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I guess the reason all that Backrooms stuff has never really fazed me is because I worked in on-site networking support for a while, and literally every city's downtown district is just Like That once you get off the beaten path. Not just the really big cities, either; the one I'm currently living in has a population of less than 250 000 – metro area included – and a downtown area about six blocks across, and the service corridors still manage to do some House of Leaves shit. At one point I was trying to map the route of a misbehaving network cable, started out in a shopping mall parking garage, and ended up surfacing in the basement of the casino across the street. Totally unsecured – apparently neither the mall's administration nor the casino's managers knew that particular service corridor existed.

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It’s like every week something weird happens.

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Abstract Early racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates have been attributed primarily to personal vaccine attitudes and behavior. Little attention has been paid to the possibility that inequitable vaccine distribution may have contributed to racial disparities in vaccine uptake when supplies were most scarce. We test the hypothesis that scarce vaccines were distributed inequitably using the shipping addresses of 385,930 COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed in the first 17 weeks of Pennsylvania’s Phase 1 rollout (December 14, 2020 through April 12, 2021). All shipments we analyze were allocated via the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, a public-private partnership coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Overall, White people had an average of 81.4% more retail pharmacy program doses shipped to their neighborhoods than did Black people. Regression models reveal that weekly vaccine allocations determined by pharmacy chains—rather than initial shipment and administration site decisions requiring state and federal approval—drove these effects. All findings remained consistent after controlling for neighborhood differences in income, population density, insurance coverage, number of pharmacies, and other social determinants of health.

Our findings suggest that the private distribution of scarce public resources should be assessed for racial impact, regulated as public resources, and monitored continuously.

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ill be real the "poly people are uglyyy" thing just feels like cope? like theyre in a polycule. they have directly proven that multiple people find them hot enough to want to be in a relationship, often sexual, with. you have what? one single Monogamous Jessica and you're terrified she'll leave you when she sees a rooster with bigger tail feathers?

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If a trans girl tells you that she wants to start dressing more femme and your response is "but you're conforming to gender stereotypes" then she is entitled to punch you in the face as hard as she wants

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“she’s got legs for days” pfffft not impressive. i;ve had mine for years

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us tv: reviewed 

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i dont know if im going to be on nauhgty or nice list

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WE DONT NEED ANY MORE COP LESBIAN CHARACTERS OHHH MY GODDDDD

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holy cr*p guys...

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anyways, thinking about how late act 5 act 2's rose going grimdark parallels & contrasts kanaya turning glowing... ugh i love this comic

Some say she married a god.

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everyone’s talking about how unhinged fans are nowadays about their blorbos. well let me tell you that when the polish writer henryk sienkiewicz first published his novel ‘with fire and sword’ in parts between 1883 and 1884, and killed off the beloved character longinus podbipięta, people nationwide were so upset they’d go to church and ask for requiem masses to be held in his memory. match THAT freak

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i forgot bro had sbahj as like the first thing on his terrible content aggregator app like. on one hand that's genuinely very sweet the… everything else about bro being the Worst Parent Known To Man aside but on the other. just like. i want to scream bc like! even at this point bro and dave's whole thing is very obviously abusive even at this point! like it’s not played seriously bc Dave still thinks bro is cool and could never do wrong but like, Dave is also very obviously written as being desperately trying to justify that to himself constantly. it’s pretty clearly not healthy if you think about it. but also even here back before the comic became the nightmare of characterisation it would turn into there’s already depth and nuance here. dave has reasons for thinking bro is cool, because he’s not some caricatured monster. i mean, he got into a lot of his hobbies seemingly bc bro introduced him to them, he does spend time with dave that Isn’t abusive and that dave genuinely enjoys, things are fine until they aren’t and that’s what allows dave to justify being physically abused regularly as just a brotherly thing and the neglect as more an annoyance than everything and bro recording him for his weird puppet kink site as just an ironic joke. because abusers are just evil people deep down, right? and bro isn’t evil, dave knows that. bro cares about him, so really it’s fine. but the thing is- bro can care about dave, and i think that’s pretty undeniable from what we see in the comic, he thinks he’s doing the right thing for his adoptive brother he loves. and that does not make what he’s doing any less abusive or traumatic. like i don’t know how much of this was intentional or not but it’s a surprisingly realistic portrayal of abuse from a mostly lighthearted (at this point) comic and it’s something i really appreciate. dave isn’t a perfect victim, bro isn’t a monster, and that does not make what happened to dave any less horrific.