

But that just proves that she’s clearly unhinged and in need of serious therapy like a lobotomy or heavy medication.

This is part of what made America “great”, in the conservative viewpoint. Dissenters could be easily managed.

And it’s starting to seem that we are headed back into that direction. Women get autonomy over reproductive health taken back. For the people of color, we’ll bring back Jim Crow. LGBTQ rights are fairly new, those should be able to get clawed back easily.

The rest are all brainwashed into agreement, imprisoned over weed possession or debt, or trapped in a metaphorical prison where they are the only sane people surrounded by idiots.

Then just throw what’s left of the voting rights act into the bin and redistrict to ensure perpetual conservative victory. We’ll get back there eventually, at this rate.

Back in my day, if you got sick of your wife you could just drop her off at the asylum and tell them she is “hysterical” and they’d take it from there.

Yeah but it gets to be somewhat taxing after the 30th or so felony. But nobody has to see your tax records so that’s fine.

Man could you just imagine what could happen if someone walking by just happened to flick a lit cigarette or 20 into that pile?

Art of the Deal

Obedience and ignorance is just so ingrained in their culture.

I remember driving through Houston and seeing billboards for Joel Osteen and ones saying that The Epoch Times is the most reliable news.

Buccees not only exists, but uses styrofoam cups still.

It’s a different world, man.

How did it end up like this?

It was only a list. It was only a list.

Upper quintile is just tired of explaining Deinocheirus to normies.

But my tap water has PFAS and lead…so I guess I get to pick my poison?

* bragging

Update your links for url encoding

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00020517.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf

Yours came up 404 and my first thought was they were recalled again.

The idea of editing history in near real-time was so farfetched at the time. Hell even when I read it like 10 years ago.

Now? Plausible, if not already happening.

When we search for something the algorithm knows what to send us and no doubt has thumbs on the scale from all sorts of influences.

And then most everything is digital anyway, so that can be altered very quickly.

And then there’s the generative AI, which is, like, the most shining example of “confidently incorrect” as it is. But we know Grok is getting more than a thumb on the scale from Musk, he’s full-on fingerbanging it. I’m sure all the rest are too.

Lotto winners rarely stay out of the hamster wheel.

By definition, people who play the lottery are bad at managing money.

Then everyone they’ve ever known comes out of the woodwork looking for money.

They end up blowing through it in a handful of years and end up poorer than when they started.

My plan for if I ever win the lottery…first thing, before telling anyone (except maybe my wife but she can’t keep a secret for shit), is to find a good lawyer. Not brag to family or friends. Not cash it in. Lawyer.

Then find a real good financial advisor. This amount of money could provide generational wealth. 800m in S&P would earn 40-80 million per year. That’s way more than enough for me and my immediate family to never work again, for several generations.

Of course that’ll never happen, because you can’t win if you don’t play.

Haven’t we solved that? How does offshore oil work?

I asked ChatGPT if it would ever maliciously give me a wrong answer and it said no, so I believe it.

Ahh…I see the problem.

Sometimes I rubber duck with ChatGPT.

Honestly I’ve learned more in a few months of fixing its mistakes than I had in years of being on the job.