‘Super Bowl for Insane People Who Follow Politics’
12 Jul
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‘Super Bowl for Insane People Who Follow Politics’

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Politics tamfitronics The expression, "looks like they're having a normal one" has gotten quite a workout the last couple of weeks. With the not-so-shocking revelation that Biden is sadly experiencing extreme cognitive decline, the left has gone into a meltdown of epic proportions.Think about QAnon and Alex Jones' gay frogs, multiply it by 100 and throw in TDS and you have what the left is currently going through. What should we call it Bidenanon? It has gotten so bad that even Ken Klippenstein, writer for the Intercept, couldn't help but notice the extreme reactions.This week is the Super Bowl for insane people who follow politics pic.twitter.com/T4rg7wMXxM— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 11, 2024It's a laundry list of reactions - denial, attacking the press, claiming conspiracy.Some takes for the history books happening this week pic.twitter.com/9f88PyY5RV— Ken Klippenstein...
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Health and politics
12 Jul
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Health and politics

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Politics tamfitronics “Science can identify solutions to pressing public health problems, but only politics can turn most of those solutions into reality.” — Thomas R. OliverWhen problems as well as their solutions are known, and yet people continue to suffer, then we have a bigger problem of a different kind. Unless this bigger problem is tackled, even advanced knowledge about definitive solutions will never be enough to alleviate human suffering.Think about the two sentences above and look around you. Try to understand any major public health problem in Pakistan. You will soon reach the conclusion that the problem is clear in terms of its etiology, pathology, epidemiology, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. If at all, there may be minor knowledge gaps, but too insignificant to hamper the implementation of proven interventions based on science and ample...
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SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next

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Politics tamfitronics The e-mail arrived, like a bolt from blue, on the otherwise typical Thursday afternoon of May 9. The message was from a journalist, asking me, an astronomer, for an interview about a farmer who had reportedly found space junk while prepping his fields for springtime seeding, just an hour’s drive from my home in Saskatchewan. “Yeah, right,” I said to myself as I tapped out my affirmative reply. The odds are already long for any particular place on Earth to be struck by orbital debris—so the chances for it to happen practically in the backyard of someone like me who studies the issue felt astronomically low, simply too far-fetched to be true.A quick check of my news feed proved me wrong. One of the top stories was about the space junk strike, and...
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