8 people now have more than 53% of the world combined.
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Octopi if the base word was Latin. It’s Greek, so octopodes for plural. Technically.
Because English is a bastard if a language octopuses and octopi are fine too.
Has anyone here read the article?
The foundation donated, not the man. The foundation’s finances are not exactly simple with thousands of organizations getting funds from them at any given time.
Where money is distributed is not a decision specific to Gates. It’s based on the leadership decisions in the foundation to issue grants. The direction of the granting process is at a high level guided by the board of the foundation, that includes Gates, but those directions are at the “focus on medical research grants into Malaria, AIDS, and TB”, not at the individual dispersal level.
The delegation of authority rules would likely place a 3.5 million dollar decision on a VP level in the foundation to approve.
I am being paid by the foundation, full disclosure, but my agreement or disagreement with the man has nothing to do with working to further clinical trials that save human lives.
You can be certain you are not firing at one’s self by mere simple trigonometry.
The rest of what you are saying is made up or misunderstanding the premise completely.
His mention of not being able to see the targets, is just saying they are obscured indirect fire which you have to calculate fires for. It’s extremely common and not a problem.
You are hung up on this statement as if it says he was flinging 40mm grenades indiscriminately. It doesn’t. They put a mk 19 on a mount with math, fired single shot indirect fire, to targets they couldn’t see but were calculated trajectories based on the in common ground targeting.
No indirect fire, artillery, mortars or anything else can see their target. It’s calculated.
Which they did.
It’s not a war crime to fire back at someone firing at you. His solution was inventive and I have used a mk19 in a similar capacity in an improvised demolitions course.
I don’t know how else to say it. It was not even unbecoming or unprofessional.
We routinely would do BDA assessments to confirm kill train decisions were made correctly all the way from detect to detonate. These would also confirm the accuracy margins of the system they set up.
Long in the short, you want indirect fire that calculates and returns fire to be somehow this terrible thing that can’t possibly be accurate. It can be VERY accurate Bd I have dropped rounds inside specific tank hatches with a mk19 at 1900 yards.
Not. A war crime. He was fired upon, had a target solution, calculated the return fire, and sent it.
Ok, so since I have intimate knowledge of how all of the systems in this description work, let me tell you what you are reading.
It is not a war crime.
The battalion commander, who later DID green light use of mortars at targeted locations, pinpointed by audio triangulation from incoming fire detection systems; did not want to use the higher explosive yield of a mortar in urban areas.
Marines are still absolutely permitted to use indirect fire weapons on indirect fire targets, such as a 40mm grenade. These hav a much smaller yield and casualty causing radius.
To ensure they could still engage the locations actively being pinpointed by the incoming fire warning system, they mounted a 40mm grenade launcher to a mount to use instead.
His post is literally them doing all the due diligence and work to calculate return fire trajectories so they were accurate on the mapped targets, not indiscriminate fire.
There is not only no war crime here, he actively describes all the work that went into making the return fire suppression lower yield in explosives and how to make it as accurate as possible.
He has stated the tattoo was a mistake, done drunkenly with other service members early in his enlistment. So he acknowledged it, covered it, never lied about it, and has never given any indication in any word or deed he has racist views.
I’m good with that being a mistake 20 years ago and he both owned it and has not shown any indication of the symbolism being a part of his life.
It’s rare someone stays on message for a decade in their private life, and all those same messaging pieces are kept going into a congressional run. He has.
/shrug
I don’t know the man, but sincerity and consistency of laudable beliefs are worth something. I cant vote for him since I don’t live in Maine. I only know the national GOP has launched a massive campaign to smear the guy in every way they can out of fear he wins. Usually when the GOP is afraid of someone they are my kind of person.
Gonna need some detail on that.
I was in Iraq at the same time, I’m not a war criminal.
He has repeatedly called out anyone who glorifies committing war crimes, again for a long time, in his Reddit comments.
What makes you think he is and is proud of being a war criminal?
Are we talking about the same guy who has consistently going back to 2012 called racists “fucking racists” and told them to get the fuck out?
His recently uncovered Reddit account shows he is the same person there consistently for a decade as he seems to be in his words now.
If you deride war criminals, say clearly fuck racists, and march at BLM rallies years before you ever think to run for office, it doesn’t paint the “I’m secretly a white supremacy wolf in sheep’s clothing” vibe you are suggesting.
From the inside, let me tell you how this would go.
You are a marine on the gun line. Call you a lance corporal. You refuse a lawful and direct order according to the UCMJ. You would be subject first to a guaranteed NJP, which requires no jury and only commander’s discretion. You could be facing confinement, extra duty, docked or complete removal of pay, informal hazing, and you would be treated like a shit bird by everything walking for the next 4 years. You would be organizing pine cones by shape or color while doing mountain climbers and planks every day until you could retain consciousness. Your life would be over in the military at best.
If you are informed enough and smart enough to then demand a trial by court martial your life just got even worse. You would be brought before a court martial in a few months, but until then would likely face being put in the brig or confined until trial. All the above would apply, and now you risk a criminal conviction for refusal to follow orders and I would expect charged under several other articles of the UCMJ. They would find you guilty, as there is no leniency to jury interpretation here, you did in fact disobey a lawful order.
It was a monumentally stupid order, but it was lawful to the UCMJ.
If you did refuse and you were a SNCO all the above are true, but you would be facing even worse treatment.
As an officer all the same, 100% imprisoned, and would be dishonorably discharged after being removed of your command and spent time in the brig without pay. You would be made an example out of, and the military would be ruthless in this manner.
So in any part of this, up to the division commander, your life is straight over.
Now what did you gain?
Someone else from another fun line would follow the order seeing what’s happening to you and it would still happen. You would have thrown away your employment chances for life, endured prison, endured hardship someone outside the corps cannot fathom, and made no gain.
If you suggest they were to conspire with others to prevent execution of the orders, that’s punishable as even worse and could be up to execution or death if charged with sedition or mutiny.
For this? lol. Ok. Didn’t see you standing in front of the impact area as protest.
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I don’t want to type for ages here, but as someone who has been a sufferer and then medical patient for chronic daily migraines for decades; it actually is pretty nuanced.
For people like me, their chronic migraines are triggered as a secondary effect from the primary source. My headaches are called cervicogenic headaches, and migraine abortives like Obrelvy or Triptans are often used to arrest the storm. However, they are caused in origin from the occipital nerve, of which there are 3 branches in the neck.
An occipital nerve block is one commonly used tool, but it is often down blind without ultrasound. It is effective as hell at stopping migraine pain, and headache pain from what is the irritation or entrapment of occipital nerves. It has been common practice for several neuro and pain clinics I have seen for the last 2 decades. Problematically, they are not often offered in the emergency room setting because they are rather specialized procedures that usually are done by a neurology or trained pain physician. So that makes the emergency department a place that you go when the pain has overwhelmed all your other medications and resources, only to be met by not being able to get the one procedure that offers guaranteed relief for up to 2 weeks if given the block with steroids as well as local anesthetic. Frustrating to say the least, since you can plan on when you will get a massive headache, but you have to schedule to procedure weeks to months out with specialists.
Other migraine or occipital neuralgia triggering migraine treatments include other more invasive procedures to the nerves called ablations. Because cutting he nerve or surgically modifying them would result in scar tissue that would cause more problems or block regrowth, occipital ablations involve a needle slowly guided into the nerve under ultrasound imaging, and then they push electrical current into the needle while it is moved around by the provider. These can’t be numbed because you have to give feedback on where the currents are flowing in order to get it properly placed. Hurts like medieval torture. Then once placed they turn in ultrasonic pulses that heat the tip of the needle inside the nerve. This gets the tip hot enough to denature the nerve cells and kill them without harming the nerve sheath and allowing regrowth without nerve pain. It’s torture though and must be scheduled every 6-12 months. It doesn’t treat acute attacks, and can’t help with all types of headaches.
So offerings in the medical community pushed from specialized scheduled care to the responsive emergency providers as accepted medical interventions can be a massive improvement in accessibility to a treatment that can offer relief when no other physical interventions are reasonably possible for rapid abortive relief.