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Thanks for the Rec! I definitely miss the show. Adam's YouTube channel sometimes scratches the itch, but not always.

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As a district 4 resident I'll add some more context (and reason why we need ranked choice voting nationally).
The Republican primary was packed, with 6 total candidates. Boebert only got 43% of the vote, and the next closest was Sonnenberg at 13%. The non-MAGA conservatives spread their votes across all the other candidates. With ranked choice, it would be a much closer margin. I'm not saying she would have lost, but over 50% of voting repubs wanted someone else over Boebert.

The "good" news is Boebert is pooling poorly vs Dems in the district, which means we have a chance to flip district 4 blue in November.

This page has the election results https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/colorado-us-house-district-4-results

And heres the 538 page for CO district 4. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/house/2024/colorado/4/

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A lot of 3D printing patents from the 80s and 90s expired between 2010-2020, clearing the way for commercial 3d printers and a million innovations. I'd call them honorary 21st century inventions, since the patent holders squandered the technology in the 90s.

https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/how-patents-die-expiring-3d-printing-patents.html

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This women attempted murder after confirming the mother was Palestinian. Textbook hate crime.

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"The child’s mother, 32, told police that the suspect, identified as Elizabeth Wolf, 42, questioned where she was from and made statements about her not being American, as well as “other racial statements.” "

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I (unfortunately) live in this district, so heres my local insight/opinions. The incumbent for the district, Ken Buck, stepped down in March, so it's all "new" challengers, 3 of which have been involved in state/local politics. The district has been Red since 2008. As another poster shared, 538 polling shows her losing to 2 of the three Dems running in the primary. Most of east rural Colorado is more '90s conservatives than tea party/MAGA conservatives, so they are likely to stay home and not vote for Boebert.

Lines were redrawn after 2022 election which caused Boeberts current district to become more blue, and I think Adam Frisch has a good chance of winning, which means boebert has a shot at flipping two districts from red to blue. 538 doesn't have any polling data for district 3 yet so this may just be a Lefty's dream.

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Wastewater-based epidemiology. Basically we track infectious diseases in wastewater, and the results guide public health decisions.

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Love to hear it! 2 years ago I had no idea that I'd be working with wastewater but here I am now!

Anyone out here reading this, write to your senator about increasing funding to public health!

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As Philpo said, we mainly do covid, but we can do Norovirus, which is a common GI virus that can give you the shits.

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Great question! For the US, you will need a degree in Molecular Biology/Microbiology or a Medical (Laboratory) Technologist. You'll then either need to live near the city where one of the few private companies that do wastewater testing ar e(my case), or live near a public health lab that does ww. Pretty much all state public health labs do it, but city/county level varies immensely. For the government route, look at APHL or NACCHO to find information on your local public health labs. There are a few universities that also do ww testing, for example I know University of Illinois, University of Missouri and Michigan State are all doing a bunch of wastewater work.

Feel free to DM me if you want more information.

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Absolutely. If premium was 7 bucks a month I would subscribe today, but 14 a month is insane!

Should we have a Star Wars instance?

I previously posted this topic on the main Star Wars community, but it was removed for being too meta. Which is fair enough but it does leave is in a Catch 22 situation as you can't exactly get a SW instance started if you can't discuss starting one. Fortunately, @blaze was kind enough to suggest this instance would be a good...

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I'm not super tech savvy but it looks like Jedi.Academy will become available next month, if the current owner doesn't renew.

Tatooine.social or MosEisley.social would be good second picks.

Another meme one could be alderaan.no

What I mean is, yes I'd love to see a Star wars specific instance.

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Do it.

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You are describing World War 3.

If Taiwan joins with Ukraine, then China joins with Russia and invades an underdefended Taiwan. Taiwan allies then have to join to protect them, and it balloons from there.

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We have less qualifications to run for president than we do for working at McDonald's. Per the constitution you need to be born in the USA, be 35 by the day you are sworn in, and have lived in the USA for the last 14 years.

But as others have said, the felony thing prevents weaponizing the justice system against political opponents.

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Good thing the governor is a Democrat and will likely veto this bill.

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My 2012 Impreza has 92k on it and I bet I can put another 100k on, easy.

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Is tomato bisque a soup or a warm vegetable smoothie?

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"All the, derivatives. True care. Truth brings."

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Looks like you've got yourself a Full House!

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Texas, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming

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I'm an Iota male. Often misinterpreted as a unit of measurement.

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Given the position of this statement in the article, I'm guessing they are trying to imply a correlation in rate of aging. Like 1 dog year = 7 human years. They are further implying that if a mouse maintains immunity for 90 days, a human would maintain immunity for 10 years.

It should be clear that it is the reporter stating this, not the original authors of the study.

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I am a molecular biologist, and it kinda works this way. B cells are called memory cells because they hold onto that "memory" of the invader for a really long time. You probably haven't had an MMR or a Tetanus vaccine in 10+ years because the body is really good at remembering. But we have to get flu boosters every year because the flu mutates so rapidly that traditional b cells won't recognize the flu after a year of mutating. (RNA viruses can't correct their mutations so they change much faster than bacteria or DNA viruses). RNAi was still pretty new when I was in school and I haven't kept up with the research so I can't speak to it's effectiveness at long term immunity.

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And you are absolutely right to be skeptical about that, that is a crazy level of extrapolation.

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They're the Jedi of the Sea!

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Snape? Kids? .... Nakey time!

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It was the N game for me. And then came RuneScape....

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Jibjab's 2004 election video was so great!

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I've seen some people on YouTube use them to control their CNC.

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I also have been using podcast addict, probably for over 10 years now. You can autodownload new episodes (mine checks daily at 7a and 7p), create custom playlists for juggling multiple podcasts at once, has android auto support, and you don't have to deal with the bs of Spotify.

I'm sure there are a 100 other features I don't know about, but that's what I use.

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Thanks!

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Planting! We are planning on growing a ton of veggies this summer.

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Oh thank you! We have a bunch of seeds started on the kitchen counter, haha, I thing we have brussel sprouts, chives, basil, thyme and maybe something else started already. We will also buy some starters for peppers and zucchini. There's a 3rd box hidden by the deck, and another 12ft x 4ft box on the other side of the yard from the previous owners that has some strawberries still growing that survived the winter.

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I totally will!

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The judge was appointed by trump and should be automatically recused from the case.

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I'm totally in support of disrupting "rich people" activities as a form of climate protest.

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The scooters and the parachute were my two favorites!

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Who is native to Harbor Freight?

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WAR THUNDER forums try not to leak classified information for 10 minutes CHALLENGE: (IMPOSSIBLE!).

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As a molecular biologist, I concur. Although occasionally we get to play with a pink-ish solution.

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Must have been trained on Civilization's Gandhi

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Most companies already have 13 as their policy. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/26/the-right-age-for-kids-to-be-on-social-media-experts-say.html

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Next time you open excel go to the data tab and look at all the things it can do.

It really shouldn't do those things, but it can.

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What do Excel and Incels have in common?

They assume everything is a date.

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A quick Google search looks like Kobo may work for you.

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Oh damn.

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