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@Average_Jonas This has nothing to do with my comment.

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@Average_Jonas Those taxes fund your protection in Norway too. That’s what Europeans (and Americans) don’t realize. You get the social safety net because you don’t have to fund an effective military. We got your 6, venn.

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@octagonobsessed Idk if Tom ever sees fully again.

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@dst6n01 Did you steal that story from my mom? She was talking to friends in college and they asked her what she thought about euthanasia. She said “Well I feel the same I feel about youth in Europe, youth in Africa.”

[barrel rolls @barrel_rolls]

you can lead a horse to baja but you can’t make it blast

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@dmv0928 @connerburks @arielhelwani Yeah, no way. It’s probably close to 100% on the bottom level, 50% on the second, and 10% on the top.

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@alittleleader Cookout. Let’s fucking goooooooo

[Yikes is my catchphrase @big_yyikes]

Let’s make this Texas Roadhouse into a Texas roadhome

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@DibbenSauz @LokiJulianus You’re a racist and I can’t wait for the day you are dead.

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@ItsWhitneyLeann It’s at least hard to spread

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Three people just died of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship. The strain kills nearly 40% of the people it infects. And yet no virologist on earth is panicking about a pandemic, because the reason it stays small is one of the strangest rules in disease science.

The rule is simple. The deadlier a virus is, the harder it is to spread.

If a virus kills you in days, you can't ride a bus, board a plane, or even leave the hospital. You're in a bed or a body bag. Either way, the virus killed its only ride.

Hantavirus has been around for at least 70 years, but fewer than 1,000 Americans have ever caught it. The CDC says it kills 38% of those who do. The cruise ship strain, called Andes, kills closer to 40%. If hantavirus spread like COVID, it would kill billions. But it can't.

Most hantaviruses spread only one way. You breathe in tiny dust particles from rat or mouse pee, droppings, or spit. No mice in your house, no virus. The cruise ship is the rare exception, because the Andes strain can spread between people, but it usually needs close contact like spouses sharing a bed. A Johns Hopkins virologist called Andes spread "unbelievably rare."

Compare it to the viruses that scared the world. Ebola kills 60 to 90% of people, but only through bodily fluids and only late in the illness, so each patient passes it to fewer than 2 others. SARS killed 10% before being wiped out in 8 months. MERS killed 35% but never spread far beyond the Middle East. None of them became pandemics, because the spread was always too slow.

Then COVID showed up. It killed about 1 in every 100 people who caught it. That is almost nothing compared to hantavirus. But COVID was mild enough that you could work for a week without knowing. You would ride the bus, hug your kid, eat lunch with a coworker, and infect four other people. It killed 7 million.

Flu works the same way. Mild fever, sore throat, but you still drag yourself to school or the office. The virus walks right into the next host.

Hantavirus is the opposite. Within 4 to 10 days, your lungs fill with fluid. There's no medicine that fights it and no vaccine to prevent it. The only treatment is a machine that breathes for you, and even that just cuts the death rate from 50% to 20%. Every outbreak, from 3,200 UN soldiers in the Korean War, to the 1993 Four Corners cases, to Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa last year, traces back to mice.

The viruses that worry scientists are the boring ones. The ones that give you a sniffle for a week and let you walk around the city while you're contagious. Hantavirus, brutal as it is, never had the spread to do real damage.

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@lawprofblawg The more airlines we have, the more competitive the prices. The fewer airlines, the more expensive. What are you teaching your students?

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@RealJessica You’re using a dog whistle. I hope god strikes you down.

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@TheStefanSmith I lived there for a few years. I figured because it brought different drivers from all over the world into a fairly small location, so it was a mix of various driving styles and not one singular “driving culture” like there are in other cities.

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@PrayTheRosary You’re weak and your bloodline should perish. I hope your wife leaves you

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@RealDianeYap Your mom fucked up in how she raised you.

[misto @mistowho]

Do British people still do the accent when nobody's around

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@allldiamonds It must be because you have bad money management. I think there a very few exceptions, but mostly, people have very bad money management. Like unless you are in signify medical debt, most of it is bad money management.

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@allie__voss You all should get guns. That’s the great equalizer.

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

If you CC my boss on an email just to “loop him in,” Oh let’s go. Meet me in the Teams chat parking lot