St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻
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Blatant pro-beef propaganda / Yes I have a cult, no you're not invited / Slightly to the right of Max Stirner, in a nice way / Zhuang Gang
Joined May 2011
I don't have to have an opinion on this. Opinion is the mind-killer. Opinion is the brain-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my opinion. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the.
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Interesting thing about the Felidae is that many species are very tameable. The reason we haven't domesticated the cheetah or caracal or serval isn't that they're unfriendly, it's that they can turn you into hamburger without meaning to.
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Fun fact, this is so your printer can watermark everything you do for the benefit of federal police/spy agencies. Remember when communist dictatorships tried to stamp out unregulated typewriters and copy machines? Pikers.
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Fucking Wikipedia. At the time Augustine was alive, 'Africa' was a province of the Roman Empire and referred to a small section of the Mediterranean coastline, not the continent.
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@buzzworddujour Cheetahs, caracals and servals are very tameable. Leopard cats were domesticated in neolithic China but were displaced by housecats later on. (Cheetahs aren't true big cats (Pantherinae), they're the biggest small cat (Felinae).).
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Oh boy, do I have an answer for this. It's because a honeymoon is consumption, but a wedding is an investment. Specifically, you're paying for a magickal ritual to redefine your social position, which requires the presence of your community.
Why would you have a $30,000 wedding when you can just get married at the courthouse and have a $30,000 honeymoon instead?.
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@LookAtMyMeat1 Druckmann made AAA games for people who dislike games and don't play them, so he has a disproportionate share of attention from gaming journos who dislike games and don't play them.
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Pretty sure it's the dudes at the military bases who got hit first.
In times of war, marginalized people are always hit first. This includes queer people, especially trans people. Below is a list of organizations that are helping queer people in the Ukraine
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Suddenly realized what this 'cave art' really represents. They were painting their hands, not the wall. They were just using the wall for support and so the paint didn't go everywhere.
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@GwenNorth14 they are good cats but they can also maim or kill you pretty easily. (also they're very fragile).
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Remember that study that said 12% of the population eats 50% of the beef? And it turned out that they meant in a given 24 hour period? Eat a burger on Tuesday, suddenly you're in the 12%. Have a salad on Wednesday, you're in the 88%. This is that, but for cancer. Come on, man.
1% of people are responsible for 24% of the health spending in America and 5% of people are responsible for just over half.
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Brave kids spontaneously protesting ambient music all across our nation
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@Ganglosaxonnne Downthread this person says "Pre bronze weapons would break when struck repeatedly against a hard armor.". and what was the 'hard armor' made of?.
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I have read that cats express dominance by grooming but rabbits express submission, so when a cat grooms a rabbit both of them think they're the boss.
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4 am on a Sunday and this has been blowing up my mentions worse than the time I got an Elon reply. I don't have anything to sell, so uhhh cats are good, go to a shelter and adopt one, cats deserve love, that is all.
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OK, I have one last thing to say that's sort of about the guy but not really. You can be young, handsome, talented, rich as hell, whatever. Chronic pain will shatter everything about you. All the privilege in the world doesn't outweigh pain you can't escape.
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Off-topic but the cat statistic is inflated by a small group of ornithologists and ecologists who have a long-term project to exterminate all domestic cats. No, I'm not making that up.
The fearmongering about wind turbines & bird deaths needs to stop:. "in meeting the Biden admin's admirable goal of deploying 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030, bird deaths from collisions could rise to more than a million per year.". Cats kill 2.4 ***billion*** birds per year!
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Angry People in my replies like "lololol I could take a cheetah with one punch how DARE you" and then actual cat owners are like "my darling 4 lb cat Muffinsocks strips the flesh from my bones twice a day as it is" (cat owners know the truth)
my cat is like 14 pounds and he still is constantly accidentally ripping my flesh. we trim his front claws but not the back. he still manages to fuck my shit up so I believe it. I would have a big cat too if I knew I wouldn't get sliced to ribbons. theyre XXXL kitties.
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This isn't a map of battles. It's a map of literacy.
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When I was an actuary I went home and cried every night, partly because I had about two hours of work a day and I was terrified of being yelled at for not working. I have autism, I didn't grasp the unspoken rules for this.
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A whole bunch of Leading Scientists with Professional Headshots on Twitter Dot Com are extremely buttmad about this quote. Genius is a dime a dozen, they are saying. Science is about project management and filling out form!. Well, Science is about that now, anyway.
I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic system in US. And, here is an example section from her book.
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I see that I've been erased again from the history of the word 'enshittification' so C*ry D*ctorow can pad his resume. (I used it ten years before he did, and I doubt I'm the first.)
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@Nightmarish_Vis By 'tame' I mean 'raised to live around humans without extreme anxiety'. By 'domesticated' I mean 'selectively bred for generations to live with and be useful to humans'. A feral dog is domesticated but not tame, a pet ocelot on Instagram is tame but not domesticated.
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Some people are arguing about definitions, so to be clear, 'tame' and 'domesticated' are two different things:
@Nightmarish_Vis By 'tame' I mean 'raised to live around humans without extreme anxiety'. By 'domesticated' I mean 'selectively bred for generations to live with and be useful to humans'. A feral dog is domesticated but not tame, a pet ocelot on Instagram is tame but not domesticated.
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I Am Not Making This Up. EFF discovered it about 20 years ago.
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Funniest thing about Syria collapsing. Remember this guy? After he got drummed out of the army, he (of course) got an academic sinecure.
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@ChrisMurphyCT > ChatGPT taught itself to do advanced chemistry. it didn't. > It wasn't built into the model. it was. > Nobody programmed it to learn complicated chemistry. they did. > It decided to teach itself, . it didn't.
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This is like hearing that Stalin came from Georgia and interrogating his stance on the Confederacy.
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Lol san francisco is floating a bill i theorized to @Maarblek 10+ years ago, the law is that you have to get robbed. Forget self defense, "retreating", whatever, no you just literally have to let them rob you or you're the criminal 😂.
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This is literally abuser logic. You beat the shit out of something, refuse to allow the basic necessities of existence, and when it escapes your reach, that proves it was a traitor and deserved everything you did to it. Fucking evil.
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Consider the possibility (likelihood) that the point of grades 9-12 is to keep pubescent males confined to day prisons and demoralized at peak criming age.
A large proportion of students do not learn much past the eigth grade. That is a lot of wasted time.
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@misandazairy "entirely inspired by north african and southwest asian history and culture" no it was Oregon and shrooms thanks for your input though
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Wikipedia is usually good at faking an objective tone. Not the same thing. For giggles, pick a random article on (say) a 70s black nationalist terror group with a body count, and compare it to a random article on a Current Year Unperson like Alex Jones.
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I'm concerned about the IQ 75 people with graduate degrees.
wow, lots of morons are now college educated: "Although the majority of individuals with IQs < 90 did not have a college degree, approximately one in three women and one in five men did. "
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@MatthewGalanty You never point a firearm at your coffee unless you're prepared to kill it.
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This is what used to be called "eliminationist rhetoric," deployed in the months and years leading up to a genocide. Now it's good, though, everything's cool, he's a comedian.
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The money is partly for the logistics, partly for display, and partly a pledge of seriousness. The couple must see each other and (much more importantly) be seen by community in their new identity, and the community must see itself seeing them - creating common knowledge.
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"The problem with men is that we have to communicate our wishes to make them behave the way we want. They should do what we expect without effort on our part.". "Reading my mind and obeying me is called being a decent fucking human being, OK? It's the bare minimum."
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I have autism. RFK isn't wrong here. Many people with autism are severely, totally and permanently disabled -- don't think 'quirky nerd' but 'severely intellectually disabled, epileptic, and can't tolerate physical contact without screaming'. Journalists, man.
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Microsoft doubles down/tightens the noose. I don't want any of these things, but my choices are 'yes' and 'yes, in three days'.
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Dude was drugging, fucking and blackmailing a 15 year old kid while HIV+, let's not forget. And he had the same righteous/contemptuous affect on Twitter as your average Chapo fan.
the josh kruger conversation went from "haha pro-crime guy got murdered" to "wtf you ghoul" to "wait actually this looks targeted not just random" to, uh, well, _yikes_. vigilante justice is never okay and all the same I don't feel very sorry for him anymore.
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There's something really interesting going on here. The language Claude uses is incredibly offensive to anyone outside therapy-culture norms; the redirection 'perhaps we could find a more constructive topic to explore' etc. etc. is an aggressive slap in the face.
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Billy Evans was killed in a vehicle attack by a black nationalist. On April 2. Sicknick had a stroke. Smith and Liebengood killed themselves. This is bizarre.
Pelosi held a moment of silence for 4 law enforcement officers who died because of #January6th:. • Brian Sicknick.• Jeffrey Smith.• Howard Liebengood.• Billy Evans
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@eigenrobot all citrus fruits are the same fruit, they only appear different because they are rotated through the fourth dimension in different ways
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There are two ways to grow rice in Taiwan. One is to grow rice. The other is to manufacture microprocessors, send them away on ships, and wait for the ships to return with rice.
This is insane. The Taiwanese government is paying farmers to NOT grow rice because they need the water for AI chip manufacturing instead. We're prioritizing AI over feeding people during a drought.
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Walz's claim, that 'hate speech and misinformation' are not protected by the First Amendment, probably shouldn't be read as an error, so much as part of a campaign to redefine reality. The networks didn't fact check it because they are working to make it true.
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You need three full aircraft carrier crews if you're running a real-time micromanaged Stasi-type surveillance-and-psyop agency. If you're just running a glorified messageboard, you need two guys named Steve.
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It appears that society chose to resolve this conflict by never holding a manager accountable, either.
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Farmers don't "provide food", they restrict food. The food already. my god, I can't even finish.
Landlords don't "provide housing", they restrict housing. The housing already exists; landlords just make it much harder for the people who need it to access it.
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Seems like cat life expectancy has increased at least 50% during my lifetime and nobody talks about it. "Cat years" used to be 7x human years, now they're more like 4x. Part of it was just putting taurine in the cat food supply but that can't be the whole story, can it?.
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I hate commies as much as the next human being but man, they do come up with the occasional (unintentional) banger
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Dude seems to have a real talent for picking the worst politics imaginable. I can't wait to see where he goes from here.
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The world record for lifetime butter production from one cow is about 6.5 thousand kilograms. And the cow isn't killed. If one larva contains 10 mg of fat, that's about 100 larvae thrown in a blender for 1 kg. If you care about shrimp welfare, you should find this horrifying.
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The crack about actuaries is the precise moment I flipped the bozo bit on Graeber. It wasn't entirely clear to him what they were good for, because he couldn't be fucked to find out. Asshole.
I was just reminded that in Graeber's original "bullshit jobs" essay, he listed ska musicians and science fiction writers as more important than private equity CEOs, actuaries, and bailiffs.
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No matter how low your opinion of FDR is, it isn't low enough.
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Anybody know of a drug that closes your consciousness and unenlightens you? Asking for a friend.
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Prestigious ecologists: The domestic cat is an alien threat to the precious fragile web of life. The bobcat: lol, lmeow
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Actually, this illustrates an important point:. I complain about lefties partly because they have power, but partly because I can't escape their bullshit. I can get along for months with no idea what happens in righty town, because it's not shoved down my throat.
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It's not necessary, nothing's necessary, but if you can spend $30,000 and get a +2 bonus on your Happy Couple roll for the next 50 years, why wouldn't you?. Assuming you have competent magickal practitioners to organize the ritual, which most people don't. So it goes.
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@LookAtMyMeat1 Given that the Monkey King myth cycle is about the encounter between Chinese and Indian societies, the only way it can be "Lacking in inclusivity and diversity" if one defines that phrase to mean "no black people".
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@makehillout666 Lions and Tigers are tameable and can bond strongly with humans but they remain incredibly dangerous. cf. what happened to Siegfried and Roy.
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People are (predictably) missing the point of this thoughtful poast. Islam was, in fact, a pretty significant advance over what came before, because pre-Islamic Arab society was a nightmare.
Increasingly convinced that yeah, a chunk of the human race actually needs a form of Sharia Law. That is, like, stone rapists to death in public. People who blame Islam for these issues don't understand, Islam was/is a *moderating* force. A software to "civilize" humans who are.
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@KindaAnonym Ever see a stray tomcat? They tear the crap out of each other, but at least they're evenly matched. Cats are *much* faster than humans, and if you accidentally trigger a pounce reflex you can get mauled before you know it.
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The average layperson can name three, but I think you're really asking about the modal layperson here.
Do you think the average layperson could name even one single statistician? if so, who?.
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Inspired by the ridiculous fight over that DOGE guy, which I have decided not to take a side on, I am going to say some Important Things About Racism. I know you are all very interested. 1) Racism is bad. But it's not the center of the moral universe. It is moderately bad. 1/.
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@LookAtMyMeat1 It's a bunch of cultural references packed in together without any actual jokes (except "chimpan-A to chimpan-Z").
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In retrospect, tattooing "bad guy, just a total monster, I should be locked up immediately" on your face turned out to be an unwise fashion trend among bad guys who should be locked up immediately.
I wish there was more scholarly work on why exactly Bukele’s crackdown was so successful. Latin American governments—including the government of El Salvador—have elected “tough on crime” leaders before! It would be good to know why this time it seems to have worked.
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Can you run a political campaign entirely on manufactured social proof, and nothing else? Guess we're about to find out.
Wow JD Vance is having a disastrous run on the Sunday shows. It’s actually stunning how bad he is.
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The mistake here is a bit subtle, but important. Star Trek has been persuading and inspiring people (including bigots) since 1966. Gene Roddenberry knew damn well that 'pissing off' Bad People is no way to make progress. Huge difference between that and dunk culture.
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. on "the intellectual contributions of the Baʿth Party, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, and other anticolonial nationalist formations that sought to construct a new order and bring about a liberated life and authentic existence in the Arab World."
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@NSFWDevilRat yeah they're wild animals who like being around humans, they're friendly but they don't need us.
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I dunno, man, if I were a trans activist right now I'd be telling people that I just want a decent life and the same civil rights everyone else is entitled to, rather than 'explaining' Ziz in a way that makes it clear that I'm also a criminal lunatic at war with society.
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<stranger walks in the door> "This is a wonderful community "we" have built together but "you" need to do what "I" say now.".
tpot is a good community. One of the best, even. but there's an ominous undercurrent I'd like to talk about.
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Oh, honey, no. Frank Herbert was from Tacoma. The movie was "inspired" by Tacoma, Washington. Fremen aren't real.
a FRENCH man directing a movie entirely inspired by north african and southwest asian history and culture, no amazigh in sight ESPECIALLY for the fremen, no arabs in sight, just your american hollywood popular faces, and on top of that the main character is played by a zionist.
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"Inappropriate touching" means Cuomo goes down alone. "Killed a lot of old people" means a _lot_ of people go down with him. It's no surprise at all which narrative gets constructed.
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"5% of people are responsible for just over half." This is analogous to saying 5% of the people buy 50% of the houses -- yes, because most people don't buy a house every year! This should not come as a surprise!.
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This time four years ago, Twitter was nonstop wall-to-wall election screaming. I'm not complaining, but the relative silence is a bit eerie.
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It's 7 am and it's at almost 30k now, wat
@knowmiun @buzzworddujour yup, I also didn't get into other domestication issues (feeding, breeding, disease) because I was just making a random observation and didn't know this would blow up, I woke up and suddenly it has 10k likes, RIP my mentions.
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siiigh. We've been here before, but:. Every few years, there's a big Study that purports to show this. If you dig into the details, there's a lot of questionable classification, but the main issue is the way US prison gangs are identified by themselves and by the authorities.
.@AOC calls out the source of the political violence in America, "There is absolutely no doubt that the data shows that the vast majority of incidents of domestic terror come from white nationalism. And that we are really, truly facing the environment of fascism."
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siiigh here we go. ok look. a) the Wakefield study that kicked off the whole vaccines-cause-autism meme was fraudulent, full stop. b) autistic kids often start to show developmental signs right around the time they get major vaccines. it's a post hoc ergo propter hoc error.
Scientists Who Have No Idea What’s Causing Autism Epidemic Also 100% Certain It’s Not Vaccines
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One weird framing trick that jumps out at you once you notice it:. If a particular social change X is considered desirable by the elite, they will promote "First Y to do X" stories, which imply there will be many more Y soon. "Florida first state to ban CRT", not so much.
Columbia becomes first Ivy League school to permanently drop SAT/ACT testing requirement
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Some people are genuinely mad that I thought about a Thing without Official Approval from the Authorities. Stay very mad, please.
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TIL there's a term for a style of propaganda that I Noticed emerging back around 2016: "permission structure". Apparently Obama championed it back in 2013, and I guess a lot of money got poured into it.
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The original Muppets came in random rainbow colors specifically to sidestep racial identification. This is incredibly regressive.
Meet Ji-Young — the first Asian American muppet on "Sesame Street.". She is Korean American and has two passions: rocking out on her electric guitar and skateboarding. She'll be formally introduced in a special that drops on Thanksgiving.
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The first real warning we got was from the Seattle flu study group, who repurposed their lab to sequence and analyze coronavirus samples in defiance of FDA in late February. FDA responded by cease-and-desisting them. Don't let anyone forget this.
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