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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
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- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
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- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
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@Lazarou business services (74,000), health care (70,000), retail trade (45,000), government (36,000), social assistance (30,000) and manufacturing (23,000).
@nadiaalbelushi And the first copycat will be #China attacking #Taiwan.
@anti_disease Interesting, I was under the impression that the choice not to wear masks was a social preference not an economic issue. Is there really a funding component to health care workers choosing not to wear masks?
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During World War I, the Ottoman Empire collectively blamed the millions of Armenians in their territory for attacks by Armenian resistance fighters. Around 1M non-combatants were killed by the Ottoman military — in many cases, by forced marches through the Syrian desert without food and water.
Denouncing this genocide doesn’t make you an Armenian resistance fighter or an advocate for their views. It just means you’re against genocide.
In 1994, in the wake of the Rwandan civil war, the president of Rwanda was killed. Military and government officials suspected the Tutsi-aligned Rwandan Patriotic Front and blamed the Tutsi and Twa people collectively. They organized the mass killing of Tutsi people; between 500,000 and 1M people were killed in the following three months.
Abhoring this murder doesn’t make you a partisan of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. It just means you’re a human, opposed to the systematic slaughter of humans.
On October 7 2023, Hamas’s military wing attacked and killed about 550 Israeli soldiers and as many Israeli civilians. They kidnapped, tortured and raped hundreds more. In response, Israel has denied food, water and medical supplies to the 2.3M people of Gaza, driven them from their homes to a tiny sliver of land near the Egyptian border, destroyed half of all residential buildings, killed 30,000 people and seriously injured 60,000 more. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has called this action a plausible genocide.
Wanting this genocide to end with an immediate ceasefire doesn’t mean you support Hamas or want Israel to be destroyed. It means you’re opposed to mass killing and expulsion of people from their homeland.
Is it exactly the same as these other examples? Absolutely not. Genocide never is. But you can be on the side of humanity against the destruction of the people of Gaza and it doesn’t make you an advocate for the views or actions of Hamas.
@ladyteruki it takes a long time. How long after the AIDS epidemic was it before there was an HIV positive character on TV?
@angiebaby It happens. Currencies can and do collapse often along with the governments that back them. Seen any Confederate dollars recently?
"If either candidate were to withdraw after their party’s convention, members of the national committees would almost certainly be given responsibility for finding the replacement.
Hopefully no such event will occur this year since our system is ill-equipped to handle it. If it does, we may come perilously close to chaos at this summer’s conventions.
At the very least, the parties should take this year as a warning. This would be a good time for both parties to develop new guidelines for the selection of presidential candidates that allow the public to play a role in the nominating process — but keep it open well into the calendar year of the election."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/31/primary-elections-frontloading-voters-00138616
#USPOL #Trump #Biden #elections #primariesMatter #primaries #president
@ukuku That first barrier is intended to keep you from going off a cliff or crossing the median of an interstate. The cement blocks are standard protection for highway crews. The Rivian driver may be intact, but in the situations where these barriers are deployed, he may be at the bottom of a 1000 ft cliff.
@LRRRonEarth I hear an infusion of Human Horn in cup of hot coffee is known to help this issue.
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You call it eating 17 boxes of girl scout cookies. I call it supporting independent female entrepreneurship.
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Absolutely. Do not use, do not support BetterHelp.
They took patients’ intake questionnaires and sold them to Facebook.
BetterHelp itself is not a ‘covered provider’ under HIPAA. But they heavily implied any data you gave them was HIPAA covered, and would not be shared.
They have been slapped with a $8 million fine by the FTC.
(I think they should be a HIPAA-covered provider, and they should be prosecuted.)
BetterHelp *cannot be trusted*. Stay away!
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Max Wolf (of Wolf 359 fame) and E.E. Barnard (of Barnard's Star fame) were "lifelong correspondents, competitors, collaborators and friends. Wolf wrote a long obituary for Barnard upon his death in 1923."
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We're so used to this, but I would like academics to take a moment and look at how much of the official and unofficial discussion around university is about despair, imposter syndrome, stress, harassment, etc.
What I often see in these discussions, especially the official ones, is discussion of coping mechanisms and "self-care".
What I rarely see in these discussions is questioning why we've built an education system that treats people this way in exchange for this education. @academicchatter
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Coming in to agree with those recommending that you push back *and* to defend the passive voice, especially in places where you want to focus on the something like an experimental apparatus, not the person using it. Modulating voice can also be a useful rhetorical strategy. Passive voice has a place in good writing, IMO. Against dogma.
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If you oppose genocide Republicans will accuse you of working for Hamas while Democrats take the far more nuanced approach of accusing you of working for the Russians.
Apparently the discourse is set on the same half-assed autopilot as the genocide.
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@fluffykittycat Try using a moisture meter and a water pump from a fish tank to keep a house plant watered.
@DeliaChristina @BlackAzizAnansi Before Oct 7th I was really leaning towards someone younger and less tied to the Bay Area's rather unique style of liberal, but this has really force me to at least consider her more seriously.
@BlackAzizAnansi Its not "Primarying" because Feinstein is dead, but Barbara Lee has made #ceasefire one of the most obvious ways she is differentiating herself from the field in the race for a safe Dem senate seat in CA.
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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
