This is really incredibly bad. Wow.
"Ramani is one of the very few black and female professors in South Africa. Out of the 4 000 professors in South Africa only 4% are black, according to an August 14 article in City Press. And fewer, still, are women...According to the City Press article “only 34 or 0.85% of the total number of South African professors are women”." M&G
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The only evidence-based condemnation of recreational nitrous oxide use I ever heard was from a chemist, who was basically like "It's a really powerful greenhouse gas, and only gets you high for like 30 seconds. Rather take LSD" Guardian
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"Christie is mostly confined to a wheelchair because motor tics in her legs make it difficult to walk and cause her to fall down stairs occasionally. Tics can become so violent that Tourette's syndrome sufferers have broken their own bones. Where's that scene in your shitty comedies, Rob Schneider?" Cracked
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Certainly not a complete solution (institutional racism and the actual laws being enforced are a much bigger problem), but definitely a step forward for police accountability.
"The police department of Rialto, California, has 115 sworn officers. In 2009 it became the first known police department to utilize [body wearable cameras]. A study that analyzed the use of BWCs in Rialto showed that use of force incidents dropped by 59 percent, and that civilian complaints about police misconduct decreased by 87.5 percent." Slate
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"Here's an astonishing fact about U.S. bike-shares: In seven years and some 23 million rides, not a single death has been tied to the programs." Slate
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Do different alcoholic beverages get you "different kinds of drunk"?
"In the end, our expectations can have tremendous sway over the perceived effects of an alcoholic beverage (or non-alcoholic, for that matter). In this light, the question of whether mixers or congeners affect our experiences with different alcohols seems almost inconsequential; if you whole-heartedly believe that a tequila shot is your one-way ticket to Bedlamtown, there's probably not a whole lot that can be said to convince you – or your body – otherwise." io9
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"During Operation Cast Lead, the Israel bombing of blockaded Gaza in 2008-9, “a dog – an Israeli dog – was killed by a Qassam rocket and it on the front page of the most popular newspaper in Israel. On the very same day, there were tens of Palestinians killed, they were on page 16, in two lines.”" Independent
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"Ten-year-old girls want to believe in fairy tales. Take this pledge and God will love you so much and be so proud of you, they told me. If you wait to have sex until marriage, God will bring you a wonderful Christian husband and you’ll get married and live happily ever after, they said. Waiting didn’t give me a happily ever after. Instead, it controlled my identity for over a decade, landed me in therapy, and left me a stranger in my own skin. I was so completely ashamed of my body and my sexuality that it made having sex a demoralizing experience." Styleite
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Someone should do something about the growing scourge of policing in our society! *clutches pearls*
"New research released today by sex worker collective the Sex Worker Open University reveals that 17,318 police officers are active in Scotland, up by over a thousand since 2007; a boom some sources attribute to a rise in TV cop thrillers as well as an intense atmosphere of toxic masculinity within the force." SWOU
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Could we stop praising FW de Clerk? His only achievement was to CEASE the systematic oppression of the majority of South Africa's population which he and his party had been busy with for decades. BD Live
"Ramani is one of the very few black and female professors in South Africa. Out of the 4 000 professors in South Africa only 4% are black, according to an August 14 article in City Press. And fewer, still, are women...According to the City Press article “only 34 or 0.85% of the total number of South African professors are women”." M&G
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The only evidence-based condemnation of recreational nitrous oxide use I ever heard was from a chemist, who was basically like "It's a really powerful greenhouse gas, and only gets you high for like 30 seconds. Rather take LSD" Guardian
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"Christie is mostly confined to a wheelchair because motor tics in her legs make it difficult to walk and cause her to fall down stairs occasionally. Tics can become so violent that Tourette's syndrome sufferers have broken their own bones. Where's that scene in your shitty comedies, Rob Schneider?" Cracked
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Certainly not a complete solution (institutional racism and the actual laws being enforced are a much bigger problem), but definitely a step forward for police accountability.
"The police department of Rialto, California, has 115 sworn officers. In 2009 it became the first known police department to utilize [body wearable cameras]. A study that analyzed the use of BWCs in Rialto showed that use of force incidents dropped by 59 percent, and that civilian complaints about police misconduct decreased by 87.5 percent." Slate
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"Here's an astonishing fact about U.S. bike-shares: In seven years and some 23 million rides, not a single death has been tied to the programs." Slate
>>><<<
Do different alcoholic beverages get you "different kinds of drunk"?
"In the end, our expectations can have tremendous sway over the perceived effects of an alcoholic beverage (or non-alcoholic, for that matter). In this light, the question of whether mixers or congeners affect our experiences with different alcohols seems almost inconsequential; if you whole-heartedly believe that a tequila shot is your one-way ticket to Bedlamtown, there's probably not a whole lot that can be said to convince you – or your body – otherwise." io9
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"During Operation Cast Lead, the Israel bombing of blockaded Gaza in 2008-9, “a dog – an Israeli dog – was killed by a Qassam rocket and it on the front page of the most popular newspaper in Israel. On the very same day, there were tens of Palestinians killed, they were on page 16, in two lines.”" Independent
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"Ten-year-old girls want to believe in fairy tales. Take this pledge and God will love you so much and be so proud of you, they told me. If you wait to have sex until marriage, God will bring you a wonderful Christian husband and you’ll get married and live happily ever after, they said. Waiting didn’t give me a happily ever after. Instead, it controlled my identity for over a decade, landed me in therapy, and left me a stranger in my own skin. I was so completely ashamed of my body and my sexuality that it made having sex a demoralizing experience." Styleite
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Someone should do something about the growing scourge of policing in our society! *clutches pearls*
"New research released today by sex worker collective the Sex Worker Open University reveals that 17,318 police officers are active in Scotland, up by over a thousand since 2007; a boom some sources attribute to a rise in TV cop thrillers as well as an intense atmosphere of toxic masculinity within the force." SWOU
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Could we stop praising FW de Clerk? His only achievement was to CEASE the systematic oppression of the majority of South Africa's population which he and his party had been busy with for decades. BD Live
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