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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory</strong> - Did the virus spring from nature or from human error? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mysterious-case-of-the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Return-to-Office Quandary</strong> - Ambiguous plans are good for executives but bad for other employees. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/the-return-to-office-quandary">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When Will We Have the Last Oil Spill?</strong> - The latest incident comes as the fossil-fuel industry heads into a terminal decline. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/when-will-we-have-the-last-oil-spill">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Teacher Who Changed How We Teach Writing</strong> - Mike Rose popularized a new model of writing instruction that saw students as struggling to do a very difficult thing. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-teacher-who-changed-how-we-teach-writing">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Bad Case of Scribble Brain</strong> - Thoughts on a lifetime of failing to be “normal.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-bad-case-of-scribble-brain">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>The dark, enthralling power of Succession</strong> -
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<img alt="The various members of the Roy family march down the hall, Kendall and Logan glaring at each
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other." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/b_1gkVBve6k7yUMNz13jk6hje3o=/0x159:1536x1311/1310x983/cdn.vox-
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A promotional poster for the third season of Succession, which premieres October 17, 2021. | HBO
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Five reasons for the HBO drama’s massive footprint on the TV landscape.
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One way to know that <a href="https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GWukCJAq-
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nIuHwwEAAAB4?offer_id=5&transaction_id=1028384285d12b89da23d38fba3a1e&affiliate_id=1008&aff_click_id=102e3ae27b0875137e03d20f413648&utm_source=Vox+Media&utm_medium=affiliate"><em>Succession</em></a> has become one of the signature television shows of the moment is just how thoroughly American TV fandom at large has digested it as a series of quick touchstones. You may not have seen <em>Succession</em>, but maybe you’ve heard about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dUDQTc-9kM">Kendall Roy’s supremely cringey rap</a>, or the line “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezAlySFluEk">You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Greggs</a>.”
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Maybe you’ve seen tweets about how much <a href="https://twitter.com/abbotonline/status/1178428548744392707">the theme song</a> is a banger. Or heard brilliant comedian Demi Adejuyigbe’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-6K2CjJ6dk">Kiss from Daddy</a>,” which adds ridiculous lyrics to said theme song. Perhaps the words “boar on the floor” mean something to you?
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If you’re not a fan of HBO’s darkly comedic primetime soap, you may not be aware of all of the above, but at least one of any number of <em>Succession</em> memes, jokes, and flash points has probably pierced your social media bubble, even if you were completely baffled by it. The show has slowly but surely wormed its way into the hearts of People Who Talk About TV Online, and that has allowed it to become the prestige drama of the moment, winning near-universal critical praise and nine Emmys across its first two seasons.
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A lot of that success is due to how easy it is to boil down the show to its most immediately hilarious jokes, awkward moments, and jaw-dropping plot twists. But I would argue that just as much of it stems from how ably <em>Succession</em> incorporates themes our culture is obsessed with right now. In its portrayal of a broken family that is making the world a little bit worse every single day, the series speaks to an era where billionaires <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/26/elon-musk-says-he-
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will-probably-move-mars/">openly muse about moving to a new planet</a> if we irreparably screw this one up.
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<em>Succession</em> is many, many things, but the series has five specific modes that have made it such a darling of people who care about TV. Those modes illustrate just how completely the series has encapsulated our modern world.
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Mode 1: A lacerating portrayal of wealth’s corruptive power
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<pre><code> <img alt="Logan and Shiv sit in a gorgeous office in the Waystar-Royco home base, framed against a New York </code></pre>
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skyline featuring the setting sun." src=“https://cdn.vox- cdn.com/thumbor/n9FyiKjyzYDf7H9UIzX4ssagW0Q=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox- cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22910918/brian_cox_sarah_snook_0.jpg” /> <cite>HBO</cite></figure></li>
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Succession’s Logan Roy (Brian Cox) games out his next moves with his daughter Shiv (Sarah Snook).
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If you asked even the most casual viewer of <em>Succession</em> to identify its core theme, “wealth corrupts those who hold it” (or something to that effect) would almost surely be part of their answer. Wealth is everywhere in <em>Succession</em>, but it’s rarely displayed ostentatiously. The characters are so used to having obscene amounts of money, they seem unaware that not everyone enjoys the same levels of comfort.
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The Roy family at the center of <em>Succession</em> is a kind of portmanteau of the Murdoch family (owners of the News Corp empire, encompassing Fox News, the Fox Broadcasting Company, and numerous publications) and the Redstone family (majority shareholder of the ViacomCBS empire, which includes numerous TV networks as well as Paramount Pictures). Paterfamilias Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is past his prime, and in the series’ very first episode, he almost dies. But he’s very good at yelling, and everybody around him is so terrified of his whims that he tends to get his way, even when he’s recovering from a debilitating stroke.
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<em>Succession</em>’s first episode almost immediately established just how divorced the Roys are from reality. In one of its most memorable sequences, Roman (Kieran Culkin), the sleazy and opportunistic youngest brother of the family, offers a working-class kid $1 million if he can hit a home run. He can’t, and Roman chuckles at the whole ordeal while a few of the lampreys who have attached themselves to the Roy family’s belly go to pay off the kid’s parents so that they don’t tell anybody anything.
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Broadly speaking, <em>Succession</em> lives within the “primetime soap about a rich family” subgenre, but rather than reveling in the opulence and decadence of extreme wealth in the fashion of <em>Dynasty</em> or <em>Dallas</em>, <em>Succession</em> makes everything feel a little gross. The show is careful to never present wealth as a prison that holds the characters back — they could always just buy six jets and move to Antarctica — but it never loses sight of the fact that <em>we</em>, the viewers, live in a socioeconomic prison built in large part by people who have more money than they could ever reasonably spend.
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Every so often, a character on <em>Succession</em> suggests the Roys are destroying the planet, and the show never offers a response other than, “Yes, almost certainly.” There’s no reason for anybody to have so much money, and the Roys’ wealth serves primarily to make them squabble endlessly with each other over it. <em>Succession</em> makes you empathize with billionaires without ever making you like them. It’s a neat trick.
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Mode 2: An extremely dark comedy
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Make no mistake: <em>Succession</em> is a uniquely despairing drama about a family (and a planet) circling the drain. But the reason it’s watchable at all is that it’s also one of TV’s funniest shows.
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It comes by its comedic bona fides honestly. Creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong was known predominantly for comedy before taking this turn toward the dramatic, having co-created the legendary British series <em>Peep Show</em> and written for the British political satire <em>The Thick of It</em>. He even earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay of <em>In the Loop</em>, the film adaptation of <em>The Thick of It</em>. His keen sense of satire is to <em>Succession</em>’s great benefit.
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Consider, “You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Greggs,” a joke from the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/10/6/20897073/succession-season-2-episode-9-dc-recap-winners-losers-tom-
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greg">penultimate episode of season two</a>. It’s part of an email read by a congressman at a Senate subcommittee hearing investigating the Roy family’s shady handling of sexual assault allegations tied to their cruise line.
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The joke, then, is part of something uniquely dark and horrible, but it’s also just such a good joke. It skillfully plays off the fact that Roy family son-in-law Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) and gangly nephew/cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) are the show’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, lurking around the story’s edges to have comedic side plots that occasionally intersect with the action.
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“Tomelette” and “Greggs” isn’t just a funny combination of puns. It underscores the characters’ roles within both the show and this storyline, as well as the callousness with which the Roy family treats almost every serious wrong committed by Waystar Royco, the media conglomerate the family owns. It might be perfect.
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Beyond oddly significant puns, <em>Succession</em> boasts a thorough command of a wide range of comedic styles. It’s as adroit with cringe comedy as it is with wordplay, and it allows its characters to be clever without turning everyone into a quip machine. I laugh many, many times watching each episode of <em>Succession</em>, without ever feeling like the show undercuts its storytelling with absurdity. It’s a neat trick.
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Mode 3: An accurate, depressing media satire
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><img alt="Kendall and Greg discuss their next moves in the kitchen of Kendall’s ex-wife’s
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apartment." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/3yH3dJhhvcHIDBAAReq-QIOj2-w=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22910927/jeremy_strong_nicholas_braun.jpg"/> <cite>HBO</cite></p>
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Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Greg (Nicholas Braun) try to figure out what’s next after their unlikely media firestorm.
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Early in season two, someone in my office got their hands on a <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyvdw/status/1170035215453999104">baseball cap emblazoned with Vaulter</a>, the fake version of Gawker that the Roy family destroys across the course of <em>Succession</em>’s first two seasons. When I posted a photo of myself wearing it on social media, seemingly every journalist I know reached out to ask where I’d gotten it. They can’t have it. It’s mine.
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I share this anecdote to elucidate the degree to which <em>Succession</em> resonates with media types: Its portrayal of how the Roys blithely destroy everything they touch to protect their own interests emphasizes just how perilous journalism has become at this point in history. Profit margins are razor thin, and increased media consolidation means that independent voices within the industry are largely marginalized or snuffed out. (See also: <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/3/8/11181536/hulk-hogan-gawker">original recipe Gawker</a>.)
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Of all the modes of <em>Succession</em>, “media satire” is the one that probably speaks to the smallest number of people. But at a certain point, if everybody who works in media is watching a show and treating it like it’s the only show on TV that matters, a self-fulfilling prophecy emerges. <em>Succession</em> is popular beyond media bubbles, but its popularity within media bubbles certainly didn’t hurt it with regard to getting early attention.
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I’m not sure that <em>Succession</em> has as much to say about the media as it does many other topics, but maybe the simple act of saying, “This seems like a shitty situation,” is enough in an era when the economic pressures that threaten to suffocate the entire media industry add up to a shitty situation.
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I do find its portrayal of the ways media titans use their companies mostly to create realities where they never need to feel challenged or upbraided appropriately chilling. Logan Roy is really good at yelling at people until reality bends to become what he wants it to be. His media empire is an extension of that.
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On the whole, media is even more incidental to <em>Succession</em> than, say, advertising was to <em>Mad Men</em> or chemistry was to <em>Breaking Bad</em> by merely offering a vague milieu in which the series can take place. Still, whenever <em>Succession</em> drops you into the offices of Waystar Royco, it almost always nails what it’s like to work there. It’s a neat trick.
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Mode 4: An acutely observant exploration of internecine family squabbling
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If <em>Succession</em>’s most obvious ancestral genre is the primetime soap about rich people, it also has a healthy dose of the family drama baked into its DNA. (Then again, most primetime soaps, from <em>Dallas</em> to <em>Empire</em>, are sneakily family dramas.) The core of the series rests atop the ever-shifting relationships among the four Roy siblings, especially as they compete to win their father’s approval and affection.
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The series is at its sharpest when it focuses on the three youngest Roy siblings — depressive would-be heir apparent Kendall (Emmy winner Jeremy Strong), slinky cad Roman, and desperate girlboss Shiv (Sarah Snook). The three have an older half- brother, Connor (Alan Ruck), who has a different mother from them, but Connor is more of a comic-relief character, at least so far.
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<em>Succession</em> is just <em>so smart</em> about the ways siblings both support and undercut each other, sometimes in the same moment. Tentative alliances form among all four of the Roy children, sometimes in opposition to Logan and sometimes in support of him, and the series digs into how these four particular people are the only ones who can know what it’s like to be raised by Logan Roy.
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But the series’ portrayal of complicated family dynamics extends beyond the siblings. Logan’s current wife Marcia (Hiam Abbass) emerges as a key player in her own right across <em>Succession</em>’s first two seasons, while Tom and Greg are more peripheral family members who perpetually seem to be stuck at the kids’ table.
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<em>Succession</em> also broadens its portrayal of family in a metaphorical direction, by underlining the poisonous nature of corporations that insist all their employees are part of a giant family. Waystar Royco might be a family, but it’s just as fucked up as the Roy family. (Keep an eye on J. Smith-Cameron as Gerri, who starts out as a minor player in season one but becomes more and more important as the show continues.)
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Beyond even Waystar Royco’s own staff, the series pulls in a handful of other rich and powerful families for comparison and contrast against the Roy family. Notably, season two introduces the Pierces, a loose riff on the Sulzbergers (owners of the New York Times) and the sort of old-money liberals Logan Roy was so clearly reacting against when he was young and hungry. (<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/9/8/20853285/succession-season-2-episode-5-tern-haven-recap-shiv-logan-
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pierce">The midseason two episode “Tern Haven” is a terrific clash between the two families</a>.)
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If I had to choose just one of its modes to explain why <em>Succession</em> has taken off the way it has, I’d choose this one. The show’s finely tuned understanding of complicated family dynamics means that you can surely find one or two details in its portrayal of the Roy family that resonate with your own life — and might leave you thankful your family isn’t as messed up as the Roys. It’s a neat trick.
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But on the “acutely observed family dynamics” front, the series ultimately goes one level deeper than even that.
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Mode 5: A psychologically trenchant excavation of the legacy of abuse
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><img alt="Roman takes a phone call
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Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) takes a clandestine phone call.
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<em>Succession</em> often portrays Logan Roy as a Shakespearean figure, a little like Lear bellowing at the skies to obey him and not being heard. But because it places his titanic rage within settings that viewers are at least somewhat familiar with — boardrooms and dining rooms — it becomes easier, as the show goes on, to realize Logan is a terrible, abusive parent. At one point in season two, he physically strikes Roman for a minor slight, and all the other siblings either flinch instinctively or stare, dead-eyed, as it happens.
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Logan Roy has always gotten his way. He’s built his life around the idea that because he thinks something is true, it must indeed be true, and he has built a media empire around similar principles of telling people what they want to hear and not what they actually need to know. He shouts and he blusters and he snaps at people, and if he doesn’t get what he wants, anybody close to him feels the effects of his ire.
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In Logan’s case, those who are closest to him have always been his children. <em>Succession</em>’s first season hinted at the depths of sadness to which Logan has driven his kids, and then the second season made that sadness both the subtext and text of nearly every scene. The Roy siblings want so badly to be loved by a man who is only capable of trying to bludgeon them (occasionally literally) into a form that is more pleasing to him, which is to say a form that is more subservient to him.
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Yes, <em>Succession</em> is funny; yes, it’s about wealth; and, yes, it’s really smart about the media. But for my money, the show is smartest about what it means to have an abusive parent. The longer <em>Succession</em> runs, the more Logan’s monstrousness is revealed as critical to the formation of his children. They long desperately to be loved, but what they get is mostly a sense that they have no control over anything in their lives. They spread that lack of control outward to everyone around them. They are a ruling class that does not understand what it means to rule, much less how much their ignorance damages everyone they come into contact with, because all they have known is damage.
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To be alive in the 2020s is to become more and more aware of how deep the rot goes, to realize how unlikely any of us is to turn the car around before it goes over the cliff. We exist in a world full of men who believe that if they shout something loud enough, it is true — and who take extreme<strong> </strong>offense to the idea that maybe they are wrong, no matter how gently we break it to them. <em>Succession</em> captures that feeling, and … I don’t know if it’s a neat trick, but it feels like right now more than any other show on television.
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Succession <em>season three debuts Sunday at 9 pm Eastern </em><a href="https://www.hbo.com/succession"><em>on HBO</em></a><em>, and will run through December. The show is also available to stream on </em><a href="https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GWukCJAq-
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Once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. Sorry!
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If you’ve seen any remotely creepy movie, you’ve heard a loon wail: that mournful, nearly human ooo-ooo-oooo, that can sometimes be mistaken for a coyote or a wolf. For decades, it’s been popping up whenever a movie needs to convey melancholy or trepidation, often accompanied by a full moon or some fog. But for the most part, loons have no business being in the background of those scenes.
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With the help of some internet birders, we took a deep dive (pun intended) into the world of loons to explain how Hollywood misuses this bird call — and why the wail is so haunting in the first place.
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To learn more about loons and what you can do to help protect them and their native habitats, check out the <a href="https://loon.org/">Loon Preservation Committee</a> and the <a href="https://www.adkloon.org/">Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation</a>.
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You can find this video and the entire library of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA"><strong>Vox’s videos on YouTube</strong></a>.
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<li><strong>Maybe losing the AI race to China isn’t such a bad idea</strong> -
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An artificially intelligent robot inspects power lines in Chunzhou, China. | Song Weixing/Visual China Group via Getty Images
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A top Pentagon software official recently quit his job, claiming that the US is dragging its heels.
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The Pentagon’s first-ever chief software officer <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlua2VkaW4uY29tL3B1bHNlL3RpbWUtc2F5LWdvb2RieWUtbmljb2xhcy1tLWNoYWlsbGFuLz9zcmM9YWZmLWxpbHBhciZ2ZWg9YWZmX3NyYy5hZmYtbGlscGFyX2MucGFydG5lcnNfcGt3LjEwMDc4X3BsYy5Ta2ltYml0JTIwTHRkLl9wY3JpZC40NDk2NzBfbGVhcm5pbmcmdHJrPWFmZl9zcmMuYWZmLWxpbHBhcl9jLnBhcnRuZXJzX3Brdy4xMDA3OF9wbGMuU2tpbWJpdCUyMEx0ZC5fcGNyaWQuNDQ5NjcwX2xlYXJuaW5nJmNsaWNraWQ9Vmt6WGxVMk9NeHlJVWg0VUNyUlJXM3lRVWtCWEp2VFRnM0VQd3MwJm1jaWQ9Njg1MTk2MjQ2OTU5NDc2MzI2NCZpcmd3Yz0x/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dBc034271f">abruptly quit</a> earlier this month, and now <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnQuY29tL2NvbnRlbnQvZjkzOWRiOWEtNDBhZi00YmQxLWI2N2QtMTA0OTI1MzVmOGUw/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB9697391e">we know exactly why</a>: Nicolas Chaillan, former CSO of the United States Air Force and Space Force, told the Financial Times that the United States has “no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years” when it comes to cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence.
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Chaillan, a 37-year-old tech entrepreneur, added that cyber defenses at many government agencies are at “kindergarten level,” and that companies like Google were doing the US a disservice by not working with the military more on AI, since Chinese companies were making a “massive investment” in AI without getting all hung up on the ethics of it all. And while quitting your job because America has already lost the AI race is a bit dramatic, Chaillan isn’t the only one who’s concerned about China’s dominance in this arena.
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A growing number of leaders in Washington and Silicon Valley are worried about the US falling behind in the race to AI supremacy. Congressional hearings on the future of AI have been going on <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY29tbWVyY2Uuc2VuYXRlLmdvdi8yMDE2LzExL2NvbW1lcmNlLWFubm91bmNlcy1maXJzdC1hcnRpZmljaWFsLWludGVsbGlnZW5jZS1oZWFyaW5n/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB7fd58196">since 2016</a>, and Chaillan said he plans to testify in some upcoming ones. Earlier this year, the National Security Commission on AI, a project chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, also boldly declared that China <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy8wMi91cy1ub3QtcHJlcGFyZWQtdG8tZGVmZW5kLW9yLWNvbXBldGUtaW4tYWktZXJhLXNheXMtZXJpYy1zY2htaWR0LWdyb3VwLmh0bWw/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB3073e050">is poised to surpass the US</a> as the world’s “AI superpower.” In a statement signed by Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Stephen Hawking, among thousands of scientists, the commission said, “AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.”
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We can all agree that nobody wants China to invent a real-world version of Skynet, the all-powerful AI that <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1fV2xzZDltbGppVQ/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB971de2c5">takes over the planet</a> in the <em>Terminator </em>movies. But we don’t want the US to do that either. And what does the finish line in this AI race actually look like? Does the US really want to win at all costs?
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For years, pundits have been <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly9mb3JlaWducG9saWN5LmNvbS8yMDE3LzExLzAzL3RoZS1uZXh0LXNwYWNlLXJhY2UtaXMtYXJ0aWZpY2lhbC1pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UtYW5kLWFtZXJpY2EtaXMtbG9zaW5nLXRvLWNoaW5hLw/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB2cb6a031">comparing the AI race to the space race </a>— and warning that the US is losing it. It’s a handy analogy, since it helps Americans put current conflicts with countries like China and Russia into the familiar context of the Cold War. Many have argued that we’ve found ourselves <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly9naXptb2RvLmNvbS9tZWV0LXRoZS1uZXctY29sZC13YXItc2FtZS1hcy10aGUtb2xkLWNvbGQtd2FyLTE2NjAzMjgyNzA/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB3bb71c88">in a second Cold War</a> and that the country that wins the AI race will take the throne as the dominant superpower. But the AI revolution isn’t just about fighting wars or geopolitical dominance. What we’re racing to build will transform almost every aspect of our lives, from how we run businesses to how we process information to how we get around.
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So it’s imperative that the US is thoughtful about quickly charging into a future filled with autonomous cars, boundless data collection, and full-time surveillance. These are the applications that next-generation AI will enable, and if a small group of powerful tech companies and/or the US military pushes for innovation without <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly9oYnIub3JnLzIwMjEvMDkvYWktcmVndWxhdGlvbi1pcy1jb21pbmc/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dBdfcbc236">putting the proper guard rails in place</a>, this world-changing technology could lead to some grim unintended consequences. President Biden <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucG9saXRpY28uY29tL25ld3MvMjAyMS8wMy8wMi9jaGluYS11cy1ldXJvcGUtYWktcmVndWxhdGlvbi00NzIxMjA/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB02b5580c">called for the US and Europe to work together</a> on developing new technology responsibly in a February speech at the Munich Security Conference.
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“We must shape the rules that will govern the advance of technology and the norms of behavior in cyberspace, artificial intelligence, biotechnology so that they are used to lift people up, not used to pin them down,” Biden said. “We must stand up for the democratic values that make it possible for us to accomplish any of this, pushing back against those who would monopolize and normalize repression.
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You could also look to present-day China to see what the near future of a more AI-centric society might look like. As Kai-Fu Lee argues in his book <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9BSS1TdXBlcnBvd2Vycy1DaGluYS1TaWxpY29uLVZhbGxleS9kcC8xMzI4NTQ2MzlYLz9vdHM9MSZhc2NzdWJ0YWc9W11kdltwXWNqbjNsNHA4dDAwNHZyMXlldGNtM2pkZzlbaV1Udm5UeWtbdV0xW3Rdd1tyXWdvb2dsZS5jb21bZF1EW3pdbSZ0YWc9ZGV2ZWxvcGluZ255bWFn/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dBf2eaa65d"><em>AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order</em></a>, China has been more aggressive at implementing AI breakthroughs, especially in <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnQuY29tL2NvbnRlbnQvMmYyOTVhOWUtNWY5Ni0xMWU5LWIyODUtM2FjZDVkNDM1OTll/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB7ee3414a">surveillance and data collection applications</a>, thanks in part to government support and a lack of oversight that’s let some tech companies there leapfrog the competition and dominate entire industries. WeChat and its parent company, Tencent, are perfect examples of this. On WeChat, privacy <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly9mb3VuZGF0aW9uLm1vemlsbGEub3JnL2VuL3ByaXZhY3lub3RpbmNsdWRlZC93ZWNoYXQv/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB582dfcf6">does not seem to be a priority</a>, but the vast quantities of data the app can collect are certainly helpful for training AI.
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“Imagine, if you will, that Facebook acquired Visa and Mastercard and integrated everything into the functions, as well as invested money into Amazon and Uber and OpenTable and so on and so forth, and made an ecosystem that once you log into Facebook, all these things are one click away and then you could pay for them with another click,” Lee <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly9ueW1hZy5jb20vZGV2ZWxvcGluZy8yMDE4LzEwL2thaS1mdS1sZWUtc2NvdHQtbWFsY29tc29uLWNoaW5lc2UtZW50cmVwcmVuZXVyc2hpcC1nbG9iYWwtdGVjaC5odG1s/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dBea0e3e1f">told New York magazine</a>. “That is the kind of convenience that WeChat brought about, and its true worth is the gigantic data set of all the user data that goes through it.”
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This is the sort of winning-at-all costs approach that appears to give China a leg up in the AI race. China also <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmhpLm94LmFjLnVrL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9EZWNpcGhlcmluZ19DaGluYXNfQUktRHJlYW0ucGRm/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dBf5bdf8ba">appears to be playing catch-up</a> when it comes to establishing standards for algorithmic ethics. Just last week, the country <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2NtcC5jb20vdGVjaC9iaWctdGVjaC9hcnRpY2xlLzMxNTA3ODkvY2hpbmVzZS1haS1nZXRzLWV0aGljYWwtZ3VpZGVsaW5lcy1maXJzdC10aW1lLWFsaWduaW5nLWJlaWppbmdzLWdvYWw/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB16a83f9a">issued its first-ever guidelines on AI ethics</a>. The US has long known that algorithms <a href="https://link.vox.com/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudm94LmNvbS9yZWNvZGUvMjAyMC8yLzE4LzIxMTIxMjg2L2FsZ29yaXRobXMtYmlhcy1kaXNjcmltaW5hdGlvbi1mYWNpYWwtcmVjb2duaXRpb24tdHJhbnNwYXJlbmN5/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB809149d3">can be racist or sexist</a>, and the Pentagon adopted its guidelines on ethical AI <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmZW5zZS5nb3YvTmV3cy9SZWxlYXNlcy9SZWxlYXNlL0FydGljbGUvMjA5MTk5Ni9kb2QtYWRvcHRzLWV0aGljYWwtcHJpbmNpcGxlcy1mb3ItYXJ0aWZpY2lhbC1pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2Uv/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB5280c257">nearly two years ago</a>. And as we’ve learned more recently, the AI that companies like Facebook and YouTube use to serve up content <a href="https://link.vox.com/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudm94LmNvbS9yZWNvZGUvMjIyNTA4OTcvZmFjZWJvb2stZGF0YS1wcml2YWN5LWNvbGxlY3Rpb24tYWxnb3JpdGhtcy1leHRyZW1pc20/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB14e9cdc9">can also be used to radicalize people</a> and undermine democracy. That’s why — especially in the wake of Facebook’s whistleblower scandal that revealed internal research showing that its products <a href="https://link.vox.com/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudm94LmNvbS9yZWNvZGUvMjAyMS8xMC8zLzIyNzA3OTQwL2ZyYW5jZXMtaGF1Z2VuLWZhY2Vib29rLXdoaXN0bGVibG93ZXItNjAtbWludXRlcy10ZWVuLWdpcmxzLWluc3RhZ3JhbSVFMiU4MCU5RA/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB58c7a16a">were harmful to some users, including teenage girls</a> — lawmakers in the US lately seem more interested in talking about <a href="https://link.recode.net/click/25331141.52099/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL3RlY2hub2xvZ3kvMjAyMS8xMC8xMi9jb25ncmVzcy1yZWd1bGF0ZS1mYWNlYm9vay1hbGdvcml0aG0v/608c6cd77e3ba002de9a4c0dB25cee0cd">how to regulate algorithms</a> than how to beat China in the AI race.
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The two things aren’t mutually exclusive, by the way. Chaillan, the former military software chief, has certainly earned his right to an opinion about how quickly the US is developing its cyber defenses and artificially intelligent computers. And now that he’s taking his knowledge of how the Pentagon works to the private sector, he’ll probably make good money addressing his concerns. For the rest of us, the rise of AI shouldn’t feel like a race against China. It’s more like a high-stakes poker game.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>This year was my favourite contest with Virat: Anderson</strong> - “We had a battle on the field where there was definitely a mutual respect there.”</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pakistan player suspended for not reporting ‘spot-fixing’ approach to PCB during National T20</strong> - The PCB suspended the Northern Cricket Association player under Article 4.7.1 of its Anti-Corruption Code.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pakistan’s Babar Azam confident of win over India in T20 World Cup opener on October 24</strong> - Pakistan made UAE its home venue after international teams showed reluctance to tour Pakistan citing security concerns.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Governance row continues to dog Australian board</strong> - Earl Eddings resigned on October 13 after losing support of New South Wales and other States</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPL 2021 | KKR spinners hold aces as fans await ‘Dhoni’s Magic’ in CSK one last time this season</strong> - Chennai Super Kings have three titles with five final defeats while Kolkata Knight Riders have won both their finals under Gautam Gambhir</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>City Police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal admitted in hospital</strong> - Mr. Jiwal suddenly had a spell of dizziness and chest pain in the afternoon</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>PMC Bank fraud case: Bombay High Court rejects Rakesh Wadhawan’s medical bail plea</strong> - The HDIL founder recently underwent a surgery for pacemaker implantation</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Court to pass Order on Aryan Khan’s bail plea on October 20</strong> - Earlier, a magistrate’s court had rejected the bail pleas of Aryan Khan, Munmun Dhamecha and Arbaaz Merchant.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>E-way bill not practical for gold jewellery business: merchants’ council</strong> - The Jewellery Council said that the insistence on E-way bill prevented the free flow of business and could lead to “unnecessary” legal complications</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Regeni murder: Egyptians go on trial for Italian student’s murder</strong> - Giulio Regeni was doing research for a Cambridge PhD when his body was found in a ditch near Cairo.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>French fishermen warn of blockades in UK licence row</strong> - Why the fishermen of Boulogne-sur-Mer are angry at being refused licences to fish in British waters.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Brexit: Maros Šefčovič to speak with Stormont leaders</strong> - Sinn Féin seeks a recall of the NI Assembly after the EU’s plan for a reduction of post-Brexit checks.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Tour de France: Women’s eight-stage race will feature two mountain stages and summit finish</strong> - The women’s Tour de France, which will be held for the first time in 33 years in 2022, is set to feature eight stages through eastern France.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself</strong> - He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1802739">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How a mass extinction resulted in the rise of the snakes</strong> - The Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction saw a snake-splosion of biodiversity. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1803939">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mix-and-match COVID boosters are as good—if not better than—all the same shots</strong> - Trial was too small to definitively compare combinations, but Moderna may have an edge. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1804013">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Conservative media viewing correlates with intention to use ivermectin</strong> - Watching fringe stations and general mistrust of science are both causing problems. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1804000">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ted Cruz says bitcoin will stabilize Texas electric grid—here’s why he’s wrong</strong> - Numbers and potential incentives just don’t add up. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1803953">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>What do you call the sweat produced when two rednecks are having sex?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Relative Humidity.
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Dad: “Like a beautiful lily, blushing and moist with morning dew.”
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Son: “Wow, that sounds great! What does it look like after sex?”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JonaJonaL"> /u/JonaJonaL </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/q7v59j/nsfw_a_son_asks_his_father_dad_what_does_a_vagina/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/q7v59j/nsfw_a_son_asks_his_father_dad_what_does_a_vagina/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Gunman: “Start masturbating again…”
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A beautiful 18 year old comes out of the house on the side of the road.
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