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The UPS driver always leaves packages behind the planter by my door.

Not on the doorstep where they'd be visible.

Behind the planter. Where only someone who lives here would think to look.

Yesterday I saw him arranging it just so, making sure it was completely hidden.

"Porch pirates," he explained with a shrug.

Some people are quietly taking care of everyone.

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A romantic evening for a couple of hummingbirds seeking shelter. 🌹

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“There are no Jews in Gaza and barely any Hindus left in Pakistan.

Meanwhile, millions of Muslims live freely in Israel and India.

Yet somehow, Israel and India are the ones labeled "racist."

Make it make sense.”

-Eyal Yakoby

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there's something antigenic in denmark: boosters show negative vaccine efficacy for cases
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The Unvaccinated Are Looking Smarter Every Week

First, let’s address the intelligence of the unvaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy is multi-factorial and has little to do with level of education or intelligence. Carnegie Mellon University did a study assessing vaccine hesitancy across educational levels. According to the study, what’s the educational level with the most vaccine hesitancy? Ph.D. level! Those can’t all have been awarded to liberal arts majors. Clearly, scientists who can read the data a…

That's right.

The very highly educated can properly evaluate risks and understand "unknown unknowns".

The least educated have a lot of experience with being scammed in real life, and see scams like the vax scams a mile away. The uneducated also were not socialized in college to "trust the media".

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