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Josh Payette (he/him)
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Creator of Remnant2Toolkit. Lifelong learner, coding personally and professionally, loves me some good games! http://www.remnant2toolkit.com
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Yep classic maryland driving
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Just one more retired veteran and Dems take back Congress. Just trust, just one more veteran and it will work. Forget clear polls and policies that have been popular with the Dem voters time and time again that party leadership ignores or blocks. What we need is another batch of veteran candidates!
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The world created by deputizing every annoying person to determine if someone is appropriately disabled is such a worse world than the one where accommodations are sometimes used by those who don't need them. Kill the puritan in your brain.
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM