A man of leisure living in the present, waiting for the future.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’m saying that Hamas’ attacks would not have happened had Palestine not been colonized, its people displaced and massacred at every turn.

    Displacement happened because Palestinians declared war on Israel and lost. Read up on the history of the massacres in mandatory Palestine, slaughtering of Jews was what started this conflict in earnest and made a one state solution impossible.

    Palestinian Arabs were doing this shit long before any colonization happened, until that point the Jews were legally buying land.




  • Cystic fibrosis affects around 100,000 people worldwide, and for many years was considered a life-limiting condition. However, a study this year projected that treatment with drugs such as Trikafta (comprising elexacaftor, tezacaftor and ivacaftor) — approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2019 — can increase life expectancy from around 30 to more than 80 years2.

    I hadn’t heard of Trifakta before, this is wonderful news! It seems we are on the verge of curing many formerly incurable diseases.

    This is why our lives are better than those of our ancestors, the incremental work of dedicated scientists like these. They have my deepest appreciation and thanks.