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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And Bin Laden totally won.

I've been pointing this out for about ten years now and it's one of the most unpopular comments I can make, but it only gets more true every year. I've watched police get more authoritarian for decades now and there doesn't seem to be anything curtailing it.

[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

100%. He played the long game and boy, it's a crushing victory