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Here’s a taste of the vaccine-related mis/disinformation going around about the incident involving Damar Hamlin. There’s no evidence that his collapse was related to vaccination, but anti-vaxxers will use any opportunity, even tragedy, to advance their agenda.

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$TSLA is now down over 13% today and down 73% over the past 12 months

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@aprettyaday @tundenagybanto, this is highly embarrassing for the academics organizing such meetings, given the research on how conferences have commonly been superspreader events. Insisting on in-person attendance is ridiculously retrograde and rooted in poor scholarship. I wonder if these conferences monitored CO2 in real time, provided access to vaccination, and had mandatory masking, free daily RATs, and HEPA units everywhere 🤷‍♀️
Guessing not.
#climatechange
#inclusion #covidisnotover

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Shame on conferences announcing in their call for papers that "no virtual talks will be accommodated"! Truly sad that academics don't show the way #climatechange #inclusion #pandemicnotover

Interesting interview in Welt on Russia with Christoph Heusgen who was Merkel's security advisor. He says many correct things but there is also this bit which makes me want to scream:

>If we had not used our veto when U.S. President George W. Bush wanted to admit Georgia and Ukraine to NATO in 2008, war would have broken out already then.

This is just **completely** backwards.
This quote shows that he STILL completely misunderstands who Putin is and what he is willing/not willing to do.

The worst part is that Scholz and Plötner clearly believe the same tosh too.

Putin is absolutely **not** willing to start a war with NATO. which is why he hasn't attacked any of the Baltic countries as much as clearly wants to have them under his control.

welt.de/politik/ausland/plus24

This is a **great** article. I agree with every word in it.
>The West should avert this (nuclear escalation) by deterring Russia rather than by restraining itself — or pressuring Ukraine to do so — for fear of “provoking” Russia.

I wish western leaders understood this and acted accordingly.

ChristopherJM  
RT @Nigelgd1@twitter.com Since February we have heard much about #Russia’s “red lines”. I believe this bad metaphor hinders clear strategic thinki...
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RT @Nigelgd1@twitter.com

Since February we have heard much about #Russia’s “red lines”.

I believe this bad metaphor hinders clear strategic thinking. Red lines are red herrings. Here’s why:
nytimes.com/2023/01/01/opinion

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Nigelgd1/status/16

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A nice empirical demonstration of Galileo's principle of relativity: youtube.com/watch?v=GIMNS0YiHz

If one replaces the person on the trampoline with a light beam bouncing up and down between two horizontal mirrors, and assumes that the speed of light is \(c\) in every inertial frame, one obtains the well-known 'light clock" thought experiment of Einstein that derives the fact that such clocks slow down by a factor of \(\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2\) when moving at a velocity \(v\).

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Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

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This is unusually explicit. "Democratic legislation is making things better for Americans. We need Republicans to stop it."

RT @ddayen@twitter.com

Sounds like hell on Earth, we've gotta stop this politico.com/news/2022/12/29/d

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ddayen/status/1609

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Happy New Year 2023 to all fans of Studio Ghibli's works!

🎆 🎇 🎆

May this year bring you joy, happiness, and of course, more beautiful animations from the talented team at Ghibli.

🎉🎉

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #happynewyear #2023 #newyeareve

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Ukrainian defenders are driving around the battlefront in unprotected vehicles.
This leads to preventable deaths and injuries from land mines.

Though they refuse to fight, Ukraine’s allies should function as the Arsenal of Democracy and provide armoured vehicles – in abundance.

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⚠️ WARNING! ⚠️

I just received this email in a catch-all that was addressed to a user. Mastodon does NOT such mails and this leads to a malicious login page!

Please make sure you are on the correct instance URL before logging in!

Also make sure the emails are send from the instance you are on! Often this email can be found on the /about page

#Mastodon

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Tonight I’m reading about a new #COVID variant that’s raging through New York and Quebec right now. Of course, nobody’s paying attention. Masks? What are they? I guess COVID, like mass shootings, are merely the price we pay for freedom. When will somebody that matters stand up and say enough! The price is too high! It’s feeling more and more inevitable that COVID will catch up to my immunocompromised wife, despite our best efforts. Not a question of if, but when. But hey, freedumb!

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Awww. 😥 #RIP Barbara Walters, trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News News anchor and correspondent, dies at 93 #news

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/bar

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6) When some pundits declare #COVID is no big deal, are they referring to 40% of Quebec health workers having suffered from long COVID, according to a study this year? Or are they referring to a federal study estimating 1.4 million Canadians have developed symptoms of long COVID?

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