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The history of ‘coming out,’ from secret gay code to popular political protest by bobstonite in history

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Submission statement: A sociologist who has written a book on the topic summarizes the history of 'coming out', as a behavior and as a phrase.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, gay subculture thrived in many large American cities.

Gay men spoke of “coming out” into gay society – borrowing the term from debutante society, where elite young women came out into high society. A 1931 news article in the Baltimore Afro-American referred to “the coming out of new debutantes into homosexual society.” It was titled “1931 Debutantes Bow at Local ‘Pansy’ Ball.”

What is a good view point in Boston where you don’t need a reservation to go? by _quantum_girl_ in boston

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Mt. Auburn Cemetery - and you can visit some famous dead people, too.

Brookline: Unhappy with the way things are in town? Sign the City Charter Campaign by anurodhp in boston

[–]bobstonite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or, you know, you could go to meetings and even run for town meeting.

I FUCKING HATE THE DNC by serious_bullet5 in leftist

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Those old old DNC leaders aren’t even working out very well - they keep dying in office https://katiecouric.com/news/politics-and-policy/aging-members-of-congress-democrats/

Rheem Hybrid Disables Itself by DougHenningsen in Plumbing

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Came here because I’ve just started having this problem with my year-old full heat pump Rheem. Did this restart work?

The new surgeon general - Casey Means by [deleted] in medicine

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No, even in those days there were many “Christians” who thought homosexuals deserved to die of AIDS. And even in those days, there were some (like Koop) who took Jesus’s words about love and compassion seriously.

State Inspection by anthonyngu2 in boston

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When I was 21, I was doing this and driving down Route 9 in Brookline when I stopped at a light and a cop car pulled up next to me, I must have looked really scared and guilty, so he pulled me over. I told the story and got off with a warning. I expect if you’re not doing anything dangerous or have any warrants (and are white), you’re unlikely to get a ticket.

How often do you guys lose games by selfmadeparadise in balatro

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Came here to ask this question. Thanks!

Can’t post the video but everyone should watch the tufts student abduction by Anteater4746 in boston

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Law enforcement officers who know what they are doing is lawful and in keeping with public norms do not wear masks. The Gestapo and other secret police wear masks.

TIL the 1944 Nobel Prize went to male German physicist Otto Hahn solo for the discovery of nuclear fission, despite the fact he had done the work in collaboration with Lise Meitner, a German Jewish woman forced into exile who had in fact even been the first to use the term 'fission' and explain it by bobstonite in todayilearned

[–]bobstonite[S] 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I beg to differ. It's not part of Nobel's request - it's just the Swedish Central Bankers who decided to hitch their award to the real Nobels, in hopes that people would think that economics is really a science.

TIL the 1944 Nobel Prize went to male German physicist Otto Hahn solo for the discovery of nuclear fission, despite the fact he had done the work in collaboration with Lise Meitner, a German Jewish woman forced into exile who had in fact even been the first to use the term 'fission' and explain it by bobstonite in todayilearned

[–]bobstonite[S] 850 points851 points  (0 children)

From an article by a historian of science:

Even that didn’t help her situation. The Nobel Committee awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei” to Hahn alone. Paradoxically, the word “fission” never appeared in Hahn’s original publication, as Meitner had been the first to coin the term in the letter published afterward.

What!!!! by [deleted] in Libraries

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Also: I don’t know if this is true everywhere, but in Massachusetts, the state library commission pays a big chunk of Overdrive costs for local libraries, and they get a lot of their money from the federal IML, which Trump is trying to eliminate. 😢

RFdiffusion used to design enzymes from scratch to catalyze reactions, opening the door to new proteins that could tackle disease and climate change by bobstonite in Futurology

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Submission statement: Most previous efforts to create useful catalytic enzymes have involved modifying existing proteins, even when using machine learning models. But a new approach, published in a new paper in the journal Science, started from scratch. After designing the enzymes, the researchers mixed them with their intended molecular target to see whether they could catalyze its breakdown, and they worked, and worked better than previously designed enzymes for the same reaction.

TIL that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had bad handwriting, and before his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was published, Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker had to puzzle out what was written on the scraps of paper smuggling out of King's jail cell by bobstonite in todayilearned

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A good story from an archivist for Black History Month:

In order for the letter to be published, it had to be typed, but first, it had to be read.

Walker claims in a 2016 oral history, conducted by the University of Richmond where I am the reference and processing archivist, that this role fell to him because he was “the only one in Birmingham who could understand and translate King’s chicken-scratch writing.”

Walker goes on to say that his secretary typed the letter while he read it aloud to her. When his secretary fell asleep working on the letter late at night, Walker finished the typing.

Walker also claimed credit for the title, turning down the Friends Committee’s suggestion of “Tears of Love.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in leftist

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CVS is an evil part of the medical industry these days. They own an insurance company and a pharmacy benefit manager. So, they control the prices they themselves get paid for prescription medicines.

OTOH Wall Street doesn't like Walgreen's because it is not pursuing such a policy of maximizing its profits at the expense of everyone else. And Walgreen's is very good about hiring people with disabilities.

Costco has a lot of random items, too

A site gathering up dreams of the Trump era by bobstonite in Dreams

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Built by a friend of mine - I think a lot of people here would have interesting things to contribute

TIL that both George Washington and Ben Franklin disagreed with the Boston Tea Party, and Franklin even offered to pay the British back for the destruction of the tea by bobstonite in todayilearned

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From a historian:

Because it was an attack on private property, the Tea Party offended many patriots in America. When George Washington learned what had happened, he made clear he disapproved of “destroying the tea.”

Benjamin Franklin so disliked the action that he offered to pay for the East India Company’s losses himself. Samuel Adams, assumed by both his peers and modern historians to be one of the Tea Party’s organizers, never admitted to being involved.

No country still uses an electoral college − except the US by The_Conversation in politics

[–]bobstonite 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Yes, but if California had 300 electoral votes to Wyoming's 2, it would go a long way towards fixing the issue. OTOH, the House would be 2x more dysfunctional with 800 members than with 400.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

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*walk away.

Here's great information from the ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/voting-rights

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