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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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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 Atrocity of American Gun Culture</strong> - After mass shootings like those in Uvalde and Buffalo, pro-gun officials say they don’t want to politicize tragedy. But the circumstances that allow for the mass murder of children are inherently political. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/the-atrocity-of-american-gun-culture">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Staff of Uvalde’s Local Paper Cover the Worst Day of Their Lives</strong> - The paper’s employees lost neighbors, acquaintances, and a daughter in a school shooting. Then they had to report the story. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-staff-of-uvaldes-local-paper-cover-the-worst-day-of-their-lives">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What the End of Roe v. Wade Will Mean for the Next Generation of Obstetricians</strong> - An aspiring ob-gyn’s views on abortion might determine what training she seeks out, which specialities she pursues, and where she chooses to live. In a post-Roe world, that self-sorting process would grow even more intense. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/what-the-end-of-roe-v-wade-will-mean-for-the-next-generation-of-obstetricians">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Iga Swiatek Plays Hard—and Wins Easy—at the French Open Final</strong> - Saturday’s game, between Świątek and Coco Gauff, provided a chance to glimpse potential greats at the beginning of their careers. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/iga-swiatek-plays-hard-and-wins-easy-at-the-french-open-final">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Would Showing Graphic Images of Mass Shootings Spur Action to Stop Them?</strong> - Returning to an old debate after the horrific killings in Uvalde, Texas. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/would-showing-graphic-images-of-mass-shootings-spur-action-to-stop-them">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Cornel West’s pragmatic America</strong> -
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American philosopher and political activist, Cornel West, at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, 24th July 2012. | Steve Pyke via Getty Images
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Pragmatism is America’s homegrown philosophical tradition. Its lessons are as urgent as ever.
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Cornel West is one of the most unique philosophical voices in America. He has written a ton of books and taught for over 40 years at schools like Princeton, Harvard, and now at the Union Theological Seminary.
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West is what I’d call a public-facing philosopher, which is to say he’s not a cloistered academic. He’s constantly engaging the public and his thought is always in dialogue with poetry and music and literature. (If you’ve ever seen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bc6TRjptKI">one of his lectures</a>, you know what I mean.)
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That civic-mindedness is a product of his roots in a school of thought called pragmatism. America doesn’t have an especially deep tradition of philosophy, but if we’re known for any one tradition, it’s pragmatism.
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Pragmatism emerged in the US in the late 1800s as a response to the Enlightenment push for absolute truth. The pragmatists — people like William James and John Dewey — were less interested in certainty and more concerned with immediate experience. They simply wanted to know what worked for ordinary human beings in everyday life.
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For West, pragmatism is really the philosophy of democracy; it’s a way of knowing and doing that puts the average human being at the center. So I reached out to West for a recent episode of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vox-conversations/id1081584611"><em>Vox Conversations</em></a> to talk about the story of American pragmatism, how his views are shaped by his devotion to the blues and his Christian faith, and how pragmatism can revitalize our approach to democracy today.
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Below is an excerpt, edited for length and clarity. As always, there’s much more in the full podcast, so listen and follow <em>Vox Conversations</em> on <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-conversations/id1215557536">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/search/vox%20conversations">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6NOJ6IkTb2GWMj1RpmtnxP">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/vox-conversations">Stitcher</a>, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Pragmatism is a child of America and in many ways it feels like it could only have emerged here. Why is that?
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Cornel West
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I think the positive feature of American pragmatism, just like the positive feature of the American project, was a highly Socratic suspicion of authorities in the past. But the weakness is to think that you’re not going to be somehow connected to tradition, because traditions are inescapable. The question is always: <em>Which tradition?</em> Every novel breakthrough is not wholly novel, because it’s always based on something prior.
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But it’s that energy of the new that I want to stress. For pragmatism, it’s about sustaining this energy to creativity because the world is incomplete, it is unfinished and unpredictable. And therefore there’s always possibility.
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Now the worst of that is that if you wipe the slate clean, and you have no past, then you’re starting with innocence and you can’t learn from the past. The suspicion of traditions of the past means you have to then create new dynamic traditions with mechanisms of accountability and responsibility. And that’s pragmatism at its best, that’s America at its best.
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Sean Illing
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One of the things I love about pragmatism is this desire to avoid all of these navel-gazing debates in the history of philosophy and just focus on what works for the ordinary human being in everyday life. The more removed philosophy is from the everyday world, the less relevant it is. And I feel like the pragmatists really understood this. Is that why they focused so much on immediate experience?
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Absolutely. There’s a democratizing of voices raised. There’s a democratizing of critical intelligence. There’s a democratizing of <em>philosophia</em>, a love of wisdom. And it’s found, as Emerson says over and over again, in the quotidian, in the every day. That’s the democratizing impulse of pragmatism.
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Now when you say pragmatism focuses on “what works,” in some ways that obscures more than it illuminates because the question becomes, <em>How do you determine what we understand “working” to be?</em> Because pragmatism isn’t merely utilitarian or consequentialist. Pragmatism has a very strong moral dimension, and it’s not reducible to just any consequences at all.
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We can go all the way back to Plato’s <em>Republic,</em> one of the founding texts of Western philosophy. There we see the battles going on between Thrasymachus and Socrates. Thrasymachus represents power, the idea that “might makes right.” And the younger generation looks to Socrates and says, is this true? Is it true that history is nothing but a slaughterhouse, as Hegel said, is it true that it’s just about might and power and domination? And Socrates says, no. Justice has to do with intellectual integrity. It has to do with philosophical inquiry. It has to do with some moral and even spiritual dimensions that are not reducible to might and power.
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And that is the raw stuff for democracy, right? Because democracy says, <em>Of course there is always economic and political and military power, but there’s got to be moral and spiritual dimensions rooted in the consent of everyday people.</em> That’s what self-government is all about.
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Sean Illing
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Richard Rorty — a great American pragmatist and a former teacher of yours — called pragmatism a philosophy of solidarity. And he actually thought of pragmatism as a check against nihilism. In other words, we don’t have to discard our beliefs about the world, or our moral and political values, just because we realized that we made them up, that they weren’t discovered. But a lot of people draw the opposite conclusion from that realization —
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Cornel West
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Well, that’s part of that self-fashioning and self-creation that goes back to Emerson. That’s shot through pragmatism and Rorty’s thought. As William James said, pragmatism is a house with many rooms. And there’s a Rortian room. And that Rortian room is that of a Cold War liberal who’s concerned about getting beyond the subjectivism and the solipsism of Descartes. It’s all about a move toward community. And community for him was all about solidarity. We begin with a “we,” not an “I.” That’s pragmatism, that’s community, and that’s how you begin.
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Sean Illing
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There is something fundamentally democratic about how we get along in the world, and this leads back to John Dewey, the great defender of democracy and one of the most influential American pragmatists. As you know, Dewey was <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/8/9/17540448/walter-lippmann-democracy-trump-brexit">famously engaged in a long debate</a> with Walter Lippmann, a brilliant media theorist and writer in the early 20th century.
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Lippmann gave up on democracy. He didn’t believe that ordinary citizens were capable of understanding the world, or at least he didn’t believe they were capable of understanding the world given their circumstances. He thought they had to be managed by a technocratic elite. Why did Dewey reject that so strongly?
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The early Walter Lippmann was a democratic socialist, very much like Dewey. After World War I, he loses his faith in the demos. I mean, he almost agrees with Plato that every democracy is eventually shattered by unruly passions and pervasive ignorance, and therefore democracies always lead toward a tyrant and hence the need for the philosopher-king.
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So the early Lippmamn had this faith in democracy, and then he loses it. He says we must have the experts. We must have those folks who really know what they’re doing and know something about the world, because the demos will always be ignorant and gullible.
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And Dewey comes along and says, “Walter, I understand your pilgrimage and your journey. I understand why you’ve lost faith in the demos.” I mean, Dewey gets that it’s a challenge. He gets that the demos can go fascist. They’re writing in the ’20s, after all. Mussolini’s on the way. That gangster Hitler is emerging as a result of the wounded German empire. But Dewey holds on to his democratic faith and the result is this powerful dialogue between the technocratic Lippmann and the democratic Dewey.
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Is it fair to say that Dewey, in lacking that tragic sensibility, was maybe a little too optimistic?
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That’s a good query, man. Dewey’s complicated on this matter. You read his poetry when his wife dies and it’s pretty dim stuff. So it’s not as if he didn’t have any sense of the tragic. It’s just that he believed that human beings had been so obsessed with their limits that they had to be released from that obsession, and recognize those limits being contingent and provisional rather than eternal and universal.
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I do resonate with that, because a lot of times what people think are limits are not limits at all. They’ll say, well, there’s no way we could really provide support for the poor because the market-driven economists tell us that this is the only way we can arrange society. But I say no, you just don’t have enough imagination or enough empathy. And we like to rationalize domination and oppression. Dewey’s right about all that.
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As much as I love Dewey, I think even he realized in the end that he never quite offered up a real political strategy for achieving his ideal democratic life. And we live in such a polarized time where the possibilities of dialogue across groups seems fleeting, to put it kindly. How in the world do we move toward the pragmatic democratic community that you and Dewey want to see in the world?
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I think Dewey was always able to take seriously that Socratic humility we’ve been talking about. None of us possesses a monopoly on truth or goodness and beauty. But Dewey’s faith was tied to what he called a “natural piety.” And by piety, he didn’t mean uncritical deference to dogma or blind obedience to doctrine. He meant a virtuous acknowledgement of the sources of good in our lives. You are never, in and of yourself, the sole source for good. You’re always dependent on parents. You don’t teach yourself a language. All the talk about being “self-made” in America, as if you gave birth to yourself, as if you cultivated your own virtues — that’s the opposite of Dewey. And realizing this is the raw stuff of democracy.
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But I don’t think Dewey would call himself an optimist. I think that he would fall back on hope. He had hope in society. That’s the farthest we can go. And Rorty is the richest, self-styled footnote to John Dewey that we have. He is so original and creative in building on the Deweyan project.
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The reason why I hold Dewey a little bit at arm’s length, as much as I’m part of his tradition, is that when you inject the blues and Chekhov into any serious talk about democracy, then you do have the tragicomic. And the tragicomic is not just the limits, but how are you coming to terms with the limits? And of course blues is tragicomic. To. The. Core. Remember the 1937 Robert Johnson song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHAIgpih86E">“Hellhound on My Trail”</a>? He says I’ve got to keep moving cause the blues is falling down like H-A-I-L, life worrying me so much, there’s hellhounds on my trail. I got to keep moving. That’s the dynamism. That’s the sense of motion. That’s the blues.
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So you still have faith in America?
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Oh yes! It’s not a glib faith, though. It’s an earned faith. Just like that costly grace that the great Dietrich Bonhoeffer talked about. It’s not a cheap grace, it’s an earned faith. And a very, very earned sense of grace.
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<em>To hear the rest of the conversation, </em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pk03EVHyeA0chpgeRX0Db?si=m-UhTdZuQ0C8mJcZQGsj3w"><em>click here</em></a><em>, and be sure to subscribe to </em>Vox Conversations<em> on </em><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-conversations/id1215557536"><em>Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/search/vox%20conversations"><em>Google Podcasts</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6NOJ6IkTb2GWMj1RpmtnxP"><em>Spotify</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/vox-conversations"><em>Stitcher</em></a><em>, or wherever you listen to podcasts.</em>
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US M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers fire salvoes during the “African Lion” military exercise in the Grier Labouihi region in southeastern Morocco on June 9, 2021. | Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
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Long-range missiles from the US head to the sluggish, brutal war in the Donbas.
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On Tuesday, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reached its 100-day mark, the United States government announced that it would send powerful new artillery systems to Ukrainian troops fighting in the country’s southeastern and eastern fronts, as well as radar systems and a number of additional weapons as the war condenses into a brutal slog to push Russia out of the Donbas and surrounding areas.
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The <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3049912/dr-colin-kahl-under-secretary-of-defense-for-policy-holds-a-press-briefing/">four</a> M142 HIMARS, <a href="https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/ms-himars-m142/">high mobility artillery rocket systems</a>, and associated ammunition, in this case the Unitary guided multiple launch rocket system or <a href="https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/guided-multiple-launch-rocket-system-gmlrs-dpicmunitaryalternative-warhead/">GMLRS</a>, will supplement the shorter-range howitzers that the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/ukraine-war-russia-donbas-weapons-00036156">US, France, Britain</a>, and <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-send-self-propelled-howitzers-to-ukraine/a-61703761">Germany</a> have sent to Ukraine in recent months and allow the Ukrainian armed forces to better keep the Russian military at a distance.
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President Biden announced the new weapons and aid package in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opinion/biden-ukraine-strategy.html">New York Times guest essay</a>, saying that the US would send “more advanced rocket systems and munitions that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine,” without mentioning specifically which weapons would be deployed. In a June 1 press conference, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Videos/?videoid=845796">announced</a> that the <a href="https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/ms-himars-m142/">HIMARS</a>, which can hit targets in the range of over 70 kilometers away, were included in the package, as well as five counter-surveillance radars and two air surveillance radars.
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Russian officials, for their part, have claimed that the new weapons package represents a provocation from the west. “We believe that the United States is deliberately and diligently ‘pouring fuel on the fire,’” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, claiming that, “Such deliveries do not contribute to … the Ukrainian leadership’s willingness to resume peace talks,” according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/31/ukraine-russia-war-hmars-mlrs-rockets-biden/">the Washington Post.</a>
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We’re looking at a dramatically different war than in the beginning of the invasion
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The HIMARS have been at the top of Ukraine’s wish list, even more so than the fighter jets they were calling for in the beginning of the war. That’s because, as Rita Konaev, deputy director of analysis at Georgetown University’s <a href="https://cset.georgetown.edu/">Center for Security and Emerging Technology</a>, told Vox, the battlefield has changed dramatically as Russia shifted and reorganized its assets to fight in the Donbas region. That means a move away from urban environments, where poor planning on Russia’s part weakened its offensive, and Ukrainian troops familiar with the territory had the advantage.
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“It’s increasingly clear that no one side is winning the war,” Konaev said. As opposed to the fast-moving initial weeks of the invasion, when outsiders thrilled to the idea of the scrappy Ukrainian forces dealing blow after surprising blow to the bigger, better-kitted Russian forces. But the fight for the Donbas has become “a war of a mile a day,” she said, a back-and-forth battle over territory more like World War I than the fast-paced campaigns of February and March.
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“That phase of the war is over,” Konaev said. “This phase is more grinding, piecemeal.” Because of the radical shift in the nature of the battlefield, the weapons on offer have to change dramatically, too.
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“I think the impetus for sending the HIMARS is twofold,” she told Vox. First, she said, the new weapons systems provide “greater standoff capabilities” — the ability to keep battlefield distance between two forces — about double that of the howitzer.<strong> </strong>Second, HIMARS represent “a massive upgrade in firepower,” she told Vox, adding that when used strategically, the “impact is similar to airstrike lethality.”
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The Russian military has its own MLRS, but as John Spencer, the chair of urban warfare studies with the Madison Policy Forum and author of <em>Connected Soldiers </em>told Vox, “our weapons are farther reaching, more accurate” than the Soviet-designed systems.
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But as of now — without the advanced weapons systems the US has promised Ukraine — Russia has some clear battlefield advantages, Konaev said.
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“It’s not that Russia has gotten better,” she said, “it’s just a concentrated force [in an area] more amiable to Russian strengths.” Because the fighting is much closer to Russia’s territory, “there are shorter supply lines, and limited airstrikes used more effectively — they can run these quick ops and head back to base,” with a lower-risk, higher-reward calculus.
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“In Donbas, the battles are happening at greater distances,” Spencer explained. Right now, Ukrainian troops “are really hampered in terms of range,” he told Vox. “If you know where a target is, you have to be able to reach it.” In other words, Ukraine may have the intelligence about where a crucial Russian target is, but a howitzer just can’t get there without putting Ukrainian troops at increased risk.
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“At this moment in the war, this makes the most sense,” Spencer said of sending the HIMARS.
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Here’s how the HIMARS could help shift Ukraine’s advantage
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However, the new systems aren’t immediately going to win the war for Ukraine. “I don’t think these [HIMARS] will provide overnight change,” Spencer told Vox, but once they get on the battlefield, the four systems could help Ukrainian troops “regain momentum,” he said. Konaev agreed, telling Vox, “we won’t see the impact for at least another month.”
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Although the Pentagon would not disclose whether the systems had yet been delivered to Ukraine, citing “operational security reasons,” Pentagon spokesperson Marine Corps Lt. Col. Anton Semelroth confirmed that, “We did pre-position the HIMARS systems in Europe to ensure that they can be rapidly delivered.”
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After the weapons do make it to Ukrainian troops, it will take around three weeks for them to be trained on the systems, before they’re put to use on the battlefield against Russian forces. On Friday, it appeared that moment couldn’t come quickly enough, as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu threatened to “accelerate” Russia’s “special military operation,” in a meeting with Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. According to a briefing from the <a href="https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-3">Institute for the Study of War</a>, Shoigu didn’t provide specifics but in their assessment, Russian forces will likely be unable to launch more advanced operations given the enormous investment in equipment and troops it would take.
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However, Ukrainian losses are piling up, with between 60 and 100 soldiers dying each day, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-government-and-politics-e076f509008b021a8e687d525e34c948">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech this past week</a>. And Russia has <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/ukraine-war-russia-donbas-weapons-00036156">ramped up its scorched-earth tactics</a> in the Donbas, pummeling cities like Severodonetsk — preventing evacuations and resupply, in a nightmarish repeat of its siege of Mariupol.
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“The Russian massing of fighters [in the Donbas has] turned momentum briefly,” Spencer told Vox, although he predicted that getting the HIMARS onto the battlefield “will result in more dead Russian generals” — translating to an ever-more disorganized Russian fighting force. “The path to victory is unraveling.”
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Both Spencer and Konaev told Vox that intelligence on the Ukrainian side will play a decisive role in any gains in territory or defeat of Russian forces, as it has so far in the war. “The most important impact has been intel,” Konaev said, giving Ukrainian forces “the ability to protect themselves, and pre-empt attacks on supply lines.” Radar systems will augment that intelligence, with air surveillance radars and HIMARS disrupting Russia’s ability to command air dominance.
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But right now, mitigating shelling from the Russian side could have a much greater impact on the battlefield — and on the safety of civilians. “Russian artillery has caused the greatest damage,” Konaev explained, leveling cities like Maruiopul and Severodonetsk, and the combination of the counter-artillery radars and the mobile, longer-range weapons will hopefully prevent Russia from “ruling the rubble,” as Spencer put it — claiming victory by subduing and destroying population centers.
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The future of the war may include different weapons but more of the same grind
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Biden’s op-ed reiterated his position throughout the war — that the US and NATO are not seeking a war with Russia, and that the US will continue arming Ukraine because it’s the right thing to do, but it’s still not quite clear, at least from the op-ed, how far that will go. Considering just how grueling and grinding the war is now, the field seems open in terms of additional weapons the US will supply, which, as Kahl pointed out in his Wednesday press conference, could include more HIMARS.
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Whatever additional resources are on the way, the summer will likely be just as grinding, bloody, and devastating as the past few weeks have been, as <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/ukraine-war-russia-donbas-weapons-00036156">a recent Politico feature acknowledges</a>. Even if Ukraine is able to turn on the offense and begin retaking land, it will be slowly — piecemeal, position by position and village by village, said Serhiy Haidai, the head of the military government in Luhansk, one of the regions that makes up the Donbas. Until then, Russian forces are raining down artillery and making incremental advances; as Haidai said to Politico, “they are destroying everything and then moving through the ruins.”
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<li><strong>New York’s attorney general calls out Verizon for spreading Legionnaires’ disease</strong> -
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New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Verizon had failed to follow rules meant to stop the spread of a bacteria that can cause Legionnaires’ disease. | David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
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Verizon didn’t keep up with requirements meant to stop the spread of a dangerous bacteria.
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When you think about potential vectors for disease, Verizon probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James <a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1532515367041499156">announced</a> the findings of a three-year investigation into cooling towers on buildings throughout the state. It did not look good for Verizon.
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“Verizon failed to maintain its cooling towers on buildings across New York City, causing the towers to spread Legionnaires’ disease, a dangerous and lethal form of pneumonia,” James <a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1532515367041499156">said in a tweet</a>.
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The announcement of the findings, which reviewed Verizon’s cooling tower maintenance record starting in 2017, arrives amid two new clusters of Legionnaires’ disease in the US, including an outbreak in the Bronx that has so far killed <a href="https://abc7ny.com/legionnaires-disease-outbreak-bronx-2-dead/11915300/">two people and infected at least 24 others</a>. The New York City Health Department has now connected these cases to <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/press/pr2022/updates-community-cluster-of-legionnaires-disease-in-highbridge-bronx.page">four specific cooling towers</a> in the Bronx’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/nyregion/legionnaires-outbreak-nyc.html">Highbridge area</a>, where the bacteria was found growing. The Health Department did not say who was responsible for monitoring the towers. The Covid-19 pandemic may have contributed to an uptick in these kinds of outbreaks, since the unexpected closure of buildings may have made it <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/water/legionella/building-water-system.html">easier for bacteria</a> to grow in <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-legionnaires-idUKKCN2261AO">water and plumbing systems</a>.
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Cooling towers like the ones used by Verizon are <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/legionella/health-depts/index.html">often placed on rooftops</a>, and are typically used to cool down machinery, like air conditioning systems and telecommunications equipment. There are many types of infrastructure like this that private companies install in and around densely populated areas. Companies operating this kind of equipment are supposed to follow best practices to make sure their equipment doesn’t become a safety hazard. But when this infrastructure isn’t carefully maintained — and regulators don’t catch violations — it can become dangerous, and even lead to public health problems.
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Legionnaires’ disease, which is caused by <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/8/4/9097245/what-is-legionnaires-disease">Legionella bacteria</a>, is just one of them. The illness got its name after there was an outbreak of the disease at <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/legionella/about/history.html">a convention for the American Legion</a>, a veterans organization, in 1976. Although it’s often found in <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-10/documents/legionella-factsheet.pdf">natural water sources</a>, such as ponds, streams, and lakes, this bacteria becomes problematic when it finds its way into water systems that are built by humans, like hot tubs, sinks, and plumbing.
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Once the bacteria starts growing inside these fixtures, it can spread through tiny drops of water, which, if inhaled, can infect a person’s lungs and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/legionella/about/causes-transmission.html">cause pneumonia</a>. Legionnaires’ disease can usually be treated with antibiotics, and the illness’s symptoms are generally hard to distinguish from other infections. The disease can be dangerous, however, for people with certain risk factors or conditions, including people over the age of 50 or people with cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/legionella/about/diagnosis.html">says</a> that about one of every 10 people who catch Legionnaires’ disease die from complications. The disease is <a href="https://theconversation.com/after-coronavirus-another-hidden-respiratory-disease-lurks-in-the-buildings-we-left-behind-139059">not transmitted</a> from person to person.
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Here’s where Verizon’s cooling towers come in: A cooling tower can <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-reaches-agreement-verizon-prevent-legionnaires-disease">spray</a> into the air the water it’s using to cool the equipment. If that water includes Legionella bacteria, that bacteria can enter the air, too, where it can infect nearby people. These cooling towers are particularly concerning because they can operate at temperatures that are ideal for <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/legionella/wmp/control-toolkit/cooling-towers.html">this bacteria’s growth</a>, especially during the <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/legionellosis/docs/faq.pdf">summer</a>. These cooling towers are also everywhere, since they’re used to cool off everything from air cooling systems to machinery used for industrial processes and energy production.
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“Electronic equipment puts out a ton of heat and they have to keep it at a cool temperature to work,” Brian Labus, an infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Public Health. “Any time you have computer systems, which is what these places have, there is a ton of heat being produced, and they [have] to get rid of the heat — otherwise they’ll melt all their equipment.”
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Buildings and companies that operate these cooling towers are supposed to take a range of steps to stop bacteria from growing, including repeatedly monitoring their equipment for potential infections. New York, for instance, passed state and local laws to regulate these towers more aggressively after 138 people were diagnosed with — and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/nyregion/legionnaires-outbreak-nyc.html">16 people died</a> from — Legionnaires’ disease during a 2015 outbreak in the Bronx.
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After those laws were passed, the state attorney general’s office started investigating the owners of cooling towers to make sure they were following New York’s requirements.
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According to the attorney general’s investigation, Verizon — which hires other companies to manage its towers — failed to regularly inspect its cooling towers, and failed to disinfect those cooling towers effectively after the bacteria was discovered. Overall, the company has racked up at least 225 violations at around 45 different locations throughout New York. Now, Verizon must <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-reaches-agreement-verizon-prevent-legionnaires-disease">pay a $118,000 penalty</a> and adopt several new procedures to make sure it’s maintaining these towers safely. The company told Recode that it has admitted no wrongdoing.
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“Legionnaires’ disease remains a deadly presence in areas across our state, particularly in low-income communities and communities of color,” James said in a statement on Thursday. “It is essential that companies such as Verizon are taking the necessary actions to avoid the spread of this preventable and lethal disease.”
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Outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease remain a concern throughout the United States. In addition to the recent cluster of cases in the Bronx, New Jersey health officials <a href="https://www.nj.com/morris/2022/05/nj-hotel-linked-to-3-cases-of-legionnaires-disease-officials-say.html">linked</a> a cluster of Legionnaires’ cases last month to a Hampton Inn, and in 2019, Georgia’s health department connected an outbreak that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/us/atlanta-legionnaires-cooling-tower/index.html">probably caused nearly 80 cases</a> of the disease to the hotel’s cooling tower. Legionella bacteria has also repeatedly popped up in unexpected places, like <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/10/12/hopkins-legionnaires-outbreak-source-identified">a beverage processing plant</a>, hot water tanks <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/06/26/legionella-bacteria-wayne-state-university-ford-legionnaires-disease/1570531001/">used in a Ford manufacturing facility</a>, a <a href="https://www.fiercepharma.com/m-a/updated-gsk-to-reopen-site-after-cooling-towers-where-legionella-bacteria-detected-are">GlaxoSmithKline</a> site, and a cooling tower <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-legionnaires-appeal-20181204-story.html">used by Disneyland</a>.
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But inevitably, the results of New York’s investigation serve as a warning to the many companies building out or using infrastructure in cities and towns across the country — especially those that rely on water to cool it down.
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“As a tech company, you probably wouldn’t think about infecting somebody with something [that’s] running your equipment,” Labus said. “It does show the importance of paying attention to your systems and providing the appropriate levels of preventative maintenance and making sure that you don’t get to the point where you can spread disease to others.”
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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>Afg vs Zim 1st ODI | Afghanistan beats host Zimbabwe by 60 runs</strong> - Afghanistan hasn’t lost an ODI series against the Zimbabweans in five contests since the first meeting in 2014</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>Rate of rape down in many States after PM Modi’s emphasis on building toilets in villages: Sambit Patra</strong> - BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra claimed that most of rapes happened when women in rural areas used to go out to attend nature’s call in the dark</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>Ukraine anger as Macron says ‘Don’t humiliate Russia’</strong> - The French leader wants to give Vladimir Putin an “exit ramp”, but Ukraine rejects that stance.</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>Russian man accused of Alexander Litvinenko killing dies of Covid-19</strong> - Dmitry Kovtun, one of two men the UK says were behind the poisoning, has died in Russia of Covid.</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>Ukraine round-up: Defiance in Mykolaiv and a wooden monastery ablaze</strong> - Residents of Mykolaiv carry on despite Russian shelling, and African countries feel rising prices.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Making blockchain stop wasting energy by getting it to manage energy</strong> - Instead of useless calculations, researchers get it to optimize energy use. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1858298">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The privately funded killer-asteroid spotter is here</strong> - It’s a new tool for tracking space-rock trajectories—even with limited data. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1858129">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An actively exploited Microsoft 0-day flaw still doesn’t have a patch</strong> - Microsoft downplays severity of vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1858179">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Switch Pro Controller, Fitbits, Roombas, and more</strong> - Dealmaster also has Sonos speakers, Steam gift cards, and Google’s Nest Hub. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1858319">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Smaller reactors may still have a big nuclear waste problem</strong> - The US needs to figure out what to do about its radioactive garbage. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1858107">link</a></p></li>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/The-Guvnor"> /u/The-Guvnor </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v4vvyq/nearly_lost_my_job_as_a_roofer_when_i_was_caught/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v4vvyq/nearly_lost_my_job_as_a_roofer_when_i_was_caught/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Bored, the professor says to the farmer: “I ask you a question, if you can’t answer it, you give me $5; then you ask me a question, if I can’t answer it, I give you $500, what do you think?” The farmer nods. The professor asks the farmer: “What is the distance between the Earth and the Moon?” The farmer silently takes out $5 and gives it to the professor. The farmer asks the professor: “What animal has three legs when ascending a mountain and four legs when descending a mountain?” The professor thinks hardly but couldn’t find an answer, so he reluctantly pulls out $500 for the farmer. The farmer takes the $500 and prepares to nap, the professor asks: “What animal is it!?” The farmer takes out $5 and gives it to the professor, then he falls asleep.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kickypie"> /u/kickypie </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v4z1p2/a_professor_sits_with_a_farmer_on_a_train/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v4z1p2/a_professor_sits_with_a_farmer_on_a_train/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Her pain was so intense that she decided to return to the clubhouse for medical assistance. The golf pro saw her heading back and said, “You are back early, what’s wrong?” “I was stung by a bee!” she said. “Where?” he asked. “Between the first and second hole.” she replied. He nodded and said, “Your stance is far too wide.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nikan69"> /u/nikan69 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v55p6w/a_young_woman_was_taking_golf_lessons_and_had/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v55p6w/a_young_woman_was_taking_golf_lessons_and_had/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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An Arab Sheik was admitted to the hospital for heart surgery, but prior to the surgery, the doctors needed to have some of his blood type stored in case the need arose. As the gentleman had an extremely rare type of blood that couldn’t be found locally, the call went out around the world.
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Finally a Scotsman was located who had the same rare blood type. After some coaxing, the Scot donated his blood for the Arab.<br/> After the surgery the Arab sent the Scotsman a BMW, a diamond necklace for his wife, and $100,000 US dollars in appreciation for the blood donation.
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A few months later, the Arab had to undergo a further corrective surgery procedure. Once again, his doctor telephoned the Scotsman who was more than happy to donate his blood. After the second surgery the Arab sent the Scotsman a thank-you card and a box of Quality Street chocolates.
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The Scotsman was shocked that the Arab did not reciprocate his kind gesture as he had anticipated. He phoned the Arab and asked him: “I thought you would be more generous than that. Last time you sent me a BMW, diamonds and money, but this time you only sent me a lousy thank-you card and a crappy box of chocolates?”
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To this the Arab replied: " Aye laddie, but I now have Scottish blood in ma veins."
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She points up and says: “3 pulls”
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Professor X stands up and pulls 3 times. After the third pull the fan turns off.
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Professor X: “Yeah thats cool and all, but not really a super power…”
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Girl: “Yeah I was just kidding, | can heal paraplegics”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lifeasjessica1"> /u/Lifeasjessica1 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v4ov81/professor_x_asks_a_girl_what_is_your_mutant_power/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/v4ov81/professor_x_asks_a_girl_what_is_your_mutant_power/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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