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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • Balloon is filled with normal saline inside the bladder. A standard Foley is a double lumened tube, one with a balloon on the end and the other just ending in nothing. You fill the balloon once you insert it, then it holds it in the bladder, empty it when you want to remove it. Then on the open end you attach the bag and it’s held on with friction. If you remove the bag the piss just goes on the floor.

    Really though a sudden yank may pull the balloon before it pulls the bag that’s being held on through friction and that’s… Less than ideal. It really depends on how tight the bag is placed on. That balloon generally has a out 10 to 15mL of water and it will go through a urethra with enough force.




  • Germany’s need to support the car industry, one of the country’s biggest employers, has made its approach to barriers to Chinese imports less black and white.

    It voted against an EU decision to introduce tariffs on Chinese EVs in 2024 and this month was spared EU tariffs on imports of the Chinese-built Volkswagen Cupra Tavascan SUV in exchange for undertakings on the minimum price of the vehicle.

    I’m having a hard time parsing this. It’s supporting the car industry offshoring as an economic boon for one of its biggest employers?















  • Representative governments are generally oligarchic and blinded by previous power balances. True democracy like sortition lets the deliberative body hear from a member of a minority that they will revolt or become non participatory if you do a certain action. Then the greater body can decide if that’s worth paying attention to. It’s a level of agility that is frankly only available in true democracies and very rare in both autocracies and oligarchies. Where sortition is poor isn’t tyranny of the majority. It’s poor in identifying power structures that are completely unrelated to popular power. Most of those power structures, however, are illegitimate.