@db6d888b@30ce86c6 Rubella infection during the first half of pregnancy was a major cause of congenital deafness & blindness before we controlled Rubella with infant vaccination. The earlier program of vaccinating teenage girls did not work very well because it left rubella circulating in the community. It also allowed men to suffer infertility caused by rubella.
@b870d4c8 I have seen no evidence the Armenian population of "Artsakh" is being expelled. They seem to be voluntarily fleeing in fear of maltreatment, not expelled.
After what their compatriots did in the early 1990s, driving out the Azerbaijanis from large areas, that is a reasonable fear, but it isn't expulsion.
@9ac07000 Sadly the Melbourne City blood donation centre has a history of not valuing donors' time, often wasting an hour. That's what stopped me donating.
I don't know if they've improved.
They often sell plasma commercially, so not valuing donor's time is offensive.
Wow! 1980s Psychology professor to class with 1 black student:
"He proclaimed that we were ranked intellectually with Asian people being more intelligent than whites and Blacks being more or less intelligent than white people.
"A student asked at that time, 'Is this always the case? Can we always guarantee that this will be the case?' And he then turned to the class and said there is some variation except if you are Black. If you are Black, you are genetically inferior and intellectually inferior to all other races."
The arrogance, inhumanity & this is a meaningless statement "you are genetically inferior and intellectually inferior to all other races."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/black-student-never-got-apology-philippe-rushton-teachings-1.5657024
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Unusual qualifier from Trump: "If guilty" 'We will put them all in jail'
He usually just assumes the guilt.
The most respected person won't be most respected if they become Trump's attorney general.
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"Rebuilt Microsoft Teams app promises twice the speed and half the RAM usage" this will be nice since Teams is clunky & slow on my work laptop & makes everything malfunction if I'm on a video or screen sharing call. Ie. It's terrible. It didn't lock the laptop up 3 years ago, so either they've bloated it more or work's "endpoint protection" is more intrusive.
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