And why don’t you at least put purifiers in your classrooms? And why care so much about highly rare theoretical dangers as part of an IRB protocol when there’s a huge threat to bringing anyone into an academic or clinical research environment… infection will ruin outcome data & accelerate disease.

Equivalent? None. All viruses carry risk, but nothing works as fast and extends as far as SARS-CoV-2 except some other BSL-3 viruses and higher, BUT we don’t just let them rip through society. We contain them.

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Empathy and intelligence are weakly to moderately positively correlated. Particularly cognitive empathy (the ability to understand how someone else feels without necessarily experiencing the emotion) which is a form of abstract thinking. So empathy does tend to be higher among the more intelligent.

You realize of course that Stephen Miller saying “plenary authority” and then pretending he had a technical problem was no accident, right?

It was a dog whistle. It was his “stand by for further instructions” to all the henchmen.

Now that is definitely true!!

My guess is that they chose that photo by mistake… because of the colour. I’ll guarantee that most of the masks used will be inadequate for aerosols.

But Trump is like the rat in Flowers for Algernon—he foreshadows what’s coming for us.

You’re not kidding—that’s maybe 10 or 15 cm in diameter? Tiny surface area compared to a genuine mask!

Anyone come to mind?

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

Let’s celebrate that frogs have just lost all legitimacy as a symbol for the far right

I refuse to give in and seek an explanation

GABI WE MANAGED TO WIN!!

#beatmywordle Oct 12 40, 54, 71

Non-paywalled version

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I actually had this one in the queue already, but since you mentioned it…

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#covid #HalloweenTombstones #71
Scroll up…wayyy up…

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It’s not Bondi. This was dealt with a few weeks ago.

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Because high standards for Masters Level practitioners means immigrants have a harder time qualifying, so at the demand of the government, the College has eviscerated the qualifications necessary to do so.

Have I got that right?

www.thestar.com/news/ontario... (paywalled but the headline says much

So let’s get this straight. The Ontario government want physicians to have attended an Ontario high school for two years, thus excluding immigrants from residency programs, while the Fairness Commissioner claims the College of Psychologists is racist…

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Chicks dig men with long wordles

So apparently Hegseth is just doesn’t know how to communicate clearly.

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Someday, soon I hope, there will be an inflatable frog costume in the Smithsonian.