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Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title, had his passport revoked, and faced a five-year prison term for refusing to serve in the U.S. Armed Services at the height of the Vietnam War.
Following his suspension for refusing military service, Ali reclaimed the heavyweight title two more times during the 1970s, winning famed bouts against Joe Frazier and George Foreman along the way.
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OK, so this article is pretty terrifying:
Post-COVID lungs worse than the worst smokers' lungs, surgeon says
I quote:
She says patients who've had COVID-19 symptoms show a severe chest X-ray every time, and those who were asymptomatic show a severe chest X-ray 70% to 80% of the time. "There are still people who say 'I'm fine. I don't have any issues,' and you pull up their chest X-ray and they absolutely have a bad chest X-ray," she said. In X-ray photos of a normal lung, a smoker's lung and a COVID-19 lung that Bankhead-Kendall shared with CBS Dallas, the healthy lungs are clean with a lot of black, which is mainly air. In the smoker's lung, white lines are indicative of scarring and congestion, while the COVID lung is filled with white.
Edit: see @QuillcrestFalconer comment's below; he's right that the article may be a tad alarmist.
I remember reading earlier this year that unless people have progressed to the point of emphysema, the lungs are incredibly versatile and able to rejuvenate.
Yes, but once actual scarring occurs it cannot be reversed as far as I know.
This article was posted on r*ddit and the first comment says this article refers to scans of people currently infected, and that scans taken months after the infection are mostly back to normal
Thanks a lot, you appear to be right. It's probably more nuanced though - there are research papers appearing on long term effects now, and they usually paint a worrying picture (though usually not for the asymptomatic infections).
When the BLM protests were happening, there was so much information going around about keeping your identity hidden and how to not get tracked with your cell phone and all that. And then the chuds storming the Capital were all streaming and showing their faces and now they're getting arrested after being tracked down through social media and cell phone records. If anything, it's a strong reminder to the left to continue to focus on privacy and being as untraceable as possible.
And they’ll continue to get better so our op sec will also need to continue to improve. We need to stay updated.
I'm all for green energy but my neighbors solar panels are pissing me off. They're shining right into my window and blinding me whenever I try to get out of bed.
Typing this from a secure blanket bunker :comfy:
Hehe I did for a while. But I've cozeyed out for long enough, time to begin the day 😤
I have the same problem with street lamps. Considering getting a sling shot almost every night, on an unrelated topic.
You can get a daisy BB gun for like 40 bucks. Perfect for street lights and some quiet fun out in the woods with cans or bottles.
I got wooden blinds that usually protect me, I just left them open last night
Ok here’s what I don’t get- if the sunlight is getting harnessed by the photoelectric effect, how come so much visible light is reflected off of solar panels?
We're in fuckin 1320 motherfucker
You are a serf.
Bitch, you live in Alsace.
You are a peasant. You need to give your fuckin' lord the grain. Your fucking children, you've had 15 children. You've never taken a bath. You've literally never. washed. your. penis. You've never used toilet paper. Motherfucker, you have worms. You are dying. You've had 40 children, 3 of them are alive. 2 of them are child soldiers in the Duke's army.
Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36. You fucking can't read. You don't know what TV is. If you were transported into today, you would be the worst gamer of all time. You don't know shit. You literally probably don't even know what the direction 'left' is. I'm sure some Medieval guy is gonna get mad at me for this, bitch I've been to the Renaissance Fair. I've eaten a large turkey wing, which the Juggalos call 'bitch beaters', which I think is problematic but a funny thing to call them.
Motherfucker, you gotta recognize where you are, and then you gotta get past that. You gotta be unemotional. You can't sink into this hole. You live in the oubliette. Your job is to crawl up the ladder, motherfucker. You live in the HOLE. You're in the HOLE. You are a RAT. And the rat, when he's in the hole gets fucked. People only throw trash in the hole.
You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and...
End. This. Nightmare.
uhh let me be clear that the plague is fake news spread by Władysław Łokietek to distract from the fact that we’re all on a gold standard and 14th century Africa is the richest continent as a result
We’re in fuckin 1320 motherfucker
You are a serf.
Bitch, you live in Alsace.
You are a peasant.
Bitch, the greatest thing you can hope for is to die at the old age of 36.
tbh this would be preferable to my current reality
I am reading Milton Friedman. This motherfucker is talking about privatizing national parks. I can't. These are the people that won. Let me out.
So the US hits 400k corona deaths this week. Will it even generate a headline? I feel like no one cares that 1 in roughly 800 Americans died and these new variants are spreading like wildfire
we have already failed at climate change response. Climate change is already here.
lol yeah we shot the shit about the site. they primarily just browse the dunk tank
they have lots and lots of guns which is very hott
very cool guy, prolly gonna hang with them more
met them and found out they were a chapo by talkin about reddit
Taking psychic damage every time I watch a Youtube video filmed 9-10 months ago and hear people talk about how long they think the quarantine will last
I said 18 months in March and got laughed at several times
turns out America spends like 20% of its gdp on health care but can’t even distribute a vaccine
so maybe years of quarantine or maybe we just get tired of it and let 3 million Americans die
who the fuck knows
18 months is summer, we'll probably have a reasonable vaccine program by summer.
Won't be over, but a vaccine program will be running.
I just rewatched this video about how Nanjing handled it way back when, and now I'm kinda seething that we've still not done anything like the QR codes in public transport
Went to a castle ruin this morning, lockdown claustrophobia has receded. I didn't think we'd be able to get in, but the gates were open so we just wandered around! There was this really cute cat who seems to have missed humans a lot, she followed us around everywhere. Cat, castle, snow... I feel very chill right now.
In my ideal socialist society, we would build castles and fortresses in public parks and then blow them up so that people can play and have picnics in the ruins.
18th century European gardening but make it communist
Honestly I think it's one of my favourite things about living in Central Europe. Driving along or taking a walk, looking mostly at fields and cows, and suddenly on another hill you see a random castle ruin
Wow going to castle ruins sounds like a great prospect.
lockdown claustrophobia has receded.
Nice
It's so funny, last summer I hiked to that castle from a nearby town, 25km round trip. It felt like such an achievement to get there!! Today we drove.... it took us 20 minutes... :''') I think I'm gonna try to visit a ruin a weekend, there's over a dozen small ones within an hour's drive.
I just saw someone suggesting that anyone that isn't poor who's a leftist is doing "class colonialism" :agony:
The capitalists will not allow vat grown meat to happen, no not because it would kill the existing meat industry, but because the left unity that would result from the vegan debates becoming obsolete would be too powerful for capitalism to survive.
So, the FBI knew years earlier that right-wing extremists were going to be the biggest threat and did fuck all to stop them?
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Strong Peter Parker/Spiderman vibes coming off this post
mask circumventing variant of COVID
I follow the science kinda closely, and I don't think this is true.
Yeah idk where all the N95s are, they should be giving them out for free
