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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall

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  • Is Libya better off without Qaddafi?

  • Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall

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  • Okay, will the current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, be any better?

    Not him. Okay, maybe the next guy: President pro tempore of the Senate, Chuck Grassley.

    No? How about the next guy: Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

    No? How about Scott Bessent? Pete Hegseth? Pam Bondi? If you go far enough down fucking RFK Jr is in line for succession! The rot in this government is deep. That's why we say Trump is merely a symptom.

  • Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

    In the 1950s, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia performed experiments on severe burn victims, most of them poor and black, without their knowledge or consent, with funding from the Army and in collaboration with the AEC. In the experiments, the subjects were exposed to additional burning, experimental antibiotic treatment, and injections of radioactive isotopes. The amount of radioactive phosphorus-32 injected into some of the patients, 500 microcuries (19 MBq), was 50 times the "acceptable" dose for a healthy individual; for people with severe burns, this likely led to significantly increased death rates.

    Between 1953 and 1957, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. William Sweet injected eleven terminally ill, comatose and semi-comatose patients with uranium in an experiment to determine, among other things, its viability as a chemotherapy treatment against brain tumors, which all but one of the patients had (one being a misdiagnosis).

    In another study at the Walter E. Fernald State School, in 1956, researchers gave mentally disabled children radioactive calcium and iron tracers orally and intravenously, without informing the children's parents. They also injected radioactive chemicals into malnourished babies and then collected cerebrospinal fluid for analysis from their brains and spines.

    In 1963, 22 elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, New York City were injected with live cancer cells by Chester M. Southam, who in 1952 had done the same to prisoners at the Ohio State Prison, to "discover the secret of how healthy bodies fight the invasion of malignant cells".

    This is not a complete list, of course. They also loved injecting radioactive and toxic shit into pregnant women, Black people, prisoners, etc etc. There's a reason the Declaration of Helsinki had to be made.

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres

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  • Well, it cuts costs in the short run. In the long run it's more expensive because (for most jobs) it does a worse job and requires human intervention to fix the problems it creates, but that's next fiscal quarter's problem.

  • Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall

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  • Do you think Just Dance Vance will be better?

  • Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It's Weakening Human Skeletons | “human physiology has progressively and consistently altered over the last ~25 years.”

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  • What's really dangerous are indoor levels, where concentrations can exceed 1000 ppm. At those levels it also begins to impact cognition, focus, and memory.

    Good thing we don't spend too much time indoors! 🫠

  • So how does theoretical physics "work" exactly?

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  • It's mostly just math innit? Like, we notice that the arms of spiral galaxies are spinning faster than we would predict under the Standard Model's gravity math, so there must be some other thing happening. That's where you get dark matter.

    Or we notice that the universe is expanding faster than the Standard Model's cosmic inflation math would predict, so there must be some other thing that's making it faster. That's where you get dark energy.

    But it's all just math.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • Actually surprised Greenland isn't on that graphic. Did he get bored and forget about it?

  • Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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  • "Think of the children!" stories are always effective tools by the bourgeoisie to trick people into giving up autonomy.

    We will have mandatory vaccination after the revolution, and reeducation camps for anti-vax parents that abuse their children. Until then, we can't give the ruling class the power to inject us with whatever they want. That list of examples I gave were real things the US government actually injected people with before the Declaration of Helsinki - including the cow blood.

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    Lucy E. Parsons "Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth." - Novo General Megathread for the 5th-12th of March 2026

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  • I can't really think of a solution other than just giving them their money back.

    Had to pay for college? Sorry, here's a refund.

    Had to pay for healthcare? Sorry, here's a refund.

    Had to pay for housing? Etc etc

    They'll get on board real quick if they know they'll get a refund check for the money unfairly taken away from them.

  • Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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  • There's a long history of people with disabilities being injected with random shit in the US before the Declaration of Helsinki. You shouldn't ignore this history just because you're rightfully angry at backwards anti-vax reactionaries.

  • Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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  • Sure, and then we'll relearn why we can't let the current ruling class inject people with whatever they want: diseases, live cancer cells, radioactive elements, organic toxins, cow blood, whatever.

  • Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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  • The problem is that law is class power, we can not allow the bourgeoisie to inject us with whatever they want. I'd trust a socialist country to mandate vaccines, but a capitalist country would use it as an opportunity to sterilize or experiment on people.

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres

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  • Not exactly. I'm sure there are specific cases where someone lost their job because AI does it better, but in most cases they lost their job because we're in a recession and the company needed to use chatbots to cut costs.

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres

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  • Well, I believe they told her that.

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres

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  • Have we finally stopped pretending the layoffs are being caused by AI replacing workers?

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    US war on Iran | MEGATHREAD #2

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  • It's not just media figures saying this, it's literally members of the US government crediting Israel for starting the war. I think Israel's days as a useful US outpost are coming to an end and there's a propaganda campaign to sell the idea to the US public.

    It's basically the only way the US can back out of this war without losing too much face or spilling too much of its own blood.

  • Over 1,300 strikes recorded by Iranian Red Crescent; Senate blocks war powers resolution on Iran; 66,000 displaced in Afghanistan-Pakistan fighting

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  • WW3

  • Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices

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  • I wonder if this war is going to change the West's calculus on green energy. Recently, mostly due to the US, there's been a retrenchment of fossil fuels and a rejection of solar/wind/electric cars/bikes/etc. If there's an oil shortage everything changes.

    Or they'll turn to liquefied coal.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say

    www.cnn.com /2024/02/21/politics/biden-considering-executive-action-to-close-southern-border-sources-say/index.html
  • World News @lemmy.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/israel-says-ground-forces-operating-across-gaza-strip-offensive-builds-2023-12-04/
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    ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/nov/15/all-men-16-years-and-above-raise-your-hands-how-al-shifa-raid-unfolded
  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?

    www.un.org /en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
  • World News @lemmy.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times

    www.ft.com /content/95c5fcf1-c756-415f-85b8-1e4bbff24736
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times

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  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?