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A school in Massachusetts is being sued due to a strong wifi signal agitating a young child's electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome.  Thought it was a good laugh as obviously no court would ever take this shit seriously.  Then saw that a woman in France has been awarded disability for "EHS".  Is this going to be the new "spilled hot coffee on me" lawsuit craze?

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We are able to rewrite genetic codes and do so cheaply

The advance is based on a technique that allows scientists to narrow in on a specific gene and cut-and-paste bits of DNA to change its function, known as CRISPR-Cas9. Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley and her colleagues first discovered this natural process that bacteria use to protect themselves against invading viruses.

But the technique is much more powerful than that it basically gives scientists the ability to rewrite specific chunks of an organisms genetic code, including that of humans.


We have to perfect the techniques and improve the success rate, but biological immortality will eventually happen.
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A school in Massachusetts is being sued due to a strong wifi signal agitating a young child's electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome.  Thought it was a good laugh as obviously no court would ever take this shit seriously.  Then saw that a woman in France has been awarded disability for "EHS".  Is this going to be the new "spilled hot coffee on me" lawsuit craze?


The spilled coffee in that McDonalds law suit caused serious burns, and the coffee was served at an absurdly high temperature. All i know about the EMF sensitivity is what I've seen on Better Call.Saul.
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The spilled coffee in that McDonalds law suit caused serious burns, and the coffee was served at an absurdly high temperature. All i know about the EMF sensitivity is what I've seen on Better Call.Saul.

I didn't intend to start a discussion on whether or not coffee is meant to be hot or if there's any such thing as frivolous lawsuits.  I just think it's interesting that EHS could be treated as something real in the courts.  While it may be a symptom of an actual illness, on it's own it's not a real thing.  

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Surely the EHS craze is over by now, it was the made-up ailment of the Noughties which hardly anyone mentions now. What next, someone claiming to have been ritually abused by Satanists wearing Frankie Says T-shirts?
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This list someone posted to Facebook is actually pretty cool:

 

1. The object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.
 
2. The sinking of the Titanic must have been a miracle to the lobsters in the kitchen.
 
3. Instead of all the prequel and sequel movies coming out, they should start making “equels” - films shot in the same time period as the original film, but from an entirely different perspective.
 
4. X88B88 looks like the word "voodoo" reflecting off of itself.
 
5. April Fools Day is the one day of the year that people critically evaluate news articles before accepting them as true.
 
6. Websites should post their password requirements on their login pages so I can remember WTF I needed to do to my normal password to make it work on their site.
 
7. Now that cellphones are becoming more and more waterproof, pretty soon it will be okay to push people into pools again.
 
8. I used hola unblocker to watch Argo on the Canadian Netflix. I was an American who had to pretend to be Canadian to watch a movie about Americans who have to pretend to be Canadians making a movie.
 
9. Maybe 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?' isn't a show that displays how stupid grown adults can be, but rather, a show that depicts how much useless information we teach grade schoolers that won't be retained or applicable later in life.
 
10. Last night my friend asked to use a USB port to charge his cigarette, but I was using it to charge my book. The future is stupid.
 
11. When Sweden is playing Denmark, it is SWE-DEN. The remaining letters, not used, is DEN-MARK.
 
12. "Go to bed, you'll feel better in the morning" is the human version of "Did you turn it off and turn it back on again?"
 
13. In the future, imagine how many Go-Pros will be found in snow mountains containing the last moments of people's lives.
 
14. We should have a holiday called Space Day, where lights are to be shut off for at least an hour at night to reduce light pollution, so we can see the galaxy.
 
15. Your shadow is a confirmation that light has traveled nearly 93 million miles unobstructed, only to be deprived of reaching the ground in the final few feet thanks to you.
 
16. Senior citizen discounts should just round dollar amounts down so we don't have to wait in line behind them while they dig for change.
 
17. I have never once hit the space bar while watching a YouTube video with the intention of scrolling halfway down the page
 
18. Since smart watches can now read your pulse, there should be a feature that erases your browser history if your heart stops beating.
 
19. Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds super rad if you don’t know what either of those things are.
 
20. The person who would proof read Hitler's speeches was literally a grammar Nazi
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I read this very interesting essay about the Myth of the Chastity Belt. To briefly sum it up, they didn't really exist in the Middle Ages, were basically a joke/metaphor in the 15th and 16th centuries, and it wasn't until the 19th century that they actually started showing up mostly for kinky purposes or in reference to beliefs about the myth. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they showed up for the same reason that the myth of "Prima Noctis" lasted - it was a way to show how "barbaric" those medieval folks were compared to us in our more enlightened age. 

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Surely the EHS craze is over by now, it was the made-up ailment of the Noughties which hardly anyone mentions now. What next, someone claiming to have been ritually abused by Satanists wearing Frankie Says T-shirts?

I was ritually abused by Satanists wearing Frankie Says t-shirts....

 

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3. Instead of all the prequel and sequel movies coming out, they should start making “equels” - films shot in the same time period as the original film, but from an entirely different perspective.

Actually, I've noticed this is a thing. On Netflix I've seen two series of "equels". One consists of two French films by Daniel Auteuil called Maurice and Fanny. The films overlap a bit focusing on the perspective of each character. 

 

The other series is three films called The Disappearance of Elenor Rigby starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy. Each film is subtitled Him, Her, and Them, showing the events from his/her perspective.

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