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Blake Patterson

This story reminds me of my one, real near-death experience.

When I was in my mid 20s I was having some sleep issues, with incidents of (I now realize) the not so uncommon phenomenon of waking sleep paralysis. Several doctor visits led to an MRI at the local hospital. The day of the procedure, I was prepping through the paperwork and questions and had put on the gown and was about to be lead into the MRI room.

One of the questions I was asked concerned whether or not there was any metal in my body -- a plate in my skull, a replaced knee, or some such. Dental fillings were safe. I answered to the negative, but just before walking into the MRI room, I recalled that in the prior year I had a root canal done, during which the tip of the a aaaa a dentist's tool snapped off in my tooth. The dentist opted to sanitize the site and backfill, leaving the piece in place (after consulting a dental reference book on the matter...). Alarmed recalling this, I was advised by the concerned MRI tech to call my dentist's office from the hospital and asked if the dental tools were made with a ferrous metal. After a bit of telephone shuffling, I was assured that they were not. So, I headed to the restroom one more time before reporting that I was ready to go for the MRI procedure.

Then, all of a sudden someone started banging on the window from the MRI control room. It turns out my dentist had called back to the the MRI department and reported that, upon contemplation, he took one of his dental tools and touched it to a refrigerator magnet... and found that there was attraction. The piece of metal broken off in the root of my tooth would, in fact, be attracted by the machine's incredibly powerful electromagnets.

The procedure was, of course, cancelled for that day and I was told by the MRI operator that if the dentist hadn't called back to the MRI center in the hospital with this news, the result would've been catastrophic. He explained that a tiny pinhead embedded in the center of a bowling ball would've been torn through the ball and shot into the MRI machine. It would've been a similar scenario with my skull and brain as the bowling ball.

I ended up delaying the procedure, having an endodontist surgically remove the piece of metal in a lengthy procedure. I finally went through with the MRI, which went smoothly; nothing troubling was found during the test and no large chunk of brain and skull departed my body. That's my near death experience.

abcnews.go.com/US/video/man-cr

ABC NewsVideo Man in critical condition after being sucked into MRI machinePolice in Nassau County, Long Island, say the man was wearing a large metal chain when he walked into an unauthorized area where a scan was underway.
#MRI#medical#neardeathexperience
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Nonilex

In a post on his Truth Social site, #Trump cast the lawsuit as part of his efforts to punish #news outlets, including #ABC & #CBS, which both reached multimillion-dollar settlement deals with Trump after he took them to court.

“This lawsuit is filed not only on behalf of your favorite President, ME, but also in order to continue standing up for ALL Americans who will no longer tolerate the abusive wrongdoings of the Fake News Media,” he wrote.

#law#RapistInChief#rapist47
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Terry Hunter☑️🌈⭐✌🏼✌🏿✌🏻✌🏽

TRUMP HAS ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION!
THE MEDIA NEEDS TO STOP CALLING ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION 'CHRONIC VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY!
FUCK YOU WITH THAT BULLSHIT!
TRUMP CAN NOT GET HIS LIL' "MUSHROOM" DICK HARD...
JUST IN TIME FOR MORE RAPE CHARGES.
THE PRESS NEEDS TO FOCUS MORE ON EPSTEIN AND TRUMP RAPING CHILDREN TOGETHER!
CLICK! CLICK!
RELEASE TRUMP'S LETTER TO HIS "PAL' JEFFREY EPSTEIN!
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

#ChronicPenisInsufficiency#ChronicVenousInsufficiency#VenogenicErectileDysfunction
Crazy Cat Lady

I liken what #CBS & #Trump is doing to #StephenColbert to what the #Coalition did to the #ABC in #Australia.

They installed a die hard #Liberal as the overseer & most news show hosts were replaced with Liberal #mouthpieces. This after they had promised to keep their hands off the ABC.

Since the change in government this has not been rectified & we still get liberal talk shows and news. Stop the #fascist media takeover before it is too late.#fascists #mediabias #freedomofthepress #auspol

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RaymondPierreL3

Driving along (as you do) ABC National was on with some wank discussing data centers water requirements. Right off the bat, this ‘expert’ (didn’t catch his name) talked about everything water utilities should be doing to accommodate data centre and deflected every thing from #water shortages, droughts, arid country and what the impact on civil society will be during water restrictions… I lasted 5 mins tops. I turned the radio off before I caused an accident. Thanks #ABC for making my day by giving the pro-data center guy oxygen and painting the elephant in the room fade-to-black.

I tell you what, if there is such a big market for stupid LLM-based chatbots, Data Centres don’t have to be built here don’t you know. There is such a thing as the Internet and its infrastructure has been used for decades. Begs the question doesn’t it? WHO benefits ($$) from buildling a data centre to power Generative AI (aka chatbot) in Australia?

Had it up to here with GAI…

#GiveMeBackMyABC#DataCentre#WaterSUpplies
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