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@Dianepatterson Most people have ... weird ... conceptions of how quickly or slowly medical treatments have developed over the past century. (Or realize that as recently as 1900, about 20% of infants died before their fifth birthday of infectious diseases we developed vaccines to protect us against.)

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While cleaning up, I found a box full of old memories

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re-post: The more I read this, the more I am impressed with this professor's approach to the question, "how should the lives of innocent people be weighed against important military objectives?" I posted it this weekend but just re-read it and am so taken aback by its thoughtfulness. theconversation.com/why-all-ci

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I just heard someone say that taco trucks should drive around the neighborhood in the evenings and play music like ice cream trucks. I felt that.

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Me: “I’m not autistic.”
Also me at the hardware store: *buys large screw because it feels nice in hand and has “a good weight”

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Here’s some timelapse video from last night’s display of the Aurora Australis as seen from the Otago Peninsula in southern New Zealand #aurora #beauty #auroraausttalis

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“ceasefire ends” is a funny way of saying “IDF begins new batch of mass murder absent provocation following spree murder of 10k people”.

my mastodon client app on ios crashes whenever i try to upload an image to my instance because i haven’t updated it in a year or more cause it ain’t broke

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@TheConversationUS in all honesty, the amount of woodburning done in residential areas shows that reduction of air quality by gas stoves is not something people worry about. If they would, woodstoves would be illegal in residential areas. But here we are, coughing away due to the neighbours "cosy warmth".

if y’all could just stop being jewish and stop being muslim that would be a huge help right now, thanks

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not like i need another dumb big computer but i need another dumb big computer

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Pretending here the answer isn't "you had a 3x engineer and made then work like they were a 20x engineer and this burnt them out in like two years and now they're doing woodworking in a log cabin on the top of a mountain in Montana and if you mention computers to them, they'll shoot you in the face"

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It seems every company I've worked at has a person who looms large in their legend.
Like, they're often the person who built the core systems, everything was originally their design, but they left recently and in their absence they've had to hire like 5 more people to try and take over all their responsibilities.

I think next time I'm gonna track down that person, find out where they moved to, and go work there instead

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the existence of revolutionary/politician/political theorist V. I. Lenin suggests that there was also E.M.A.C.S. Trotsky

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fun fact: the number of transistors in a high-end CPU is just now passing the number of stars in our galaxy.

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Never need a man again
Cause I got a mannequin
Gonna love on their smooth balls
'Til they kick me out tha mall

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