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siegecrossbow said:

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As someone who got an A in organic chemistry at a top pre-med school..... Organic chemistry is suppose to be a weed-out class for medical school. If they can't handle organic chem, then how would they be able to handle medical school. Isn't @Blitzo a med school grad, he knows more, maybe he can give some insight on NYU organic chem controversy..

Phead128 said:

As someone who got an A in organic chemistry at a top pre-med school..... Organic chemistry is suppose to be a weed-out class for medical school. If they can't handle organic chem, then how would they be able to handle medical school. Isn't @Blitzo a med school grad, he knows more, maybe he can give some insight on NYU organic chem controversy..

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Yes. Weed out classes are important since a lot of other wise smart people who aren’t suited to a particular field should fail early and fast if this is not their cup of tea.

Phead128 said:

As someone who got an A in organic chemistry at a top pre-med school..... Organic chemistry is suppose to be a weed-out class. If they can't handle organic chem, then how would they be able to handle medical school. Isn't @Blitzo a med school grad, he knows more, maybe he can give some insight on NYU organic chem controversy..

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Not a med. professional but I know for a fact that what you say is true.

Medical School is the real meat grinder, organic chemistry is like a kindergarden compared to what happening there

ACuriousPLAFan said:

LMFAO

Apparently someone in the Mandarin section of Radio Free Asia has lost his shit because Xi wasn't couped.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1577320334100938752

Yu Jie (this Hanjian fella) ...
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... decides to write an RFA article, which can be concluded as him having his autistic and hysterical meltdown about how Xi still receives broad support from the Chinese people.

Translating his Tweet as saying:


Thank God that people like him got rid of themselves from China and the Chinese people.

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So he's essentially mad that his version of political system in China is not acceptable by the very people he insist for them to have. What an authoritarian monster.

escobar said:

Global south 1; West 0

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1578003299827171330

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Some Surprise is there like both india & even Ukraine abstinened ( seems like zelensky isn't entirely a puppet of USA , china neutrality on ukrain pays off , india might be pissed off with USA because even USA is moving closer to pak).

Despite Somalia being part of BRI is still voted yes,china should look into it's BRI project and should not let everybody joins if they don't even understand sensitive issue of china and instead tries to leach on cash.

escobar said:

Global south 1; West 0

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1578003299827171330

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So Somalia is the only majority Islam country to vote yes?

Zelensky has completely lost his mind and proposes that the world collectively commit suicide in the name of Ukraine.

Speaking via video link at Australia’s think tank, the Lowy Institute, Zelensky said, “Preemptive strikes are needed so that they know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons. Not the other way around, waiting for Russia’s nuclear strikes and then saying, ‘oh, you’ve done that, then get this.”

NATO, Zelensky said, “should reconsider how it uses its pressure.”

Funny, 44-leaders of European continent, still smaller in territorial size, total population, total economy than China. This is the equivalent of a meeting of all provincial leaders in China, each each province bigger and more powerful than each individual state.

LawLeadsToPeace said:

Ah. That’s the crux of this issue we have. You misunderstood my comment, which, from hindsight, wasn’t specific. What I advocated for was that the Chinese should completely shut down the reporters if they are willing to lie and slander. The Chinese are too passive and unwilling to say no to a reporter. They constantly answer in a very polite and tedious manner as if they are forced to at gunpoint, but they aren’t. For example, Western reporters constantly pushed the Xinjiang lie, and they still can ask the Chinese foreign spokespeople and representatives questions. The Chinese should have just told them to shut their mouths until they apologize for spreading such a lie just like the Saudis did.

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What is the crux of this simply ridiculous issue is that I didn't advocate anything, at all, nor did I intend to from the get-go, but was somehow made out to have done the opposite that some of you then got triggered and offended by, for something I didn't even suggest/advocate/whatever yet have to defend for some reason, which I myself, take great exception to -

CMP said:

That's some backwards ass logic if I've ever seen any. These are Chinese officials serving the Chinese nation. They have no obligation to learn English. What kind of subservient white worshiping nonsense is this? You belong in the 20th century.

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Undoubtedly it was satisfying to watch the Saudi minister shut down the journalist with their "lies and slander", and in their own tongue at that. That's what the Saudis did, and that's the simple fact of it.

You may attempt to verify yourself by now saying you'd prefer Chinese officials to treat foreign journos "just like the Saudis did" and derive the same satisfaction of seeing those journos being put in their place, whether it be done in English or not, that still doesn't invalidate my observation in response to your comment (which I specifically prefaced that it wasn't even a jab at the Chinese on their English proficiency), that is if you want the Chinese to do what the Saudis did, then all they need to do is do what the Saudis did. Nothing more, nothing less. And I'm certainly not here to debate whether they should or shouldn't.

Let's settle on this being what it really is, which is a silly non-issue, so we all can stop debating about it and move on already.

Phead128 said:

As someone who got an A in organic chemistry at a top pre-med school..... Organic chemistry is suppose to be a weed-out class for medical school. If they can't handle organic chem, then how would they be able to handle medical school. Isn't @Blitzo a med school grad, he knows more, maybe he can give some insight on NYU organic chem controversy..

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As my professors jokingly said: the difference between a nurse and a doctor comes down to OCHEM I, II and physics. They are weed out classes to prove you can handle the rigors of med school. Ironically, they have very little practical application in day-to-day medical practice. Shame this professor got fired for this reason.