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Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ received it because they "jointly worked for a ceasefire and for bringing peace to Vietnam," though Lê Đức Thọ refused it and Kissinger did not attend the ceremony.
Obama received it nine months into his Presidency for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," despite having few if any concrete foreign policy achievements.
Obama could have at least matched Kissinger by ducking the ceremony, or even by refusing it like Lê Đức Thọ did because it wasn't justified.
My mother died from Alzheimer's at 77 but was the picture of health and happiness for many years prior, but never slept well to the point she had to have her own room away from Dad for many years.
Maybe the trick is going to be repairing the BBB and stimulating lymphatic function rather than chasing down every factor that explains why the BBB and/or lymphatic function is compromised in the first place.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Autism_Parenting/search/?q=leucovor...
My hope is that this does lead to breakthroughs in understanding the mechanism for some types of autism, and perhaps even a "miracle" drug akin to how stimulants can radically transform the brains of many with ADHD.
People will stop reading the NY Times or FOX articles and instead will read the AGI versions of them, which will also store all instances of bias, error, and propaganda into a publicly accessible database that will rank sources on several scores.
This database will also allow discovery of patterns and narratives.
I firmly believe this would be so successful that its datacenters would be under constant threat.
So this could also be framed as an abuse of free speech.
We'll have to wait to see how the court rules on this case.
It's sort of like the nerd version of Black Friday brawls at Wal-Mart.
I have one copy of the APOE4 gene and am ~40lbs overweight and probably drink too much, and will definitely double my weight and triple my alcohol consumption if I get it.
I have always said the heathier you are when you begin to die, the longer it takes to die.
It will probably also extinguish quite a few mad musicians and mediocre artists.
>...means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group....
Besides Iceland, all UN member nations have a history of land acquisition through force, colonization, or dispossession. By their own definition, they're all guilty of genocide "in part" at some point in their histories, with several in the last 50 or 100 years.
Why is this even on HN?
I know this because my grandmother told me a few years before she passed that her father, a mason and devoted patriot, once confided a scandalous family secret: there are loyalists in our family tree.
Sadly, grandma's research never got her to the root of this claim despite much research, but thanks to online resources and some helpful Canadians, I discovered the truth.
Grandma's grandfather had emigrated from New Brunswick, Canada, during the Civil War, in which he served the Union.
It turns out his great-grandfather was a captain in the Queen's Guard during the American revolution, born in Connecticut. He and his wife and children had fled after the war with other loyalists to New Brunswick, Canada. They suffered many deprivations, although the loyalist commission board compensated them about half their worldly goods they lost in America.
This captain had married a woman whose brother fought for the Americans at Bunker Hill.
While researching my grandmother's grandfather from Canada, I discovered a telling white lie: he would tell the local busybody newspaper that he was visiting his sister in New York. Thing is, he had no sister in New York. Instead, I discovered the Canadian newspapers not long after were reporting he had arrived from America to visit his sister in New Brunswick.
I was blown away by all this rich history, but when I shared my discoveries with all the remaining family on that side, nobody expressed excitement. In fact, the one person who used to call me up to discuss family history, stopped calling me.
At some point he may use real wooden puppets like the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, which looks very Wes Andersonesque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLiH4xrCITI