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Also uh. Statistically speaking, while the second comic happens more, it's roughly about 5% more (In the United States. And even then, it's very specifically locatable on crime heatmaps where demographics intersect with noted crimes.)

And speaking as someone whom has had family members die under mysterious circumstances and authorities do questionable shady shit, I can say there are universally just bad police precincts and bad cops. But the narrative that "all cops are bastards" or the idea law enforcement existing whatsoever is somehow morally wrong or a condemnation of society, is wrong. But, it's something things like BLM perpetuate to rabbithole to other tangential conversations. The black oppression narrative being a kind of bait and switch to discussions about whether it's somehow the existence of police that cause crime in the first place (they aren't.) along with a heaping helping dose of bullshit about anti-property.

I like how Breadpanes put "resisting arrest" at the end.

And had to make up a bunch of stuff to make it seem silly by association.

And implies "don't act like a violent idiot around cops" isn't advice given to everyone, and acting poorly has never gotten a white person killed.

I chuckled at the second one, and I'm black, from a black-majority country, with lots of single moms.

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A young man decided it was time to come out to his family. 

He was worried most about his grandmother, so he approached her in the kitchen.

"Grandma, I, uh, have to tell you something."

"Yes, sweety?"

"I, uh, I'm gay."

"Gay?" His heart stopped. "Does that mean you put men's things in your mouth?"

"Grandma!!!!"

"Well??"

Mortified, he muttered sheepishly, "I, uh, yeah?"

Whack! The wooden spoon found its mark. "Don't you EVER," she sternly replied, "complain about my cooking again."

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there are many things tumblr as a whole has to learn but one of them is “someone can reblog a post without them endorsing every action the op has ever taken, we are not beholden to do background checks on the producers of every shitpost on the internet”

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Reminds me of how there was a magical chess machine that beat Napoleon that was just operated by a chess prodigy little person from the inside.

Why does this not surprise me at all.

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An accidentally discovered class of nanostructured materials can passively harvest water from air

A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the need for any external energy. The research, published in Science Advances, describes a material that could open the door to new ways to collect water from the air in arid regions and devices that cool electronics or buildings using the power of evaporation. The interdisciplinary team includes Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE); Amish Patel, Professor in CBE; Baekmin Kim, a postdoctoral scholar in Lee's lab and first author; and Stefan Guldin, Professor in Complex Soft Matter at the Technical University of Munich.

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It's not just virtue signaling. It's trying to shape opinions not just on the man, but also his work, and the era and society in which he lived. The same as when any bigot belittles any group of people by reducing the complexities of their culture and identity into, "they do bad thing" or exaggerating something to fit another narrative ("So you see; their phrenology made it impossible for them to be civilized, like us. It's hereditary and biological, you know. They're barely humans.")

They mention Lovecraft's racism as a way to "gently" suggest his work should be put into the bin of "old white men" and maybe not attribute him to the genre he popularized. These people are also more likely to give people like Carl Marx or Che Guevera a pass for their thoughts and actions as "products of their time."

Woodrow Wilson looked like HP Lovecraft and was racist like him, too

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So Voyager found out there is this bubble surrounding our solar system made up of solar material blown outwards by solar wind and acts as a border between the solar system and the rest of space has a temperature of 30,000-50,000 Kelvin.

For reference the surface of the sun has a temperature of roughly 5770 kelvin

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Not just misandry, but the unspoken but implied puzzle piece that attaches to this discourse.

That is, the belief men are the Oppressor Class. Because, didn't you know, Oppressor Classes and Oppressed Classes are different(tm.) For a woman to be 'KWEER' is a rebellious act, while for a man to be 'KWEER', it's blahblah patriarchy privilege yadayada. Man bad, woman good, straight bad, LGBTA++++ noble victim of cisheteronormic capitalist patriarchy.

And then that attaches to the whole dialectic discourse about how oppressors are never valid and the oppressed are never invalid when "fighting for their rights." So you get weird bullshit about how male bisexuality is oppressive and privileged, while female bisexuality is in one way good but in another bad because they're "enablers of oppression"

They don't really care about LGBT people, they want, 'KWEERS'. That are, people willing to carry water for these obsessive class constructionist arguments against western European civilization, capitalism, genders based more on chromosomes and biological sex/reproductive role, and treating straightness like it's an oppressive imperial power using the government to suppress and erase gay people.

When it's understood this way, you understand why some people aren't "queer" enough, and why they hold their fire and vitriol towards some people while unloading it on others. Why the supposed people that crow the hardest about the rights and dignity of people regardless of their sexuality spend more of their time treating "KWEER" like it's a revolutionary political statement and movement than state of existence.

They see treating men like they're stormtroopers in an oppressive regime as the right way to define cisgendered and heterosexuals, because they see their existences as conscious choices or unconscious defaults "unquestioned." That class is objective and empirical, and they're the bad ones.

With this in mind, the unspoken thing being said here is they just want more people they define as 'oppressed minorities' screaming about how all whites are racist, all men are misogynistic, how unless and until we abolish capitalism that it's an unequitable autocracy, and how unless the government and culture are socialist, it's fascistic and oppressive.

It's an absolutely warped way to look at things.

‘We need more loud, unashamed queers’ yes but some of you can’t even seem to handle a bisexual woman liking men.

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For that matter, have a looksie into Iran's history directly committing terrorist attacks against US military personnel or bases, whether foreign or domestic. They've been engaged in proxy warfare since the Iranian Revolution, and a bit before.

Every ten years they carry out some attack that takes out dozens to hundreds of US soldiers somewhere. Acting like that's "just a stone" is willful ignorance.

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A tiktok brought back bad memories, and I can't help but feel like it's not a one-off.

It's about that one tiktok video where this girl dares a boy to put her in a hold and that, "she can get out of any hold." So, he performs putting her in one.

And then she uses a lighter and burns him.

Immediately I thought back to when I was 11-12 and a girl my age tricked me into doing that, before also burning my arm. So, this is kind of a thing that gets handed down or just pops back up again. She didn't even mock do it or threaten to do it. She just said, "I can get out of any hold. :)"

Which my gullible ass thought meant she was going to attempt to force her way out physically. What I didn't know what she was using cunt-logic to assume that meant I consented to being burnt with a lighter for this alleged "break out of a hold" exhibition.

It's kind of the perfect setup. Because as a man, what do you do? Report them? They can suddenly lie and say you had them in a hold, unprovoked, and they were acting in self-defense. Do you treat them like a man that decided to hold a lighter to your forearm and burn you for the fun of it, and beat them to the point of termination? No, because mishandle a sacred cow, wind up in prison for years to decades of your life.

In the end I was so god damned furious I let myself be baited into this fake assed demonstration that just let someone else feel superior to me by burning my arm, I left the location and wouldn't speak to her again. And it has painted my interactions and expectations with women, ever since. Spoiled fucking brats that will think they're in the right to burn your skin as a joke and be let off with a warning if you complain.

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Uni.

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glad the sharpest bulbs the u.s has to offer are on the case

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I'm really close to writing in English and then translating into French. Because despite French being my first language, this is the first time I have to write something in French using academic language so it's really hard. But I have spent 6 years writing essays in English, so it's more natural.

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Ukraine has been doing AMAZING things against Russia, and I only wish more people understood this.

Russia will not stop. So long as Putin and those that share his ideology are at the helm of the Russian state, they'll maintain an ethnosupremacist nationalist belief they have the right to trample on all their neighbors, seeing non-Russians as an existential threat to continued Russian supremacy. This never switches off, it just dips between "being openly and mockingly hostile" and "being the underlying motivation behind their behavior."

And then Russia decided to pull out all the stops, go mask off, drop all pretenses that would allow them to develop and then slowly, economically dominate the world, and... not only eliminated their own camouflage, but got stuck in the fucking machine in the process of just trying to brute force it. This golden opportunity to push them deeper in the machinery and that imperialist ambition get chewed up and crushed couldn't have come at a better time, in a better place, for anyone that is at all at risk of being devoured by Russia.

Supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do, and you simultaneously let an underdog country destroy a future pain in everybody elses ass. And more people should understand this and donate to the cause.

ukraine has wiped out 7 billion dollars of russian nuclear bombers in one day. this is what i mean when i say even at the most cynical reason to support ukraine russia's military power and sphere of influence can be undermined with such ease if allied nations would just pull finger and hand over whatever outdated equipment is in inventory.

the bombers struck make up a large portion of russia's nuclear triad. now instead of being able to ensure a nuclear strike by land, air or sea its now much more feasible for russian nukes to be interdicted. many of the airframes are no longer in production so they are in effect irreplaceable. now when russia threatens to nuke the west every other month we can point and laugh at the piles of ashes that was their strategic fleet

we should be supporting ukraine because its the right thing to do but that is rarely the modus operandi of geopolitics. at the very least it proves if russia is going to keep threatening the world with nuclear hellfire, their toys will get taken away.

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Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed

Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision goggles, the contact lenses, described in the journal Cell, do not require a power source—and they enable the wearer to perceive multiple infrared wavelengths. Because they're transparent, users can see both infrared and visible light simultaneously, though infrared vision was enhanced when participants had their eyes closed. "Our research opens up the potential for noninvasive wearable devices to give people super-vision," says senior author Tian Xue, a neuroscientist at the University of Science and Technology of China. "There are many potential applications right away for this material. For example, flickering infrared light could be used to transmit information in security, rescue, encryption or anti-counterfeiting settings."

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