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Pfizer is attempting a lot these days.

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Put differently: Once Rittenhouse fired his first shots, he and his attackers plausibly entered a context in which neither could be held legally liable for killing the other. Whether one emerged from this confrontation legally innocent or lawfully executed hinged on little more than one’s relative capacity for rapidly deploying lethal violence. Rittenhouse had a more powerful weapon and a quicker trigger finger than Huber or Grosskreutz. Thus, he may well walk free, in full health, while Huber lies in a grave and Grosskreutz gets by without the bulk of his right bicep.

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In the ongoing trial of Travis McMichael for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, McMichael has claimed that he killed the unarmed African American jogger in self-defense. In McMichael’s account, he and his two co-defendants pursued Arbery in hopes of making a citizen’s arrest, as they believed him to be responsible for a spate of neighborhood burglaries. After chasing Arbery down in a pickup truck, McMichael ran out and confronted Arbery. He alleges that Arbery then tried to grab his gun, at which point he shot Arbery in self-defense.

McMichael’s self-defense claim looks dubious to my non-lawyer eyes. But even if we stipulate its truth and legal validity, it seems clear that Arbery had every bit as valid a legal basis for killing McMichael in this confrontation. Three strangers chased Arbery in vehicles and then ran toward him with guns. If Arbery had taken McMichael’s firearm and then shot McMichael with it, could a prosecutor have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Arbery hadn’t done so out of a reasonable belief that he faced an imminent threat of great bodily harm?

In the firefight that led to Breonna Taylor’s death, authorities found that neither Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who shot into a group of plainclothes officers as they forced their way into her apartment, nor the police officers who fired 32 shots in response, killing Taylor, provably violated the law. Taylor had a plausible basis for believing that the police officers were actually intruders, and the cops a plausible basis for believing they were being deliberately targeted as officers of the law.

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etterath

n. the feeling of emptiness after a long and arduous pro- cess is finally complete—having finished school, recovered from surgery, or gone home at the end of your wedding— which leaves you relieved that it’s over but missing the stress that organized your life into a mission.

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Maybe this time we shouldn’t have meddled.

The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

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Cover web. The wings of insects. 1918.

Internet Archive

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leaving my job in 2 weeks + sitting in a meeting listening to literally every division of product development complain about lack of headcount and resources and skill and talent gaps.

beautiful and satisfying

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Can you all make the leap from measures of intelligence being fake to intelligence being inherently a false concept please

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“Geometric representation of various levels of receptaculitid surfaces.” Surficial pattern of receptaculitids. 1969.

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Alaska fall colors, coming in hot! 

An Arctic National Wildlife Refuge mood and photo by @usfws’s Sara Wolman. Photo description: A creek cuts through an orange and auburn brushy area. Mountains can be seen in the distance.

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mad respect for our men in stem (sewing, tidying up, errand running, making dinner)

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Measure infinitely many times, cut never.

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Together we will live forever....

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sometimes you are both at the same time

surviving abuse at an early age leaves many people feeling like they aren’t able to appropriately form connections with other people. some people form attachments too quickly, while others are avoidant of relationships. both of these responses are normal, and neither mean that you’re broken! over time, these can change as you recover.

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Gault Village shopping center, fully vacant as of this summer

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it’s always 4:20 in this house