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  • Duke University appears to have lost research grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic material, translational studies and signal transduction

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  • Transistors are out. It's back to ENIAC tube tech. While I detest carrying around a phone-computer today, it's going to be hella worse when I need to carry it in a series of commercial trucks or railcars and plug it into the grid when I get to my destination.

  • The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb

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  • I have a M$FT "natural" keyboard (PS/2 and not running thru a USB converter either) and a M$FT USB mouse. Both around 30 years old. They're indestructible it seems, and both have worked great with every Linux distro I've ever used.

  • Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, and neighbors have been getting sick.

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  • 200F in the municipal waste landfill, caused by the usual breakdown of materials there. But it doesn't sound like the radwaste, even at the one landfill mentioned, is mixed in with the muni-waste, so why would anyone think it's at the same temps (or more) than the latter landfills, or that the temps would matter at all? Radwaste is going to decay and give off heat through that process, not by chemical decomposition (AFAIK). I get the feeling the author put in that radwaste sentence just to generate alarm.

    Too bad. I'd welcome our planet being blown out of orbit due to too much radwaste being concentrated in one place and going critical. I'd also welcome this happening in Louisiana, or Texas, or Alabama, or OK, or Idaho, or ...

  • Are we in the midst of another mustache renaissance?

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  • No. Furthermore nobody in the US under 60 years of age knows what "renaissance" means. It's one of those hard words from the high school books they didn't read. Kind of like "literally".

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  • I refuse to click through from any headline, anywhere, that references this guy using his idiotic nickname. That results in me not knowing anything about him, and deprives "news" platforms of a billionth of a cent of ad revenue, both of which I think are for the best.

  • Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, and neighbors have been getting sick.

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  • fear that the hot temperatures would spark a nuclear disaster

    Like ... the buried radwaste would for some reason start to fission or undergo fusion, all because of higher-than-normal surface temperatures? Or do they think the waste would for some reason start to leak out (more)?

    There may be waste storage problems but it sounds like they've been watching too much "Space 1999".

  • Immigration thugs use explosive charges in assault on family home in Los Angeles-area raid

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  • Oh no, they're very sane. They just love weapons, violence, and cruelty more than most people do.

  • Trump says he'll 'look' at deporting Musk as feud reignites

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  • Rural hospitals? Well, are they Christian? And are you a Christian? If so, you're all set. If not, what's wrong with you, Jeebus will provide after all!

    The Heritage Foundation Christofascist types want to see all "public" services transitioned to non-governmental (in claim, if not in fact) Christian "charity" orgs. Preferably white-controlled, evangelical ones of course. If you're a person with medical needs, really bad ones, and can't get medical help, then why haven't you signed on the line and pledged your vote, tithes, and soul to Jeebus? That's the MAGA Jeebus mind you, not that old-fashioned Socialist one. MAGA wants these rural hospitals to go out of business. That will provide them with millions of new, suffering, desperate people and a situation where MAGA can blame their suffering on the "mismanagement" and "inefficiency" of the government-supported hospitals, now defunct, and will provide their Christofascist friends with a fire-sale on facilities and medical specialists with which to start their Xian "charity" services.

    You the individual will either do as you're told by MAGA in government (because they're terrorist thugs) or by MAGA in "churches" (because they'll (maybe) provide some kind of "charity" aid that's no longer available elsewhere), or you'll die. Either way, MAGA wins.

  • Republicans test new red line: Denaturalization

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  • The "Heritage" Foundation and all the tax-favored entities like it (incl. "religious" ones) will need to be dealt with.

  • looking to migrate off gmail finally

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  • ‘Perpetual crisis mode’: how Trump uses emergency declarations to push radical agenda

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  • "The other side" is catching on, realizing the utility of "emergencies" as an excuse for exercising authoritarian power. https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-washington-mayor-declares-state-1203356

    This mayor is thought of as "left-leaning", which, in Spokane, describes anyone who isn't a Christian Fascist, or not yet anyway. In the event described at that link, she declared this "emergency" as justification to allow city cops to violently attack and arrest peaceful protesters, and to clear the area around the ICE building with a declaration of a curfew so that the latest pair of kidnapped dark-skinned people could be transported out to a temporary prison ("processing" center) on the other side of the state.

    Watch what "emergencies" the Iran War brings about. "Only one of the 'Enemy Within' would complain about inflation, unemployment, high gas prices, cuts to domestic spending, and curtailment of Constitutional rights, when our soldiers on the Iran Front are suffering so much in this Emergency. Such talk against the government is deemed traitorous and shall be punished severely by the Emergency Tribunal."

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  • Donald Trump has recommended eliminating this and some other programs that fall under the Older Americans Act, a landmark 1965 law that provides social and meal services for older people. The U.S. House also proposed eliminating the employment program’s funding

    Why? What ever could be their motivation for doing so?

    In 2019, about two-thirds of participants were women, and about 44% were Black

    Oh, well, there's the problem.

  • Oklahoma senator seeks legal opinion on drag shows

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  • Check out the two bored-as-shit guys in the pic. Top center with the dyed hair and LSD tie, bottom left looking for all the world like a former BigOil exec. I think they're texting each other while searching that old Sears catalog online to see where Julie got the high fashion 1975 threads.

    Tie dye: Hey, check it out there it is, page 287. Looks like it came in Avacado green too. That would have matched the furniture around here better.

    Oil: Yeah, you're right, good catch. Whoa, turn the page. Look at that. Wanna order her a tube top? Rayon. Pink!

    Tie dye: And some Frye boots! And black lace panties. We'll ship it all to her office. Heh heh heh. Hey cool, there's a COD option on the order page, let's get that too.

    Oil: COD, what the fuck is that?

    Tye die: It's some kind of fish. What are you, a moron? Old time people used get their oil from them.

    Oil: No shit? My oil sponsors aren't going to like that.

    Tye die: Never mind. Get some stamps and an envelope, we gotta get this order in the mail. Check out J, she's been standing there forever with her butt all pinched, she's gonna have to hit the john soon or take a fucking dump right here on-camera. If she makes a break for the restroom you chase her and check her parts.

    Oil: Fuck no! It's your turn, I checked her yesterday! She's probably still OK but you and I have a deal!

    Tye die: Christ, I remember. Couldn't get the smell off me afterwards last time, it was awful. I had to take an extra hit of acid, maybe it was two, after I got home.

    Oil: I get it, that's why you've got the fucked-up tie. Hey don't we have interns here, ones from the Panhandle? We'll get them to do crapper security, protect the children and all that shit. They live for that kind of thing.

  • Oklahoma senator seeks legal opinion on drag shows

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  • That's one butch-looking senator they've got there. And all decked-out in those eye-catching Satanic colors. The whole outfit looks 100% polyester "male-ordered" from a 1970s Sears catalog. Some kind of odd kink I guess, I'll have to check Reddit for the explanation. No judgment from me, the 70s were weird fun.

  • Oklahoma senator seeks legal opinion on drag shows

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  • I have a photo, circa 1919, of two of my great aunts all dressed up for a "masquerade ball" - one of them in "masculine" clothes, top hat and all. Obscenity? AFAIK the "drag" one wasn't arrested, but that was in a relatively civilized northeastern state, not OK.

  • Trump's New White House Flags Could Be Dangerous, Ex-Chief of Staff Warns

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  • You should definitely hire Banksy for the job.

  • ‘MAGA HATES FoxNews’: Trump Lashes Out at Murdoch Media Empire in Truth Social Tirade

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  • Agreed. Whenever I hear of the latest internal MAGA feud (fElon, now Faux) it always brings to mind the old-school "professional" wrestling world. 100% scripted and acted-out. It gives the deplorables a "team" to identify with and emotionally bind to (pick a side, doesn't really matter which) so they can stomp and fume and indulge in fantasy violence while society and life continue to grind them down into dirt, pockets picked.

  • U.S. tells allies it won't join war unless Iran targets Americans

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  • "targets" ... well that's convenient, it could mean essentially anything the Regime wants it to. Are you an American who can't get their favorite Iranian food now? You've been targeted. Bombs away!

  • Nearly 800 infant remains found in septic tank at nun-run Irish unwed mother and baby home

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  • Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home .

    The mothers were required to stay inside the home for one year, doing unpaid work for the nuns, as reimbursement for some of the services rendered. They were separated from their children, who remained separately in the home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted – often without consent.

    Some women who had had two confinements were sent directly to nearby Magdalene laundries after giving birth, as punishment for their perceived "recidivism". According to Professor Maria Luddy, "Such a stance, though not intended to be penal, allowed for the development of an attitude that accepted detention as a means of protecting society from these reoffending women.

    Confinements. Punishment. Detention. Reoffending women.

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    How To Discern Between God's Voice And Your Own

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    A Lawyer In Drag In Texas - Secular Student Alliance

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    In Texas, a Fight Over Gender and School Theater Takes an Unexpected Turn

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    Unhinged Trump Fantasizes About Breaking Biden's Nose

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    He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out
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    No OB-GYNs left in town: what came after Idaho's assault on abortion

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/aug/22/abortion-idaho-women-rights-healthcare
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    A California store owner was shot and killed over a Pride flag displayed at her shop

    www.npr.org /2023/08/20/1194932544/lauri-carleton-california-store-owner-killed-pride-flag-lgbtq