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LuckyR

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  1. So did you give anesthesia to do the exam (and would it be available for any repair)? Sounds like these are abdominal wounds. With the peritoneum intact, I'd lean towards closing the fascia with interrupted sutures, but I agree with keeping the skin open for now. I'd try for delayed primary closure over closure by secondary intention. Good luck.
  2. I don't disagree with your commentary, but I was addressing prioritizing getting the native to want to speak to you (which is when higher quality conversations occur).
  3. If you're interested in maximizing your chance of having a helpful conversation (which, after all is the central point of learning a language), then learning to ask in the person's native tongue will accomplish this. Asking in English will not.
  4. LuckyR

    Video games

    I have Death Stranding on my wishlist, since I'm so behind in games I generally wait for them to be under $10, or maybe $19 if it's an AAA title
  5. Not a crystal, not candida. I'm voting piece of hair as it clearly has a shaft center.
  6. Hey don't dis YouTube, I "learned" how to replce a dislocated shoulder from YouTube.
  7. Well, by that measure factory farming itself is also of "relatively recent occurence".
  8. In my experience most thoughtful individuals find factory farming unethical, though it obviously passes the ethical standard for society at large. But there are small ranching operations that don't use agribusiness techniques such that the only alternative to factory farming is vegetarianism.
  9. This is a crappy study. The "atheist" group was less likely to be married, less likely to have children, had fewer family ties, were younger and had higher levels of aggression and impulsivity and most importantly had higher chance of substance abuse. Any of these would explain the higher suicide risk aside from religiosity. Garbage in, garbage out.
  10. It is my guess that the vast majority of "satanists", are more interested in rebelling against the mainstream, than truly following satan.
  11. Ah, so it can cause evil (since it's the root), but isn't itself evil. So to the OP: no, not evil.
  12. True, in antiquity (when gods were invented), less so today, though I grant that a subset of the number of current theists would invent their own gods if all religions magically disappeared.
  13. Sure they "could". But when you look at what folks actually do, there's no statistically significant difference between the morality of the actions of atheists and theists within the same era, while there is a difference between folks of different eras.
  14. If you want to change the subject to why we're morally superior, your theory sounds reasonable, to be honest. But you've lost the previous argument.
  15. Who is the "we"? Well it could be you, do you believe in bacteria? Do you think lightning is caused by angry gods? Do you believe that prisoners of war should be executed? I think you're probably morally superior.
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