IBM machines were used to tabulate the census used to track the Jewish people in Germany before the war and during the Holocaust, they tracked and counted everything happening in the concentration camps on IBM punch cards.

Look how far computer systems have come. Now Israel used an AI system and cell phone tracking to try to wipe out entire families.

My sister has hundreds of YouTube videos she used to help her students learn between music lessons. It will be two years soon since she died, I haven’t been able to watch even one.

I like to remember her in my mind, it hurts less than seeing her when she was alive.

Wasn’t Farage one of those Brexit cheerleaders that had a vested interest in the exit?

Zorg did mass layoffs to hurt the economy but help himself and his bottom line. Musk will likely hurt his company since he fired a whole team that was overseeing construction, purchasing, real estate agreements. Now no one is left who knows what is going on.

Someone with bipolar disorder who is under medication could be considered of sound mind at the time. They might have the clarity of mind to know that without medication, that they are unstable (a way of suffering) and on medication they are unhappy and suffering. That seems like it would qualify as lifelong suffering so why should that person stay alive if they don’t want to have a life of suffering?

Medically assisted death is safe and is a good option for someone who is of sound mind but in a terminal condition that wishes to end their suffering.

No one serious is suggesting that anyone can just up and decide on Thursday morning that they want to off themselves down at the doctor’s office, it takes time and psychological testing to confirm the person is mentally competent to make the decision before it is allowed to go forward.

My grandmother was mentally competent until her last few days but suffered as her kidneys shut down and strung her along for weeks, she likely would have made this decision if it had been legal at the time. Instead it was an extended stay in ICU with hospice always planned but she would get better and worse on a daily basis and not be stable enough to get moved.

Once the tests actually got done she had surgery within a day to remove the massive tumor, she got a few weeks of normalcy before it grew back completely again and she was comatose. She saved three people by donating her organs. She was a pretty damn good human being and I miss her.

I looked back in our WhatsApp chats and found the day where a year earlier she mentioned having a massive painful migraine lasting days and the doctors just gave her drugs and moved on. I won’t ever tell my parents because they think it came out of nowhere and that they couldn’t have done anything. Likely they couldn’t have done anything but to know she was likely sick for an entire year would break my mother more than she already is.

I sometimes wonder how long they spend in medical school teaching about issues that are only to do with women and those having female genitalia. Story after story talks about doctors disregarding pain levels in women, ignorance of basic anatomy they should know, and drugs that were developed and proven to work but only in men, never tested on women.

My sister’s pain levels were ignored for over a year until she was to the point of being mentally, not with it, if they had run some tests the previous year they would have caught the cancer that was growing in her brain. Instead she was just sent home with a stronger pain killer until the tumor was so big that she was acting abnormally and her social worker insisted that the hospital run tests and they finally found the glioblastoma. A month later she was gone.