[QUOTE=ewmayer;518305][URL="https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/22/the-apa-meeting-a-photo-essay/"]The American Psychiatric Association Meeting: A Photo-Essay[/URL] | Slate Star Codex[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE="Slate Star Codex"]Scientology has a long-standing feud with psychiatry... [/QUOTE]...one can only wonder why! Hmmmm...

[QUOTE=Batalov;518309]...one can only wonder why! Hmmmm...[/QUOTE]

My favorite bit was [b]The ninth thing[/b] ... "so our drug is overpriced ineffective crap, but you get ice cream!"

But a close second was "The only genuinely exciting new drugs at the conference were Ingrezza® and Austedo®, both of which treat tardive dyskinesia – a side effect you get from having been on too many other psychiatric drugs. This is probably a metaphor for something."

[QUOTE=Batalov;518309]...one can only wonder why! Hmmmm...[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Well, it turns out that having 15,000 psychiatrists in one building sparks a drug company feeding frenzy that makes piranhas look sedate by comparison. [/QUOTE]This is my first sighting of the new avatar, Serge. It was quite startling. :shock:
And Jason, it was just a word play using the two different meanings for the word "fast." I though[U]t[/U] it rather clever, myself.

[QUOTE=kladner;518323]This is my first sighting of the new avatar, Serge. It was quite startling. :shock:
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[URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6117785/The-eerily-life-like-patient-simulators-bleed-urinate-scream-training-medics.html[/URL]

Slideshow: [url]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/photography/colorful-travel-around-world/#/prod-yourshot-1478163-12516459.jpg[/url]

I'm sorry Walmart but this just isn't good enough.

[url]https://phys.org/news/2019-06-walmart-one-ups-amazon-deliveries-refrigerator.html[/url] [quote]Walmart said Friday it was readying a new home delivery service where its employees could come inside and stock up customers' refrigerators.[/quote]I won't be interested until you can give me deliveries direct to my stomach.

Save me from all those tedious buying, preparing, cooking and eating time-wasting rituals. Won't somebody please make me even lazier and let me get on with the important things; like watching more ads on the television, and buying more things to show off to my shallow friends. :rolleyes:

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We're in day 4 of a nasty heat wave here in the SF Bay Area ... My sister just fwded this picture someone posted to their local NextDoor feed, of one of the local critters behaving interestingly out on their patio - what I can't figure is, wouldn't it be cooler in a shady spot under a bush or in a burrow? All that little guy needs is a raccoon-sized drink with a little paper umbrella in it. :)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;519168]We're in day 4 of a nasty heat wave here in the SF Bay Area ... My sister just fwded this picture someone posted to their local NextDoor feed, of one of the local critters behaving interestingly out on their patio - what I can't figure is, wouldn't it be cooler in a shady spot under a bush or in a burrow? All that little guy needs is a raccoon-sized drink with a little paper umbrella in it. :)[/QUOTE]Raccoons are nocturnal. Just lounging out in the open during daylight hours likely means it is one very sick animal. You might try calling the wildlife people and checking on what diseases are going through the local raccoon population. If it's an epidemic of canine distemper, they'll be dropping like flies.

Onward and Upward!
 

[URL="https://politics.theonion.com/huckabee-sanders-tells-colleagues-she-s-taking-temporar-1835524222"]Huckabee Sanders Tells Colleagues She’s Taking Temporary Post As Google CEO Before Transitioning Into Full-Time Role As Sultan Of Brunei[/URL]

[QUOTE]WASHINGTON—Informing those in her professional life of her career plans, outgoing White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reportedly told colleagues Friday she would be serving for a time as CEO of Google before gradually taking on a permanent position as the sultan of Brunei. “It’s been the honor of my life to work in the White House, but I’m excited to lead a $750 billion company in Silicon Valley and begin my reign as one of the world’s last absolute monarchs,” said Huckabee Sanders, explaining she had reluctantly turned down offers to direct the next [I]Star Wars[/I] film, design the 2024 Olympic stadium, and become the first person to set foot on Mars, in addition to a lucrative position as head of neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic.[/QUOTE]