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It does not recommend removals or suggest how to manage the controversy’s fallout. It passed by a vote of 75-50, with five abstentions and five members not voting, according to a copy of the results obtained by NBC News.

I don't know enough about how university governing works to know if this is the most they can do. Like, yeah, great. Get rid of the fraternities.

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  • [–] 10 points 12 hours ago

    Gotta honor the dead by casting an enormous shadow over their graves. They could make it less grandiose, but its purpose is to fluff Trump's ego, so they can't alter it in any way that would fix the main problems people have with it.

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    I nod at anchovy man from across the room in respect at his principled stance but he notices there's pineapple on my pizza (not even ham along with it) and he walks over to call me a pervert to my face. The fish stink on him knocks me out and i have to eat my pizza the next day as leftovers, at home. another win for anchovies.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Don't think people's ability to stay in a country should be at risk even if they came over on a work visa. Especially if they just need to change jobs and haven't, like, beaten anyone up. You've been nonviolently engaging in society? Congrats, you get a "fuck it stick around why not" visa when you and your boss have a pizza disagreement. (Or we could re-envision the whole system, but that's a bit much to get into on the comments of this specific post about pizza toppings)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 days ago

    I think mail-in vote eligibility for Mississippi is pretty limited.

    Also, I'm not from that state, but I recall a while ago there was some sense that the federal government was going to try and mess with votes by fucking with the post office. Some of what they tried failed in the courts, but I decided I'd vote in person to avoid that particular problem, so there might be other people who decided in-person was most likely to get their vote counted.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Later this month, the newly elected House ​Democrats will gather behind closed doors to anoint their candidate to ⁠run in the January election for speaker. Nobody is seen posing a serious threat to Jeffries, according to multiple Democratic aides.

    This should change. I don't even know who the other options are? I saw someone (onion owner) suggest Raskin, but mostly just talk about schumer and jeffries needing to go.

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    For reference:
    https://gizmodo.com/are-humans-hardwired-to-detect-snakes-1453865235

    I had a moment last week where I stopped before I consciously recognized a snake. The poor thing was dead, but it reminded me that I'd read about this happening before. However, since I know about it, I could be reading into my response. When I've asked other people, a couple have been like "oh, I think I had that happen once." But that's all anecdotes I've biased by telling them the theory.

    Nevertheless, I enjoy the anecdotes, and I'm also curious if other people think it's real.

     

    A link to the transcript of the recent skepchick video about a public relations firm that uses bot armies to aid their clients, frequently (but not always) by defaming women.

    If you missed my previous videos on these cases, the quick summary is that wealth[y] celebrities, including Jeffrey Epstein, have hired Nathan and her cohorts to engage in massive efforts to distract and manipulate public opinion online.

     

    Zanele Muholi’s Brave Beauties exhibition, celebrating trans women, recently opened at Constitution Hill.

    A link to some more of the photography: https://www.muholiart.institute/gallery/bravebeauties More about the event: https://www.constitutionhill.org.za/blog/zanele-muholis-brave-beauties-opens-at-constitution-hill

     

    For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.

    archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260807124345/https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/can-extreme-morning-sickness-be-cured Bits I found interesting:

    When Fejzo returned to work—now at the University of California, Los Angeles—she told her boss that she wanted to work on H.G. “She started laughing in my face,” Fejzo recalled. At the time, H.G. research was not considered a viable career path. She accepted a role studying ovarian cancer instead, and spent her free time collecting data on hyperemesis.

    In 2018, Fejzo and her colleagues published a paper identifying a gene linked to H.G., which codes for a hormone called GDF15. In 2022, she published another study which confirmed the link between H.G. and the gene. A third study, published the following year in collaboration with an international team, showed how the hormone predisposed certain women to H.G. Two and half decades after experiencing H.G., she had found its cause.

     

    Had a relative say he was going to take it as a treatment for his ADHD and he'd read some articles. This relative is all over the place with legit ideas mixed with ones I don't think have the scientific backing. I thought about looking it up like I usually would and just felt tired (there are so many fake sites and articles about medical stuff to sift through...). But someone here maybe already researched it or has actual background on the subject? For all I know, this is a completely well known and mundane treatment for it.

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