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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
<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>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<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 Wisconsin G.O.P.s Looming Judicial Attack</strong> - A state Supreme Court justice—recently elected in a landslide—may be impeached before she ever hears a case. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-wisconsin-gops-looming-judicial-attack">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Narendra Modis New New Delhi</strong> - A multibillion-dollar revamp of Indias capital complex reflects the Prime Ministers vision for the countrys future—and what he wants to erase from its past. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/narendra-modis-new-new-delhi">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Can Teachers and Parents Get Better at Talking to One Another?</strong> - Families are more anxious than ever to find out what happens in school. But there may be value in a measure of not-knowing and not-telling. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/can-teachers-and-parents-get-better-at-talking-to-one-another">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The U.A.W. Strike Threat Poses a Tricky Political Challenge for Biden</strong> - As the negotiating deadline approaches, the issues at stake go beyond wages and benefits to whether the unions members will benefit or suffer from the transition to electric vehicles. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-uaw-strike-threat-poses-a-tricky-political-challenge-for-biden">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Real Stakes of the Google Antitrust Trial</strong> - The case, centering on Googles dominance in the search-engine industry, will have implications that ripple throughout the tech world, and beyond. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-real-stakes-of-the-google-antitrust-trial">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>Why Biden isnt getting a credible primary challenger</strong> -
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<img alt="Joe Biden walking down airplane steps at night." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/JKotKN9ExPEssEfdWAcwwbHVTXo=/688x0:6192x4128/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72638206/GettyImages_1653660608.0.jpg"/>
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US President Joe Biden disembarks from the Air Force One upon his arrival at the airport on the eve of the two-day G20 summit in New Delhi on September 8, 2023. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty
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Many Democrats fear a challenge would pave the way to Trumps victory. Are they right?
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In <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/most-democrats-dont-want-biden-to-seek-a-2nd-term-poll-says">poll</a> after <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/07/poll-biden-2024-second-term-democrat-voters-cnn">poll</a> this year, many and sometimes even <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/lack-of-voter-enthusiasm-poses-hurdle-for-joe-bidens-re-election-ee3cfa57">most</a> Democratic voters have said they dont want <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> to be the partys nominee again in 2024, mainly because of his age. And yet Biden, who isnt facing a credible primary challenger, seems to have that renomination locked up.
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<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/why-isnt-a-mainstream-democrat-challenging-biden-2024.html">Jonathan Chait of New York magazine is wondering</a> why that is. “The demand for a different option is robust,” Chait writes. “What is mystifyingly absent is the supply.” In his telling, many politically skilled Democrats, such as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, could run and have a reasonable shot at defeating Biden and winning the presidency — but they arent.
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On the website formerly known as <a href="https://www.vox.com/twitter">Twitter</a>, many Democrats <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1700499587394334780/retweets/with_comments">pilloried Chait for his article</a>, but the specific reasons for the pillorying differed in an interesting way. Some <a href="https://twitter.com/moojv77/status/1700560391414120455">argued</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1700518481286881468">that</a> Biden is a strong candidate, basically saying that reports of his political weakness are greatly exaggerated.
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But others simply <a href="https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1700566568831246565">claimed</a> the process of challenging Biden in a primary would inevitably prove so divisive and damaging that it would help Trump win in 2024. This logic implies that, even if Democrats fear Biden has serious weaknesses, its better to stick with him.
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I think the second argument, while being convenient for Bidens interests, is likely correct. But rather than take it for granted, its worth examining its underlying assumptions in more detail. Why isnt any credible candidate giving a primary challenge a shot? And what would happen if someone did?
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Challenging the incumbent president is a messy process
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Primaries are democracy in action: the people (or at least the rather <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23412858/nevada-question-3-final-five-voting-katherine-gehl">limited, unrepresentative subset</a> of the people willing to turn out for a partisan primary) vote to choose a nominee. Primaries are also often, in practice, messy, expensive, and divisive.
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All incumbents naturally would rather avoid serious primary challenges, for their own interests — thats one less election to worry about. Parties also frequently try to deter such challenges, in part due to the belief that a cleared field is better for the partys general election chances, and in part for reasons of control. As a result, credible primaries to incumbents at any level are pretty rare. Potential contenders demur both because these contests are difficult to win and because even trying them means running afoul of the party establishment.
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Incumbent presidents in particular really prefer to avoid primaries, due partly to the messy history of how such contests unfolded in the second half of the 20th century:
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In 1968, LBJ faced challenges from Gene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy over the Vietnam War. He soon abandoned his reelection bid, and his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, got the nomination at the convention instead. Humphrey lost in the general election to Richard Nixon.
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In 1976, Gerald Ford was challenged from the right by Ronald Reagan, who did quite well but ultimately fell short of victory. Ford lost in the general election to Jimmy Carter.
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In 1980, Carter was challenged from the left by Ted Kennedy, who won several states and took his fight to the convention before falling short. Carter lost the general election to Reagan.
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In 1992, George H. W. Bush was challenged by commentator Pat Buchanan, who didnt manage to win any states. Bush lost in the general election to Bill Clinton. No president since has faced a credible primary challenge.
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Except for LBJ, all of these primaried presidents won the primary but lost the general election. That suggests that defeating an incumbent president in the primary is difficult. The conventional wisdom is that it also makes them the party more likely to lose the general election, though that is difficult to prove, since all of these incumbents were primaried because they were already unpopular.
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The Biden- and Trump-specific factors
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Of the candidates mentioned above, the one a primary challenge worked out best for is Reagan. He fell short of beating Ford in 1976, but then Ford lost, and Reagan had effectively established himself as the frontrunner for 1980. So in a vacuum, you might think an ambitious Democrat would try to do something similar.
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The difference is that Bidens general election defeat would not mean installing a Georgia peanut farmer in the presidency, but rather <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>, whose potential return to power terrifies Democrats.
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And the risk of being blamed for Trumps return to power may well be giving many challengers pause. A primary challenge against Biden seems unlikely to succeed but could well result in him limping into the general election wounded. It also basically amounts to an attempted hostile takeover of the Democratic Party, which would likely earn the eternal enmity of that partys establishment — and perhaps many of the partys voters, should the challenger get the blame for enabling a Trump victory.
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“While rank-and-file voters fret about Bidens age, experienced pols know a primary would wreck the Democratic Party and ensure a Trump dictatorship in 2025,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1700566568831246565">Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch argues</a>.
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Chait suggests that a primary against Biden need not be all that divisive — that it could be positively friendly by not being based on issues at all. “The entire campaign message could be that he has performed a valuable service to the country but is getting on in years,” he writes — a sort of <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sure-grandma-lets-get-you-to-bed">Sure Grandpa, lets get you to bed</a> campaign.
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Yet even if that was the challengers approach, it would entail a Democrat validating one of Trumps biggest critiques of Biden, placing it at the center of <a href="https://www.vox.com/media">the media</a> agenda for months. If the challenger is serious about trying to win, things are unlikely to stay so friendly throughout the contest.
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If Biden does end up losing to Trump with some sort of age incident playing a major role, there will certainly be much second-guessing about how Democrats drifted into a foreseeable disaster. But the logic seems sound enough. An ambitious Democrat likely thinks waiting for 2028 is preferable to sticking their neck out to challenge Biden, since this year theyd likely lose and may even become a party pariah.
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<li><strong>What Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Uns meeting might bring</strong> -
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<img alt="Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, in profile," src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/E0oIiOWe4MfDaSKRE8pADSkaqEg=/0x0:2915x2186/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72638070/1139381562.0.jpg"/>
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Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prior to their talks at the Far Eastern Federal University campus on Russky island in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 25, 2019.  | Alexander Zemlianchenko/AFP via Getty Images
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Kim Jong Un left for a Russian economic summit this week, but weapons could be on the table.
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Its happening: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of an <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-laos-will-be-top-guest-economic-forum-no-word-nkoreas-kim-2023-09-09/">economic summit in Vladivostok, Russia, this week</a>, a rare public show of diplomacy that could have consequences for both nations.
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On <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/north-koreas-kim-appears-have-departed-russia-summit-with-putin-ytn-2023-09-11/">Monday morning US time</a>, South Korean officials reported that the heavily armored train that Kim uses to travel internationally was s<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/north-koreas-kim-appears-have-departed-russia-summit-with-putin-ytn-2023-09-11/">potted en route to Russias Far East</a>. And Monday, the Kremlin confirmed the meeting, saying in a short statement that Kim would visit “in the coming days.”
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As Russia continues its <a href="https://www.vox.com/russia-invasion-ukraine">war in Ukraine</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/north-korea">North Korea</a> develops it nuclear arsenal, the possibility of the two autocrats meeting — and what that could mean for their respective military projects — has raised consternation and concern among Western observers. Though its a possibility that in exchange for the ammunition and artillery Russia needs it might agree to share nuclear weapons technology with Kim, thats really a worst-case scenario and not necessarily the likeliest one. Experts say that economic and trade deals, as well as low-level military cooperation agreements, are more likely to accompany any potential ammo purchases.<strong> </strong>Regardless, the meeting could signal the beginning of a<strong> </strong>renewed,<strong> </strong>closer relationship between the two.
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What will this meeting look like?
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The Soviet Union and, later, Russia have had a relationship with North Korea since its founding. In recent decades, however, the relationship has been much more about public niceties than substance<strong></strong>especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.<strong> </strong>Kim traveled to Vladivostok in 2019 for a meeting with Putin, but this years affair is likelier to yield more public cooperation, and especially military cooperation, between the two pariah nations.
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Officially, this is an economic summit;<strong> </strong>Russia is hosting a multilateral gathering to strengthen economic ties among nations in its orbit, including Laos. Thus far, other details about the Kim-Putin direct meeting have been scarce.
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So<strong> </strong>one key factor in understanding what comes out of the meeting will be looking at who goes in, said Michael Madden, a non-resident fellow at the Stimson Center. Kim travels with a fairly small entourage when he does leave the country, and there are a few key members of his inner circle in attendance, including his sister <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/08/09/who-is-kim-yo-jong-north-koreas-propagandist-in-chief">Kim Yo Jong</a> who is the de facto head of North Koreas propaganda department and a key strategic mind in the regime. Kims retinue, according to Madden, includes elites like Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Ri Pyong Chol, who essentially oversees North Koreas defense industry; and Economic Affairs Department Director O Su Yong, who oversees economic affairs including foreign trade and labor contracts.
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“[Kims] travel party to Russia is very heavy with personnel from the military and defense industry,” Madden said. “The most notable person going to Russia is [Korean Peoples Army] Navy Commander Adm. Kim Myong Sik,” who last week attended the launch of a submarine which Kim intends to make nuclear-capable. “If we wanted to assume an instant analysis perspective then we can say Admiral Kims presence means that North Korea will attempt to acquire deeper knowledge on submarines and submarine launched ballistic missiles,” but it could simply mean a reintroduction of port visits that Russian and North Korean military personnel previously conducted.
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Should the US be worried about a Putin-Kim confab?
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Its of course worth paying attention when leaders of two<strong> </strong>nuclear-armed countries get together in the same room, but this meeting seems to be more of a public acknowledgment of back-channel talks that have been ongoing for some time.
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In the past, Russia has treated North Korea as an obviously junior partner — something that was evident at the last meeting between Kim and Putin in 2019, when the Russian government housed the North Korean delegation in a college dorm rather than a luxury hotel, Bruce Bennett, an adjunct international and defense researcher at the Rand Corporation, told Vox in an interview.
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But Russia is in a different position now, with extreme international sanctions impacting its economy and its artillery hitting the battlefield faster than domestic production can keep up. To that end, Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defense minister, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66321742">visited Pyongyang in July</a> to attend a military parade and tour a weapons exhibition. Shoigus trip was “the first defense ministerial visit in over 10 years that we know of,” Madden said, and its likeliest outcome will be increased visible cooperation between the two militaries.
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Though specific statistics about North Koreas military stocks are unknown, its one of the most heavily militarized nations on Earth. It reportedly has about six months of artillery and anti-tank weapons built up in case of conflict with South Korea, as Bennett told Vox. But the quality of those weapons is questionable at best. That doesnt mean Moscow doesnt want to acquire them — just that its not clear how effective they would be on the battlefield if does.
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Whatever Russia buys, if anything, that information might not become publicly available. Rather, what we might see coming out of the meeting is trade agreements involving dual-use technologies: tech ostensibly created for civilian use that could have military capabilities.<strong> </strong>“It gives [North Korea] a certain degree of plausible deniability,” Madden said.
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For North Korea, on the other hand, there are two competing priorities: what Kim wants, and what the nation desperately needs.
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Kim prioritizes the nuclear program as a deterrent and as leverage to get sanctions lifted or at least relaxed, but recent tests have shown that the nuclear program lacks the miniaturization technology to properly weaponize the nuclear technology — unlike US and Russian weapons systems. Though Russia could assist with such technology, Madden said, its a bad bet for both sides to share too much information, as nuclear technology is closely guarded even between allies.
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Instead, Kim may settle for support that could help address some domestic issues:<strong> </strong>What North Korean people <a href="https://www.38north.org/2023/01/food-insecurity-in-north-korea-is-at-its-worst-since-the-1990s-famine/">need </a>is food and energy, not weapons technology. A UN estimate cited in <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/03/21/north-koreans-are-at-growing-risk-of-starvation">the Economist </a>indicates that 42 percent of the population was malnourished between 2019 and 2021. Poor <a href="https://www.38north.org/2023/01/food-insecurity-in-north-korea-is-at-its-worst-since-the-1990s-famine/">domestic food production</a> for the past several years is bad enough, but because the regime cant really export due to sanctions, it doesnt have the foreign currency to import food and energy stores, either, not to mention the fact that the regime closed the countrys borders during the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning no food could get in.
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North Korean elites seem to be fed up with Kims obsessive spending on nuclear weapons to the detriment of actual basic necessities (and even their luxuries), Bennett said, which is a real threat to the regime. Russia sharing food, oil or direct financial assistance could be<strong> </strong>a place Putin could help. The two countries will likely discuss labor contracts for North Korean workers, which may include military contractors as well.
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Its worth <a href="https://twitter.com/johncarlbaker/status/1699119046078173657">America thinking about what these two countries growing closer means</a>. But there are also limits: Though <a href="https://www.vox.com/china">China</a>, Russia, and North Korea cooperate because theyre progressively being shut out of the global economic system, theyre also in competition — Russia and China for global influence and North Korea and China for influence in the region, Bennett said. “Youve got overlapping imperialist objectives,” Bennett said. “It sounds like their three-sided partnership is a cool thing, but [the] underlying condition is, that might not go so well.”
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A meeting between two men with world-destructive ambitions is hardly a good thing, but it may not be as catastrophic as it initially seems. There is likely to be little trustworthy information about the summit that is made publicly available, so the outcome of these meetings will take time to become visible — but the worst-case scenario is far from the only possibility here.
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<li><strong>Wildfire risk is everywhere and growing</strong> -
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<img alt="Palm trees silhouetted against an orange sky caused by wildfire." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/yW6KcRm2lVkgh6aNHWg_rE_FH5g=/397x0:3600x2402/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72638027/1615229307.0.jpg"/>
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This year, wildfires in Maui killed hundreds, marking the deadliest fire in the US in more than a century. Wildfires were once rare in Hawaii, but human activity in recent decades has made them more common and extreme. | Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Images
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The ingredients for catastrophic wildfires are found in all corners of the country. Here are areas facing increased risk.
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All a wildfire needs is oxygen, an ignition to spark it, and fuel to burn. Its crackling embers and flickering flames dont know the difference between the California foothills, where residents are used to fire, and more unexpected locales, like the New Jersey coastline, the Florida peninsula, or the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As the immense destruction of the fire in Lāhainā, Maui, continues to unfold, experts who study wildfires say the blaze fits a disturbing pattern of fires in the <a href="https://www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/what-is-the-wui.html">wildland-urban interface</a>, where people and homes mingle with burnable vegetation. “Every single state in the US where we have vegetation, and particularly where we have vegetation intermixing with communities, we have the potential for extreme fire disasters,” said Crystal Kolden, a pyrogeographer who studies fire across time and space at the University of California Merced.
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According to researchers and numerous tools mapping wildfire risk, hundreds of cities, towns and communities outside the flammable, arid West thats known for its wildfires face similarly high risk. The models tell the tale of surprising fire risk for homes near forests, shrublands, prairies, and coastal marshes: They include populated areas in <a href="https://wildfirerisk.org/explore/risk-to-homes/34/">New Jerseys</a> Manchester and Bass River townships, as well as dollops of development throughout the Eastern coastline that are downwind from over a million acres of pine forests— ripe fuel for fast-moving fires. “That scenario is catastrophic,” said Greg McLaughlin, New Jersey Forest Fire Service chief. “Thats what we plan for.” The state has already seen 13 major wildfires this year, about triple the average.
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<img alt="A map of areas facing heightened wildfire risk in New Jersey." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/sWT_kH2OmNz5QhLXX7HJoRiISes=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24913286/download.png"/> <cite>U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, Wildfirerisk.org</cite>
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Populated areas in New Jersey have, on average, greater risk than 55 percent of states in the US.
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Homes, towns, and reservations in <a href="https://wildfirerisk.org/explore/risk-to-homes/27/">northern Minnesota</a> are also at moderate to very high risk. In the western corner, prairie grasses are often quick to burn; in the east, flammable spruce and conifer forests surround the gateway communities to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness like <a href="https://wildfirerisk.org/explore/overview/27/27137/2700019142/">Ely</a>. Risk extends throughout the state to communities just north of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area.
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Other pockets of high and very high fire risk include the Gulf of Mexico near the Texas-Louisiana border, home to flammable coastal vegetation and large swaths of Florida peninsula, where grasses, cattails, and the dense everglades can easily combust. Communities on the eastern, downwind side of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and the towns tucked near the heavily forested Appalachian Mountains in southern Kentucky are also surrounded by thick forests and prone to wildfire. Here, theres precedent: Blazes that started in Great Smoky Mountains National Park swept downwind in 2016 and killed 14 people in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
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Southern Kentucky towns are surrounded by dense vegetation and face heightened fire risk.
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Wildfire risk is modeled by combining the likelihood and the intensity of a blaze with an areas exposure and susceptibility. Widely used models include the US Forest Services <a href="https://wildfirerisk.org/">Wildfire Risk to Communities</a>, the Federal Emergency Management Agencys (FEMA) <a href="https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/wildfire">National Risk Index</a>, and <a href="https://riskfactor.com/">Risk Factor</a>, a model created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that looks at fire and other climate risks down to the neighborhood and address level. Some models use the same data but parse risk differently, looking at just housing units or also factors like building values and population to determine a final risk. Some models are searchable by address or neighborhood, while others summarize risk at a county or state level.
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While risk modeling maps arent predictive, they can be eerie in hindsight. “Scientifically, physically, we know where these risk regions are,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles. “And theyre everywhere.” One model says Merryville, Louisiana, where wildfire recently forced a <a href="https://www.kulr8.com/news/national/entire-louisiana-town-evacuated-amid-unprecedented-wildfires/video_4f559429-87a6-5076-a242-7739f6bac987.html#:~:text=Background,-Semi%2DTransparent&amp;text=State%20authorities%20evacuated%20the%20entire,home%20were%20forced%20to%20leave">town-wide evacuation</a>, has a higher wildfire risk than 72 percent of communities in the country; another says the town has a moderate risk of wildfire over the next 30 years. And <a href="https://wildfirerisk.org/explore/overview/15/15009/1500042950/">Lāhainā</a>, for example, had a very high risk of wildfire, more than 92 percent of communities in the country. Now, upward of 115 people are dead and hundreds are still missing. “There are lots of places that are flammable, and there are places that are becoming more flammable, and then theres places that are becoming more flammable that werent on our radar,” said Jennifer Balch, a fire ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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A devastating pattern, worsened by climate change
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While each fire has its own context, a pattern keeps repeating: fast-moving fires that sweep through communities and catch their inhabitants off guard. Strong winds are a common thread between blazes like the <a href="https://www.marshallfiremap.com/">Marshall Fire</a>, a grass fire that destroyed 1,000 homes in Colorado in 2021, the Almeda Fire, which burned 600 homes in southern Oregon in 2020, and the recent fire on Maui. But wind needs to line up with another wildfire risk factor — dry vegetation — to be dangerous. “That really might not happen often at all, barely ever in some places,” Swain said. “But when it does, watch out.”
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Places with high wildfire risk include coastal areas with vegetation like Phragmites, an invasive wetland grass thats found throughout the Eastern seaboard and elsewhere, or cogon and sawgrasses, found in the Florida marshes. Invasive species are often adapted to take over landscapes quickly after fire, pushing out native grasses and providing a carpet of especially flammable fuel for the next blaze.
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Many ecosystems evolved with fire as a natural element of the landscape, said Allissa Reynolds, the wildfire prevention supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry. But <a href="https://headwaterseconomics.org/natural-hazards/federal-wildfire-policy/">fire suppression</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy">policies</a> and the stifling of Indigenous burning practices limited natural and human-introduced fire in the last century, causing a <a href="https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9230/html">buildup</a> of excess fuel.
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Today, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06444-3">climate change</a> further stacks the deck toward a higher risk of wildfire, even in places that have been traditionally too wet to burn with much frequency or severity. Wet conditions can allow fuels to grow, but heat waves can quickly dry them out. “Its getting easier and easier for vegetation to dry out to critical levels,” Swain said. Wildfire risk then concentrates in the “driest dry spells and the hottest hot spells,” he said. And risk factors dont have to line up often to be dangerous if and when they do.
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Thats happening right now in Minnesota, where most of the state is experiencing some level of drought. The state has already seen almost its yearly average of fires, despite fall, a historically active time, still to come. Its occurring in New Jersey, where an increasing number of fires are happening outside the usual mid-March to mid-May fire season. And its underway in the Gulf Coast during hurricane season, where unusual drought and heat at a time that should be wet are fueling over 600 fires burning in <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/8/30/23852363/louisiana-wildfires">Louisiana</a>, including the largest fire in recorded state history. “While were pretty good and practiced at emergency response, not so much on the wildfires,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisiana-tiger-island-fire-largest-wildfire-states-history-doubles-in-size/">CBS News</a>.
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Between 1992 and 2015, 1 million homes were within the perimeter of a wildfire and almost 59 million more were within roughly half a mile, according to one <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/3/3/50#:~:text=During%20the%20study%20period%20(1992,see%20methods%20for%20accuracy%20assessment).">study</a>. While theres been <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718850115">increasing development</a> in the wildland urban interface in recent years — to the tune of more than 32 million residential homes — new homes arent the whole story. “Thats a broad generalization that I dont think adequately captures the scale of risks that were seeing,” said Kimiko Barrett, a research and policy analyst at Headwaters Economics, a research organization in Montana.
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Economics play a role here, too: Rising housing costs mean more populations priced out of urban areas find more affordable housing in the nearby shrubs and woodlands that pose more wildfire risk. “Suggesting that people just shouldnt keep building out there is a really privileged viewpoint that ignores why people move to the fringes of these areas,” Kolden said. Plus, many Indigenous settlements would be considered to be in the wildland urban interface today, by modern definitions. “People have been living at moderate densities in fire-prone places for a long time,” said Chris Roos, an environmental archaeologist. Tribes used and continue to use fire to steward and manage the land, often lighting many small fires to improve hunting and gathering opportunities as well as lower their wildfire risk.
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But wildfires that continue to torch communities prompt questions of not just where we live but how we prepare. “Its tragic that we dont currently have this larger education about what to do in a no-notice evacuation event, what to do if you get caught by a wildfire,” Kolden said. Fire-prone areas are already working to mitigate their risk and develop evacuation plans for the worst-case scenario. Members of the Forest Service, land management agencies, local fire departments, and county emergency managers are sitting down throughout Minnesota and the rest of the country to create community wildfire protection <a href="https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/creating_a_cwpp.pdf">plans</a>; the process opens the door to federal funding that can pay for things like creating fuel breaks and turning yard waste into wood chips. Prescribed burning that targets areas with an accumulation of vegetation is a priority in New Jersey, and an almost 1,400 acre thinning <a href="https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/forest/allenroad/">project</a> in the Bass River State Forest is slated to start in September, with the goal of removing excess fuel.
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It will also take investment in urban environments — like retrofitting old homes with fire-resistant building materials and creating building codes for new development — to curb the wildfire crisis and lessen risk, Barrett said. “The inertia of the political system and us as a society continue to believe we can get through this wildfire crisis if we just focus on the forest and the wild lands,” she said. Wildfire isnt just a Western problem or a forest problem or a rural problem. Given the right combination of factors, wildfire can occur where you least expect it — in suburbia or in the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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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>All about 800: Muthiah Muralidharan and actor Madhurr Mittal on the cricketing biopic</strong> - As he awaits the release of his biopic 800, Sri Lankan cricketing legend Muthiah Muralidharan goes down memory lane, discussing growing up in Kandy where he developed his unique bowling technique</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Daily quiz | On September 12, 2023</strong> - A quiz on the singles Grand Slam career of Novak Djokovic who won the US Open on Sunday to equal Margaret Courts record of 24 Major titles</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rohit Sharma completes 10,000 ODI runs, second fastest after Kohli</strong> - Virat Kohli who scored fastest 13,000 runs in ODIs was the fastest to cross the milestone.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Womens Asian Champions Trophy: India to begin campaign against Thailand on Oct 27</strong> - The Asian Champions Trophy will see Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, China, and India go into battle to lift the coveted trophy.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Asia Cup 2023 | Sri Lanka vs India | India opts to bat against Sri Lanka in Super 4 match</strong> - While Sri Lanka are playing unchanged XI, India brought in Axar Patel in place of Shardul Thakur.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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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>Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya confirms two Nipah virus deaths in Kerala</strong> - Mr. Mandaviya said a central team of experts has been sent to Kerala to take stock of the situation and assist the State government in the management of the Nipah virus infection</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Watching porn in ones privacy not an offence under Section 292 of IPC: HC</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SGOU approves the curriculum framework for four-year UG programmes</strong> - A student who successfully completes three years will get a graduation certificate. Forty four more credits are required for the fourth year and on successful completion, an honours degree or an honours with research degree will be awarded</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sanatana Dharma row | Will pull out tongue and gouge out eyes: Union Minister Shekhawat on Udhayanidhis comments</strong> - On September 2, Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, alleged that the Sanatana Dharma is against equality and social justice, and that it should be eradicated</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Most Indians who consume news online like to watch, not read | Data</strong> - In India, the role of mobile news aggregators as primary news sources is on the rise</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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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>Putin and Kim: Friends in need (of ammunition)</strong> - Russia needs weapons. N Korea has weapons. Its a match made in the geo-political realities of 2023.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why mobile saunas are being sent to Ukraines front line</strong> - The Ukraine war has put Russias nervous neighbours on high alert, reports Europe editor Katya Adler.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Venice to back €5 fee for day-trip tourists</strong> - The charge - which will apply to all visitors aged over 14 - is designed to tackle soaring tourism.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Stolen Van Gogh handed to Dutch art sleuth in Ikea bag</strong> - Arthur Brand met an unnamed man under a tree during a mysterious, years-long quest to find the work.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says</strong> - Russian President Vladimir Putin also said that the West has no friends, only interests.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FDA approves and authorizes updated COVID boosters for everyone 6 months and up</strong> - The fall boosters target XBB.1.5 and have shown effective against current variants. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1967187">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Top-end Roomba can now refill itself with water via furniture-sized dock</strong> - The do-it-all dock has a faux wood top, making it look like a small table. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1967124">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Unearthed touchscreen iMac G3 prototype evokes a very different era of Apple</strong> - 25 years ago, Apple was cool with firms hacking up kiosk-friendly touch iMacs. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1967015">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Genesis Electrified GV70 is a truly luxurious electric SUV</strong> - Its quick, comfortable, and almost silent. And it fast-charges in 18 minutes. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1967090">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Scientists figured out how to write in water</strong> - German physicists used an ion-exchange microbead as a very tiny “pen.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966985">link</a></p></li>
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The boy looks at the money and says to the priest, “Thanks very much Father,…youre a virgin.” The priest is a bit startled but makes no remark.
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The next day the boy has to paint the outside of the house; its a really hot day and he just manages to finish the job without collapsing. The priest looks at the job and this time gives the lad another £5.00 note. Once again the lad looks at the money and says, “Thanks very much Father, you really are a virgin.” At this stage the priest decides to take action. “Tommy,” he says, “thats twice youve called me a virgin. Do you have any idea what the word means?” “Yes,” says the kid, “a tight cunt.”
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He lives in the wilderness like a hermit so he hardly ever meets anyone. So he invites his young grandson over to mark one item off his bucket list. His grandson arrives and notices his grandfather is scarred all over and missing some of his limbs, most noticeably one of his hands.
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“How did you lose your hand?”
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“A lion bit it off during one of my hunting trips. Speaking of that, I was an avid hunter and have an impressive trophy room, let me show you”
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The grandfather leads his grandson to his trophy room. It is filled with large animal heads mounted on the walls. The boy is in awe of all the different animals.
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“There are lots of stories to tell with some of these , several even attacked me before I managed to kill them. This leopard here? Its name is Eerie. I named it that because it bit off my ear. I generally like to name them after something they took from me so I remember our encounter better”
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As the boy looks around from animal to animal, he starts to ask about the stories behind them.
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“What about that great big Crocodile? Does that one have a story?”
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“Yes, it took several of my toes, so I named it Toto”
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“What about this Tiger?”
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“It took my eye, so it is named Iris”
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Then the boys eyes are caught by an enormous lion, the most majestic trophy of them all.
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“That must be the Lion that took your hand! Did you name it Hans?”
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“Good guess, but no, I named it Hancock”
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A bus full of Nuns falls of a cliff and they all die.
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They arrive at the gates of heaven and meet St. Peter. St. Peter says to them "Sisters, welcome to Heaven.
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In a moment I will let you all though the pearly gates, but before I may do that, I must ask each of you a single question. Please form a single-file line." And they do so.
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St. Peter turns to the first Nun in the line and asks her “Sister, have you ever touched a penis?” The Sister Responds “Well… there was this one time… that I kinda sorta… touched one with the tip of my pinky finger…”
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St. Peter says “Alright Sister, now dip the tip of your pinky finger in the Holy Water, and you may be admitted.” and she did so.
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St. Peter now turns to the second nun and says “Sister, have you ever touched a penis?” “Well…. There was this one time… that I held one for a moment…”
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“Alright Sister, now just wash your hands in the Holy Water, and you may be admitted” and she does so.
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Now at this, there is a noise, a jostling in the line. It seems that one nun is trying to cut in front of another!
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St. Peter sees this and asks the Nun “Sister Susan, what is this? There is no rush!”
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>My wife likes it when I blow air on her when shes hot…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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but honestly… Im not a fan.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheQuietKid22"> /u/TheQuietKid22 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16giret/my_wife_likes_it_when_i_blow_air_on_her_when_shes/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16giret/my_wife_likes_it_when_i_blow_air_on_her_when_shes/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What do you call an impatient man from Bangkok who moved to the capital city of the Republic of China for a writing job, got kidnapped, covered in multicolored paint and restrained with rope?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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A tied-up, tye-dyed, Type-A, Taipei-Thai typist.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RiRikkulous"> /u/RiRikkulous </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16gmk99/what_do_you_call_an_impatient_man_from_bangkok/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16gmk99/what_do_you_call_an_impatient_man_from_bangkok/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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