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Chemist, avid reader, into SciFi, foodie, love 80s movies and good coffee. Trying to be reasonable in strange times. I despise autocrats, dictators and weak politicians. 🇺🇦🇪🇺
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Russia isn’t winning. They’re burning through men, tanks older than your dad, and begging North Korea for troops. That’s not strength—it’s desperation. We didn’t let them win the Cold War, and we won’t let them fake a win now. youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI?...

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that is... bizarre

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Jetzt weiĂź ich, woran mich der Geschmack erinnert

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The thing (well, a thing) with "do your own research" is that it's pretty clearly an anti-establishment message so while you can do that as some crusading crank it makes no fucking sense when you're the fucking health secretary. How can we tolerate this nihilism

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Unfortunately, that’s the wrong position. *Specific* AI learning models have very useful cases (MRNA vaccines being a particularly notable one), but when it comes to actual “general intelligence,” the technology is snake-oil peddled by conmen.

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In case you're worried that you don't know where your story is leading you...

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"Interrogators were told to push the limits of the pain inflicted on prisoners, but not kill them." “They are interested in [prisoners] being alive, but in a very bad condition. [Keeping a prisoner alive] is a means for them to have an exchange.”

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Define cinema with an image: Top Gun intro youtu.be/XmUYBmNcHBY

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"Better call Kevin" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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many good points made here

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Just finished The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, the first entry in a new thriller series. Moving at break-neck speed, it is a page turner. It is clearly based on the Transporter. The protagonist is a freelance mailman with an extraordinary skill set who stumbles upon a crime in progress 1/🧵

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1/11 Why russia is losing the unprovoked war it started in Ukraine: a few key points to remember and use

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Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR”)

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Trump is an extremely stupid person. It really seems like he thinks Putin should want to help him politically. Yeah, dumbass, he wants you in the WH but specifically to destroy NATO and give him Ukraine. He’s not going to stop bombing Ukraine for you. You’re there to hand it to him.

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Purple honey? I'm intrigued. Nice article, but scarce re: scientific details. What's causing the purple colour? Shouldn't be too hard to identify the molecule responsible and then pinpoint the source. Some LC-MS, prep HPLC, NMR, maybe? www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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