The way you know you had an encounter with God is you realize how imperfect you are, and walk away humble and grateful, willing to change.
The way you know you had an encounter with Satan is you walk away proud, thinking you're already perfect, everything is fine, you don't need to change.
as we could to cauterize and ligate the bleeders and pack his abdomen and then wheeled him outside with the rest of the evacuees.
I don’t what happened to this guy, if he lived or died. But we did what we could. It turned out a second bomber was not found and after they swept the hospital we went immediately back to work and did so for the next day and a half without break.
Those 20 minutes were the most stressful of my life, trying save someone and not knowing if you were going to get blown up any second. I’m proud of how selfless everyone involved was and this will always be one of my most profound memories!
It’s February 2007, I’d been in Afghanistan for about 6 weeks. This was the most stressful moment of my life. I was there as an orthopedic trauma surgeon and deployed to Bagram. I had just turned 40 years old and was relatively new in my surgical career. The operations tempo was high and we were pretty inundated with trauma every day. Little kids getting legs blown off by landmines, IED explosions and rocket blasts were pretty common. We were in a tiny hospital made out of plywood with a tin roof. We had 2 operating rooms that were basically Connex boxes and I had to constantly hunch over so my head didn’t wack into the OR lights. My surgical partner Dr Tom Large (pictured along with me and Dr Claude Hawkins our commander ) and I operated every single day often 14-16 hours a day due to non stop trauma either locally or shipped in as we were the main referral hub for the war theater.
We often had various politicians stoping by the facility for photo ops and in February we had the vice president coming by. Apparently the Taliban had gotten intel on his visit and wanted to try and make a statement of possibly kill him.
As the base was on high alert they had no chance of success but that did not deter them. Routinely we would have dozens of locals with their young kids hanging outside our main gates because we often would give them food, clothing and other resources.
A suicide bomber decided that this is where the statement would take place.
We were in the OR doing our usual trauma stuff when we were alerted that a mass casualty even had occur at our gate. The bomber approach the crowd of locals and detonated his suicide vest. Immediately 20 or so were killed with another 25 to 30 severely injured. The suicide vests often contained things like screws, ball bearing, nails etc.. often covered in feces to increase the lethality via infection for those that survived the blast.
The ER was full of frenetic activity as the medics scrambled to resuscitate, triage and treat as many people as possible. The triage for a mass casualty event looks is designed to sort the wounded into three categories.
1. Unsalvageable, not going to live, massive wounds, exposed brain or something similar
2. Injured but not critical, can wait a bit for the OR- broken bones, limb injuries etc
3. Critically injured but potentially can be saved. Often belly bleeding- if we can get them to the OR, open them up and find the bleeding and stop it we can resuscitate them
It was the 3rd group that we were focused on as surgeons. My specialty was orthopedics and I had plenty to do to keep me busy for the next 40 or so hours with all the broken bones and extremity trauma that was coming in, but the initial task was to try and help save the wounded with the belly trauma and so we were scrubbed and assisting our general surgeons in finding the bleeding and shutting it down.
We had been at in for about an hour or so and the patient on the table was a local afghan civilian who was going to die if we didn’t stop the bleeding. There were about 5 of us packed into the tiny little Connex box/OR and were frantically digging through this guys intestine looking for bleeders.
This is, as you might imagine a bit stressful, but then a nurse comes into the room and lets us know, that they think there is another suicide bomber in the hospital and they are recommending we evacuate.
A common ploy used by the Taliban was to set off a bomb, wait for the first responder and then detonate a second bomb to kill them as well.
The tension in the room was palpable, I think everyone’s butt cheeks clenched up, I know mine did. The general surgeon looked at all of us, the other surgeons, the scrub tech, or nurse and anesthesiologist and said what do you guys want to do? Evacuate or keep going and try and save this guy.
Without hesitation every single one of said “fuck it, keep going, let’s save this guy”
For the next twenty minutes we operated as quickly …..
This is a war of aggression for Israel.
Americans will die in terrorist attacks and in missile strikes so that Israel can expand its borders in every direction.
Trump, Vance, and Rubio sold us out.
@sbodrojan No
If you whip your dick out in public and start pissing on the sidewalk you need to be locked up and forced into mandatory labor
I don't want to live in a society like that, most people don't. No amount of verbal euphemisms will change that
@reddit_lies I can actually empathize with this one
Imagine getting spawncamped by a virtue signaler mom to the point where she lets you gender transition at 12, gets you prescribed SSRI's, buys you a gun, then lets you do psychedelics all before 18
Kid never stood a chance
@SpeakerJohnson@HouseOversight WOULD YOU PLEASE DO LITERALLY ANYTHING ABOUT IT INSTEAD OF TWEETING AND HEARINGS?!!!!!
CONGRESS HAS THE POWER OF THE PURSE, DEFUND THESE FRAUDSTERS!!!!!!!
SHUT IT ALL DOWN!!!!!!
DO YOUR DAMN JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nick Fuentes goes into why Hitler is so cool to so many. In doing so, he summarizes the entire Piers Morgan interview.
He gives an in-depth breakdown that relates to society today. Probably not what you expected to hear, but articulate and accurate.
“We are living in a time where all we know is self imposed shame and guilt and self-hatred…we have to feel sorry, we have to feel bad…this is the society we’ve grown up in.”
“What if we took the chains off?…that is what is electrifying. That’s what excites people.”
“This is the simplest, most fundamental form of the idea. We have lost something. Something that’s priceless. Something that is not recoverable. We were cheated.”
“You want us to apologize to some jew selling a book?”
“People are starting to say, what if? What if it was all a mistake.”
“The central point…why do we say Hitler is cool?…because we are destroying the secular religion of liberalism and the holocaust, which go hand and glove.”
“I’ll say it’s 300,000, I’ll say it’s 100 million. Because I want you to know I don’t care…every death in a genocide is a tragedy. But you have weaponized the holocaust against me and my people. You have weaponized this atrocity against my civilization in order to further your own political objectives.”
“As long as you’re doing that, it is my obligation to blaspheme your false secular religion.”
“I apologize for nothing. I take nothing back.”
An organization called NCRI published a report today claiming (with zero proof) that my engagement on X is botted.
This is the same group that said “Christ is King” is antisemitic and they are partnered with the ADL, Soros Open Society, and the UN.
Just another matrix attack.
@elonmusk@SwipeWright@ncri_io I have testified to Congress under oath that I have never spoken to or cooperated with federal law enforcement.
If you or dumbass (@RealCandaceO) have any proof otherwise then you could call up your friend, the President, and get me charged for perjury. Go ahead.
I’ll wait.
I debated posting this because it can make you feel hopeless.
But I think the truth is always best found out early.
Many financial gurus talk about investing $100/mo etc to get to a point with $1,000,00 when you retire.
The reality of the math is this - if inflation is 3% per year, that $1,000,000 isn’t worth $1,000,000 today.
Because compounding inflation is just as powerful as compounding returns.
Said differently $1,000,000 in 60 years is only worth $167,000 of today’s buying power with 3% inflation.
And typically w late stage capitalism, rate of inflation increases (not decreases).
So what does this mean in reality?
You have to 6x your goal.
Ex: if you wanted to retire with $1,000,000 and $40,000 per year passive, you actually want $6,000,000 and $240,000 per year passive.
If you wanted $4,000,000 and $200,000 in passive income. You really need your goal to be $24,000,000 and $1,2000,000 in passive income.
Now let’s say inflation is 2.3% rather than 3% (the historical average). Okay. You’ll have overshot your goal by 50% (money will only be 1/4 as valuable rather than 1/6th).
Great. Retire early.
But the alternative is certainly worse. Undershoot and be a burden to the people you care about hoping for social nets which may or may not exist then. Who knows.
Regardless, I’ve never seen anyone talk about this - and maybe it’s because it makes people feel hopeless.
But I figure math is math and you shouldn’t be afraid to do it for yourself.
Always better to overshoot and get there early than never arrive.
You’ve probably heard the news by now: Minnesota fraudsters stole over $1 billion from Medicaid. And you deserve an explanation.
Our staff at CMS told me they’ve never seen anything like this in Medicaid — and everyone from Gov. Tim Walz on down needs to be investigated, because
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