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The U.S. Government Stopped a Minimum Wage Increase in Haiti (read more)

According to Wikileaks:
“In 2009, the Haitian parliament unanimously passed a measure that would hike the Haitian minimum wage to $5 a day.
Yet much as the United States government mobilized to protect Big Oil’s profits a few years earlier, American diplomats immediately protested the hike in wages.”

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Reblogging for anyone who doesn’t know about this yet. This should be front page news. This should warrant resignations of diplomatic corps and executive office officials. We should be in the streets to support Haitians.

just remember who was the boss of all these diplomats when Hillary Clinton runs for president on the “success” of her tenure as secretary of state

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Painted As The Renaissance Painters They Were Named After 

New York-based artist Owen Dippie is known for his incredibly mural of four renaissance artists (Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo and Donatello) as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The clever idea was magnified along a railway track in Brooklyn.

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Source: culturenlifestyle.com
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PSA: if you smoke marijuana, please tell your anesthesia team.

They’re not going to rat you out. They’re going to adjust your anesthesia dosage so you don’t WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF SURGERY.

Some anesthesiologists will refuse to put you under if you’ve smoked cannabis within the past 24 hours – and let’s be clear, this is NOT because they’re morally against it – it’s because THC and anesthetic react in unpredictable ways and waking up in the middle of surgery is slightly less of a concern than SLIPPING INTO A COMA OR DYING. 

So there’s that.

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Yes, this too. Should have included this. It just wasn’t on my mind when I made the original post because my mind was full of NOPE NOPE NOPE after, you guessed it, one of my patients woke up in the middle of her surgery because she didn’t tell her anesthesia team she used marijuana.

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damn. thank you for this.

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The news media is making a big deal about Bernie cutting off Hillary Clinton when she interrupted him during the ‪#‎DemDebate‬ tonight. Was it rude of him to do that? Sure. Was it rude of her to interrupt him? Yes, it was. But here’s the bigger issue: It reminds us of Tony Campolo’s famous saying, “I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a $#!*. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said $#!* than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.” So, what’s worse in this situation? Hillary getting rudely cut off by Bernie in the debate? Or Hillary’s trade policies that have been devastating for American jobs? Or Hillary’s foreign policies that have directly led to the assassinations of Latin American environmental activists? Or the Clinton Foundation getting millions of dollars from foreign countries in donations and then those same countries getting arms deals from the State Department under Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State? Yes, Bernie was rude to cut Mrs. Clinton off like that. But we have far better things to be upset about with Hillary’s foreign and domestic policy record. Let’s focus on that rather than majoring on the minors. ‪#‎EvangelicalsForBernie‬

Evangelicals for Bernie Sanders (What the fuck?)

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Google Self-Driving Car on City Streets

Google yesterday gave a glimpse of how their self-driving cars work, and a glimpse of computer vision in action:

Since our last update, we’ve logged thousands of miles on the streets of our hometown of Mountain View, Calif. A mile of city driving is much more complex than a mile of freeway driving, with hundreds of different objects moving according to different rules of the road in a small area. We’ve improved our software so it can detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously—pedestrians, buses, a stop sign held up by a crossing guard, or a cyclist making gestures that indicate a possible turn. A self-driving vehicle can pay attention to all of these things in a way that a human physically can’t—and it never gets tired or distracted.

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Source: googleblog.blogspot.co.uk
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Google is planning to beam ultra-fast 5G internet from solar-powered drones, it’s called Project Skybender. It is theoretically estimated that the drones will be able to deliver mobile internet 40 times faster than 4G LTE, which means you could transmit gigabytes of data every second.

Source: TechCrunch