Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends (Live)
YouTube video by Pedro Pacheco Studio (PPS)
On the bright side it reminds us of this very good song: youtu.be/22dvKCjsIkY?...
05.03.2026 17:13
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07.03.2026 17:31
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Probably, Kai.
07.03.2026 14:58
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Lol this spider decided to abseil down from my ceiling at the same time as Alex Honnold
25.01.2026 05:07
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I think the road to the current era of AI slop began when people started referring to any and all online media as "content"
04.12.2025 19:31
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For a good cross reference, notice how raising tariffs on China didn't hurt China β it just reduced American influence and made the American people pay higher taxes for goods
bsky.app/profile/cram...
17.01.2026 17:07
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What's tangentially interesting to me about this is that amongst men, it's _not_ the seed-sowing pronatalists who act like they actually like children.
Maybe it's got something to do with regarding women and children as fellow people, not incubators and clones.
09.01.2026 22:21
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Itβs not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldnβt have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
Itβs about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isnβt. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
03.01.2026 15:34
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He's mad she won the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn't. That's it. That's what it's all about. Best part is she idiotically and sycophantically dedicated her prize to him and he still won't back her and prefers to publicly denigrate on a day like today.
03.01.2026 18:07
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No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
03.01.2026 17:40
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Russians won't represent their country at Winter Olympics even if Ukraine war ends, IOC chief says
Russian athletes at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will not be able to represent their country even if a peace deal is reached with Ukraine, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Covent...
Just yesterday, IOC president Kirsty Coventry said that Russian athletes can't compete under their flag in next month's Winter Olympics because their country invaded another country.
Sure will be interesting to see how these same guidelines will be applied in 2028
03.01.2026 17:36
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Screenshot of an archived tweet from Donald J. Trump dated October 9, 2012. The tweet claims that President Obama might launch military strikes in Libya or Iran due to falling poll numbers and describes him as desperate. The image shows the tweet in the older Twitter Web Client interface, with the timestamp visible at the bottom.
Thereβs always a tweet.
03.01.2026 18:18
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people donβt want to βrunβ a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
03.01.2026 17:08
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Happy new year to all NIH'ers, whether fellows, contractors, or FTEs... WE'RE STILL HERE!
"Agi idup, agi ngelaban"
#nih
02.01.2026 16:28
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I'm reviewing abstracts for an upcoming scientific conference, helping the planning team to select which attendees get a chance to present their work.
Some are amazingly good.
Some suggest that the applicant has not ever been taught how to write an abstract.
Here are some basic tips:
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29.12.2025 20:26
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I can't remember if "fell" occurs elsewhere in the main LoTR for a reader who didn't know the word before to deduce the meaning by context - maybe Boromir when he was amok?
29.12.2025 20:13
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I think it's due to the labeling+marketing of the action figure and the fact that not everybody who likes LoTR is a gigantic nerd who's read it multiple times let alone lots of other archaic literature. I'd also excuse fans for whom English is not a first language
29.12.2025 20:12
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Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib): The Disease & Vaccines
The Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine, which is given in a series of four shots, is recommended for all children between 2 and 15 months of age. Older pediatricians understand the value of the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine. They watched this vaccine, first introduced in the early 1990s, virtually eliminate a disease that affected about 20,000 children every year in the United States. Three to four doses of this vaccine are recommended for all children between 2 and 15 months of age.The diseaseWhat is Haemophilus influenzae type b?Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a bacterium that infects the lining of the brain, causing meningitis. Meningitis is caused by several different bacteria. However, before the Hib vaccine, Hib was by far the most common cause of meningitis. Children with meningitis often have fever, stiff neck and drowsiness. Symptoms can progress to include coma and death. Some children recover from the disease but are left permanently paralyzed, deaf, blind or mentally impaired. Hib can also cause bloodstream infection (sepsis), pneumonia, cellulitis, arthritis and epiglottitis. Perhaps no disease was more frightening than this last one. The epiglottis, a tissue that sits on top of the windpipe, prevents food from entering the windpipe when swallowing. When the epiglottis is infected, it blocks the windpipe, causing suffocation and occasionally death.Find out more about meningitis in this video discussion between two CHOP doctors.How do you catch Hib?Hib is a bacterium that is commonly found lining the surface of the nose and the back of the throat. Because most adults have immunity to Hib, a mother will passively transfer antibodies from her own blood to the blood of her newborn baby before the baby is born. The antibodies that the baby gets before birth usually last for a few months. However, after that time, the baby is unprotected. Most children who first come in contact with Hib don't have a problem. But before the Hib vaccine, about 20,000 children every year in the United States would get serious and occasionally fatal infections with Hib. Most children harmed by Hib were previously healthy and well nourished.The vaccineHow is the Hib vaccine made?The Hib vaccine is made from the sugar coating (polysaccharide) of the bacteria. Antibodies directed against the Hib polysaccharide protect the child against an infection that could result in permanent disabilities or death.Unfortunately, children less than 2 years old don't develop very good immune responses to this polysaccharide, even if exposed to it through infection. For this reason, children less than 2 years old who catch Hib and survive the infection are still recommended to receive Hib vaccine.Scientists have figured out that by taking the Hib polysaccharide and linking it to a harmless protein, young children are able to make a stronger immune response to the polysaccharide. This βconjugatedβ version of the Hib vaccine works extremely well. Before the vaccine, Hib caused about 20,000 cases of serious disease in the United States every year. In 2016, 30 cases of Hib in children 5 years of age and younger were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).What are the side effects of the Hib vaccine?After receiving the Hib vaccine, some children may feel pain or soreness in the local area of the shot and occasionally get a low-grade fever. The Hib vaccine does not cause serious side effects.Other questions you might haveIs this vaccine recommended for anyone other than infants?Most often this vaccine is given to infants. But, in a few cases other people may be recommended to get this vaccine, such as those:Without a spleen or preparing to having their spleen surgically removedWith sickle cell diseaseWho had a bone marrow transplantBetween 5 and 18 years old who have been diagnosed with HIVIf you are concerned that you or a family member might need this vaccine, talk with your healthcare provider.Is it true that more than one type of infection can cause meningitis?Yes. Everyone has heard it on the newsβthe story of a local student infected with meningitis. Such a report inevitably results in many questions and a great amount of concern and even fear among families with children in the affected school.There are some important considerations when this happens. First, it is important to remember that meningitis refers to an infection that has reached the lining of the brain and spinal cord. Second, it can be caused by viruses or bacteria (hence the terms viral meningitis or bacterial meningitis). Viral meningitis, the most common type of meningitis, is often less severe than bacterial meningitis. Vaccine-preventable diseases that can cause viral meningitis include measles, mumps, chickenpox and influenza.Most, but not all, cases of bacterial meningitis can be prevented by vaccination. The bacteria most often associated with meningitis include meningococcus, pneumococcus, and Haemophilus influenzae type B (often referred to as Hib). Fortunately, by the age of 2, most children are fully immunized against pneumococcus and Hib, and most adolescents are protected against meningococcus.Other diseases caused by Hib include:Sepsis (bloodstream infection)Epiglottitis (severe swelling of the epiglottis, a tissue that closes off the windpipe during swallowing)Arthritis (infection of the joints)Pneumonia (infection of the lungs)Cellulitis (most commonly involving the side of the cheek, called buccal cellulitis)Relative risks and benefitsDo the benefits of the Hib vaccine outweigh its risks?The Hib vaccine has caused a dramatic decline in the incidence of meningitis, bloodstream infections, and pneumonia caused by Hib. However, Hib bacteria still circulate in the community and occasionally cause disease. On the other hand, the Hib vaccine causes no serious side effects. Therefore, the benefits of the Hib vaccine clearly outweigh its risks.Disease risksMeningitis (fever, stiff neck, drowsiness; in a small number of cases coma)Sepsis (bloodstream infection)Epiglottitis (severe swelling of the epiglottis, a tissue that closes off the windpipe during swallowing)Arthritis (infection of the joints)Cellulitis (a skin infection)Pneumonia (infection of the lungs)Disease can be fatalVaccine risksPain or soreness at the injection siteLow-grade feverReferencePlotkin SA, Orenstein W, Offit PA, and Edwards KM. Haemophilus influenzae vaccines in Vaccines, 7th Edition. 2018, 301-318.
Worth noting that one of the bacteria misidentified as the cause of flu in Victorian times does also cause serious disease in babies, and there is now an effective vaccine
www.chop.edu/vaccine-educ...
29.12.2025 15:33
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Mayors in major cities here knew it existed before we sent troops abroad and we ended up having 1 in 5 households experiencing death or major illness in cities like Philadelphia bc of war bonds parades.
John Barryβs The Great Influenza goes into detail. Highly recommended read!
28.12.2025 18:40
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Letβs analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
27.12.2025 23:42
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Iβm also concerned about crime among the wealthy. Theyβre doing an awful lot of crime, often quite openly, and getting away with it.
29.12.2025 09:40
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Does anybody have a picture of the monstrous hydrofoil in question?
29.12.2025 15:25
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How about they just try you know helping the less wealthy and maybe there would be less crime
29.12.2025 14:37
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Tolkien is cooked. All new startups are Discworld, now.
29.12.2025 02:42
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Again,
29.12.2025 03:34
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