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Sawant is like, an actual communist, endorsed by the Revolutionary Communists of America, who thinks Mamdani is too far right.
She's not running as a Democrat, she's an independent who used to sit on the Seattle City Council as a member of the Trotskyist Socialist Alternative.
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In the USSR, being late to work was severely punished. It was considered a criminal act against the state. You lost your house, your pay was docked, you might be subject to forced labor.
The laws didn't soften again until 1956, under Khrushchev.
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Google just solved 9/353 open Erdลs Problems at the cost of a few hundred dollars each using its most capable LLM.
The proofs were written in Lean and mechanically verified. This is no longer just olympiad mathematics.
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Here's an example of ongoing human physiological change: some people have a third artery in their arm. Some don't.
~10% of people born in the 1880s had the third artery, but ~33% of late 1900s babies have one, and a 2025 Australian cadaver study found it in ~43% of upper limbs.
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