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[–] [email protected] 103 points 5 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Glad I’m not the only one who saw that lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't act that surprised. They've been going for a while now, and the writers are running out of ideas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The guy they've got running the show now ran out of ideas fifteen years ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it doesn't seem in-character for him

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Weirder than a race of sentient liposuction fat blobs?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

THOSE WERE ADORABLE :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

isn't that what she is?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I spent more time figuring that out than I'm willing to say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Some quack said the vaccine makes you magnetic and it went viral on Twitter. Her license was suspended and she was fined $3,000.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10131940/

~~Also, the autocapitalization in your comment compels me to commend your taste in tv shows.~~ whoosh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Some quack said the vaccine makes you magnetic and it went viral on Twitter.

Because people are stupid. The correct response would have been that society looks at her with a sideways head, confused, like a dog hearing a new sound. The dog doesn't know what that sound is, but the dog knows it's not right, and shouldn't be heard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Pssst… that’s the joke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm starting to think this "Doctor" guy isn't even licenced

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Let's not besmirch the good "Name of the Doctor," please.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

“Doctor” sounds like a bit of a stretch

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

wtf? Wouldn’t masking also be beneficial to mitigate flu transmission as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

To clarify, I don’t agree lol

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

You need to be much richer than her to not to pay taxes in the US.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You never know what kind of doctor she is. Maybe she is a doctor of Aura Reading or Astrology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone with a doctorate in Metaphysics from the Universal Life Church, I concur.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

It's always the people you most medium suspect.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ahh that's the puzzle piece I was missing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

That and also the fact that many smooth objects will stick to your skin if you haven't washed the oils off of it. (To be fair, you can have showered that morning, but I didn't see any reason to be generous.)

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19/can-vaccines-make-our-body-magnetic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This actually connects quite a bit for me. I was wondering why so many weird experiments popped up about magnets working/not working in water. Like why would anyone think they wouldn't?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Tenpenny owes a total of $646,929.82

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is why i always wipe out tenpenny tower

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm sure they'll pull something together to pay it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I would love to be a magnet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Only the first one, and not for very long.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

"License removed" when?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months 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!

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