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that doesn’t just bury the lede, it abandons it altogether? Read this Guardian article about poor Latino workers in California who buy an over the counter supplement that claims to reduce joint pain and inflammation from overuse injuries. Spoiler alert: it works. It works so well they take it daily for months until they start…
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Thinking about all the memes about how gifted and talented kids grow up to be anxious, unhappy adults and it occurs to me: why would anyone have expectations of happiness, satisfaction, or personal fulfillment under capitalism? Gifted and talented programs are intended to identify children who learn efficiently and require fewer cognitive cycles of exposure…
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I was turning into a butter hag, which is fine, but on waking I was amazed that I had remembered the word cailleach *in my sleep* and also to use the genitive for butter. Mar sin anois is cailleach ime mé. Mar sin ar maidin, chlóis mé an fonn seo: Paddy Carty: “Oh! Hag you…
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Read this pretty good piece about him. Then read this pretty good piece about Daniel Day-Lewis, still alive at 68 (and no complaints from me). They seem to have a lot in common, don’t they? What seems to be the major difference (or differences) between them?
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https://youtu.be/91x68GMgOmc?si=0XvGEBGiq8ciqFXX
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/26/assata-shakur-us-black-liberation-activist-exiled-in-cuba-dies-at-78
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is that just because somebody has to get born someplace then they get claimed for that place if they make it big. How could anyone say Kevin Rowland or Dexys are British? Seriously?
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enough steroids in the world
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Why can we not have drinkable tap water for a reasonable cost? It cannot be difficult to take a sample of great drinking water — say, NYC tap water or the well from our old house in the sandhills — do a spectral analysis, strip the base water to zero with filtration etc, fix the…

