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(via Trial of brain injury implant at Stanford proves so successful patients refuse to turn it off)
A brain implant that allows people with head injuries to function again proved so successful in a trial that participants refused to turn the device off.
The first known online transaction took place in 1971 when students at Stanford University used the ARPANET (a precursor to the internet) to arrange the sale of a small amount of marijuana. The transaction was between students in the artificial intelligence lab at Stanford and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). However, it doesn't technically qualify as a transaction because no money was exchanged online; the network was solely used to coordinate a meeting place. So, what was the first thing ever sold online?
I love hugs so much. You guys give the best hugs, and every year I look forward to going back. I intensely miss everyone who’s moving on, and I know I’ll be the one leaving too in a couple years. This last week especially was unforgettable, and I always feel so loved and understood by you people. I can’t wait to get a chance to give back next year. I love you all so much. I can still feel the hugs. I can still hear the tearful goodbyes and the “I love you”’s. The circumstances that brought us together may not be desired ones, but I’m grateful it brought such amazing people into my life. I may have to return to reality for the rest of the year, but now I have the magic to handle it all. You guys make me so happy. I cry so much at camp every year. I can’t say how much it means to me that I can go to camp and be with everyone thanks to everything you do.
Rapist Brock Turner gets off with just a slap on the wrist? WTF???
Unfortunately, this is all the result of sexism/rape culture/white male privilege/patriarchy/university politics/legal system corruption. Am I forgetting something? There are no words to express my rage about this situation. My thoughts are with the woman who fell victim to this disgusting, lowest of the low scumbag. She has showed incredible strength and courage and I wish her from the bottom of my heart a peaceful and fulfilling life. As for him, the legal system doesn’t want to punish him as it should so I hope that AT THE VERY LEAST the rest of his life will be a living hell. AS IT SHOULD BE. Turner’s dad…another pathetic excuse of a human being. Your son is so stressed he can’t eat? TOUGH LUCK. His life will never be the same? TOO FUCKING BAD. That’s what happens or rather, SHOULD happen when you rape someone. Why the FUCK should anyone care about whether a rapist’s life will be ruined or not? MAYBE WE SHOULD ASK THE ACTUAL VICTIM OF THIS CRIME ABOUT HOW HER LIFE HAS CHANGED AND SEE WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY. MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP HAVING COMPASSION FOR THE RAPIST INSTEAD OF THE VICTIM. And seriously, the part were he talks about his son “educating” people is beyond manipulative, patronising and minimizing. So, you fancy your son educating people huh? On what, exactly? The pitfalls of alcohol and promiscuity? Just…talk about victim-blaming and derailing from the fact that your son is a sex offender…Which brings us to: “20 minutes of action”. This is one of the most insulting, offensive, dehumanizing things I have ever read in my entire life. I can’t believe that he reduced a mentally and physically painful and traumatic situation to the amount of time it lasted. BTW, shooting someone takes one second, not that this is relevant in any way - I’m just sayin’. As for him calling the rape “action”…I can only hope he and his son get what they deserve, somehow. It doesn’t matter if a man has been a saint all his life, it doesn’t matter if he has never raped someone before, it doesn’t matter if he won’t be able to handle prison. You do the crime, you do the time. The DESERVING time. No leniency, no pandering, no bending over backwards to accommodate YET ANOTHER male. Let’s show empathy and care to the victim, not the rapist.