• ChihuahuaOfDoom
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    3429 days ago

    They either need to pay their taxes or get back in the tardis and fuck off to another dimension.

    • @Paprika@lemmy.cafe
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      2728 days ago

      Not everyone who goes to medical school is a rational (or sane) person. And some of them do succumb to the grifter lifestyle because it’s easy money.

      She’s still a total idiot though. You don’t just get to decide “I’m not paying taxes this year”. Who does she think she is, Wesley Snipes?

      • Flying Squid
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        1728 days ago

        Also, as the old saying goes, do you know what they call the person who comes last in medical school? Doctor.

      • Anas
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        1028 days ago

        I’m a medical student, and I’ve had a cardiologist tell me that COVID is just like flu and masking is useless

          • Anas
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            628 days ago

            There aren’t any levels of truth to that? The only similarity is that both of them are viruses that can cause respiratory symptoms.

            • @ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world
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              328 days ago

              Okay, my original comment clearly came across as a weasel for COVID denial so sorry for that. Fuck denialism.

              What I meant was that - like flu - it is an endemic respiratory virus which will be nasty but not fatal to most people. In certain contexts masks are less useful (not useless I suppose), and this is particularly in areas where mask use is minimal and strict (e.g. under the nose or constantly being touched without proper hand hygiene).

              So what your cardiologist said could have been a realistic assessment of the current state of COVID, or denialism in which case they’re a dick.

  • Flying Squid
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    2328 days ago

    I hear magnets don’t work if you drop them in water, so all these people scared of magnets had to do was bathe regularly, but that was asking too much.

  • @Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    1628 days ago

    Oh shit I remember this. This was one of the things my parents said and I had no idea where they got it from.

    No amount of logical explanation or showing James Randi testing past claims from “human magnets” helped.

    • @blarth@thelemmy.club
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      328 days ago

      Same. Covid vaccine conspiracist aunt came over and asked if we had tried putting a paper clip on our vaccine injection site. I laughed and she said she was serious.

      Fucking Facebook, man. Got all these boomers acting foolish.

      • Vanon
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        228 days ago

        Way beyond foolishness. It’s more like weaponized stupidity, cultist behavior, that’s threatening all of us with some kind of idiocracy.

  • @tal
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    1128 days ago

    The Department of Justice’s Tax Division sued Tenpenny in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, accusing her of failing to pay her taxes in 2001, 2012 and in 2013.

    With the addition of late fees and penalties, the DOJ argues Tenpenny owes a total of $646,929.82.

    Tenpenny spoke to Cleveland.com and told reporters she has been unfairly targeted by the feds and claims she has tried for years to clear up her tax issues.

    “This shows what the IRS can do to a person that they target,” she told Cleveland.com’s Adam Ferrise. “This is a total harassment case. They’ve been doing this to me for 23 years.”

    I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that attempting to clear up the issues didn’t involve paying them.

    The DOJ noted in the court filing that Tenpenny had previously established “compromise offers” and was involved in “installation agreements” to pay off her taxes, but noted the taxes from three years remained outstanding.

    Close. She paid for some other years that she didn’t pay taxes, but not these.

    • @tal
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      828 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_implant

      Magnetic implant is an experimental procedure in which small, powerful magnets (such as neodymium) are inserted beneath the skin, often in the tips of fingers. They exist in tubes and discs. This procedure is popular among biohackers and grinders, but remains experimental.[1] Magnetic implants are often performed by amateurs at home, using readily available surgical tools and magnets found online. However, some professional body modification shops do perform implant surgeries.[2] Magnetic implants can also be used as an interface for portable devices to create other new “senses”, for example converting other sensory inputs such as ultrasonic or infra-red into a touch sensation.

    • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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      228 days ago

      Seriously, so many times I’ve dropped a screw and can’t find or reach it…

    • @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      128 days ago

      Years ago there was a trend of implanting tiny magnets into your fingertips to allow people to be able to feel magnetic fields. It was big in the body mod community around 2010 ish.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    528 days ago

    Watch, I’ll just stick it right and it will… whoops, hang on, I put it here and… dang. So, I place the metal. Gdi!