Always fun to read headlines that could be featured in the first 5 minutes of a disaster movie.

By not being a trained nurse. Being wrong is pretty easy, you just have to not know things.

My perception was that if you get something like a stroke, the initial damage is horrendous and that usually don’t heal. Any improvement is the brain offloading the lost functions to other parts of the brain. But once the damage is done and doctors and nurses stopped the source of the damage, I figured the brain would just remain where it was.

First of all, yes. The type of lawyer that work for insurance companies are the kind of person that would argue that everyone dies and a dead human has the same number of atom as an alive one.

My point is however a bit more human and practical. There are people that get dementia in their 40s without first having brain damage. There is no way of telling 100% if hers was a preexisting condition or not because most people don’t do brain scans before being brain damaged and if the system can avoid paying the common man money they absolutely will.

Especially since the police has given thousands of people brain damage and concussions and paying everyone that gets dementia money would be very expensive so the justice system at large would not allow it.

The defense will also claim that there is no way to prove that the dementia wouldn’t have occured regardless and they would be technically correct. The thing that needs to happen is to remove rubber bullets from the police arsenal.

Thank you. Early onset dementia seems about right. It also feels like something insurance companies will claim would have happened anyway.

I would have liked some more info on how the brain injury is slowly killing her. My perception of what a brain injury could be is clearly wrong because I have been under the impression that the brain is pretty sturdy as long as the initial injury doesn’t kill you.

My general impression is that India are really good at scientific innovation and so on but only because the incredible inequality allows India to channel its resources so that it can be on par with other countries a fraction it’s size.

If they did the work required to lift the poor regions out of poverty, and sometimes just straight up feudalism, the country would become a proper superpower with far reaching cultural impact but right now India seem to slide further into Hindu nationalism so now it’s more of a worry for everyone else if India became another dictatorship like china.

Indians also should hang that guy from a lamppost but we dont always do the things we should.

It feels like one of those where the people that have expertise enough to name new things are not experts in naming things.

Did you read the article how he did it? He was explicitly testing them to see if they were waking up from the movement or not in the most cartoonish ways possible.

The way you rationalize things is how children gets raped.

It is the new crypto. The same people went Crypto -> NFT -> Metaverse -> AI without ever changing the way they talk about it. AI is slightly different because it has some utility in the world but it’s still the same unstable, over hyped garbage.

I think he might just be an Italian cop. He seems to work on the same level of competence.

Brain so smooth it could be used to define a SI-unit.

Shutting up is useful in every country. If you are in a country that refuses to provide you with a lawyer you are fucked anyway so you might as well shut up.

Even more reason to shut the fuck up. If you are in a country that will punish you for refusing to make statement without a lawyer you are already fucked either way so you might as well shut up.

This illustrates the importance of going full “shut the fuck up Friday”-mode when being interrogated by police. Name, date of birth and country of origin. Nothing else until you have a lawyer sitting next to you.

Does that matter? Nobody can fire him or regulate his behaviour in any way. What does public opinion matter when you are a divine prophet of the law.

When he says camera trickery he means that he doesn’t edit anything. when I say camera trickery I mean that the camera must be at a certain angle for the trick to work. If he has a mirror for example and the camera moves a step to the right, the mirror is suddenly not aligned properly to my field of view and the illusion doesn’t work.

The hobbits in Lord of the Rings is an excellent example. Nothing is edited in the shots but it relies on a very specific focal length in the camera and carefully planned forced perspective. It’s impressive and a technical feat but it not “magic” like card tricks are magic.

I never understood those. It’s always camera trickery and mirrors. At least with the stage performances there are real people in the room with a full field of vision.

So did we ever find out if Biden can use seal team six to kill political opponents?