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tucker, 31, portland, snapchat: tuckuhhh

[jiangshi]

me: im just saying…. i know everyone who says watch hunter x hunter can be seen as annoying but we’re not lying when we say you should watch it. the series deconstructs what we traditionally know as shounen and turns it into a story filled with charismatic characters and hardships of life. theres gon, a 12 yr old boy who sets out to find his father after being abandoned as a baby. killua, a child assassin that struggles with social anxiety but has a heart of gold. kurapika-

guy, who’s holding me hostage: tase him again

[hunterxloser]

alternateively:

me: im just saying…. i know everyone who says watch hunter x hunter can be seen as annoying but we’re not lying when we say you should watch it. the series deconstructs what we traditionally know as shounen and turns it into a story filled with charismatic characters and hardships of life. theres gon, a 12 yr old boy who sets out to find his father after being abandoned as a baby. killua, a child assassin that struggles with social anxiety but has a heart of gold. kurapika-

guy who i am holding hostage: please let me go

[marcosilvart]

Does anyone remember this anime? It was my favorite anime (and still is, btw) 😃

[gl0rb]

I love it when it's autism and all the leaves start to change

[animentality]

“Is Tumblr Dead-?” 

We’re about to outlive Twitter, bitch. 

Record it. 

[themeninthistown]

[favorite-aesthetic]

He is Leng Jun and his paintings are considered the most realistic ones in the world. See why:

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Omggg

[thenobodyhasarrived]

So we not gonna talk about how this man is straight up trapping people inside of canvases huh……

[hydro-homies]

Do you.

[whos-this-lisa-person]

You gotta take him to The Wall™ in Target. All gays know what I’m talking about.

[blvckgeezus]

[mjalti]

[fade-intothe-veil]

Me, the bitch from the 1300s

[iwonderifthatisart]

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[dndestinyproject-deactivated202]

Dungeons & Destiny beta v0.7, D&Destiny’s first public beta, is now live, FOR FREE, on our website! Download the Player’s Guidebook here and start your tabletop adventure in the universe of Destiny!

[ampervadasz]

[creepled]

this video is like every facet of what it is to be a cat, all at once

[angiekerberbye-deactivated20190]

15 year old Coco Gauff defeats Venus Williams to advance to the second round at Wimbledon

Gauff on the exchange at the net on BBC: “She said congratulations. I told her thank you for everything that you did. I wouldn’t be here without you. I always wanted to tell her that.“

[rubyvroom]

Round-up: A Lot of CSI-Style Forensics Have Turned Out to be Bogus

Basically a lot of it is pseudoscience that was never rigorously tested in controlled situations to see if it actually worked.

This is because it was not developed by scientists, but by police, and mainly with an interest in putting people in prison rather than uncovering the truth.

At least two dozen people have been falsely convicted due to “Bite Mark Analysis”. 

“Burn pattern analysis” put an innocent man to death in Texas

“Blood Spatter analysis” such as that shown on the TV show Dexter is actually completely unreliable even according to the US Department of Justice

Forensic hair comparison is also widely believed to be junk science and the FBI is currently reviewing convictions based on hair analysis due to the unreliability of their results

Handwriting analysis has an unreasonably high error rate, by some accounts as high as 43%

Lie detector tests, or polygraphs, are notoriously unreliable and based on bad science. Even though everybody knows this, they are still constantly being used in criminal investigations among other places.

Toxicology labs can be poorly supervised and badly run, producing false and even fraudulent results

Due to sloppy procedure at many labs and lack of regulation even DNA testing is often unreliable

Even when correct results are produced, genetic profiles may be less useful than we have been lead to believe

Fingerprinting analysis is not foolproof and actually has not been thoroughly tested, as this Frontline special discusses

Here are a few more articles on how unreliable modern forensics are.

Unfortunately due to TV shows that stress forensic investigation, juries are demanding this kind of evidence at trial, and have little idea of how untested and unreliable it really is.

[rubyvroom]

HEY REMEMBER WHEN I WROTE ABOUT THIS TWO YEARS AGO? SPECIFICALLY THE PART ABOUT FBI REVIEWING ITS FORENSICS HAIR ANALYSIS CASES? WELL THE RESULTS ARE IN AND WHOOPS: EVEN THE FBI ADMITS THAT IT’S BOGUS NOW

In case you are stopped by the paywall here’s a Slate article on the same thing and here’s another one. 

Hair analysis alone has been used in thousands of trials. The FBI is reviewing 2500 cases out of “21000 federal and state requests to the FBI’s hair-comparison unit between 1972 and 1999″. Even if this review exonerates some of those convictions, that doesn’t even begin to cover the hundreds of state and local “experts” trained by the FBI in this bogus “hair analysis” technique to do things like this:

Santae Tribble served 28 years for a murder based on FBI testimony about a single strand of hair. He was exonerated in 2012. It was later revealed that one of the hairs presented at trial came from a dog.

So anyway remember anytime you hear about “forensic evidence” that a lot of it is bullcrap and not scientifically validated and a lot of so-called experts are just pulling conclusions out of their ass.

[feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish]

the forensic hair analysis thing is terrible, the FBI literally invented a branch of forensic psuedoscience with no evidence behind it in order to boost conviction rates, then taught the bogus technique to thousands of forensic investigators in the us and around the world. we have no idea how many people have been wrongfully convicted, and this is just one in a very long list of forensic techniques that lack rigorous scientific evaluation

[rubyvroom]

It’s been another year or two so here’s an extremely recent article about how “Criminal Profiling” is totally bogus and TV shows like Mindhunters continue to focus on it because it looks cool and makes good stories, but it really only works in the movies. 

Profiling was trendy in the 70s-90s but has been falling into disrepute ever since. This 2007 analysis showed that Criminal Profilers do not outperform regular detective work. Here’s another analysis finding Profiling unreliable in its current form and suggests ways to make it more scientifically rigorous. Here’s another. 

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[hinomaru6]

[astrodidact]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) confronted a CEO Thursday for pricing a drug designed to reduce the risk of HIV transmission at $8 in Australia but over $1,500 in the U.S.

“You’re the CEO of Gilead. Is it true that Gilead made $3 billion in profits from Truvada in 2018?” Ocasio-Cortez asked Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day.

“$3 billion in revenue,” he clarified.

The current list price is $2,000 a month in the United States, correct?“ she asked, referring to Truvada.

“It’s $1,780 in the United States,” O'Day responded.

“Why is it $8 in Australia?” Ocasio-Cortez countered.

“Truvada still has patent protection in the United States and in the rest of the world it is generic,” O'Day explained, adding, “It will be generically available in the United States as of September 2020.”

“I think it’s important here that we notice that we the public, we the people, developed this drug. We paid for this drug, we lead and developed all the patents to create Prep and then that patent has been privatized despite the fact that the patent is owned by the public, who refused to enforce it,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“There’s no reason this should be $2,000 a month. People are dying because of it and there’s no enforceable reason for it.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/444091-ocasio-cortez-confronts-ceo-for-nearly-2k-price-tag-on-drug-that-costs-8-in

Ocasio-Cortez confronts CEO for nearly $2K price tag on HIV drug that costs $8 in Australia

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) confronted a CEO Thursday for pricing a drug designed to reduce the risk of HIV transmission at $8 in

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