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If you look VERY closely at the AP photo, there appears to be a tiny nick in his ear where the damage appeared to be in the photo from the shooting - see arrow:
If you look VERY closely at the AP photo, there appears to be a tiny nick in his ear where the damage appeared to be in the photo from the shooting - see arrow:
Wonder of ScienceZoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy with Hubble. What looks like a smudge of light to the unaided eye is actually a vast galaxy containing an estimated 1 trillion stars.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
@doctorjaymarie How I wish this were true. Just one look at the Musks, Trumps, and others who started on home base and were simply assumed to be special because of their starting point makes it clear that the opposite is true.
@Cherteapet @steventdennis It's an old-fashioned concept for a room or small space where people could hang out near enough to the kitchen to be warmed by the wood-cooking stove, but out of the way of the cook.
Robert ReichIn 1980, 62 cents of every dollar spent on beef went to ranchers. Today, only 37 cents do.
During COVID, beef prices rose by nearly 16%. Meanwhile, the 4 biggest beef companies’ profits rose more than 300%.
The meat monopoly is nothing short of a nationwide crisis.
I just heard about a book named "Harrison Bergeron" in which "equality is achieved by a Handicapper General who works to reduce any unfair natural advantage anyone is perceived to have." (h/t Erika Hammerschmidt)
The trope that making society better for all necessarily means making it worse for some, is one of the cornerstones of eugenics and other bigoted philosophies.
I'd probably have a hard time reading a book that promotes that premise, even if it's very well written.
@Billius27 By the same token, while public officials are basing their estimates on current knowledge, we're still learning about long-term effects which necessarily can't be measured in the short-term. It's short-sighted, at best, to tell people to act as if there is little to no risk when studies are trickling in indicating a 5 - 20% likelihood of long-term risk for those who are currently defined as "low risk." The precautionary principle has been tossed aside.
@Billius27 Different people have different risks. So, while public officials speak to the "average" person, who face less risk, 30 - 40% of Americans, and rising percentages in other countries, are in higher risk categories (obesity, asthma, hypertension, diabetes). It's absolutely rational for people at high risk to have a higher risk estimate than is promoted for others.