Open Thread WE 17 MAY 23 ~ Hypertension Day

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 5:58am

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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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What matters?

Some things in the history of today ..

1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey (some things don't change)
1900 "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is first published by L. Frank Baum with illustrations by William Wallace Denslow --- in Chicago
1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer
1946 US President Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike (some things ..)
1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1990 World Health Organization takes homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses
2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
2021 Long working hours killed 745,000 people a year, in 2016, in the first study of its kind by the World Health Organization (2nd who hit)

Hello everyone. Only thought that came to mind today is questioning the morality of
more war for the sake of a few power junkies at the cost of so many innocents. Just
doesn't add up, as I'm sure most of you are aware. Does this raise your blood pressure?

Q: So, what are the neutrinos zipping thru the synapses in the cerebral cortex today?

A: It's organic man.

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Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 8:46am
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Just finished my coffee so the synapses are currently firing. Got another 0.75" last night...just right for the garden. Noticed on the weather map the NE still looks cold. We're cooling today from 90F to 80F for the high. AM's in the 60's, so it pretty pleasant as our summer weather pattern has arrived.

Garden is growing. Harvesting lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, and snow peas. Meanwhile trying to work through some of the food in the freezer to make room for this season's harvest.

US warmongering definitely gets on my nerves, but I try not to let it raise my blood pressure.

For the five years from 2017 to 2021, the U.S. accounted for 39 percent of major arms deliveries worldwide, over twice what Russia transferred and nearly 10 times what China sent to its weapons clients. In addition, the U.S. had far more customers – 103 nations, or more than half of the member states of the United Nations.

more here

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Thanks for the OT, and have a good day!

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 7:19am
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@Lookout

still shuffling plantings indoors at night
may go down into the 30's tonight
happy with the cool
enjoying a more traditional spring
rather than the winter/summer cliff
of the last few years

happy planting!

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Submitted by soryang on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:23am
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my blood pressure is through the roof today due to personal circumstances. Can't wait for the week to be over. It's "labile hypertension." If I relax, it goes back to normal. If I laugh it will go away. I got a laugh out of these reports today, about Biden having to cut his trip to the far east a little bit short. I saw that "China collapse" "expert" Gordan Chang was a guest on one of the morning talks on mainstream, saying Biden's decision was the end of the world as we know it. Gordan Chang is a right wing lunatic. I noticed the NY Times didn't quote him in their version of the war mongering analysis. I don't think it helped their credibility any. A public radio broadcast I heard this morning, said a topic to be discussed at the G-7 meeting was "how to avoid economic coercion from other countries." Thanks for the laughs.

Tim Shorrock posted the reference to the New York Times report on Twitter. When I looked the report up, I didn't get the usual pay wall.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 3:18pm
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So, is the following:

It's organic man.

intended to be articulated as: "It's organic, man", or "It's organic man! [trumpets blare]"

Whichever, hypertension is my game. Got my monthly infusion Monday - was escorted into the infusion center an assigned a seat, the cuff went on and bingo 140/80, que mirac! Nurse congratulated me beeg time, well below my typical first reading and one of my lowest readings evah in that facility. Been this way since high school, though I never got my BP taken on weed or stronger stuff, so possibly the dope is what kept me alive - I could maybe do promos Wink .

Today's neutrinos are magikal - I shit you not. [Que Buffy Smith St. Marie performing Magic is Alive] The quantum state most recently conjured up is, you guessed it, "Magic".

Physicists identify new quantum state called "magic"

- https://boingboing.net/2023/05/01/physicists-identify-new-quantum-state-... see also https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.126009 - Probing chaos by magic monotones, which, ironically, should keep things from getting too monotonous.

Muchissimo yard and garden tasks hoy, so I'd best get to business.

be well and have a good one

edit: fixed braindead error

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 12:26pm
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@enhydra lutris @enhydra lutris

whenever I get close to a med clinic, by BP's shoot right up to the moon, Alice.
Your topic reminds one of the combined effect of "A eye" and quantum
puttering. Doesn't forbold well for human intellect methinks. Mercy, mercy me.
Seamless integration not. Maybe a future app for that?

Thanks for injecting some life in this thread.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 1:04pm

and their safety concerns might interest some of you.
Nobody is a fan of fossil fuel, but nobody underestimates the value of an ambulance or firetruck, either.
Trees are great! But in the highways?

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/will-war-on-motorists-make-cities?utm_...

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 3:56pm
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@on the cusp

whatever the WEF company wants, the representations become more partial
to their way of provocation. they own the noise machines after all

thanks for popping-in
may all your ill eagles
get well soon

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Submitted by on the cusp on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 4:46pm

@QMS to give up everything we have because of climate change? And how shameful and selfish we would be if we didn't sacrifice everything we have to protect the environment?
My Texas ill eagles seem to be fit, ready to work. And practice their aim with their assault weapons.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 4:08pm
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@on the cusp

By barricading their streets with trees to stop people from driving, they will make the life of old and disabled people much more complicated and will destroy the remnants of their industry.

Why else do you think they used so much sedatives on the old people and the disabled? Or tell people to just go home until they couldn’t breathe and when they returned to hospital they got thrown on ventilators and given remdesiver? Can’t have too many people in the 15 minute cities or they wouldn’t work right.

And who gave Adams permission to spy on people’s eating habits? That’s not covered in the patriot act. And unless we get to know every damn thing that the parasite class does then no thank you you mindless idiots.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 5:23pm

@snoopydawg but didn't see how he would be able to keep track of meat purchases. Is NYC going to mandate CBDCS? Force grocers to demand debit card payment only? Nowhere does it say how he can track food purchases. It is coming next month.
Ghettos. Smart Cities are ghettos where the old and disabled die. And it is for the good of the environment, not the old fashioned racial purity policy of genocide. This is a New Genocide.
Name a single weffer that is not a eugenicist.
We think we are voting for mayors to improve and maintain our cities. Well, we just might be voting in an amateur dietician. With tons of power.

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