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  1. Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv

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    They also have RDJ back so I suspect this was tongue in cheek

    They also have RDJ back so I suspect this was tongue in cheek

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  2. Comment on The eloquent vindicator in the electric room in ~humanities.history

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    It's a metaphor the author builds on from this point on. I believe Hamilton the Musical would have used The Room where it Happened, though this has more of a "buzz" of potential energy vs...

    White accounts of emancipation are often fundamentally twisted, skewed by rank sentimentalism, rendering slaveholders and the enslaved as something closer to coworkers. But to say only that leaves us in a negative space. The people in those rooms were people, individuals. The rooms themselves were electric, full of possibility. Even if that possibility was to be crushed by something—the weight of history or narrative itself—does not mean that we should walk right past them, empower chronology so completely that we erase the might-have-beens and the sometimes-weres. Dominant narratives can erase pockets of resistance. And the capacity of a single policy shift to turn a master into a strange neighbor cannot be overstated, unless we are the ones overstating, for our own reasons. Which is why I want us to linger in these electric rooms, to think about their possibility.

    It's a metaphor the author builds on from this point on. I believe Hamilton the Musical would have used The Room where it Happened, though this has more of a "buzz" of potential energy vs accomplishment

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  3. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    It doesn't render in my Firefox mobile either, so maybe it's a mobile thing. Alas

    It doesn't render in my Firefox mobile either, so maybe it's a mobile thing. Alas

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  4. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Question, I see stars and then a square box with an X in it. Is that a half star in the middle? It's not rendering right in 3 cheers

    Question, I see stars and then a square box with an X in it. Is that a half star in the middle? It's not rendering right in 3 cheers

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  5. Comment on Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time in ~health

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    Great question, I think so. But I'm not a .... Custom-built-mRNA-delivering-virologist Whatever the technical term is. Looks like neurodegenerative specialty for neurologist/neuroscientist

    Great question, I think so. But I'm not a .... Custom-built-mRNA-delivering-virologist

    Whatever the technical term is.

    Looks like neurodegenerative specialty for neurologist/neuroscientist

  6. Comment on Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time in ~health

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    I mean that is definitely a different type of gene therapy or embryonic selection with its own complications and considerations. Definitely different teams than the treatment folks. If there's a...

    I mean that is definitely a different type of gene therapy or embryonic selection with its own complications and considerations. Definitely different teams than the treatment folks.
    If there's a treatment though folks might be less inclined not to get tested because they don't want the anxiety of knowing it's coming.

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  7. Comment on Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time in ~health

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    I am hopeful that when they look at stage zero patients - before any negative effects have happened - they'll find this prevents it from developing entirely. If you never get that toxic protein...

    I am hopeful that when they look at stage zero patients - before any negative effects have happened - they'll find this prevents it from developing entirely. If you never get that toxic protein maybe it'd be a pre-emptive cure even if not a post-symptomatic one.

    8 votes

  8. Comment on Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time in ~health

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    This is amazing, incredibly expensive and brand new but absolutely amazing.

    It starts with a safe virus that has been altered to contain a specially designed sequence of DNA.

    This is infused deep into the brain using real-time MRI scanning to guide a microcatheter to two brain regions - the caudate nucleus and the putamen. This takes 12 to 18 hours of neurosurgery.

    The virus then acts like a microscopic postman – delivering the new piece of DNA inside brain cells, where it becomes active.

    This turns the neurons into a factory for making the therapy to avert their own death.

    This is amazing, incredibly expensive and brand new but absolutely amazing.

    31 votes

  10. Comment on Looking for some cat advice in ~life.pets

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    Mini updates, feeding her using one of the puzzle feeders and then chucking kibble at her..she's not quite running for it but she's chasing it down Started having her come get a nose boop and then...

    Mini updates, feeding her using one of the puzzle feeders and then chucking kibble at her..she's not quite running for it but she's chasing it down

    Started having her come get a nose boop and then a kibble toss, so maybe I can slowly start turning this into a touch training. She was frantic until I took the puzzle feeder away (because it was empty) and then got distracted by bouncing bits of kibble. So, this seems like progress.

    Didn't get her nails clipped myself today or the glucometer set up, but baby steps. She's settled somewhere right now and isn't howling or demanding food

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  11. Comment on Looking for some cat advice in ~life.pets

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    If it turns out she has arthritis that's the route we'd go, but so far the vets been leaning it's side effects of the drastic weight loss/muscle wasting. We have to get further away from that to...

    If it turns out she has arthritis that's the route we'd go, but so far the vets been leaning it's side effects of the drastic weight loss/muscle wasting. We have to get further away from that to know more basically

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  12. Comment on I tried to protect my kids from the internet. Here’s what happened. in ~tech

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    They're often expensive, some of them don't work well across devices, they may not include things that seem obvious (like Snapchat as social media vs messaging), your kid can sneak onto your...

    They're often expensive, some of them don't work well across devices, they may not include things that seem obvious (like Snapchat as social media vs messaging), your kid can sneak onto your computer and grant themselves access, and you have to know the tools exist to find them, buy them and then find out they don't work on a laptop.

    Essentially parents who are non-experts are being expected to be and that's just not realistic.

    I think I hit the summary alright.

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  13. Comment on Young Greenlandic woman living in Denmark will regain custody of the infant girl taken from her shortly after birth – becomes the latest flashpoint between Denmark and Greenland in ~life.women

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    Once you decide to make a test it's so easy to make a test that agrees with you about who isn't fit, and then I mean it's consistent, and it must be valid because it agrees with you. Taking...

    Once you decide to make a test it's so easy to make a test that agrees with you about who isn't fit, and then I mean it's consistent, and it must be valid because it agrees with you. Taking people's children away certainly doesn't put them in the best emotional state, which only confirms it. It's clearly for the best.

    Seeing our sins repeated over and over makes me feel something - disappointment mostly I think. We could be better. We could choose to be so much better.

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  14. Comment on Young Greenlandic woman living in Denmark will regain custody of the infant girl taken from her shortly after birth – becomes the latest flashpoint between Denmark and Greenland in ~life.women

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    I suspect people find me annoying when I rant about eugenics or white supremacy on topics where it doesn't seem to be the focus but parenting tests - especially using IQ tests- are absolutely one...

    I suspect people find me annoying when I rant about eugenics or white supremacy on topics where it doesn't seem to be the focus but parenting tests - especially using IQ tests- are absolutely one of the major things that flag as being used to control minority populations, to control how those children are raised and by whom, and with the idea that if you take them away from their ignorant, stupid, parents you can maybe fix or compensate for the "bad blood" in them.

    Denmark isn't using that language out loud but people decided to use these tests on this parent - among others - even after the law said not to. I wish there was a willingness to investigate and name why officials are doing that. Because otherwise it sort of slides by. I'm not sure if Denmark sees them as immigrants or indigenous or both. I'm not sure if the children are in a system designed to re-unify them with families or adopt them out, and whether that standard is different depending on their ethnicity.

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  15. Comment on Looking for some cat advice in ~life.pets

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    It would be tricky getting the other cats put up if it's just my partner, the wheelchair makes it hard because they can scoot past him easily in a doorway, but I'll try it. He tried playing hide...

    It would be tricky getting the other cats put up if it's just my partner, the wheelchair makes it hard because they can scoot past him easily in a doorway, but I'll try it. He tried playing hide and seek with some food last night - a little here a little there on the tree or the couch and that seemed to work. But then she just harassed him more so idk.

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  17. Comment on Looking for some cat advice in ~life.pets

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    She does like churu and similar, but will lick it off a pill leaving even a broken piece of a pill behind, and maybe could use it to help transition. They're our backup treat but they're kind of...

    She does like churu and similar, but will lick it off a pill leaving even a broken piece of a pill behind, and maybe could use it to help transition. They're our backup treat but they're kind of expensive too. My vet is just really hesitant to make suggestions because she's new and I don't want to switch providers at the clinic but also...

  18. Comment on Amazon to end commingling program after years of complaints from brands and sellers in ~finance

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    No, the whole point is that they only have to know which seller sold the product not which seller's item they shipped. If four different sellers sell product A and they each sent 10 to the...

    No, the whole point is that they only have to know which seller sold the product not which seller's item they shipped. If four different sellers sell product A and they each sent 10 to the commingled bin. One seller might sell 10 boxes and none of them shipped were the actual physical products they provided to the bin.

    They may have some other way of tracking that information, but simply knowing who sold the item does not tell it to you

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  19. Comment on Looking for some cat advice in ~life.pets

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    If she's willing, I can consider it. I never did with my cats because I hate the smell of wet food, but I'd do it for her. It's just that they literally had to keep her at the vet an extra day...

    If she's willing, I can consider it. I never did with my cats because I hate the smell of wet food, but I'd do it for her. It's just that they literally had to keep her at the vet an extra day because she wouldn't eat wet, and she's never been interested in food toppers or anything either (churu yes, wet food no). She does drink regularly and as long as the litter box is clean pees enough

    I did feed her in a puzzle toy today and it seemed to help, maybe.
    Unfortunately she spent all night last night harassing my partner to get fed. I do feed them between 6 and 7 each AM and usually at 6 at night. I know the other cats are stressed too and I'm worried about them getting enough food because I have to pick their bowls up. I'm going to try to get her nails trimmed but last night was more than just the clawing. She probably needs more attention but it's hard to give it to her when the only thing she wants is the food.

    It's just a lot and I'm overwhelmed and I just want her to be happy and healthy

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  20. Comment on Looking for some cat advice in ~life.pets

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    The vet has given me none of this so far. But I wouldn't be able to do that unfortunately as I work all day. I haven't tried the glucometer at all yet, it just got here and I'm not sure when to...

    The vet has given me none of this so far. But I wouldn't be able to do that unfortunately as I work all day.

    I haven't tried the glucometer at all yet, it just got here and I'm not sure when to use it, and it's more that she's uninterested in having things done to her.

    She's never been interested in canned food, food toppers, etc. she hates fancy freeze dried chicken treats and throws up on the cheapest ones. Maybe I could switch her, but they had to keep her at the hospital and extra day for not eating until I told two different people she doesn't eat wet food. So I don't know.