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That sounds very much like something I had in early December, which was the first time I'd gotten sick in a couple of years. So far as I know, I never ran a fever and never really felt very bad elsewhere (just not 100%), but I don't think the glands underneath my jawline had ever swollen that large, my throat had ever been that soar (this part was really brief), or my voice more hoarse. It wasn't that terrible the whole time, but I think it lasted about a week and a half, all told. I don't know what it was, but it eventually went away.
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As far as I've heard, the measles outbreak is in Gaines County (Seminole area), not Lubbock, which is the nearest "big city". One thing to know about this county is that during the 1990s and 2000s, a huge number of Mennonites relocated to the county from Chihuahua, MX, with many of them regularly traveling back and forth between their local community and the one in Mexico. Many of their kids don't go to public schools and, like the adults, go unvaccinated. For example, the Covid vaccination rate for the county's total population was 22%, one of the lowest rates for a county in the entire US. Lubbock County was 49%, which is still far lower than Travis at 71% (Bexar 72%, Harris 65%, Dallas 61%, Tarrant 57%). News on the outbreak in Gaines Co.: https://www.kcbd.com/2025/02/06/lubbock-public-health-confirms-measles-outbreak-gaines-county-increased-risk-unvaccinated-individuals/
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If you have anyone in your life that you think might be persuaded as to what's going on and they're just not quite there yet in recognizing what the threat is, this puts it all together. Share this with them.
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"I knew there was no ceiling but holy fucking shit!"
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Logo on the cap checks out. Comments convey frustration at US SENATORS following the orders of a rent-a-cop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Canopy
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Global Temperatures Shattered Records in January Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which typically bring cooler temperatures. Even as much of the United States shivered under frigid conditions last month, the planet as a whole had its warmest January on record, scientists said on Thursday. The warmth came as something of a surprise to climate researchers. It occurred during La Niña conditions in the Pacific Ocean, which tend to lower the globe’s average temperature, at least temporarily. Earth’s surface has now been so warm for so much of the past two years that scientists are examining whether something else in the planet’s chemistry might have changed, something that is boosting temperatures beyond what carbon emissions alone can explain. Those emissions, the byproduct of burning coal, gas and oil, remain the main driver of global warming, which reached record levels in both 2023 and 2024. It’s because of La Niña that scientists expected this year to be slightly cooler than the past two years, both of which experienced the opposite pattern, El Niño. The waters of the eastern tropical Pacific oscillate between El Niño and La Niña conditions, influencing weather worldwide by changing the balance between heat in the ocean and heat in the air. But a host of other factors figure into global temperatures as well. At the moment, chances aren’t high that 2025 will end up being the hottest year on the books, Russell Vose, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told reporters recently. But this time last year, researchers were saying much the same thing about 2024, Dr. Vose said. They were wrong. “So it’s a tough game, forecasting global temperature,” Dr. Vose said. According to Copernicus, the European Union climate monitoring agency, last month was much balmier than usual in northern Canada, Alaska and Siberia, as well as parts of Australia and Antarctica. Abnormally high temperatures above the Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea helped shrink Arctic sea ice to a record low for January, Copernicus said. As scientists try to explain the unending streak of worldwide warmth, one thing they’ve focused on is reductions in air pollution. In a report this week, James Hansen, the famed former NASA scientist, argued that cutting pollution had already played a big role in causing global warming to accelerate. The reason is a little counterintuitive: For decades, humans have not only been emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases when they burn fossil fuels. They’ve also been spewing tiny sulfate particles into the air. These particles spur the formation of more and brighter clouds, which help shield Earth from the sun. But as regulators have curbed sulfate pollution to protect people’s lungs, this cooling effect has diminished, exposing the planet to more of the full force of greenhouse warming. Three decades ago, Dr. Hansen was among the first scientists to draw broad attention to climate change. Speaking to reporters this week, he argued that the United Nations was ill-prepared to address accelerated warming. The U.N.’s approach to meeting its climate goals still counts on societies to slash their carbon emissions in the coming decades, he said. Those goals now look “impossible” to achieve, Dr. Hansen said, “unless some miracle occurs that we don’t understand.”
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Trump administration to keep only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 globally, sources say
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Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs
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@Elvis And this:
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I suspect he's not talking about simple partisan policy differences and debating those out, but instead, it's likely more about how Elon's site boosts Nazis and racist content. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-antisemitic-comments-x-post-actual-truth/ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-musk-nazi-extremist-white-nationalist-accounts-rcna145020 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-german-afd-alice-weidel-anti-immigrant-party-live-event-x-rcna186950
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Against Civil Rights, for eugenics, against miscegenation. STOP CALLING THEM RACIST NAZIS!!! -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
18-year-old Venezuelan kid, entered legally with asylum through the CBP app. Arrested at home in Cedar Park and is currently in detention in Taylor, awaiting deportation. https://www.kut.org/2025-02-06/ice-has-detained-a-cedar-park-teen-with-no-criminal-record-its-happening-to-migrants-nationwide -
Reagan did grant amnesty to almost 3 million illegal immigrants.
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