Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "NBC News" channel.

They will, but having rode this as part of the studio tour, there's not a lot of room for error on the part of the driver. It's a relatively tight road and these trams are rather long.
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@bladudemovies Yes, and it was only no time because he's been re-elected and SCOTUS has been pretty clear that any sentence would be tossed out as the President is above the law according to a majority of the justices. With no punishment, there's at least some hope that it won't be overturned.
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@dianadialga3955 Adulthood is one of those rather tricky issues. Around here the age of adulthood ranges from 13 to 21 depending upon the specific issue. And some of it can be modified by the court in t he case of emancipated minors.
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Yep, a detail that a lot of people seem to be missing is that the reason for the no judgment sentencing is because that's the only hope there is for preserving the conviction. Any sort of punishment here is likely to get tossed by SCOTUS as they've ruled that the POTUS can do pretty much whatever he likes because apparently, the President is now a king, even though that's not at all what the constitution says. It's been a trend for a bit now where they go for the technicality over the spirit. So, unless you give somebody cash for an explicit promise for a politician to do something specific, it's not a bribe. Or, you can do that, but give the cash afterwards and it's a gratuity, which is somehow not a bribe. And you can pay off a politicians credit card debt, which is apparently also not a bribe.
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@RandiSchaefer-uw2su Yep, around here the medics have blood with them, but they're also in a relatively urban area. A smaller town might just designate somebody to get the unit from the hospital and start driving to meet up with the ambulance along the way. (Obviously, starting a transfusion, even if the needle is already in, is probably going to necessitate stopping for a bit)
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That will be made public eventually. I'm curious as to how this is involuntary manslaughter rather than an accident. This is why the public is generally allowed to observe court proceedings. EDIT: from what I can tell, it will depend on whether or not the professor was criminally negligent when causing the death. (Or if he caused the death at all would likely be another issue)
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@eprom239 I think the issue there is that he's jumping from an unstable surface and far more concerned with having enough force to clear the bucket and the ground.
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Here in WA, we've apparently had blood for the medic one program for years. Basically ER doctors attached to the fire department that go to the scene of the accident and stabilize patients for transport to the ICU. I'd be surprised if laws don't change as the understanding of how to run this part of the program improves and changes are made to ease the blood shortages.
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@marymcq2 I wouldn't be so happy about that. It pushes us closer to a civil war or somebody deciding that it's open season on SCOTUS justices that have completely lost any sense of responsibility or ethics. There's a fair number of folks out there that take the aphorism of "we've been given 4 boxes to use to protect the country, soap box, ballot box, jury box and ammo box, use in that order" literally. We've already had a CEO of a major health insurance company assassinated, do you really think that more bad rulings aren't going to inspire a similar level of patriotism? Barring something else putting things back on the rails, it's pretty much inevitable that somebody will.
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@toh6261 You think he'll follow through on that? It requires reading literal tea leaves to guess what we're going to actually get when he takes office in a week and a half. For all we know, they'll snow him good and he'll send our own forces over there to help.
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Yep, these can't be filled at any gas station and it's not likely to be able to be taken for another trailer while she's in it. That's a bunch of waiting and a bunch of witnesses. The concern I'd have is that something happens to her before he goes to fill the tank or get a new load.
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@joshuanoble5895 TBH, I'm kind of curious why they didn't send a bucket up to him rather than having him jump. He's probably already got a harness on, transferring to the fire truck would probably be safer.
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I do have to wonder if the reason for this wasn't that he had done something similar when he was younger and genuinely doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. It's unclear to me how he could deliver a guilty verdict and then reverse it during sentencing. Sentencing phases of trials only happen if the defendant is convicted.
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@AxePlays-hc5dj Yep, when I heard that it seemed like a particularly weird day to hold the election.
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How so? The case was tried before he won re-election. Had he lost, there's a decent chance he would have received actual punishment. But, given the way that SCOTUS has been ruling with respect to what the POTUS is allowed to do, there's a lower chance of this being tossed on appeal due to a lack of actual punishment associated with it. He's been convicted and "sentenced." Even if they do overturn it, it doesn't change the fact that he was convicted. Only the MAGA folks seem to be unaware of how big of a deal this is. But, somehow the stuff Hunter Biden did is a big deal.
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@zzygyy It won't, it can't be removed from his record as it's a matter of public record that he was convicted, it's in the papers everywhere and people are going to remember this for basically as long as the US exists. He's been let off the hook for leading an insurrection, and this is a blot on his reputation? As far as Kangaroo court goes, this sort of fraud is a very big deal, far more so than what Hunter Biden was convicted of. But, somehow you people think that was legitimate, but this wasn't. Go figure, I guess you're only law and order folks when it's the other side being convicted.
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That's why you wouldn't do that. You'd just give the blood to the ambulances that are specifically designated to stabilize patients for transport. Patients in that condition need more care anyways, so just give the folks that are trained for that the blood to do the transfusion. It takes the number of vehicles that need to be supplied from thousands to only a few hundred for a major city.
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@Mb91555 Citation needed, how would you even know. It's pretty well established that women will let each other off the hook for all by the most serious offenses and then unionize against men. How often do you hear a woman's girlfriends disagree with her when she badmouths her boyfriend or husband?
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And some folks are barred from giving for reasons that are no longer relevant. It's also a matter of bureaucracy.
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Around here our medic one program has been carrying blood for transfusion for about 6 years. We were the first place in the world to routinely send actual ER doctors out on calls for critical care directly to patients in need of stabilizing prior to transport. So, this is probably going to spread through the US eventually, but the blood supply is rather limited, so it probably will just be select units for the time being.
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They wouldn't, presumably the drones can be repurposed for other things the rest of the year or sold used.
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It depends where you are. In this portion of the US, the medics do bring blood whenever they respond to a call. And apparently they've been doing so for about 6 years.
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@eepinwillow For now, I don't know that it's going to be that much longer before they can take O+ blood and covert it into O-. That would make a pretty significant improvement.
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It's Texas, you can be sure they'll bend over backwards to make sure that he can have as many as his house can hold.
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@LisaLove-m4l They is what used when the gender isn't known. And that's been the case for quite a long time prior to any of this pronoun stuff becoming a thing. It, means that it's an object.
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I kind of want Eastern Oregon to secede from OR and join ID so we can have a state shaped like it's giving aliens the finger.
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It's unlikely to cause problems with the shortage. The issue likely would be simply building up the supply to do it. Once the vehicles are stocked, the blood would be rotated in and out of the vehicles, and the blood that is actually administered should be mostly the blood that would have been administered in the hospital anyways. The other issues with logistics are more likely to be a problem.
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Yes, although in all fairness, most of Idaho isn't that far from WA where abortions are legal. A major problem in states where it is legal is people crossing the boarder to get an abortion. And those that are stuck have to go back to the old school, and super dangerous, coat hangers.
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