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Dawn's avatar

As horrible life-threatening accidents may be, they do give us cause to reflect and reprioritze our lives toward what really matters. May your body and soul continue to mend and become stronger than ever!

Elizabeth K. Baker's avatar

So very glad you have survived this terrible accident intact. I am glad to know you received good medical care and are on your way home. Thank you for all you do and I hope you heal up quickly.

Yuliya Phillips's avatar

thank you for sharing your experience and hope you get well soon. Your work has been really valuable and inspiring.

andy smith's avatar

glad that you are ok

Judy Robinson's avatar

I’m GRATEFUL Uriel is ‘HERE’! You scared us ALL, Uriel!….no more Scooter tricks! (LIFE IS DANGEROUS!). I’ve had a few crashes myself, and know the feeling of ‘touching’ myself ‘when I wake up’ to see if I’m still ‘here’ or in Heaven😉! Okay. We’ll say ‘so you’re ’still here’ for ‘a reason’😊. But you were already engaged in a Battle for Good. You learned early that there’s more

To life than money, power, and ‘prestige’. But your excellent article is a new Gift to all of us that are fortunate to read your important insights. Your humility, candor, and heart-felt advice is a stark reminder of the fragile ‘silk thread’ by which we all hang to life ‘on this earth’. It is almost impossible to imagine our own demise, a mystery we cannot understand, but your ‘hunch’ that there’s something meaningful, something ‘eternal we can ‘do’ while we’re ‘here’ rings even truer to me now after reading your Article. THANK YOU

Tai's avatar

Wishing you a swift recovery.

Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto: Narcissistic Ego And Contrarianism

Cheeto carries the unofficial personality disorder diagnosis of malignant narcissism(MNPD) which is made worse by frontotemporal dementia of which he has shown signs with growing concerns

The personality traits of MNPD are sadism where there is blatant disregard for humanity such as when the USAID agency was totally dismantled affecting the lives of millions of people and children(done by DOGE led by Musk another MNPD) Loyalty particularly of the media is necessary due to the paranoia exhibited by the impaired And a aggression as seen in his fatal decision to attack Iran

But one of the more pernicious characteristics of MNPD particularly for a leader of a country is antisocial behavior demonstrated by Cheeto’s blatant disregard for rules, the rights of others, and societal norms which leads to irrational contrarian decision making(https://bit.ly/4dG68bq) Blowing up the JCPOA(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) which had taken 18mo of diplomatic work by the Obama administration, Cheeto showed everyone his contrarian pathology and now is trying to resurrect the agreement on his own which is now costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars a day The exhibited corruption on full display is characteristic of antisocial behavior

The risks of such contrarian attitudes with aggressive tendencies in a man with the nuclear codes should be concerning for all of Americans and the world The unpredictable nature of his actions make him a dangerous threat to not only the country’s national security but country’s of the world

Unfortunately the country is under the control of a psychopath which affects as WE have seen the entire geopolitical order WE the People are living in perilous times and neither WE nor the Nazi Republicans should normalize this pathological behavior and insist that the media including substack channels start calling this crazy loon who is atop our government for what he is….a crazed demented man with MNPD

Dianne Moritz's avatar

Happy to hear you are patched up and healing. I had been thinking of buying a scooter. I won't now. Sending good wishes to you.....

Reva Feinstein's avatar

Take good care. And I fully subscribe to your philosophy of making every day count. And keep injecting humor into the mix whenever possible!

Eric B Lange's avatar

It's not the Fisher-King nor Man (of) La Mancha ...

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YKWIM ?

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Honestly selfie sticks in the wrong hands kill way more people (every year) than what Ralph Nader could ever suppose.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Trust me -if it was the Russians you'd be taking that scooter to the fourteenth floor singing "I believe I can fly...".

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They have a veritable medicine cabinet of all kinds of shit they can slip into your drink.

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I think the next Bond movie is going to open with an electric scooter chase on the roof tops of high rises of São Paulo intermingled with helicopters ... It will all be very "Green tech" ... The hacker bad guy and Bond can hack their scooters to go twice as fast as everyone else without melting their respective speed controllers nor set their batteries on fire.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Frankly,

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If you're gonna recreate medieval jousting on electric scooters down the median (in traffic) with selfie sticks with and against the "Peeps" from the Swedish consulate ....

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After having 'splained in excruciating detail how NATO is completely defunk...

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and giving them cheerful bracelets made out of Russian brass shell casings with the friendly RDI monogram...

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I'm just not sure that United Healthcare is gonna cover that before some pretty intensive psych-evaluations.

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* I know from personal experience that "Partying" with folks that have diplomatic immunity [In that particular case it was the Indian High Commission in the mid to late 1980s ] - especially gun carrying security staff and bodyguards (even in London) is ONLY going to end in one of two ways,

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Either in hospital - or in Jail - or both - or the third option - a sexually transmitted disease that one was not that particularly keen on acquiring in the first place. Throwing up on one of the bodyguards shoes whilst stepping out of the car - was a reasonable out - after playing cards for several hours demolishing the most expensive Johnny Walker - RED - BLUE and BLACK labels.

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It's amazing what you can get up to in the small hours of the night - with "peeps" that play by completely different rules.

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That' generally WHY they try to hire the biggest bookish bookworm nerds that they can possibly hire for organizations "Like" RDI just to reduce collateral and expensive damage just doing dumb sh*t with people who can totally get away with it.

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Skepticalcentrist's avatar

Glad to hear you’re ok.

Scootering around NYC was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life

I don’t know how people flirt with death like that every day.

Larissa's avatar

Very sorry 😢

Get well ❤️‍🩹 soon

Need to investigate who hit you and why !!!

BDBinc's avatar

Glad youre still with us!

lucky for you it was only a concussion and that you are in the USA where private equity owed hospitals like to care for and treat insured patients.

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