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  • Watch another movie.

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  • This is actually a decent metaphor. From what I remember, Umbridge never officially joined the Death-Eater party, and even initially opposed Voldemort's coup at the Ministry of Magic as she saw their methods as uncivil and threatening to her political position, yet ultimately agreed with pure-wizard-supremacist ideology and gladly served as a ruthless bureaucrat in the fascist puppet regime when their takeover was inevitable, all while attempting to appear solemn at Dumbledore's funeral and curating her public image as a kitten-loving woman merely concerned with order and uprightness. Uh I mean Harry Potter is corny libshit

  • Most concerning case of spread was unrelated to hantavirus, yay

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  • This whole thing's overblown. Viruses always spread way faster on cruises bc of how cruise ships recirculate air

    And it still took like a full week on the cruise for 3 hanta cases to become ~10. On a cruise ship in pre-pandemic 2020, 1 covid case became 200+ cases in the same timeframe

  • Trump Blocks 165 Wind Projects As America Faces Power Shortage

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  • Btw my family and grandparents have lived very close to several massive wind turbines in Germany, and none of us have ever been remotely annoyed by them. It's a subtle white noise and they compliment the scenery. I honestly miss them

  • Trump Blocks 165 Wind Projects As America Faces Power Shortage

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  • All this bc 20 years ago, the mf lost lawsuits he filed against windmills "ruining the view" at his Scottish golf course. He also whined about the noise "driving him crazy," which makes me think this all started after he lost a game of golf and blamed it on a windmill for distracting him

  • Secret Service says it exchanged gunfire with armed suspect near White House

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  • Sounds like he was probably targeting JD Vance, not Trump

  • Stoicism: a cup of chamomile tea. The Will to Power: tapwater from a paper cup. Diogenes(cynicism) wine stolen from a festival while barking at passers-by.

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  • Posadists: psychedelic pufferfish toxins

  • No one is buying this ‘Euphoria’ scene where Maddy gets an amazing job in Los Angeles just by asking for it. The scenario rings improbable at a time when Gen Z unemployment is double the national aver

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  • Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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  • I think there was a correlative study many years ago that found moderate drinkers averaged slightly better heart health than non-drinkers, and the media latched onto that shit, and its become a popular narrative to downplay all the long-term risks of drinking

    Turns out most of the non-drinkers in the study were only non-drinkers because of pre-existing health issues...often from past drinking 😭

  • Who would've thought that the two countries most associated with fascism would do this

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  • Well around 50% of Americans including 77% of Democrats also believe Israel is committing genocide, yet will still vote AIPAC politicians. Doesn't mean the polls are wrong, people are just

    by electoralism

  • Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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  • Shrooms specifically our teacher implied were similarly harmful as meth and even fentanyl. Meanwhile shroom research from the past decade has found them one of the safest & least addictive drugs we know of, capable of growing new neural pathways rather than killing them, and potentially being one of the most effective treatments for depression & addiction that we know of

    The amount of urban myths and pseudoscience about psychedelics is wild for the fact they're practically the only recreational drugs with evidence for long-term psychological benefit

  • Who would've thought that the two countries most associated with fascism would do this

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  • "Democracy" and its leader has one of the lowest approval ratings of all world leaders

  • Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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  • Fair enough, idk where the research is at now, but when I was in middle school our health class teachers basically told us it's the same shit and possibly even worse for you, but there weren't enough long-term studies to confirm

    Then again they also told us LSD/shrooms are addictive, carcinogenic, kill brain cells, & cause brain disorders... which I now know all four of those are completely false for psychedelics but completely true for alcohol, meanwhile they were telling us the debunked "a glass of wine with dinner when you're old enough can be good for your health" 💀

  • Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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  • When I was 13 I remember long middle school assemblies about the health risks of vaping, and the consensus among half my friends was "yeah yeah we know it's fucking our health but we're depressed and don't care"

  • Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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  • In the US vaping is illegal under 21, and my state even universally banned flavored vape juice when I was in high school. Yet every public HS bathroom in the fucking country still smells like artificial mango or blue raspberry or whatever

    I'm in uni and I swear half my generation is in the 1950s when it comes to nicotine. It's literally the first drug most middle or high schoolers try, before even alcohol or weed, just bc some kids carry it in their backpacks/pockets EVERYWHERE and offer their friends a hit in the school bathroom

    On the plus side it acts as febreeze when someone's taking a shit

  • Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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  • So they'll still legally be able to buy vapes when they're 18, just not cigs? Isn't vaping just as harmful?

  • Rep. Roy Introduces MAMDANI Act to Denaturalize and Deport Marxists and Islamic Fundamentalists

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  • Right, naming your anti-communist, anti-islamic-fundamentalist bill after a socdem liberal-zionist muslim. May as well call it the SADIQKHAN Act

  • Why these chimps have been at war for 8 years

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  • Nah, all non-Africans (white, asian, indigenous, etc) are 1-3% neanderthal, while Africans are 0.5-1%. All humans have some trace amounts, but most of it is meaningless genetic noise. Neanderthals had genetic issues due to inbreeding, so tangible effects of their DNA were selected out of our gene pool

    We used to think Africans are 0% neanderthal bc neanderthals exclusively lived in Eurasia. Now we know that's not the case, since most modern Africans have ancestors who spent thousands of years in Eurasia before migrating back to Africa. East-Africans have ancestors who spent up to 30k years in Eurasia (sapiens first left Africa 60k years ago), long enough to adapt light-skin and become what we would consider "white people," before migrating back to Africa and eventually regaining melanin. Goes to show how bs the idea of biological race is

    Also, the vast majority of humanity's genetic variation isn't between groups, but rather existing in all groups (e.g. genetic neurodiversity, like autism or ADHD, being found roughly equally across all ethnicities)

  • Why these chimps have been at war for 8 years

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  • I think we majorly community-mogged and art-mogged them yes

    Neandrathals may have actually been smarter than us in most ways, but they were less social and more individualistic, which was likely a big factor in their downfall. Sapiens are communal in our natural state. Like, cultures of indigenous tribes vary extremely widely, but almost universally foster a mentality of sacrifice for the collective self; survival of the larger group. And we almost always share new skills or technological findings with as many people as we can (often with outside groups too, although that's more culturally dependent)

    If a neanderthal learned a new skill, say a more efficient fishing technique, they'd probably keep that shit to themselves or their immediate family. And they didn't seem to have the capacity for abstract expression that we almost universally have, e.g. art reflective of culture or emotions

  • Isreali regime fumes and lashes after Italian magazine covers their illegal ethnic cleansing in West Bank, Palestine calling it racist to call out apartheid policies

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  • Trump claims the Jesus-like image he posted was meant to depict him as a doctor

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  • On the one hand, he's a pathological liar and loves evangelicals worshipping him. On the other hand, he's demented, senile, probably doesn't even believe or think about religion outside of lying for votes, and might've seriously seen it as some abstract rep of a doctor?

    On the other hand, I feel like it's equally if not more offensive depicting himself as a doctor (real human hero vs. imaginary magical hero)

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    Trump claims the Jesus-like image he posted was meant to depict him as a doctor

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    Sam Altman's attempted home arsonist was a 20 year college kid. Seems like a big red flag when AI is the first major tech development young people are more skeptical of than older people

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    Real post from this Easter morning

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    Charlie Kirk's Mentor Jeff Webb, the Father of Modern Cheerleading, Dies in Freak Pickleball Accident

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