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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 13 points 18 hours 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 2 points 18 hours ago

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