Oddbean new post about login | logout @33636695 How TF do you remove something like that? Doesn't seem possible without taking out the entire vein. but I'm only a spectator, clueless.
@0af78396 They're structural. They have tensile strength. It's what makes them obviously not blood clots. They can be pulled out of veins. My mother had a friend who had a 3-inch long one pulled out of an artery in his neck, and lived.