Well? Did he?!

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 draw the heathcliff or did you luck into finding a heathcliff in that angle.

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.

If we ignore the wife being a cunt, I wouldnt let my dad try to fix a toaster. Things that run on Transformers with lower voltage is free game but anything with parts that runs directly on main power is going in the trash* or a proper repairman.

*by trash I mean recycling station.

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.

It depends on where you live I guess. I live in Sweden and bike everywhere so I hit ice and go down at least once or twice every winter. It’s usually black ice in early winter where things look fine and nothing is sanded or salted yet and you hit a curve that is just glass.

Some neighborhoods don’t plow the local roads so that the cars just pack the snow and Polish it into an icerink. If you then add powdered snow so that it looks fine you can suddenly go down and slide several meters. In those situations you are a bit fucked because there isn’t enough traction to get up again and you have to turtle a bit until you find your footing.

Summer and spring is mostly fine tough with the exception of 2 collisions from other bikes and once when one of the pedals mechanically failed. This is over more than a decade tough so it sounds like it’s more than it is but it’s still more incidents than my brother have had while driving which is zero.