What about Farmer Being Subsidized To Not Grow Crops?
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Does that make him retired?
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Shouldn’t they be yellow?
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As a biomedical engineer, biomedical engineering can be anything. We’re not all biochemical engineers. There are quite a few of us in biomechanical engineering or biomedical instrumentation.
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If it’s red, you need to see a urologist, so… Maybe not? 
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Before the nigh conspiracy to take over the Republican party in the late 70s (which succeeded eventually … sorry, I can’t remember which site I read the history for this on; it’s amazing and I think I saw it on BoingBoing so hopefully someone remembers what I’m talking about), conservatives had a lot in common with conservationists. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
(There is a meaningful and not-appalling conservative position to be had on everything but we’re about 36 years too late to mention it. I’ve been tempted to write a manifesto for the hypothetical modern conservatives but as soon as it comes out the manifesto was written by a far lefty socialist LGBT pagan … 
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How does that not apply equally to chemists?
I think myself it’s purely the petroleum/pharma/agri bias. They know how their paymasters vote.
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I know a Very Reverend, and he’s somewhat to the left of Karl Marx.
The priest/minister/rabbi/bishop thing is indeed complicated. Literally a priest means an elder and a bishop means an overseer, the names still used by Quakers. They appear in the writings of Saul of Tarsus and I think that it was Ambrose Bierce who said that, along with Monsignore, they were titles that Jesus had accidentally omitted to mention; the only religious jobs he acknowledged were rabbi (teacher) and prophet.
I think the terminological breakdown is that ministers are indeed typically Protestant and priests more commonly Catholic of some sort, but politically this doesn’t mean much - as a Catholic friend used to say, Catholic means just that and includes everything from Fascist Catholics to Maoist Catholics. But Protestantism is inherently a right wing schism - it emphasises individualism over the collectivity of Catholicism, and Luther demonstrated this by supporting the rulers over the peasants. With time these distinctions get blurred, but Protestant schisms like Mormonism or the Jehovah’s Witnesses do tend to be right wing. The figures do seem to reflect that somewhat, especially as the Episcopalians arose out of the 1688 revolution - I do mean 1688 - when the Church of England was explicitly recast as a kind of social outreach organisation intended to bring society back together again.
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Or, “something, something, tired of all the pissing and moaning…”
That doesn’t make it real.
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I went to a chiropractor for about six months, on the recommendation of a friend. Like the one your wife visits, she never suggested to me that she could “cure” any ailment other than back pain.
But I eventually learned that was only because she knew that I was a skeptic; I did eventually hear her making such claims to her other clients. And giving chiropractic adjustments to babies. And I was absolutely gone for good when she tried to get me to buy fish oil tablets from her. That they don’t offer it to you doesn’t mean that they don’t peddle it to others.
Chiropractic is woo. If I want something like that again, I’ll go to a properly licensed physical therapist. Someone who actually has a medical degree.
“complications associated with chiropractic adjustment are overall rare, but may include: (…) compression of nerves in the lower spinal column (cauda equina syndrome)”. From:
There are also reports of serious side-effects such as strokes, arterial damage, and neurological complications, as well as numerous short-term side-effects (pain, dizziness, etc). And no scientific evidence that it actually provides even short-term benefits.
Personally, after a few weeks of not going to the chiropractor I felt fine (although there were definitely some really spotty days until everything settled down!). I’ve felt fine ever since. I probably never got any benefit from chiropractic adjustment in the first place; I presume I just had an aching back for a day due to something I’d done, and got trapped into a cycle of weekly chiropractor visits keeping it from settling properly.
With all that said, I’m reasonably healthy, and (now) don’t have any notable back issues. If somebody else does have chronic back pain, I’m not going to dissuade them from doing anything that’s working for them. I just wanted to chime in with my experience; nothing sorted out my back issues like stopping my chiropractor visits.
And I wanted to point out that chiropractic isn’t safe, as you’re implying by only pointing out the potential complications of the science-based-medicine options, and not the woo options.
Chiropractic isn’t homeopathy. Even when it’s performed correctly, it can absolutely cause physical harm.
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My doctors would have recommended physical therapy/massage therapy for your wife instead.
PT is usually covered by insurance, and MT can be, depending on where their practice is located (part of a PT clinic, for example, versus in a spa).
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Quite literally, you don’t spend much time around women. So yeah, your joke works!
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I take it you voted for Clinton then. 
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Ditto for feminist issues. Really. Not 50/50, but there was bipartisan effort on many issues.
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I would have if I lived in a swing state, but I don’t, so I voted for Stein. I do live in a swing district, however, so I held my nose and voted for a fairly slimy* Dem for congress.
*not too bad by NY standards, but NY Dems are pretty impressively slimy and corrupt compared to most of their counterparts in other states.
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A left-wing business at that, except for Catholics and missionaries.
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As a chemist, I can’t help but interpret this as an insult. The data clearly shows those people become petroleum geologists, which must require some rather tortured logic.
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I learned a new word. Thanks!
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