[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Oh, fake news is okay with him then? I have a good story! It involves a couch.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 43 points 20 hours ago

Oh, that’s fair game according to him? I have a good story! It involves a couch.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago

People really need to know how creepy and unhinged he is though.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Ah, you think you know better than doctors. Many people think this. Many have bad outcomes with nobody to blame but themselves.

I don’t care if you use cannabis, heck I can legally prescribe you some if you need it. Doctors are not law enforcement. I don’t bat an eye if you tell em you use cocaine, I’ll still give you morphine after surgery but I need to know you used cocaine so I can avoid beta blockers. You’re paranoid we’re judging you but you’re wrong. You’re not as rare as you think. We know you’re in pain regardless of your drug use and treat you anyway.

Only you, the patient, need to know that so you can avoid the interaction

Many idiots who died in hospital thought that too, which is why we make you sign consent forms so that your family can no longer sue us for your stupid mistake.

It’s like you have no idea how doctors work and have an outdated idea of them. Your loss.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I’m sorry you have such a low opinion, maybe you heard someone venting about their job after work?

You really think lying about your drug use is safe? It’s dangerous to give many types of anesthesia if you’re on drugs or alcohol. We don’t particularly care if you use or not, we don’t tell police or family, you just need to be honest so we can do our job correctly.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Hahahaha me tooooooo!

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Doctor here who has referred patients for transplant. No. You must be six months sober to be eligible for the transplant list. There’s so few livers to go around, they need to be sure the recipient isn’t going to just break the next one.

It’s rare to suddenly need a liver; they usually take months to fail and this gives the patient and doctor months of notice to try treating the failure first (including lifestyle changes and meds) before getting sick enough to go apply for a transplant.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It’s only a problem if a Democrat is in charge, as soon as a Republican takes over it’s a perfect world under their leader.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And yet he howled that the police disrespected him and Giuliani during the raids and arrests. Hypocrite.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That’s not necessarily love for Palestinians, it’s more like anger against the Israeli far right.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Not at all. Iraq’s broken economy is due to Bush trying to force Iraqi economy to privatize after 2003. Iraq made a trade deal with Iran that they bragged would be very lucrative for both countries. It’s not warfare like you called it.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Complaining about Iran having too much influence in Iraq is like complaining that the Vatican has too much influence in Ireland.

Iraq is not the same as Iran. While the countries now have close economic ties, Iraqi politicians have bo interest in changing Iraq’s government to copy Iran’s.

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When former president Donald Trump’s media start-up announced in October 2021 that it planned to merge with a Miami-based company called Digital World Acquisition, the deal was an instant stock-market hit.


With the $300 million Digital World had already raised from investors, Trump Media & Technology Group, creator of the pro-Trump social network Truth Social, pledged then that the merger would create a tech titan worth $875 million at the start and, depending on the stock’s performance, up to $1.7 billion later.


All they needed was for the merger to close — a process that Digital World, in a July 2021 preliminary prospectus, estimated would happen within 12 to 18 months.

“Everyone asks me why doesn’t someone stand up to Big Tech? Well, we will be soon!” Trump said in a Trump Media statement that month.


Now, almost two years later, the deal faces what could be a catastrophic threat. With the merger stalled for months, Digital World is fast approaching a Sept. 8 deadline for the merger to close and has scheduled a shareholder meeting for Tuesday in hopes of getting enough votes to extend the deadline another year.


If the vote fails, Digital World will be required by law to liquidate and return $300 million to its shareholders, leaving Trump’s company with nothing from the transaction.


For Digital World, it would signal the ultimate financial fall from grace for a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, that turned its proximity to the former president into what was once one of the stock market’s hottest trades. Its share price, which peaked in its first hours at $175, has since fallen to about $14.



Digital World’s efforts to merge with Trump Media have been troubled almost from the start, beset by allegations that it began its conversations with the former president’s company before they were permitted under SPAC rules.


Then, in the past year, its issues became more pronounced: Its chief executive was terminated by the board, a former board member was arrested on charges of insider trading, and the company agreed to pay an $18 million settlement to resolve charges that it had misled investors and given false information to the Securities and Exchange Commission.


The merger has “been pretty much unprecedented in terms of all of the glitches,” said Jay Ritter, a University of Florida finance professor who studies stock markets. “The deal does seem to be running out of time. You can’t just keep getting extensions forever.”


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