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RealUltimatePower 1 point ago +1 / -0

One thing that jumps out at me in that report is the fact that George Floyd had Sickle Cell trait. That alone could have caused his death.

Everyone thinks that people who are heterozygous for Sickle Cell are asymptomatic (that is, they have one Sickle gene, and one normal gene), and that's usually true... EXCEPT under conditions of extreme exertion. Under those conditions, or under conditions of marked hypoxia, a person with Sickle Trait actually CAN sickle.

This is well-known... in fact, it's one of the causes of sudden death during training in African American military recruits.

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RealUltimatePower 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nah, bro. Video games started with my generation (X'er here). My boomer parents were grown-ass adults when I was squandering my teenage years in the arcade.

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RealUltimatePower 8 points ago +8 / -0

Old Slashdotters of the world unite!

How low is your UID?

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RealUltimatePower 22 points ago +23 / -1

This guy punks.

Older pede here as well. Was a punk in the 1980s (dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, etc). A true punk or anarchist would be appalled at the way some of the supposed free-thinking "radicals" (Hellooooo Tom Morello) suck up to the conventional power structure.

Just admit you're a Leftist True Believer and stop wearing the mantle of anti-establishment... because you ARE the establishment. You were all about "sticking it to the man" until YOUR guys became "The Man."

Just stop.

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RealUltimatePower 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's long past time for the Social Media companies to have a knot jerked in their tail.

They've had it both ways for far too long