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  • Elon Musk asks if America should 'liberate the people of Britain' in tirade against UK government

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  • It sounds to me like Musk, acting as a goverents representative, is making wild threats against our allies. Maybe he's trying to sew division between us and our allies to help Russia and China?

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  • As an academic, if I could make $1M/year by showing my body on OF, I would quit my job in a heartbeat. I would make my money while I can and reassess when no one is interested anymore.

    Once I'd made my money, maybe I could use my academic expertise to effect some real change in the world. I'd certainly be more capable of making an impact if I were independently wealthy.

  • Physical Contact

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  • For a minute I thought she had a five-o-clock shadow. Turns out my screen was dirty.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • Agreed. It takes more than Trump, his cabinet, and MAGA to get here, though. It requires complicity and complacency from a ton of other people.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • I need to get back to listening to podcasts. I've taken a break since the election because many of my favorites were political and I'm currently burying my head in the sand and screaming "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!".

    Maybe I'll dive back in with BTB. That seems mostly safe...

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • I agree that governments should be careful about what medical treatments they make mandatory. I think the US government has been pretty judicious with their decisions, though. The vaccines that are mandated for school attendance are wildly effective and have been shown to be safe, both via scientific studies and decades of dispensing many of them.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • I 100% agree.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • I think that is true for some of the people involved, but I think it is much more complicated than that. There are many people who think vaccines do more harm than good because they believe conspiracy theories and junk science. Not everyone against vaccines is malicious. Some must be, though, for such bullshit to keep propagating the way that it does.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • If you want to know more, go read the lawsuit he is associated with to remove FDA approval of the polo vaccine. Essentially, he believes fraudulent research that indicates that vaccines cause autism.

    Then, before you take what he says at face value, go read a history of polio.

    If you give the materials an honest read, you'll find that polio is horrific, that the vaccine was one of the greatest medical achievements of the 20th century, and that the evidence indicating that the vaccine causes autism is all junk.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • It is amazing to me how short our memories are as a species. There are people who are still in congress who had polio. There are an estimated 300,000 people still alive in the US who survived polio. Even with that, the nominated head of Health and Human Services wants to do away with the polio vaccine.

    I don't know what the problem is. Is it a lack of empathy? Is it willingness to swallow the bait surrounding conspiracy theories? Is it just a lack of education? How did we get to the point where it is even remotely okay for the future head of Heath and Human Services to be against the polio vaccine?

    If being pro-polio isn't disqualifying for being the head of HHS, and if he gets confirmed, the U.S. will have very clearly shown that it is in rapid decline. It will have shown that the government is corrupt to its core and is irredeemable.

  • Study: Republicans respond to political polarization by spreading misinformation, Democrats don’t

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  • I haven't read the study yet but hope to later. As a Democrat, this seems suspicious, though. It isn't as bad as on the right, but I certainly see plenty of bullshit coming from the left, too.

    One example of a news source that frequently bends the truth or lies to make rage bait is RawStory. They drive me nuts since you don't need to lie to make Trump and his ilk look bad.

  • London teen jailed for one year in Dubai after 'holiday romance' with 17-year-old girl

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  • No sympathies? He didn't choose where to vacation, his parents did. Should children pay for their parents' mistakes?

  • also, yall are on bikes

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  • Same for me, but I guess I'm a little younger since my console was NES and, later, a Gateway 2000 computer.

    I'm so glad that I had those experiences and so sad that my son won't. I hope that I can give him enough of a similar experience that he can at least identify with Calvin and Hobbes.

  • What's the best habit that improved your life?

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  • It was interesting to read that. Of course you can't start doing that kind of workout right off the bat. You need to work up to it! Also, of course the workout regimine from "One Punch Man" isn't well balanced, he is training to be able to punch well, not focused on general health.

    Are people seriously just jumping into this routine as a means of getting fit?

  • Fox News host gives Trump voters 1 huge reality check: ‘Let’s be realistic’

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  • Here's the thing. Even if the terrifs, somehow, didn't directly cause inflation, the fact that we are taking about inflation means that companies can raise prices and gouge just like last time.

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  • Please don't leave CO and NM in the middle of the idiocracy.

  • Republicans admit they plan to implement Project 2025

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  • Yes, my MAGA family members bought Trump's line of "I don't know who is involved in that".

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • I actually think you're wrong. Having MAGA family members, I tuink they are legitimately brainwashed. They are in a bubble where they don't hear the bad about Trump. They only hear good things about him and ad things about his enemies. Some of what they hear is true, much of it is lies, all of it is intended to scare.

    I think that, had these people heard the same things the rest of us did, at least some of them would be voting differently. Not all, but enough.

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • As an American who follows this stuff pretty closely, a national abortion ban will be opposed in the courts by the states, but it will very quickly get to the Supreme Court to assess the constitutionality of the ban. When congress passes a law, the president signs it, and the Supreme Court rules that the law is constitutional, that is basically the end of it. Our current court will absolutely uphold a national abortion ban.

    I think that the only way we avoid a national abortion ban under a Trump presidency is if the House of Representatives refuses to pass the ban. There is a slim chance that would happen but it's possible.