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[ireton]

What did trudo know about the communist party infiltrating the government of Canada ?

[newzquest]

Khalistan : A Complex and Controversial Issue

It remains a subject of debate and discussion. It is crucial for all stakeholders, including the Indian government, Sikh leaders, and the international community, to engage in dialogue and address the underlying issues to promote peace, unity.

Khalistan issue is real or Politically motivated, lets examine.. Introduction The concept of Khalistan, a separate Sikh state, has been a longstanding and contentious issue in the Indian context. Rooted in the historical, political, and religious complexities of the region, the Khalistan movement has generated significant debate, emotions, and even violence over the years. In this blog post, we…

[all-hail-trudos]

May I request from the ask game: 5 favorite form of potato? 16 thoughts on mint chocolate chip? and/or 26 how’s your spice tolerance?

Someone actually took me up on it!

So first of all, potatoes are God's gift to the world. I love them in nearly every way you can serve them. But my favorite is probably roasted/baked potatoes, cut open on the top and baked with butter the british way.

Mint chocolate chip... exists. As a way to ruin perfectly good chocolate. I am not and never have been a fan, and I never will be either.

My spice tolerance is pretty okay. I'm definitely not going to call black pepper spicey. But I'm also generally adverse to hot sauces. I also just dislike the taste of habanero, so mexican spice blends are out. I'll sprinkle chili pepper on things occasionally, though, and asian spices are a lot more palatable.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank, has anyone ever asked you to take a Turing test?

I think it's pretty clear that this is a Turing test. (That's why the tumblr bot likes the post in the first place.)

[nostalgia-eh52]

[atelier-aria]

[Icon Commissions] A japanese red maple Leafeon for @all-hail-trudos <3 Freehand painted this, was very pleasant ^^

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[gemstarstarlight]

Here is an article that talks more about the validity of The 5 Love Languages. I'd recommend reading it (and, if you're a Christian, highly recommend all of Sheila Gregoire's stuff), but if you don't want to, here's a TLDR:

The Five Love Languages are not scientifically valid, for a host of reasons.

People still found it useful, and that's not bad. They can be tools to help your marriage/relationships. It's never bad to think, "How can I love and understand my partner better?"

Christians are fond of gimmicks/magic bullets that solve all your problems. That's bad, and we should be better than that. Tools can be weaponized, because they aren't inherently good or bad. What matters are the people using them, and the attitude that they have towards their partner.

To me, using the Five Love Languages isn't inherently misogynistic, patriarchal, or heteronormative. I've used it, and figured out that I actually HATE acts of service or most gifts, both giving and receiving them. I'd feel a sinking in my chest if someone gave me a gift or someone gave something to me. That was helpful for me to know when I was younger, and gave me language that helped other people love me better.

Having done more inner work, I've also realized it's because both require awareness and paying attention to detail, both of which I am bad at and have been punished for being bad at. So everyone knows that gifts are not my love language, and they don't have that expectation. However, when I do know someone loves acts of service or gifts, I try to show them that love, and they feel extra special because they know it's hard for me. It's a way for us to understand and communicate love, and we both feel more known at the end of the experience, which is the goal.

The point is, it's not a bad starting place, and it's not inherently evil.

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[eternal-echoes]

Tagged by @austerity-audacity-asceticism thank you!!! I always like getting tagged in these kind of things.

(Starting a new post because the original one is long)

*throws my football at you* PERSONALITY TEST TIME.

1) The last Podcast you listened to? with reasons.

My answer : I usually don’t listen to podcast but when I was on a roadtrip with my sister she suggested we listen to a Catholic podcast and I believe it was The Matt Fradd show interviewing Michael Knowles

2) what was the last fanfic you read? What did you like about it?

My answer : I think it was a My Happy Marriage fanfic months back. I can’t remember which one exactly but I remember liking the domestic fluff aspect of it

3) You favorite discord server?

My answer : I’m not on discord anymore. My friend invited me to one but I was never active in it.

4) open Pinterest and show the first think it recommends you!

My answer :

5) If your comfortable, show me something from your notes app!

My answer :

The to-do list yesterday. I was only able to do 3 of them and continuing some of them today.

6) Show us who you last gave a like on Tumblr! And why?

My answer : https://www.tumblr.com/lovers-romance/762869936051912704?source=share

I’ve always liked this person’s aesthetic taste.

7) Show us a picture that's in your galary that you are proud off/like/are comfortable sharing.

My answer :

Screenshot of Daisuke Sakuma

8) final question, what was the last YouTube video you watched?

My answer :

Not sure if I’ll watch this anime recommendation but this is the last YouTube video I watched.

I usually don’t tag anyone but I will this time:

@colormipretty @noriko04 @coruscanttojerusalem

@elegyofemptiness42 @all-hail-trudos

@thathilomgirl @prarthnaoffthedeepend

I just see some of you guys in my notifications quite often and I thought this is a nice way to get to know you more.

But feel free to ignore this.

[artandthebible]

Entry of Christ into Jerusalem

Artist: Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Flemish, 1502–1550)

Date: c. 1530

Medium: OIl on Panel

Collection: The Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Description

The triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. Two-sided painting, that used to be a shutter of a large Passion retable, now dismantled. Other panels from this retable are now in Trier, Berlin, Cape Town and Lisbon. On the reverse is a painting of Saint Trudo, which links the retable to Sint-Truiden Abbey.

In the foreground, several figures are cheering Christ on his entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. The Mount of Olives, where Jesus and his disciples have come from can be seen in the distance. The painting gives a very lively impression. The movement in the composition, along with the abundance of human figures and the bright, fresh colours create an exuberant whole. A striking element of this painting is the unusual contortion of the figures. The architecture of the city wall works like a sort of stage set for the scene in the foreground.

John 12:12-13 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! ” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”“Blessed is the king of Israel!”

[ireton]

Summer heat.

Turdo Waving To No One.

[meret118]

He's canceling events almost daily. Has he completely lost it, and they're hiding him? It would be headlines everywhere if a democrat did this.

[all-hail-trudos]

Nothing prepares you for how DIFFERENT Sonic Frontiers is. I saw the trailers. I read the reviews. I've seen the commentary. But finally picking it up and playing it is an experience. Seeing Sonic plonked down into a photorealistic open world, full of Atmosphere and mystery, frequently with no markers to guide you forward.

It's still Sonic. It's just as much Sonic as the original Sonic Adventure. If anything, this feels like a return to Sonic Team's vision for Sonic Adventure, just rendered nearly unrecognizable with the absolutely massive advances in technology that have happened since. The cyberspace stages are condensed versions of what 3D Sonic has been since, also actually Sonic Adventure. The open world challenges, though... I see why this game is divisive. There's an actual evolution here of the sonic game philosophy, an attempt at doing something really different. It's both better and worse. It's definitely on the janky side, which is something I think the modern gamer has grown allergic to. It's fun, though! I'm really hoping Sega iterates on this idea, because this new design philosophy carries so much potential.

[plantpirating]

Wednesday is For Writers

"If I let myself, I could almost believe that Mother despises me, but how could it be true? She must have some sympathetic grace for her burden of a child. I must believe so or I shall do all sorts of wicked things, and I am already full to the brim with troublesome circumstances."

...is a thing that I wrote this morning.

What about you? What have you written recently that you've taken a fancy to?

Tagging: @all-hail-trudos @chennnington @thenewsarahjane

[atlanticcanada]

Canada performing more organ transplants from MAID donors than any country in the world

A growing number of patients who request medical assistance in dying are asking to donate their organs for transplant, says an international review that found that Canada is performing the most organ transplants from MAID patients among the four countries studied that offer this practice.

The report is the first-ever review of the growing use of this new practice around the world. The review was conducted in 2021 and the results were formally published in December 2022. 

“We saw everyone is working in different directions. And then we said ‘OK, well, let's start an international (discussion) of all the countries involved,’” said Dr. Johannes Mulder, a physician and MAID provider in Zwolle, Netherlands, in an interview with CTV News.

Data collected for the paper shows that in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain, combined, 286 assisted-death recipients provide lifesaving organs for transplant to 837 patients in the years up to and including 2021.

Doctors in Canada, where medical assistance in dying (MAID) was decriminalized in 2016, performed almost half of the world’s organ transplants after MAID for that period (136), according to the publication.

Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information confirms this new source of transplant organs accounted accounts for six per cent of all transplants from deceased donors in Canada in 2021. Some transplants, like those for kidneys and livers, can be done with patients who are alive.

“I was rather proud that Canada has done so well in terms of organ donation by MAID patients,” said Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, in an interview with CTV News.

With more than 4,000 Canadians waiting for organ transplants, some of whom are dying, he says Canada’s numbers show a strong move to turn death into a win-win.

“So I say, 'Good on us.' It’s a wonderful opportunity for someone facing death to make something significant out of the end of their life,” said Schafer. 

PATIENT-DRIVEN TREND

The international review on this new practice has been overwhelmingly driven by patients who are suffering from irreversible degenerative diseases, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s.

“If this body has deserted me, I could do something good,” is how Mulder says patients frame their decision.

Canadian ALS patient Sharron Demchuk donated her kidneys and lungs after her medically assisted death in September of 2021. Her family says she herself pushed her doctors to consider a way she could help people after she died, becoming the first in New Brunswick to do so. 

“She kept doing follow-ups, kept pushing and even though she wasn’t able to speak, she would make notes for my dad. ‘Here’s what I want you to ask them. Here’s what I want you to say,’” her daughter, Darlene Demchuk, told CTV News last year.  

One of the goals of the international report, says Mulder, was to share information openly on how countries are managing this controversial and evolving new practice, including the tricky ethical and logistical issues of consent from vulnerable patients.

“What should you do, or what should what shouldn't you do? And how to keep the whole project completely voluntary,” he said of some of the concerns, noting that patients should never be pressured to choose MAID to increase the availability of donor organs.

That is a worry shared by Trudo Lemmens, a professor in health law and policy at the University of Toronto.

He points to statistics showing more than 35 per cent of Canadians who died by MAID in 2021 felt they were "a burden on family, friends or caregivers” according to a Health Canada report.

“I am concerned that people who struggle with a lack of self-esteem and self-worth may be pushed to see this as an opportunity to mean something,” said Lemmens in an email comment to CTV News.

With other countries like Australia eyeing medical assistance in dying along with organ donations, Mulder says public trust in this new medical practice must be developed and maintained.

“That’s why guidelines are necessary and should also be strict,”’ the doctor said.

WHY CANADA LEADS THE WORLD IN ORGAN TRANSPLANTS AFTER MAID

“Our guidance is Canadian made and (it’s) working well,” said Dr. Sam Shemie, an intensive care unit doctor in Montreal and medical adviser to Canadian Blood Services, which helped created the roadmap guiding health workers in Canada in 2019.

Like other countries, Canada requires the decision to be voluntary. MAID donors give consent while conscious and competent. The guidance says the choice and approval for MAID must come first. The decision to become an organ donor can only be formalized by a separate transplant team.  

“The first thing is, ‘Have you been accepted?’ And once you've been accepted, that's your decision to pursue.

“We would never say, ‘Hey, do you want MAID?’ and, ‘Hey, do you want to be an organ donor?’ It's not ethical,” Shemie told CTV News, adding that patients also have the right to change their minds at any point.

And Canada has other measures that may account for its higher number of MAID donors.

In other countries, patients themselves must first bring up the idea that they wish to donate. But Quebec and Ontario moved to telling patients earlier.

“In our province, in fact, if the law says if somebody is going to die, you should offer them organ donation organ and tissue donation, and we should apply that to MAID patients as well,” said Shemie of Quebec's policy.

The other difference in Canada is based on the kinds of patients receiving MAID. In the Netherlands or Belgium, there is a larger proportion of patients with end-stage cancer who choose euthanasia. Those with cancer cannot donate because of the risks to the organ recipients.

In Canada, statistics show 65 per cent of patients seeking MAID have cancer.  

“And so I think that's one of the reasons why we are ahead of the game, is because more patients who seek MAID in Canada are eligible to donate because they have diseases like ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or multiple sclerosis,” said Shemie.

ORGANS FUNCTION WELL

The international review also shows that despite concerns that the cocktail of medications used for assisted death might harm organs, studies from around the world and here in Canada show they are undamaged and work very well after transplantation.

One Ontario study of kidney recipients found that eight of nine kidneys from MAID donors began working normally almost immediately after transplant, with patients avoiding the need for even temporary dialysis.

“Some of the functions of these organs were almost as good as living donor organs,” said Dr. Patrick Luke, the study author and co-director of the Multi-organ Transplant Program at the London Health Sciences.

“As far as our transplant patients, so far, it's all been very positive,” he told CTV News.

Studies of lung transplants have shown similar success, with scientists now investigating the potential use of other tissue, including islet cells to treat people with severe diabetes.

HOME TO HOSPITAL

Canada is also at the forefront of another emerging trend.

Until recently, only those who agreed to have a medically assisted death in hospital could donate their organs. It was easier and safer for surgeons for retrieval and transplantation.

According to Health Canada data, 44.2% of MAID provisions in Canada took place at home.

The report shows there are now eight documented cases in the world where providers offered assisted death in the patient’s home. Five of these were in Canada.

The MAID recipient is given the medications in their home, and then transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital to have the procedure completed and organs harvested.

Dr. Shemie described the case of a patient in Ontario, saying that "with a lot of help from paramedics in the fire department …we were able to facilitate that.”

But there is variation among countries on how to do this and what medications to use.

In fact, Canada is currently updating its protocol, now submitted for publication to the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and Dr. Shemie says it will be shared with other countries considering expanding assisted dying and organ transplantation.

It’s the kind of openness and transparency Dr. Mulder envisions.

“These are all reasons why we wanted to have this paper out now, and hope every hospital and every jurisdiction take this as a starting point to write ethically sound protocols,” he said.

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[atelier-aria]

[Chibi] for @all-hail-trudos Run, Run, Clukay! Thank you so much!

[all-hail-trudos]

There's something unsettling about the pictures of Frieren with short hair. Maybe this just reflects the importance of good character design. But it's like the twin tails are a part of her. When you take them away, it's like taking away a whole piece of her personality. It's not just an aesthetic change. It's practically a lobotomy. She's just not the same anymore. This is not Frieren. It's her evil cousin Frin, snatching her show, her look, and her (deceased) man. Absolutely 100% not here for it.

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