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We don't have 120,000 school shooting deaths a year, but we do have that many overdose fatalities. I'd say the cure is just fine in this case.
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I’m firmly convinced that a lot of the acoustic tricks that AirPods Pro do to achieve noise canceling involve ultrasonic harmonics, perhaps unintentionally - and this has created an epidemic of tinnitus among their users.
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Taiwan should be thrilled. Every indication is that this administration is letting Europe fend for itself so it can focus on the Pacific.
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I spend a lot of time in the “flyover” areas, and this is simply not true at all. Maybe it was long ago, but we are no longer living in that age. It seems like the media want to portray middle America as some kind of medieval redneck nightmare thunderdome, for reasons I cannot fathom.
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This is exactly why hand-to-hand combat instructors will tell you that fighting an obese person will go very differently than you might think it will.
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My teenage son and I have been watching, and loving, this show. And, I wonder if watching it has been innoculating him against a corporate life of quiet cubicle desperation. If so, then thank you, Apple.
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The other awful thought is that millions if not billions of people would look at Macrodata Refinement and think, "That beats the hell out of my current working environment." And in many ways they would be right.
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If Stanley Kubrick made a television series, he'd make Severance. For some people that makes it a must-watch, for others, not so much.
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My understanding is that the tritium is bred in the reactor and then consumed in the reaction. But most designs do have some amount of radioactive waste, including structural parts and reactor walls that suffer huge amounts of neutron activation.
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If you require taxpayers to consent to every single line item, voting is going to become rather cumbersome.

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